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Do you favor a wipe of quest information?

Yes.
125 (81.7%)
No.
28 (18.3%)

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Re: Quest wipe.
« Reply #60 on: February 16, 2008, 01:39:55 pm »
If people would not run around and collect quest in bunches, instead of completing them as they get them - one for one, then they would not be stuck with broken quests. I have completed all quests! The ones that I couldn't (two in fact) had a glitch.

I voted for NO wipe!

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Re: Quest wipe.
« Reply #61 on: February 16, 2008, 02:35:24 pm »
If people would not run around and collect quest in bunches, instead of completing them as they get them - one for one, then they would not be stuck with broken quests. I have completed all quests! The ones that I couldn't (two in fact) had a glitch.

First of all, this is nonsense because it is clearly stated that there were bugs in some quests.

Second, some people might have done a mistake in one quest and can't repeat it, some even in important quests which give access the the Whinch.

Third, some might find it interesting to redo quests they had trouble with and (this time) don't get mad about silly/non-reacting NPCs but appreciate more what is really involved like the (now corrected?) reaction of the NPCs.

Fourth, if it is needed to properly test the quests and/or look for still existing bugs, I say, do it, as it is for a development of the game as a whole.

And last but not least: I don't know about you, but I just don't want to walk around for years just to complete quests. I simply see no sense in doing just one quest after the other simply because I had to walk long paths between the cities over and over and over again with no end and which gets oh-so-boring after a very short while.

So, I voted ***yes*** for a complete quest wipe, removing everything, factions, items and access to the Whinch.

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Re: Quest wipe.
« Reply #62 on: February 16, 2008, 02:38:03 pm »
If people would not run around and collect quest in bunches, instead of completing them as they get them - one for one, then they would not be stuck with broken quests. I have completed all quests! The ones that I couldn't (two in fact) had a glitch.
Since quests are being added all the time (Jeraphon somewhere mentioned there are almost 200 now), you can only know that you did all quests when you have a list of them, which is only available to the devs. For a dev, it is easy to do the quests without conflicts, so your vote does not count :). EIther that or you are talking nonsens. FOr all other normal players, here are some eamples/reasons you can get conflicts, without it being your fault:
- you talked to a menki about work and got a quest without asking for it (at least that used to happen). This quest was also bugged later on
- you talked to a guard, said 'yes' to some question, but went off searching for what he needed without waiting a minute for his answer, so that quest step did not register.
- in the middle of a conversation with an NPC that did not understand anything you said, you logged of. Next time, he appears to have forgotten about you.
- you have quests stuck due similar things as those, do not want to stop questing and do more.
- you start a quest that requires items that are difficult for you to get. Instead of powerleveling for a few months so you can get them, you decided to do some other quests. Which might have gotten stuck because an NPC refused to talk to you about any quests other than the one you had with them.

Hopefully all of the examples I mentioned are gone, so you can just mix up quests as you like.

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Re: Quest wipe.
« Reply #63 on: February 16, 2008, 10:10:05 pm »
Voted yes

-One of the few people that have been locked out, also no luck on the merchant way   :'(
Have been trying to get in there over the past year, but had to many quests that got bugged.

But also I don't have a real need for it, as the Winch has been opened for a little while and
I have been able to do the things I should have done.

Al-thru I would love to do the quests out there, but then again I regularly pickup a new quest
in other places which keeps me busy.

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Re: Quest wipe.
« Reply #64 on: February 16, 2008, 10:23:21 pm »
All for a questwipe. Don't do them that much but have a few who conflicted before and many wquests you simply can't redo so throwing them out of my questlogs is a bit iffy sometmes aswell.

Anyhow seeing many quests I hear are tweaked since I did them and believe me some were ages back. It would be fun to redo them without having to make a new character.
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Re: Quest wipe.
« Reply #65 on: February 17, 2008, 11:10:06 am »

First of all, this is nonsense because it is clearly stated that there were bugs in some quests.

Second, some people might have done a mistake in one quest and can't repeat it, some even in important quests which give access the the Whinch.

And last but not least: I don't know about you, but I just don't want to walk around for years just to complete quests. I simply see no sense in doing just one quest after the other simply because I had to walk long paths between the cities over and over and over again with no end and which gets oh-so-boring after a very short while.


You see - that is the problem for most players - they (and also you) are to lazy to do the walking! Rather "Powerquest" get all quests in one area, like BD - and then get glitches and bugs because they interfere with each other.

Surely there are bugs in the quests - but I solved some with alts, when there was a bug in a conversations or when I even lost an item because of some or other reason.




And may I just add - this is a poll - everyone is free to mention their believes and thoughts - so nothing is "nonsense" - its all part of development.   :)  :beta:

I have completed all quests! The ones that I couldn't (two in fact) had a glitch.



Let me re-phrase then - I did loads of quests 165 all in all - and some even twice or three times with alts to check some of the mentioned bugs - and most of them I didn't have troubles with!  :innocent:
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Re: Quest wipe.
« Reply #66 on: February 17, 2008, 12:05:34 pm »
Let me re-phrase then - I did loads of quests 165 all in all - and some even twice or three times with alts to check some of the mentioned bugs - and most of them I didn't have troubles with!  :innocent:
Thx for clarifying. Ok, those are a lot of quests. Now let me rephrase my 'your NO does not count' then :). In the form of a question which is the argumentation for your NO. Some possible answers:
- I could do it, and all others with conflicted quests or running around the world should do too
- I do not mind at all, but will answer NO for all others anyway :)
Sorry, but that is how your NO comes across. This is not the place for discussion though. Your NO can count as well as all the YESses.

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Re: Quest wipe.
« Reply #67 on: February 17, 2008, 04:36:33 pm »
I get the general sense that most are ok with a quest wipe.

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Re: Quest wipe.
« Reply #68 on: February 17, 2008, 04:46:15 pm »
I get the general sense that most are ok with a quest wipe.

So then let us know when you set a date to do it :P  :whistling:

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Re: Quest wipe.
« Reply #69 on: February 19, 2008, 11:08:25 pm »
Absolutely!  Go for it!  I can't wait to retry all the ones that were buggy and see how they are supposed to go.  I had given up on quests entirely due to frustration at the bugs.  In fact, I'd given up on the whole game for a while as well.  If the quests are fixed and the conflicts are all gone this will really make the game interesting again.

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Re: Quest wipe.
« Reply #70 on: February 19, 2008, 11:15:11 pm »
If the quests are fixed and the conflicts are all gone this will really make the game interesting again.

The code isn't on the server until next release rolls out, so it would make most sense to only wipe it sometime after the next release is rolled out.  When is that next release you ask? Oh, what is that I'm supposed to say again... oh yes, "I'm sorry, that's classified need to know top secret hush hush information."

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Re: Quest wipe.
« Reply #71 on: February 19, 2008, 11:55:47 pm »
When is that next release you ask? Oh, what is that I'm supposed to say again... oh yes, "I'm sorry, that's classified need to know top secret hush hush information."

 :)

NOOOOOOOooooo...... you're supposed to say "Soon™"  8)

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Re: Quest wipe.
« Reply #72 on: February 20, 2008, 12:18:52 am »
nahh, I don't own the trademark to be able to say that.  ;)

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Re: Quest wipe.
« Reply #73 on: February 23, 2008, 05:11:01 am »
It will take settings more time to organize than we thought. Out of respect for your wishes we will make the fixes first and decide where to go from there. Thank you all for participating.

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Re: Quest wipe.
« Reply #74 on: March 01, 2008, 05:15:27 pm »
eh... yeah...

do you want to do the quest wipe now or later to another time?
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