Armorsmith Archive
Thread: Fix what matters!!!
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micasmith
Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:40 pm
#1
Since I became Master WS andbecame FS I have been able to trade in my Melee Crafting and Ranged Crafting XP at the village once. No problems trading in my general weapons crafting XP and my general crafting XP at all. But there is a bit of a problem going here which needs to be addressed by the DEV's and SOE in general for that matter which is a "Known Issue" and for being known it's not getting fixed.
Well here is the problem IMO, this morning the servers were taken down to fix a problem with candles and lights:
Tiggs wrote;
We are in the process of pushing out a hotfix to all servers. This fix will address the issue with lights and candles being turned off. Candles and lights which had turned "off" will now be turned "on" again.
Players will see this change on Saturday, June 18th after the server maintenance.
Thanks for your patience.
Players will see this change on Saturday, June 18th after the server maintenance.
Thanks for your patience.
Now there is a big problem here with the fact that there are more severe "bugs and issues" that are not getting addressed by SOE even though they are reported over and over again by myself and others that I know of. Why would you go in and write a fix for candles and lights which is not as big of a deal as the exchange of Experience at the village? I know that having light is important and all, but so is listening to the people who make sure you get a paycheck on payday when they post problems and bugs with the game. This issue has been around for quite some time and should be addressed by you so that people who are working very hard I/G can complete thier goals such as becoming FS crafting master without having to buy 20mil in resources to grind a componant that does not give Melee or Ranged crafting XP such as the heavy warhead mechanism, which is very expensive to grind on even though it gives you very good XP. Issues are apparant, you have thousands if not hundreds of thousands or millions of /bug reports from the players when they experience problems.
Now with the CS reports, is there a generic response that's sent to everyone that submits one? I have submitted numerous CS tickets and have gotten the same response on each one and that's not real good PR either. People in this game have issues that are not getting addressed and that is an issue in itself which needs to be dealt with in a timely manner. We have been waiting patiently for you to get the issues resolved and we know that you can fix issues, you proved it lastnight when you resolved an issue with candles and lights, so why not get them fixed.
Concerned Consumer
micasmith
Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:53 pm
#4
ZionHalcyon wrote:
That time of the month?
Nope, it's that time of the FS grind.
ShugFlurry
Sat Jun 18, 2005 2:10 pm
#5
You do realise how long it will take you to grind any sort of FS just by crafting guns for people?
Since the CU I have about 100k of melee/ranged weapon crafting xp... Thats 20k FS, thats hmm.... lemme see, less than 1/8 of a bottom tier box. about 0.004% of what I'd need to get crafting mastery.
Not saying that its not something they shouldn't patch, but it's a very bad way to try get fs crafting skills.
Since the CU I have about 100k of melee/ranged weapon crafting xp... Thats 20k FS, thats hmm.... lemme see, less than 1/8 of a bottom tier box. about 0.004% of what I'd need to get crafting mastery.
Not saying that its not something they shouldn't patch, but it's a very bad way to try get fs crafting skills.
micasmith
Sat Jun 18, 2005 2:58 pm
#6
ShugFlurry wrote:
You do realise how long it will take you to grind any sort of FS just by crafting guns for people?
Since the CU I have about 100k of melee/ranged weapon crafting xp... Thats 20k FS, thats hmm.... lemme see, less than 1/8 of a bottom tier box. about 0.004% of what I'd need to get crafting mastery.
Not saying that its not something they shouldn't patch, but it's a very bad way to try get fs crafting skills.
I realize this, but with being master artisan making vehicles that helps and I know I have to grind other things also. What I am saying is this, there are known bugs, not necessarily this one, which are more severe than candles and lights that they know about but don't fix. I have been able to trade the XP in once before but since then I haven't been able to and I was told by a CSR that helped me with the phase 1 quest items being unable to see them to wait til server restart to trade in my XP and I will be able to do it. So it's one of them issues of "hey, it works once in a very great while so who cares" and that's the most annoying part of it. And you know as well as I do that even though it's only 20k FS it's still 20k more than you have now, but at 4:1 its 25k more than you have now. For the FS crafters that just started out or whatever that little bit helps.
Xipe
Sat Jun 18, 2005 6:54 pm
#8
For my part I think they have their priorities just about right in this case. No offense.
Jaer_Allanon
Sat Jun 18, 2005 10:01 pm
#9
Tiggs wrote;
We are in the process of pushing out a hotfix to all servers. This fix will address the issue with lights and candles being turned off. Candles and lights which had turned "off" will now be turned "on" again.
Players will see this change on Saturday, June 18th after the server maintenance.
Thanks for your patience.
If I were to make a guess, I would bet that Tiggs had to roll her eyes in an effort to keep from biting off her tongue while writing this message. Hot fixing on the week-end is bad enough. Hot fixing a candle display issue seems a bit extreme. Doing that for a crash to desktop issue yes, but why take on so much risk for a non-game-breaking bug?
Summerflame
Sun Jun 19, 2005 5:39 am
#10
Im very happy theyve fixed this and my guess is that it wasnt that hard to make the fix which is hwy they did it this fast. Im also guessing that the issues with CTD and xp at the village is a bit more complex otherwise Im pretty sure they would have fix this in a hotfix as well.
IMO if they are able to quickly fix just a small bug then go for it, making htis game less buggy can never be a bad thing.
If we cant allow them to fix the smaller things well end up in stagnation
While I do agree there are more important things than the candles I also believe that to those having hugely decorated shosp this fix was just as gamebreaking as not being able to trade in xp at the village.
Everyone plays their own kind of game in SWG and as long as they are fixing and not breaking I dont think we should be complaining
PaladinX333
Sun Jun 19, 2005 9:00 am
#11
The thing that really irks me about this is that... THE TOKEN RESPEC WINDOW POPS UP 30-40 TIMES PER EVENING NOW. I don't care if the damn candles work or not, if they don't make that token respec window go away I am going to kill someone. It even pops up after every hyperspace jump!
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