Buffalos

Leinei wrote: »

I think they used to be used for Golem Stones for Alchemy.

If the item is called "Special Cuilin Chunk" I can confirm that they were not used in the old Crystallization system. Only ones ever used were low-grade, common, fine, and finest stones.

Hardmuscle wrote: »

Sigh. The higher the resolution, the larger the file size. (Gee. I wonder why they use small files on load. -- /facepalm).

While I understand wanting to reduce loading times, all of the other log in screens have been of a substantially higher resolution than these ones and didn't really seem to alter loading times that much.

Hardmuscle wrote: »

What happens in Korea (in terms of loot box bans) has no affect on the USA. -0- (This is not Korea).

If Nexon K goes with nuclear route A of 'NO MORE GACHA' I'd imagine there'd be some sort of change here eventually from the playerbase demanding equal changes here. Unlikely, but that's a (bad) option for Nexon K.
Or if Nexon K goes down nuclear route B of 'eh I won't change anything', they probably won't be able to stay afloat forever should the FTC continue to pursue them. Another (horrid) choice.
Realistically they'll just alter a few rates to "look more fair" and the FTC will call it good enough, and this entire thing'll be forgotten in a few months, or at least until the next EA-scale loot box incident rocks the entire industry into looking at itself again.

Finity wrote: »

Maybe Nexon can sort out players who have 100~200 accounts logged in with single IP and most of them are named eventalt001~200....
Idk. Just suggesting.

A post on page one kinda hit this well on the head:

Hardmuscle wrote: »

While I can't say it doesn't bother me to see "Player001", "Player002", "Player003", "Player004", "Player005", and "Player006" all doing something together; I do understand it's not all being done on a single machine. ~ Unless you want Nexon to limit us to one connection per household; this will never change.
Amassing alts for events isn't new either. It's been happening since the game was first released, and they have taken steps to curb it, but those steps almost always lead to other problems (innocent people being banned for suspicion of things they were not guilty of). Too many holes.

Everyone here wants a perfect solution that'll affect only the bad people, and that simply won't happen.
They can go thru and ban every account with a "suspicious name", and in the process ban probably hundreds of accounts who just named their free race card characters face rolled characters because they knew they wouldn't play them.
They could watch for multiple clients logging in enmass from single IPs, but then they'll hit family homes with casual players and entirely miss the abusers who are smart enough to change their IPs and run on VPNs.
They can make account creation a lot more strict and require secondary verification, but then you'll have a slew of people rioting on forums for that being unreasonable.

If you seriously want this to stop, you have to remove every single incentive for people to abuse the events with multiple accounts. This could be done with untradable items, but then people would never stop crying on forums. This could be done by making the events have no good rewards, but then people would never stop crying on forums. Or this could be done by making the events actually fair, but that'd require real effort on devCAT's part and let's face it that's not happening.

Also:

Finity wrote: »

Would 200~300m get them a new computer? No.

You'd be surprised by just how wrong that statement is. No matter what server you're on.

WolfandWolf wrote: »

I wasn't saying that they don't have cell phones, but are there legal ramifications for a company officially collecting foreign cell phone numbers?

I'm not versed in law, so I wouldn't know. I'm pretty sure that other companies have done it in the past, so I don't -think- there's anything preventing it other than safe storage and no misuse of the data?