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Thread: THANK YOU DEVS! WE NOW GET A NAME ON SEEKER TRACKING

Djena
Sat Jul 16, 2005 7:33 am
#14






TheVeryBadDay wrote:





TaKylea wrote:

/applaud Devs


Thanks to those that listened to our concerns and reached this compromise.


Now the questions is this: How long before the first Jedi whinefest over this?








3 hours and 14 minutes.

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=jedi&message.id=1078999





Not much whining yet


But some concerns though;


1) How will this work on Kashyyyk? For as far as I know seekers don't work there...


2) Is the name given when you send out the seeker even when the jedi isn't on the same planet? If so, why bother with changing the terminals at all....





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SFXGenesis
Sat Jul 16, 2005 7:58 am
#15






Djena wrote:





TheVeryBadDay wrote:





TaKylea wrote:

/applaud Devs


Thanks to those that listened to our concerns and reached this compromise.


Now the questions is this: How long before the first Jedi whinefest over this?








3 hours and 14 minutes.

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=jedi&message.id=1078999





Not much whining yet


But some concerns though;


1) How will this work on Kashyyyk? For as far as I know seekers don't work there...


2) Is the name given when you send out the seeker even when the jedi isn't on the same planet? If so, why bother with changing the terminals at all....








1) Kashyyyk is still unresolved. I think that seeker droid usage should be restored on the planet with this change.


2) Name is only given with SEEKER droid use, not Arakyd Probe Droid use. Therefore, you must be on the same planet as the Jedi before you get a name. This is a fair compromise of the matter, IMHO.


Dani






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Djena
Sat Jul 16, 2005 8:08 am
#16






SFXGenesis wrote:





Djena wrote:





TheVeryBadDay wrote:





TaKylea wrote:

/applaud Devs


Thanks to those that listened to our concerns and reached this compromise.


Now the questions is this: How long before the first Jedi whinefest over this?








3 hours and 14 minutes.

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=jedi&message.id=1078999





Not much whining yet


But some concerns though;


1) How will this work on Kashyyyk? For as far as I know seekers don't work there...


2) Is the name given when you send out the seeker even when the jedi isn't on the same planet? If so, why bother with changing the terminals at all....








1) Kashyyyk is still unresolved. I think that seeker droid usage should be restored on the planet with this change.


2) Name is only given with SEEKER droid use, not Arakyd Probe Droid use. Therefore, you must be on the same planet as the Jedi before you get a name. This is a fair compromise of the matter, IMHO.


Dani









1) I hope they fix Kashyyyk for you guys


2) This averygood thing


All in all a nice change, for the better of both parties involved.




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NarfBlinko
Sat Jul 16, 2005 8:08 am
#17

I will wait to see testing results regarding Kashyyyk before I make assumptions. It isn't that the Seekers "don't work" on Kashyyyk. You can launch them, and they give a message (something about there being too much life to get a fix on the mark), so I would guess that even though you won't get a WP/location for your mark, you should still get the mark's name from the seeker. We'll see what the testers say.






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SFXGenesis
Sat Jul 16, 2005 8:10 am
#18






Djena wrote:





SFXGenesis wrote:





Djena wrote:





TheVeryBadDay wrote:





TaKylea wrote:

/applaud Devs


Thanks to those that listened to our concerns and reached this compromise.


Now the questions is this: How long before the first Jedi whinefest over this?








3 hours and 14 minutes.

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=jedi&message.id=1078999





Not much whining yet


But some concerns though;


1) How will this work on Kashyyyk? For as far as I know seekers don't work there...


2) Is the name given when you send out the seeker even when the jedi isn't on the same planet? If so, why bother with changing the terminals at all....








1) Kashyyyk is still unresolved. I think that seeker droid usage should be restored on the planet with this change.


2) Name is only given with SEEKER droid use, not Arakyd Probe Droid use. Therefore, you must be on the same planet as the Jedi before you get a name. This is a fair compromise of the matter, IMHO.


Dani









1) I hope they fix Kashyyyk for you guys


2) This averygood thing


All in all a nice change, for the better of both parties involved.







I'm a Jedi and former BH. I'm still happy about these changes. I did think BHs were getting a little too much of a shaft from the Devs on this one.


This is a great compromise. You still get a name so you don't have to tab through targets, but it's far enough down the process line that gank squads and mission holding are still not viable.


Dani






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lbfoofoo
Sat Jul 16, 2005 8:13 am
#19


YAY the first right thing the devs have ever done
Rechtglaubig
Sat Jul 16, 2005 8:16 am
#20

True Kashyyyk is a problem along with several other things, but still come on... we willget names! That is at least something and I'll take what I can get.


One of the big things people complain about (next to Jedi LOL) is that the people whoprogramthe game do it without listening to the players. Thanks to anyone involved in making this change.





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MaliceMarcus
Sat Jul 16, 2005 8:27 am
#21

Somebody needs to confirm if a jedi name will be returned by the droid if they are on kashyyk.



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RoFlWookie
Sat Jul 16, 2005 11:29 am
#22


Before I start, let me say that I am also both hunter and hunted, and I enjoy both toons.


I'm glad they are giving names at some point in the process before the actual encounter. An experienced BH will use that opportunity to scout, research, plan, etc. and I'm glad for the chance to do that.


I'm also glad it gives the name from the seeker, not the probe droid. Really, how much difference would it be if it were in the probe droid from what it is now? It would just add a little extra time to the process of finding a particular name (which leads to possible griefing and ganking). So I'm glad it's at the seeker level.


As far as Kashyyyk goes, part of me hopes that the name comes with the seeker on Kashyyyk even if the location is still unknown, but part of me hopes it doesn't. Kashyyyk was supposed to be a quest planet, not like the others. Abuses of the Ryatt Trail aside, it's there for the storyline and exploring. From that standpoint, I hope they don't ruin that possibility by giving names. Yes, that makes it a safehaven (sort of) but I think there needs to be a place where storyline importance and quest lineage are preserved, rather than just making the whole galaxy one big pvp arena. And I say 'sort of' because what we will find is that even if you don't get the name on Kashyyyk, you'll still see 100,000 BH's at/near the starport targeting everyone around to see when their mark goes back to the starport to leave. They will just attack then, name or not.


Just my .02






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Maryk
Sat Jul 16, 2005 1:07 pm
#23



SFXGenesis wrote:
2) Name is only given with SEEKER droid use, not Arakyd Probe Droid use. Therefore, you must be on the same planet as the Jedi before you get a name.



Is this for sure how it works? Names will not be returned by seekers if the jedi is not on that planet? Can any BH's on TC confirm this? Otherwise, the other poster was correct, nothing has changed except you need to get a biosig first.



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Giles025
Sat Jul 16, 2005 1:50 pm
#24


I take it this means I won't be killing Jedi in Coronet anymore?


So I guess now they'll just rampage throughall the major hubswith nothing to stop them but opposing Jedi and random BH's now and then... sounds like more people will notice the mass amounts ofJedi. Don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.


I guess what I mean is it's great for the Padawans, but it's great for the Knights too. I'm totally going to miss seeing Knights dueling and frantically running to the BH terminal.

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Cerosis
Sat Jul 16, 2005 2:00 pm
#25

THank you dev's, I was hoping either the droid, or the spy net guy would give the name. Even the spy net guy giving out hte name would drastically cut down on jedi getting BH to hold their mission, and bh ganking 1 jedi all the time.



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SFXGenesis
Sat Jul 16, 2005 5:02 pm
#26






Maryk wrote:





SFXGenesis wrote:
2) Name is only given with SEEKER droid use, not Arakyd Probe Droid use. Therefore, you must be on the same planet as the Jedi before you get a name.





Is this for sure how it works? Names will not be returned by seekers if the jedi is not on that planet? Can any BH's on TC confirm this? Otherwise, the other poster was correct, nothing has changed except you need to get a biosig first.





Yes, I'm positive. You can verify it with the testers responding in the threads on this forum regarding when the name is given.


Still doesn't work for Kashyyyk tho.


Dani






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