My goodbye forever rant

[Stumplicker]

The long and the short of it is:

1. Simu should've released a finished product with actual documentation in the first place and/or fixed their bugs way faster.

2. Some people seem to have a serious schadenfreude boner for HotA because they lag the game (not necessarily their fault) and some of them are kinda dicks about it (their fault). It could've just as easily been another group of people being finger wagged.

If I had a coraesine item to enchant I probably would've fired 925 at it too and then upon it working would've probably continued, assuming it was now enchantable, like crit weighted items, like flaring items, et cetera. Asking on lnet only ends in confusion and the wiki page was never updated when I was trying to figure it out. I would've further assumed that if it was a mistake they were probably planning on making it a cash shop item to do it later, based on history, and therefore fuck 'em. If you change a system, tell people to experiment and offer no documentation, it's not the fault of the person who figures it out.

Edit to add: While I'm at it, is Veil Iron enchantable now? If so, is it supposed to be? Not that it has any spectacular properties, but I mean, it starts at 5x a lot, so saves some time.

[Mobius1]

The long and the short of it is:

Seems like you have no less of a boner with your disgust of Simu practices. Hell, most of us here agree that Simu isn't spot free in all of this. They should have bloody locked the car door, so to speak.

But the situation you describe of enchanting Coraesine, would not have resulted in a warning. So I don't agree with your point here.

[HebrewToYou]

Okay, I've been hesitant to post here since y'all are just super fucked up to one another, but I feel I should briefly address this topic.

My rogue, Nodyre, received a warning over enchanting a 90's era krodera sword. He is also a "Captain" in HoA, for the record. I got the same spiel from Coase in the consultation lounge that the others did. I was hyper-communicative with staff about this item, going so far as to ask Wyrom about it in the official discord. It's mechanically deficient (as others have noted in this thread) and I didn't even bother paying to have it enchanted beyond +32 (above the "normal" +25) in the months I had it. I don't use the sword except to wave it around due to the silly alteration it has. And there was no conspiracy to have this enchanted, either – it was discussed openly in-game in the remote locale of Gardenia Commons. Most notably, the item is just weird in general. It's blessable, unlike other "anti-magic" metals, which is why no wizard I hired ever thought twice about enchanting it.

Yet, despite all this, I received a warning for GMA. So I ask you to pause for a moment and reflect on this question: If Coase didn't hesitate to issue *me* a warning for something that was clearly above-board, why should he receive the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the warnings he issued to others?

Thank you for your time and attention.

[Mobius1]

Okay, I've been hesitant to post here since y'all are just super fucked up to one another, but I feel I should briefly address this topic.

My rogue, Nodyre, received a warning over enchanting a 90's era krodera sword. He is also a "Captain" in HoA, for the record. I got the same spiel from Coase in the consultation lounge that the others did. I was hyper-communicative with staff about this item, going so far as to ask Wyrom about it in the official discord. It's mechanically deficient (as others have noted in this thread) and I didn't even bother paying to have it enchanted beyond +32 (above the "normal" +25) in the months I had it. I don't use the sword except to wave it around due to the silly alteration it has. And there was no conspiracy to have this enchanted, either – it was discussed openly in-game in the remote locale of Gardenia Commons. Most notably, the item is just weird in general. It's blessable, unlike other "anti-magic" metals, which is why no wizard I hired ever thought twice about enchanting it.

Yet, despite all this, I received a warning for GMA. So I ask you to pause for a moment and reflect on this question: If Coase didn't hesitate to issue *me* a warning for something that was clearly above-board, why should he receive the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the warnings he issued to others?

Thank you for your time and attention.

I believe the very nature of GMA, is that it is something that gives you some sort of advantage. I make the argument that enchanting krodera is not any sort of advantage. In fact, you net lost money doing this, since enchanting a non-krodera item would have had more value.

I don't think that in your case, what you did was serious enough to be considered GMA.

But I am not a letter of the law kind of guy, and I certainly am not making the arguments I am here out of some vindictiveness toward HoA.

But enchanting things like Coraesine and Zelnorn is a pretty serious advantage, in my mind, and should be taken more seriously.

[Roblar]

Don’t trust him, he’s a motherfuckin’ rogue!

Damnit, Mobius cut between us. Joke ruined

[Mobius1]

Don’t trust him, he’s a motherfuckin’ rogue!

Quite frankly, I'd say Nodyre is one of the most trustworthy rogues I know, haha.

But hey, he's not a REAL rogue, anyways. He's technically a warrior-lite.

[Roblar]

This is true and I thought of this briefly.

In light of his endeavor to be better then he began in life, I say trust him!

Can we get him to post 19?

[HebrewToYou]

<bashes forearms with Roblar in greeting>

@Mobius1: I don't think there is such thing as a "pretty serious advantage" in this game anymore. The easy access to massive spellups, the ridiculous gear inflation, and the move to pay-to-win has cemented that in my mind. So it seems very foolhardy for the staff to pick *this* event as the straw that broke the camel's back, especially considering that it's their shoddy development/testing/deployment process that allowed this in the first place. It's not hard to generate a changelog and documentation, but it does take time. They chose the "easy button" approach and, lo and behold, it had unintended consequences.

The answer to this is not to punish your loyal, paying customers – it's to do better next time. Reverting the enchantments (a loss of currency and/or tears) should have been an entirely sufficient resolution.

[Mobius1]

<bashes forearms with Roblar in greeting>

@Mobius1: I don't think there is such thing as a "pretty serious advantage" in this game anymore. The easy access to massive spellups, the ridiculous gear inflation, and the move to pay-to-win has cemented that in my mind. So it seems very foolhardy for the staff to pick *this* event as the straw that broke the camel's back, especially considering that it's their shoddy development/testing/deployment process that allowed this in the first place. It's not hard to generate a changelog and documentation, but it does take time. They chose the "easy button" approach and, lo and behold, it had unintended consequences.

The answer to this is not to punish your loyal, paying customers – it's to do better next time. Reverting the enchantments (a loss of currency and/or tears) should have been an entirely sufficient resolution.

Again, you can't just blame Simu for not locking the door.

And I'd call it a very serious advantage. If you had me rate which materials in the game would benefit the most from an enchant, I'd put Coraesine and Zelnorn at the top of that list. It's an advantage that people would probably pay hundreds of millions of silvers for.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Maintaining the status quo? What the actual fuck.

Someone is jelly. That's all.