Combat Medic Archive

I only have one. I am a marksman cause i think it feels more starwarsy but i have done brawler and all the brawler profs with the exception of pikeman. Anyhow my question is why is master marksman so worthless considering the SP expended to get it. I used to just accept that all starter pof where that way untill i mastered brawler and they get better specials at novice than we get at master

I understand why the currant KD and posture down attacks come so much quicker in Brawler as they are acualy touching the target but there has to be something comperale to these and even better the intemidate/warcry that Brawlers get that can be given to us marksman cause i dont plan on going back to brawler just for those specials as I like the starwarsfeel mr carbines and DL44 give me.

1. Are there any plans to "rework" the Merchant profession to add more useful skills, improve ease of use, functionality, etc.

2. Were merchants (as they exist in the merchant profession) intended as a way for a player crafter to sell his own goods or more of a retailer who sells items for a number of crafters?

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PrincessThea wrote:

Any idea onwhen we aregoing togetthe answers to these questions?

~Prinethea

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Yea they answered the first group this weekend. I don't know what the schedule is. Originally this started with a long ago request for some answers by the Droid Engineers..that went fairly well..then they promised to do some others for a couple of other professions and finally asked us all to ask questions.

The problem is that some questiosn are easier to answer than others. If you ask a dev what the maintenance rate should be on an NPC vendor with global advertising on a Tueday after a server reset he can go find out. If you ask him when a total rework of a profession will happen you get "soon..." or "..we're looking at it.." or "we haven't thought about it" none of those are helpful but the question really isn't an easy one to answer. I think the best we can hope for on some of our questions is that they inspire debate on the other side of the table and we end up getting something out of it, the answers aren't always the important part of this kind of process..sometimes asking the questions has an effect in an of itself.

When is a pointless question. Unless it is In Testing or In Development they will not talk about when except in very specific situations.

The answers they have given to the other professions are exactly the answers they will give to us but the point of the answer isn't always a timeline. The answer to the question about Vendors and Image Designers was very interesting.I knew they knew about the request but that was the first time I have heard TH say he was "pursuing it' that is a very good sign. He didn't say "it isn't possible" or "it would be a lot of work" or "that is a huge issue.." he said "I am pursuing it" that is an important distinction.

Don't expect huge announcements in thes answers. Hope for a tidbit here and there that gives us a hint about what the devs are thinking.

I think the entertainer and image designanswers were very illuminating to the dev through process for those professions.

Combat professions are all getting the "wait for the combat balance" answer.. but that is the answer..you can't make a bunch of changes to combat now if all of it is getting changed over the next few months.

Entertainers are getting vision statements from Devs...That's all we've been asking for months.

And then there's the +1 cap question: Is it working as intended? Will it be retained through the end of the combat rebalance? I would hope the Devs have that fundamental designissue already decided.

Those are my big 2...

-Sereena Teal

This question is actually for medics anddoctors too, but I think we CMs are most interested in it, since we have little skill points to spare:

• The medic professions currently have to pick up artisan in order to be able to find the resources they need. Would it be possible to remake the medical forage skill (which is of very little use) into some form of "medical surveying"?

If we haven't put in the questions yet, a thought about the lists that have already come back:

The questions are being answered as an attorney would answer - no more information than was asked by the call of the question. That means we have to draft our questions carefully, as a contract attorney would, in order to avoid vague answers. For example: in the ID thread, TH said he was pursuing ID's being able to change vendor appearance and that was it. We need to inject a when into that.

1. Has been adressed but I agree with this one.. WHY do people get to keep vendors once they have dropped the skill?? IF you drop a fighting skill do you not lose the ability to do that skill??? You have zero merchant skill you lose the vendor or vendor stops working.

2. Bonus for merchants?? Other than additional vendors and discounts on vendors, allow them to vendor management to thier skill list?? This way the "Merchant" can lease out either his space or vendor to another user for a share of what is sold on the vendor. Allow the merchant to place a vendor, counts against his total, but allow another to place items on the vendor and recieve a percentage of the sale.

3. Why not increase the amount of plots by 1-2 for merchants?? Increase the amount of plots as a master merchant/manager.. This will enable the merchant to setup shops and still be able to aquire resources via harvestors.. Just let them have either 1 or 2 additional plots.

4. Why give every joe/schmoe in the world the ability to sell over the 3000 credit limit??Merchants should be given the ability to place items on the bazaar OVER the current 3000 credit limit. Give this abiltiy to the merchants not everyone in the world.

Well ya asked for 10 and these are what I can think of right now