144927-stuck-in-a-load-screen-sittin-on-a-tricycle

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Stuck in a load screen, Sittin' on a tricycle, Game gittin' on my nerves!
Thought it was fine, Now all I can do is whine, I think I ran out of verbs.
 
But really, It's been 24 hours and I can NOT get in to Thayd. Just sitting in an infinite load screen. Of course this would happen when there are TWO events going on. Two events that were hyped to hell and back for weeks. I was full on stoked for the Shade's eve event but the lag cooled my excitement. Then after getting stuck in the portal load screen and then the FAILURE that is the level boosting for the village made me HATE the Shade's eve event all together. I mean that whole mission made me want to rage out and punch people in the throat. But now I can't even get on my main. This is extra annoying because now I'm screwed from getting the items I wanted from either event because the mega-failures... err, I mean Mega-servers are can't load Thayd correctly.
 
As it stands I can see several ways this could have been done better and since I have nothing but time I shall start!
 
The Shade's Eve event;
1) Could have been put somewhere that wasn't the most used area in the game. Thayd is under a constant lag because of the population density of NPCs and PCs. Why on Earth did you think it was a good idea to put it and it's events where lag is constant?
2) Should  have leveled down the monsters not leveled up the players. This should have been noticed in the testing procedures but I suspect the level spectrum on the test server is a bit loaded on the ends but not in the middle so nobody thought to test the mid-levels. Leveling up the PC means missing AMPs, Ability points, HP, Item levels, ect. So many missing things that end up with 10 minute fights with what should be the fluff monsters.
3) The events themselves were Ok, a little grindy but Ok. The trick of treat bit was fun the first day but after that it got fairly slow trying to find that last candy. Should have had a counter or a check list. Something to keep the /Zone chat from breaking down to 20 people saying "i need one more but I don't know which one!"
 
The Hoverboard event:
I want to preface this with a statement, I love skateboards and skateboarding. I used to practically live in my local skate park. I built my home plot in to a hoverpark even to the detriment of FabKits and plugins. I have spent weeks preparing for this event, learning how my Glitter Kitty Cruiser handles jumps and falls, learning the max jump distance it can make, even spent an entire day working a weave track so i could perfect my turns. Then I get one shot at the event and I feel like a complete fool. I didn't need to practice, everybody gets the same trophy. It's not a race, it's a tour. But on to my advice;
1) Carbine Shoot It's self in the foot off the bat with the Delorian hoverboard. Wow that was spectacular! For weeks we hear about these races and this super neat board and how cool it was gonna be. then we find out the chase item is a cash shop item and... womp womp womp.
2) The tracks themselves were a neat idea but I don't really think they were objectively tested because people are getting launched in to rocks and ending up dead on impact with out recourse. Cruising along and WHAM! dead. Fun, Fun.  :angry:
3) And then there was the object load lag on the rings that made the track. It was like trying to fly by Braille! Really, I'd have to hit a few rings, stop and wait for the next few to load, hit a few rings, wait, repeat. Not fun at all. In fact it made an already big let down all that much worse as I went to finish my race only to be told I missed a checkpoint that didn't load.
 
All told either I am cursed or the QA team needs to get on their job before what ever fails next. I love WildStar, I want to keep playing it 5eva but these events present like hot garbage and I can't play at all. Just sitting here watching the load screen... 11.4% of the dominion is Chua and hate Artemis Zen's show. I can add friends with the social screen ('o')... So many tips but no play.	
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Hi reiromanni,
 
There is already a thread going on the login issues. You can find this thread here:https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/133697-why-cant-i-get-past-this-loading-screen/page-4
Furthermore, our team is also looking for further information on your PC in this thread: https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/144775-players-getting-stuck-at-loading/
 
As there are already two threads on this issue I will lock your thread.
 
Regards
Team Wildstar	
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