Bounty Hunter Archive

1. ADK - Huge mistake as this allowed players to get around that pesky item decay issue. Interdependancy means you constantly need to buy more armor and more weapons (too bad that never applied to droids and houses). Now if your rich enough you can just buy 10 ADK and never need a crafter's goods again. This item should have never been introduced, or at the very least one item per account and NOT tradable.

I donot see the adk as a mistake. The mistake is armor and weapons that decay in a week or two. You pup a weapon or actually use your amor and in a week it is gone.

At this decay rate it is necessary to ADK just out of necessity. If I could pup a weapon and it would last a few months of game play. I would very much consider replacing my weapon every 3 or 4 months. But as it goes a puped weapon that you use will not last more then a week before the decay makes it ineffective.

This also could have been balaced ifa crafter could actualy repair their stuff to some sort of worthwhile state. As it is now repairing an item is risky and good results mean you lose around 50-100 points of the condition. With weapons around 900 condition on craft that means 3 - 5 repairs and its about done for.

Then add to that the crafters go in a rage when new better weapons come. This is a mistake we should hope for new and better weapons every 4 months or so. This will ensure that old weapons become outdated like they should, and keep demand for current weapons. However, weaponsmiths will craft hundreds of weapons then when new ones come throw a fit, becuase now their old will not sell.If weaponssmiths had patience and crafted to refill demand this would never be an issue.

As for armor it too must be adked for another reason... tapes. Tapes cost millions and whats the point of putting tapesin a set of armor that will not last 2 weeks? Armor should be somewhat like a saber... and you should be able to remove your tapes from it. If this was in play you would see alot more demand.

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2. Kashyyyk - They might as well have said "kiss our as_" to crafters everywhere with this expansion. Loot reward items that were equal if not superior to player made goods. This broke a 2 year promise (5 years if you go all way back to first development) that this would never happen.

Agree. They should have made these weapons craftable.

3. Cap - The caps introduced in CU made pretty much all 12 point smiths with 2 years worth of work useless. Caps were put in place because new development team couldnt find a way to balance them within a level based system (which should have never been put in either). Seeking to make better items was always what kept me going. Getting 1% more better stats was always my goal. Now with caps, any average 850 oq resources and 10 experiment points made a smith equal to me. In essense why bother playing if anyone can come in and be my equal in a few weeks.

Agree. The cap is not needed. Especially now as speed damage and sac all mean something. If you wanted to make a 50 sac pistol at the cost of 100 damage you should be able to. The caps helped nothing, they just made"cookie cutter" weapons.

4. Resource deeds - the whole point of a mmorpg (and ive played several) is to make oneself better than your fellow players. You accomplish this mostly by having played for years. A simple reward really as every crafter would agree a 2+ year vet should have an edge over a 2 week one. Well thanks to resource deeds, any newb smith can come in and get that tolium gas OQ 1000 with a deed.

Well i would agree with you if the resources of old were able to be harvested by new crafters. As it is now a new crafter has to buy any resource to be successful. (tied to final comment)

Ulitmately, crafters who just started will find themselves leaving for the same reasons vets have left. Player dependancy is a must if you want crafters to be necessary. I think its obvious though with Tiggs statement to me and devs actions that this is no longer the case. They want crafting marginalized or gone soon. I wont be surprised at all to hear of NPC vendors eventually selling basic gear.

Final comment:

Player depedancy is a mistake, player support should be looked for.

I made mycharacter a crafter instead of a jedi before I even had a jedi for one reason... the economy.

Eveything you talk about may be true... but on my server all I see is GREED from crafters before the new ones came.

20 - 30 million for a weapon? God knows they cost maybe 5 to make at tops. You hate resource kits, yet venders will sell the necessary uber resources at 150 - 200 cpu, resources they have stockpiled.

I agree that the crafter should be supported by the comminity. However all I have seen in the past is a crafter destorying a community to fill their pocket books.

AFK credit mining and 3rd world country sweat shops that sell credits for real world $ are examples of what greedy crafters with tons of money and multi-million dollar weapons for sale have brought to the community.

This is why I became a crafter in the first place... I love the game, and the way I see it a crafters GREED was not only killing the economy but cutting their legs from under them.

I am not in anyway saying this is you, or trying to flame you with such comments. But the truth about the enconomy as a whole will speak for itself.