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1) you increase that weapon xp cap to 9 mil...and you will have riflemen/swordsmen who (aside from the timer on unlocking branches) would be able to get enough xp to get a jedi in a week or less. if anyone doesn't believe this, please go to yavin 4 and visit the geo cave room where the mercs spawn...especially on a heavily populated server...the spawn is always "broken"...

Broken spawns are a separate issue that obviously needs to be addressed.




2) more crafters object to the mind numbing boringness of the crafting grind than they complain about having to shuttle back and forth from dath to their house...a lot of people simply craft right there in the village...so exp caps are a non-issue. what difference does it make that you can now sit there and mindnumbingly grind for days instead of hours before having to make a run to the village (assuming you don't craft there)...


The reason everyone grinds in the village is because of the terrible xp caps. If you didn't craft/tumble at the village, you'd double your grind in travel time. That's what raising the caps is intended to address. The low caps make advancing through "normal play" (a stated Dev goal with this new system) virtually impossible for several xp types. I addrressed the length of the grind with the suggestion of changing the conversion ratios.


as for med xp...slicing xp...those can easily be done in the village as well...hire a dedicated tumble monkey for a few hours...and you'll have more healing xp converted into fs xp than most other professions are capable of.

Again, the point is to have there be OTHER ways to advance than macroing in the village.

for slicing xp...bring crates of cdef's, and slice at the village...

do the math and suggest this again. Pay particular attention to the number of mouse/menu clicks necessary, the corresponding time, and the terrible xp granted for slicing (don't forget the FS conversion rate!) After that consider just how many crates of CDEFs, WUKs, MCs, and LKs are necessary. I can grind crafting xp by bringing stacks of cereal and hand-making alcohols in the village. That fact in no way makes it reasonable to expect me to perform several hundred thousand crafts to get my FS boxes.

Message Edited by Ankor on 09-16-2004 01:09 AM

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