Did they(turbine) give a reason for renown?

[magnus1]

just was curious as what the cause was for disabling renown? where we earning to fast? and if we were was that gonna cause problems with groups getting to the ships fast? are the ships not ready for use yet? when will the guild renown be turned back on? seemed to be the most enjoyable part for me of the new update.. just some questions i would like the facts on. thank you for responses.

[Tinrae]

I was wondering this too. The only difference I saw from Lam to live was that there was no 'small guild' bonus being applied to renown. Not sure otherwise.

[Hendrik]

If exploit was/is involved, they won't talk about it.

[jhorn02]

If exploit was/is involved, they won't talk about it.

If I were a betting man, that's where I would put my money. Another reason why Turbine should make it easier and more attractive for more people to get on Lammania...too many exploits/bugs are discovered after new content goes live.

[Ode1st]

I think I read in a Lam post somewhere that they got rid of small guild bonuses intentionally.

[Emili]

I took notice that the Khyber server crashes seemed to be at periods when guildies claimed to find large numbers of reknown. Shall I speculate? Most likely the server issues were due to reknown bringing it to it's knees.

[MrkGrismer]

I think I read in a Lam post somewhere that they got rid of small guild bonuses intentionally.

That was temporary because it was not being properly applied to just small guilds, but rather everybody was getting the full small guild bonus regardless of the guild size (basically doubling renown). The devs said that it was not supposed to be permanently removed, and would be turned back on once the bug was squashed.

[Rumbaar]

I blame LAG.

The calculations 0.15 secs after a death to check for renown is the new lag monster on the servers.

They'll make it so renown isn't gained in raids, to reduce lag!

[Cyr]

If exploit was/is involved, they won't talk about it.

Which is a backwards and stupid policy. If the ability to use the exploit is gone (since the system is shut down atm) and they are not restoring it again until the exploit is fixed telling the players clearly and honestly what went wrong will help relieve some of the annoyance of just having something randomly shut down.

[miark]

I don't realy care why it was turned off what I want answered is WHEN it will be turned back on

[Belvino]

Wierd I posted First reply on this thread and it now its gone. The Rumer i heard that few guild found some chest that are easy to get to that was dropping 500 renown a lot.
Now i'm believeing that may be the case cause when i orignally posted this and it auto subcribed and now the post been deleted.

[Missing_Minds]

Renown On? servers dying.
Renown Off? Servers live.

Maybe I'm wrong, but that is the correlation I'm seeing.

[Frelorn]

Renown On? servers dying.
Renown Off? Servers live.

Maybe I'm wrong, but that is the correlation I'm seeing.

Pretty close

[Zenako]

Renown On? servers dying.
Renown Off? Servers live.

Maybe I'm wrong, but that is the correlation I'm seeing.

Just think DA gone wild...

With renown dropping from kills, the more mobs you can kill in a short time frame the more renown you can snag.

I would expect to either see renown more or less stop dropping from kills, or to see a handful of quests recieve a certain tender loving care with a nerf bat to kill those spawns...

[AyumiAmakusa]

The answer is simple.

9.47 PM Tolero announces that the Black Abbot raid is temporarily unavailable.
10.38 PM Tolero announes that guild renown has been switched off.

Ring any bells? You add the two together and you can see that people were farming renown in the Abbot raid. Probably using some exploit. Then Turbine realises that renown was getting easier to obtain through other means. So they just switched it off altogether.

P.S. These are my wild delusions only and are not to be taken seriously.

[samthedagger]

I heard on the rumor mill that it was because someone got an airship in 10 minutes.

But then I also heard on the rumor mill that Tolero is a midget.

Strange things come up on the General Chat sometimes.

[mons]

Renown On? servers dying.
Renown Off? Servers live.

Maybe I'm wrong, but that is the correlation I'm seeing.

Pretty close

Moral of the neverendingissue....Update the servers!

[Harkle]

Pretty close

come on mate.. is that the most you can give us..

how about an eta, i lead a small guild of family and friends here in Aus.
We waited until 3am for servers to go live after update just to start our renown grind.
we managed to build a small total of only 1.5k rep b4 the service died,
its now 1am the following day and we have finally lost hope.

We intended to make use of the 20% xp bonus to mass grind levels for alts made just for this new renown feature.

A little information will go along way

[Frelorn]

Moral of the neverendingissue....Update the servers!

Since I don't wander over here as often as I should... What is the current theory as to what runs the servers here? In AC we have hamsters, Lotro it is the chinchillas(or populs if you play on BW). So what is it here, just for future reference?

[Harkle]

The answer is simple.

9.47 PM Tolero announces that the Black Abbot raid is temporarily unavailable.
10.38 PM Tolero announes that guild renown has been switched off.

Ring any bells? You add the two together and you can see that people were farming renown in the Abbot raid. Probably using some exploit. Then Turbine realises that renown was getting easier to obtain through other means. So they just switched it off altogether.

P.S. These are my wild delusions only and are not to be taken seriously.

I hear on the grape vine some guilds were exploiting the Abbot as he was able to be disrupted