Carbineer Archive

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kadore2000 wrote:

boycotts are a waste of time, like trying to hold a sitout back in school, if all the carabineers in the game didnt log on, would anyone even notice, I play on Eclipse, think have seen 6 since started a few months ago

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Noen Windryder

Eclipse

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How canthis boycottbe a waste of time when this boycott is about spending LESS time on a useless endeavour and MORE time on a more satisfying profession? This kind of boycott requires the absence of action. It's not like you have to give up yourneighborhood supermarketand now have to drive to a supermarket farther away for staples.

Just go and enjoy yourself somewhere else. Stop putting yourself in a situation where you are constantly complaining about your profession. Its just silly. My lord, when you have other professions like pistoleers throwing about comments to devs that the Carbineers have it bad, you know you have it bad.

I think you make a fair point but in so far as affecting the initial distribution of people across professions when the game had its public launch. You're right. Most people when the game started probably looked at Carbineer as in "What's that?" and then moved on to things that were more familiar (like pistolier) or had more known prestige (like BH).

Having said that, its now 3 months after public launch. If carbineer was AS good as creature handler, bounty hunter or rifleman (with T21)... trust me... word WOULD get around, people WOULD start talking. And there would be a huge and sudden shift over to Carbineer. Which is exactly what happened to Commando. A month after launch there was only 1 master commando in all of SWG. Once they improved the offensive capabilities, Commando became de rigeur immediately. There wasa shameless STAMPEDE over to Commando. People aren't stupid. If the going is good, they will come.

Are people coming to Carbineer? Nope. What does that tell you? Draw your own conclusions.

And as for other professions thinking themselves the worst, and that Carbineer may be no different, I respectfully disagree. I have read the various boards (CH, BH, DE, Pistol, Rifleman, TKA, SWG Dicussion). I think the pretty clear concensus is that:

-- Majority are angry about nerfing to their classes with asmall minority welcoming any and all nerfing

-- BE, DE and Carbineers are constantly pointed out as the professions in the worse state

Actually, I've seen alot of people say they're moving on to carbineer cause their class sucks.. Bounty hunters, pistoleers and riflemen But yeah, carbineer isnt particularly powerful so I'm sure they wont get a huge influx of players wanting to play the overpowered class of the month, which is basically what happened with commando.

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Sarne wrote:
Actually, I've seen alot of people say they're moving on to carbineer cause their class sucks.. Bounty hunters, pistoleers and riflemen

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How odd. Every BH, pistoleer and rifleman I have run into in the past 3 weeks has been very content if not enthusiastic about their class and scornful of the carbineer profession. Its like we're in totally different universes.

Or just ran into different people!

i just got nivcie carb last night after satying up late hunting

ima not droping it

What's funny is I got into an argument with a Pistoleer over which class was worse the Carbineer or Pistoleer, the pistoleer was steadfast that it was the pistoleer that was worse, I thought carbineer. Oh well, I still kick butt, thats all that matters. Heh, I prefer to attack multiple enemies and multiple ham bars to attacking like riflemen and pistoleers do any day.

After hitting for 995 dmg in pvp v a friend i'm gonna ride it out and see where Carbineer goes.

also the most thing I want fixed is our "Elite" carbine that is really trash.

Hmmmm, yeah, good idea. One of the primary reasons we have been ignored is because we have pretty low numbers compared to other professions, so the devs obviously feel its safe to put us on the backburner. What better way to fix the problem than by LOWERING OUR NUMBERS EVEN FURTHER! Then the devs wouldn't have to worry about fixing us EVER!

Great idea dude.

/sarcasm off

LoL, I only know of one other carbineer in Scylla. So, it'll be like "OMG, two people didn't log on in Scylla! Panic!"

I would think more people being novice carbineer would help more than less novice carbineers would. Since responses and changes have been done more for professions that are the most popular; bounty hunter, pistoleer, creature handler, etc.

So a boycott wouldn't really help. Unless the profession number = 0. Which would never happen.

Maybe some people dont know how to play Carbineer effectively? I CAN take down smugglers, BH and Commandos with a little forethought to my tactics and equipment. A few tips for those of you that dont get it:

1.) Medical support for the HAM is a must.
2.) Armor + PSG is a must. And it works, well.
3.) Get a real carbine. It might take a week or two of adventuring for resources and working with a weaponsmith, but dealing 1600-2000pt of dmg a shot is worth it, especially at 2.4speed.


Yes the Carbineer has SOME issues. Most classes do. The Devs need to fix this, along with countless other issues. HAVE PATIENCE. Threads like this only show a person doesn't take pride or concern in their profession...some would call that 'being sloppy'. Good riddance.