ThalionLv 5 Druid
52m ago
reading the documentation, i misunderstood HOW MUCH maintenance was actually going to do.
my plan:
use one of the challenge modes to slow my levelling down, create four other characters to support my tank-y character and have them pick up professions and such as necessary.
when i encountered maintenance in the documentation, i figured it'd do the most important thing for those other four characters: fix their gear. but it does a raft of other things that i wasn't banking on:
it gave them professions [on this server, that means all the professions.]
it gave them gear for those professions.
it gave them bags.
it taught them spells.
in other words: for me, personally, it bricked what i was trying to do: go slowly and be mindful of what my other characters picked up as professions and worked on. the idea was to keep the situation as close to the game as possible where they only ever have two professions and i grant those professions to them through regular gameplay.
my suggestion:
maintenance isn't really a thing i think you can fix. that seems to be standard in the playerbots documentation. i would LIKE a roll-back button. [some way to unlearn professions, perhaps. or a way through the adventure assistant to undo issues like this.]
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not entirely related [because this is a bug and i should post it there, but it's tied to what happened here] - i accidentally, then, compounded my error by having the adventure assistant call in the professions assistant on one of my alternate characters. i didn't realize that clicking on "alchemy" in that menu would just teach them all the recipes. imagine my suprise :)
[i was hoping that would lead to a menu that asked about unlearning the profession, and also asking which bits of alchemy to learn.]
this had a secondary consequence of giving the character a whole string of achievements. and this, here, is the buggy part: logging in the NEXT character gave THEM the achievements, also. and so on, for the character i logged in after that.
a very strange experience. :)
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anyhow, i want to thank you for a largely thoughtful design on this server. it is very well put together and i especially appreciate your change logs a great deal.
my plan:
use one of the challenge modes to slow my levelling down, create four other characters to support my tank-y character and have them pick up professions and such as necessary.
when i encountered maintenance in the documentation, i figured it'd do the most important thing for those other four characters: fix their gear. but it does a raft of other things that i wasn't banking on:
it gave them professions [on this server, that means all the professions.]
it gave them gear for those professions.
it gave them bags.
it taught them spells.
in other words: for me, personally, it bricked what i was trying to do: go slowly and be mindful of what my other characters picked up as professions and worked on. the idea was to keep the situation as close to the game as possible where they only ever have two professions and i grant those professions to them through regular gameplay.
my suggestion:
maintenance isn't really a thing i think you can fix. that seems to be standard in the playerbots documentation. i would LIKE a roll-back button. [some way to unlearn professions, perhaps. or a way through the adventure assistant to undo issues like this.]
---
not entirely related [because this is a bug and i should post it there, but it's tied to what happened here] - i accidentally, then, compounded my error by having the adventure assistant call in the professions assistant on one of my alternate characters. i didn't realize that clicking on "alchemy" in that menu would just teach them all the recipes. imagine my suprise :)
[i was hoping that would lead to a menu that asked about unlearning the profession, and also asking which bits of alchemy to learn.]
this had a secondary consequence of giving the character a whole string of achievements. and this, here, is the buggy part: logging in the NEXT character gave THEM the achievements, also. and so on, for the character i logged in after that.
a very strange experience. :)
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anyhow, i want to thank you for a largely thoughtful design on this server. it is very well put together and i especially appreciate your change logs a great deal.