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paritybit
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Posted - 2013.06.27 22:25:00 -
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Faction warfare complexes are a broken mechanic. 'Plexers' fly empty ships, warp core stabilized ships, cloaking ships and have almost zero risk in exchange for the loyalty points they are earning. They can do this with day-old characters. There is no way for another player (whether it is a pirate or an opposing faction) to stop the plexer as they can just warp from complex to complex in a single system running each one down a little until they end up back where they started. My assertion is that players who are actively taking part in capturing a complex and fly in ships capable of defending the complex should be rewarded more than players who risk almost nothing.
Empty ships are relatively easy to catch, though there is ample warning and time to escape. Warp core stabilized ships can be killed with a large alpha or multiple points, but often they will warp off. Cloaking ships can be found with enough effort. I am not arguing that there is no counter, but the effort in comparison to the risk is herculean.
I've spoken with people taking advantage of the brokenness. They admit it is broken and there is no risk. I often see new characters (sometimes created that day) who are in faction warfare plexing -- these are never brand new players; they are veterans taking advantage of a broken system.
Faction warfare complex timers should roll back when not actively being run down by a faction warfare pilot. I don't want this to be bogged down by specifics, so I won't indicate at what rate the timers should roll back (but I expect it should be at least at the same rate they are captured and possibly vary depending on the occupant of the complex).
Full disclosure: I am a pirate who often preys on plexers; most of the time I am solo, and often times I am not the victor. This is not a proposal to assure I gather more killmails. |
Erik Luckner
Repo.
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Posted - 2013.06.28 01:45:00 -
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+1
paritybit wrote:Full disclosure: I am a pirate who often preys on plexers; most of the time I am solo, and often times I am not the victor. This is not a proposal to assure I gather more killmails. I support this, also not because I want more killmails, but because this broken mechanic leads to dissatisfying gameplay. My rough estimate is a full 1/2 to 2/3 of plexers warp off/cloak/otherwise avoid conflict. Now sometimes this is justified, but many times it's avoiding an even or advantageous fight.
The broken FW system also leads to things like this, something so efficient at avoiding conflict, it is tremendously difficult to counter solo, or even with multiple players. Erik Luckner [REPO.] Recruitment Officer http://www.repo-corp.net/ Recruitment is OPEN |
Cearain
Black Rebel Rifter Club The Devil's Tattoo
983
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Posted - 2013.07.03 15:51:00 -
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+1
CCP said they would do this but then got distracted into fiddling with the way lp is paid out. (end result: fw still broken) I would love to know if this is still being worked on.
People who want to run and hide from all pvp would still be able to do fw missions. Please allow plexing to be a pvp mechanic.
Anyone who wants to see how to win sov under the current mechanics can go here:
https://api.eveonline.com/eve/FacWarTopStats.xml.aspx
Look up the pilots and most "vp points yesterday" and copy the fits they used that day.
If they didn't lose or kill any ships that day (despite having a huge impact on sov) it should tell you something.
Make faction war occupancy pvp instead of pve https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=53815&#post53815
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paritybit
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Posted - 2013.07.03 18:21:00 -
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I didn't realize you could get the stats that way. It's very interesting.
Seven of the top 10 in the VictoryPointsLastWeek section have none or very few engagements recorded on eve-kill, those that do primarily lose unfitted ships or fit more than one warp core stabilizer. For example, the top character for victory points last week was Mitsuyo Ichinumi who only lost unfit condors. Devora Dora (4th) is only 2 weeks old and has no recorded kills or losses. And Last Starfighter (7th) has no recorded kills or losses. Others have very few kills or losses, but are losing primarily warp core stabilized ships to ships with large alpha or those of us smart enough to fit multiple points and get lucky catching them. |
Taoist Dragon
The Church of Awesome Caldari State Capturing
484
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Posted - 2013.07.03 22:20:00 -
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+1
I am in FW to easily support my pvp habit. However not having the timers roll back is just silly. Both from a lore pov and a gameplay pov.
I personally would also go a step further by removing LP for D-plexing. And add multiple single ship spawns in plex's to ensure that you need at least a combat (not nesicassrily) a pvp fit ship to run them. You could have the second and subsequent npc's not stop the timer so a novice plex doesn't take a year to cap after the initial npc is killed but it would keep the plexer 'active'
As for the removal of LP for d-plexing. I originally thought that LP should be given for d-plexing but now after experianceing months of unfitted LP farmers I am of the opinion that removing it would aid the WZ dynamics greatly. Currently when a faction reaches Teir 3 the farmer flock to said faction and d-plex the crap out of contested systems as the gains are hugh with little to no effort/risk. This also makes the WZ become very static as the 'losing' side finds it very difficult to fight both the pvp'ers and farmers of the 'winning' side to cap systems.
Actually now that I think about it. remove LP for d-plexing would probably be the easiest and most effective method of increaseing pvp and less LP farming.......and if my tinfoil is one right this would have the net benefit of increasing the number of ships lost, therfore increasing the overall isk sink that FW is designed to be economically...... That is the Way, the Tao.
Balance is everything. |
Garviel Tarrant
Beyond Divinity Inc Shadow Cartel
1077
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Posted - 2013.07.04 02:02:00 -
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Should role back a lot faster than they tick down imo.
like 4s every sec BYDI recruitment closed-ish |
Garan Nardieu
Moira. Villore Accords
42
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Posted - 2013.07.04 11:10:00 -
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Absolutely agree with this proposal. There have been several other threads on this subject, so let's hope someone gets on sorting it out.
Quote:Should role back a lot faster than they tick down imo.
like 4s every sec
Agreed.
Also I suggest multiple NPC spawns during countdown (say once every n/5 minutes, n being the original plex timer) and balancing of npcs so that a cloaky stabbed condor can't take out NPC cruisers. (sorry Taoist, only read your post after I posted x)).
As for LP for deplexing, that is less of a problem I thought it would be initially, but if it were to change I'd go with my original proposal (made before LP for D-plex was introduced) - direct defensive plexing LPs to system upgrade status contibutions. No LP's for farmers, but some rewards for defenders. |
Dread Delgarth
Shadows Of The Federation Drunk 'n' Disorderly
7
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Posted - 2013.07.04 12:00:00 -
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+1 for this proposal - personally I think they should roll back 4 times faster so if a stabbed cloaky LP farmer cloaks up in a plex I enter I can hang around (as a neutral pirate) and let it count down quickly. If the farmer isn't willing to fight for his LP rewards he doesn't deserve them! |
Liam Inkuras
Justified Chaos
334
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Posted - 2013.07.04 18:36:00 -
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+1 would love to see this implemented I wear my goggles at night.
Any spelling/grammatical errors come complimentary with my typing on a phone |
Terranid Meester
Tactical Assault and Recon Unit
156
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Posted - 2013.07.05 23:58:00 -
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I think they should shake up the complexes a bit. Remove the idea of small, medium and large complexes [its too predictable], make multiple people decrease the amount of time to capture an area [for of course reduced reward when multiple people do a plex as now], maybe add those roll-back timers, maybe multiple capture areas of a complex [say some will have three outposts instead of one] and when you enter a plex maybe generate random npcs [of same or different types, frigs with battleships for example], get rid of the acceleration gates.
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ReZoon
The Arcanum Pwnasaurus.
4
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Posted - 2013.07.08 01:43:00 -
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It's faction WARfare not carebear |
Thanatos Marathon
Black Fox Marauders
5
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Posted - 2013.07.12 16:05:00 -
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+1 depending on how it is implemented. |
Syrias Bizniz
Carnivore Company
188
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Posted - 2013.07.12 16:44:00 -
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Basically, promoting some thoughts of mine here.
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=3329509#post3329509
Starts at first linked posting, walls of text, maybe hard to understand at first try, especially since i'm not a native english speaker. Few questions, anwers and clarifications in following posts. Would be glad if interested people start debating it, why it's good, why it's bad, how it's exploitable etc etc.
and a +1 for this thread in general |
Milan Nantucket
New Eden Misfits
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Posted - 2013.07.12 23:12:00 -
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+1
The timer could go by how many are in the plex.
More friendlies faster timer. More enemies/neuts the timer slows and possibly goes backwards
So if a players of Caldari is capturing a Gallente and he is by himself then it goes normal speed. If a gallente militia or neut enters the time then stops dead until one of them leaves.
Mulitple neuts/enemies (more than Caldari milita) show up the timer counts downward.
You get the idea... want the plex then work together to get it. |
Bienator II
madmen of the skies
1844
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Posted - 2013.07.12 23:55:00 -
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i fully support any kind of "timer resets" or "backwards running timers" proposals. It was even considered for inferno and i basically mentioned it in every thread i saw devs lurking back than. But devs dropped it (they probably ran out of time, can't remember the reason).
there are several different versions which do more or less the same: - timer reset (immediate) - backwards running (slow but automatic) - quick decontest (timer runs faster till default state is reached)
so game designers would have enough options to balance it up and down (could be even system upgrade lvl dependent)
so yeah +1 eve style bounties (done) dust boarding parties imagine there is war and everybody cloaks - join FW |
Chinwe Rhei
Tribal Liberation Force Minmatar Republic
9
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Posted - 2013.07.13 12:01:00 -
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I don't see why, an armed militia pilot will always make an unarmed weeks old farmer take off and they can wind back down the plex themselves and get their own LP if they want it. It's not like the farmer poses any danger to anyone with a gun.
The plexes aren't there for pirates to get goodfites or whatever so the fact that he isn't forced to stay in the plex when a neutral warps in is working as intended, neuts aren't supposed to have a big effect on the outcome of sovereignty or it's gonna get abused to hell and back. I sure don't want to see people starting to use non-milita alts for defensive plexing because you get no warning in local, that would be much worse than whatever frustration you get for not catching a guy with WCS.
For the record i never used an unarmed or stabbed ship in a plex. But i do sometimes warp out when some neut tard warps in, sue me. |
Bienator II
madmen of the skies
1845
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Posted - 2013.07.13 16:46:00 -
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Chinwe Rhei wrote:I don't see why, an armed militia pilot will always make an unarmed weeks old farmer take off and they can wind back down the plex themselves and get their own LP if they want it. It's not like the farmer poses any danger to anyone with a gun.
what do you think the alt does while you undo the damage he did in the plex? he plexes another system or waits at you in the other plex in the same system. Now you can choose tho hunt him around all the time or decontest. In any case he already won since you alone can not undo the damage he did while he runs or plexes. His risk investment: 0, he probably multiboxes mutiple pexes at once. Your risk investment: a combat ship. He makes progress while running away, you do not while willing to fight. Why should you plex in combat ships again?
why should you be able to take over systems without being able to defend the plex you are in? Imagine it is war and everybody cloaks. eve style bounties (done) dust boarding parties imagine there is war and everybody cloaks - join FW |
Syrias Bizniz
Carnivore Company
189
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Posted - 2013.07.13 17:02:00 -
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Chinwe Rhei wrote:I don't see why, an armed militia pilot will always make an unarmed weeks old farmer take off and they can wind back down the plex themselves and get their own LP if they want it. It's not like the farmer poses any danger to anyone with a gun.
The plexes aren't there for pirates to get goodfites or whatever so the fact that he isn't forced to stay in the plex when a neutral warps in is working as intended, neuts aren't supposed to have a big effect on the outcome of sovereignty or it's gonna get abused to hell and back. I sure don't want to see people starting to use non-milita alts for defensive plexing because you get no warning in local, that would be much worse than whatever frustration you get for not catching a guy with WCS.
For the record i never used an unarmed or stabbed ship in a plex. But i do sometimes warp out when some neut tard warps in, sue me.
Please note how you, if you want to have the LP from the site you scared the farmer away, have to run a timer for LONGER than default and get paid the SAME. It's UNATTRACTIVE to run these sites if you're for the LP. So if you want those LP for yourself, you ignore the farmer and go get your own plex. And at this time you might actually just change ship to a farming WCS cloaky aswell.
Which makes plexing a PvE expierience unless you have guys entering plexes in hope for enemies who are also up for pvp wanna shoo away the bad farmer or actually get a fight.
And most of the time once a fight's on the horizon people tend to call in as much backup as possible, but can't blame em, it's their blindness for killboard effectiveness. |
Mag's
the united Negative Ten.
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Posted - 2013.07.13 17:41:00 -
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Sounds like a fair proposal.
+1
Destination SkillQueue:- It's like assuming the lions will ignore you in the savannah, if you're small, fat and look helpless. |
darmwand
Repo.
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Posted - 2013.07.13 17:46:00 -
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Bienator II wrote:Imagine it is war and everybody cloaks.
Thanks, got myself a new sig.
Also I fully support this. I've had some great fights against FW plexers but they are extremely rare. "Imagine it is war and everybody cloaks." -- Bienator II |
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Veshta Yoshida
PIE Inc. Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
728
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Posted - 2013.07.14 11:03:00 -
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If nothing else, then your Ego is thriving Parity
What makes you think that an on paper unaligned entity making the same suggestion that entities from all four militias have been making for years, carries more weight? ... hahahahaha.
Last word was that CCP was rather happy with FW currently, but I fear the truth is much more dire and that there are some in Iceland who see the idiocy of current but are either hushed by higher up are experiencing a brain freeze when trying to figure out what can be done.
In any case; Good luck with your endeavour. |
Mr Barbeque
Mayhem and Ruin
2
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Posted - 2013.07.14 19:19:00 -
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Bienator II wrote: there are several different versions which do more or less the same: - timer reset (immediate) - backwards running (slow but automatic) - quick decontest (timer runs faster till default state is reached)
so game designers would have enough options to balance it up and down (could be even system upgrade lvl dependent)
so yeah +1
I fully support this. +1
In addition, I would support a few other changes that I believe would improve FW gameplay. -No warp stabs in deadspace. FW, DED complexes, missions, all of them. -No cloaks in deadspace. (exceptions being ships capable of covops cloaks) -'Allied' militia should show as they truly are, neutral. -Acceleration gate activation should not interrupt target locking. (this is seriously wrong, It makes about as much sense as 1+1=3)
I think these changes would be a good way to improve FW gameplay without a full overhaul. On the flip side; I would also support a full FW overhaul including 4 (or more with yarr factions) faction FFA, combination of warzones into a single large warzone that all can participate in, and system upgrades similar to 0.0 increasing the value of upgraded space (better complexes, PI, exploration sites, ect...) But that is a lofty idea far from implementation, and I would prefer a fix that doesn't take forever and a day to become practical. |
Bienator II
madmen of the skies
1853
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Posted - 2013.07.16 16:23:00 -
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Mr Barbeque wrote:Bienator II wrote: there are several different versions which do more or less the same: - timer reset (immediate) - backwards running (slow but automatic) - quick decontest (timer runs faster till default state is reached)
so game designers would have enough options to balance it up and down (could be even system upgrade lvl dependent)
so yeah +1
I fully support this. +1 In addition, I would support a few other changes that I believe would improve FW gameplay. -No warp stabs in deadspace. FW, DED complexes, missions, all of them. -No cloaks in deadspace. (exceptions being ships capable of covops cloaks). ...
you won't need those restrictions if some form of timer reset is implemented. eve style bounties (done) dust boarding parties imagine there is war and everybody cloaks - join FW |
chatgris
Quantum Cats Syndicate Samurai Pizza Cats
559
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Posted - 2013.07.17 17:16:00 -
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Garviel Tarrant wrote:Should role back a lot faster than they tick down imo.
like 4s every sec
I strongly disagree here. (Though I fully support the OP for a timer rollback).
What I don't want to see is plexing become is a "get in a blob and run people out of plexes activity". The biggest thing I like about FW is that for warzone control, unlike nullsec, it's about dispersion of force, not concentration of force.
Making the rollback faster than the capture makes it more efficient to eject people out of plexes with a blob. |
Veshta Yoshida
PIE Inc. Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
738
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Posted - 2013.07.21 16:10:00 -
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chatgris wrote:Garviel Tarrant wrote:Should role back a lot faster than they tick down imo.
like 4s every sec I strongly disagree here. (Though I fully support the OP for a timer rollback). What I don't want to see is plexing become is a "get in a blob and run people out of plexes activity". The biggest thing I like about FW is that for warzone control, unlike nullsec, it's about dispersion of force, not concentration of force. Making the rollback faster than the capture makes it more efficient to eject people out of plexes with a blob. I liked the idea of increasing roll-back based on system upgrade level. Wouldn't/Shouldn't be much, say 10% per level so that defenders get more of a benefit out of the LP dump .. 10% equates to -1/3rd and it would in any case only apply until timer is reset.
The "Blob system/plexes" is already the M.O. as it is the only 'speedy' way of insuring the plexes and it is the only way of attacking HQ systems where the generic farmer, which are usually used for the bulk plexing, are easily countered by just a few defenders. Will never be applicable more than a few jumps from a HQ at any rate as the operational sphere of mains is minuscule to say the least, practically all plexing outside of HQ+2j is done by alts/ninjas/farmers.
Whole thing needs revision, but roll-back remains the single most effective (on paper) tourniquet that can be applied until such a time that Devs realise they ****** FW up and can spare the time to sort their mess. |
Conseptionism
Evolutions End
1
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Posted - 2013.07.29 04:25:00 -
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I'm with you I think there should be roll back timer I know that with out this the system is severely broken in that you can earn hundreds of millions of isk per hour with the current system using the tactic described. We were able to partially test this with the Markee Dragon stream. If it wasn't streamed there wouldn't have been so many snipers and much more profitable but still it was proven doable. |
Leto Thule
Sons of Retribution
10
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Posted - 2013.08.16 15:51:00 -
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+1 for this.
Id personally like to see some form of preventive measure to keep pilots IN the plex for a certain time once they initiate the counter. That way when you want to go capture something, you would not be able to leave for a preset amount of time. |
paritybit
Repo.
261
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Posted - 2013.08.16 17:59:00 -
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Leto Thule wrote:Id personally like to see some form of preventive measure to keep pilots IN the plex for a certain time once they initiate the counter. That way when you want to go capture something, you would not be able to leave for a preset amount of time.
I think that's a little too harsh; there would be no compelling reason to try capturing a complex because you'd always be afraid that a big gang was lurking just next door.
It makes complete sense for a solo pilot to run from a large gang. But rolling back timers would make a solo pilot think twice about leaving when another solo pilot came in. |
Domanique Altares
Rifterlings Point Blank Alliance
1162
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Posted - 2013.08.27 03:40:00 -
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Supported. Timer rollbacks and an enhanced barrier to entry should be first and foremost in any changes to the FW income stream. Rifterlings pirate corporation is now recruiting pilots for lowsec solo & small gang operations. Visit our website at www.rifterlings.com or join our in game channel weflyrifters to speak to a recruiter. |
Thanatos Marathon
Black Fox Marauders
14
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Posted - 2013.08.28 12:23:00 -
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+1 for timer rollbacks |
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