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  3. Posted

    On 6/2/2020 at 7:07 PM, CookiePuss said:

    That's a lot of people who were at one time interested in APB.

    Going to be interesting how many can be made to hear of the new engine.

     

     

    those are individual accounts, not individual people.  People reroll new accounts all the time.  I hardly think its 10 million unique people since the beginning of the game lmao.  Its taken them 10 years to reach that number.  😛

    speaking of real life ads, anyone remember when G1 made this?

     

     

  5. Posted

    1 hour ago, Nagletz said:

    Sometimes I'm asking myself: "what if the game had proper matchmaking at start, would it be at the current statel like now?" 

    But someone else would name other problems apb had ever since..

    Matchmaking has always been an issue since apb released.  Thats not going to be fixed now. 

     

    Also, you need to consider the population right now.  Districts arent full.  Theres one bronze and one silver on a good night and theyre hardly maxed out.  If matchmaking worked to where it matched you with someone of equal skill, you would never play against another team.  There just isnt a large enough diverse enough playerbase to make matchmaking work.  

     

    we'll see if this phasing thing actually happens.,.. im not holding my breath.

  6. Posted

    On 2/29/2020 at 7:01 AM, Mirele said:

    There's a recurring misconception that we do not do these things. We actively monitor and we actively prevent griefing and harassment. The difference being that we do not publicly broadcast actions taken against other accounts. While it may seem like we are just being chatty with community members I can assure you that we are almost constantly dealing with other things simultaneously.

    That being said: we can not be everywhere at all times. You are still expected to utilize the /report functionality on your own, so that we can get to you at a later date. But if you do see us in districts please reach out to us so that we can help. A GM sees the game almost exactly as a player does, and it's difficult to keep track of 79 players at once.

     

    We screen applicants thoroughly. We also screen active volunteers thoroughly.

     

    If you have questions regarding the commands and toolsets I suggest you send a PM to SakeBee.

    I can assure you that we observe GMs closely for unacceptable behavior. We have strict guidelines for what we can and can not do.

     

    Edit: If you want to report a GM or any possible misuse of their commands/tools, send a PM to SakeBee as well.

    Can you ban on site?  Do you have the full GM abilities to teleport around the district, fly wherever you want, appear wherever you want?  All you can do is report what you see.  The reason you see the game "almost exactly as another player" is because all you are is another player, just with a few extra commands.  You are virtual police and you arent even getting paid.

  7. Posted

    On 8/23/2019 at 2:13 AM, Kakalaki said:

    good to hear you are working on it, it's real pain in the arse always reboot the game.

    working on it but still happens.  Guess they are working on fixing it the same time the engine upgrade "comes" 😛

  8. Posted

    why anyone would volunteer to do this unpaid is beyond me.  You arent even a full gm, have limited gm abilities, and are basically a glorified forum mod.  Thats it.  Heres a thought, hire some ACTUAL GM's to police the districts.  I miss the days when they would show up and ban hammer the griefers etc.  

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  9. Posted · Edited by Shimmer

    4 hours ago, vantiks said:

    Segregating threat on Jericho just doesn't make sense. I understand that it may not always be fair to put the veteran players into the same matchmaking pool as a silver who has only played a week, but it still isnt working on NA. We do not have the population to support it.

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    NA peeks at around 200 players on at a time(THIS POPULATION ONLY STAYS ON FOR MAYBE AN HOUR BEFORE IT LOWERS). EU is 600-800 depending on the day of the week.

     

    This is eu right now. 602 players. they can support being segregated.

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    This is NA. 82. We CANNOT support being segregated.

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    When threats were combined into same servers, NA had a waterfront and financial going for most the day at 40-40 or close to it. But now we are back to this cycle of financial for a week and then waterfront for maybe a day... and back to fin (I have only seen 40-40 maybe 3-4 times since we got segregation back). And lets just say you need waterfront and IT FINALLY POPULATES  after like 2 weeks of you waiting.

     

    half your missions are going to look like this.

     

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    (blacked out to avoid name and shame)

     

    Dethreating is back. i played for maybe 13 missions yesterday and i got around 6-7 dethreaters either on my team or the other team (separate missions). Today my first mission was a deathreater.

     

    Just put NA back to unsegregated. Its dying regardless.

     

    *edit*

    New players are going to quit regardless.

    they go to bronze, dethreaters slam them.

    they go into silver, they get farmed by a veteran player.

     

     

     

     

     

    that persons threat wont change if they are negative points.    Without context its hard to prove that person was dethreating.  He may have accidentally osmawed his teams car IDK but with negative points it has no effect on threat, same with the teammate with 0 points.  You cant effect your threat with 0 points.  Maybe osmaw was mad other player wasnt playing and took out his anger on him.  

     

    Dethreating isnt "back", it never went away.  Why?  Because of the very reason you mentioned.  Our server population does not support threat segregated districts.  its been literally YEARS since we have had an healthy enough population to segregate districts.    People want to play so they DT to get into the full district.  They need to remove threat completely.  It is completely meaningless as it is so easily manipulated.  

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  10. Posted

    2 minutes ago, CookiePuss said:

    Which do you expect makes it more likely for a gold player to get lower threat opp, by grouping with bronze and silver teammates? Or by playing with gold teammates?

    Because if you don't want them stomping lower threat players, don't yell at them for not playing with lower threat players.

    Its not like they dont know how to lower their threat.   Im not yelling at anyone Im just saying the gold vs lower threat isnt going to go away.  They need to remove threat entirely.  Theres not enough players to support the segregated districts.  

  11. Posted

    sometimes I accidentally ready because of habit before I invite my teammates to group. Abandonmission allows us to group up before we have opposition.  Or if we have a friend come on late we can leave mission and add them to get a new mission.  

     

    In the grand scheme of things, there are much more pressing things to have them work on then removing the /abandonmission feature....

    On 2/5/2020 at 10:08 AM, CookiePuss said:

    On the one hand, people complain about Golds stomping on lower threat players.

    On the other hand, golds get shit talked for abandoning missions with lower threat players.

     

    Reminder that the community agrees on nothing.

    Well the reality is there will be golds vs lower threats because of server population.  There isn't a healthy population in any threat group to sustain a district of that color with decent district population.

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  13. Posted

    On 1/21/2020 at 7:06 AM, TheMessiah said:

    I just read the last engine upgrade news and yea looks like things are far from public test.I was hoping we start this new year with that test but unfortunately not gonna happen.Too many things to be done..i guess not sooner than spring.The big question right now is what the hell LO can do about this slowly but surely /pop decreasing.I mean i log like 2 days ago and /pop was less than 500 players and was weekend.Like i dont know..any plans whats next?I doubt valentine event will bring more players.Im just worried for the game thats all..

    Hi you must be new here.  Theyve been saying "its coming this year" since 2012.  Dont  hold your breath because its unlikely the upgrade will ever see the light of day.

  19. Posted

    Just wanted to let yall know if you are CRASHING or getting a APB reloaded is out of disc space error after launching after the latest patch and you are running discord and have overlays on, disable the discord overlays.  EAC must think they are a hack *shrug*

  23. Posted · Edited by Shimmer

    On 5/29/2019 at 9:36 PM, hackerung said:

    I'm going to have to disagree with you.

    Bronze servers are usually well-populated depending on time of day. Obviously you're not going to find as many players on a late night as you would otherwise on a regular afternoon. A lot of people have lives to attend to and that's perfectly okay.

    Secondly, if every gold player in bronze mustered up the courage to be on silver districts rather than dethreat for easy kills, unpopulated silver districts would not be a problem, I can safely assure you of that. There's more golds than bronzes, in bronze districts at this point.

    Thirdly, "You would literally have no opposition" is false. So long as there are equal number of criminals and cops in the district you are as likely to get opposed missions as you would any district. Be it 5-5 or 40-40. This too I can safely assure you as I've experienced it firsthand myself more than once.

    And fourthly/lastly, you cannot gather more new players if they join the game to get stomped in the first set of missions.

    In other words.

    Joining a game and instantly getting annihilated by osmaw users or a premade of full legendary gold threat teams, is not going to make you want to stay in that game, is it?

    We need to make this game fair by fixing this issue. THAT is how we atract a newer audience, and how we grow this community.

     

    And by the way, threat is a good indicator of skill. There will always be people on a good day or who get lucky every now and then, but anyone who is good enough to get gold on a regular everyday or hourly basis as is the case of many, they do -NOT- belong in bronze districts.

     

    Threat is the most important thing we have as it tells us the skill level of a player. We have the right to know who we are dealing with as an oponent. Removing threat would mean havoc as any team of golds could join any district they wanted and team up on anyone, new or veteran alike. Your idea of removing threat is the worst idea I could've seen on this topic and i can't stress this enough. We NEED threat to signal us of each player's skill-level. The reason nobody went into open conflict is the lack of control over who you're fighting. That's why those districts were removed.

    We NEED a fair game if we want to gather more players. We NEED this to happen in order for APB to grow as a game. New players need to be allowed to play and not just get stomped on.

     

     

    you can disagree all you want....but facts are facts.  This was implemented when the server pop was much healthier and didn't work.  It didn't work because people complained because servers didn't get full and they had no opp. 

     

    It. 

     

    Didnt.

     

    Work.

     

    Again, disagree all you want, it just tried and tested and failed.

     

    Also, you're an idiot if you think threat is an ACTUAL indicator of player skill.  Ive carried my friend who literally cant kill anyone up to gold.  Hes gold, but doesnt mean hes good.  He goes silver when he plays by himself, and im 100% sure if we didn't play with him he'd be bronze.  Ive seen someone gold one day and green the next.  Its absolutely 0 indication of player skill.  

  24. Posted · Edited by Shimmer

    On 5/12/2019 at 8:20 AM, hackerung said:

    That would be a decent sollution too, I would love to see that.

     

    This was done way back in the day, and threat locked districts did not work.  Our server population would not support this then, and it absolutely doesn't now.  We barely fill one district on a good night.   I know it sounds ideal to you, but you'd be even more upset if they were removed.

     

    As you can see from the screenshots you submitted, that judging someone based on their threat, is unreliable as threat is easily manipulated as these players are in those screenshots.  Just because you *think* you're grouped with silvers, doesn't mean they are actually silvers, and are probably just golds that dethreated just so they could join  the district to  have someone to play against.   

     

    Rank is also never a good indication of someones skill, as people who have been banned or just wanted a new character re roll.  I've  been face rolled by a R9 plenty.  

     

    Simply put, if they removed gold threat players from the bronze district, you would literally have no opposition or be waiting 30 min to an hour before you got a match against anyone.  Also removing them does nothing because they can just dethreat and come right back.   

     

    Until our server population is more healthy, and at least quadruple what it is now (which it hasn't been for the past few years and has been steadily declining), this simply is not a feasible solution.  

     

    what needs to happen is threat being removed entirely as it literally means nothing as players can be whatever threat they want. 

     

     

     

     

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