Hello everyone,

a few month after the last changes of the Moonstone Statue(few years) and LacaBall i really wanna know WHEN sth will change.
Here are several statements from Erraticrat which made me hoping for changes every week... but i just get more and more disappointed.

...i know he's just talking about Laca Ball but in my opinion a change of the Moonstone Statue is absolutely necessary! Most of the prizes are useless and people are bored of playing at the Moonstone Statue. I always throw my Moonstone Boxes into the bin because I'm bored of it and i can't win sth i could need.

Erraticrat wrote:

headsprouter wrote: Erraticrat... WHEN will something happen???   I understand your desire to see things change. I too would like to see everything get better over night. Unfortunately, new development (even small changes) takes time. However, I do talk with the developers every day and we are working very hard to address some real concerns that have been voiced by the LC community. Hopefully, everybody will start seeing some meaningful changes very soon (think maintenance time) and my goal is that this will be a continuing trend. As for the immediate future, I will continue to work with the developers to implement important fixes to the game and also work on developing and rolling out new content and improvements. I understand that it seems like we are moving slowly but I want you to know that change is coming. The GMs and I doing everything we can to make LC a better game. Also, I am going to try and get new Laca Ball prizes up. I will be going over your suggestions and the GMs and I will decide on a final set and maybe give out a nice prize or two.

(April 1, 2011)

Erraticrat wrote:

News: We are rolling out some new Laca Ball prizes today (although we will be changing them pretty regularly from now on). These prizes should hopefully be a little better than the last set and maybe give players a little more to play for.

(April 19, 2011)

Erraticrat wrote:

This experience game me an idea and I have decided to make this a regular event. We are going to continue changing the Laca Ball prizes every few weeks and we will occasionally have some huge prizes mixed in (think: Master Stones). There are new prizes today, but don't expect them to last.

(April 19, 2011)


best regards
-head

nice summary, i already had forgotten we were told about these changes,

still awaiting the changes

*thumbs up* for head! Thx for bringing it back to life

ya like ms or lev 5 gem boxes be nice for good /perfect ones

Maybe better chance of getting top prizes in LacaBall, since all I win is bottom prizes !!

Likewise, remove 'booby prizes' such as fireworks and P2 battle skill books from moonstone. Prizes should be worth having, and be more 'attractive' than just selling the stones etc !!

And am not the only one who thinks this way !!

laca ball should just go back to Laca Rette. thats an easy fix right there. everyone loved the Laca Rette, you wouldnt get stuff of high value but it was worth keeping and using. when you hit the jackpot and got the gold tokens (rare to get it, i never got it and ive spun that wheel at least 200 times) you would get about 120m in rewards minimum and if you were lucky around 300m+ max. for a newb, thats payday, new armor, better whep possibly +15, leveling stuff. not something that is going to lower the purchase of AP, master stones do that already.

moon statue.... the ONLY rewards i have ever gotten or seen worth keeping/selling on that thing is the rewards of a whopping 1 effort scroll and the Health Potion gear. everything in that thing other than those needs overhauled, including the crap small and med potions, everyone uses large now. the lvl 37 - 69 wheps.... lol the 21+15 event whep is better than a 69+4. so either make them have a random chance of +10-15 on it, that would be alot better and help newbs get to lvl 70+ easier.


a bit irrelevant to this thread but i think armor drops should be able to have a higher + than 4, like +15 a new cap but make it rareISH. +1-10 common then make +11-15 a bit more uncommon. this way ALL armor does not go to waste, what if your someone who plays the game like its meant to be and you dont have a quarter of the money needed for even some of the crappiest +10+ gear out there.... with a higher armor upgrade cap your next drop of armor could potentially be your next set =). if i was a newb around lvl 75 and i got a set of pants *white 3 attack* but it were +13 i sure would use it. it may not be worth much gold... 10m and set on it for 3 weeks in this economy, but worth more to a newb in need of better armor. and he could give that to his lil brother or a friend once hes done with it.


and not ONE thing i have mentioned here will hurt anyone or aeria's intake of cash thru AP whatsoever. seeing as the good expensive stuff is lvl 100+ some 85-87 sets being there too, and Master Stones are the hottest item around now... i see more ms in shops than i do every other upg stone combined. so AP is not touched by this.


more people will start liking Last Chaos too, they will be able to level up when they start the game.. not set around for 4 months building up enough cash to hit level 80.

holy why not make a free dropable stone that gives you the option to go straight to a lvl 100 toon in full +15 set maxed sp ofc...
*facepalm*

i do agree MS needs a little better outcomming but win or dropable +15 stuffs? what the heck?
not affecting AP purchase? whats with lvl caped runes?

isnt it easy enough to get the Eventweps both now
the 30-32+10 set
the 50 +10 set
the 60+5

DT to gain lvls more fast and easy
increase SP outa prox to make em able to go straight for pw lvlng

it is a slap in the face for every older player already - does it need to be that much more for free?


they already took all events away to dont give more for free - no Valentines no Wendy no 4. July, xmas buffs that increase 4 times but they lowered the droprate to have it equal to before without those buffs... do i rly need to continue to count what all is missing especially those that dont benefit out of the "make the start easier for newbies" feel so hard

onesidekrieger wrote:

holy why not make a free dropable stone that gives you the option to go straight to a lvl 100 toon in full +15 set maxed sp ofc... *facepalm* i do agree MS needs a little better outcomming but win or dropable +15 stuffs? what the heck? not affecting AP purchase? whats with lvl caped runes? isnt it easy enough to get the Eventweps both now the 30-32+10 set the 50 +10 set the 60+5 DT to gain lvls more fast and easy increase SP outa prox to make em able to go straight for pw lvlng it is a slap in the face for every older player already - does it need to be that much more for free? they already took all events away to dont give more for free - no Valentines no Wendy no 4. July, xmas buffs that increase 4 times but they lowered the droprate to have it equal to before without those buffs... do i rly need to continue to count what all is missing especially those that dont benefit out of the "make the start easier for newbies" feel so hard

already not READING all of my post.
people dont be this guy and please read, not skim.


i SPECIFICALLY said make it rare. in which you aren't gonna go dh and come back with 50 +15 parts.

onesidekrieger wrote:

it is a slap in the face for every older player already - does it need to be that much more for free?

PLEASE, stop using this idiotic, jealous excuse as a debating tool against certain changes/improvements that this game badly needs. If you want to debate your opinions on the changes/improvements, that's fine. But, PLEASE, just STOP using this excuse that's only brought on by jealousy when debating them.

While I don't agree that drops should have higher plusses, it's clearly obvious that upgrade success rates need to DRASTICALLY increase, in all aspects, and especially for +15 success. Having these pathetic percentages in place only to try and generate more AP sales from MS's is only another way that the greedy appearance of Aeria is perceived.


Now, back to the topic of LacaBall and the Moonstone Statue. As it's been stated, the change from LacaRette to LacaBall was not only completely unnecessary, but was yet another step in the WRONG direction from positive, beneficial change. On top of it all, the chance of success rate is WELL beyond pathetic.

Along the same lines, since absolutely nothing's been done to improve the Moonstone statue, yet another area of the game is left to be phased out, and completely worthless.

It's beyond time that these all too common processes change. Any item that can be purchased by us from NPC's in the game should NOT be included as "prizes" in both of these parts of LC. Now, that doesn't mean +15 gear, MS's, PGB's, etc need to be in every slot, if any at all. But, we should certainly have the incentive to utilize these aspects of the game, and not just be continually disappointed because someone, somewhere feels we're getting too many free things that are beneficial to us. And there's NO DEBATE whatsoever that plenty of items exist in the game that could be used for these types of prizes, as well as be beneficial prizes to so many of us.

really...I don't care which one they do. I don't even care to some extent what prizes they give out...what I do care about is how freaking long it takes to drop one stinking ball and go through the prize cycle to be able to do the next one. I have better things to do than to use one ball per 10 seconds...especially if I have 100 of them in my inventory. Thats almost 17 minutes of clicking and waiting, clicking and waiting, clicking and waiting, clicking and waiting................................if you click as soon as you can.

ha ha ha.. yep, just like the "new moonstone system" how much fun is it to sit there combine moonstones for 20 mins just to get lvl 12 pots. And yea laca rette... no laca ball. I quit cashing in my tokens long ago, chance of getting anything good are next to none.