Hey Fellows, I spected to find any topic like this, I didn't think that I'd be the only one, or maybe I'm the only one to actually make a thread about it. I believe there are many people (a few friends do) didn't like the way these 2x coupons are being given out. 18 tickets, 10 days, or actually 9 if you count the time it was released, makes 2 tickets/day, which makes 8 hours/day. I think that there will be probably less than 10% of the players that actually are able to use all that coupons. Therefore, I thought that this coupons shouldn't been given this way. It would be better if we had 1 coupon per day, for 15 days, for example, given 24 hours after the last one was taken out of the NPC. I believe that it will be impossible to change that at this time, since it's been done already. But this can be an idea for the next time you use this kind of compensation.
How long did you actually play during the 3 days affected by rollback? If you played for all 72 hours without a single second of a break, then this compensation breaks even for you. The only inconvenience is the 4 hour duration, maybe some people can't play for a full 4 hour stretch at a time, so some of it goes to waste. But the point is, how long did you play during those 3 days? If it's less than the total hours of compensation you can be eligible to use the coupons over the 10 day period, I don't see a problem with it.
Well, like I said, this isn't a complain thread. What I lost with the rollback isn't EXP at all, so this compensation FOR ME is more than enought. I'm thinking for the majority. I have friends that lost LEVELS with that rollback, and may have no enought time to use all this coupons. I'll probably have enought time to use half of them actually, or maybe not even that. And again, this isn't something that Adm's/GM's would change now. It's just an idea for the future need of this kind of compensation.
This is exactly the point of the choice to implement compensation in this way. No one played for 72 hours straight but everyone does have the opportunity for 72 hours worth of compensation anyway. The time was limited to the end of the month so people aren't using the compensation and holding onto the coupons forever. If there was a double XP event held over a 3 day time period, the time of compensation would be less and would "expire" early than these coupons anyway. Again, you are getting a lot more made available to you this way than forms of compensation in the past.
My idea doesn't change the total quantity of coupons given per char, and doesn't give any opportunity for people to hold forever these coupons. Just changes the "18 coupons total / 9 days max" to "1 coupon per day / 15 days max" Making it even for the people who may play for 4+ hours per day and who can only play for 1~4 hours max per day.
It does not affect overall drop rate for other items other than the sunshine and candles. It's 2x exp (making 6.4x total), 2x meso, and 2x drop for only sunshine and candles.
that is a damn shame, rip to whoever farms as hard as i do, imo i think drop rate should affect all, not the few that dont matter at all, i could care less about experience/candles/suns vs the items/scrolls i gained through farming
You might not care about it but others do. The world (and this compensation) doesn't revolve around only a select few people.
Apparently my last post was "off topic". I still think this compensation was the most fair way of going about it. I unlike a lot of people will probably use up all the coupons (on more than one character, yay leech), but I understand most people won't. But the opportunity is there. Overall the time people spent during the 3 days in question, is probably across the board more than adequately covered, even with 4 hour chunks, and even if you don't spend all 4 hours grinding. 1/hr per coupon is still 18 hours, 6 hours per day for 3 days. I think this was also fair. I know some people make a good chunk of money from equips, I do, more than meso drop, but the drop rate for regular stuff is already insane, and I don't know about other people, I welcome to the increase candle drop because I know a lot of people are scrambling to get enough candles for the chairs.
clearly it only revolves around the people who care about experience and candles and not the items/scrolls gained and hours lost obtaining them, i will not be using this x2 coupons as it doesn't effect overall drop rate on things that matter. thank you
That's personal preference, no one is making you use them. It's a compensation for time spent and time lost. Dont' want to use them? Then don't.
I think the compensation makes sense because the people who lost levels are those who grinds hard, people who rarely play the game should be happy they are getting a boost.
