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Recruit a Friend bonus on live servers?

#1 » Post by falcobird » 06 Jul 2012 03:38

I was talking with a GM about recruit a friend being implemented, and he said that recruit a friend works (with bugs) on the test realm. I joined this game to play with my friend and it would be really nifty if we could teleport to each other and have the other bonuses associated with the Recruit A Friend system.

Does anyone (Roel) know when this will be added to the live servers?

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#2 » Post by Heihachi » 06 Jul 2012 03:45

The teleporting is what is bugged there is a HUGE LoS issue. But we are working on the adding of RaF I am in the process of coding the function

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#3 » Post by Intervention » 06 Jul 2012 04:02

Yeah we are working on it. Any news about it will be posted on the forums, the homepage and on facbeook.

We are hoping soon, month? Maybe we can just use a work around...
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#4 » Post by Flexall » 06 Jul 2012 04:22

I told him to post it here so Roel and others can take a look at it. It would be nice if the RAF worked.
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#5 » Post by falcobird » 06 Jul 2012 04:27

Thanks for the responses. I really appreciate the amount of time you are putting in the game to make it great.

I should probably explain our situation. We joined the server so that we could do instances, because that's what we find the most fun in the game. We are both skilled enough to 2-man most instances on our own, but we figured that we would join the dungeon queue so that we could get teleported to dungeons that are hard to reach for Alliance (such as SFK or RFC)

The problem we're having, aside from the minor annoyance of not having RaF perks, is that we can't find enough people in the queue to actually do dungeons. A GM told me that the queue is hard-coded for 5 people, and there's no way we could get a queue to pop with less than that.

I know this is probably a stretch, but is there any way we could simply teleport from dungeon to dungeon in a similar way as the dungeon queue, but without needing a full group?

We're willing to donate if that's what it takes.

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#6 » Post by Intervention » 06 Jul 2012 05:09

Well you can talk to Roel about that teleport thing but my answer is no and i think many others would think the same because it's a bit of an unfair advantage. If you haven't already /join world and hound people to join from there. People do queue for RDF, i get a number of low level RDF's as i am leveling alts or whatever. Just hound them on /world and it's easier. Try and get a set group too, play at a certain time etc.

I notice that when i am leveling it depends who is in your bracket. For example, i played a lot of 60-69 BG's and 40-60 dungeons because i kept hounding people to join and asked staff to announce WSG queues. So the more encouragement you give, the better.
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#7 » Post by falcobird » 06 Jul 2012 05:30

I don't suppose there's a way to trick the queue into thinking it has found 5 people, so that you can just use it for the teleport?

One could argue that being able to instance grind to 80 using the queue is, in fact, blizzlike :mrgreen:
But I get what you mean, about organizing a group to do it together. I just don't think either of us have the time to do that. We both work late, and if we have to spend an hour + trying to find 3 warm bodies to join our party, I don't know if that's a wise use of our time. :cry:

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#8 » Post by Drago » 06 Jul 2012 10:22

1. You could ask an 80 to escort you to the dungeon and maybe run you through it.
2. This isn't really allowed I guess but since you can do it in retail.... You could just find 3 more people from your bracket that will just "queue" for it and then you get the port and they can leave the group, thats a work around I guess...
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#9 » Post by Heihachi » 07 Jul 2012 04:59

i have successfully added RaF to my test site all i have to do now it see if anything else needs to be added and posting the code to the staff to add.

Should we have recruiter links? i think it would be better to just make it character name like i have it

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#10 » Post by Intervention » 07 Jul 2012 05:15

Well, with character names, that means GM's need to give them the ID and enable it on the database right? With referral links it would be automatic?
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#11 » Post by Heihachi » 07 Jul 2012 05:40

with the names getting searched in teh database by the site itself we dont have to give any info but... i hit a wall again preparing it for truewow its not posting the register page when i set it to grab $_POST['r_raf'] so i have to fix that but it should be they put in a toons name and it binds that new account with the account of the toons name they entered
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i put intervention as the recruiter
site searches the database and finds your account id
send the account id to the SDL that handles the database input
the accounts are bound

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#12 » Post by Koby » 09 Sep 2012 23:54

RaF would be a cool addition. I'm from Spermik, but there was at least 5-10 people I had referred there to make an account that all got transferred here. If RaF was implemented would there be a way to connect previous recommended friends, or would it only go from time of creation?

I honestly don't know a lot about RaF other than a little bit of the advantages it gives as I've never played on Retail and such and while playing on Spermik since December 2011, I haven't exactly played a whole lot since I took like a seven month break. =P

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#13 » Post by Intervention » 10 Sep 2012 00:38

I think you'd be able to connect previous friends. Heihachi is more an expert on this.

RaF would have been done if it wasn't for the ddos.
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#14 » Post by Heihachi » 10 Sep 2012 01:34

Intervention wrote:RaF would have been done if it wasn't for the ddos.
heres the sad part... i dont know where i am on it anymore... i think i had 2 more things to do i will start back on it when the server is stable thou

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