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CCP Blowout
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.01.13 08:21:00 -
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Good day DUST 514 newsletter readers,
First off - a happy 2014 to all of you! Now, I'm opening this up to the community:
What would you like to see in the newsletters this year?
Every month the DUST 514 big dogs lock me in a dark, cold room until I've churned out the monthly email newsletter, depriving me of food, water and PlayStation 3 access until the job is done. Since I am enduring these conditions for all of you, I figured I may as well produce the emails you want to read - complete with some unique content, free item giveaways exclusive to verified subscribers, latest event information, new in the marketplace notifications and so on...
But what else would you like to read? Let's discuss it in this awesome forum.
SPECIAL COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INCENTIVE PRIZE: First ten replies get to be the next ten posters in this thread! |
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CCP Blowout
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.01.13 08:34:00 -
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Wait, KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf, is that just a list of requests for free stuff? I'll see what I can do. There's a big freeb coming next week, but I can't say more right now.
Vulpes Dolosus: GREAT - you're going to be happy, then, as I am starting an 'Artist Focus' regular as of this month. |
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CCP Blowout
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.01.13 08:40:00 -
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Zeylon Rho wrote:CCP Blowout wrote:Good day DUST 514 newsletter readers,
First off - a happy 2014 to all of you! Now, I'm opening this up to the community:
SPECIAL COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INCENTIVE PRIZE: First ten replies get to be the next ten posters in this thread!
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What would you like to see in the newsletters this year?
A. A shout-out to the first ten posters in the next newsletter. B. Bite-sized glimpses - have three different devs give a very short blurb (literally a sentence or two) on some thing they're currently working on, with an accompanying pic, no promises, just a peak behind the curtain as it were. C. Random stats, throw out a couple stats like "most used dropsuit", "least used weapon", "most played map" and such. D. The instructional: a paragraph of advice for new players (possibly a submitted guest column).
This is good stuff, thank you. A: I'll see what I can do! B might be a little difficult from the room I'm locked up in! C sounds cool and I will speak to the Data Robots in Iceland to see what they can deliver in terms of this kind of thing. D is something we are already underway with! |
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CCP Blowout
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.01.13 08:41:00 -
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Syeven Reed wrote:I subscribed at the beginning and never received the last two/three news letters... could you fix that first? :D
Hmmmm... what is your email service provider? Have you definitely verified the address at http://dust514.com/users ?
KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf wrote:Hopefully it will be new stuff we haven't already seen.
That is the plan! |
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CCP Blowout
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.01.13 08:59:00 -
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Hmmmmm. OK, I'm looking into why some Gmail users are receiving just fine, and others are not. Sinboto Simmons, I can see you are subscribed but I get no indication of activity, whereas Syeven Reed, I can see you have opened and even clicked on some of the mailings.
Did you not receive the 12 Days of DUST mailings? One was sent on Christmas Eve, and one one the 2nd of January? You know that you have to both subscribe and verify your email address?
This will not do. No, this will not do at all. |
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CCP Blowout
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.01.13 09:05:00 -
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Luther Mandrix wrote: That you let CPM see your news letter and give you feedback before controversy happens.
I am intrigued! What sort of controversy are we trying to avoid here?
Including a monthly roadmap might be a bit tough, especially a 6-month down the road thing... that's just not feasible for a number of reasons.
As for a revised list of bug and map fixes, this sounds good. Thanks.
Luther Mandrix wrote: I want the eve community to see that a great blood conflict is happening.
Hehehehehhehehehe *evil chuckles abound* |
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CCP Blowout
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.01.13 09:11:00 -
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OK - thanks Syeven... hope that gets/got sorted? |
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CCP Blowout
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.01.13 09:23:00 -
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Subject 36 wrote:How's about the people who read the newsletters get exclusive news. Like reading patch notes a day before everybody gets to read them.
There is some content that only goes live when we are sending the newsletters, but because everything is hosted on dust514.com we have it all open to the public. Newsletter subscribers are the first to hear about this content, however.
What we do offer as an exclsuive to newsletters is that the free items are only available to those who subscriber. |
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CCP Blowout
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.01.13 09:34:00 -
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Nahtlog wrote:- Small interview with different devs in the studio of what they are working on (A sentence to a paragraph). I could probably list some more but it's 1 in the morning and I am tired. x_x
But your list is great, so feel free to suggest more when it's not 1 in the morning! Thanks for the suggestions. Confirming that improving "Artist stuff (Concept art, 3D Models, etc)" is one of my focuses for this year. |
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CCP Blowout
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.01.13 09:36:00 -
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Syeven Reed wrote:Hows about statistics? Like, How much ISK was destroyed last month and how many OP and WS where deployed ect?
EDIT: just read the post above me, I like his idea for statistics!
Warbarge Strikes and...? OP = Orbital Bombardments? Orbital Pombardments? |
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CCP Blowout
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.01.13 09:40:00 -
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The-Errorist wrote:For the monthly newsletter, I would like to see a net percent gain/loss of district ownership changes for the top 10 corporations in Planetary Conquest.
How would you like this data presented? Don't you think this would work just fine as a regular news post and a forum thread about it and discussion on social media?
Thing is that newsletters don't always come out on the exact day each month, so some specific data will only have had 3 weeks some months, and five weeks or so during other months, because of other content or events we coordinate the newsletter send date with.
It's a cool suggestion though - thank you. |
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CCP Blowout
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.01.13 09:44:00 -
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Justicar Karnellia wrote:CCP Blowout wrote:Good day DUST 514 newsletter readers,
First off - a happy 2014 to all of you! Now, I'm opening this up to the community:
What would you like to see in the newsletters this year?
Every month the DUST 514 big dogs lock me in a dark, cold room until I've churned out the monthly email newsletter, depriving me of food, water and PlayStation 3 access until the job is done. Since I am enduring these conditions for all of you, I figured I may as well produce the emails you want to read - complete with some unique content, free item giveaways exclusive to verified subscribers, latest event information, new in the marketplace notifications and so on...
But what else would you like to read? Let's discuss it in this awesome forum.
SPECIAL COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INCENTIVE PRIZE: First ten replies get to be the next ten posters in this thread! First off - the choice to receive the newsletters in our language of choice, regardless of the localization of our PSN account. 2nd - Love those free goodies you guys send out - it would be nice to personalise it somehow, giving out versions of the weapon you use the most (akin to the event rewards). I'm all for receiving free stuff, but until there's a player market (which won't be soon), receiving 50 burnstalk laser rifles is kind of underwhelming, especially since the weapon itself is underwhelming, but maybe this was the purpose of the give-away? It would be interesting to see how this is decided from your end. 3rd - exclusive news that is only available via the newsletter - although I don't see how this is possible, as most of the exclusive news comes out of the forums, and even then it's not even "official" exclusive content, but a mixture of rumour mongering combined with a quoted IRC chat log... 4rd - exclusive marketplace promotions only available to newsletter subscribers. Again, I don't see how you could do this easily from a technical perspective but it would be nice...
Thanks for all the suggestions.
1. Which language would you like to receive it in?
2. I can assure you that none of our free giveaways are intended to be underwhelming. Absolutely not. We have a bigger giveaway this month, but I'll let you wait until next week to see if you prefer it. (I don't think it will be underwhelming at all! )
3. As I mentioned a little earlier, there is some stuff that is tied to coincide with the newsletter and newsletter subscribers are the first to hear about it, but because all the news is publicly available on the website, we can't promise exclusivity in that area at this time.
4. This will be an interesting one to raise with the right people and I'll see if there is anything that can be done. I can't promise anything, however.
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CCP Blowout
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.01.13 11:58:00 -
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The 'Christmas' newsletters were the 12 Days of DUST emails - not regular monthly newsletters. |
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CCP Blowout
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.01.14 02:32:00 -
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Egypt Musk wrote:CCP Blowout wrote:The 'Christmas' newsletters were the 12 Days of DUST emails - not regular monthly newsletters. still didnt recieve them but way to avoid my question ;) Is it safe to say nothing will be done to rectify this then?
I wasn't avoiding your question, and no, not it's not safe - nor correct - to say that nothing will be done to rectify this.
I've looked into a number of cases in this thread already and found that mails are being delivered and opened. I'll look into yours now, as this is obviously not what we want, and there is something wrong sometimes (generally with the subscriber's ISP or mail service incorrectl flagging our mailings as spam) and users sometimes have to take the extra step to manually add our sender address to their safe senders list.
I'll post in here when I know more.
Medic 1879 wrote: Also never seeing the words SOONGäó in regards to content in newsletters would be lovely
Then you should already be pretty happy as we have not used SOONGäó in the newsletters in the entire time I've been with CCP |
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CCP Blowout
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.01.14 02:46:00 -
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Egypt Musk wrote:CCP Blowout wrote:The 'Christmas' newsletters were the 12 Days of DUST emails - not regular monthly newsletters. still didnt recieve them but way to avoid my question ;) Is it safe to say nothing will be done to rectify this then?
OK - I've just gone into the system and checked your b*******2@hotmail address shows no activity. It is subscribed, though, which I can only assume means Hotmail/MSN are flagging a false positive and sending our mailings straight to spam. Have you checked your spam/promotions/other folders to check for DUST emails?
Have you tried any other email service provider? I know our Gmail subscribers receive them either directly into their inbox or into the 'Promotions' folder.
Let's get this sorted out
IgniteableAura wrote:I think overall statistics would be nice.
Brush Master wrote:Would like some overview statistics [...]
Seems a bunch of people want to read these - I'll see what I can do. |
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CCP Blowout
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.01.14 03:05:00 -
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CHECHOMAN wrote:A clone that has the 2 guns , can shoot with both at the same time being statically .
The gauss rifle , be charged shot option as imperiar inhibitor , I mean an adjustment to create you the option of single shot or automatic .
An icon that marks your teammates to these minimum ammunition .
Assemblies that can be calculated , in the edition of assembly, and that you check with the amount of isk mountains for books and the necessary skills that you would have to habrir mounted to it , and if you have those amounts automatically open .
Including video tutorials , an educational mode and the main languages GÇïGÇïplay structure , skills, weapons , xomo open and which is open to , would come in handy for the novice.
The public battles over 3 levels , basic , advanced, prototype, and for example in the basic can only fight with basic suit and basic weapon, and so respectively , that would come in handy for making the battles more leveled between users.
A maximum of 4 vehicles ( cars , navs , tanks ) per team.
Tanks more expensive and less military life , and the more expensive advanced (I'm also tank).
Some new weapons, including a flamethrower
They improve the combat suits , have the logistical and combat prototype gk.0 use the logistic ck.0 prototype , the prototype ck.0 logistics would have to have 4 modules high , and 3 low and prototype combat ck . 0 would have to be 5 high and 4 low .
A sp reset points , free, or aurum .
:Google Translator
That's a lot of stuff for the game itself and not so much for the newsletter - what I can do for the newsletter is to try and include links to videos when they are released, but beyond that your requests probably belong in another thread. I can't, say, ensure a maximum of 4 vehicles per team in my emails.
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CCP Blowout
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.01.14 03:30:00 -
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Nahtlog wrote:CCP Blowout wrote:[quote=Nahtlog] An idea came into my head that is of a small Q&A. Players can post in a thread that yourself or whoever else works on the newsletter to answer these questions yourself or other devs in the studio could. You can always choose which go into the newsletter of course.. Thanks for the suggestions. You know we did this in November, right? And I'll be setting one up for February as well (January;s content has already been decided, and the questions will be related to a new regular we are launching as of next week ) [quote=Dimitri Rascolovitch] your link is broken
Thanks for pointing that out - I meant http://dust514.com/user/ |
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CCP Blowout
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.01.14 03:35:00 -
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Adelia Lafayette wrote:I've definitly verfied it. I think I still have that email still kicking around verfying it. sent a ticket who sent me the reward links but hasn't fixed it.
Do you have a second email address you can try just to check where the issue is? If you can go to the /user page and change it, then verify and see what happens?
If that works - and it should - you should be able to then just change back to your Gmail account, verify that and be in the system just fine.
I'll work with the back-end crew later this month to try and determine what's up here - seems Hotmail and Gmail users are definitely experiencing some problems. Hopefully this will not be something we can't resolve due to it being on the Hotmail/Gmail side of things.
Any other issues you experience, feel free to post in this thread! |
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CCP Blowout
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.01.14 04:12:00 -
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So what if we combined a few of the last suggestions and ran a competition where users designed a suit, weapon or what have you, and a few of us here at DUST HQ in Shanghai go over the submissions and pick out the winner.
Then, that person gets to put together a fit or pick out a suit/weapon that is then given out as the freeb in the next newsletter subscriber giveaway?
Just throwing it out there - not promising this can be done at this point, as it would rely on quite a few teams here and thus have a number of moving parts that are beyond my control here in the Shanghai editorial pit (read: broom closet and electric typewriter). |
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CCP Blowout
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.01.14 09:02:00 -
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Egypt Musk wrote:I have revarifide my account on the 3 accounts before and the varification emails show up in all 3 email accounts but never the news letters
And you have definitely followed the link in the verification email? Were you able to claim a reward item for verifying? |
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CCP Blowout
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.01.14 13:43:00 -
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Disturbingly Bored wrote:Honestly Blowout, I'd say you've done a fine job with the newsletters. Good info, good layout, good writing, good art, and good freebies. It keeps me reading. So what I really want is... more of the same?
Thanks very much! You will be getting more of the same, plus from the looks of things, stats, lore and extra bits and pieces.
Egypt Musk wrote:heres a twist after revarifying it back to the original email there is 50 burstalks waiting for me *scratches head*
Progress! I think you are set now. Sorry this has been a headache for you - blame gremlins or something. But you know what that indicates is that the verification process did not complete before, or else you would have received those 50 Burnstalks ages ago.
You should now *definitely* get the next mailing, due out some time next week |
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CCP Blowout
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.01.15 02:11:00 -
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OK, thanks for even more replies to go over with my morning coffee and porl baozis.
First off, for those of you suggesting things like "hover bikes" and "jet plains" (sic) and new rifles and weapon changes - sure, I can write lists of these things in the newsletter if you like, but it won't achieve much! Don't forget that this is a newsletter content feedback thread, not an in-game features feedback thread!
Next, to the mercs saying they are having trouble with emails not coming through... well, we managed to get this sorted for some users by going into http://dust514.com/user and changing email addresses, then changing email address back to what you want it to be, and then making sure you actually click the link in the verification email and get your 50 free Burnstalk rifles.
If you don't get those 50 guns, you're not properly subscribed (unless of course you received them ages ago and just forgot?)
Anyway, keep on posting here if you have completed the above steps and still your email account seems to hate our newsletters. |
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CCP Blowout
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.01.23 06:09:00 -
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Hey - good to hear that you received it. I hope you guys enjoy this month's newsletter - there will be more coming in late February - maybe sooner, but no promises - so drop any feedback you have here, and I will do my best to incorporate all that you guys want to see.
Cheers. |
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CCP Blowout
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.01.23 08:18:00 -
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xp3ll3d dust wrote:CCP Blowout wrote:Hey - good to hear that you received it. I hope you guys enjoy this month's newsletter - there will be more coming in late February - maybe sooner, but no promises - so drop any feedback you have here, and I will do my best to incorporate all that you guys want to see.
Cheers. I'm glad I saw this blue post so I knew to check my mail. Every other newsletter had come through fine, but gmail decided to flag this one edition as spam. Luckily I knew to go hunting for it!
So strange - have you added to safe senders?
By the way, we could be going to spam if some people decide to unsubscribe by reporting as spam in Gmail rather than properly unsubscribing/changing subscription preferences... so if you are a DUST newsletter subscriber and don't want to get it anymore, take the extra few seconds to properly unsubscribe or else you could be negatively affecting how Google registers our emails sent to other players. Thanks! |
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CCP Blowout
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Posted - 2014.01.24 07:54:00 -
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Hi - sometimes it is just not possible to send out newsletters before events start given certain timings, sorry.
Also, for those using email services such as Gmail etc - they do delivery staggering and there is literally no way we can get around that except by having players all add us to safe sender lists. So I can send the mail at 1pm on Wednesday and you might only get it 1pm on Friday purely because Google or whoever decide to do this.
Best way to ensure you get it quickly? Add us to safe senders - which also helps prevent false positives on spam flagging! Bonus win win for all! |
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CCP Blowout
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.01.24 08:09:00 -
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Vrain Matari wrote:
P.S. If you let us know where they're holding you maybe we can slip a few crusts of bread under the door ;)
I am contractually obliged not to reveal the location, but I can say it is in this aerial photograph of a section of Outer Mongolian desert. Technically, beneath what is in this picture, but you get the idea. http://viiphoto.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/MOD12017_022-1072x714.jpg |
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CCP Blowout
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.01.26 02:07:00 -
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IgniteableAura wrote:What about the hilmar suits? I haven't received anything on acquiring those and I have been signed up for the newsletter since its first issue?
Hey - this has been explained here:
At least one login during the anniversary event - from server up on 22 January until server down on 28 January - is required to qualify for the dropsuits. Dropsuits will be distributed on or about 29 January following server up. Additional terms and conditions may apply.
Aggrohim wrote:How do I subscribe to newsletter
Have you tried going to http://dust514.com/user and changing your email subscription status (check at the bottom of the page). |
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CCP Blowout
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2014.02.17 04:40:00 -
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Nope - not yet... this will be going out next week, though!
Exile Code - have you verified your email address? You can check it in the dust514.com/user area. You should have recieved some Burnstalk Rifles if you did. If you have not received any Burnstalks, then the email is not properly verified... |
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