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[Gattsus]

Russ said:

Tweet me your pilot name and I will query your account and weigh the refund against your current stable of Mastered and Elited mechs

https://twitter.com/...323192203886592

Edited by Gattsus, 12 March 2017 - 06:14 PM.

[Wintersdark]

Yeah, he's stopped taking pilot names now (see his next few tweets after that).

[Gattsus]

Wintersdark, on 12 March 2017 - 06:14 PM, said:

Yeah, he's stopped taking pilot names now (see his next few tweets after that).

are you ******* kidding me...

[Deathlike]

TL;DT (Too Long; Didn't Tweet)

[Wintersdark]

Yeah, he just asked for anyone who thought they'd have an issue so they'd have a sample of potential problem cases to run. Just a quick sample before the podcast, that was it.

Edited by Wintersdark, 12 March 2017 - 06:17 PM.

[Deathlike]

Gattsus, on 12 March 2017 - 06:14 PM, said:

are you ******* kidding me...

Why are you surprised? This is the norm.

[Wintersdark]

He does lots of random Twitter surveys but they're all very short term.

[BigBenn]

Seriously... some of you need to just chill. Let this stuff play out. I believe the gentlemen at PGI will act in good faith. They have nothing to gain from short changing people out of the conversion.

Chill the F out.

[LordNothing]

idk why he did it like this instead of just using a random selection. or a sampling from every demographic (pugs, fp players, whales, new players, each tier, etc). rather than the first 100 a.d.d. twiter types to go "me!".

[Gaeb]

Wintersdark, on 12 March 2017 - 06:14 PM, said:

Yeah, he's stopped taking pilot names now (see his next few tweets after that).

Sounds like a well thought out decision by a competent designer.

[Gattsus]

Wintersdark, on 12 March 2017 - 06:17 PM, said:

Yeah, he just asked for anyone who thought they'd have an issue so they'd have a sample of potential problem cases to run. Just a quick sample before the podcast, that was it.

Sad face.

[N0ni]

And to those who don't use twitter, like me... we're going to completely ignore you!

[Wintersdark]

N0ni, on 12 March 2017 - 08:17 PM, said:

And to those who don't use twitter, like me... we're going to completely ignore you!

well, no; they've got all the data in bulk. *Shrugs* I don't use Twitter for anything other than these random little mini surveys and tidbits of information. The upside of only following PGI is that you can set notifications for that group of people then otherwise forget about it and never miss anything. That is, if you care enough, anyways, because ultimately it's not going to make much of a difference overall aside from getting an early heads up for various changes.

[Clownwarlord]

You know what would solve this problem. If PGI just had someone take 30 minutes to an hour to write a script the would query a players name with the information of module count, xp per mech count, how the xp is being refunded (gxp, hxp, and xp per mech), number of mastered mechs, number of elited mechs, basiced mechs, and send it out in an email to that player. Then just by having that script you can have it go through the list of all players, one at a time to not overwhelm the server, and then every player will see the cbill refund and xp refund.

This way PGI can just run it once, have it time stamped, and it doesn't have to be pretty just have the rough numbers available. This way each player can do the little leg work that is left of adding it all up instead of click war to find everything.

[Elizander]

Clownwarlord, on 12 March 2017 - 09:37 PM, said:

You know what would solve this problem. If PGI just had someone take 30 minutes to an hour to write a script the would query a players name with the information of module count, xp per mech count, how the xp is being refunded (gxp, hxp, and xp per mech), number of mastered mechs, number of elited mechs, basiced mechs, and send it out in an email to that player. Then just by having that script you can have it go through the list of all players, one at a time to not overwhelm the server, and then every player will see the cbill refund and xp refund.

This way PGI can just run it once, have it time stamped, and it doesn't have to be pretty just have the rough numbers available. This way each player can do the little leg work that is left of adding it all up instead of click war to find everything.

I am quite surprised that they can't query their own database like this. If they are afraid of slowing the servers down I'm sure they have backup data they can run the script on. That's how we did DB queries in other online games (using backup DB) because live query can mess up the service.

Edited by Elizander, 12 March 2017 - 11:19 PM.

[Lily from animove]

not the best execution, but in the end at least a direct communication and action. I have seen games being like:

"we investigate the issue" followed with weeks of silence.

Edited by Lily from animove, 13 March 2017 - 02:00 AM.

[Appogee]

I intend to unequip all Modules just before the patch and take a screenshot of my inventory... and also all my skill unlocks... just in case something goes wrong.

I once counted that I have 400 Modules. Wouldn't want to get short-changed.

[Alistair Winter]

Wintersdark, on 12 March 2017 - 06:25 PM, said:

He does lots of random Twitter surveys but they're all very short term.

[Bandilly]

Elizander, on 12 March 2017 - 11:19 PM, said:

I am quite surprised that they can't query their own database like this. If they are afraid of slowing the servers down I'm sure they have backup data they can run the script on. That's how we did DB queries in other online games (using backup DB) because live query can mess up the service.

Which players don't gaf and which players think.the sky is falling isn't a queriable field in their database. Taking a few names let's them look at a few specific accounts of the latter group.

[WarHippy]

BigBenn, on 12 March 2017 - 06:26 PM, said:

Seriously... some of you need to just chill. Let this stuff play out. I believe the gentlemen at PGI will act in good faith. They have nothing to gain from short changing people out of the conversion.

Chill the F out.

Would you by chance be interested in purchasing a bridge? I happen to have one for sale.