I could see something like that working in certain circumstances, most quests have an "acquisition phase" where you actually have to go talk to someone before you can launch it from the expedition menu.

Assuming you had a few queued up, or if it was an activity that was always available that could be an option! 😊

Dear /u/Darthchrisshaw I just wanted to pop in here and apologize for a terrible player experience that I am directly responsible for. As the Stronghold lead the buck stops with me. I can offer explanations but at the end of the day, that doesn't change the experience.

What I really want to do is come in here and explain what we are doing about this so you don't continue to suffer these situations in the Strongholds.

1. We've disabled every "backtracking" fog wall in the Temple of Scar and Heart of Rage. So as of the next patch, forgive me for not having the exact dates as I'm at home, it should be the next scheduled patch in March. Internally it's called 1.0.4. So once that patch lands you should never run into this situation again in either of those strongholds. (This is different f...

That's a great idea, thanks for the suggestion! I'll pass it along. 😊

First, I want to thank you for writing this up. I appreciate the honesty of how you (and others) feel about the current state of things. I also want to say that I can’t talk about everything, simply because it is not my area of expertise, or because I don’t have the information you’re looking for. I stand by our statement of being transparent though and will continue to do so here and on other channels.

Now, I want to address some of your points that I can:

Communication -

Pre-game release vs Post game release –

To start, things used to be a lot friendlier here for dev team members who normally don’t talk on social channels or forums. They could answer questions, give information and know that they aren’t going to have people getting upset at them. Why would a dev team member take time away from working on the next update to post when they know it’s likely to be met with hostile replies, or they get flamed because can’t answer ot...

Thank you all for the information. The team is aware of this and a fix will go in as soon as possible.

Agreed, this is a bug - it's filed and we're looking at fixes!

Thanks for the link, I'll take a look at that soon! 😊

Ah I'm sorry, that wasn't the intent - I just needed more context so I knew who to go talk to 😊.

Thanks for the context! I don't have the right information right now to be able to get into those details - that's more the domain of the systems designers...

Let me do a bit of investigation and get back to you - at the very least I can probably provide some more context to the reverse engineering you've been doing. 😊