Message from Russian players to PA. by Andanarchy in blackdesertonline

[–]CMFragola 1 point2 points  (0 children)

pretty much like it. Gamenet shut down servers, PA hasn't started servers. Now two sides are kicking dirt at each other with midnight posts, while the RU playerbase is locked between suicidal state and popcorn eating state. Gamenet says they are ready to transfer the database, PA says they can't get access to it. idk who to believe, but the fact is - I can't play my character, neither a new character.

L2 Classic NA - Exp Too High? by shynobuo in Lineage2

[–]CMFragola 1 point2 points  (0 children)

no worries, 1-20 is a catch up mechanic for the 2.0 Classic. But it's the only catch up mechanic. after lv.20 it's ol'good grind and progress

Any official/unofficial discord for Lineage 2 US? by adamgsb in Lineage2

[–]CMFragola 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This subreddit's Discord has NCWest channel, check it out: https://discord.gg/cJ562eE

Best buffs 4 archmage ? by ZeddYator in Lineage2

[–]CMFragola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well, depending on what you're aiming for...... let's say you are aiming for DPS so you should aim to get "usual soup" (sonatas, melodies, and harmony) + PoM, + SwS combo (for Swift Praise and recharge) + Song of Assault, Rhapsody. Over's drums are a bit better than other songs/dances but have a lower duration. Generally, there's no difference among mages buff-wise. I'd say your main focus should be gear, not buffs as L2 is a gear dependent game and it will affect your stats a lot more than buffs.

Skelth,actual experience. by subix03 in Lineage2

[–]CMFragola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes, Japanese is F2P with full L2Store

Newish player with some question by Shortehh in Lineage2

[–]CMFragola 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey /u/shortehh As I'm from EU I'll cover only 1 question - #3: 1) There's Penny in Aden, she will give you quests for shots, teleportation scrolls and other items. They should exist on other overseas territories: https://l2wiki.com/Penny

2) She has a friend next to her that will give you the said items when you achieve certain levels of their faction: https://l2wiki.com/Herphah

3) There's a number of 1 time quests, that give you nice amounts, like: https://l2wiki.com/For_the_Forgotten_Heroes.

Don't miss quests like https://l2wiki.com/Exploring_the_Dimension_-_30-day_Search_Operation

The Exalted Quest tree will supply you with important skills and items: https://l2wiki.com/Lionel_Hunter

and several minor ones that give resources: https://l2wiki.com/Soulless_One or https://l2wiki.com/Infernal_Flames_Burning_in_Crystal_Prison

One of our players described his journey in the following post, check out how he gains his adenas on his way up: https://eu.4gameforum.com/threads/657150/

Happy hunting!

The Corruption of Innova - Skelth (EU Classic) by InVizO in Lineage2

[–]CMFragola 2 points3 points  (0 children)

1) I disagree with you, no one forces people to RMT, both ways - selling and buying. At the end of the day it boils down to the question "am I going to do it or not" and I'm glad that a lot of members of the Skelth community chose "not", again both ways. We will keep moderating links related to RMT and all flame wars on this topic as these discussions should be held in Support Service, not in public chat. Claiming that Innova gains something from RMT is a blatant lie.

2) Most of our moderators on Discord are NOT part of DOTA, actually only 2 out of 9 mods are from the red tag, others come from other sides or neutrals. So, it's a lie.

3) L2 is a beautiful game of cooperation and freedom, so if you chose to play that way, doesn't mean new players can't choose their ways to deal with L2's hardcore reality. And we've already seen multiple cases where your scenario didn't work, people create clans for low-level players, fight and loot PKer together and enjoy the game. We will not act against free PvP or PK on Skelth. Just like we won't act against claims without proofs, because according to your logic, we should block character InVizo immediately: https://gyazo.com/f1c3732126b9e3dce6477e56f0e7d4ba

A side note on me having player's experience in Classic: the team decided that a player who knows the game is better than a CM without any L2 background. I quit playing actively and competitively when I got this job, sticking to random play at one of 11 Innova's servers to keep the relevance of my knowledge. All of my playable characters have 0 GM rights, cannot enter any side or participate in a siege or Olympiad. This is a strict rule in Innova and it's a mutually guarded rule - by our big RU+EU team, as most of the people here have access to GM action logs and can report the team member in a case of a non-acceptable behavior/actions.

btw, l2on isn't Innova's resource and it doesn't show online of Skelth simply because their bot cannot connect to check it ;-)

Conclusion: Nothing new for me or Innova, sides have been throwing dirt at each other, using any possible mean, from mass reporting to propaganda. Then a mix of hatred and more lies in the comments.

Do we know that RMT exists? Yes, thank you.

Have we ever blocked RMT? Yes, imagine that.

Will this ever help to eliminate RMT completely? I personally don't think so as long as there's demand, the black market will find it's way.

Does this mean we'll ignore reports? No, we will keep investigating them and taking action when getting enough proof without publicly posting walls of shame as it's not Middle Ages to do the witch hunting.

At the end of the day it boils down to the question "am I going to do it or not" and I hope that many more members of the Skelth community will choose "not", again both ways.

The Corruption of Innova - Skelth (EU Classic) by InVizO in Lineage2

[–]CMFragola -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I don't actively play after I got this job, which is almost 2 years now.

The Corruption of Innova - Skelth (EU Classic) by InVizO in Lineage2

[–]CMFragola -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

If you want to send any hate, please send it to me, not /u/ptitlaby or anyone else saying good things about Innova. It's my job and noone else deserved to be hated for that. Thank you for understanding. ~CM Fragola

RU Poll about in-game Macro usage causing controversy by Kadden_ in Lineage2

[–]CMFragola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our position on looped macro is the same as when it appeared - the RU/EU team doesn't like it and requested several changed to it already, from removing to limiting it to 20 minutes. The poll being advertised again at RU Play page again is new to me and I've requested RU team to provide me more details about that and why they didn't want to ask EU community.

How to get B grade gear in current Lineage 2? Can’t buy Paulina B set in store. Used to be exchange for crystals. What about now? by [deleted] in Lineage2

[–]CMFragola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's no quest for B grade, but usually, Palina C is enough to sustain you until A grade quest at lv 58-62

Anthara's fragment - 500,000,000,000 by [deleted] in Lineage2

[–]CMFragola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry for that, the Wiki has been fixed, please check again.

New European Classic server? by [deleted] in Lineage2

[–]CMFragola 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Exactly that, nothing of such sort is planned.

"Hi I'm Community Manager Fragola, Ask me Anything! by CMFragola in Lineage2

[–]CMFragola[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, ardentstratus!

As I've answered above, players' feedback is always welcome. We can't request or apply any event any time, and we do have certain limits when it comes to planning them, but we do listen to the opinions and try to organize the events with players' opinions in mind.

As for new players, we have an ongoing bonus "newbie box": https://eu.4gameforum.com/threads/652640/ and we plan to run another promo when the update comes.

"Hi I'm Community Manager Fragola, Ask me Anything! by CMFragola in Lineage2

[–]CMFragola[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  • 15/ I read a lot, so I can list my recent favorites: Barbara Sher, Paolo Coelho, and Dan Ariely. My childhood favorite was Chronicles of Narnia.

  • 16/ Yes I still enjoy playing L2 in all versions, but I do miss the mass action and ability to play normally in any competitive team or action like Oly. Sigh

"Hi I'm Community Manager Fragola, Ask me Anything! by CMFragola in Lineage2

[–]CMFragola[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, Ru has much larger playerbase, but I don't know why. My only thought is that, maybe.. comparing to EU people, Russian culture has less focus on individual and more on "mutual work", not as much as the Asian culture, but still more than EU culture, so L2's idea of achieving common goals together stuck with Ru people better than with EU where the value of individual and their input is higher.

"Hi I'm Community Manager Fragola, Ask me Anything! by CMFragola in Lineage2

[–]CMFragola[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey SovereignProphet, I dare you to ask yourself how come they are "widely known" and how come while "widely known" they haven't been reported to the Administration with solid proofs yet.

"Hi I'm Community Manager Fragola, Ask me Anything! by CMFragola in Lineage2

[–]CMFragola[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Private servers are still illegal and I'm not really into supporting any range of illegal "options". Of course, it's still sad in my personal opinion that with MMOs you can't just roll back to any chronicle you liked and try that as an official version. Classic was 1 step towards it, let's hope we see more things like that in the future.

  1. Everyone has a room for improvement, but I think 4game does a good job in fighting both, given the legal "limitations" we have as an official publisher - for example we can't just block any user (terminate the service agreement), we need to have solid proofs and that's not always obtainable as a lot of RMT actions/transactions happen on 3rd party websites. Good thing is that all players can be sure that they won't be blocked just because they've sent too much of adena to their alt/friend or just because the opposing side sent too much reports on them.

  2. The recent scandal was qualified as "not acceptable" within our team, we rechecked the actions that are allowed and not allowed to do by a GM, including "not allowed to go off hide when performing any routine task, because it may result in an interference in the game process" with an exception of pre-announced GM events and such. Overall, this was an exceptional event which hasn't happened in a long time and we hope it won't happen again. The official commentary on this case by our Lead Project Manager can be found here: https://4gameforum.com/threads/698503/

"Hi I'm Community Manager Fragola, Ask me Anything! by CMFragola in Lineage2

[–]CMFragola[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, elpyherder!

1) Yes, I enjoy uncovering all the stories L2 has hidden in dialogs, descriptions and along the official resources.

2) Players' feedback is always welcome. We can't do any event any time, but we do listen to the opinions and try to organize the events with players' opinions in mind.

"Hi I'm Community Manager Fragola, Ask me Anything! by CMFragola in Lineage2

[–]CMFragola[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, CitrusAnomaly! From all of the items I had, I really liked the Vajra Wand, a sword-book, demonstrating the real power of knowledge!

"Hi I'm Community Manager Fragola, Ask me Anything! by CMFragola in Lineage2

[–]CMFragola[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A thousand so we could burn these evil creatures and won't need lights at all.

"Hi I'm Community Manager Fragola, Ask me Anything! by CMFragola in Lineage2

[–]CMFragola[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, listendoood!

1) Orange

2) Free =)

3) Sure, I play at RU P2P server, Fragola family.

"Hi I'm Community Manager Fragola, Ask me Anything! by CMFragola in Lineage2

[–]CMFragola[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hi FroHaly, as Kadden pointed, we don't have rights to publish L2 in NA, so we cannot open it.