Taxes (light and dark) broken ?

[CaptCroaker]

So clan are taking their castles dark for the tax money to do the new siege system. And try to be excited about the whole Light vs Dark.

However from 3 different clan/allys information from 2 different servers which are all saying only Rune and Aden are collecting the taxes, no secondary castles are able to collect anything. From my understanding this is broken from a GM e-mail to a bug report. I have been watching the boards for a statement and nothing yet so i'm asking now the following.

1) Do we have a eta on a patch to fix it? IS the patch from US development team or Korea? Is there a patch to fix it already in korea live?

2) Is there a plan to compensate the clans testing this for going dark and not receiving any tax revenue?

My issue is if this was a know issue it should have been stated to the community at large that this is a broken system and we are working on a fix, it was not. Many of us have wasted lots of time on the quests and trying to learn the system only to find out it is broken. Please consider some compensation to clans taking the secondary castles dark and not receiving any taxes.

[CaptCroaker]

sace >? any info?

[Sace]

Originally Posted by CaptCroaker

So clan are taking their castles dark for the tax money to do the new siege system. And try to be excited about the whole Light vs Dark.

However from 3 different clan/allys information from 2 different servers which are all saying only Rune and Aden are collecting the taxes, no secondary castles are able to collect anything. From my understanding this is broken from a GM e-mail to a bug report. I have been watching the boards for a statement and nothing yet so i'm asking now the following.

1) Do we have a eta on a patch to fix it? IS the patch from US development team or Korea? Is there a patch to fix it already in korea live?

2) Is there a plan to compensate the clans testing this for going dark and not receiving any tax revenue?

My issue is if this was a know issue it should have been stated to the community at large that this is a broken system and we are working on a fix, it was not. Many of us have wasted lots of time on the quests and trying to learn the system only to find out it is broken. Please consider some compensation to clans taking the secondary castles dark and not receiving any taxes.

I do not personally have any knowledge about this matter. If a GM told you that it is a bug that means it has already been sent to the developers (they are only in Korea, not in the US) and we are awaiting either a fix or an explanation of how it is working as intended. Compensation is not something I can comment on at this time. If you haven't already I suggest sending a support ticket and asking the GMs. They can tell you if there is already a bug report for this, or if its working as intended, and they can also access information about the exact situation you're in that can help determine if we can help with this or not.

[Draecke]

if those castles didn't protect their tax caravans during the special castle campaigns they get nada..

[Yidao]

Croaker, take a look at the question BeSkitz is asking here and the answer I gave him 3 posts further down:
http://boards.rochand.com/viewtopic....tart=10#p12257

Did you not collect any taxes at all or did the accumulated adena in your vault suddenly vanish? I agree with Sace, you should send in a support ticket, and give them a link to my post on Rochand for reference. This might be the same problem

Here is for example the Castle Control Map for the Korean Kain server:
http://lineage2.plaync.co.kr/gameinf...dex?serverId=3
When you click on the rectangle for Dark Innadril, which is subordinate to Dark Aden, you will see that (at the time I am writing this) they have collected 1,080,755 adena in taxes (획득 예정 세금).
(If anybody reads this post in a few weeks, the Castle Alignment might have changed. In that case you must find some other server with a Dark Castle subordinate to a Dark Royal Castle via the server change thingy in the upper left corner)


Elmar

[CaptCroaker]

Sace can you look into this, Please!!!! several of us feel we are getting the runaround.

Hello XXXXXXX, Thank you for contacting Lineage II Game Support Team. This is currently a known issue and the Development Team is working to correct this in a future update. Please note that the Game Masters (GMs) are unable to provide a workaround at this time. Once a fix has been completed and tested, it will be made available in a future update.

Greetings XXXXXXX, Unfortunately, we are unable to determine at this time, if we will be providing compensation for this issue. Our Development team prefers to be able to resolve the issue before looking into any possible compensation. Keep an eye out on our official forums and web site for updates on this though. If you need further assistance please let me know.

To answer the questions yes the main and sub castles both were pledged dark. The NPCs were protected the red bar on the Campaign never reached full. (FYI they can be killed in town tho and you can't protect them which is stupid) many players went red protecting the ones on the road. The doors of both main and sub castles were not breached and the chamberlain was not touched, this week after we found he could not be killed as expected the first week.

Sub Castle Taxes collected 0
Main Castle Taxes collected 1.2 bil

so ….

IF its working as intended then only Aden and Rune now collect taxes if they go dark and the only reason to go dark is if you own those 2. and or If the amount is supposed to greatly increase the more dark castles go dark thus those 2 collect more we will be testing that this week with 2 more clans taking castles dark,

But my honest opinion after the response from the GMs is that, the system is broken with a fix months away if at all. And if that is so someone needs to step up and say castles for the time being are not currently working properly and compensate those clans who should have received tax money. we are only talking about a hand few of clans and toons. the effect on those clans braving the Dark side deserve that.

[Yidao]

Sace, since this is "currently a known issue" you should really make a stickied post in the News & Announcements Section, warning everybody in big red letters to side with Dark after they have conquered a subordinate Castle. This will help to avoid further unhappiness.

In Korea the tax collection is working fine. When you check the Castle Control Map I have linked above, you will see that Innadril has in the meantime accumulated 1,339,795 adena. There are obviously not many people who go shopping in a Dark Town, but money keeps coming in.

Those numbers are not manually entered on the website but automatically exported from the server files. NCWest has the same server files. Insofar it would be no problem to check how much adena CaptCroaker's clan is due and manually deposit that amount in their warehouse. Consider the man-hours this will require as doing penitence for going live without a previous PTS

@ Croaker:
Even if it's just a personal guess of mine, but from your and BeSkitz' description of the phenomenon it seems that not only a part but all the taxes you collect go to your Royal Castle. That means if more Castles go Dark under a Dark Aden or Rune, the revenue in the Royal Castle should greatly increase.

[CaptCroaker]

ok test #2 castles who went dark in the aden group could not participate in anything. sooo this is very very messed up... they could not attack any light castles including aden, however they could attack other dark castles. Oren attacking Goddard.

Sace is anyone testing this to see what is what?

[Evangelion]

If you go dark, and the main castle territory is dark, then you should get adena, but here is total bug, period.

[Sace]

This is under investigation and it will be fixed if broken. If you have a castle but the clan cannot collect the tax payment, please have the clan leader send a support ticket with the clan name and server name.

[DrachaVonDrachen]

This reminds me of the stuck gas pedal... the company knew about the problem but waited to tell the public... while they tried to figure out what was wrong.

Scene in Fight club also comes to mind... "If "x" is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."

[VOoDOoFly]

Hello I have a little concern about you are supposed to withdraw the adena from your castle if are dark now every week. or is it bugged? any info would be very appreciated. ty

[CaptCroaker]

still no taxes =/

[Griffit]

Also you should be informed with next bugs regarding dark castles.



- Dark Chamberlain have 100mils hp/sec , Should be 1mil/sec
( it is common bug that somehow shared from real antaharas and valakas )
yes it is ironic people already walking with anthy & valakas jeverly when this 2 bosses had 1bil hp regen per sec from start of tauti : )

- Tent for Purchasing siege items for dark castle at Aden is missing from game

- Catapults that u need to repair at rune are missing from game

- Item that you use to switch dark to light at castle altar ( Purchasable from rev Tent ) is not working

P.S

This bugs where fixed on innova
so .... ???

[Lolcita]

Anyone know if they fixed this bug ?