Compensation 3.0 is out.
Rohit_316
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When it comes to normal content, players could theoretically hold off until the bug is fixed and then Kabam could give out a bunch of energy refills to allow player to catch up as part of one big compensation package. It is not a perfect solution but it is something. Normally Kabam gives out compensation for game disruptions only after the disruption is fixed, so they know the scope of the problem. For solo content, this is still something that is reasonable to do.
But with AQ that's much trickier because it can be more difficult to coordinate map changes in an alliance, and potions might only be necessary while the bug exists. If you wait until the bug is fixed and then give a big pile of potions at the end players will first have to spend units to buy potions to use now, then they'll get a bunch of potions in compensation they won't need anymore. So instead of waiting to the end, they are feeding players smaller AQ compensation packages to hand them some potions to use going into AQ if they are still having problems in AQ and stepping down to avoid those issues is impractical, plus extra glory for alliances who are stepping down to try to compensate for the bugs.
This is just a guess, but it seems reasonably likely to me.
Dr. Zola
Not only that, they also announced that they would be revoking the point hopefully before the turn of the millennium. Presumably this is because they will need to do a manual audit for those extra points and then manually revoke them from the game databases. This will take a lot of time, which is why those points are still lingering.
Suppose this problem is deep in the code for the events and the behavior can't be trivially changed while the event is running. That means every SoP fight they extend will run into the same problem with more and more players earning extra points they will have to track down and manually revoke. That's a mess.
Maybe, and again I'm just speculating, the devs decided to stop doing that after the Darkhawk problem, and are currently investigating alternatives to addressing Parry/Dex during SoP. Maybe they can rerun those fights later with fixed point mechanics. Maybe they will compensate players with free points. Maybe they will do something completely different I can't think up. But that could be why SoP fights are no longer being extended even though Kabam's advice is still to avoid difficult content. And until they know what they are going to do, and with developers spending all their time chasing down problems left and right, they don't want to say anything until they have a plan of attack - not even that they are working on a plan of attack just in case the plan of attack is to do nothing, which is always a possibility. Common practice when you aren't sure what you are going to do: don't say anything that could be misconstrued until you at least have a vague idea where you're going.
But some content is timed and while there is no requirement to do it, missing out on rewards due to Kabams bugs is never gonna be fun. Some struggle with Cav EQ and with the time running out until next month and no guarantee on a fix, revives could be helpful there.
Same with summer of pain, people may need to revive due to a missed parry.
But…it does seem to contradict the thrust of the difficult content warning.
Dr. Zola
Probably posted elsewhere, but I would pin this to the top of the forums.
Dr. Zola