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Danicia
1 in thread Are the mods screwing up? [North America]
Here you go:
Danicia
1 in thread Are the mods screwing up? [North America]
I think parts of it are hilarious. However, some of it was VERY clear nastiness and profanity. If you guys wanna restart sans things which cause forum MOVs, I'm all for it.

Ham it up. GET IT? HAHAH!

Okay, so I ride the comedy failboat.
Danicia
1 in thread I'm so disappointed [North America]
Quote:
Originally Posted by Broom
No offense, Danicia, but flaming Garva was FUN... and looking back, he let us get away with murder (well, at the very least character assassination). Those forums were one hell of an entertaining read.



Linna
Garva is a riot. He even let me whinge about swgmod001 giving me a 3-day timeout.
Danicia
1 in thread I'm so disappointed [North America]
Quote:
Originally Posted by xTekx
Now that is a forum warrior. He'd school all of us in the art of forum PvP.
*shudders* FLASHBACKSZOMG
Rusty
1 in thread Character Transfers to be Enabled Tuesday, April 15th [News and Press Releases]
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Originally Posted by rocktoonz
Rusty, I can apprecaite those concerns. However, the main gripe I saw from this ordeal was that once everything was in place, we were told, basically, "You have to transfer to these 4 more populated servers, and the less populated ones are getting locked for new characters tomorrow. You have a month to decide where to go, and when you do there may not be space there for you."

I think things would have gone much more smoothly had the announcement been more of a "Hey we enabled character transfers in anticipation of merging everyone onto these 4 servers. Take a couple of weeks to decide where you want to go, then we will start by locking out new characters on the closing servers and give you a month to move from that point before we close em. If you have some concerns before the move, please let us know."
That's kind of what we did, except for the locking out of new characters. We did that because we didn't want anyone accidentally missing the notice and proceeding ahead. I think the big problem was caused when we talked about the cap, because people perceived it as a hard limit and got nervous about it.
Danicia
Hello all,

We do encourage people to discuss and even debate almost whatever they wish. As long as people do not break the PotBS Community Rules, you can discuss your thoughts on the game.

However, if you do want to respond to a post where folks have expressed frustration or dissatisfaction, you should also be following the PotBS Community Rules.

Specifically, these rules:

- No Flaming
While debate and discussion are encouraged, we will not tolerate rude or insulting posts, personal attacks or inflammatory posts of any kind.

-No Trolling
Posting in a thread for the sole purpose of harassing a user or derailing / hijacking a thread topic is not allowed.
Danicia
1 in thread Just a few days from happening. [Europe]
Quote:
Originally Posted by EdwardRose
By God you should have seen us...
I adore that song. And I thank you guys for not finishing it.
Rusty
1 in thread Character Transfers to be Enabled Tuesday, April 15th [News and Press Releases]
Quote:
Originally Posted by rocktoonz
Let's say a year down the road, the servers are so crowded that the game is so laggy it's nearly unplayable. (Hopefully you'll see it coming before it gets to that point, but I digress). At that time, the decision is made to add a server or 2. Are you going to
  1. offer incentives for people to move voluntarily to the new servers to establish the pop and econ?
  2. move people over at random and see what happens?
  3. move people over in a planned manner with no notice (similar to this incident)?
  4. let the new server start from zero like in pre-boarding?
It seemed that one of the biggest issues was the lack of notice that this was coming down the pipe, and much of the anger could have been avoided if everyone had a week or so to prepare before the switch was pulled.
I'ts a good series of questions.

1) Probably. We did it for the Austalian release, and I'm pretty pleased with what they've done on that server. Now that the disks are finally hitting shelves, we'll see how that translates for the new user experience.
2) No.
3) No.
4) Obviously, we've been working on this for a while. In fact, I made a lot more hints about it than I should have in another thread (I'm particularly disappointed no one got my fly in the server reference), but we didn't want to announce because we wanted to make sure we had the specific details of how the transfer process would work before we talked about it, and that required 100% vetting of the server tools. We didn't want to announce something this volatile without having all of the details in place.
Marion vanGhent
1 in thread Transfer bug - flag and sail destruction [Flags and Sails]
We are happy to report that we have identified the glitch that is blocking some User Content from the character transfer process, and we are currently working to remedy this issue for our players. We'll share more information as soon as we can.
Danicia
1 in thread Sub Renewed, Thanks Devs [General PotBS Discussion]
Hey gang,

Let's take the beer chatter and the RL nation chatter to OT for the lively debate, mkay?

Thanks!
Danicia