Commando Archive
Thread: Garvin, Everything sounds good on paper.
aeuralis wrote:
Garvin, they are not even coding the combat revamp yet. I am certain that our current system sounded good before they got around to coding it.
Before you say it,I am not pesimistic, i am suspicious. Unless those infamous docs that you saw included formulas and pseudocode, they don't represent anything but a dream.
It doesn't really matter when they release these documents. They will not represent what we will be stuck with in the end.
TH's posts have often been infamous for not coming across "fully"...When TH said they weren't hard-coding the revamp, I strongly believe he meant onto a server (as in a test server)...The Programmers ARE coding the revamp as we speak and were doing so at the summit...I spoke with2 of the programmers directly involved on the project who said they were working on ways to MAKE some of the ideas happen (some of them have never been tried before in an MMO)...What was on paper, for the most part, isn't too complex...changing a formula or six won't take months on end...and the other main portion of it is tweaking the numbers on various weapons & specials...there is a lot of juggling things around as well...and many of the new items coming into the game have been in there since several patches ago (they often put things into the game with various patches that may or may not go live down the road with future patches)...
Every little bit seperately could be done quickly for the most part...the new content is no more labor intensive then a few new specials, animations and new effects...but put it all togetherand mix in a few other surprises that are meant to keep even the skeptics happy, and you start to see the bigger picture of why it's going to take time and why TH says they haven't started "hard-coding" it yet...
Rest assured that the Revamp isn't only on paper...it's a growing entity that just hasn't been let out of the programmers' personally cages yet into an environment where they can play and interact...
Your suspicion is making you, as with many others, fall into the same constant trap of reading more into TH's posts then are really there...Just like the other day when TH was quoted as saying there isn't any Leadership on the boards...do you really believe that's what he meant?
I'm not saying that folks don't have good reasons to be pessimistic or suspicious...If I didn't know what I know I'd be right there with you...the difference is, if someone I trusted in told me that they had faith, that would go a long way to inspire some, evena shread, of faith in myself regarding our future...
garvin wrote:
TH's posts have often been infamous for not coming across "fully"...
Daker-Naritus wrote:
Read the combat docs, post your thoughts... HOWEVER, remember that they have to get past us to implement the changes, and that we will be trying hard to make sure they don't suck.
i would if they would flippin post them
garvin wrote:
TH's posts have often been infamous for not coming across "fully"...
What was on paper, for the most part, isn't too complex...changing a formula or six won't take months on end...
First, TH? Vague? Ambiguous? Naaaaaaah. Everything he writes is a crystal clear ball of information...Straight and to the point. There is no beating around the bush with that guy. You understand completely what he is saying the minute he says it...No grey area with him, you know EXACTLY where you stand.
Second, if it isnt too complex, then WHY THE HELL HAVEN'T SOME OF THE FORMULAS ALREADY BEEN FIXED/TWEAKED???
TKA-MC wrote:
"Why oh Why didn't I take the Blue pill"
lol
(some of them have never been tried before in an MMO)...
