Chef Archive

Hola,

Just curious, the designer responses thread is pretty old. What are our current top 5 issues? If we don't have an updated one lets start one. If this has been asked and answered, could someone point me to the proper thread to read, I just can't seem to find it.

Thanks,

Yeah, well, we are kinda an awkward point right now. The revamp is being done right now. It is being worked on...perhaps not as fast as we would like, but it is happening. This revamp is going to change chefs so much that I believe any top five we come up with right now will be redundant. I am not saying it will make our profession perfect...we will probably have a completely different top five issues and bugs. It is more like a due-over.

So right now, any top five we submit will become obsolete with the new revamp, and before then the developers are going to be too busy dealing with the revamp to work on a top five.

I did submit a top five wishlist not too long ago, which Thunderheart is currently going over and should have a response for us....soon. (Yeah, yeah, I know about TH's deffinition of soon...it is just after this coming Saturday which was many Saturdays ago. But I don't have anything else to tell you right now.)

Here is the top five wishlist that I submitted:

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We would like some more cool items for Chefs. There are a lot of people asking for chef hats. I am not sure I agree with this (although on this I am greatly outvoted), but I think there should be more cool stuff for chefs. Things like aprons and kitchen tools to decorate the house with. Also, I would like more bar furniture like bar stools, actual bars and decorations you see in bars. Maybe a spatula or a bloddy cleaver we can hold.

More food art. There have been many requests for more food art. Why is vyerbock not green? Why does a wedding cake look just like an aircake?

We should be able to equip drinks and other player see us hold them. Since we are mostly a role playing profession, being able to do this would add a lot to role playing in cantinas. Also, in general, there should be emotes for drinking and eating.

Large scale visible chef abilities: If scouts can make camps, there's no reason that a chef can't do a buffet, with large quantities of food for everybody to pick from. Make the wedding cake a big deal... make it big and visible, and let everybody take a whack at it. SWG weddings are big deals, and the cake should reflect it too. Have a big BBQ with an animal roasting over an open flame! Have a big cauldron of soup! Candle lit tables for restaurants!

A food cart that we can take with us, much like the merchant's tent. We see this all the time in Phantom Menace on Tatooine.

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I really wish I had more to give you right now.

Hey that's a great start and I appreciate your response. This big revamp, is this something come in the future or can we expect to see something in the big monthly publish this week.

Thanks,

When TH said it was coming I knew we wern't going to see it live before Febuary. They have said they will release it the new changes in the "In Development"page in January, then it has to spend 2 weeks on TC. Honestly I am starting to look at late febuary/early march before we see it on the live server

I fear Kalos is right. I am hoping to get you details on the changes way before then, perhaps even this month. No promises though, since I have absolutely no control over that. I am just telling you what I am hoping.

The problem is that the developers have become too cautious, in my opinion, about releasing information. I understand that they have been burned in the past about saying they were going to do something and then finding out that it is more difficult then they initially thought...but I think they are swinging too far the other way. But again, that is just my opinion.

One thing I keep saying is that I completely don't mind that they are taking a while to do the buffs. I want them to take their time and get it right! After all, they are redoing over 100 buffs, that is going to take time to do. I just wish they would hurry up and release the information.

SirVimes, thank youso much for keeping us updated.

And, uh, be sure to tip your waiters and chefs!

Yeah, thanks again for the responses. Either way our correspondent is still fighting hard for our profession. Can't ask for much more than that.

The revamp is "in the works" and probably won't be seen for a few months.