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Quick Status Updates 1/25/13
01. 25. 2013 01:27
TeamNF_MK2
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Hey guys,
I'm afraid its been a while since we last touched base on the status of upcoming projects and news. Since work has been primarily sticking to schedule as previously discussed, there has not been much to update. However, I'm sure some would rightfully argue that this latest event was in need of prior notification. I deeply apologize for the lack of notice. It ended up springing up on us as well on account of decisions out of our direct control. We hope to provide ample notice for future events.
On that note, I wish to provide some notice for a special "bundle pack" which will be made available through the NF Store on 1/31/13. This special bundle pack is set to include various popular premium items along with an exclusive set of item that has never before been made available and that will only be available through this limited bundle. The bundle will only be available for a certain period or until 200 have been sold. This is all I can say for the moment, so please look forward to it's full reveal on the 31st.
With regards to our ongoing projects and work, please see the following notes:
Amazon Free-to-Play Integration
Work is ongoing and currently in the testing phase. More time is needed in order to fully resolve a technical issue that has been holding our devs back.
New Fleet Leader Forum
As noted in the previous thread, our web devs have had their time taken by the Amazon project which has lead to unfortunate delays on the opening of this forum. We expect to have the new fleet leader forum opened by the 15th of February at the latest.
Ship Parts Reinforcement System
Full details are still being finalized and will be made available once decided upon. The system is on target for introduction into the test server soon followed by patching to the live server in March.
Harbor Assault
TNF has taken players up on the offer to take part in observing HA. However, we still are lacking in necessary bug or improvement reports. Please send us your observations and necessary fix reports through a "Bug Report" support ticket. You may title it "HA Report". This will provide us a great assistance.
Item Slot Max Increase
This has already been patched to the server. Player accounts are now able to hold up to 80 different items (up from 50).
Great Battle 3 aka mid-tier battle room
This battle room aimed at helping players transition from Blitz is likely going to be called "Skirmish". It is on track to be patched in February. Details still adhere to the following setup:
Max Ships
BB/BC - 10 (5 per team)
CV - 6 (3 per team)
SS - 4 (2 per team)
PS CA CL DD FF - no limit
No SS mode option (SS will be unable to enter)
Max sailor level to participate - 83
All other options will follow in accordance to GB1
Currently on the drawing board
Our team has just finished up some plans for some very unique changes intended for World at War. All I can note at this time is that the changes are meant to help provide a greater incentive and to engage veteran players.
There may be plans for a small event to be held in March. Details will be provided beforehand as they become available.
Previous quick updates can be found here
Thank you,
-Randy
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Re : Quick Status Updates 1/25/13
01. 27. 2013 08:24
yourshepherd
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Originally Posted by vick11
Unfortunately quite a few of the discipline pieces are cheaters, exploiters etc. The company chooses not to publish those and never has. We have discussed that and many other things over the years. Some get introduced, some dont. The publishing of all suspension actions and why remains one of those. The GMs are the first to say things dont move along as quick as we would all like, but they have also explained why at various times including the FL meeting. Everyone in the GM or Moderator team would love to see a massive increase in resource to do all the things on the list a lot quicker than currently - but it is a hugely unlikely.
An awful lot gets passed up by myself and the other Moderators and a fair bit gets added to the list. That does not mean it is going to appear next week or the week after. When something is wrong in-game or an event members of TeamNF are shouting just as loud internally as the players are externally, but we dont and absolutely shouldnt show that. The GMs I know for a fact get just as annoyed with the Devs with that happens as the players do with us. So I shout at the GMs they go next door and sit on the Devs desk to get it fixed. That does happen, even at weekends including today where I needed to get a Korean GM to get a Server Dev to go in and sort an issue. All done in the background until this particular discussion.
No one likes airing their dirty laundry, but at this point in the game, perhaps that's what is need? It's not about making this a blame game, but honestly the stuff that has been released in the last month or so that I've been reaping the free items is incomprehensible. The chain of command/information is disfunctional. Your only public perception is that of stupid suspensions. If you agree and are, in fact, shouting back up... post it on the forums. Immediately. Show the community you're actually doing it. You are their representative. I could see the GM's not wanting to call out the developers because they're employed by the same company. You aren't, however. You're employed by the players to help them make this game better. That's what seems backward here. You aren't appointed by SDE, even if that's the process in which you received your chair. You're an agent for the players. Like it or not, their perception of you is what -should- make you go far. I'm of the opinion, that you, or anyone else in your position will be just as futile, so in the end I really don't care. The players aren't the problem. The publisher is.
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Re : Quick Status Updates 1/25/13
01. 27. 2013 09:05
FuzzyMcGee
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Originally Posted by vick11
I get where you are coming from and will think about it.
wow ... are you making the decisions now?? everyday i feel better to not have spend a single dime on this game anymore since a certain headmod got announced...
over and over again we just get meaningless phrases from you , i start to think u got a text document on your desktop where you wrote them all down and just copy and paste them to save time ...
"Awww again someone that wants to improve the game as whole , let's see what answer i give him *rolls the dice* 4 IT IS!!!! -------> We will consider this,thx for your input!
WE need a change .......
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Re : Quick Status Updates 1/25/13
01. 27. 2013 09:13
vick11
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Originally Posted by FuzzyMcGee
Originally Posted by vick11
I get where you are coming from and will think about it.
wow ... are you making the decisions now?? everyday i feel better to not have spend a single dime on this game anymore since a certain headmod got announced...
over and over again we just get meaningless phrases from you , i start to think u got a text document on your desktop where you wrote them all down and just copy and paste them to save time ...
"Awww again someone that wants to improve the game as whole , let's see what answer i give him *rolls the dice* 4 IT IS!!!! -------> We will consider this,thx for your input!
WE need a change .......
I was asked if I <--- that's me, will make a Twitter account and post short update messages. I think that is pretty much one for me to decide on.
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Re : Quick Status Updates 1/25/13
01. 27. 2013 10:26
DarkHonur
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How about you stop threatening and banning players that are only voicing their opinions and are actually nice enough to give their precious time for this worthless buggy game?
Originally Posted by vick11
I have no intention of standing down at this time and if I ever do it certainly will not because a few choice players on the forum think I should.
"A few choice players". I assure you it's more than a few. I thought you were supposed to be the representative of all players. That response carelessly throws out player opinions without truly assessing the situation. Am I too naive in thinking that you are supposed to improve player enjoyability and intelligently respond to criticism without making it a numbers game? This is quite interesting, because you had also stated that your position isn't a popularity contest, yet you seem to be enveloped in how many people are with or against you. The "few choice players" you see on the forums represent those too frightened to respond because they might get banned and players who quit long ago because NF has not improved (due to subpar administration). They also represent new people who will never become players because this game has too many problems.
Originally Posted by vick11
You dont see the vast majority of what I do and that is just fine - the way it should be. I also dont need to justify it or indeed shout about it. Invariably what you do tend to see and hear about is the disciplinary pieces. Thankfully that is a fairly low percentage of the work done, although quite often it is the same ones over and over. Like I say there may come a day when I can no longer do the duties I am charged with due to external factors and I might stand down or move to a different role, time will tell.
How is that fine and how is that the way it should be? If you pay attention to forum topics and posts, you would realize that players complain about SDE's lack of attention and lack of care for their players. If we truly don't see the "vast majority" of whatever it is you do, then I hope it would not be too much to ask for a bit of transparency. This would not only help your own image, but it would also help the company and game image. Of course, this is assuming there is work being done.
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Re : Quick Status Updates 1/25/13
01. 27. 2013 10:59
vick11
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DarkHonur - no problems with opinions when they are presented without breaching forum rules, as you have done here.
What I mean by it is right most of it is not seen is a lot of it involves account information, activity, suspension/release, issues that ought not to be general consumption. I considered a while back doing a weekend of blogging with short messages of everything done over the course of a weekend. The problem is messaging without giving the game away as it were as to who I was helping/dealing with as it went along. I also dont think personally that I should be shouting about every little thing that happens or I get involved with. I prefer the quieter, just get it done approach. I take the hit that can make it appear as though little happens, hence why I will try and do some more on the FB piece and have a think about Twitter.
I am not around much tomorrow and in to Tue though so dont expect a deluge from the outset.
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Re : Quick Status Updates 1/25/13
01. 27. 2013 13:48
BThunder
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Originally Posted by vick11
I have no intention of standing down at this time and if I ever do it certainly will not because a few choice players on the forum think I should.
That's made me Lol hard!... "few choice players on the forum"?
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Re : Quick Status Updates 1/25/13
01. 27. 2013 14:08
AdmSevicson
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increasing the ammount of ships would be awesome to. Unless you expect us to get all EBB or ECV
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Re : Quick Status Updates 1/25/13
01. 27. 2013 17:00
GregoryV
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this is interesting:
"An awful lot gets passed up by myself and the other Moderators and a fair bit gets added to the list."
-vick
so you are claiming some responsibility for useless patches that provide no bug fixes but rather add more coded crap that slows the game down, against the majority of player's wishes?
also, where are the fixes we have been wanting?
you and all of the mods have been receiving bug reports for all aspects of the game, and HA especially for years. if Randy/GMs/Devs are seemingly not getting these, then the messengers are failing their job at pushing for fixes that the people want.
so again, and in lieu of yourshepard's discussion, i stand by my previous statement:
i have a vote of no confidence in Vick11
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Re : Quick Status Updates 1/25/13
01. 27. 2013 17:08
RadCo
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Originally Posted by vick11
DarkHonur - no problems with opinions when they are presented without breaching forum rules, as you have done here.
What I mean by it is right most of it is not seen is a lot of it involves account information, activity, suspension/release, issues that ought not to be general consumption. I considered a while back doing a weekend of blogging with short messages of everything done over the course of a weekend. The problem is messaging without giving the game away as it were as to who I was helping/dealing with as it went along. I also dont think personally that I should be shouting about every little thing that happens or I get involved with. I prefer the quieter, just get it done approach. I take the hit that can make it appear as though little happens, hence why I will try and do some more on the FB piece and have a think about Twitter.
I am not around much tomorrow and in to Tue though so dont expect a deluge from the outset.
That's a truck full of manure. None of these "offences" occurred in the past few days. You simply realized that there would be too many valid points made, points that you would have to respond with your buzz word filled verbal diarrhea.
"Just get it done approach"? Really what have you done? Most of the perma bans last less than the forum bans you just issued. The community as a whole is ignored, nobody seeks their input. The ones that speak up are banned. League forum your pet project that you took away from ONF is an utter failure due to its lack of existence. I'm sure it's "coming soon" but what happened to "just get it done"? Or is months and months "just get it done". All this behind the scenes work has utterly failed to do anything to improve the game.
You refer to a handful of voices rising against you. Do you think it might be because of fear? Fear that you ban on bogus violations the ones that want to say something against your lack of effectiveness? Yeah Lukas is a pain in the backside, yeah he goes overboard. But he is passionate about this game and has good ideas. And you could not deal with his suggestions and airing of your failures, so you trumped some breaches of forum rules and shut him down.
If you feel so confident in your image put up a poll about it. See if the community, the one you are supposed to represent with "fresh eyes", vindicates you. But I'm just gonna guess you going to rely on the secret messages from your admirers that tell you "atta boy".
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Re : Quick Status Updates 1/25/13
01. 27. 2013 17:42
maykel
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Originally Posted by vick11
I have no intention of standing down at this time and if I ever do it certainly will not because a few choice players on the forum think I should.
If you really think that the dissent against you or your rule are being drummed up by a few choice players, then just like what Radco said, open a poll about it and we will see if its a few or imaginary or whatever.
And as usual, going busy the next couple of days and returning hoping that the issue has simmered by then.
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