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Queen of Hunting
Unconfirmed Member
Hi there,
There's been a lot of confusion and frustration about Midtown Madness and I wanted to address it clearly. As many noticed once the servers opened this morning, bosses in Midtown were dropping an absurd amount of loot and orbs and we received dozens of PMs and posts saying this "couldn't be right". There was an issue where bosses were dropping the wrong loot table (a testing loot table for an upcoming feature) and it resulted in DOZENS of orbs in addition to loot. If you played this morning, you may have also noticed an unusually large amount of server performance issues - this was caused by dropping up to 20 times more health & spirit orbs on the ground (which are AI entities). Our head engineers had 'alarms' raised immediately as the server performance was very unhealthy and had to be addressed immediately.
We have since changed loot tables to a multiplied bonus loot table that contains far less health and spirit orbs and we've just live tuned the drop rate of Midtown Fortune Cards as well as RIF to increase unique drop rates as well.
We want this event to be fun, with plenty of Fortune Cards dropping as well as nice healthy loot explosions, and we'll continue to tune it until we're happy with it (let us know how the Fortune Card drop rate feels as of this posting, it was increased just before this).
Please try out how the event currently feels on the live server right now. It has six times the loot from regular Midtown bosses, plus a rarity boost and a pretty healthy and generous amount of Fortune Card drops.
Thanks for posting your feedback, but there's a very important note I need to make: feedback is what we are looking for, not cursing, flaming or insults. There is nothing that insulting, taunting, or degrading the dev team or even other users will do for your thread aside from having it removed for abuse - this is not about quelling negative feedback, this is simply about keeping the forums as productive as possible and a positive place for anybody to post, even if their feedback isn't positive.
Thanks and much appreciated,
Ryolnir
basically less uniques now but more midtown cards, which to me im actually bored of seeing uniques anyway lol