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The recent fiasco with the new Cyrene Armor upgrade mission NPCs and the lack of any official statement from MindArk (since more than 4 weeks now) has me thinking that MindArk perhaps never really understood what the community actually meant when they were complaining about "the lack of communication from MindArk".
This, exactly this, is what we mean. MindArk takes action and disables something, or stops certain things from dropping and then DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING about it to the community. Everyone is left in a mystery as to what is going on. There is no information anywhere. Will it be brought back? Will it drop again? Or is it discontinued? Nobody knows...
Someone did in fact create a thread about it in this forum. It wasn't the most polite thread I admit but as he stated himself he was "MAD" about the situation, understandably so:
Still, 4 weeks later, nothing but crickets from MindArk about this situation. Even Cyrene Officials are just guessing at this stage. Nobody knows what will become of this Armor upgrade mission. Do we hold on to our mats? Do we move on to something else? WTH MA?
It's one thing to be unable to make a promise you might not be able to fulfill, it's another thing entirely to refuse to let your customers in on what is going on with something that was already in game, or the status with broken services.
So I was wondering, what other things or questions MindArk has been avoiding. I went through all of the questions in both AMAs and read every answer carefully. I found at least 3 questions that have been REPEATEDLY asked by various members of the community and consistently dodged or ignored by MindArk:
1. Explosive Projectile BPs: good or bad for the economy???
There has yet to be an official statement from MindArk on the community's repeated requests to change or remove the Explosive Projectile BPs, or at least provide their rationale for keeping them in the game.
2. When will there be new uses for Transgen Fruits from Gardening???
All that has been stated by MindArk on this is that:"Blueprints for obsolete items are at times intentionally removed from the Universe, since those items no longer fit the balancing team’s plans for the evolution of the economy." No answer as to what to do with the Fruits from Gardening. Another broken game mechanic, no info from MA.
3. Does hunting/mining on LA also contribute to Caly/PP revenu, or just LA Deed holder tax revenu???
etc... (there are more threads on this here in this forum but I'm too lazy to go look for them)
This question has been the subject of some debate on the forum and was asked in the 1st AMA but Dennis referred to a previous reply from Charlie which didn't address this specifically and just stated that the LA tax component is taken from each loot. I believe the point of the question is that if hunting on LA means you pay a cut to the Land owner AND to CLDs (or PP), that may seem excessive and many might ask for MA to review whether this is really fair for Land owners and hunters/miners... But it seems MA doesn't want to answer this question.
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In order to compile this list I went through ALL of the questions asked in both the 1st AMA in February of 2019 and the 2nd AMA from October 2020. I read every reply and came up with the following:
1st AMA (Feb 2019)
Questions asked: 153
Questions answered: 119
The discrepancy between the number of questions asked and answered is due to the following:
12 questions deemed duplicates of earlier questions (mostly about Space & Land Plots), and thus not answered by MA
5 questions unanswered because they were actually suggestions
5 copy/paste answers
3 "cannot comment on loot mechanics or future releases"
2 questions dodged (replied but not actually answered)
2 "will investigate" replies
2 questions misunderstood and therefore not answered (big_daddy and Spawn questions)
1 deferred to Planet Partner
1 question unanswered because the data requested is not something that can be shared publicly
1 "will get back to this next week" and then never answered..
2nd AMA (Oct 2020)
Questions asked: 73
Questions answered: 44
The remaining 29 questions were just not answered or replied to.
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It's pretty clear that in the first AMA, more people asked questions. But of course if MA is just going to dodge or ignore almost half of the questions, then participation in these AMAs is only going to go down as time goes on and this can be seen with fewer individuals asking questions in the 2nd AMA. Eventually, if MindArk continues to ignore the tough questions, people will get frustrated and won't even bother to ask questions anymore (or they will ask easy questions to at least get some communication rather than none at all, like Bonnie Knight did in the 2nd AMA after both her questions were completely ignored in the first one). And we're back to MindArk's old habits of not communicating to the community about what is going on!
If you are going to communicate, then COMMUNICATE! Don't put on a show (AMA) to make it LOOK LIKE you care and you are communicating, when in fact YOU ARE NOT!
/end of rant
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This, exactly this, is what we mean. MindArk takes action and disables something, or stops certain things from dropping and then DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING about it to the community. Everyone is left in a mystery as to what is going on. There is no information anywhere. Will it be brought back? Will it drop again? Or is it discontinued? Nobody knows...
Someone did in fact create a thread about it in this forum. It wasn't the most polite thread I admit but as he stated himself he was "MAD" about the situation, understandably so:
Cyrene ? ? ?
I wonder how long it ll take for our dear hard working , high professinal game developers to adjust 5 FUCKING ITEMS drop rate on Cyrene and enble Armor NPCs again? MA did a very good call to disable it in time but its not acceptble to wait for weeks now untill its fixed ! Many players have...
www.planetcalypsoforum.com
Still, 4 weeks later, nothing but crickets from MindArk about this situation. Even Cyrene Officials are just guessing at this stage. Nobody knows what will become of this Armor upgrade mission. Do we hold on to our mats? Do we move on to something else? WTH MA?
It's one thing to be unable to make a promise you might not be able to fulfill, it's another thing entirely to refuse to let your customers in on what is going on with something that was already in game, or the status with broken services.
So I was wondering, what other things or questions MindArk has been avoiding. I went through all of the questions in both AMAs and read every answer carefully. I found at least 3 questions that have been REPEATEDLY asked by various members of the community and consistently dodged or ignored by MindArk:
1. Explosive Projectile BPs: good or bad for the economy???
San's Q2: Explosive Projectile Crafting
My second question, originally posted here: I would like to kindly ask to lay open the reasons and rationale MindArk had for introducing Explosive Projectile crafting in this particular way. What did you hope to achieve, was it achieved, and what internal or external factors would influence its...
www.planetcalypsoforum.com
San's Q2: Explosive Projectile Crafting
My second question, originally posted here: I would like to kindly ask to lay open the reasons and rationale MindArk had for introducing Explosive Projectile crafting in this particular way. What did you hope to achieve, was it achieved, and what internal or external factors would influence its...
www.planetcalypsoforum.com
Mining and Crafting Overhaul (TM)
MA hinted that mining and crafting was going to see a major overhaul someday and that they know we've been asking for it and they've heard us. Now, we have no idea how long this will take. It could be 6 months, it could be 4 years. I don't think crafting has ever seen any major overhauls, has...
www.planetcalypsoforum.com
Changing the EP4 BP
I would like to know what MA's thoughts about a change of the EP4 BP are. There are a lot of threads about petition to change or remove it with hundreds of people signing it but there is no statement of any kind from MA. I mean it is obvious that this BP destroyed the economy all alone and this...
www.planetcalypsoforum.com
Petition to remove Explosive BPs (or change them)
Hello everyone. As some of you might be aware, i was an active miner a couple of years ago, and was playing pretty actively since 2006. In recent years some RL issues prevented me from actively playing, but i kept an eye on the market. This month i came back to pick up mining again, and frankly...
www.planetcalypsoforum.com
Petition to remove Explosive BPs (or change them) - Part 2
Original thread by Moonbiter: Petition to remove Explosive BPs (or change them) Hello everyone. As some of you might be aware, i was an active miner a couple of years ago, and was playing pretty actively since 2006. In recent years some RL issues prevented me from actively playing, but i kept...
www.planetcalypsoforum.com
There has yet to be an official statement from MindArk on the community's repeated requests to change or remove the Explosive Projectile BPs, or at least provide their rationale for keeping them in the game.
2. When will there be new uses for Transgen Fruits from Gardening???
Suggestion: New uses of Transgen Fruit - Needed Badly
Sent as support case to MA. Greetings, Please can you pass this on to the development team. In order to keep Plots & Harvesting alive, we badly need New uses for the Transgen Fruit. So far their have only been 4x BP's that use these (1x for each fruit). These were prior to Loot 2.0 upgrade and...
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Calypso Land Plots
Hi Calypso Devs Just a simple question. Many of use bought Land Plots on Calypso with the promise of various housing upgrades and a farming system which would be integrated into the economy. So far we have only seen Snugs being able to be built...where are the other buildings all these years...
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Suggestion: - Land plots!!!
(Making new thread since last one was a question thread not a suggestion thread!) Let’s make land plots more useful and something fun to own and use!!! These are some things that would be cool!!! 1) make TP to home work for plots! 2) make other houses or structures able to be made, bigger...
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Q1: Limited Blueprints relating to farm
I own a farm. I spent more than 30k buying and then leveling that farm up. I used to make some neat weapons from the items on that expensive farm, but there are no more blueprint drops for those weapons anymore. And so my farm is useless. We used to have those farm adapted ISIS, some burn...
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All that has been stated by MindArk on this is that:"Blueprints for obsolete items are at times intentionally removed from the Universe, since those items no longer fit the balancing team’s plans for the evolution of the economy." No answer as to what to do with the Fruits from Gardening. Another broken game mechanic, no info from MA.
3. Does hunting/mining on LA also contribute to Caly/PP revenu, or just LA Deed holder tax revenu???
Question: - Smilgs Q2: possible to even out LA and out of LA hunting
There still has not been a 100% clear message if the return of someone hunting/mining on LA with tax X% would be normal return minus X%. If it is indeed so, would it not make more sense that LAs would have the same returns as outside LA hunting, or a small difference? The current 4% set on most...
www.planetcalypsoforum.com
How do LA taxes work?
I know it's been asked before but from the info I can find opinions are all over the place, so I wanted to ask if there was any confirmed data under the new system that explains how land area taxes work? Is this simply taken out of my loot? If the tax is 5%, does that mean I'm guaranteed only...
www.planetcalypsoforum.com
This question has been the subject of some debate on the forum and was asked in the 1st AMA but Dennis referred to a previous reply from Charlie which didn't address this specifically and just stated that the LA tax component is taken from each loot. I believe the point of the question is that if hunting on LA means you pay a cut to the Land owner AND to CLDs (or PP), that may seem excessive and many might ask for MA to review whether this is really fair for Land owners and hunters/miners... But it seems MA doesn't want to answer this question.
----------
In order to compile this list I went through ALL of the questions asked in both the 1st AMA in February of 2019 and the 2nd AMA from October 2020. I read every reply and came up with the following:
1st AMA (Feb 2019)
Questions asked: 153
Questions answered: 119
The discrepancy between the number of questions asked and answered is due to the following:
12 questions deemed duplicates of earlier questions (mostly about Space & Land Plots), and thus not answered by MA
5 questions unanswered because they were actually suggestions
5 copy/paste answers
3 "cannot comment on loot mechanics or future releases"
2 questions dodged (replied but not actually answered)
2 "will investigate" replies
2 questions misunderstood and therefore not answered (big_daddy and Spawn questions)
1 deferred to Planet Partner
1 question unanswered because the data requested is not something that can be shared publicly
1 "will get back to this next week" and then never answered..
2nd AMA (Oct 2020)
Questions asked: 73
Questions answered: 44
The remaining 29 questions were just not answered or replied to.
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It's pretty clear that in the first AMA, more people asked questions. But of course if MA is just going to dodge or ignore almost half of the questions, then participation in these AMAs is only going to go down as time goes on and this can be seen with fewer individuals asking questions in the 2nd AMA. Eventually, if MindArk continues to ignore the tough questions, people will get frustrated and won't even bother to ask questions anymore (or they will ask easy questions to at least get some communication rather than none at all, like Bonnie Knight did in the 2nd AMA after both her questions were completely ignored in the first one). And we're back to MindArk's old habits of not communicating to the community about what is going on!
If you are going to communicate, then COMMUNICATE! Don't put on a show (AMA) to make it LOOK LIKE you care and you are communicating, when in fact YOU ARE NOT!
/end of rant
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