LilyRain

Any change from your sweet-hands is correct and appreciated by default I see where you are coming from though. Thanks for clarifying

Dear Selali & LO, thanks for the heads up Regarding shotgun stat changes. With reference to the supplied link and I quote: - "After extensive community feedback, it was pretty clear that a vast majority thought that shotguns were more balanced back before we made our first round of changes in the summer of 2018". - "So, for this first set of stats, we are going to be reverting shotguns back to their pre Little Orbit stats. The stats should reflect how shotguns behaved and performed in 2017". Since both LO and Players are already in agreement for shotguns and wish to go back in time to start fresh from there. Is there any chance of immediately pushing shotgun changes to live rather than test district A? This test would be redundant and you will end up receiving the exact same feedback. P.S: The current nfas being busted needs to go away immediately. We don't need to say good-bye to current nfas for another week or two. It already overstayed its presence.

That is one side of the coin. The other side shows that this prevents de-threaters from feasting on newbies, which on its own leads to the same result. At least this way, de-threaters get to play in the real world without abusing the threat-system for cheap matches.

Responding to an open-ticket on a zero-tolerance case will only get it ignored again. OP needs a higher-up Staff to force re-investigation Yes, Stitchly is closer to this than Lixil. Thanks for the efficient redirection Well.. God damn.. Fun fact: MattScott is a true-leader, a CEO who actually replies to people & his beard is as generous as Santa's on XMAS.. He's your Man but only contact him as a last resort

Excellent! You'll eventually get your account back then. It is just a waiting game now. Give them some time to reach your ticket while keeping an eye on this thread to check on their progress: If MattScott announces a date that is beyond that of your ticket, Contact Lixil

The Support-team already concluded your case & have a pile of tickets to look into. There is zero-tolerance for trading with real-money and chances are they will keep the same conclusion over your account and proceed to process that pile of tickets. You wouldn't get banned unless they have evidence of real money trading on you. However, if you are honest and this ban was indeed a mistake then you having nothing to fear. You can always appeal properly to a Senior LO-staff (e.g Lixil) and they will have your case re-investigated. By appeal properly I mean NOT to send desperate text (e.g I am innocent, I didn't do this, give me justice, I made many accounts to tell you this, unlock my account, I am innocent).... but instead show cooperation and willingness to share any and all information related to this case and your accounts (ticket reference numbers, accounts you own, history of purchases, dates of birth on accounts, etc). Only do this if you are legitimately innocent please. If you are pretending to be innocent and trying to shame LO on public forums out of anger, don't waste your time. You'll only make this even more permanent.

Voted: "No but it needs to change". I find the Prestige system unique to APB. Removing it makes the game more dull. To me, going in that direction is no different from making only those in a mission be in their own independent district, completely isolated from people (griefers, etc). People feared this when phasing was first announced. Simply makes the game feel more empty and boring. Currently, the most money in magnitude can be made from arresting N5s: Barebones, this amount isn't that bad (comparable to an entire mission reward), but the real reward is the Cop becoming Prestige 5 themselves to follow it up with no bonuses for any additional efforts.. Arresting is encouraged-behaviour for Enforcers hence it builds up the prestige-meter pretty darn fast! But like you said, bounties don't get more rewards for continued work like in the days of old. It is even worse because arresting criminals in rapid succession doesn't have its own version of blitzerkieg medals. Lining up stunned-criminals to arrest them with Cuffmate 4 equipment isn't any more rewarding than isolating them 1 by 1. Doing this at Prestige 5 by default isn't any more rewarding either... Combine this with the fact that LO is too lazy to at least Band-Aid-patch busted-weapons such as the nfas and you get Enforcers who never like to fight uphill-battles with Less than Lethal weapons, let alone streak with them Prestige 5. It is a fun-flex (yes, you can outstun an nfas), but that is where the fun ends. There is no real-reward for actually being good at the game. More of a reason for players to just play with busted weapons that won't get balanced before Q3 of 2021. Of course, as a Lethal Enforcer/Criminal, the reward for killing P5 is about half of this without any additional bonuses for continued cleaning/monstrosity to the city (pretty okay amount for starters). Like you said, it just flags for death without any additional bonuses (at the present time, this is okay. nfas-weaklings don't deserve more cash for using a busted-weapon. Might buff their rewards after weapons get fixed). P5/N5 should give rewards for streaks, but it should diminish quickly for being idle or camping for an opportunity to farm to prevent abuse for cash (think how the meter goes down when AFKing in social, but make it like 30 times faster). Removing this system isn't the way to go. Just make it rewarding again #MakePrestigeGreatAgain #LTLMasterRace

We U 2~!

I am also affected with a bug on my Purple-pumpkin progress

Yep, we were in Asylum. You came just in time as 6-7 PM is when Jericho starts to come alive. At the time of this reply, there are 21 Enforcers against 20 Criminals in Silver-WateFront. Hopefully the number will rise a couple of hours from now

Removing threat segregation is most likely a global-variable. If you remove it from NA, it also gets removed from EU. So that's theoretically x5 times the players leaving APB as a whole because of this than what you're just thinking. With the Global-Merge on the horizon, you'll do yourself (and other players) more harm than good. You are playing on the North American server, so you should in the very least respect North American timings. You're doing the complete opposite by trying to play the game on its most dead-day (Monday) at the most trough (opposite of peak) time. If you can't match NA-timings then try petitioning LO into accelerating the global-merge if that isn't already a high-priority in their to-do list.

Yep, all the Tryhards I arrested downvoted. Definitely infuriating to get arrested when using nfas by an LTL-fragiler..

You realize that your effortless simple solution is one of the reasons why APB on console is a waste of time to play, lol. Your solution has zero benefits in exchange for potentially billions of loading screens.

Question is: Can GMs actually see details of ongoing matches to monitor and take action in real-time?

What in the phucc?

APB-Tryhard: A player who uses nothing but an nfas, modded-pmg or any other disgusting weapon, often in conjunction with corner camping, grenade-spam or car-gameplay whenever applicable... on a false-crusade chasing the ultimate K/D-ratio (even if it means ignoring mission-items to stay alive) in hopes to shine in a leaderboard that does not exist

That would precisely double the downside of mag pull 3 on n-tec. It won't kill the weapon but I find it quite trigerring.. But indeed. If LO decides to nerf every aspect about the weapon rather than one or two, I might actually start supporting an aggressive test-district-A nerf instead.

These are not the norm as they were ARMAS exclusives till Little Orbit decided to add ARMAS weapons to the Joker Store. At the present moment, not even half of these exist in the Joker Store. Contacts do not sell tier2+ modded secondaries let alone ones with tier3 or R195+ unique mods (they don't offer an RFP with IR1 nor HS1 either). Although not as advantageous as the Fang, most of the secondaries you mentioned are still behind paywalls. Like Matt said: "We have been making a strong effort to balance the P2W aspects of the game, and unfortunately the Fang is one of those outliers that needs to be addressed." It is indeed a flaw to give ir3 to the Fang, but if every ARMAS-weapon was added to the Joker Store prior, the Fang wouldn't currently be pay-2-win nor an immediate problem. High-tier mods were given to secondaries in order to make them attractive for purchase from ARMAS (Fang included) & this is exactly what LO is fighting to reverse. LO isn't obligated to walk on the path its predecessors did nor it should follow every idea they had. If LO has no future-plans to have upcoming-Contacts sell secondaries with tier2+ mods or even open-slot secondaries, then giving the Fang (or any other ARMAS-secondary) a high-tier mod such as HS3 is an inconsistent solution to what they are trying to achieve. Pertaining to the Fang-discussion initiated by Matt, swapping IR3 with HS3 conflicts with the fact that LO nerfed the RFP's performance outside marksman aim. Eliminating pay-2-win is the goal, but replacing it with pay-2-get underperforming weapons isn't great nor fair either. A problem shouldn't be fixed by swapping it with another problem. At the present moment, I still believe that giving the Fang a unique-tagger-mod is far more gentle than HS3.

"With all of that in mind, I'm going to go on record saying that IR3 on the Fang sits at the heart of the problem we are seeing. It is simply a bad design decision." I couldn't agree more. In fact, level 3 mods on secondary-weapons are not the norm at the present moment. If there are no plans to give secondaries higher-level mods in the near-future, there is no need for the fang to have HS3. How about just giving it a fang-shaped tagger-mod and call it a day? It won't make it a better/worse variant of the RFP behind a pay-wall & it will give it character.

If they push forward district B's N-tec, I'll have you arrested again. I hold you responsible for underperforming weekly-polls

It is important to note that hot-fixing payment is much simpler than addressing tickets aimed to investigate potential hackers, engine bugs that are not worth fixing because Devs are working on a new engine, etc. Plus, it is most certainly done by forwarding the issue to handlers outside of LO who facilitate payments between game-publishers and consumers, so it is natural for such a process to be faster than a very specific-ticket. Such work requires collaboration between say these handlers and LO, hence the need to prioritize such tickets in a timely fashion. I agree that a 30-day queue for a ticket to be addressed is long, but this isn't a matter of fairness vs injustice. If there is a problem that can be fixed on a parallel-line effectively, giving it short-lasting immediate-attention is the intelligent thing to do.

I have asked my Fortune Teller about APB's nerf-train: ----------------------------------------------- We hopefully won't get to that point since changes are usually minor, but instead of 'Hey! This weapon is the current-best right now, let us give it a nerf', I'd personally like to see more of 'these weapons are severely underused and not as competitive, let us give them a raise'.

Low-Yields are also weaker against vehicles, but yes. Tweaking it further than just limiting the count to 2 is miles better indeed