Veteran Awards?Follow

I accidentally enabled the veteran awards on a lvl 1 character, and now maxed on the number of characters that can have veteran awards. If I delete the lvl 1 character, will I be able to activate the awards on another character? Anyone have any experience with this?

I'm pretty sure all you have to do is type /veteran and the window comes up for confirmation. Either way, I agree to ask a GM. Catch one on a good day and they might reset them. Good luck!

Actually, it happened on an account I share with a friend (who does not play that much). It was not accidentally typed. He just did not realize the number of characters was limited to the number of veteran awards (years of active account).

I was trying to get my message across without going into all that but nonetheless the grammar police still got me.

Anywho, I'll let ya know how the petition goes.

Thanks for the laugh SceltorEltor.


Edited, Thu Jun 30 17:03:44 2005 by Jaaydn

I didn't you were being an A-hole, gbaji. Thanks for the advice. I've never had to petition anything.

Because the CS guys will go through exactly the same thought process when they get this petition. I'm just trying to save him some trouble by pointing out that his initial story has holes in it, that will pre-dispose whoever reads it to not believe him (or at least think he's hiding something).

Remember. People who work in tier1 CS spend all day long listening/reading complaints from people, many of whom go to great lengths to "convince" the CS guy that whatever happened was of absolutely no fault of their own. Do you really think they can't see through any sort of line you throw them? Even something as innoncent seeming as saying it was an "accident" instead of a "mistake" comes off as you attempting to downplay your hand in whatever happened.

It's just good advice. If you are calling any kind of CS to have them fix a problem that *you* caused, do *not* try to play it off as though you didn't have anything to do with the problem. Do the exact opposite. Tell them that you screwed up. Tell them that you knew better, but you brain farted and typed in the command (or whatever) without thinking and caused a problem. Take full responsiblity for the mistake and ask them if they can help you.

Do that, and you'll get vastly better service from those guys. They have a tough job already. They rarely get any respect or appreciation from the people they help. They get endless calls from people who almost all try to pretend that nothing that happened could possibly have resulted from any action they took. They deal constantly with people who scream at them because certainly they couldn't have done anything wrong. If you start off with even a hint of trying to pass the buck, they notice it and instantly have a negative opinion of you. If you instead start out by admitting your mistake, they'll be so appriciative that they finally got someone who's not trying to blow smoke up their butss that they'll practically fall over themselves trying to help you.

It really is the small things that make a difference in this case. You may not think a slight change in wording in a petition matters, but it will. Trust me.

I would recommend you not mention the fact that you share your account with your friend.

You can get 1 toon reward per year played. Example, 2 years 2 toons. That's total paid time, if you took off 6 months that doesn't count. Activations are permanent. If you delete a character that been given a reward, that reward is gone.

bah, petition anyways. gm's love it when they get petitions over things like that (snicker).

Lol. And they *really* love it when the guy who's trying to pretend that he did absolutely nothing to cause <insert problem here> reminds them that "I pay your salary".

Yes. I recommend using that approach every time you do something dumb, cause yourself to need assistance, and call/email a CS person for help. This is a surefire way to get your issue resolved to your satisfaction at the utmost speed and in a way that benefits you the most...