Would it be worthwhile, I wonder, when A18 experimental drops to go through the exercise of testing the offline modifier again and then submitting it as a formal bug report using the format that the most recent build bug reports have required?
It may not get them to look at this any sooner, but maybe it will help to formally identify the offline modifier problem and let it sit on the "known bugs" section of the build notes.
In Madmole's recent "Heist" book video he showed a couple of book bonuses that help raiding become even easier. That's cool, but it would be cooler if the offline modifier helped to balance the whole offline mechanic of PVP.
I mentioned something about that in the A18 Dev Diary, but it quickly got buried.