Stongs / shidiOt
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Hello? Anybody there? Support is nonexistent, engine upgrade has a better chance of coming out before I get a response to my ticket.
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4 hours ago, MattScott said:Hi there,
I'm not sure where you heard we were doing 3 day bans on hackers.
We have different ways of handling different problems.
For toxicity, harassment, and some other issues, we have escalating bans (24 hours, 72 hours, until permanent). Our goal is to help players learn what is acceptable and what is not.
For hacking and cheating, there is no escalation. We simply permanently ban. It's unfortunate, as I hate losing players that way, but it takes too long to catch them.
Thanks,
MattUmm cause I know people who are hacking and only received a 3 day ban?
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Why are bans for hacking only 3 days and not permanent?
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This was a garbage patch. You ruined IR3 and shotguns are broken, nerfed everygun but left pointman OCA manz to be OP? Good weapon balance please never touch the guns in this game again if you have no experience with the game.
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yikes / 10
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21 minutes ago, Lixil said:Checking your accounts out at this moment.
There were a couple ff banned accounts that became bugged after they started doing the Punkbuster unbans in late 2016. These accounts became accessible to login to but if they tried to join any district they would get kicked by FairFight. There was also another issue where at times FairFight was disabled accidentally and any of these bugged accounts became fully accessible while FairFight was disabled. I know a couple people who’s account had this bug and can now play on their accounts again and I play on Jericho. My guess is that FairFight is either not working properly on Jericho or is just completely disabled giving these players access to their accounts again. (Side Note) Don’t know if this is really relevant but as far as I know all of the accounts that had this issue were banned in 2014 so my guess is that they were manual bans from our previous CM that were put under FairFight, not going to name names but a certain player’s account who got banned for sniping summit 4 years ago and got manually banned by Tiggs under FairFight got unbanned from this bug.
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On 5/26/2018 at 10:07 AM, LaQuandra said:Okay, it is obvious you're not reading my posts or comprehending them so I am going to attempt one last time. I generally like to speak in facts and reality and I don't over exaggerate things.
Let's say on average NA has 450 people. We will use your suggestion and look at see how much it will improve match making (hint, not much).
Silver FN- 50/50 (350 people left playing)
Silver WF 50/50 (250 people left playing)
Brozne FN 50/50 (150 people left playing)
Bronze WF (50/50 50 people left playing)
Social district 43 (7 people left playing)
The other people are in the other districts that look like 0/4 0/1 etc. You aren't ever going to join those districts. Instead you're spamming one of the full districts.
Now, let's take a look at how it would look if you didn't increase the population.
Silver FN 35/35 (380 Left Playing)
Silver WF 35/35 (310 Left playing)
Bronze FN 35/35 (240 Left playing)
Bronze WF 35/35 (170 Left playing)
Social District 43 (127 Left playing)
Ram Raiders 7 (120 Left playing)
Well, well, well. In your scenario I am spamming the only full district. In my scenario there are 120 other people now. What can those 120 do you ask?
Overflow district 35/35 (50 People Left Playing)
Overflow district 25/25 (0 People left playing)
There you go. Proof in the numbers.
So ahead guys. Upvote this "terrific" idea to improve MATCHMAKING and instead you're left with 15 extra people in scenario 1 who would do active missions. In my scenario you're getting an extra 60 people for matchmaking. Guys, this isn't fantasy land. We won't have 1000s of players on NA to do what you're suggesting. Instead you're going to make it be 1 Financial and 1 Waterfront. My solution gives you OVERFLOW districts in which people will CONTINUE TO PLAY MISSIONS. Isn't that what you want?
Your suggestion is going to make people log off, sit in social, or just play fight club because the one district they need/want to play in is full. Please tell me how that improves the game? My suggestion gives them an overflow district which would encourage other players to join.
I am well aware of what I am saying....it's obvious you guys have not thought it through....so yeah.....let's just bandwagon a terrible idea in the current state of APB.
Maybe you want to log in and spam one district with 3 of your buddies. I don't. I'd rather log in and go into a populated district. How well does matchmaking work when you're spamming?
Your depiction of what players do on this game is very inaccurate. You're suggesting that when there are 450 players online they're literally all doing missions and only 43 people are in social and you don't even include fight club so that just goes to show you have no idea what you're talking about. In what world do you live in that with 450 players online there are 2 full bronze and silver waterfront and financial? You clearly don't understand that lower district population DIRECTLY effects matchmaking, the less players in the pool to match you in the longer it's going to take to get a game. You're only going off of a best case scenario, who's to say those 120 players left aren't going to join the bronze district or go to social or play fight club? Jericho currently has 514 players online and would you look at that? not a single full district but with your scenario we would have 2 full silver districts and would you look at that? There would be no other option for me to join so what would I have to do? I would have to spam into one of those full district, but if the districts were instead 50/50 I wouldn't even have to wait, I could just join either one of the districts. Your representation is very unrealistic.
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1 hour ago, LaQuandra said:Okay, so you're suggesting an extra 15 people to choose from for your pool while I am suggesting an extra 35 to pick from. Why is an extra 15 better than an extra 35?
Do you even understand what you are saying? Where did you get this extra 35 from? 50 is bigger than 35 you know. There is literally 0 benefit from going down in district population so idk why you're even arguing it.
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40 minutes ago, LaQuandra said:But that can be corrected with better matchmaking. If a bunch of players join the 50/50 server you still might not get matches right away if they were low rank players. So having more options is better. If FN-2 is bad, you can move to FN-5, if that is bad, go to FN-8.
Once population increases segregated skill level will be an option again.
In the meantime bumping up the servers will just turn into a queue spamfest for the one full district and people reluctant to join a "dead" instance and then not playing.
That doesn't fix anything, you're suggesting people spam into different districts if they don't get opp in the ones their in now. The districts will fill if there is a population to support it, lowering the pop wouldn't fix anything you can be in a full 30/30 district and never get opp and when you do get opp you'll only get the same players.
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22 minutes ago, LaQuandra said:I am going to vote this suggestion down and here is why.....
The current population (on NA at least) cannot handle it. Generally we have one financial and one waterfront. If you make the population smaller in each district it will create more overflow districts and people will be more likely to join those districts. If say Financial-2 is 50/50 and Financial-5 is 10/7, people will just spam FN-2 thinking the other district is dead. If they have to spam too much they might decide not to play, sit in social instead, or play fight club. If the district is smaller, say 35-35, 10/7 it might encourage people to fill it up.
I say the more district options we have, the better. If anything, decrease it to 35-35 and give us more districts.
Now....if the population on NA goes up to like 1500 or so, then I could see increasing the population as long as the servers can handle it.
The problem with lowering the district population is that you have less options in terms of players to be placed against. Yesterday playing in a full 40/40 district I still had to wait upwards of 10 minutes just to get opposition, so i have to disagree with you about lowering the pop. Yeah higher player base is essential to have when raising districts back to 50/50 but it's something that can be achieved with at least 700 players on the game because that's how it was before.
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Will districts go back to being 50/50 or at least 45/45? Please and thank you
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Welp, Looks like I was Right About the Server Pings :^)
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Wow, you’re telling me that you figured out that the game that has gone nowhere for the past 10 years and been through 3 different companies still isn’t going anywhere? You must be a fucking genius, why don’t you fucking play something else you loser this game is garbage and in its worst state in years.