more transparency and addressing other critical issues

bump it up right now
 
On another forum, a player who has a gun named after him (and dub) made a list of promises found in version updates and upcoming content.

Since he is not allowed to speak here, and we are talking about transparency and adressing critical issues (like broken promises), I will ask the question:

Whatever happened to?


Taming Stage 2
Promised and postponed since 2005...its now 2018...no news of rideable mobs, or additional "tricks"...combat support etc.

Creature Battle Octagons
Set for late 2014...it is now 2018

Compet
Meant to be as rival pokemon app, especially designed for the mobile market, this game bobs up and down since its start in early 2016. After 2 years of "we are working hard on it" (keep in mind they hired an external team), this game never seemed to leave beta state and never gathered a huge community around itself. With the recent (2017) announcement of "Now we are planing to advertise it", this game died, before it ever went live. No mentionable gameplay/design updates ever happened.

Compet Deed Payout
Deeds available since 2014...1st promised payout, dec 2016...but it is now 2018...no payouts recieved

CLD Land Plots
Promised in early 2015...people pumped several tenthousands of US Dollars into this "new system"...MA promising gigantic towns and various buildings that actually have a meaning...but all you can do 3 years later, is growing some plants...no more news about it...and again its 2018

The promised ingame companies
Ever heard of "Sphere Ordnance", "Redyne", "Castor Meele Systems", "Ashley & Perin", "Chikara", "Genesis Star" or "Omegaton" ?
These are the ingame companies since 2001. Mindark always announced big plans about them...what we got was a "Genesis Star Headquarter" in Twin Peaks in 2009. For a single Mining Event, with an NPC inside. The building then dissapeared.
Also there was a nice RDI building in Port Atlantis...RDI, you know...

Next Island (lol)
It died in 2012 and became Calypsos Outpost...ya, right...in october 2016 David Post (original owner) and the society "Big industries" joined forces...announcing the revival of "Next Island", by advertising very old screenshots as "new updates"...even announcing a mobile game of it... just to become silent...and again it is 2018.

Gigantic Space update with Missions :
it never happened, but got announced again, now and then

Partner Buildings at Athena Spaceport
Announced as new partner program in 2015 (with jobs and education and bitcoins and stuff), these comapnies never ever entered Entropia and the buildings are still empty...no news...and its 2018 by now

Oculus Rift
In early 2015, MA announced full support of it...not a word about it ever again...it is now 2018

MindBank and CashCard :
Cashcards first appearance was in 2006...it got canceled right after the 1st participants recieved it. Mindbank was about to go live in 2009...but MA failed to secure the required fundings.
In 2015 David Simmonds started talking about MindBank plans again...no news since then...and its 2018.

Asteroid mining and tradeable mining claims
Such announcements are as old as Entropia itself...it got announced several times...but never happened...

The new promised cinematique trailer, with a professional female actor
Got announced now and then...since 2007...in 2013 Team Arkadia released a..well...not so professional trailer...without any reallife actors and decent voice acting. This was meant to be the new promised cinematique trailer...

The smartphone app "Virtual Tycoon"
"Help Craft The Future Of Entropia Universe With Your Android Mobile Device"
Announced and released in late 2012, it recieved its last update in mid 2013,
while some screamed for updates and begged for new features...we reached 2018 by now, without any new announcements about it.

Online campaigns and advertising aka. marketing
Announced and promised as "big news" everytime since 2009...we never got anything else but some mini banners, that still pop up here and there on rare ocassions...

The promised fishing system
Announced as "its ready" in mid 2012...Kim Timkrans posted in may 2013
"It only existed on paper...no (more) ETA"

The facebook emmissary program
Started with great announcements (unlock stuff and win great items by answering questions) in 2012...it got shut down in the very same year and
wasnt working correctly anway.

The Entropia 3D casino, that had absolutely nothing to do with Entropia ;)
Went live as standard 2D slot machine site in 2015. You could unlock and win prizes, like cars and clothes from Entropia, to play inside a planned 3D world of...Entropia ...which wasnt really Entropia. Got it ? Anway, it never got beyond 2D standard fancy slot machines...and shut down 1 year later, in 2016.

While the idea of a ingame casino is as old as Entropia itself (fitting Animations and textures could be found in the old clients), this one got set up by "an external"...partner...and ofc, MA had nothing to with a 3D Entropia casino. ;)

The president of Virtual Reality
Because of a faked and fucked up voting process, John Jacobs aka. Neverdie became our president...as noone else wanted to pay the 1000$ fee to participate.

Neverdie wanted to introduce teleportation fees...MindArk said no...Neverdie resigned from office...after doing nothing, but introducing his own houses of parliamnet...blaaaahhhhhhhh

Neverdie then introduced his first crypto (scam) ICO...together with an announcement of a giant teleporter, which should have been announced on the Mobile World Congress in Brazil...it never got announced..no more news...and his ICO failed...so MindArk tried...with

The MindArk Blockchain Project
Announced in dec. 2017...lets wait and SEE

original source: http://www.entropiaplanets.com/threads/roadmap-2018.21895/
 
On another forum, a player who has a gun named after him (and dub) made a list of promises found in version updates and upcoming content.
and that list is only a portion of his bigger list (which originally was started here in this forum several years back)

(a copy of the bigger list has been archived elsewhere, or several elsewheres, for historic purposes in case he decides to leave the game forever, as he's hinted at recently with several sellout threads on ep, or in case the original thread here gets wiped clean as happens from time to time here if mods want to clean out the history books from time to time)
 
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bump it up right now
 
Dear Mind Ark,

Please FIX YOUR DAMN LAG!!!

If you want to give MM prizes to specific players, then FFS GO AHEAD AND DO SO BEHIND THE SCENES AS YOU'VE DONE SO MANY TIMES IN THE PAST, but announcing a time based event while 80% of your PLAYER BASE suffer TREMENDOUS LAG is like SPITTING ON YOUR CUSTOMERS !!!

I have high bandwith internet connection, HD and 4K streming goes without a glitch ... yet, a 14 years old game LAGS LIKE HELL ...


*Copied from Lucky Angel Bob*
 
it just seems so blunt - no proof, but very suspicious to say the least
points 1 and 2
recent wave of blitz-sales of imk2's together with h204 by mostly swe players before the Merry Mayhem prize info came out
* seems known that there are gonna be new ranged weapons with better stats
* seems known that they are not going to be laser
 
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so blunt
points 1 and 2
recent wave of blitz-sales of imk2's together with h204 by mostly swe players before the Merry Mayhem prize info came out
* so known that there are gonna be new ranged weapons with better stats
* so known that they are not going to be laser

There are like 10 of them on PCF right now.. It is nuts!
 
There are like 10 of them on PCF right now.. It is nuts!

yes, never seen so many for sale in the past 12 years.

It has to be said that he imk mk2 will be outclassed as soon as the first have collected all the mayhem tokens needed for the new mayhem weapons.

But I have to add that this already happened after loot 2.0 and not so much after the mayhem info.
Loot 2.0 triggered a lot of sales already.
 
quite a lot of them appeared just last weeks
but the very suspicious thing next to it imho is the number of h204 sales and price drops with them
But I have to add that this already happened after loot 2.0 and not so much after the mayhem info.
Loot 2.0 triggered a lot of sales already.
 
quite a lot of them appeared just last weeks
but the very suspicious thing next to it imho is the number of h204 sales and price drops with them

yes, the h204 dump I did not notice before.

Does the mayhem amps make the H204 obsolete?

I mean, why would the h204 no longer be usefull?
 
apparently it are blp guns having better stats than imk2 that are introduced which was not (commonly) known before the release
yes, the h204 dump I did not notice before.
Does the mayhem amps make the H204 obsolete?
I mean, why would the h204 no longer be usefull?
 
apparently it are blp guns having better stats than imk2 that are introduced which was not (commonly) known before the release

Ah yes of course.
So the IMK MK2 will be replaced by a BLP variant.

But to get to those weapons it looks like you need a SHITLOAD of tokens. That might take a while, maybe even several mayhem events spread out of several years (which is pure speculation of course).

How are those grinders supposed to get those tokens without their trusted imk mk2's and h204 amps?
 
bump it up right now
 
it just seems so blunt - no proof, but very suspicious to say the least
points 1 and 2
recent wave of blitz-sales of imk2's together with h204 by mostly swe players before the Merry Mayhem prize info came out
* seems known that there are gonna be new ranged weapons with better stats
* seems known that they are not going to be laser

u had your period when u profited with mm and some years later started blaming EST while some players using mm and EST +pills+buffs and also players using dmg enhs on imk2 also profiting. What changed in 2.0 ?! There is not enough markup to cover your dmg on imk2 and this weapon its burning like a bitch :laugh: + the tt return not to sure what to say about it (dont have friends who keep the tt return with it).

Funny fact tho. Mr Smilgs found out about pills in 2017
 
I am so truthfully sorry your beloved est misbalance stopped working :) This whole reply is complete off topic. Yes I am an anti social creature who finds out about features and exploits way later than anyone else or never like everyone buying pills as crazy and then withdrawing for next batch. Funny? Suppose so.
And I cannot blame loot 2.0 my tt return went shit around April 2016 just hoped would see some improvement from it like advertised.
Also practically never using enhancers as every time I try returns drop from 95% to 91-93%.
Merry Xmas and happy new year anyway.
u had your period when u profited with mm and some years later started blaming EST while some players using mm and EST +pills+buffs and also players using dmg enhs on imk2 also profiting. What changed in 2.0 ?! There is not enough markup to cover your dmg on imk2 and this weapon its burning like a bitch :laugh: + the tt return not to sure what to say about it (dont have friends who keep the tt return with it).

Funny fact tho. Mr Smilgs found out about pills in 2017
 
I am so truthfully sorry your beloved est misbalance stopped working :) This whole reply is complete off topic. Yes I am an anti social creature who finds out about features and exploits way later than anyone else or never like everyone buying pills as crazy and then withdrawing for next batch. Funny? Suppose so.
And I cannot blame loot 2.0 my tt return went shit around April 2016 just hoped would see some improvement from it like advertised.
Also practically never using enhancers as every time I try returns drop from 95% to 91-93%.
Merry Xmas and happy new year anyway.

nvm lol

how is buying boxes for pills an exploit ? Game became pay to win.
 
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sorry if it read in that way was not intended, said "features and exploits", this surely falls into the first category was just an example of antisocial me not knowing pills were used to increase dpp for cheap essentially same as what you mentioned

the only reason i did and do dislike boxes is as it damages the concept of rce if some things can only be bought for real $ and some for ingame $ (point 7 at the list) - expressed my thoughts in the forum back then, pissed off messi quite a lot which was the quoted reason for throwing me out of hogs :) got to be thankful as I would not know to full extent the nature of some of them if it had not happened

P.S.
you have a funny smart-ass way of communicating you folks from romania same as messi - you must think it is powefull but imho it shows weakness
oh well, every nationality has its perks, merry xmas again, go win that game it is clearly not won by antisocials and liberals like me :)
how is buying boxes for pills an exploit ? Game became pay to win.
 
P.S.
you have a funny smart-ass way of communicating you folks from romania same as messi - you must think it is powefull but imho it shows weakness
oh well, every nationality has its perks, merry xmas again, go win that game it is clearly not won by antisocials and liberals like me :)

Your dumb narrow minded approach of the game is obvious from any corner of the world, not just from Romania.
You're still in denial and you refusing to adapt to the game changes will just fix an issue the game had - you're giving back what you got, using an exploit (using a high DPP weapon + accessories was as an exploit as using EST or pills).
According to your notes you're still 326K PEDs profit. Keep shooting please :wtg:

On topic - I see no transparency issue, the company has no reason to answer to your conspiracy theories just because you cycled other peoples PEDs for a long period of time.
Happy new year
 
glad you showed how different you are vs. alina and messi :) merry xmas!
Your dumb narrow minded approach of the game is obvious from any corner of the world, not just from Romania.
 
on topic
striped out point 5 about waves as they have been addressed
added point 12
12. Transparency - show dpp stats in weapon stats, if you say dpp is still relevant (better loot composition) then dpp should be clear for advertised item stats, currently they only reveal durability rest is gambling
 
on topic
striped out point 5 about waves as they have been addressed
added point 12


.12. Transparency - show dpp stats in weapon stats, if you say dpp is still relevant (better loot composition) then dpp should be clear for advertised item stats, currently they only reveal durability rest is gambling

I dont see this as a problem.

For me the mystery about items was part of the charm of the game.
Isnt that what entropia wiki is for?
That is were the community makes things transparent.

If you want to know stats, just test it yourself. Get some fruit and get to work :wise:
 
Dear MA (yes this is not for developers but management, and in forum since is the only public channel we have).

Think we would all gain from more transparency on some things in game and in the way it is run. Also there are some urgent issues that require action, and long overdue.

1. transparency - meetings with players is a good idea, but then the selection criteria and the meeting content itself should be known to all the players - the current implementation puts you in a very bad light regardless on how innocent and good intended it might be
  • referring to meetings that took place referred before
2. transparency - claims about previous and/or current advantages for players due to links with MA should be investigated and actions taken
  • most notably revelations of EMW on Skalman and things he could do according to http://www.entropiaplanets.com/threads/anyone-remember-these-threads.21607/
  • other rumors, pretty sure you have received support cases about other suspicious activities that hint for inside links
  • since this is a rce game, crimes and corruption in it are also have a very real impact and puts the game in a bad place unless addressed properly
3. RCE - putting avatar transfers out of the black transactions zone by making a legal procedure to transfer. transaction fee can still very well be taken and skill amount can be decreased according to what ESI reduction would do, also it can be made mandatory to rename the avatar in this process.
  • you are very well aware that the transfers happen all the time regardless being legal or not, and in some instances (according to credible sources) you have helped to transfer the ownership. please make it available to all not selected few. again this is rce, transactions should be allowed and encouraged.
4. transparency - clarify if hunting/mining activities on taxed areas will decrease the tt return by tax % and if so is it the full tax % that would be deducted

5. critical issue - waves - striped out as was addressed

6. critical issue - other loot patterns - e.g. significant drops for returning avatars and better chances for often switching the target - issue is the predictable pattern which can be exploited

7. RCE - please allow boxes to be bought for peds - you cannot call it rce if certain things cannot be bought with the ingame currency. it can still be a slightly different rate, but it must be possible. You are very well aware people are withdrawing and then buying boxes anyway.

8. critical issue - the cancellation or worse of the crit buffs - it is unacceptable to market crit buffs with one hand and then nerf them completely at the same time keeping other dpp improvements (imk2) intact
  • stats and behavior of high turnover hunting indicate that crit buffs lower the tt return % and point out that the loot 2.0 averages for high turnover have a major deviation in real application cases (97% vs 92%) - why? - and "they should not" is not an answer
  • why did not go the hinted way of introducing decay for the rings?
  • why crit buff items did not get included in the efficiency calculation?
  • why every unlimited buff had to be terminated if the main imbalance was a limited armor introduced before buff stacking?

9. RCE - please stop the items showing tt value and not tt-able. Same point goes for soulbound items - they have no place in an RCE.

10. Critical issue - allow to lock items by avatar to better prevent accidental tt

11. Transparency - publish really expensive loots like big esi in the rare loot section

12. Transparency - show dpp stats in weapon stats, if you say dpp is still relevant (better loot composition) then dpp should be clear for advertised item stats, currently they only reveal durability rest is gambling

For the community.
Would suggest we try to push MA to do something about the mentioned issues by means of support cases and bumping the thread for better chances of being noticed -> addressed. If you don't agree with some of the suggestions, indicate only the ones you do (thus numbering of the list). Also if you have other relevant and reasonable ideas please post them here I will add to the opening post if it matches this simple criteria. Since we have no vote terminal in-game, the only way for us to communicate our wishes is over this channel and support cases.
Please keep this thread clean, keep your opinions about me out of it (thus not including est in it).

clarification on 7.RCE - buying boxes with ped:
anyway brief analysis of the proposal in the opening post with impact of implementing the change

no impact - there is no cashflow increase from withdrawing and then buying boxes, financial report wise it is at best a fake way to increase the deposit statistics if hiding the part that the money came from in-game in the first place, at worst its still a fake way - none of us would like any financial decisions to be made by such manipulation

no impact - the only thing MA gains cash wise from withdrawing and then buying boxes for it are the fees of withdrawal + currency conversion and any fees from buying boxes - as said the rate could still be different but it should be possible otherwise it is not rce

better - MA could also lose from it if the person withdrawing to buy boxes changes his/her mind and keeps the money out, there is no such risk in buying boxes for peds

better - MA could lose on currency conversion rates changing between the transactions

better - players doing it would gain by
* not having to wait for withdrawal times
* not being questioned by their tax services on suspicious transactions
* not being subject to losing on currency rate changes in the withdrawal time

possible solution for 'features/exploits' that need fixing:
I do suggest creating a guide on third party website, youtube? about loot patterns and other cool "features" of the game. See how MA reacts if instead a handful, hundreds will start doing it?
In another MMO I complained about group/raid contant beeing soloable, complained few times on forums (got even temp banned for discussing it) and support tickets, nothing was done.
When I posted youtube guide how to do it, content got disabled and fixed next patch. It works and will work with MA too.

Another list of issues ...:
On another forum, a player who has a gun named after him (and dub) made a list of promises found in version updates and upcoming content.
Since he is not allowed to speak here, and we are talking about transparency and adressing critical issues (like broken promises), I will ask the question:

Whatever happened to?


Taming Stage 2
Promised and postponed since 2005...its now 2018...no news of rideable mobs, or additional "tricks"...combat support etc.

Creature Battle Octagons
Set for late 2014...it is now 2018

Compet
Meant to be as rival pokemon app, especially designed for the mobile market, this game bobs up and down since its start in early 2016. After 2 years of "we are working hard on it" (keep in mind they hired an external team), this game never seemed to leave beta state and never gathered a huge community around itself. With the recent (2017) announcement of "Now we are planing to advertise it", this game died, before it ever went live. No mentionable gameplay/design updates ever happened.

Compet Deed Payout
Deeds available since 2014...1st promised payout, dec 2016...but it is now 2018...no payouts recieved

CLD Land Plots
Promised in early 2015...people pumped several tenthousands of US Dollars into this "new system"...MA promising gigantic towns and various buildings that actually have a meaning...but all you can do 3 years later, is growing some plants...no more news about it...and again its 2018

The promised ingame companies
Ever heard of "Sphere Ordnance", "Redyne", "Castor Meele Systems", "Ashley & Perin", "Chikara", "Genesis Star" or "Omegaton" ?
These are the ingame companies since 2001. Mindark always announced big plans about them...what we got was a "Genesis Star Headquarter" in Twin Peaks in 2009. For a single Mining Event, with an NPC inside. The building then dissapeared.
Also there was a nice RDI building in Port Atlantis...RDI, you know...

Next Island (lol)
It died in 2012 and became Calypsos Outpost...ya, right...in october 2016 David Post (original owner) and the society "Big industries" joined forces...announcing the revival of "Next Island", by advertising very old screenshots as "new updates"...even announcing a mobile game of it... just to become silent...and again it is 2018.

Gigantic Space update with Missions :
it never happened, but got announced again, now and then

Partner Buildings at Athena Spaceport
Announced as new partner program in 2015 (with jobs and education and bitcoins and stuff), these comapnies never ever entered Entropia and the buildings are still empty...no news...and its 2018 by now

Oculus Rift
In early 2015, MA announced full support of it...not a word about it ever again...it is now 2018

MindBank and CashCard :
Cashcards first appearance was in 2006...it got canceled right after the 1st participants recieved it. Mindbank was about to go live in 2009...but MA failed to secure the required fundings.
In 2015 David Simmonds started talking about MindBank plans again...no news since then...and its 2018.

Asteroid mining and tradeable mining claims
Such announcements are as old as Entropia itself...it got announced several times...but never happened...

The new promised cinematique trailer, with a professional female actor
Got announced now and then...since 2007...in 2013 Team Arkadia released a..well...not so professional trailer...without any reallife actors and decent voice acting. This was meant to be the new promised cinematique trailer...

The smartphone app "Virtual Tycoon"
"Help Craft The Future Of Entropia Universe With Your Android Mobile Device"
Announced and released in late 2012, it recieved its last update in mid 2013,
while some screamed for updates and begged for new features...we reached 2018 by now, without any new announcements about it.

Online campaigns and advertising aka. marketing
Announced and promised as "big news" everytime since 2009...we never got anything else but some mini banners, that still pop up here and there on rare ocassions...

The promised fishing system
Announced as "its ready" in mid 2012...Kim Timkrans posted in may 2013
"It only existed on paper...no (more) ETA"

The facebook emmissary program
Started with great announcements (unlock stuff and win great items by answering questions) in 2012...it got shut down in the very same year and
wasnt working correctly anway.

The Entropia 3D casino, that had absolutely nothing to do with Entropia ;)
Went live as standard 2D slot machine site in 2015. You could unlock and win prizes, like cars and clothes from Entropia, to play inside a planned 3D world of...Entropia ...which wasnt really Entropia. Got it ? Anway, it never got beyond 2D standard fancy slot machines...and shut down 1 year later, in 2016.

While the idea of a ingame casino is as old as Entropia itself (fitting Animations and textures could be found in the old clients), this one got set up by "an external"...partner...and ofc, MA had nothing to with a 3D Entropia casino. ;)

The president of Virtual Reality
Because of a faked and fucked up voting process, John Jacobs aka. Neverdie became our president...as noone else wanted to pay the 1000$ fee to participate.

Neverdie wanted to introduce teleportation fees...MindArk said no...Neverdie resigned from office...after doing nothing, but introducing his own houses of parliamnet...blaaaahhhhhhhh

Neverdie then introduced his first crypto (scam) ICO...together with an announcement of a giant teleporter, which should have been announced on the Mobile World Congress in Brazil...it never got announced..no more news...and his ICO failed...so MindArk tried...with

The MindArk Blockchain Project
Announced in dec. 2017...lets wait and SEE

original source: http://www.entropiaplanets.com/threads/roadmap-2018.21895/

and that list is only a portion of his bigger list (which originally was started here in this forum several years back)

(a copy of the bigger list has been archived elsewhere, or several elsewheres, for historic purposes in case he decides to leave the game forever, as he's hinted at recently with several sellout threads on ep, or in case the original thread here gets wiped clean as happens from time to time here if mods want to clean out the history books from time to time)

Dear Mind Ark,

Please FIX YOUR DAMN LAG!!!

If you want to give MM prizes to specific players, then FFS GO AHEAD AND DO SO BEHIND THE SCENES AS YOU'VE DONE SO MANY TIMES IN THE PAST, but announcing a time based event while 80% of your PLAYER BASE suffer TREMENDOUS LAG is like SPITTING ON YOUR CUSTOMERS !!!

I have high bandwith internet connection, HD and 4K streming goes without a glitch ... yet, a 14 years old game LAGS LIKE HELL ...


*Copied from Lucky Angel Bob*

it just seems so blunt - no proof, but very suspicious to say the least
points 1 and 2
recent wave of blitz-sales of imk2's together with h204 by mostly swe players before the Merry Mayhem prize info came out
* seems known that there are gonna be new ranged weapons with better stats
* seems known that they are not going to be laser


Some good points made ... hoping MindArk will fix what's broken, but i guess that won't be done this year ... :dunce:
 
I am curious. What you going to do, if nothing change ?
 
on topic
striped out point 5 about waves as they have been addressed
added point 12

ive been away for like 10 days... could you elaborate in which way waves have been adressed? the only thing ive seen is them saying they would change them to make them less obvious (with loot 2.0 change) although they are still there, very annoying and pretty obvious.
 
ive been away for like 10 days... could you elaborate in which way waves have been adressed? the only thing ive seen is them saying they would change them to make them less obvious (with loot 2.0 change) although they are still there, very annoying and pretty obvious.

Exactly. Waves are still around, all active hunters know that...
 
i am sorry oh active hunter :)
on topic, thought that the possibilities to exploit it have dropped a lot compared to old times?
Exactly. Waves are still around, all active hunters know that...
 
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a difficult question, one that is similar to the hunting log future
suppose i have to consider everything that a failed business does?

* firing the people involved - this is a tough choice, as for them it's the only form of income at the moment
* selling the assets and quiting - next to impossible aiming @ the levels it took to get there
* keep on playing and complaining hoping the game overlords would come to their senses

suppose the 3rd option is the most likely unfortunately :(

P.S.
understand very well the concept this is like pissing in to a well you would like to drink from, but this supposed corruption and inside info being hinted @ and not responded at all is like poison in any case
I am curious. What you going to do, if nothing change ?
 
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