NCWest Staff,
I have three "suggestions".
Suggestion 1:
GameGuard is primarily an anti-keylogger as far as I can tell. It was designed to prevent someone from recording the keystrokes typed into the Lineage II client. We know it sure as hell doesn't prevent cheating, so we can't use that argument.
However, with the recent client change it has just become pointless. The web-based launcher does not load GameGuard until after the client is open; so you are now typing your username and password into an unprotected application.
Remove GameGuard, and have the people who developed it hauled up in front of a UN tribunal for high treason against every person who has ever suffered through its presence on a computer system and received a GameGuard error because they dared to have ASUS Strix/Razer Synapse/Logitech Gaming Software open at the same time. If we were on a space station, they would be hurled out of an airlock. Since we are not, I suggest dropping them into the Mariana Trench with cement blocks attached to their feet.
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Suggestion 2:
Remove the chat filter. Just remove it. Get rid of it. And/or place a button in the options for 'enable mature language filter' like every other current generation MMO features.
I'm aware that you like clean chat within the Lineage II gaming environment, but the current chat filter is the worst idea in a long sad history of bad ideas. That said, if you were planning on renaming your company to the Democratic Peoples Republic of NCWest, then you are on the right track and I apologise for the confusion.
Here are some of the examples of chat in modern day Lineage II;
- There is no ***
That's right; spoon is censored. This brilliant decision to filter out a certain four-letter expression is not only childish, but wasn't even properly done. If your best filter is using a terrible form of pattern matching without limiting it to standalone words, it is doomed to fail more frequently than the Flat Earth Society.
- What about a chocolate chip ****in?
Muffin is censored. I assume this is not on the list of approved food sanctioned by the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. While we don't have access to John Rambo, I can assure you that every player in the existence of Lineage II who intends to use foul language in game is going to work around this with minimal effort, and the only players who suffer an inconvenience are those who are trying to convey legitimate information to each other, such as how to prepare a proper breakfast in preparation of the hours of grinding required to advance anywhere in this game.
There are a large number more examples, but this should provide an adequate demonstration of the stupidity involved in the current chat filter.
- Let's talk in Vent/TS/Mumble, the address is ***.***.***
Alright, this one makes sense. However, it doesn't stop the farmers one bit. Do you know what it does do? Prevent players from listing clan sites, voice chat addresses, etc. All you have done is give the farmer/spammers unprecedented power; now they can use a certain string of text, it is added to the word filter, and legitimate players lose access to that statement.
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Suggestion 3:
Either make the e-mail verification system optional, or put it on a server that is capable of sending out the volume of mails required for what it currently does. It takes <1 minute for e-mails to arrive from Steam/Blizzard/etc, but the NC verification code sometimes arrives after it has already expired.
Staring at your screen in the exact same way a decapitated Hyena doesn't while waiting for an e-mail to arrive every time my ISP cycles my IP address is not my idea of a good time.
- Seda
I have three "suggestions".
Suggestion 1:
GameGuard is primarily an anti-keylogger as far as I can tell. It was designed to prevent someone from recording the keystrokes typed into the Lineage II client. We know it sure as hell doesn't prevent cheating, so we can't use that argument.
However, with the recent client change it has just become pointless. The web-based launcher does not load GameGuard until after the client is open; so you are now typing your username and password into an unprotected application.
Remove GameGuard, and have the people who developed it hauled up in front of a UN tribunal for high treason against every person who has ever suffered through its presence on a computer system and received a GameGuard error because they dared to have ASUS Strix/Razer Synapse/Logitech Gaming Software open at the same time. If we were on a space station, they would be hurled out of an airlock. Since we are not, I suggest dropping them into the Mariana Trench with cement blocks attached to their feet.
***
Suggestion 2:
Remove the chat filter. Just remove it. Get rid of it. And/or place a button in the options for 'enable mature language filter' like every other current generation MMO features.
I'm aware that you like clean chat within the Lineage II gaming environment, but the current chat filter is the worst idea in a long sad history of bad ideas. That said, if you were planning on renaming your company to the Democratic Peoples Republic of NCWest, then you are on the right track and I apologise for the confusion.
Here are some of the examples of chat in modern day Lineage II;
- There is no ***
That's right; spoon is censored. This brilliant decision to filter out a certain four-letter expression is not only childish, but wasn't even properly done. If your best filter is using a terrible form of pattern matching without limiting it to standalone words, it is doomed to fail more frequently than the Flat Earth Society.
- What about a chocolate chip ****in?
Muffin is censored. I assume this is not on the list of approved food sanctioned by the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. While we don't have access to John Rambo, I can assure you that every player in the existence of Lineage II who intends to use foul language in game is going to work around this with minimal effort, and the only players who suffer an inconvenience are those who are trying to convey legitimate information to each other, such as how to prepare a proper breakfast in preparation of the hours of grinding required to advance anywhere in this game.
There are a large number more examples, but this should provide an adequate demonstration of the stupidity involved in the current chat filter.
- Let's talk in Vent/TS/Mumble, the address is ***.***.***
Alright, this one makes sense. However, it doesn't stop the farmers one bit. Do you know what it does do? Prevent players from listing clan sites, voice chat addresses, etc. All you have done is give the farmer/spammers unprecedented power; now they can use a certain string of text, it is added to the word filter, and legitimate players lose access to that statement.
***
Suggestion 3:
Either make the e-mail verification system optional, or put it on a server that is capable of sending out the volume of mails required for what it currently does. It takes <1 minute for e-mails to arrive from Steam/Blizzard/etc, but the NC verification code sometimes arrives after it has already expired.
Staring at your screen in the exact same way a decapitated Hyena doesn't while waiting for an e-mail to arrive every time my ISP cycles my IP address is not my idea of a good time.
- Seda
GameGuard/Chat Filter/E-Mail Verif
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