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Definitely going to be some adjustments in the next update. The gain is too low and the decay is somewhat aggressive. We'll be moving in the balance a bit on either side.

I haven't seen any trolling or inappropriate use of the channel so far, which has been nice, but usage is low, as you'd expect. It only takes one person to ask a question before a handful of people jump in and start answering, which in turn makes more people comfortable asking questions there, but these spurts of activity are few and far between.

As far as the barriers to entry go, as we mentioned in the patch notes, we'll be flagging trustworthy community members with permissions to answer questions, regardless of Mentor Rating, in the future. Outside of that, we'd be hesitant to drop the barriers too much right out the gate.

Would rather this feature cultivates the right community over time, even if the growth is slow.

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This idea is worth a try at least. I'll see if I can make it happen for the next major patch.

Great shot kid! That was one in a million!

The crash was being caused by how the DoT's stacking for the Thumper incendiary rounds. Confirmed this is fixed now.

This is fixed in this release, but did not make it into the patch notes.

PC servers will be taken offline on Thursday, July 25, 2019 at 6:00am PT for maintenance. Downtime is expected to last up to 3 hours.

Forum notes here: https://forums.daybreakgames.com/ps2/index.php?threads/july-25-2019-pc-update-midsummer-mentors.252208/

Mentor System Expansion

Mentor Squads were implemented late into last year, and around that time period we had discussed implementing a Mentor rating system, but ultimately decided not to commit to the work until we knew how players w...

For the servers that host zones it is mostly how many players are connected to those zones, how concentrated those characters are within those zones, and what types of interactions are happening between characters. We have a number of dynamic zones spinning up and down all the time with the current tutorials, and koltyr is a dynamic zone as well actually. Of course we will pay attention to the performance of the servers due to the addition of Sanctuary.

Have an experimental fix for this we'll be trying in the next update. The character will be attached to the drop pod similar to a rumble seat, so that they're more likely to be rendered by the time they land.