Chinook

Given, that they officially provided "clean slate" to everyone that they've unbanned, what message would it have sent to people if Lixil had chosen the "nope, not teaming up with you, you've been banned in the past" path? While it might not have caused as strong outcry that what actually happened, it would pretty certainly have caused some form of outcry anyway. Somehow it all went from good intentions to lose/lose situation.

Ah, so there's 2 different ways to get "locked" then Been so long since having trouble last time that I can't remember accurately. Sometimes you can log in and choose another char just fine, but if you try to enter the game with the character you were using at the time of crash, it throws you back to login. (Can't remember if it gives you an error message or not)

Have you tried to log in using a different character (given that you have more than one on your account)? That sometimes helps (or at least gives the impression that it helps - it could just as well be that enough time has passed whenever I've tried another character).

I sense a lot of anger in you...

This, really... Unless the problem is triggered by your behaviour, you rarely need to ignore anyone (except if you want to silence their themes). I pretty much rinse my list each time I play, only few names I've had to add knowingly on it several times (these cases have been mostly beggars).

I dont get people PERIOD

Good for you. I tried doing those once...or maybe twice? One didn't work and one just gave me fuckall as reward. I may have gotten something like few 30 G1C's for watching an ad even earlier. I have better uses for my time than wasting half an hour for something I can make in 5-10 minutes at work.

You ask: What's wrong with poor citadel? The answer is: Poverty. Poverty stinks.

https://forums.gamersfirst.com/forum/14-server-marketplace-auctions/ Find someone who's selling symbols on your server and ask?

There is no such thing as free lunch...

After BE went online, I have had one FC experience (which went on for few rounds) where I really had to question if the top scorers indeed were cheating or not... But after giving it some thought my conclusion was "inconclusive". Yes, we (the others) were rekt quite thoroughly by those few players. And no, they didn't display any "blatantly obvious" characteristics usually associated with cheaters. There just was no way telling, and I didn't recognize the names either, so no reason to have any big thoughts and assumptions really.

How much is the fish?

You've just witnessed "APB happened" moment. Nothing to see here folks...

This whole incident has "this is why we can't have nice things" written all over it indeed. Also people are fucking spoiled little princesses/princes/puppies when it comes to getting slapped on their wrists in twitch chat. Streamer has always the authority (and responsibility) to moderate the chat as strictly as necessary, and if people still keep spamming unwanted things after they have been told to stop, there are tools which will stop that autistic behaviour of yours. You can blame yourself and those aroud you if streamer feels necessary to limit/remove chat priviledges from some or all user groups. (Emote only mode is my favourite way to stop chat from being assholes and ruining everything.)

OOB is a thing I might want to change so that it's not active when you're not on a mission. But I also would like to fix a lot of locations that can still be camped during missions as long as you remember to crouch from time to time. Teamkilling is a double-edged sword... If there existed an option or button, where you can all agree to not punish others from your group doing it outside missions, then why not. During an active mission however it should stay as it is. I'd be ready for devs bringing back some things from the past, that are currently inaccessible or (too) strictly limited, but only if done with proper safety-net to not bring back all the problems from the past with them. I do however prefer goomba-stomping over stacking humans.

My OCD is triggered by the inconsistency in the gap between lines -> brain says: bad photoshop/paint skills

Also it seems you didn't notice that your thread was already replied some time ago. I find it curious that you are in such a hurry to spend money, given the sentence you added to this re-post version of your previous topic.

2 random ideas I came up with 10 minutes of using tired brain: Whenever team size drops to one, the game could automatically send you backup. As with vip missions - you are a vip for crying out loud - your faction could dispatch some of it's members for your rescue. Whenever threat and matchmaking as result will be looked, there should be some thought given to yet untried solutions to inbalanced team sizes on missions that require more players by design. Also not forgetting the fact that we could have the districts split between "casual and competitive" instead of "OC and missions" and have the type of ruleset affect not only the matchmaking when mission launches, but also on rules for calling backup at some situations you can't currently call any.

There's been plenty enough witch-hunts in the history of APB already. Nobody should waste their time on that apart from those who have the actual GM tools at hand and are tasked to do exactly that.

I would actually like to know the percentage of active accounts that were getting /report-ed during the entire fairfight only-era. It's got to be like 70-80% given how easily people throw up hackusations on whispers and on district chat. Massively overusing such report function with specific purpose will just make all the data provided by the function garbage. It's like pressing all the buttons for different floors in elevator and then blaming the elevator for not going directly into the correct floor.

It would be a wasted effort on current engine given that they want to actually do the engine upgrade. What style of shaders they'll pick to use with that, however, is completely another story.

How low of a low end we're talking about? My previous AMD Phenom II-powered pc still played APB at 40+ fps with just a few things disabled from graphics setup... And it's like 8+ years since that was built.

I just recently did some ramming on an alt to unlock some achievements for that character, and had 0 problems whatsoever while doing it. I was in an open conflict district with 4 other crims and saw a total of one enforcer visiting the district within few hours. It's just about the time and place. Ramraiding is easy way to make money... If you're not overly greedy and keep pushing your luck, nobody is really interested about you and it's just bad luck if you get witnessed.