Cities And Housing Archive

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Thunderheart wrote:

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Khristen wrote:

Did anyone else have their candles/lights delete themselves from the house when they burned out, too?

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Mine did.

We should be seeing a change with this soon. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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GHA!

I was wondering what happened.

I did notice that when you enter the house you can see the lights and candles way before anything else. It's like they are always in the world.

Mine burned out yesterday and had completely disappeared when I logged in tonight.

I don't mind so much that they burn out, but how about a "light bulb" or some other such option to recharge them? They didn't just provide light in my houses, they were part of the decor. It gets me pretty worked up thinking of all the time I spent picking the right light and moving/rotating them to get them in just the right spot. When a light burns out in real life, you don't throw out the lamp or take it off the table, you just replace the bulb.

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Warryyr wrote:

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DocSavag wrote:

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Thunderheart wrote:

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Khristen wrote:

Did anyone else have their candles/lights delete themselves from the house when they burned out, too?

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Mine did.

We should be seeing a change with this soon. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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I thought the concensus on this way back when was that we wanted renewable power cells/lightbulbs/candle wicks whatever that would allow the architects to make a steady stream of revenue but would NOT subject homeowners from redecorating every 3 weeks? What happened to that idea?

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Good question.

Because now I'm looking at placing all the little candles in all the places I had them, and it killed the atmosphere in some of my places.

My sympathy goes out to everyone who some incredible chandaliers. It just isn't right. So much time...

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Yea, I'm furious - both my elaborate chandeliers went POOF - gone, deleted. Many hours of work went into these and I KNEW Pub 18 would have them 'burn out' and supported the 'replace' option.

I was not expecting them to disappear - this really sucks.

In fact, I had used burnt out candles (I burned out on purpose and picked up to replace) as 'unlit' decorations - now those are gone too.

This fix was not even realistic. I can't imagine George Lucas thinking up lightbulbs and candles that disappear either. Evn Star Wars Physics doesn't make things dissapear when it wears out. I guess it would be nice if old candles and lightbulbs dissapeared after they burn out in RL - but it's just not realistic.

In this case it was more than an inconvenience, it was an utter slap in the face to all the people who worked hard to make in game content. I am still steaming over how this whole publish was handled - NOTHING works right in it excpet the Trophy mobs they added. What should we expect though with less than a week of testing, ignorance of the TC input and any bugs reported as well as ignoring the player base, correspondants, testers and all other forms of communication we have.

At the beginning of the year things were getting better - now things seem worse than before the flurry of longstanding bug fixes we got back then.

Worse, worse, worse! What is going on?

Well, won't be doing any light source ever again except torches, and I have an architect. Just way too much work just to replace them.

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Rogue1970 wrote:

Yea, I'm furious - both my elaborate chandeliers went POOF - gone, deleted. Many hours of work went into these and I KNEW Pub 18 would have them 'burn out' and supported the 'replace' option.

I was not expecting them to disappear - this really sucks.

In fact, I had used burnt out candles (I burned out on purpose and picked up to replace) as 'unlit' decorations - now those are gone too.

This fix was not even realistic. I can't imagine George Lucas thinking up lightbulbs and candles that disappear either. Evn Star Wars Physics doesn't make things dissapear when it wears out. I guess it would be nice if old candles and lightbulbs dissapeared after they burn out in RL - but it's just not realistic.

*snip*

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Obi-Wan and Yoda both disappeared when they wore out. Hey, I got it! They were Jedi Candles and Lights. Luminous beings were they. Not crude matter.

eh, sorry, I just have to find humor in some aspect of this game now or go crazy.

Perhaps there can be some kind of replacement 'wick' for the candles so you can relight ones that are still existing? I know that lots of people really loved their decorations, but these are going to be a thing of the past now because no one wants to completely redo a design every 15-30 days. It's just not gonna happen.

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glory wrote:
Well, won't be doing any light source ever again except torches, and I have an architect. Just way too much work just to replace them.

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Indeed what the brainiacs at SOE fail to realize is people will never be interested or willing to redecorate their houses every 3 weeks so instead its back to the ugly smokestacks wich will just deteriorate the overall look of the game and not bring a cent more to the crafters.

Im furious my cities cantina, our guilds PA hall, my house all darkness now.

Thanx devs for really demonstrating your bug fixing abilities, dozens of broken professions & quests but no you did the most important thing of all ofcourse, making everyones elaborate houses look like crud. thanx !!!

Crap that is really bad news. I have so many candles set up in my home. I purposely haven't been loggin in due to all the bugs, and I *still* get shafted. Lol.

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Khristen wrote:

Did anyone else have their candles/lights delete themselves from the house when they burned out, too?

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all the candles did, BUT the street lights remained (burned out but there).