Tool-assisted Pantheon Mod Farming

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game is crashing a lot since yesterday happened during trading, going to other people hideout and clicked to build a tower in a blight and crashed

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This means they'd have to waste a lot of time hunting for false positives.

FALSE POSITIVES OPERATE IDENTICALLY TO FALSE HOPES!

SAY IT LOUDER FOR THOSE IN THE BACK!
(P.S. actual constructive feedback after the page break)
(EDIT: TL;DR there is a phrase you may be aware of called "managing expectations" well 3.19 is an example in managing consumer expectations into the ground.)

Replace the "malicious cheats" this quote references with "player expectations" & it doesn't matter, your player retention numbers will continue to decline as you shoot yourself in the foot.
At this time a player's expectations are more detrimental to your product then all other exterior forces, this circumstance created directly by your management or lack-thereof.

The systemic control by executives over the intellectual property has deprived a large portion of the player base their enjoyment, your philosophy consistently used as a strawman to justify these & other failings.

We expected better.
YOU. DID. NOT. DELIVER.
WE WASTED A LOT OF TIME HUNTING FOR THE POSITIVE PoE EXPERIENCE, & WERE DISAPPOINTED.

Third parties be damned, the consumers are the ones calling it quits saying the game is dead & YOU killed it.
Keep chasing ghosts, get distracted by squirrels, go after whatever villain you manufacture, blame falsehoods, & pass the buck.

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So some actual constructive feedback here:

{PROBLEM #1} You flip-flopped on the ailment mitigation accessibility opinion on account of the harvest rework, ain't nobody got time for vaal/locus spam on jewels in 2022. (cept me on STD)

SOLUTION #1 Bring back harvest crafted Implicit jewel crafts ASAP & add them to the vivid pool of crafts.


{PROBLEM #2} "The Sephirot" appears to still be drop restricted to the map bosses of Villa & Palace, it has no "Supporter attribution" on the (new) wiki but could be anon, yet has now taken a more important role in the game, exacerbating matters is one map is out of rotation.
Recent changes to map boss loot indicates a bias towards dropping unique items previously league restricted or various items as issued by eater/searing altars & atlas passive tree.
The overall design has no focus on such specifically attributed loot & as such made no attempt to integrate it further into the loot table elsewhere, or for arbitrary reasons came to the same end result.

SOLUTION #2 Add "The Sephirot" to the drop pool of t10+ map bosses + increase their prevalence or incidence from preexisting source(s).
Change 2 atlas passive points "Enriched Entities" & "Replicated Results" with the following changes:
Remove the 2nd line of EE and ADD it to RR ("map bosses have 20% chance to be duplicated if possible")
ADD to EE this line or something to this effect: "Double base chance for map bosses to drop Currency related Divination Cards"


{PROBLEM #3} I heard rumors about big talk & opinions regarding "fewer clicks", however the harvest craft ["Sacrifice up to a full stack of div cards for that many random div cards"] was well positioned to supersede the craft ["Change a div card into another random div card"] in an ideal fashion.

SOLUTION #3 Replace the lesser craft with the more efficient craft giving great value to the div card "Imperial Legacy" & more opportunities to obtain "The Sephirot" that feel meaningful in the small details.


BUT OF COURSE {PROBLEM #3} brings us to {PROBLEM #4} You will say you can't on account of technical limitations to, I presume to say, the Harvest interactive UI in hideout & the way in which it dispenses loot, that is bullshit.

SOLUTION #4 Have harvest crafts that are tricky to implement such as #3 spawn a relevant remove only stash tab (in this case divination card stash tab) where it dumps your loot from the associated crafts returns, you may call this "Harvest Affinity" stash tab functionality.


(EDIT2){PROBLEM #5} You sought a value equilibrium between Exalted Orbs and Divine Orbs, implemented sweeping change, & the market ignored you completely & did its own thing, flipping the table entirely.
BUT WAIT A GOD DAMNED MINUTE wasn't this game ages ago marketed to gamers as having a primarily player controlled in-game economy ANYWAY?
That's the problem, this was expected & you didn't see it coming.

SOLUTION #5 Third party review time MUST BE PRIORITIZED for testing purposes so that experienced speculators can provide accurate extrapolation of evolving market trends.


{PROBLEM #6} You feel the need to try & hype up the PoE brand with competitions & prizes, & expand upon progression rewards for Softcore league, whilst rigging the field of play based on your own misconceived expectations of us, this knowing full well whos probable to win top prizes.
This narrative of competition has confused a great many, with this thread having numerous posts stating that this game either is or is not a competition or race of some sort.
This isn't your fault, the Esports industry has shitty regulatory practices leaving all particulars up to a Developer/Publisher legal team to spit out some ToS defining fair play, whos eligible, etc.

SOLUTION #6 FULL STOP, get some help, stop trying to hype up a niche genre to be more then it is, people buy MTX cosmetics? great. People complain there isn't enough free/reward cosmetics/goals? Just remind them nothing in life is truly free & no reward comes without a (great) cost, or that they weren't winning anyway.


I may at a later date, or if a kind soul would care to, make a thread dedicated to listing this & whatever else I can come up with for fixing your various rolling catastrophes that sound reasonable to all parties, & aren't persistent calls to revert.
Because I know a developer/publisher of anything that reverts something doesn't exist, or doesn't exist long after.

Problem: People like our game, want skills changes for melee, complain about AN since its release.
Solution: nerf drops, boost AN damage and res, make goblin sysyem from diablo but poor

Honestly, people using this tool isnt even the problem

Funny, I didn't even know or care about this, but me and my mates can't make it past T10 maps cause literally nothing is dropping, and every other monster on the map is an Archenemies god monster who hits harder than most bosses.

Real improvement Chris, great work.

honestly i am looking forward too some people getting the hammer from exploiting something that was meant to be a positive thing for everyone else

So... players were using a tool that:

1. Didn't affect Gameplay

2. Didn't affect other players

3. Was helpful in determining if maps were worth running for chances at loot that YOU GUYS refuse to fix yourself?

And you're... happy about that? You say yourself that even having the ability to do this was risk vs reward heavy on its own which, in my opinion, kinda negates the idea of having to remove it at all. But you call it "Nefarious"? Really? I sincerely hope your smarter devs start looking for new jobs. You're not going to receive any financial backing in the future if you're going to keep doing things this ridiculous.

99% of the problems it's just we creating them, like this one.

Again, instead of.....sextupling? (can't even keep track at this point) down on archnem, for the love of god just scrap it and solve all these problems. There's a sliver of a chance still to save this league and bring a large portion of the player base that has bailed on it back. We get that that you've spent alot of development $ on it, but why can't you see your just throwing good money after bad at this point, how low do your retention rates have to actually get before you give in with this nonsense?

So I just checked and my character has a playtime of over 4 days and 7 hours.
I haven't gotten a single divine orb during this whole time.

The audacity to call our own experience with the loot reduction a "misconception" is just proof of how out of touch they are with their own game.