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Thread: Iknow fun, and this isnt it

Hellshot
Wed Feb 11, 2004 10:54 pm
#1

OK, this is not my "I quit" letter, rather my I am considering itletter. I fully expect this to be ignored by the devs and ridiculed by the trolls, and quite honestly, I dont care about either at this point. I started playing this game because my brother got it, and it seemed like a good way to have fun together given the physical separation between us (living 300 miles apart makes going drinking tough). Anyway, he doesnt play much given his work constraints, but I have met lots of other fun people, including some of the people on this board.

When I got the game, I knew that it would take time to open a jedi slot, so I looked at all the professions and saw that only 2 really appealed, bh and commando. It seemed like everyone was a bh, so I thought, what the heck, I will be a commando. I figured that if I couldn't be a jedi, I could be like Kyle Kataran. So, I came on these boards, started reading, and saw all the problems with the profession (this was before our weapons got fixed). Anyway, it took some time for me to master marksman (eh, I was a newbie) and by then it was announced that the commando weapons were getting fixed, so I headed in that direction, working up the unarmed tree while CTD every 5 minutes because of a bugged rebel helmet (boo helmets). Eventually I made it to novice, and I had a blast playing the profession and tried to get involved in these boards. I was actually excited when TH got hired, thinking that maybe the devs just didnt realize 3/4 of the profession.

So, I was a master commando for a while, happily blowing things to bits and lighting them on fire. Then the 2.5X melee nerf came. Then the lp nerf. Now this DOT change that has nerfed us even more. And what I find is that I spend more time on these boards then I do playing the damn game at this point, which is just plain silly.

In short, I am NOT having fun. I hope that our last ditch effort on TC (and I do mean last ditch, since TH is the only dev that comes here, we need to convince someone else that things aren't right) has some tangible results on the Devs, or there will be one less person around here. Just wanted to give people the heads up in advance so thatno one isshocked ifI do leave.



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DarthTaosin
Wed Feb 11, 2004 11:27 pm
#2

I'm sure you already know it, but there are others who are feeling your pain.



See, there are people who think it's actually a good thing that a player can eventually, through a lot of work, get the gear together to kill some high end mobs.



But, the devs don't think that should be possible at all. They are convinced it shouldn't.



Yet what would happen were this possible? People would still enjoy the game, groups would still be viable because theywould be able to kill big stuff, only much faster. Since killing big stuff in a group is for loot usually, then this works out in the groups advantage still.



You see the problem is that the devs don't know that if they let players have some freedom the game can still be fun.



There would be more loot and more cool schematics and components in the market, more stuff for players to have fun with.



My opinion... they are still running into database trouble.. this is all tied to that in some way. Conspiracy? No. They simply don't want to talk about it.



If I were them, I wouldn't either.



They need someone who can deal with their DB problems. Hrm...........



Tao





Taosin
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CarlTheWookie
Thu Feb 12, 2004 1:08 pm
#3

Ah well, what to say...



I feel your pain.


I have been a commando since August and I loved the class. I got real sick of all the PvP nonsense, but commando still let me have a relativly good time in PvE. After playing around for several hours on Lok and Dathomir, I have come to the conclusion that Master Commando now SUCKS. It takes up FAR too many skill points for too little in return. The only real PvE upside to commandos now is lobbing RL after RL at a dragon, and that's kind of hard to do solo.


So, it's official. Master Commando = Surrender Skill? Yes. It's all gone now. Thankfully I had enough combat and rifle XP banked from my days as a master sharpshooter to get a good amount of rifleman back. Now all I have to do is figure out what to stack on top of rifleman now that I have all these spare skillpoints floating around.


Im gonna miss setting stuff on fire.





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