[Feedback] Change Log - 25/11/2014

[SmurfAsH]

What have happened to explorer/scout's (Adventure) bonus quest?
They seems lost since this change.

[Gerontius]

See, now this is why detailed changelogs and dev diaries are important:

Changelog says nothing about it, but dev diary associated with changelog says:
"Adventure Types and Icons
Adventure types were adjusted and a feedback with concrete icons and colours
for type and difficulty was added for each adventure."

But it fails entirely to say what adjustments have been made where or what the icons actually mean.

Nobody even noticed the changes UNTIL, the Xmas event started asking people to complete experience adventures, when people started doing Dark Priests and Stealing From the Rich because the TEXT DESCRIPTION for the adventure says they are experience adventures. BUT THEY'RE NOT. They are the adventures that have been adjusted and the only way you can tell is from the icon which hasn't been officially explained to anyone.

This total failure in communication from 2-3 weeks ago is now causing endless problems during the event.

Suitable responses to this failure include but are certainly not limited to:

How do you justify your salaries?

Rubbish rubbish rubbish!

Must try MUCH harder

It's not good enough

Fix this SIMPLE TEXT BUG IN THE NEXT MAINTENANCE!

[Iolanthe]

See, now this is why detailed changelogs and dev diaries are important

Absolutely spot on. Though this, if the changes are intentional, is likely one for a changelog, rather than the cited Diary.

Nobody even noticed the changes UNTIL, the Xmas event started asking people to complete experience adventures, when people started doing Dark Priests and Stealing From the Rich because the TEXT DESCRIPTION for the adventure says they are experience adventures. BUT THEY'RE NOT. They are the adventures that have been adjusted and the only way you can tell is from the icon which hasn't been officially explained to anyone.

I'm pretty well certain the changes to the "type" assigned to Dark Priest, Stealing From the Rich, Traitors, and Nords 2 came in in a more recent maintenance than the big update on 25/11. When the rosettes were changed to icons on 25th I took a look through, and even if I'd missed them so many people were looking so closely at the new loot it seems very unlikely the change would have gone unnoticed for quite so long. Also, the Test server is still showing the old icons and they had many updates leading up to the 25, and one on the 26th.


DP, SFtR and Traitors also visible in the shot, with their old stars.

Clearly this does not mean, if the change is intended, that communcation was effective, it wasn't and intended or no it has certainly caused a great deal of confusion coming at a time when the "type" matters more than usual.

FishSmell makes an interesting point for at least two of them being on purpose:

I've noticed that resource adventures have 2 granite slots in the loot. SFTR now has 2 granite slots, and Traitors too, so the loot matches the icon.

The loot change on Nords 2 makes much more sense for a Follow-up than for a 1495 gem Adv, but is it really a Follow-up, and if it is meant to be tagged that way - Does it drop from Nords?

Removing all four from "Experience" leaves a fairly short list of largely more difficult Advs for people to choose from for the many "Complete one (or more) Experience Adv" quests, it would be nice to know for certain if this is by design.