So first of all, nice to see that there has been a noticeable improvement concerning the communication between devs and community since keith is on board, even if some of those posts have been some kind of vague. But hey, i take what i can get, so lets see what the future holds.
so now i´d like to get to the title of that post, probably has been brought up at some point already but since new people are in charge maybe they implement some form of it.
i´ve seen it in other MMOs....if the servers are down (scheduled/unscheduled) there is some kind of compensation for the subscribers.
I´m not talking of "give me free cartel coins" or smth like that but some goodies like cxp-boost or mats that help to compensate the progress lost during downtime.
i thought of something like crates which get delivered to the itemstash of the cartelpackexplorer afterwards so you can claim it once per account but with a toon of your choice. Vary those crates depending if the downtime was planned or not and increase the benefits if there are long delays.
List for possible drops from those "compensation-crates" (reasonable amount):
-cxp-boost
-valor boost
- command tokens
-unassembled components
-carfting materials
-companion gifts
-grand chance cubes
-etc.
Add what you think might help the players to speed up the progress a little bit after such an inconvinince.
i´m no techy but from my point of view this should not be too hard to implement into the game because all of it is already in game in some kind of from but, also it would not hurt the company in any way but would really be a nice move towards the paying players of this game who keep it alife.
To the rest of the community, if you like the idea give it a pump so the thread does not disappear somwehre in the depths of this forum, add improvements if you have some good ideas but please - don´t make over the top demands.
Hopefully this was somewhat understandable, i´m no native ^^
cheers