Oh, it's the raid they closed.

Maybe it's part of their charming offensive? Make it unavailable, so people are more eager to play in?

We expect players will enjoy randomly closed raids.

Or maybe they realized that a escort raid just may be their worst fucking idea ever.......nah they arent that smart

lol

http://forums.ddo.com/showpost.php?p=4541717&postcount=24

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rest wrote on Jun 25^th, 2012 at 11:54am:

This will not get old.

Looks like I picked as good a time as any to take a break from DDO

sweez wrote on Jun 25^th, 2012 at 12:58pm:


noob.

Epoch wrote on Jun 25^th, 2012 at 1:11pm:


Hell, I suck at anything more complex than 'roids at the moment, and I can admit that. Gives you something to work on beyond bludgeon it with numbers.

To "make it more fun?"

Note that he offered not one single fucking clue as to what that actually means.

I'm pleased as punch that they closed the raid.

1) I forgot to take my computer with me this week, so I only have a keyboard, speakers, monitor and mouse with nothing to plug them into until I go back and pick it up later today.

2) They've listened to our feedback and they're trying to make it better.  I don't know whether their efforts will succeed, but they are actually trying to make it better.  They actually put aside the rush to release and they delayed something for the expansion pack in order to give it the time it deserves.  We've been bitching at them for not taking the time needed and for rushing updates out the door whether they're ready or not.  This time, they're actually giving something more time.  That's a good thing.

for turbine

rest wrote on Jun 25^th, 2012 at 2:21pm:


The biggest issue with an escort mission isn't the mission itself; it's Turbine blind ignorance that their NPC/Pet IA is complete shit.  I'm leveling an Arti for the first time and my dog is so fucking stupid it hurts.  He has the box breaking enhancement because I figured the least he could do is get me ransack.  The dumb fucker will stand there and stare at a box doing nothing.  He freezes up and locks up constantly just looking a wall.  He'll just chill in the middle of a trap.  Their hireling AI is atrocious.  Just look at the simple AI required for Kobold challenges.  Pick up purple before green.  They can't even fucking get that right.  Nevermind things like pathing in lava caves...there's a teleporter five torches back, nope I'm going to run up this ramp through 3 levels of uncleared MOBs going 5x this distance because my fucked up AI thinks it's shorter most likelly because some asshole at Turbine forgot to exclude the Z index.

Yeah, now let's build a raid around that level of intelligent AI coding.  I swear to god I saw better AI in user written bots playing CounterStrike in the 90's.