Armorsmith Archive
Thread: Haden: We're also going to add Mandalorian armor to the game. :)
Bah, I say let everyone have a chance at mandilorian armor.
My suggestion is make it as rare and hard to make as RIS. Then when mandilorian comes out just lower the difficulty on making RIS. Why you might ask? Because I have never... EVER seen a player running around in RIS. If they would just make Mandilorian as hard to make as RIS there wouldn't be a problem with everyone having a set.
Also some new armor that isn't Mandilorian would be nice. Im sick of seeing everyone in the game running around with full Composite. Adding Mandilorian armor wont help, because it will just be as rare as RIS.
Unless they make Mandilorian armor a loot drop for Bounty Hunters only... that could work.
Figured I'd Drop this off for you guys to read... from what I gather it will be in the next few Publishes/// anyway feel free to read it here:
http://swg.stratics.com/content/news/GeneralNews.php
i hope they are quested for the schematic but i hope the ingredients are not.
Someone explain to me why player-worn Mandalorian armor is some kind of sacred cow to most of the SWG community. We've got tons of Jedi in a time where Jedi were essentially non-existant, NPC's based off of the IG series assassin droids just hanging out shooting the breeze with their buds in the cantinas and starports, bounty hunter trainers just lounging around in this stuff, and I've even come across NPC "bounty hunters" during missions wearing full suits of this stuff (minus the helm). Hell, Pex logs in with a set of the stuff every once in a while.
Why are we willing to accept the Jedi hordes and the myriad of continuity breaks with NPC bounty hunters, yet if more than a tiny group of extremely hardcore players wants to get their hands on some Mandalorian the community is up in arms.
My only guess is that the super-hardcore powergamers need/want something to show their status. Look at RIS and the Nightsister bicep - no one actually wants to go into combat with them, they just want to sit around the Theed starport and have everyone gawk at their "phat lewtz".
We ran into the same problemwith the other MMOG I was activein, Motor City Online (stop laughing). The devs put tons of semi-rare parts and car skins in the game, but instead of racing them and addingvariety to the game, people just sat around in the chat rooms with them hoping someone would click on their profile to see their "rare" ride. Considering there was no decay on the cars,most of the PvP types in the game (beleive it or not most people in a racing MMOG are afraid to race against each other for fearof losing face) thought it was pretty stupid to let items like these rot away so that some hardcore powergamercould use them as a status symbol.
I say put Mandalorian in the game without making it the single most rare item around. There are plenty of ways to keep it from becoming the next composite - something like making it so that you can only get one set and the wearer gets a TEF to all BH's (since they all want a set of their own) to keep people from AFK sitting their Mandalorian equipped toon in a starport to showcase their uberness.
DirthNader wrote:
I say put Mandalorian in the game without making it the single most rare item around. There are plenty of ways to keep it from becoming the next composite - something like making it so that you can only get one set and the wearer gets a TEF to all BH's (since they all want a set of their own) to keep people from AFK sitting their Mandalorian equipped toon in a starport to showcase their uberness.
Completely agreed.
that would be fun.