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Message Edited by spersniper on 09-28-2004 03:54 PM

Simply put i think carbineers should be front line fighters. Of the ranged proffessions they should have the perfect balance between defence and offence. Since i feel they should be striking first in a conflict i think it is very important we get a variety of specials and tactics that allow us to land states like stun and blind right away. Kind of a"crowd control" mentality. With the style of weaponary we use, AoE attacks are also important. Specific attacks designed todamage an opponent shouldn't really a priority to use. Most of our attacks and tactics should make it easier for our allies to land damaging attacks. But i think the most important part of this would be the balance between offence and defence. Some proffession should have a huge bias towards defence (ie. Fencer, Pistoleer, etc.) while other needs damage bias (ie. Commando's) Carbineers needs balance, if anything i would consider Rifleman and Carbineer to have similar styles, with carbineers favouring AoE state attacks and Rifleman focusing on damaging single targets.

Welcome to the Chef forum Tiggs.

Since the Chef revamp, we haven't been in a bad condition IMO, although the revamp left some issues that have never been dealt with.

Stomache decay is supposed to be 30mins - TH stated that the current 45min issue was a bug. In some cases, such as in the DWB and Corvette, it can be longer.

Barrels never worked on TC during Publish 6 testing that I am aware of. At the time, we were told they only worked with certain drinks. Either barrels are not working at all, or those drinks haven't been added to the game yet as they act like small glasses, but a LOT more costly to produce. Personally, I'd rather see barrels removed than fixed.

Certain foods are still bugged. Havla only provides half the uses that it didplays, and any bonus under 100% has 0 effect, so it is useless. Smugglers delight ONLY works with a bonus of less than 100% - make it 100% and it's useless.

Containers added an inequality between drinks and food. I can produce stacks of 25 Vasarian Brandy, but only 6 Pikitta Pie. I would love to see either containers removed from drinks, OR plates added for food. I am well aware of teh possible financial implications to Chef's that plates could bring, but I do think they would be advantageous in the long run.

Some items are next to useless. Ormacheck for instance, uses 80% of the stomache, cannot be used more than once an hour, only comes in a single use, yet the bonus is negligible bearing on useless. 4% bonus XP for ~20 grants, can mean that, for example, you kill a Kreetle, you get weapons XP, combat XP, you harvest meat & get scout XP. You therefor get 4% bonus on 7 creatures.
Either reduce the filling and reuse timer or increase the grants
T'illa T'illa is another. This drink almost fills your drink stomache, but has a negligible effect on the food stomache, and as the most used items are drinks, people are not prepared to use it. I think I sold 1 stack since P6

Crates. We know you want to control items count, and we know larger crate size can have an effect on the economy, however, Chefs have a massive turnover (the popular ones anyway ).
Many of us run multiple accounts AND static lots, just to keep up with demand. Until I took a break, I was running 6 factories 24/7 and I could not keep up. All this means a LOT of items created.
I ran 6 factories, 6 small houses, 5 storage droids, 3 vendors and the banks of 3 chars just to store all my ingredients & components. At any time, I had 2000-3000 each of Carbosyrup, dough, alcohol, soypro, cask, additives. Simply increasing Chef component and product crate sizes to 50 or 100 would drastically lower the itemcount a chef amasses. This in turn lowers the database storage needed for said items, plus lowers the required structures

Additives. We are a slave to the additive. If we can't find a BE that's prepared to stop playing their char and become a fulltime provider for us, we are stuck.
Additives were supposed to be an optional bonus, but the sheer difference between BE enhanced, and non-enhanced items mean that the only market for non-BE enhanced is in the totally new player.
BE's have a hard time getting the resources & they are so slow to make that many BE's refuse to make them. I would prefer to see them easier to make, but have a lower bonus, than see Chef's giving up the profession because they cannot get additives. It really is at that point - if you can't get the additives, you may aswell not make anything.

Factories. Publish 6 saw lower complexity on food and drink, to speed up production. However, we were also forced to start using containers and additives (yes, they ARE optional, but in reality, they are required. There is next to no market for standard stack size, non-enhanced items).
These containers and additives take a fair amount of factory time, plus the time it takes for the components to be made. The end result is that it takes considerably longer now to make a run of a food or drink item than it did pre-patch.

Cantina : I love the cantina, I was one of the first on Chimaera to place one. I was also one of the first Chef's on Chimaera to give it to someone else.
A chef cannot afford 5 lots for the Cantina. A dancer or musician does not need to harvest hundreds of thousands of units of over 100 resources, nor do they need multiple factories. Therefor, they can afford the 5 lots a cantina takes up.
I would suggest adding a "Street Cafe" or "Hotdog Stand" type installation, that uses 1 lot. There are some gardens that could be altered for this use, unfortunately at the moment, you cannot sit on the benches in them
I would modify these gardens to become useable by a Master Chef


One feature I have always longed for in SWG, which is as a crafter in general - not purely as a chef, is to be able to fully utilise a droid. When I see a droid wandering by, it screams StarWarsyness at me.
I would love to see a factory module. Now, I dont expect a 100 item input hopper, 100 item output hopper, what I would want, is something capable of making small runs of identical items - maybe 10 or 20 maximum (using up battery power ofcourse).
This would allow crafters more flexibility for crafting in the field.

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Annazz - Master Spanker || Zzanna - Spy & Lobstergirl || Zannaz - Lil Gassy One
Akev - Commando/Trader || Ilorra - Entertainer

Vendor (/wayp -1763 1900) Talus, Dunlaggin

Carbineer 4-4-4-4
Ranged Defense: 0
Melee Defense: 0

Master Carbineer
Ranged Defense: 25
Melee Defense: 0

Fencer 1-0-0-0
Ranged Defense: 27
Melee Defense: 27

Message Edited by Dallak on 09-28-2004 06:09 PM

Message Edited by Taurant on 09-28-2004 07:53 PM

I was a CM way back in the days when this forums got as many if not more post then the jedi forum. After about 4 months out of the game I came back and first thing was start working back up CM. But many of the things I hopes to be fixed are still major problems.

The first and most important issue is our usefulness inrelation to other professions. We take as many skill points as commando or Bounty hunter yet what do we have to show for it a handful of CMs on each server that strike fear into the hearts of Pvpers 1200 tick poisions, dieases that are dealing more damage then most peoples poision singles, and Stems really don't help all that much in combat compared to a doc running around passing out heals and cures.

There are some quick fixes a total overhual of the profession is not needed just some tweaking.