Combat Medic Archive

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Opasa wrote:

Thunderheart - I feel for you man, I bet you wish you rephrased that huh? No offense, but after reading that, it seems like you havent played the game in the past 6 months. How can you possibly say that when there are rifleman and combat medics galore busting everyone up, especially the Combat medics? And no offense again, but I've noticed a trend in topics that you post in: if a question is brought up regarding a post you made earlier, you never return to post in that topic again. How about you prove me wrong and actually post in this one, saying that the dev team would never allow an imbalance so that a certain group of people are overpowered, and explain the situation of combat medics and riflemen in the past few months. I know youre not the head honcho and that you have a boss, its just me and it looks like everyone else really want you to eat your words.

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"Nah, I don't wish I had rephrased that. When looking at community issues, sometimes playing the devil's advocate is both healthy and necessary foran important issue. This community is full of a lot of really smart people who write compelling essays and topical positions everyday. Sometimes, to understand how important a specific issue is to a community at large, this sort of discussion is critical. I suspect I will always make those kinds of comments from time to time.

As for combat medics and riflemen, well there are a couple things to consider. The first is that the game very much needs the combat balance (I'll have a lot more details about the status of that after Publish 9 goes to live). There are a great many aspects of combat out of balance right now, which is why we all agree the CB is a very important issue that effects a lot of players. A key element to the CB is that attacking the mind pool specifically won't be as prevalent - - the HAM revamp and changes to specials will take away from that combat focus. The second thing to consider is that combat medic attack range is a bug that is going to change very soon.

Moving on to the core question of, "will Council members are expected to "cut swaths" through crowds of people, and killing large crowds of players" is a pretty important question. Since it is a lightning rodfor the community, I brought it up several times today and here are the counterpoints:

• The existing PvP ruleset is still in place and "cutting large swaths" through crowds of people will depend on all those people being declared.


• Jedi under the rank of Knight have been designed to be in normal combat scales. They can declare overt like normal players and will be hunted by Bounty Hunters for sure. In terms of PvP combat at this level, Jedi have been balanced to be in line with other combat professions. An outnumbered Jedi (providing the other players are of comparable levels) will almost always go down.


• Force Ranked Jedi are declared overt all the time. Light Jedi are declared Rebel and Dark Jedi are declared Imperial.


• There will be 100 or less Force Ranked Jedi per server.


• Force Ranked Jedi utterly depend on killing each other for experience.


• Force Ranked Jedi loose FR experience when they die in combat to other Jedi and loose even more FR experience when they fall in combat to non-Jedi. Keep in mind, when FR Jedi loose experience, they loose rank.

Beyond that, Force Ranked Jedi are intended to be fearsome and Rebel teams and Imperial Teams with a Force Ranked Jedi with them are supposed to be targets you think twice against before challenging.

The things I have to look into is the status of loosing XP for PvP deaths and Force Ranking and see where that is at after the new version of TC-Corbantis that will be up a little later this afternoon. (It would be helpful for you guys to log on to TC-Corbantis to log on and see what you find out.)

Kurt "Thunderheart" Stangl
Assistant Community Manager"