I haven't experienced this issue at all since yesterday's patch. It worked 100% in both gollux and commerci. It even successfully installed with just a light tap. Looking to hear from others if they're had issues today.
Over thousands of hackers are banned every week.
I'm talking 8,000+
When you gather that information, do you count by number of accounts banned or by amount of characters on those accounts. I know the perma-ban lists we used to get listed several characters on the same account so it looked like more people got banned, while it was really only one person taking up a whole paragraph of names listed. Some times people who hadn't been banned at all were on those lists too.
Also, do you count temporary bans or only permanent ones in those 8k. I haven't actually counted, but I don't believe that even the names on the wildly inaccurate permaban-lists we got amounted to 8k per week.
I'm just very curious about the actual statistics.
The material-cores were pretty insane if you had enough droprate and it became the main source of people's materials, which is why it was removed. It might be fine if the core is drop-only and extremely low droprate, so you can't buy them in the core shop like before. And the cores would still include lower level herbs and ores. So it'd just be an extra thing for regular Evo-goers.
I personally think it's better to have harvesting be the main source of materials, like it should have been all the time. If you do it daily (and on several characters if you got the time) you should have no problem getting enough materials for whatever crafting you need done. Plus you have the chance to get rose clippings. Filling your fatigue bar should only take about half an hour at most. That's less than the time you would have spent at Evo trying to get the core, and then using it.
It was harder to get materials regularly back then aside from Evo, because ores and herbs only spawned in regular maps and was level-based, but now we have an actual "garden" to pick and choose what we need. Plus they spawn in regular maps again. Plus special flowers and rocks.
If we're talking about making Evo lab popular again, they could add other cores for, say, honor or additional coins. It's still pretty popular for some event drops too.
I do think that the harvesting action should be improved though. It randomly stops a lot, and the whole animation is what takes up most the time. Would have been better if you used regular attack, and it'd "die" in one or two shots.