Hi david, thanks for replying.
Let me try to elaborate a little on exactly where i feel things have gone wrong a little, re reading my last post things started going off in tangents, i understand you are a small team and a reason why i chose to invest and support in your game, it has great potential, excellent potential, because you are not following "the rules" of this model.

The problem has been corrected with T1, unofortunately the damage was done, cant get those players back unless they want to come and have another crack.

Now i think everyone loves the idea of tiered battles, solo atleast, the problem i have, and see is you have given us something unreachable at our current levels/stats. T4-6 are obviously the easy to hard ones set for when 45 is reached. All this does is break morale as something that we cannot and right now will never achieve.
You have also given us some other things which are geared for after jungle release, such as crafting. We keep hearing how important it is after jungle, but w have no idea when jungle is coming, days, weeks, months, so it was just another useless update of content which doesnt impact our game at all.
Although we all love new content, new content that is of 0 impact to people waiting for the big one is just seen as a waste of time.

So, to get to point. My suggestion here is, keep new content real to what the game is at now not ready for tomorrow, if it has to be for tomorrow give us something that is useable. Many players have suggested fragments of useful items for crafting such as socket rod shards 5 of those craft 1 rod, you could even take it further so we can craft a rod shard with 100k lumber (yes full lumber really does wind us up that much).
Maybe look at the tier system and reduce them down to a tighter bracket so T2 is as, but T3 instead of 175% is 125%, making T6 challenging but doable for those around 150k-200k BR then add further tiers after the jungle release.

As for Mp, players, even after the merge players will still be selective over who goes, and thats fair enough, but for weaker and newer players right now they will really struggle to find anyone to do lower tiers with, as we get stronger and time passes this will only get worse as people dont want to lose their frags for the day.
What i would like to maybe see is an auto-team feature. Instead of creating a T2 and spamming chat waiting, you add a tick box to "auto-team" then you are matched with other players looking for the same thing as they select it. That would be more useful for players looking for a team as opposed to creating one. For those creating one i would like to see an auto-post hotlink added to chat, so when a new team is formed it posts in chat "heroic T3 bounty", just the once whih when clicked adds us to that team. Hopefully both measures would speed up and streamline the process.
The only other way i see a solution to accomodating weaker players would be to allow a mixed tier system. This would pose problems all in its own. But there are 2 ways. An averaging, or auto balance.
By averaging players create a team choosing their tier difficulty on entry, the system then generates a battle on the average of tiers selected. powers awarded on the selected tier upon entry.
By balancing, instead of making to mobs more or less difficult, you alter the player stats instead, a higher tier reduces a players armor and attack while a lower tier increases it. That way mobs remain the same, players have their tiers but still can work together. Again powers awarded on tier selected.

My last, and many a players annoyance is refining. It is seen and quite frankly is extremely difficult to do as a free player once you have refined once or twice the time to do the other stats becomes long due to locking desired stats with shards. Although this gives players the option, it doesnt allow for free players to do so. What i and others would like to see is another option added to lock stats. There are a few ideas around but the 2 most popular are:
Gold: Dont like gold, its too fast to generate and would have to be insanely expensive to encourage players to still use shards.
Components: Again a crafting option here, frags crafted into components to lock a stat, or just a single rare dropped item, either would work.
Would also be nice to upgrade a single secondary stat when you do randomly get the stat you want but its only level1 of 5 meaning you have to re roll again to try and get a better level.
Hell you could go crazy and start dropping shard fragments to craft ;)

Anyway, keep up the good work, but please keep new content useable and worthwhile, especially as yo have a small team time efficiency and all that.
This game still has great potential, hence why the players like myself try to help even when fristrated

you know what i was saying about communicating with your players, prime frigging example right now of restarting the server again and again without much warning or posting as to its going to happen, juts a 5min warning then bam 2mins later gone.

whats the friggin point

:P Pheww! And hi!

I'm staying out of this discussion though... I like the challenge of higher tiers, and I really am looking forward to the time I will be able to do T5 and T6. Surely it won't be possible until after the Jungle shard comes out and is finished with.

Yes, sir!