Question - Mercenary changes

[blahblahblah84]

I logged in after today's patch, and my FTP characters can no longer use a mercenary! When I try to hire a new one, all the apprentice mercs are displayed as "All Access".

Is anyone else seeing this? Is this a bug, or are they trying to stop FTP?

 

[blahblahblah84]

I just checked the Daybreak forums, and this is showing as a confirmed bug.

 

[durango773]

*** Mercenaries ***

- Mercenaries have been simplified. There are no longer Tiers of mercenaries, only Apprentice and Journeyman ranks.
- - The Apprentice mercenaries are the former Apprentice Tier-V while Journeyman mercenaries are the former Journeyman Tier-V.
- - You must have an all-access account in order to use Journeyman mercenaries. This includes temporary all access gained through using Krono.

So that was the change.. but test doesnt have f2p technically... wonder if it just wasnt tested lol

 

[MadaSnave]

just means a hotfix is in the pipeline like always.

 

[naamloseeen]

*** Mercenaries ***

- Mercenaries have been simplified. There are no longer Tiers of mercenaries, only Apprentice and Journeyman ranks.
- - The Apprentice mercenaries are the former Apprentice Tier-V while Journeyman mercenaries are the former Journeyman Tier-V.
- - You must have an all-access account in order to use Journeyman mercenaries. This includes temporary all access gained through using Krono.

So that was the change.. but test doesnt have f2p technically... wonder if it just wasnt tested lol

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He's talking about the beta server, which is different than the test server and isn't normally accessible to players. I guess that's what he uses for testing though.

 

[durango773]

He's talking about the beta server, which is different than the test server and isn't normally accessible to players. I guess that's what he uses for testing though.

My point was, they didnt "test" it in a real environment... IE where there are F2P accounts... all ships float well on the water.. now lets set it in a corn field..

 

[naamloseeen]

My point was, they didnt "test" it in a real environment... IE where there are F2P accounts... all ships float well on the water.. now lets set it in a corn field..

Yes, absolutely correct. I just wanted to clear up the beta server issue because I didn't know that's what they use for ongoing testing. Neither test nor beta is real-world.