The Legendary Good News and Bad News
Posted By: Sanya Thomas2001-12-06 18:58:20
Archery problems, relics, last night's Sanya Impersonator, and a glimmer of the bluebird of happiness:

There is a bug with archery. I want to make it clear that no reduction in damage was intended, and that the problems a limited number of archers are experiencing are in no way intentional. The trouble is, the problem is intermittent, and therefore extremely difficult to pin down. The problem seems to be that sometimes arrows just... don't land. We cannot duplicate the problem with artificially created characters, nor can we always duplicate it with live characters. A whole bunch of you volunteered your characters (thank you!!!) with the problem for us to test, and even that didn't end up helping. For instance, one character we test drove had the problem. We logged her out, went to get another programmer to take a look, logged her back in... and the problem was gone.

SO. There's more debugging code in the game now, to give us more help. If you see any odd messages during gameplay, take a screenshot and please let me know. Sending in your account name and character name/server is also helpful information. We are NOT giving up on this.

Relics - okay, let me say again congratulations and a rousing MEA CULPA to the raiders on Merlin last night for beating down the relic keep. For those of you who didn't hear, the end of the raid was not a happy one - the relic couldn't be moved. This was... not supposed to happen. The relics were priority number one today. The results have moved to Pendragon, and will be live next week. Please don't go after relics until then.

Speaking of Pendragon, thank you for your suggestions of how to get more and higher leveled players on that poor server. We are talking about those ideas now.

Last night, before the Dev Chat in Vault's IRC channel, someone claiming to be Sanya hopped in and requested account names and passwords. That charming person promptly logged in with those passwords and started behaving rather badly. DO NOT GIVE OUT YOUR PASSWORDS. IRC IS A PARTICULARLY BAD PLACE TO EVEN THINK ABOUT TYPING YOUR PASSWORD. No one from Mythic will EVER ask you for your password. Ever. A real Mythic employee can get your password from just your account name.

And the bluebird of happiness? Today we also spent a lot of time talking to team leads about the classes and gathering extensive feedback. You should start seeing the results of that next week.