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I dont think this helps what ever point was trying to be made. Besides RHIOT being a new game mode and new content that which APB has not seen in a long time its not surprising it would have more people than older cemented game modes. However, the "stats" given for this comparison are irrelevant from one another. The modes may not compete for players but they are certainly competing for their spot in the game. "If RIOT wasn't getting any traction, then Little Orbit would simply remove it." Can we not replace RHIOT with FC here? It was already suggested in the past FC could be removed before even seeing the community response. The main point. Why does time per account per game mode not matter? Even if you chose the "Average" game length/mission count, it would highlight its "popularity" far better than, "how many people joined for at least one mission and never played again." If RHIOT had 10000 unique players but they all played for under 1 hour over the course of the time its publicly available. Would you consider that a success and consider RHIOT to be worth continuing on in the APB game space? Separate to that, why are we comparing "Side" game modes? Even without talking about hours per account, if you took the amount of players playing the "main" game mode, the main reason for playing the game or what the majority of the playerbase were playing and compared them with RHIOT. Wouldn't you get a better idea of what "traction" you have for RHIOT? If 60% of people who played the games main game mode, played riot, would that not give you a better idea of how "successful" the game mode is for the game as a whole then trying to compare the niche player bases against each other? Or Are we trying to move RHIOT to be the new centre piece of APB? I love statistics as much as the next person and can appreciate the effort to prove to the small but loud parts of the community that the game is being treated right and parts of the community arent being arbitrarily ignored. Again, however from what i see here and if it correlates to what was said on the discord server, i believe THIS particular research is not worth mentioning. I can not see This as an objective view of RHIOT's "success" or an objective comparison of its popularity. Is this a loose justification for keeping RHIOT around as long as it is "more popular" than a game mode that has already been solidified by the community as something that can not be removed?

Im guessing that is more like "90% of the population did more riot matches than fight club matches" But it didn't take into account that RIOT didn't kept it's population for more than two weeks while fight club has been going for years and never stopped. This is harsh, but even at Citadel night it's hard to get a RIOT match.

I would say joker boxes because I have pretty much nothing left to buy on ARMAS but I wouldn't even buy then even with free money. So, probably just do gifts to others but can't even do that. I guess just wait for a sale and spend 200$ of premium cause why the fuck not? Or what random trash there is left on ARMAS to buy that I don't even want. Upgrade character guns to account wide. Shrug?

Ah, the typical "YoU cHeAtEd In ThE pAsT" comment. Once a cheater, always a cheater, amirite? No but seriously, who cares? You gonna do this for all the accounts that had their fairfight/punkbuster bans reversed? you would think the community would have stopped doing this a long time ago. I guess not @SKay as a fellow tommy gun user, I think you know what needs to be done. You better get the Tommy gun buffed my man, or else there are gonna be problens

dunno about that tbh, i still see the same russians on high ranking accounts cheating... like i remember seeing those chars at sub r100 a few months ago yet they're almost 255 now xd

I noticed the dropped the option for Account/Character bound packs and stopped the whole "You have this Character Bound but can buy it Account Bound for only XXG1C" now. Shame, but in return we got the unbundled items for 49-99G1C, so it's still a win in my books. The new look on the ARMAS website sure looks nice though -

My suggestion is to delete their accounts since they're just wasting server space, but I know LO would lose money since those types tend to be the whales of the community.

Update to the latest windows 10 build 1903 caused my account to get trade locked.

If you're logging in through steam that would still be linked to your old account. If you don't have access to that anymore just contact support and give them the info they ask for to verify the ownership

Without getting into to much detail, if they use a simple macro is very easy to tell besause of the constant consistency. Experienced users 'screw up' once in a while, simple macro's don't. Now, if you would use a more advanced macro then it will be harder for a GM/spectator/stream watcher to spot, IE: if you add a randomised factor to it looks more humanised. I've seen a guy using his own advanced macro and combined it with a semi-randomised/non-autoshoot aimbot, he went from rank 9 to 255 and that account is still not banned. We all know that AC's are a joke these days so it's up to other factors to get people like this banned and there is where the problem is. It's not what GM/spectators/stream watchers see, it's what cheaters wants them to see. Sidenote to your streaming refference: there's still streamers who are blatantly using marcros and bots so catching those is not that hard, and yet they're still playing. It's a bit frustrating to say the least.

I think you may be confusing fairness with the outcome of the game. Fair match doesn't mean that both teams will win 50% of the time. It means that both teams play under the same conditions and better team will win 100% of the time unless something unexpected happens. Like who knows, maybe the worse team will learn something during the game that will make them equal or even better. Or maybe they were better from the very beginning but didn't believe it which made them play worse. Anyway, so because of how APB works you may think that 3 silvers vs 2 golds is fair or maybe even unfair for the silvers, but it's actually unfair for golds. And who will win the game is irrelevant. If you want to make a system where both teams win 50% of the time then well first of all, that's impossible, you would have to take into account a lot more factors than just threat and rank, and second why would you want to do that? Where's the fun in playing if you know that no matter what you do, you will win half of your games? But most developers are still trying to introduce this scuffed matchmaking and it just doesn't work on so many levels. If you play good, you win more games. If you play bad, you lose more games. No need to complicate things. And if someone can't handle that, maybe competitive games just aren't for them?

The question is not in cheater, the question is that they do not fight. Quite. Cheaters are not afraid to lose an account, not afraid to lose things on this account. They are not afraid of punishment for using the software, and this is wrong! On the other hand, what do simple players who do not use third-party software, do not play? Drop everything? Quit the game and accounts in which the money was invested, several hundred? Is it serious? Is that your suggestion? Just close your eyes to what is happening or still try to fight. To convey the essence of the problem to the administration. Forced to take tough action. Stop making false promises. The same Blizzard very hard fighting with any third-party software, and as it is not strange in their games are not so many cheaters. They are there, you are right, but they are much smaller if the company did nothing at all.

I dunno what happened but it's not hard to imagine what gonna happen. This community is... let's say it lightly... seriously fucked in head. They gonna chase him around. Troll him outside mission. Plus everyone gonna spam in PM, district etc. about their life issues. And pretty sure we gonna have few blatants just to show "what a chads" they are by wasting their life blatanting on 50th account in-game. There is reason why all staff kept itself either as "normal players" inside game or away from game other than dev job.

the cm played with people she didnt know were banned under g1, on her personal twitch channel, and boosted her account to r255 the forums literally stopped working because there were so many people sperging out over it at once

tbh, I wouldn't even be that upset if my account got robbed/stolen.

Hi, I've been playing APB for a long while on PC and have just started on Xbox. Rather than have to start all over, is it possible to link my PC Gamersfirst to Xbox?, or to login to Xbox with my old account or something? Thanks!

That is why I don't think only a carrot will work. You also need to reduce / remove the incentive of doing the wrong thing (in this case dethrating). Remember back when we had 30 threat levels? Elite gold players desperately tried to get to gold-10 and resorted to all kinds of silly tactics to get there (out of mission ghosting, 3rd party software cheating etc....) It was horrible. This was part why G1 decided to change the visibility of your hidden threat rating. Today we don't really see this behavior anymore. Success. My point being that reaching gold-10 was sort of a "carrot" and it appealed to a big chunk of the elite gold veteran community. You just need to design the "carrot" correctly (the best "carrot" is to make the game more "fun"... preferable by always giving you close match-ups that are challenging to your character rating, in-game equipment, FPS and true skill level but not overpowering and can go either way at any time). If you prevent golds from joining missions with vastly lesser skilled players in a F2P game like APB:R then you always have the risk of someone (like OP) creating a smurf account. With the current system you can stay in the bronze district and get matched against players in the district for a whole day even if you went gold many hours ago. But if you are also prevent people from joining missions with vastly lesser skilled players (by disabling the mission ready feature or by mechanically prevent matchmaking against vastly less skilled players by using phasing or some other method) much of the incentive to dethreat will be removed. It will just take maybe 3-10 missions for a stomper on a new account until he or she no longer will be matched up against vastly lesser skilled players and have to leave for the higher threat district.

Except that g1 had expressly stated that they did look at a number of previous matches to determine threat, and since the point system, no such changes have been announced to the threat system to say they changed the system to the one you describe, without the match averages. Nor did they say that the system changed to not include the previous match information (not that they had to, but it would seem odd that they'd leave it out) I believe that this was also said around the time if not after Settle the Score came out as I've known about the ~50 match tracking ( since the summer/fall of gold lock because I HAD tried to dethreat during that time after learning about it, but decided it was too much effort). I forget when Settle the Score came out exactly. The system to my knowledge runs similar to what you're saying, but it accounts for your overall progress over a number of matches. You also talk about CV but how is it calculated? You simply talk about the glicko values. How does the confidence value change? What is that based on? Over how long is that CV based? How does it know that its confident? You can't have that value without some sort of performance over time basis can you? What about them trying to keep a ~20% gold pop ~30%-40% silver whatever it is for bronze and gold. How is that handled?

Hi guys! I was just wondering if it's possible to untie my old apb account (that i don't use anymore) from my steam account ? And if so, how ? Thanks!

I'm beginning to enjoy the troll accounts on here.

"Does LO realize that probably 90% of forums is a troll account."

Very true. 17,000+ accounts were banned Yes, that is likely true, though its only a guess from me. Since I can only guess, I would say going through 17,000+ bans manually would have been too much work. tl;dr yes Matt knew exactly how to trigger a false ban aside from that, I know nothing

nope it was a GM following the rules. 0 tolerance for cheats, and it said on the GM rule post "the use of a macro or anything that mimics a macro" was to be banned. Back then they banned for 2 hours anyone that cheated in any form. but you would have to be a RTW player to remember the golden days. sure they would reroll but all of their stuff on the first account was gone. the issue is that the "entitled" kids think they deserve to cheats and will admit it then call you salty for trying to make them play in the rules.

You bought out a company. You have ideas. AND you implement them and it doesnt go over all that well. OOPs You didnt know the Customer base and their needs and expectations. But, You did make a few positive changes. But your biggest problems is Joan, That Supreme fuzzy bunny in accounting, She's been there for years and KNOWS everything. What can you do? You need her, she has seen it ALL! And knows everything, She is Deceiving and manipulative. She doesnt teach NEW HIRES a damn thing! WHY, JOB Security! She has EVERYONE Convinced the Company will go under without her! Joan is a fuzzy bunny and everyone knows it, but they all put up with it because they are scared. She is holding everyone and the company hostage. The new Riot mode aint all bad. But, it was a bad move because no one asked for it. Joan told you so. Joan also has alot of afraid subordinates scared so they kiss her patootie and agree with her. I'm 52 and every company I have been a part of has a Joan in some capacity. In our case Joan is about half, just guessing of our GOLD player base. They are DOING NOTHING FOR APB. They hide behind the excuse of NOT enough Players to play where we SHOULD. Jericho is the WORST! EGO BOYS....listen up Who is the best in Jericho? What are you doing to HELP the game? Citadel has leaders that schedule events and do something positive. NOT in Jericho. They Just crap on people who have ideas in the forums. Citadel arranges nights they play in THEIR GOLD server. What are you doing PRO boys of Jericho beside running your mouth? Jericho GOLDS are Joan! They already bought everything, They don't promote or help anyone, They spread toxcity and egotism to lower Districts. Why do you need them? Instead of them dictating how things go for their best interest. How about make the game appeatling to a new customer base? Let them Play in SILVER and remove ALL STANDING. CRAP flows from the TOP to the bottom. Experiment with some levels. Lvl 9 to 50 Must stay in Green District. 51 to 100 must stay in Bronze. I don't have all the answers, but the most obvious solutions have never been tried cuz we are listening to Joan. Why would we not want to even try this and tweak it? New players should get to learn the game with their peers and not with dethreaters. Or thrown into Siver district. In all my years of playing I have NEVER once seen someone recommend a player go to Bronze District and how to do it. They all say they do it, but thats what JOAN would say. No matter what you try they will say the same thing. Not enough player base to support it. That way they can continue their Domination. Lets get a NEW Player Base. Send out emails to everyone that havent played the game for 3 months are more and tell them they got their OWN DISTRICT free from GOLD LIFERS! You can learn and play the game based upon people of your own skill lvl. SAME OLD discussion on the forums for years. And same OLD excuses! GOLD servers are Empty, Green are, will, and have always been empty. The whole thing is ridiculous, USE the GREEN servers! As it stands now a Trainee goes to GREEN, which is really Bronze in 2 missions at the most! IT's NONSENSIBLE! Stretch out the levels.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE WHAT YOU DID WITH the RIOT 3 steps intro. Maybe You could change up the District Seclect Screen. It's sometimes months or years before a player learns they can MANUALLY select their appropriate district. This a Huge issue. What JOAN doesnt address and ONLY says GIT GUD, is that when they started there WAS a bigger popualtion. And they did get the benefit of playing against like skilled peers. Instead of accidentally being thrust into Silver....WHICH is really GOLD or going up against cheap players. I'm sorry to say. RIOT even in the best case scenario will fail. WHY, it caters to JOAN! The New signups may be big with an ad campaign or something, But JOAN will run them off just as quick. All while saying Git GUD and meanwhile WE ARE ALL HELD HOSTAGE. Where are the LO inspired POLLS? Where are LO emails offering new accounts something and to play in a Fair District? So much potential, but nothing. That's why alot of people say its like G1. Promises, but afraid to do any REAL changes. If the GOLD pop stopped playing for a week. WHAT! Did you really lose any revenue? Maybe, the new Trainees and would actually get some kills and have some fun and stick around. And how knows SPEND SOME MONEY! The Dethreaters couldn't go to Green to harass them. Don't give them any standing whatsoever for playimg in Bronze either. Silvers could and would be able to play in the actual SILVER DISTRICT. What in the hell is the downside of trying??? I know.... Not enough POP to support it, VICIOUS TOXIC CYCLE of FAKE NEWS! Merged. 2 minutes and no JOAN response. I like this time of night! I'll respond for them. Put it on the pile. We like the game as it is and don't want it to grow for others. We want to maintain our Domination with our years experience head start and don't want others to have the same opportunity of playing.