Curse

Maere · Oct 24, 2008, 01:19 AM // 01:19

I am looking to see if anyone else has this problem. I contacted ANET and they are useless, go figure. They don't GET it. I have a lot of GW toons - about 70 - I like to make toons. I am not a great player, but I get by. I like to get the pressies too. I had made a list of all my toons and how old they are on particular days (should have thought about writing down the exact date, but that's past now, I have done that with more recent toons). On 20 September I checked one account which is Nightfall only. I now have 5 toons on the account. The first 4 were made in the first day or two of the account being opened - the start date of Nightfall, and the 5th was made a year ago. On 20 Sept the account was 23 months old and the 5th toon was 11 months old. On 1 October the 5th toon was 12 months and got her first birthday pressie. On 22 October the account was shown as 25 months old (still is) and the toons are all 23 months old. Doesn't that seem odd? Doesn't that scream "error"? ANET doesn't think so. Has anyone else had this problem? I have one other account which is strictly Nightfall, but I have not yet hit the second birthday. It is due soon as one toon was 22 months on 20 Sept and 23 months on 29 Sept. I have no idea what will happen there.
If you want a screen cap I can add it. Also: none of the toons were deleted and re-rolled, or replaced.

Maere

caballo_oscuro · Oct 24, 2008, 01:47 AM // 01:47

This seems odd alright. Why buy NF twice? Was it cheaper to get all those char slots by just buying a new copy of the game?

If you made your chars on the day NF launched, that would be 28/10/06, then they won't reach their birthday til that date.

The account would show as xx months old depending on when it was created, not when the chars were created so you must have created the account days or weeks before these chars.

Just seems like you have your dates confused there. Wait til the 28th

Shayne Hawke · Oct 24, 2008, 02:01 AM // 02:01

I threw all hope of figuring out my toon's age out the window when too many people complained before the last birthday celebration that their characters weren't getting presents but had passed the age where they were meant to get them.

And also, the leap year.

Instead, I remembered the date of creating my main character, and I'm satisfied with that.

wind fire and ice · Oct 24, 2008, 02:06 AM // 02:06

Anet is useless,and never will understand your problem,its most likely just a glitch in when it says the account was made,if you bought it when NF came out its a week or two before you should have birthdays.

Oh,and maere,you are a great player.

Kerwyn Nasilan · Oct 24, 2008, 02:13 AM // 02:13

70 toons?
12 chars

FlamingMetroid · Oct 24, 2008, 02:18 AM // 02:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maere

I have a lot of GW toons - about 70

I am at a loss for how I am supposed to respond to this

Konig Des Todes · Oct 24, 2008, 05:30 AM // 05:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kerwyn Nasilan

70 toons?
12 chars

My thoughts exactly. I understand up to 20... but more than that seems unfathomable, even on multiple accounts, even if 69 of them were fore minipets.

Reminds me of this guy.

Akolo · Oct 24, 2008, 05:39 AM // 05:39

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Originally Posted by Azazel The Assassin

Reminds me of this guy.

lol.

most likely its actually you who thought wrong, not the dates who showed wrong :P

take_me · Oct 24, 2008, 09:06 AM // 09:06

- Nightfall was released on October 27, 2006
- The Guild Wars Nightfall Prerelease Bonus Pack was released on September 15, 2006

Maybe it has something to do with this?

fenix · Oct 24, 2008, 09:10 AM // 09:10

Uh....70 chars? wat? That's ridiculous. I can't even bring myself to make more than 1 profession :\

bhavv · Oct 24, 2008, 09:20 AM // 09:20

I have 15 characters since back when it was epic difficult having to reroll characters for PVP.

Then they made rerolling easier and shot me in the foot.

fenix · Oct 24, 2008, 09:21 AM // 09:21

I have 13 I think, but half of them aren't mine, and 2 of them are PvP slots >.>

assassin shaun · Oct 24, 2008, 01:04 PM // 13:04

just got a question about character birthdays - what happens if you make your character on the 29th of february? do u get one birthday every four years and then get four presents at once???

Phaern Majes · Oct 24, 2008, 01:25 PM // 13:25

lmao.... I have one of each class + extra slot for another warrior and another slot for pvp. So...12 in all. And I thought I was overkill :S

Anon-e-mouse · Oct 24, 2008, 04:07 PM // 16:07

I have 28 toons over 3 accounts. The plan was to have 1 PvE toon and 1 PvP toon from each profession. Never really got into PvP, so they became mules.

Painbringer · Oct 24, 2008, 04:17 PM // 16:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by Azazel The Assassin

My thoughts exactly. I understand up to 20... but more than that seems unfathomable, even on multiple accounts, even if 69 of them were fore minipets.

Reminds me of this guy.

With that much hardware running at all times I doubt you need to turn on the furnace in winter.

Unless you are working for the Sunday funnies 70 toons seems a bit much.

Maere · Oct 24, 2008, 05:25 PM // 17:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by take_me

- Nightfall was released on October 27, 2006
- The Guild Wars Nightfall Prerelease Bonus Pack was released on September 15, 2006

Maybe it has something to do with this?

This makes sense to me, thank you.

Maere · Oct 24, 2008, 05:28 PM // 17:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by caballo_oscuro

This seems odd alright. Why buy NF twice? Was it cheaper to get all those char slots by just buying a new copy of the game?

If you made your chars on the day NF launched, that would be 28/10/06, then they won't reach their birthday til that date.

The account would show as xx months old depending on when it was created, not when the chars were created so you must have created the account days or weeks before these chars.

Just seems like you have your dates confused there. Wait til the 28th

I created the toons when Nightfall launched. Clearly I have an addiction to making them so I do a lot in a row. The /age on the account is the thing showing the discrepancy and the toons age has not changed in over a month. If I made the account on the trial or the pre order this makes sense now... someone down below mentioned that. it's a good answer.

Maere · Oct 24, 2008, 05:29 PM // 17:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by wind fire and ice

Anet is useless,and never will understand your problem,its most likely just a glitch in when it says the account was made,if you bought it when NF came out its a week or two before you should have birthdays.

Oh,and maere,you are a great player.

I like you, will you be my friend?

Maere · Oct 24, 2008, 05:32 PM // 17:32

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Originally Posted by FlamingMetroid

I am at a loss for how I am supposed to respond to this

You aren't, really, I was asking about account vs toon aging, but if you need some help you could say "I assume you are a shopping addict", or "My, that's excessive, do you get nice armour for all of them?"