Combat Medic Archive
Thread: Am I reading this right? (CU update related)
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sumner
Mon Mar 21, 2005 9:28 am
#1
Under the medic portion of the CU document, it says that crafing will be in medic and BE. Are we going to have to rely on BE's to get all or parts of our meds? I'm working the crafting line of CM now, and I've had a hard time finding anything CM related on Intrepid, I fear this is going to get worse if BE's have to take time from their precious tissues to make us stuff, and with the way they stick it to the Chefs and Tailors I'd hate to see what they are going to do to us and Docs!
I'm just currious if others have read this the same way, or if I'm way off base in the way I interpreted it.
alucard82
Mon Mar 21, 2005 12:27 pm
#2
sumner wrote:
Under the medic portion of the CU document, it says that crafing will be in medic and BE. Are we going to have to rely on BE's to get all or parts of our meds? I'm working the crafting line of CM now, and I've had a hard time finding anything CM related on Intrepid, I fear this is going to get worse if BE's have to take time from their precious tissues to make us stuff, and with the way they stick it to the Chefs and Tailors I'd hate to see what they are going to do to us and Docs!
I'm just currious if others have read this the same way, or if I'm way off base in the way I interpreted it.
Im a bit scared too. A) There are maybe 3 BE's on WH and B) I never have liked having to rely on the quality of other people's work to set the bar for my own work. Also they said somewhere that you were going to be able to only heal yourself via stims. I believe it was in a post by Texxie.
BioEngine
Mon Mar 21, 2005 12:48 pm
#3
Thank irony I quit Combat Medic 2 weeks ago. I got tired of all of the nerfs, and here's another one.
I had 4434 and was 1/3 through with that last crafting box when I decided to quit. My poisons weren't too great and I was never invited on group fights to toss area stims. I wish that they would leave the crafting professions alone, but they won't. I left CM to pursue Ranger and Teras Kasi, and now I have to get 2 Handed fighting?! Healers and Entertainers are getting screwed, and it will not be long before people realize that it's because SOE wants them to buy more accounts so that they can do what they like but not have to worry about being limited by ONE character's skill points to define what they can do in this game. I really hope that this isn't true, but like I always say, "Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst."
Message Edited by BioEngine on 03-22-2005 09:40 AM
sumner
Mon Mar 21, 2005 2:43 pm
#4
Alucard- from my understanding of the one document, players will only be able to heal themselves with teh stims that require no medic skills to use. I Think that htese will be little emergency stims to give you enough to get out of a bad situation and that is it, we and docs will still provide the heavy hitting stims.
Kivrin - sorry if I came off as down on BEs, I know about the crafting, BE was one of the first professions I mastered, way back before the chef revamp 
My worry comes from watching two of my friends, one a tailor and one a chef, having to pay exorbinant rates for the tissues. I know that Meat is outrageously expensive, I spent many months as pikeman/ranger doing nothing but harvesting meat for doctors. I'm just worried that if I have to rely on a BE for componets or (even worse) my entire meds, that I'll never have any since they can't make any money off of it. On intrepid, shortly after the CM nerf, the number of CM stores went frommultiple on each planet tonow two that I know of, and niether one has added any stock in weeks 
My worry comes from watching two of my friends, one a tailor and one a chef, having to pay exorbinant rates for the tissues. I know that Meat is outrageously expensive, I spent many months as pikeman/ranger doing nothing but harvesting meat for doctors. I'm just worried that if I have to rely on a BE for componets or (even worse) my entire meds, that I'll never have any since they can't make any money off of it. On intrepid, shortly after the CM nerf, the number of CM stores went frommultiple on each planet tonow two that I know of, and niether one has added any stock in weeks I just don't want to see that happen to us.
Kivrin
Tue Mar 22, 2005 1:38 am
#5
Easy there fella. BE's did not ask for any of this. None of our top-issues said anything about wanting more crafting responsibilities. Also, if you think making chef tissues is fun you have some serious misconceptions about that side of BE'ing. How much would 20k of HQ meat and 90k of HQ flora go for on your server? How easy is it to get a constant supply of that? Sorry for the rant.
Message Edited by Kivrin on 03-21-2005 03:46 PM
SeanBlader
Tue Mar 22, 2005 10:01 am
#6
I'd hate to have to start charging people to stim them, if BE's have to make our stuff then we have serious monetary issues as a profession. Right now we're lucky that there area lot of Doc's around to make stim components, but all the CM's I know have had a hard time bringing in any cash. I wouldn't be surprised if right now there's a doctor in every combat medic's guild that supplies free crates of components.
If we're that concerned about BE's taking over all our crafting, then we need to start thinking about getting some factory crates of stims now so that we'll have ample supply until we can make some stable relationships with BE's to keep us throwing.
Mustelafuro
Wed Mar 23, 2005 7:49 am
#7
Hehe I'm looking good on chilastra. My main is my md/mcm, so I'll get to drop a chunk of doc with buffs gone, and my alt is a tk/be. So I still have it all covered
BioEngine
Wed Mar 23, 2005 11:56 am
#8
There has been some talk about combining BE and ID. It would make more sense, I guess.....
Go figure?
Brainplay
Wed Mar 23, 2005 4:20 pm
#9
Ok guys, re-read the post over again and think this one through. That post had very little to anything directly about Combat Medic as a profession in there. It was a vague blanket statement and there is alot of information missing. I'm still bound by the NDA to reveal anything until the dumbas....err Dev's release anything more publicly. Although I can soothe some of you by saying its not as bad as you think.
I'll feel your pain guys. I feel almost betrayed by the utterly simplistic way their are attempting to revamp the game by stealing from another game. What was supposed to be a COMBAT revamp has turned into something that is affecting more than the combat professions in too many negative ways. At least they are using a system that is proven as being very viable for PvE.....
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