@Durami said in PSA: Rocket Start "Join an Alliance" campaign rewards not completely distributed?:

Is it too late to submit a support ticket?

I don't see why it would be.

While discussing this one on the Discord, it emerged that JP suffer fewer delayed-distribution rewards than Global. For instance the Sonic Collaboration Spend AC campaign; on JP players receive the items immediately, whereas Global players are asked to wait until mid-November to get the same items.

That's its own issue and Global really needs to be on par with JP when it comes to these rewards; if anything this campaign on JP is more complicated because AC spent in the mobile game PSO2es also counts and Global doesn't have that.

But I'm mentioning it here to confirm the Rocket Start Join an Alliance campaign distribution on Global isn't an issue caused by this difference; on both JP and Global the rewards for this campaign were set to be distributed in "early August", which ultimately meant the 4th of August (six weeks ago).

Weekly bump, still nothing received in today's maintenance.

I've once again followed up support issue 93503.

This matter gains new significance as of today's maintenance, as the Sonic Collaboration's Join an Alliance campaign becomes active today and once again has a requirement to be in an alliance with enough members by the end of the campaign. If it emerges there is an error with detecting qualifying alliances, then this will be the third or fourth NGS-era Join an Alliance campaign to have distribution issues several weeks after the campaign has ended.

Not really getting involved with the general subject, but...

@Riesz said in My Thoughts on the Recent Bans and the Tweet About Toxic Behaiviour:

There's Steam which is the ~4k we know, then there's the Microsoft Store which if that was also 4k would be 8k players, then if there's 4k X-Box players, that would be 12k players, then if the Epic Game Store also had 4k players, it would then be a total of 16k players. 1600 players would be 10% of the playerbase then

That's still assuming that the peak daily player count happens at a time when every single person who plays New Genesis at all is online at the same time.

Obviously this is not the case, and given the volume of people saying they just log in for 20 minutes to knock out their dailies before moving on to games with content, it's probably far from the case.

Realistically you need to take the average (not peak) daily concurrent player count (which lately has been about 3k) and adjust it for (a) the number of users on other platforms (the last estimate we got was that Steam was 70% of the total on Global, so add about 43%) and (b) the average playtime of all unique daily players (which is pure guesswork, but multiply the average concurrent number by 24 divided by the number of hours you think it is). That'll get you an estimate for the total unique daily players which is probably a bit higher than 16k.

Which still won't be everyone because some players play every week but not every day. But it's way more useful than a rash assumption about peak daily concurrent numbers.

@Sakesubaki said in Where's the NGS story content?:

The problem lies in the fact that we were given so much at once in base PSO2, I think that most of us got used to that fact.

This has nothing to do with Global's increased pace.

In JP PSO2 released on 4 July 2012, and the Dark Falz Elder UQ signifying the end of the main part of Episode 1 released on 12 December 2012 (a week after the release of a UQ that was just the Falz Arms part). In the later restructure of story quests to the story quest counter - which removed a large number of cutscenes and quest variants - the Elder fight was Chapter 8 of Episode 1, and PSO2 JP got that after 5 months.

After 6 months, NGS is going to get Chapter 2 of its Episode 1.

Let's not misuse the Global condensation of the (post-reduction) PSO2 story to hide the fact that New Genesis is the slowest content release plan any online-era Phantasy Star game in any region (including the infamously behind-the-pace global release of Universe) has ever seen.

Edit: One of these days I'll learn to read a topic through before posting a reply.

@Drakaina said in PSA: Rocket Start "Join an Alliance" campaign rewards not completely distributed?:

I don't remember if I got mine what were the rewards again so I can check

An N-Enhancement Success Rate +10% and an SG 50 Ticket; no unique cosmetics which would be the easiest way to check. You can still check if you're on PC as it'll be in log_ngs/ActionLog[date]_00.txt for the date you picked it up which is probably 20210804 if you picked them up on the day they were distributed and should be accompanied by an N-Augmentation Success Rate +5% and a second SG 50 Ticket if you claimed them at the same time as the concurrent Friend Request Campaign, along with Saturn Earrings and STP: Sarisa - Hello for other Rocket Start campaigns distributed at the same time.

To me this is a much more workable solution than the other common proposal (but that's not difficult as enforcing a maximum price that's below market value is a total non-solution).

More than that I think this is the best solution that I've thought of or been made aware of. Yes someone who's bought 3+ of the same ticket as an investment might be out a considerable amount of meseta but (a) they bought them as an investment in the first place and investments can collapse in value, and (b) had this system been in place since NGS launch as it should have been, they wouldn't have been able to do that so this situation is just as much the fault of delayed implementation and intentional exploitation as it is the system itself doing what it's meant to. Post-implementation this wouldn't be a problem.

And I say this as someone with a couple spare Start Dash Rappy stamps and Crawl Swim motions, having picked up some insane undercuts (my justification is someone's going to snatch those to resell, so me being that person isn't going to increase reselling that's going to happen anyway¹) and not having had the slots to sell them yet I'd lose out from the change too - but I'd be cool with that for the good of the economy.

Buying "mistakes" rarely happen, and they can be further protected by not letting someone buy an emote, motion or stamp ticket from a player shop if they've already registered it, or a layered wear or accessory ticket if they've already registered two. This would be quite effective protection because they're extremely unlikely to be sitting on an unsellable ticket - if they got an unsellable ticket previously it's because they bought it from the player shop because they wanted to use it and would have used it right after buying it. And if they have a sellable ticket (that they got from an AC scratch), they can just use the one they just bought and still sell the sellable one, no harm done.

Lastly I don't see how this would make AC scratchers hold onto their items any more than they might already do. Anyone who scratches with any regularity - and even anyone who plays for any length of time and only scratches exceptionally - knows that AC scratch items increase over time, so anyone doing the scratches is going to sit on them for a while if they have the capacity to anyway. It follows that most of the AC items being sold immediately is either due to having to due to storage space (which means they would sell fast anyway) or having so much meseta or ability to whale future AC scratches that they don't need to wait anyway.

¹ Oh and by the way, if you read that and thought "But what if you stopped someone buying it who would have used it for themselves?" then congratulations, you support this topic's idea.

Agreed too.

@NIC said in Legitimate threads outright deleted?:

Here I was thinking we could get a ZENCHI train going, and now we can't.

Can we please not...? I honestly don't know how this would be constructive or entertaining.

So... it's getting options and Send to Area won't be the default but will exist? Awesome. Nothing to complain about here.

@JudgementCut said in More communication function changes coming. SA and chat.:

Wait so first they ban everyone, then they implement a patch to their own [snip] up???

Showing your hand there, guy. I thought you believed those punishments were in error and didn't need the punished users to say anything, but now you're saying they are to do with offensive chat and symbol art? Which is it?

Also it's not Sega's [snip] up when a player says something offensive. That's on them.

Weekly bump, still no distribution for those who met the requirements of this one but never received the rewards.

I've already responded to the support ticket I've got open for it. I'm gettin' efficient with this one.