Hey guys,
For the past few weeks our team has been strongly focused on improving the server conditions per your requests. As a result, I did not feel it would have been the best of time to provide updates on a number of things. Now that conditions have begun to show promising improvement, I believe it should be ok to give you some status reports and things to expect for the future.
First off, we do not have any intention of "sweeping this under the rug" with regards to the unfortunate server conditions this past month. Our team is still discussing the matter and working on determining the best course of action for compensation support. We have a number of events either running or planned for the near future which we have to take into account while determining the best way to add in some form of adequate compensation. Please expect updates on this soon with the earliest commencement of next week. Also, we will continue to evaluate the server conditions and any new reports you may send in even after these recent changes.
Our website will see another renovation, although not a complete overhaul, arriving as soon as this week. Expect a more streamlined navigation approach with a number of welcome enhancements. Will we finally be able to reply with images? We'll find out soon enough.
The patch schedule is still a bit tentative, meaning that a number of updates are in progress but the launch date for them may change. Please look forward to some of the following updates to arrive soon as per previous requests made:
1) An option to enable or disable the "Player has entered the battle room" message.
2) If players are kicked from the server they will no longer drop to desktop, instead they will arrive at the login screen.
3) GB1 CV numbers from 8 to 6
4) x2 EXP for first win of the day
5) The ability to unload a full ship's crew with 1-click
6) If a player retreats from a shared room, the player will receive 0 EXP and the opposite team will receive bonus EXP (the retreating ship's DP for example).
These updates are still being worked on so they may be tentative to slight change, especially #6. Polls will be placed if necessary so please stay tuned. If everything goes well, please expect these updates to show up sometime either this month or by early April.
The last point is regarding normpearii's in-game accessible tutorial suggestion. I will be making another post about this soon for assistance in getting this suggestion into effect. It would be a great resource for players once implemented.
This is all for the moment. Just a brief update on some of the progress being made. I know that you have some concerns about our stance on the server populations among other issues, so please expect separate updates concerning those and other matters in the future.
-Randy
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3/7/2012 Update:
Along with the ECV event that begins this weekend, there will be a 200% EXP gain rate applied to both servers until the end of the event (April 7th).
For low level users (levels 1-30), there will be an additional 20% EXP applied.
Nothing else is scheduled to be patched tonight but we should see some changes come next week. I'll update if anything changes.
-Randy
