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Thread: ArthurDent's Fan Fest Report (very very long)
Well I mostly skipped to the ranger/scout part of that post of yours. First, thanks for doing all that great info for the game in general from FF. Great work.
Secondly, I'm glad to hear that the devs, especially GM, are thinking ranger is lacking as much as we do. BUT, what I'm ticked off about is that he knew nothing of the outdoorsmas proposal. **edit**. This seems obsurd, unless our previous Coorespondant never even brought it up or posted it on the coor forums. It seems the coor forums are the only way to contact the devs. And GM confirmed that by saying he never visits our forums at all, only the coor ones.
So, with that in mind, I ask you Calc, have you posted or brought up the Outdoorsman proposal on the Coorespondant forums? I know TH said he likes it so he at least has seen it. But GM is the primary dev for ranger and scout (which I knew but forgot) and if he is the one who will do work on us, he should know about it, before. With that said, can you try to get GM to see the outdoorsman? I know he's not working on Ranger now, and won't be for a while, but at least he will see what we have been doing. Seeing as someone else said about Fan Fest, is the devs want the ranger to come up what we want to see, and I guess the devs have not seen outdoorsman. Remember TH is actually a dev, he is community relations. So lets get the outdoorsman proposal to GreeMarine. Quote: When asked about the outdoorsman proposal, he said he had no knowledge of it." That does not say good things about our connection to the devs. Other professions know about this thing, and TH knows about it, but the devs that work on ranger dont?
What do you say Calc?
Message Edited by Squidwalker on 06-07-2004 06:20 AM
Cheers:
"Camps: He was in favor of adding things to camp that would aid a Ranger's ability to hunt. In particular hunting blinds were mentioned, as a way for a Ranger to stay concealed for a bit longer."
"Traps: He stated that he had already done work in this area, on some traps that were "static" and would, well trap, lol. So Ranger drops said traps, and checks back later, and they may have animals in them that are caught. That sort of thing."
Jeers:
"He also stated that he doesn't generally post, nor read the ranger (or any other) forum, except for the correspondents forum. When asked about the outdoorsman proposal, he said he had no knowledge of it."
"Overall GM stated that Rangers, in his view, were all about PVE, but that he regretted their "super scout" status right now. So most times when people brought things up that had to do with Rangers in PVP, he pretty plainly said weren't part of his vision."
Grrrrrrrrrrr.......
"Stealth: This was brought up, but I don't even remember whether it was in respect to rangers or not. But again, no real objection to it other than technical difficulties that they currently didn't know how to overcome (sorry Fred)."
Have him call me, I will explane it to him 
It's actually a server change, and very little, if any, footprint in the client. It is this that will let us into PvP and it's not as hard as he thinks it is.
nice reports guys, specially arthur 
*curls up in a corner and waits for the changes*
Armour reduced, a hint that Doc buffs will be brought down, slower/less damaging weapons will re-introduce tactics to combat, CHs arent getting nerfed(again) in the CB, plus it looks like when the time comes for our revamp, were going to have a fairly together and dedicated dev on our side. Things are indeed looking up
This is complete and utter HORSE SH*T, denial of content, PvE only profession is piss poor lack of imagination and forsight. The Devs have stated over and over and over that PvP and the GCW are the end game of SWG, so we are told that Rangersas aprofession aren't intended to be good enough to be included in that end game...... that sucks rocks.....
Vezek