I keep reading the spam from the GMs about petitions and their being deleted if not X.
Well, finally I needed a GM to help me out. 2 Nights ago I was killed by the Fallen Trees by 2 beetles (yes, embarassing - was lvl14, my defense is wife was talking I was looking at her spamming my nuke knowing I had the bug pwned... didn't realize 2 were on me hehe oops)
I go back, its close to altar and no tombstone. While later get someone to verify it isn't there in case was just my UI (I relogged) the red dot shows the spot I RECALL dying at so that isn't it. It WAS on a hill though...
I decide to do nekkid missives to pass the time. Log our 3 hours later ;P
Log in last night 9PM. Logged out at 5AM (half day at work) - I left the toon logged in with an AFK message on to move the invis tombstone - no tells were received.
To add to the issue, when I logged in at 9PM my corpse was no longer in the journal locs. The night before and last night I tried /targetmy over the body. Both times said no corpse w/i 400m (ie: when loc showed me on the body and when last night body loc gone)
After hearing in /region more than one person waiting 3 or 6 days, I summoned my body. I wish I had asked the previous night instead of believing that with them only answering Stuck/lost stones/etc the response would be reasonable (< 1 hour to 1.5 max)
Due to my own fault, I missed out on getitng Lurker gear easily for myself (yes, not the best etc - I don't BUY gear tho and that is close and easy) - it was the first time I went to that camp and finished the cloak quest nekkid but didn't want to go in the bldg without gear assuming those fights are harder.
Patch came and when I did go in after summoning (losing all the EXP, which they will never return if they could - cos they will say like in EQ "you could be lying" - and ~2s in repairs (full packs hehe) but that's trivial and the EXP is not REALLY a big deal, I dinged 15 before logging anyhow.
But it does make me worry about future issues of this sort. And I never like my first CS experience leaving a bad taste in my mouth. I brought in yet another member last night (Hessian, if you see him - /wave on Thunder) and still have to say I love this game, just also have to tell him that at the moment CS is worthless in any sort of realtime. Atm they are good for non-emergencies and what the heck IS that good for then?
I know they are working hard but we need to figure out something.
An improvement to petitions would be a 1) Stuck 2) Lost Tombstone 3) Lost items (this can probably be responded to slower, depends on the item) 4) Harassment 5) Character Issue (I have no idea what this is exactly if it isn;t hust the first 3 choices I added?) 6) Game issues (not sure what falls in this either) The last 2 need more refinement or removal from choices imo.
Then the GM client can move the pets up in priority queues based on category. If someone lies about category their petition is unanswered/deleted and repeat offenders should be flagged and whatever you guys want to do with them - berate or nothing ;P dunno.
Right now the 2 categories are vague so people cannot be helped in a timely manner.