Sigh, stupid patches :(

[Devilcharm]

237 unmodified tinkering. 5% trophy mod at 66%. 67 combines of gauze presses, 72 combines of molten metal bow cams, 7 crab crackers, 24 colapsable tool boxes. Max INT (255)

0 skill-ups
0% XP applied to trophy (yes XP was turned on)

While I hated the last rollback when those merchants were in PoK selling tradeskill goods, I hope sony does another rollback for "accidently" giving people Vet AA awards they are not eligable for.

[Dutchy]

And rollfronts for those of us who's vet abilities have been stuck since that double exp weekend! my /played has showed 4.2 years for months now.... got my 5th vet award today anyways. But I believe I should have 6 lol, the people that I started playing EQ with all have 1 more than I do =(
Still need to petition about it but I'm going to check my billing first to see at what date I actually started playing because the in game one that shows up is not making any sence. Anyone happen to know btw if the special subscriptions we could grab with the 1 extra veteran award actually gave you +1 vet award on top of what we should have, or if it just gave you the next vet award earlier meaning youd have to wait almost 2 years on the next one?

[Ngreth Thergn]

the +1 year.. is for folks that pay for a whole year of EQ in advance.

[Dutchy]

Thanks much Ngreth, thats what I thought. I took that option but I must be bugged somehow =( gonna petition and hope the GMs can help me out on this one.

[Devilcharm]

Well, do know this.
2 of my characters on Tunare got 1 extra vet AA (for a total of 3 each) and a /played time of 2.5 years. I should not have gotten the chotic jester AA. Just for testing purposes I logged out and logged in a 3rd toon and tried /veteran to see if he can get the vet AA's. Got the error message saying I already claimed them. No biggy i figure, I'll be content with the extra AA on the other two characters.

So I log out yet again but instead of logging into Tunare, I log into the progression servers to see how things are going there (I'll leave the ranting of the progression servers outta discussion). But then all of a sudden I got 2 Vet AA's on my character on there. Thinking wierd, I make a new toon and got 2 vet AA's well.

I think it is a bug, I do actually suspect SOE will do something to correct it. All I know is I want the combine items back from before the non-exsistant skill-up run. I can accept a bad RNG for not giving me a single skill-up. It has been known to happen, tho a 170 combine run is a little unlikely. But not getting even 1% of trophy XP for those 170 combines when it falls into Xp'able combines, there was definately a bug. If I /petition I can guarantee one thing is for certain, the GM's wont give the items back. I tried that a couple times. One when accidently hit the combine button on a lag spike in a mechanoinstruction with only a 131 research skill, and another for a quest combine that turned no-drop after successful combine when all I meant to do was store them for a friend as he was outta inventory room. Both times the GM's refused to give the items back, if I /petition this, I know they will give some hoola reason for no skill-ups or trophy XP.

[Twistagain]

Ok, this will probably be a silly question. So, please don't get irate...just asking: Did you have the trophy equipped? I know that I have all 7 trophies and occasionally realize that I have the wrong one equipped when I do some combines.

[Bobaten]

Ignoring the extra vet aa's that everyone got last patch, vet rewards work like this:
You get 1 veteran reward for every year you have paid (from the time you first subscribed, until the end of your current subscription).
The in-game /played command actually shows paid time, it only updates when you renew your subscription or add a game card.

There are a couple delays in the process.
1. Your /played time has a bit of lag after you renew before it updates
2. New veteran rewards are only given out once per month.
So it is not uncommon to have to wait a month or more after renewing before you get a new veteran reward.

Signing up for the 1 year subscription didn't really give you an extra reward, it just pushed your paid time ahead a year, so you got your reward a year early.
My brother for example, started playing over a year after I did. His one year subscription renewed in January 2004. In April 2004 he signed up for the 5th anniversary deal, so he was now paid 2 years ahead. In 2005 he signed up for the 6th anniversary deal, so he was still paid 2 years ahead.
When veteran rewards came out, he had as many as I did, because our total subscription time was nearly the same.

As far as the bonus vet aa we all just got, according to EQlive yesterday, it will not be removed, but when your year renews, you won't get the next one (because you already have it).

[Devilcharm]

Yes trophy was equipped in the ammo slot, same slot I have all other trophies when I do tradeskills and they get XP.

[Devilcharm]

As far as the bonus vet aa we all just got, according to EQlive yesterday, it will not be removed, but when your year renews, you won't get the next one (because you already have it).

Well then there is a huge bug in that case. All my toons on different servers got the 2 year award that did not priorly have them, nor did I do a /veteran to claim them. Any link on this page your refering to? When the 3rd year of my vet AA's becomes eligable, I want to claim it on the Tunare server for my rogue, but since the other toons all got the second year award for not bing eligable, I am curious to if I can claim the 3rd year when eligable for whatever toon I chose, or will it default them to the toons who I did not /veteran for since they already have them.

[Dutchy]

*hugs Bobaten* thanks for the explanation, I'm such a blonde at times lol. Just checked with my friends and they are a year ahead of me with their subscriptions, and mine wont get renewed untill next month, so that would explain it =)
Good thing I didn't petition... the bazaar crashed again while I was augmenting my gear so I filled in a petition to get my gear back first lol. (thats the fourth time that happened to me in 2 weeks... *sigh*)

[Bobaten]

While it sucks to lose gear to crashes Dutchy... I just want to say that the first thing that popped into my head when you said the bazaar crashed was "Ooh, refined HQ ore restock".

As far as the vet reward thing it has changed from yesterday today. It seems that most people lost the first veteran reward when they gained a new one.
Sony Board

OK, getting the extra vet reward is part of a bug that has also caused people to lose a vet reward. For instance gaining Expedient Recovery but losing Lesson of the Devoted. After the next update this will be fixed. Yes this does mean you will lose the extra reward you received after the update yesterday but it will also return the one that was lost.

You will not be penalized for using the extra reward from now until the next update though, so feel free to play with it while you have it.

[Devilcharm]

Well... dunno if it was forgiveness of the RNG for that mean run. But did 12 combines of master's bracers... 6 skill-ups and oddly 13% trophy XP.
Just 7 more points till little gnomey gets Expert Tinkerer title Just very curious about that trophy XP tho, it seems like it should not have been possible.

[Bobaten]

Is it possible you looked at the wrong trophy yesterday? The only other thing I can think of is that there was some lag in the trophy showing xp yesterday.

[Kahmon]

I made an AAAA for a guildie tonight and checked my trophy before and after. When I was done it was 1% more evolved, so worked as intended for me.

[Ngreth Thergn]

237 unmodified tinkering. 5% trophy mod at 66%. 67 combines of gauze presses, 72 combines of molten metal bow cams, 7 crab crackers, 24 colapsable tool boxes. Max INT (255)

0 skill-ups
0% XP applied to trophy (yes XP was turned on)

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What did you do with all of those items you made?

Also send me a PM with the character name, server, and even better station name. But I can work with the other information.