Combat Medic Archive
Thread: Correspondent Position!!!!
A nice post Zarlor, your an excellent representative of the medics class in general, except for one lightbulb you had that got noticed
I just want the combat medic correspondant to be a veteran of the class. I'd prefer the combat medic to be a combat medic/doctor, and the same for the doctor rep and the medic rep.
There is just too much pressure from reading this forum and the other classes forumsto nerf the cm's yet again. On that note, there isn't enough or any talk from combat medic reps to change the incap.We've been represented by players who haven't been combat medics at heart imo. Every patch brings CM's a new nerf and it has to stop somewhere.
I doubt whoever passes the list of names to the devs for the position will pass my tag along. I do think that a serious PvP Combat medic who has been a combat medic for as long as I have would make a difference in the correspondat job.
I really hope the next rep isn't a creature handler with a minor in combat medic. Even worse, someone who isn't even a current combat medic...
Well, since I can read the Corre forum as the Medic Correspondent, I can assure you that your name did get passed along, Silverchair.
As for the no-incap being mentioned, it's been more than mentioned. It's been at the top of the list since before Kavedawg stepped down. You probably don't see anything more about it because the Devs have apparently been too busy to respond to the issue, with the publsih, the fixes for the publish and the holidays all intervening of late. However it is, and has been for some time now, the TOP CM issues brought up on the Correspondent forum and continually gets pushed forward as the top issue for us, as CMs. Neither Kavedwag nor Pahdbacca have been slacking on that issue in any way, shape or form, I can assure you.
Silverchair wrote:I maintain my position that your aren't the best person to represent this class. NOBODY becomes a CM to PvE. I repeat NOBODY becomes CM to kill animals/npc's....
...Let me explain this for the cm's to don't pvp - your skills are the same as the lads who PVP, if they nerf the pvp lads, yours get nerfed also - and nobody screams for nerfs about pvp, GET IT?
My vote is DEFINATELY for Silverchair.
He embodies everything I read about best CM has to offer and what CM as profession represent.
In my opinion he is exactly kind of Correposndant CM deserve and he will bring new age to CM for sure.
one small thing tho Silverchair if you don't mind me asking.
If nobody becomes CM to PvE, why are you explain anything to CM who don't PvP? they don't exist you know.
Pappi wrote:
huh... i guess i don't exist
Hehe, you're on the list too
Pahdbacca wrote:
Zarlor wrote:
But when all is said and done, many of you guys give Corres far more credit than we are really due. We are, in effect, data collectors. We read our respective forums (and I stay close to the Medic, Doc and CM forums because we have so many overlapping issues) and we try to compile lists ofissues folks are having in the profession. We than try to pass along all that we can, prioritixing the lists based on the consensus of folks in the forums and that we meet in game that wish to let us know their views on the issues. In my case the entire process is as absolutely open as I can make it with a voting process. If anyone has issues with what made it into the Top 5 you can always go back and recount the vote (the only thing missing might be a few PM votes or votes from elsewhere in the community, such as on swgcraft or swgmedics or from in-game.) You can also see what my personal Top 5 is and can see just where things are different between them.
At the end of the day, though, those lists are just reccomendations and to tell the truth I have not been completely thrilled with how some of those issues have not been made into the priorities we, as players, think they should be. It's really all up to the Devs. They make the decisions and our issues and our reccomendations simply carry very little weight in the overall scheme of things, it seems to me. After all if they were taking my reccomendations the +1 HAM rule would not have been implemented in the way it was, the poison to cure change would not have been implemented they way that it was. Just take a look at the responses we tend to get to our issues lists. That's the extent of what a Corre can do. "We'll look into it."
Couldn't have said it better myself.
yep, I would also like to add that it doesn't matter if you are a dev for SOE or flipping burgers for a greasy spoon, there will always be a degree of resentment when a customer tries to tell you how to do your job. So a correspondent needs to be able to post things in a professional, non demandingmannor to avoid the burger from getting spit on before it's served to the customer.
I am not saying that the devs spit on any suggestion made, but if you post in an upset tone "demanding" a change, that paticular post will probably not carry much weight and get round filed.
Pappi wrote:
point being that some people really think that all CMs picked up this prof to PvP... and that our agenda should be all around PvP changes. personally, i would really like to see changes for PvE, so that our poisons actually *do* something O.o
What you mean you don't enjoy spending eons waiting for poisons to work on solo PvE targets, and what's worse is trying to take out bases and other targets with only Pistols IV damage... I usually go and get a drink while waiting.
I think the general tone among CMs is that PvE damage should be quadrupled (or close to it) and then let them take a 75% reduction in PvP :-)
NoodleSlayer wrote:
What you mean you don't enjoy spending eons waiting for poisons to work on solo PvE targets, and what's worse is trying to take out bases and other targets with only Pistols IV damage... I usually go and get a drink while waiting.
I think the general tone among CMs is that PvE damage should be quadrupled (or close to it) and then let them take a 75% reduction in PvP :-)
heh, well i'm also a carbineer, somy usual routine for PvE is "poison, bleed, RUN,RUN, ground" 
when i really wanna actually kill something, i switch to my fencer.
a suggestion i would make to the devs would be to change rancor bile from boosting stack size (and lowering power, compared to advanced comps) to boosting power, and prehaps make the end result PvE only (since all the non-CM PvP folks are screaming nerf.) then bile would be more useful, and we would be more useful in PvE.
I have been CM since release of the game and been playing in Beta.
I have been master CM since 3 weeks after release and never gave it up (and not planning to)
I have been PvP most of the time and am declared 75% of the time
I think CM is combat proffesion (not support!!!)
I think we are doing ok in PvE and I think we ONLY need a few bugs fixed in PvP to make sure we are not perceived as overpowered
I was arguing against +1 cap and against cure improvements BEFORE it was sent to devs
I read the forums regulary.
I run the tests myself (though I no longer have second account with doc on it so I can't do as much)
Hope that makes me as qualified as the other 8
MichaelF77 wrote:
Hope that makes me as qualified as the other 8
If not moreso, Michael, if not more so
