Introducing The Risia Ice Games!

[Tolero]

We’re pleased to introduce the Risia Ice Games! Available to players of all levels, test your skills on our series of slippery slopes, or just relax with friends as you glide across the ice. To get in on the action, visit the following regions:

The Harbor

An ice skating rink is available at the base of the Lighthouse!
The ice jump begins at the top of the Harbor cliff behind the Harbormaster’s House!

House Phiarlan

An icy half-pipe is available at the back of the Bogwater Tavern!

Collect the floating white, blue, and purple ice coins and trade them with the powerful wizard, Jack Frostbite, for wondrous icy gifts, crafting recipe cards, and frosty ingredients for the Risian Eldritch Device at the Lighthouse! Jack can be found at the Bogwater half-pipe or by the Lighthouse ice rink helping to keep the ice cold! If you find your winter sporting skills lacking, you can still earn ice coins by doing some good old fashion clobbering! Hunt down fire creatures in quests, adventure areas, and raids, who can also drop the ice coins!

Need more speed to reach the extra valuable ice coins? Tired of falling down and being laughed at by your friends in the rink? Ice skates are available for rent in exchange for ice tokens. The skates will prevent you from falling on the ice, and also give you some extra speed. Look for the rental NPC at the ice rink!

Also be sure to check the DDO Store for fun wintery items (http://www.ddo.com/ddostore/749-new-in-the-ddo-store)!

Remember: The Risia Ice Games are available Thursdays through Sundays in February!

[Ironforge_Clan]

Sorry T and the rest of the staff but I don't really care when so many things that should be fixed, upgraded, etc just aren't being done. You want to code fluff then deal with issues like armor skin changes, guild housing, etc.

[ArloOne]

On the contrary, I can't wait to get home and shred it up a bit for some icey loots. I am pleased your staff has taken the time to add something likes this in. You should do more of it. Oh, yeah and more world event encounters..
I am certain that all of you at Turbine are working furiously to make the changes we seek. So , in the mean time...go shred it up and grab some coins!!!

[cyberguy]

I would say first and foremost, put in a search feature for the Auction House, then add all the fluff you want.

[Ritesign]

Ironforge, that post was the equivalent of walking up to a little baby developer and popping the big red balloon they were holding. Maybe it's because it hasn't been cold enough here for ice skating yet, but I appreciate the little distractions from the big bugs.

[kingfisher]

would have rather had half-orcs

[Ironforge_Clan]

Ironforge, that post was the equivalent of walking up to a little baby developer and popping the big red balloon they were holding. Maybe it's because it hasn't been cold enough here for ice skating yet, but I appreciate the little distractions from the big bugs.

No that was me saying in the nicest way possible to avoid infraction points that I'm not pleased. You want distractions go watch reality TV. I would like the multitude of player issues/complaints that we have voiced since launch addressed.

[Coldin]

I, myself, will thoroughly enjoy the Risia Ice games. Now if I can just figure out how to use that silly half-pipe.

[gemineye]

it was figured out on the Lama forums...

[Spisey]

would have rather had half-orcs

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v51/Nokari/Amen-Brother.jpg

[Varr]

Anyone think of a better farming quest that the level 6 house k with the meps and respawnimg fire eles?

I ask because I hate farming, but have six weapons I want to add the icey burst to.....need 1800 of these as fast as possible (ps, buying on Cannith in min stacks of 50. Hehe.)

Vorps and wops and the like....I have a min level 2 no rr +1 true law pure good great axe that with icey burst would compliment the malestom nicely. Heck, may need more than 1800.....

[krud]

crafting recipe cards,...

Finally. I always thought these should be available in game either as drops or turn in rewards (instead of on 3rd party websites). These should be available for all crafting mechanisms.

[gemineye]

Anyone think of a better farming quest that the level 6 house k with the meps and respawnimg fire eles?

That quest got me 20 coins in a few minutes...couldnt think of a better place to farm

[Cedwin]

No that was me saying in the nicest way possible to avoid infraction points that I'm not pleased. You want distractions go watch reality TV. I would like the multitude of player issues/complaints that we have voiced since launch addressed.

I'm sure you are probably aware of this, or maybe you aren't.

New content = graphical team to make stuff pretty, and quest designers who use a ddo toolkit to create dungeons.

Bugs = going through lines of code.

[Ironforge_Clan]

I'm sure you are probably aware of this, or maybe you aren't.

New content = graphical team to make stuff pretty, and quest designers who use a ddo toolkit to create dungeons.

Bugs = going through lines of code.

Your point? I'm not just asking for the bugs to be fixed which I admit they have done in some cases but haven't in others. They can change our hair color and styles (which to my knowledge was never asked for) but they can't do that with our armors? If they want to add pretty stuff give us guild/player housing. Don't presume that I'm just asking for the code to be fixed. I'll take fluff but make sure it is the stuff that the players have been asking/begging for not something like this. To me, and it is just my opinion, this is wasted resources and time that could have been better spent doing something else.

[UnderwearModel]

Hmmmm, yes, I will spend a couple minutes at it.

But this seems to have less value than PVP for me. And I have not EVER done PVP.

[WolfSpirit]

In game activities are always appreciated. Should be fun!

[DrWorm0]

Sorry T and the rest of the staff but I don't really care when so many things that should be fixed, upgraded, etc just aren't being done. You want to code fluff then deal with issues like armor skin changes, guild housing, etc.


first off what you listed as issues, arent issues, they are wants and secondly how do you know things that are in need of fixing arent being worked on?

[Varr]

That quest got me 20 coins in a few minutes...couldnt think of a better place to farm


Did they fall one for all, or first come first served.

Ie get three or so casters rotating map killing respawns as fast as they can pop, pilling up coins to pick up.......or just solo?

[Cedwin]

Your point?

My point being, the people who make new content are in a different department than the ones who fix bugs.

It's like yelling at the marketing department about a bug... the most they could do is put a banner on it.

[bashemgud]

I would say first and foremost, put in a search feature for the Auction House, then add all the fluff you want.

Worst that could happen. No point in looking and spending some time in AH then, as you could simply type the stats you want and voilÃ*.
I'm always happy to find something kinda cheap and rare on the ah, but you have to spend some time there too for this. A search feature completely negates this, and would suck hard.

And stop with the bad comments about ''useless stuff' being added to the game, while they could fix some other important things. They didn't stop every single project at the devs only to make the ice game.

Different teams on different projects.

Cheers, and thanks for the new stuff!

[SquelchHU]

Eh, it's free icy burst on all your weapons. Not too bad.

[Zenako]

That quest got me 20 coins in a few minutes...couldnt think of a better place to farm

The drop rate of coins increases with setting. I ran some tests on Lamannia and posted in those forums, but roughly speaking about a 20% drop rate from fire critters on normal, about 35% on Hard and close to 50% on Elite if I recall correctly.

Dual wielding Banishers make for quick farming...

[Ironforge_Clan]

first off what you listed as issues, arent issues, they are wants and secondly how do you know things that are in need of fixing arent being worked on?

I listed them as issues because they have been asked for by the players for, in some cases, years.

Well, personally, I don't because we no longer have the WDA and information from the source seems to be very sporadic and less than direct nowadays but based upon their track record of late I am presuming that they are not spending their time dealing with issues that the player base has raised but on things like this.

[anatoli11]

Thank you to Turbine for creating different and fun events. This is a game, not a job!

[Zenako]

Did they fall one for all, or first come first served.

Ie get three or so casters rotating map killing respawns as fast as they can pop, pilling up coins to pick up.......or just solo?

They appear in the pack of the person who kills the mob.

I tried some dual boxing to check it out. The character back at the entrance got nothing.

[Eelpout]

Your point? I'm not just asking for the bugs to be fixed which I admit they have done in some cases but haven't in others. They can change our hair color and styles (which to my knowledge was never asked for) but they can't do that with our armors? If they want to add pretty stuff give us guild/player housing. Don't presume that I'm just asking for the code to be fixed. I'll take fluff but make sure it is the stuff that the players have been asking/begging for not something like this. To me, and it is just my opinion, this is wasted resources and time that could have been better spent doing something else.

Sorry to burst your bubble there, Polly Sunshine, but unfortunately for you people have been asking for some of these things. There have been people asking for hairstyle and color change options (not myself, I personally don't care). I can also remember people over the last 3+ years asking for more in game events and other things to do. Looks to me like THOSE people are getting what they asked for. Upset you didn't get what you wanted, fine and understandable, but to go on saying that they are adding things that players weren't asking for is disengenous.

Yeah, there are bigger issues out there, but I just don't get why trashing on the devs when the add something possitive to the game is productive. You don't like, you don't want to participate, that is your call. Aside from you not getting your priority changes made, this doesn't impact your game play whatsoever.

Deep breaths, Deep breaths.

[Varr]

Excellent info z, thanks. Makes sence, hate not being able to fill a group to help out the masses.....sounds like it will be a solo farm though. Guess could justify a couple others to split up the quest and make for a fast group break instance reset.....

Ps, got to spreed rep... So a +1 in thought only for ya...

[Thailand_Dan]

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but the text is backwards for the Skate rental NPC. He says you get coins by doing the ice jump in the harbor, or skating in House P. Should be the other way around, right?

[Halo_572]

This thread should be locked, it is turning from an announcement to a grumbling session.

[Zenako]

Excellent info z, thanks. Makes sence, hate not being able to fill a group to help out the masses.....sounds like it will be a solo farm though. Guess could justify a couple others to split up the quest and make for a fast group break instance reset.....

Only real caveat was that was how it worked on the build on Lamannia a couple weeks back when I tested things out.. they made some minor changes/additions to the infrastructure in the harbor from what I saw last night so they might have tweaked other aspects of the ice games as well.

[Zenako]

This thread should be locked, it is turning from an announcement to a grumbling session.

No. If you let the posts of anyone unhappy with the way something is working out to be grounds for locking threads, then this whole place soon becomes a pointless wasteland. One poster expresses their opinion that for them, time spent on things like this are not what he would like to see is fine. If we were all in lockstep all the time, it would be a bleeping boring world.

[Arsont]

First off, thanks to Eelpout for mentioning that people have been wanting hair color change and etc. Second, thanks to everyone for making stuff like this! Little in-game changes (Fluff, as some have called them) help give me a nice little break in between quests. For me, this should be plenty of fun!

[Schmoe]

No that was me saying in the nicest way possible to avoid infraction points that I'm not pleased. You want distractions go watch reality TV. I would like the multitude of player issues/complaints that we have voiced since launch addressed.

The whole game is a distraction! For some, the distraction of the winter games improves the game as much as a bug fix. And as far as I can tell, bug fixes are being addressed. It's a balancing act.

[Goldeneye]

Turbine: Thank you for this distraction... now you have time to fix things, build content, and add stuff we actually want while we are pre-occupied.

[Sylvurdragon]

I haven't been on since 2006 but have done a lot of reading on things that people have wanted and things that have changed etc. I personally think that the risia games are an awesome idea. Something different to the mundane grind of every day questing. I'm sure there will be times when I just want to quest and get exp...but its nice to have something to fall back on while waiting on a group to form. :)

I think the Dev's have been doing a great job, personally. I went VIP one month after joing the game as a f2p player. Thats gotta say something right? (either the developers have put out a great product to entice me to pay them monthly...or I'm just nuts.) Sure, its true that not every little thing that everyone wants is gonna be in every patch (I really wanted greater reincarnation this patch, but saw the "coming soon" message and was slightly disapointed) but you know what? I dust myself off and keep playing since I know that these are things that will be address in due time. :)

I don't like to rant...but I see this way too much and its kind of upsetting. Why can't people just be happy and not have to downplay everything that could be fun to someone else just because you're not getting your way.

Anyway...great job Dev's, keep up the good work. Oh and a search feature would be great in the AH. And Druids! woot! ;)

[Talcyndl]

Sorry T and the rest of the staff but I don't really care when so many things that should be fixed, upgraded, etc just aren't being done. You want to code fluff then deal with issues like armor skin changes, guild housing, etc.

A little late for the Bah-Humbug...although it is still the Winter Games so maybe you're still keeping with the theme. ;)

[fuzzy1guy]

The ice bits are awesome :D Something new to mess with :)

Yet more to do in ddo!

[Mr_Ed7]

bwa ahahah haha!

Why this?

YEAH HALF-ORCSYEAH ARMOR/HELM/ROBE SKINS

I don't get it...I am sure its fun and all...but...

[vhortex]

no point in locking the thread, the person who was not happy was doing it on a nice civil way.

i am just 3 months old in playing the game but i have inter-act with lots of people. female players are begging for hair style so much and they got what they want. around 20% of people i meet up wants some ice games and they now get it.

i am aware of some of the bugs that the game have like being glued with the ladders going back and forth for a very strange thing and ended up being dead. they said it was fixed but it is coming back for some reasons and those jump problems where you hang on a ledge then climb up and warped back down falling which make me invest more on jumps but found that even if you have 30+ jump, the bug still kicks in on random and most annoying time.

i was betting they are trying to fix the easiest one first and giving some form of alternatives while they are fixing the most troublesome ones.

things that i don' want added to the game which was being asked by some was a search function in AH. Action houses really don't need them, it will just kill the purpose of AH. i would be glad to have the search on other places of the game like an online help maybe or something.

i will also be happy if guild can have houses.

my few cents..

[dasein18]

This idea gets the Family Guy random plot twist award. Makes no sense in a D&D world to add this sort of sillyness.

[Talcyndl]

I don't get it.
...
its fun and all.

Because games shouldn't be fun...and all? :)

[paganpete]

Thanks for the update guys and the ice stuff - when does it finish?

[Talcyndl]

This idea gets the Family Guy random plot twist award. Makes no sense in a D&D world to add this sort of sillyness.

Lol...

D&D: Silly-free since 1974.

;)

[Deriaz]

Urgh. I put one step on that ramp, and down I go. . . *He rubs at his leg.* Think I'm too heavy for this. . . Not that I care, of course. Gotta keep at it. . .

((Argh. If only I didn't have school/a bus to catch in half an hour, I would totally play some more. I really did fall on my big Warforged bum though, on my first attempt. Haha. This should be fun. :D Can't wait to get home from class and do a bit more skating and such.

Can I echo the question of when does this finish? My schedule has been tight, lately, with college courses. Would hate to finally get free time and then find the games are either closed or closing that day.))

[suitepotato]

Ironforge, that post was the equivalent of walking up to a little baby developer and popping the big red balloon they were holding. Maybe it's because it hasn't been cold enough here for ice skating yet, but I appreciate the little distractions from the big bugs.

An excellent example of how out of whack modern empathy skills and perceptions are. You're worried about offending the developers as if they were children when in fact they are adults who might be older than you, and probably make as much or more money, and have all the affectations of adults such as cars, bills, responsibilities... and you want to treat them like little kids.

Meanwhile, the kids playing this game are getting an eyeful of how supposed adults regard common sense responsibilities. Excuse making, studious silence, hoping it will be ignored, never actually fixing things. Evade instead of confront, avoid instead of accept.

Where's our compassion for those kids? They're learning bad things from the way this game is run.

[bunkerhugger]

Well my kids are enjoying the heck out of the ice skating. Sure, they're not power gamers doing Epic raids, but they do pay, play, and have fun. Plus without them no one would be able to complain about how bad their PUG was last night.

[Darklight_Soulweaver]

would have rather had half-orcs


Shouldn't we have Orcs as a race first before there is thought of Half-Orcs? Beside, have people ever stop and wonder about the non-orcs half? I mean in term of how many people from other race(s) would mate with orcs? Wouldn't be too many getting in line I don't think. So assume with such a low number is it logical to have a race for it?

Half-Elf on the other hand are not so far fetch. Why not advocate for that instead? Of course I am new to the game so forgive me if I missed something.

[YakoSpiritFist]

I like this event. It gives me something to do when i'm waiting to get into a group. Which can take a long time depending on what part of the day it is. I still can't figure out how to get coins from the half pipe though. I'm getting tired of the jump in the harbor mainly because of the trip back up.

[Rumbaar]

Can't wait to get in game.

.... but it's Summer here in Australia ... would love some of the cool weather :)

[anteku]

I'm new here. I'm very thankful to join a robust game and sizeable community. Thanks to the builders for the new distractions -- I'm looking forward to doing some skiing.

Also, here's my other 2 coppers. I used to build for a couple of persistent worlds using the NWN and NWN2 toolsets. I fully appreciate how difficult it is to balance building content, running in-game events, and squashing bugs. Sometimes, it's greasing the squeakiest wheel; sometimes it's needing to do X before doing Y; sometimes it's doing stuff to keep us from being bored. And then there was all the time we spent trying to manage abuse and unhappiness for all sorts of reasons. Finally, it was a LOT easier to add content than to fix some bugs. For instance, we could build and test a whole new map in one week, whereas it could take 3 months to debug and write new code. We had a 25 page list of stuff to do, some of which we decided was not worth the time and effort. So, I definitely have sympathy for fixing bugs and long-standing issues, but I also understand why some issues do not get addressed quickly (or ever).

[Cupcake]

Finally. I always thought these should be available in game either as drops or turn in rewards (instead of on 3rd party websites). These should be available for all crafting mechanisms.

Recipe cards, tables, fuel, crafting house.. and I am good to go.:D

[Zenako]

Recipe cards, tables, fuel, crafting house.. and I am good to go.:D

The Baked Good lives....:D

[paganpete]

I'm new here. I'm very thankful to join a robust game and sizeable community. Thanks to the builders for the new distractions -- I'm looking forward to doing some skiing.

Also, here's my other 2 coppers. I used to build for a couple of persistent worlds using the NWN and NWN2 toolsets. I fully appreciate how difficult it is to balance building content, running in-game events, and squashing bugs. Sometimes, it's greasing the squeakiest wheel; sometimes it's needing to do X before doing Y; sometimes it's doing stuff to keep us from being bored. And then there was all the time we spent trying to manage abuse and unhappiness for all sorts of reasons. Finally, it was a LOT easier to add content than to fix some bugs. For instance, we could build and test a whole new map in one week, whereas it could take 3 months to debug and write new code. We had a 25 page list of stuff to do, some of which we decided was not worth the time and effort. So, I definitely have sympathy for fixing bugs and long-standing issues, but I also understand why some issues do not get addressed quickly (or ever).

I agree completely - I used to be a level designer for EPIC (freelance - UT GOTY way back) (using UNREALED) and it sometimes took ages to create and build a level - sometimes the geometry would 'bork' up and leave occlusion holes which then took forever to try and fix - it is a lot harder than you think - and the code guys have it even worse - going through 5 or 6 million lines of code to try and find a missing ';' or to figure out why 'd' is not having the correct affect on 'x' is a nightmare!

Well done guys keep it up.

[ghettoGenius]

I for one will be hiking the pipe later.

[Mattee]

Sorry T and the rest of the staff but I don't really care when so many things that should be fixed, upgraded, etc just aren't being done. You want to code fluff then deal with issues like armor skin changes, guild housing, etc.

/signed

+1 rep

[Vellrad]

Ok, instead of arguing i want to ask a simple question: What is the goal of this games? What is need to be done to win it? Or is it just chaotic riding on ice?

[Mattee]

... but I appreciate the little distractions from the big bugs.

And this is exactly why they do it... duh!

Oh look, smoke AND mirrors.

[Progen]

Well I'm sure these events are supposed to be lots of fun ... but wow. This has been the most frustrating 20 minutes of DDO I have ever had.... I am currently up to 5 white coins and the only way i've been able to get them is the ramp thingy at house P... and I have NO CLUE HOW IM GETTING THEM! I would reeeeeeeeeeally apreciate a guide on how the button thingies affect getting a coin...

[Locotoko]

ok enough being queer and unrelated to the topic, how do we use the half pipe? There should already be instructions for it. there is no need for this mystery ****. Just tell us how to use the **** thing already. an In-game NPC should already be in place to explain it. so fail and fail on your part devs.

[Ganak]

Anyone figure out how to do the jumps and get around fast (to get the coins for the skates)?

[Locotoko]

I just bought them from the store but you cant rent them with coins. you can get alot of ice coins in house K by killing fire memphits. havent figured out how to use the ice alter yet or how to get coins from the half pipe. Still waiting for one of these queerbait scrubs to explain it to us.

[Minor_Threat]

you can farm the blue coins one at a time from the end of Niles Cage's ship, walk to the end of the ship, walk out on the right pole, then face the blue coin and jump and hold forward, you should get it if you have a decent jump.

Got bored after I got 10. Cashed em in for a bunch of dumb stuff, the best being +1 Cold dmg recipe (random generated weapon only)

[Spiffyspiffy]

This idea gets the Family Guy random plot twist award. Makes no sense in a D&D world to add this sort of sillyness.

And your idea of the "a D&D world" nearly got the game canceled due to lack of subscriptions.

[Girlbrush]

Thanks for adding these fun little activities, Turbine. I'm looking forward to trying them out.

[Entwhistle]

I've been doing house K for the coins, so far I've only gotten white ones from killing mephits, hell hounds and eles. Any one get bigger coins by killing?

I'vve redeemed 30 or so and I've gotten 'cold' FFall & fire resist potions, a candy cane (30 charges), a niac wand, and a handful of motes.

[Dark_Helmet]

This idea gets the Family Guy random plot twist award. Makes no sense in a D&D world to add this sort of sillyness.

+1 Rep,

My 15 month old likes it, but Hello Kitty also makes him laugh.

[TheDjinnFor]

I haven't been on since 2006 but have done a lot of reading on things that people have wanted and things that have changed etc. I personally think that the risia games are an awesome idea. Something different to the mundane grind of every day questing.

If the game itself is boring then no amount of distraction can alleviate that. Example: Not even twenty years of adding in new quests, content, and distractions will turn WoW into a fun, interesting, stimulating game (joke). If the game itself is truly a mundane grind then that is a far, FAR more important issue for developers to tackle: what global structures can they add that will improve the game as a whole so that at its core it is not a mundane grind?

I hate to pick on a poor choice of words here, but I really see this is a larger issue that must be tackled.

[paganpete]

Got winter recipe 7/20 - what does it do - no instructions :-(

Help a noob out guys and gals!

[Chaosprism]

Just throwing this out there.


But when and if druids come will they be able to CREATE weather conditions in their local area?

Torrential Rain:
Slows ALL creatures land movement by 10-20%, fire damage reduced by 25%, ranged weapons -2 to hit. Hide +10% for all.

Frosty Blizzard:
Constant 1d4 cold damage per second to all, occasional temporary slips spots that can cause knockdown and/or slipping. All Ice Effect Damage increased by 20%.

Parched Desert:
Cold Damage -25% , Electrical Damage +25%


i.e. More environments :) Planar Places like Risia could possibly have a permanent blizzard in action.

[Therilith]

Got winter recipe 7/20 - what does it do - no instructions :-(

Help a noob out guys and gals!

Take it out of the bag and click on it.

[ilhares]

I mean in term of how many people from other race(s) would mate with orcs? Wouldn't be too many getting in line I don't think. So assume with such a low number is it logical to have a race for it?
Human. They'll shag anything. I cite Kentucky, USA for anecdotal evidence.

[ilhares]

Got winter recipe 7/20 - what does it do - no instructions :-(

Help a noob out guys and gals!

Take it outta the ingredients bag and double-click on it, it'll open the recipe.

[Kaervas]

I just bought them from the store.
Do those 95 TP storebought skates time out after 10 minutes like the ones you get with white ice tokens?
I would guess and hope not, since they are named differently.

Edit:
I had a little faith and just bought them.
They don't time out, and are bound to account.

[MrWizard]

well, I had some time before work and thought I would give it one more chance.

The guy specifically says you can get coins by skating in the house P tavern.
I have sat and watched, I have 'skated'...and I have asked many players.

I have seen not one coin drop or appear in my bags....I have heard of not one person 'obtaining one' by skating.

Seems like it would be a cool idea, but either it is a boring deliberate puzzle on how to obtain them from skating (should say slipping around) or just a blatant way to try to get people excited enough thinking they need skates to just use the points....

(which obviously gets you around faster, but no coins are obtainable)

Maybe there is a way to get coins to rent skates. However not a single person in there could figure it out nor had any received any.

'vast and mysterious' ....well, maybe that is fun for some...I found this festival thing to have immense opportunity to be entertaining but give it a 100% F- in implementation.

2nd try....no information....done.

for those having fun, continue. I will go back to twiddling thumbs til I can lesser reincarnate.


Also, its wonderful to try to figure out what to do to get a coin skating only to be teleported all over the place....boring.

[johnnyputrid]

you can farm the blue coins one at a time from the end of Niles Cage's ship, walk to the end of the ship, walk out on the right pole, then face the blue coin and jump and hold forward, you should get it if you have a decent jump.

Got bored after I got 10. Cashed em in for a bunch of dumb stuff, the best being +1 Cold dmg recipe (random generated weapon only)

Been doing this myself with my ranger. I couldn't figure out how to work the silly ramps and halfpipe, but I noticed a blue coin in the air on a swim past Nile's boat. So I figured, what the heck? Hopped on the boat, cast Jump +30 and got myself a blue coin. Moved a little further out on the pole and took a bigger jump, got myself a white coin too. A few hours later (and a lot of newbies asking for Jump!) I racked up about 400 blues and maybe 100 whites. Strangely, I found it relaxing and fun in a distracting sort of way. The rewards were kind of nice too - got something like 1500 motes, a bunch of 3/20 & 4/20 recipe cards and a boatload of Icy Jump, Cold Shield and Haste pots. This is a great method of getting coins for all of us ramp-challenged people.

Made my monk some +2 Frost Shock Handwraps, got my favored soul a really nice +2 Keen Frost Greatsword and a +1 Frost Crippling Greatsword of Pure Good. Now if recipe 5/20 would just drop once for me, I would be happy. But I have a feeling this particular recipe only drops with purple coins, which I can't figure out how to get.

[Celfious]

with all due respect anyone complaining about "bugs" in my opinion may be a bit spoiled or something. I cant say turbine or any MMO is perfect but this one is very smooth and good compared to for example Aeria Games or mafia wars.

I am glad I came upon turbine and DDO. I used to play Shaiya with **** customer service and bugs major enough to wipe entire factions or small parties. Compared to Shaiya I can hardly see any issues with DDO that cause me much frustration at all. No a greater evil doesnt make a lessor better or something but I am just sharing my opinion that DDO is good and I dont feel the need to gripe about the small amount of negative when there is much positive

I did come to this thread in hopes to figure what is going on in bogwater.. Seems kind of random and no one knows what to do but just skate around in hopes to get coins or projected up for a chance of purple / blue..

Would be nice to have an NPC go into detail about this kind of thing and other things like crafting. Gets tedious to ask /advice all the time but still a fun game.

[Kaervas]

Finally figured out how to get the purple coin. Now I can relax.

That was a lot more frustrating than it should have been because the run back up to the top is so blasted long, and charging TP for the cocoa is meh.


Does anyone know if there is an upgrade system similar to the Jester, for ice tokens? As in, a tiny chance that your white token gets upgraded to blue token value on turn in, and the same for blue to purple. It really feels faster to just spam the entry tunnel of Zawabi's Revenge over and over for blues, unless they absolutely can never reach purple status.

[Crazyfruit]

For the half-pipe, I got a few white coins for hitting the buttons in what appeared to be a sequence. The coins all came at the one on the right side. Wasn't thrown into the air or anything special like that, just popped into my inventory.

If there's anything more to it (I sure hope so, those other coins are a tease!) the folks I was with gave up figuring it out after 20 mins

[Celfious]

is there a thread about how to play these games? I can say only a bit. When there are 15+ people participating I got a bunch of white coins from the halfpipe and the steam shot up a lot more often. I manage to take the steam on the left (on the side where there is a big pillar stopping us when we are steamed up) and climb onto the pillar, featherfall/jump down and grab the purple.

When there are few people participating however I could honestly say I got zero coins and the steam never came

[Jacoby]

would have rather had half-orcs

/signed

[Sir_Chonas]

I've posted guides about both events in the freeplayer advice section.

[Will_Ferrer]

Ok so after 2 hours of utter failiar I have figured out this ski jump thing and now i have all but 1 recipe. Ive even put Icy Burst on a few of my handwraps and am now looking to craft some type of Glaciation onto an item for my sorc. Only it requires that i have a "randomly generated" item with Glaciation VIII on it....

I, nor anyone I have talked to anyone that has seen such an item. These recipes start at lesser Glaciation and go to superior, all the way for I to IX but at VII there is no random generation of Glaciation. Am I missing a step here?

[Glenalth]

The drop rate of coins increases with setting. I ran some tests on Lamannia and posted in those forums, but roughly speaking about a 20% drop rate from fire critters on normal, about 35% on Hard and close to 50% on Elite if I recall correctly.

Dual wielding Banishers make for quick farming...

That's odd, I pulled 35 whites on hard in Taming the Flames and 33 on elite.

[Ggcpres]

while i have to agree that i would rather see half-orcs and non- ******** looking armor than a half pipe, it is good that the developers are still working at things. even a noob like me can see that putting in half orcs or other massive upgrades will take time. for now just take True Reincarnation (when fixed) and be happy knowing that the other changes are on the way.

turbine has to be noting down common compalnts, otherwise they'd be out of business by now.

[Uskathoth]

Your point? I'm not just asking for the bugs to be fixed which I admit they have done in some cases but haven't in others. They can change our hair color and styles (which to my knowledge was never asked for) but they can't do that with our armors? If they want to add pretty stuff give us guild/player housing. Don't presume that I'm just asking for the code to be fixed. I'll take fluff but make sure it is the stuff that the players have been asking/begging for not something like this. To me, and it is just my opinion, this is wasted resources and time that could have been better spent doing something else.

Oh, so you want DIFFERENT fluff worked on rather than this fluff.

Must...not...make....obvious joke regarding need for fluff as it relates to the adult film industry.

[dscrimager]

Developing new in - game non-quest content is definitely good in my book ...don't want to completely forget about all the other stuff but from my perspective a few events a year like this are really fun and interesting.. can't wait to see what is next.

[Drfirewater79]

they are making you buy boots on ddo store ... this is the most stupid event ever ... i hope no one gives in to the stupid cash camel ploy that is update 3

seriously making me rethink ST:O and i hate star trek

[muffinlad]

My point being, the people who make new content are in a different department than the ones who fix bugs.

It's like yelling at the marketing department about a bug... the most they could do is put a banner on it.

Speaking as someone who works occasionally in a marketing department, we do other things than banners! We also whine to developers that people don't like us because of bugs. Then the developers are mean to us, because they can't be mean to customers. Then we have lunch without them. Ha!

muffinmarkets.

[muffinlad]

they are making you buy boots on ddo store ... this is the most stupid event ever ... i hope no one gives in to the stupid cash camel ploy that is update 3

seriously making me rethink ST:O and i hate star trek

I am actually really enjoying ST:O for the Star Ship combat. Ground combat is not 100th as good as this game, but the Ship combat with 20+ players is awesome....even if you don't like Star Trek.

I would love DDO to do a mounted combat system as well, or even a barony vs barony strategic level game...but I just love games in general. Not totally topical to what DDO is about....

muffingamers.

[bobbryan2]

I'd like to be on record as saying I love the Ice Games, and I hope we see a lot more of it in the future. DDO needs some new activities that aren't questing based, and the Ice Games have everything I could want.

Fun mini-games to do while screwing around for an hour and not wanting to get into a quest.

Fun rewards including putting minor enhancements on your weapons.

DDO basically got a crafting system, and people are complaining about it? I'd really like to see something similar put in with perhaps changing rewards. Even something that cycles through the seasons would be neat... with fire, lightning, cold and acid through the 4 seasons. And maybe for special holidays you would have untyped bonuses.

I give whomever did this a big thumbs up!

[Zenako]

That's odd, I pulled 35 whites on hard in Taming the Flames and 33 on elite.

Did you run complete until killing all the fire critters for the optional bonus points? (need 50 of the fire army).

Those are based on killing over 120+ total mobs each time. Nothing from the Earth ELementals, but those 10-12 don't respawn. And you get nothing from the Air Mephits either. Lots of the fire elementals will respawn for the more kills.

Ran it on Elite with barely killing enough fire to trigger that condition, and I got 43 and 44 last night, from what was probably between 80 and 90 ish fire mobs. Seem a consistent percentage.

You can easily complete the main quest objectives long before you hit the 50 Fire Mob Army, and only kill 60ish fire critters, so that would give you the 30ish you saw. It might even be a quicker rate of return.

[Glenalth]

Did you run complete until killing all the fire critters for the optional bonus points? (need 50 of the fire army).

Those are based on killing over 120+ total mobs each time. Nothing from the Earth ELementals, but those 10-12 don't respawn. And you get nothing from the Air Mephits either. Lots of the fire elementals will respawn for the more kills.

Ran it on Elite with barely killing enough fire to trigger that condition, and I got 43 and 44 last night, from what was probably between 80 and 90 ish fire mobs. Seem a consistent percentage.

You can easily complete the main quest objectives long before you hit the 50 Fire Mob Army, and only kill 60ish fire critters, so that would give you the 30ish you saw. It might even be a quicker rate of return.

Complete run killing every living thing I encountered. All objectives complete. Same path each time to make sure numbers would be good.

[Impaqt]

they are making you buy boots on ddo store ... this is the most stupid event ever ... i hope no one gives in to the stupid cash camel ploy that is update 3

seriously making me rethink ST:O and i hate star trek


or you could just collect 10 white coins and go rent a set without spending any TP's at all.... I've got like 100 of em right now and I havent even farmed em....


Or going to play STO is a good idea too... whatever.

[Vellrad]

I'm tired of winter.
Could you give us something connected to sun and heat, so we might forget about snow and cold?

[bobbryan2]

I'm tired of winter.
Could you give us something connected to sun and heat, so we might forget about snow and cold?

Try Menechteran... or however you spell it. Winter is actually a fairly recent development just before Mod 9. The only cold dungeons before that was stuff like Enemy Within. Mostly, high level content was jungles and deserts.

Although, to be fair.. it's all at low levels.

[bigred1o1]

i have to say this was a huge bummer my main being a cleric that you have to have the killshot on a fire mob to have a chance at the coin having now run in a few farming groups if i am doing my job of healing i come out of a quest with very few killshots this seems like it was just not well thought out just a thought but it seems to be a good way to turn a fun run into a zerging party with people holding back to cast till mobs are almost dead and or people burning up mana to kill the mobs for a chance at the drop insted of helping one another maybe you guys can make it a group wide drop just a thought

[bobbryan2]

i have to say this was a huge bummer my main being a cleric that you have to have the killshot on a fire mob to have a chance at the coin having now run in a few farming groups if i am doing my job of healing i come out of a quest with very few killshots this seems like it was just not well thought out just a thought but it seems to be a good way to turn a fun run into a zerging party with people holding back to cast till mobs are almost dead and or people burning up mana to kill the mobs for a chance at the drop insted of helping one another maybe you guys can make it a group wide drop just a thought

For starters, I don't know what kind of level you are, but high level clerics are incredibly capable of getting a lot of coins from enemies. Spells like slay living, destruction and implosion can kill fire elementals before melees even get there. I didn't do a lot of killing enemies, but when I wanted to try it.. I hopped right on my divine caster.

Secondly, I think the point of the coins is to play the mini-games they made.

With both of those points, however, I'm not sure that groupwide drops are a bad thing. There's no reason to support things like kill stealing and playing solo over in a group.

[Mr_Ed7]

Shouldn't we have Orcs as a race first before there is thought of Half-Orcs? Beside, have people ever stop and wonder about the non-orcs half? I mean in term of how many people from other race(s) would mate with orcs? Wouldn't be too many getting in line I don't think. So assume with such a low number is it logical to have a race for it?

Half-Elf on the other hand are not so far fetch. Why not advocate for that instead? Of course I am new to the game so forgive me if I missed something.

You are correct...We need just plain ORCS!

[Tilliak]

Shouldn't we have Orcs as a race first before there is thought of Half-Orcs? Beside, have people ever stop and wonder about the non-orcs half? I mean in term of how many people from other race(s) would mate with orcs? Wouldn't be too many getting in line I don't think. So assume with such a low number is it logical to have a race for it?

Half-Elf on the other hand are not so far fetch. Why not advocate for that instead? Of course I am new to the game so forgive me if I missed something.

Orcs are known for their raping and pillaging. Who said anything about willful mating on the non-orc side? It's not that difficult of a logic problem to figure out...

[knightgf]

I would like this upgrade, but only IF you allow us to cast grease and sleet storm in the ice courses.

[Angelus_dead]

With both of those points, however, I'm not sure that groupwide drops are a bad thing. There's no reason to support things like kill stealing and playing solo over in a group.
But it's less fun to have 5 players sponging off the kills from one Sorc than for each of them to farm their own elementals separately.

[xxHazexx]

I am actually really enjoying ST:O for the Star Ship combat. Ground combat is not 100th as good as this game, but the Ship combat with 20+ players is awesome....even if you don't like Star Trek.

I would love DDO to do a mounted combat system as well, or even a barony vs barony strategic level game...but I just love games in general. Not totally topical to what DDO is about....

muffingamers.


I agree DDO should go with a mounted combat system

[Idontlikesaturday]

One moment snow, coins, aerial ice ramps. *poof* the next minute no hints that the ice games ever existed. Might want to look into that.

[Tarrant]

The Risians need to take a few days off, but they'll be back with more Ice Games on Thursday!

[paxton]

nothing... then it's gone for 3 days. what a load of ****!!! nice job on keeping us informed.

[adamkatt]

The Risians need to take a few days off, but they'll be back with more Ice Games on Thursday!

Whats the deal?? You all could a least give us some warning to turn in what we have atm... and leave the alter up!!!!!!!

[flynnjsw]

The Risians need to take a few days off, but they'll be back with more Ice Games on Thursday!

So did the coins stop dropping as well?

[Smallville]

So why do you need to take the crafting device? Its not a Risian. Let the Harbormaster borrow it till Thursday. Maybe the Risians will pretend to be govenrment and subsidize the loan payments for Zinn.

[Idontlikesaturday]

Can't blame them - there's been a lot of talk about the fresh pow' on the north slope of Tempest Spine. A free cuppa hot cocco would be a nice way of saying they appreciate our understanding and continued patronage.

[Tarrant]

nothing... then it's gone for 3 days. what a load of ****!!! nice job on keeping us informed.

We sent out an email on February 5th saying the games were only available Thursday-Sunday for the month of February.


So did the coins stop dropping as well?

Yes, coins are gone. Until Thursday, the world is completely festival-less.

[SirAggravator]

I think a lot of people didn't see that email the games were available only Thurs to Sun.
I did read it and thought it was odd at the time.

[Cedwin]

We sent out an email on February 5th saying the games were only available Thursday-Sunday for the month of February.


I think most people have those emails turned off. It would have been better to post the dates in the announcement.

[adamkatt]

I think most people have those emails turned off. It would have been better to post the dates in the announcement.

No festival has ever ended so abruptly. More notice would have been better.... Caught me by surprise so i submitted a in game ticket...

[Cedwin]

No festival has ever ended so abruptly. More notice would have been better.... Caught me by surprise so i submitted a in game ticket...

Yeah, if they would have posted the dates in the original announcement, that would have been enough notice.

I noticed that they just edited the original post and added this:

"Remember: The Risia Ice Games are available Thursdays through Sundays in February!"

[tihocan]

Hrm, that was poor communication. Not a big deal since they'll be back soon, but please let us know better when they are gone for good!

Edit: lol I found it in the email. So that email is full with * to start lists and emphasize some titles. And there is a line "* Risia Ice Games - Play to win items of power!*" where the last * actually refers to a footnote at the very bottom of the email, that says "* Risia Ice Games available every Thursday through Sunday in February". Hard to make it less obvious :p

[S0rdmasta]

Tarrant, I didn't recieve any such email. On the 5th all I got was an advertisement for the DDOstore. Ironically for items I can't actually use now.

I havent turned anything off.

And in anycase why on earth not have a post on here somewhere?
When it all happened the edit wasn't even on your announcement post yet.

What is the deal with the lack of information this game suffers from in general?
As a relatively new player, I've got to tell you, its not adding to the experiance.

Edit: Hahahahahahaha oh seriously, I just found the footnote. YOU CALL THAT AN ANNOUNCEMENT???? Way to suck! Between this, the twigs, the halfpipe and the useless glac recipies, this whole festival has just been turbine making fools of its customers. Great work.

[Coldin]

We sent out an email on February 5th saying the games were only available Thursday-Sunday for the month of February.



Yes, coins are gone. Until Thursday, the world is completely festival-less.

Bad form Tarrant/Turbine. Email is all fine and good, but I generally ignore the Turbine emails because most of the news is old hat from what I can see here in the forums. There should have been a post here on the forums or a message in the launcher.

Can't complain too much since you're saying they'll be back Thursday, but keep in mind that for fun things like this, more warning is better for an already cranky playerbase.


Edit: I'm curious why only every Thurs - Sunday anyway? Maybe if there was some other event that took place Monday - Wednesday it would make more sense. Or even if the altar and coin collector stayed up. Or why not even keep all the ice there, but turn off the coins? Would let people just have fun with the mechanics of sliding and jumping on the ice.

Just my 2 cp.

[CaptainKaos]

Since this is just 4 weekends and I frequently work weekends this prob isnt going to work for me.

I had hopes for this as way to upgrade my weapons before trying to get back into the higher levels (my mains are 16-17).

I just realized I wasted 6hours of farming elementals for almost nothing.

I was excited about this event - now im bummed.

[HotSauce]

Rofl...
Good game on the information fail.
Atleast put it somewhere people would see it...
Like oh idk the page when your loading it..
Honestly who checks emails anymore?! :p

But yeah... fail.

[DagazUlf]

EPIC COMMUNICATION FAIL!



Copy that, print it out, put it on a string, and please hand out to everyone around the Turbine office involved with the Games so that they can wear it around their necks.

[Gol]

We sent out an email on February 5th saying the games were only available Thursday-Sunday for the month of February.I think you sent it internally, b/c I didn't get it on any of my accounts and they're all set to receive emails.

[DrWorm0]

aww and we cant at least turn in the coins we do have? I mean many of us had no idea of this. had i known i would have turned some coins in

[FauxSho]

aww and we cant at least turn in the coins we do have? I mean many of us had no idea of this. had i known i would have turned some coins in

Not sure it would matter much if they also removed the Risian Altar. :rolleyes:

[dragonruler]

Hey guys they did inform us it was only Thurs. - Sun.




Remember: The Risia Ice Games are available Thursdays through Sundays in February!

so essentially that means they did inform us even if not all of us read that information. so it is not an epic communication fail.

[Angelus_dead]

Hey guys they did inform us it was only Thurs. - Sun.
You can't use a post which was edited today to show that information was provided in the past.


so essentially that means they did inform us even if not all of us read that information. so it is not an epic communication fail.
Even if hypothetically that info had been there all along and not slipped in just now, it would still have been a failure. The simple fact that so many forum-readers (who are the player demographic most knowledgeable about Turbine's announcements) didn't know this is proof enough.

[dragonruler]

You can't use a post which was edited today to show that information was provided in the past.


Even if hypothetically that info had been there all along and not slipped in just now, it would still have been a failure. The simple fact that so many forum-readers (who are the player demographic most knowledgeable about Turbine's announcements) didn't know this is proof enough.

yeaaa...i apparently overlooked the little print at the bottom of her thread saying it was edited. my b XD

[gemineye]

no email for me either...i did get the ddo store email on the 5th.. as a parent and business owner...I require an apology when someone screws up, including myself...it's part of the learning process. Excuses don't cut it.



edit: not sure why someone would give a negative for this post...meh, Mondays

[Missing_Minds]

We sent out an email on February 5th saying the games were only available Thursday-Sunday for the month of February.

I tend to read those things and I missed that one utterly.

BTW, forums are borked.

[UnderwearModel]

I ran a quest on casual and got coins, so I decided to go right back in on normal.

I received NO coins. I was beginning to wonder.

Now I know why.

[rimble]

laugh, I just fired up Jump, ran up the stairs behind the harbormaster's house and leapt over the edge...hahaha...awesome *** moment as I plummeted over the cliff.

Anyways, I've been wondering when the games would end. I saw no information regarding it anywhere, fortunately for me I crafted some Icy Burst stuff last night, so I just barely made it in. Woulda been annoyed (yet again) if it disappeared before I had done that.

[NXPlasmid]

We sent out an email on February 5th saying the games were only available Thursday-Sunday for the month of February.
Yes, coins are gone. Until Thursday, the world is completely festival-less.

Epic fail. Perhaps you (Turbine marketing and PR staff) need to figure out where people get game information. I never read the emails, my guess is most people don't. Also, it's just my opinion, but any information sent via email to subscribers should be dupicated in a forum announcement. How long have you guys been putting out MMOs?

[Dark_Helmet]

We sent out an email on February 5th saying the games were only available Thursday-Sunday for the month of February.

Yes, coins are gone. Until Thursday, the world is completely festival-less.

I didn't see an in-game mail sent out for the last update or for this notice.

I tend to believe a lot of people have it turned off or put in the spam filters for their RL E-Mail system.

Also, they don't read the forums at all (considering all of the questions in the chat channels), so you might want to consider using the in-game mail system for notifications and such.

[Crazyfruit]

Keeper's myddo update is about them fixing a few bugs with the places while they're unavailable... those teleports that can happen at the rink & half pipe


laugh, I just fired up Jump, ran up the stairs behind the harbormaster's house and leapt over the edge...hahaha...awesome *** moment as I plummeted over the cliff.

Lol, a couple friends did the same thing :)

[Dark_Helmet]

EPIC COMMUNICATION FAIL!

Copy that, print it out, put it on a string, and please hand out to everyone around the Turbine office involved with the Games so that they can wear it around their necks.

Hmm, considering they didn't have twigs and coal which are components for items people would be crafting, no notification in the game about the Risia games, what needed to be done and now the duration.

http://420.thrashbarg.net/epic_fail_on_rails_train_containers.jpg

[Cedwin]

Hmm, considering they didn't have twigs and coal which are components for items people would be crafting, no notification in the game about the Risia games, what needed to be done and now the duration.

Epic fail on the uncensored picture text? :rolleyes:

[Fourfingers]

Yeah, come on. Didn't everyone read their email including the fine print at the bottom?!? I admit this should have been a bit more prominent.

http://ddo.jeffsjeep.com/ddo/IceGames.jpg

[Harncw]

I got the email!
It said that some chick named suzie from lithunia was hot to trot for me.

[Delt]

For a second, I thought the games (and altar) were suddenly gone for good...man I would have been ****ed :eek:

On the plus side, when they come back this Thursday, we might actually see some coal and twigs...and maybe even an adjustment to the Glaciation recipes (no existing glaciation pre-req on items please).

[Rhysem]

We sent out an email on February 5th saying the games were only available Thursday-Sunday for the month of February.



Yes, coins are gone. Until Thursday, the world is completely festival-less.

Please strongly consider turning back on Festivult -- at least the Jester so that the stacks of copper coins floating around can be turned into twigs. There are no that many twigs available on the AH.

[Rhysem]

Epic fail. Perhaps you (Turbine marketing and PR staff) need to figure out where people get game information. I never read the emails, my guess is most people don't. Also, it's just my opinion, but any information sent via email to subscribers should be dupicated in a forum announcement. How long have you guys been putting out MMOs?

You mean the emails I elected not to receive?

[tihocan]

For those interested about receiving the emails, it was the newsletter one sent on Feb. 4th, "DDO Unlimited - Update 3 Now Live!".
If you receive the store emails, click the link at the bottom to modify preferences and you can check the box to receive the newsletter.
If you don't receive any email, I'm not sure where to go to get the newsletter, but it must be floating somewhere :)

[Cedwin]

If you don't receive any email, I'm not sure where to go to get the newsletter, but it must be floating somewhere :)

I don't think I can make it anymore obvious :p

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm34/stevoli/Capture-6.jpg

[Fourfingers]

I don't think I can make it anymore obvious :p

Make that 2065!

[knightgf]

I don't understand anyways. Why would Turbine make the Risia ice games run only during certain days of the week for this month? Thats just absolute gaming fail right there. I could understand somewhat if they needed to do emergency maintenance, but this...this...is totally epic fail from Turbine. They give no explanation whatsoever WHY the ice games run only during certain days of the week.

What's next, are they going to change next year's festivult so that only on Sundays festival coins drop and the festivult jester can collect them? Will they change it so that you can only do certain quests on certain days of the week(This isin't about raids)? Think about it. This alone could be a sign that Turbine is going to fail like dominoes being knocked over when it comes to future holiday events. Though it isn't an absolute sign, its there...like the death star shining upon us at night in the marketplace.

[Cedwin]

I don't understand anyways. Why would Turbine make the Risia ice games run only during certain days of the week for this month?

It's supposed to be a live event, just like the brothers in the market place. They only show up on specific weekends.

[Rhysem]

I don't think I can make it anymore obvious :p

Obvious but useless. They aren't using the boards system to send out their event notification mails.

To be specific: I have board admin mails on, but did not receive the email posted earlier in the thread (nor really do I want to, but I would like the board announcement of the event to have contained all the details, like when it was active, ends, etc.

[Hokiewa]

We sent out an email on February 5th saying the games were only available Thursday-Sunday for the month of February.



Yes, coins are gone. Until Thursday, the world is completely festival-less.

This part is true......if you read the tiny little text at the bottom. Pretty bad though.


The worst part, EDITING moderator posts to state things after they have passed. That's just lazy, and frankly embarassing. Perhaps a fix for the items that truely can't be created.....:rolleyes:

[Primalhowl]

Okay folks, lets think about this whole Thursday through Sunday ice games thing...

Fail? Yes.

EPIC Fail? I think you all need to get a grasp on the relative importance of things. Now, if an update was released that broke more things than it added, THEN we might have epic fail... uhh... oops? Nevermind...

:D

[Hokiewa]

Okay folks, lets think about this whole Thursday through Sunday ice games thing...

Fail? Yes.

EPIC Fail? I think you all need to get a grasp on the relative importance of things. Now, if an update was released that broke more things than it added, THEN we might have epic fail... uhh... oops? Nevermind...

:D

Lol, yeah I do get it that many far more important things with the update are much more pressing.

I do think it's very disingenious though that ICE SKATES are still being sold in the store. That's pretty scummy.......Several newly prem players currently complaining about it in-game

[Cedwin]

<snip />

[arrrcher]

Remember: The Risia Ice Games are available Thursdays through Sundays in February!

Is this new?

[cdr]

It would be interesting to know the real reason why they suddenly decided Risia games couldn't run all week. This was obviously not a preplanned decision, as evidenced by the sudden change and the lack of announcement.

Perhaps they were afraid that too many frost burst weapons were being made? They seemingly made the ice jumps for the purple harder too by tweaking the gravity.

[brian14]

I don't think I can make it anymore obvious :p

I had that box checked all along.

I did not received notification about Ice games.

[brian14]

Okay folks, lets think about this whole Thursday through Sunday ice games thing...

Fail? Yes.

EPIC Fail? I think you all need to get a grasp on the relative importance of things. Now, if an update was released that broke more things than it added, THEN we might have epic fail... uhh... oops? Nevermind...

:D
LOL.

Yes, I agree. In fact, I will be a bit more specific. This "whole Thursday through Sunday ice games thing" is by no means "Epic Fail", but too annoying to classify as "Casual Fail". Somewhere between "Normal Fail" and "Hard Fail", IMO :D

[Cedwin]

<snip />

[Cedwin]

Ok, disregard my post about the forum admin emails, I found it.

http://www.ddo.com/news/newsletter

It ties in with bluehornet.com, which is an email blast company.

I've never signed up with that, which is probably why I never receive newsletters.

[The_Phenx]

Hmmm how about having your power knocked out in a blizzard for 4 days and being unable to turn anything in after all the farming you did :mad:

[S0rdmasta]

Its not that people didn't recieve the email. Its that spotting the [fontsize 2] asterisxed disclaimer mixed in with the copywrite details at the bottom of it is not easy. People don't expect to have to read the fineprint at the bottom of the newsletter to get their information on the game.

This has either been the sneaky intent of Turbine, or a total failing of its PR dept.

The bottom line is, you can't please everyone all the time. But the very least any company can do is to keep channels of communication with its customers wide open. Not only will people then know whats going on, but they are able to set their expectations based on accurate information.

I was logged in when the festival dissapeared, and not one single player on Sarlona had any idea about why it had.
Those of us who went straight to the forum for answers still couldn't find anything because the cryptic "Don't forget" message hadn't even been edited into the announcement post by that stage.

Even if there is a good reason for quietly slipping in the Thurs to Sun condition, it still wouldn't explain why it ran till Tuesday in the firstplace. The only thing I can think of is that the developers completely failed to anticipate the enormous impact the games would have on the DDO ecconomy, and the lag that would be caused by trying to use a MMORPG engine as a skating game, which it is not.

[Jefro]

Are they coming back?

[Grimgore]

Ummm so yeah, it's Thursday and there is no ice. So the Thursday through Sunday but keep it until Tuesday but then not put it back on Thursday like the super secret email said it would is a lie or am I just part of the Vast and Mysterious team of people tired of the bait and switch ******** that I am paying someone to feed me? ;)

[brian14]

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[barmage]

I think there fun, yes new quests stills need fixing, I would just like to know how to skate up that little ramp, and I have skates. I have 26 dex and skate beautifully.

[jervonics2112]

Your point? I'm not just asking for the bugs to be fixed which I admit they have done in some cases but haven't in others. They can change our hair color and styles (which to my knowledge was never asked for) but they can't do that with our armors? If they want to add pretty stuff give us guild/player housing. Don't presume that I'm just asking for the code to be fixed. I'll take fluff but make sure it is the stuff that the players have been asking/begging for not something like this. To me, and it is just my opinion, this is wasted resources and time that could have been better spent doing something else.

Kind of liking complaining on the forums huh?

[brian14]

Yesterday I killed a bunch of mephits and fire elementals in Searing Heights and Taming the Flames, and not a single coin.

[OldRogue1]

Will the altar be available for any period of time after the ice games are over? I am out of town until next week but have some coins and recipes to turn in... :(

[IronClan]

x2 this ^^^ question. thursday... no ice jump yet...

[renokp]

404

[Gazzlam]

Why is the Winter Games being held at the end of summer/start of autumn(fall for the Americans out there)....

Don't get me wrong, I recently moved to Australia, so It's pretty much winter here... so, no complaints....

But Turbine Inc. is based in the U.S.A isn't it? And over 50% of players are in the Northern hemisphere.

End result: Having fun as usual, but confused - and spending way too much time killing Mephits, and prancing about on some slanted ice.

[katz]

wow. necro much? :eek:

anyways... some Americans like to enjoy something we call "Christmas in July". i think this ice games is playing on that.

and this is the second time they've had the ice games in summer

[shimagun]

Why is the Winter Games being held at the end of summer/start of autumn(fall for the Americans out there)....

Don't get me wrong, I recently moved to Australia, so It's pretty much winter here... so, no complaints....

But Turbine Inc. is based in the U.S.A isn't it? And over 50% of players are in the Northern hemisphere.

End result: Having fun as usual, but confused - and spending way too much time killing Mephits, and prancing about on some slanted ice.

The reasoning is: THIS IS A GAME.

[Ugumagre]

Great necro. I started reading the OP, nothing suspicious. Then...people start talking about "give us half-orcs" ...very confusing...

[katz]

Great necro. I started reading the OP, nothing suspicious. Then...people start talking about "give us half-orcs" ...very confusing...


you too, huh? i was about to quote the guy who was like "i'd rather you code useful fixes than this fluff" and respond "what? they just had to flip a switch" but then i looked at the date and was like O.o