Entropia News: Statement regarding Arkadia Land Plot prizes in the "Gold Rush 2017" event

Hmmm....

 

And while Arkadia forum is down at the time of writing, "busy with upgrades" it says. Not wearing a tinfoil hat, just finding the timing funny.

 

A similar arrangement for Compet Deed owners per chance?

 

Yeahhhh, 525 compet deeds for every compet deed owner !!111 x''DDDD

 

They said after the event development of the prizes would begin in May. Back then they also didn't say which year.

 

Jesus it's land plots... this system has been around since almost forever now. This is just super weird... you can't have land plots even though land plots have been around for ages but here, have some deeds for a non-existent moon that may or may not show up and may or may not be popular or turn any significant ROI.

I'm getting concerned now...

 

So, another band-aid. In September there will be another band-aid to announce another 6 month delay.

Also, why not Peds instead of deeds that don't pay anything and can't be sold until whenever?

Nice (shady salesman) slipping an ad in there too.

 

wonder if Mindark figured out that randomly adding estates causes major underlying problems in the entire virtual universe so are being careful to make sure to not make that bug/glitch happen again... happened almost every time that a new area was created... starting with Vu 10, Medusa Head, etc. Basically it's like the server system behind plots and estates is outdated database that Mindark doesn't have a lot of control over programmatically or something?... and it all has to be manually coded for each individual estate?

 

problem is quite simple to explain. because EU treats each planet as a different place, it's not that easy to just copy something from one planet to another.

everything is complicated at MAHQ because they made it so - and we also know they can't even copy-paste properly...

 

Item points on random estates go poof, sometimes for months...

 

http://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/f...ers-forgoten&p=2166285&viewfull=1#post2166285

http://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/f...opkeepers-5k&p=1514504&viewfull=1#post1514504


http://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/f...ase-2018-2-1&p=3640902&viewfull=1#post3640902

http://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/f...cant-pick-up&p=2629249&viewfull=1#post2629249

There's other threads too, but no time to dig too far at the moment

Basically same bug pops up with every big new area entering game... since each estate can be upgraded individually and it requires handing ped to m.a. npc it's likely big time spaghetti coding

 

What gets me is that after all these years they STILL don't go into details. Other developers will provide comprehensive lists of bug fixes for every update. Closest we get from MA is "there's a thing, so we disabled it".

An informed customer is a happy customer.

Only defense they have is to say that it would effect the economy but I say REALLY? REEAAAAAAAAAAALLLY? IN ALLLL CASES?

No no I rather suspect it would not. Sure if they told everyone how to trap a mob and sweat farm but no reason I can think of for them not to explain why they couldn't sort out some taxable land areas.

 

One might think MA does some of these obvious "Bugs" on purpose...so they they have something "to fix", after things like Deepthroat fails...and ppl can cheer for MA.
(aka "yay, they fixed something!")

A-Team only added oil to the fire by banning Sokolade and closing that thread, by staying completely silent. Very rude. Epic fail.

However, its MA pulling the final lever, not the "partner"...hence A-Team will be pulled through the mud from now on. Gratz.

Beeing a "Partner" usually means a high level of stress and anger.

We have reached a point of ridiculousness...with people still cheering for MA...that is unbelieveable, even in terms of MAs history of fails and lies...and tradition of excellence. ;D

 

They unbanned Sokolade. lulz :)

 

I can understand him to a degree. A bit sad he didn't detect the people actually on his side and trying to help him find better ways, but nobody's perfect. The forum, both public and admins, losing patience was equally bound to happen. You could just watch and knew it was going to crash and burn. Well we know who is behind all this and I can't hold a grudge against anyone who lost it when they found themselves at the wrong end. I'm inclined to think that the campaign to spread knowledge about possible and affordable legal recourse may have helped to accelerate a resolution in the end. Whether or not that is the case, it's out there now and someone will remember if such a thing ever happens again. Mission accomplished.