I decline your invitation to get sucked into a debate about wow, nice try though.

Wraithbane wrote:

What makes you think they haven't? Keep in mind that much of that is still State controlled, and as such is largely unaccountable to the users. It also tends to attract the least skilled personnel(other wise they'd be making more in the private sector...) ^^ That's a NASTY combination that one finds in many of the People's Utopias over there. Its slowly changing, but they are having to fight generations worth of damage done by governments of the past.

If you look at one of the recent maps of the connections, there are several single(or at most dual) connection bottlenecks.

Look at Hungry on a map, and then examine the countries that border it on all sides.  Thats exactly what I was speaking of.

While it is this quite amusing, there is not truth to this. The biggest ISPs in Hungary are the likes of T-Com, GTS Group or UPC. Obvioulsly all are huge multinational companies. There is also no difference in technology and infrastructure. We do not have a state owned telecom company.

Looking into hosting is OK, but they all use the same NAP, since there's only one out of Hungary, and if your going to move going across the road or across the continent is probably the same level of logistics; you just can't fluff the server's pillow and kiss it good night anymore

Monitoring is great, I think you'll find that the issue is more widespread than what is being reported here on the forums.

Be sure to do a TCO on a new hosting site, there's more than just bw and rack space to look at, I'd rather you stay where you are then over-extend and have to shutdown

Last night I downloaded (2) patches concurrently in about 20 minutes starting at 8PM PST time; so the issue is not systemic.

bladvin wrote:

**Snip** Lack of content **Snip**

I agree that new players are thrown into the world which is pretty much a sink of swim moment and there lacks a storyline, even a short one. It would be nice to see the fluff and tutorial linked together to get people up to speed on what to expect and not expect.
I do like the complete openness of later play but at the start I think joining and instantly being told "You can't do anything alone." is off putting to new players. (Which isn't necessarily true in all cases but most)

Actually the main problem is you can't make NIC that easy. Without NIC no requests for goods. Without requests for goods no offers on market. Easy.

It is also much easier to get NIC on alpha than on beta. With level 3 kill missions or even level 1 transports, you can make NIC relative fast and very easy. On beta the risk is way higher while the reward is not. At least overall.

Balsover wrote:

Syndic wrote:

Join non-noob corp.

But ye, PVE could be bit better on Alpha to entertain new guys. They need something to keep them in-game, and not many have brain-cell to find non-noob alpha corp.

Most players want to figure out the game for a few weeks first, before joining a corp. If they get bored after a few weeks, probably wont happen.

Doesn't it make more sense that you learn the game a lot quicker from corp-mates?

Better do so or Siddy will start danish!

Wraithbane wrote:

Laughter!... Oh, I'm quite aware of whats going on here. Bottom line, those involved EXPLOITED an in game system in a fashion it was not intended to be used for, to their own benefit, and now they are howling like banshees because the fruits of their exploits have been taken from them. All of the rest of the smoke and mirrors some are attempting to use are just obfuscation, meant to distract from that fundamental point.

I have to give AC credit. Even with a small team and limited resources, they much more quickly addressed a serious exploit, in a more timely fashion than I've seen CCP do in some cases in EVE. That speaks well for their concern about the games economy. The fact that they also didn't perma ban those involved, speaks well of their even handed approach.

Are you trying to look ***? Since you are succeeding quite admirably.

I'm one of the most posting persons on the issue. I haven't lost a single NIC. Nor do I mind that my corp did. For last 2 months I don't think I've had more than 3 million NIC myself, yet I'm able to fit t4s and to actually afford losing them. From the talks with the guys, they don't give a *** about lost NIC either. It just doesn't matter enough to make a fuss about it. And no, it doesn't matter not because we frauded enough NIC. No, it's because we know how to make stuff properly.

Yet you together with bunch of other clowns are jumping in joy thinking EXPLOITERS GOT PWNED LOL. We didn't. Devs, in your lingo, got PWNED LOL by their poor handling of the issue and that is concern we are raising. You are applauding them for technically letting poor system go live, then ignoring the warnings given by loads of people and then removing in game stuff which was generated by their ignorance.
Do you want to sit there and fap while under your nose a precedent of Devs covering their mistakes by blaming players is happening? If this goes untouched once, it'll happen again. And again. Do YOU want to play a game where one day you might wake up and let's say an extension in which you invested 40k EP is missing because Devs considered it to be overpowered or whatever?