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Thread: Publish 7: Major (CH-related) Features
New Mounts: Players have two new mounts available to them with Publish 7; Banthas and Cu-Pa’s!
Camp Restrictions Removed: After Publish 7, players will no longer be required to be in camps to pull out Vehicles, Mounts, Droids or Pets and can pull them out wherever they are, eliminating the player inconveniences of having to find rural areas far from cities, lairs and other no-build zones in order to build a camp. The basic rules of calling Vehicles, Mounts, Droids or Pets are:
· A player will not be able to call a vehicle/mount/pet/droid during combat or 60 seconds after combat is concluded.
· There is a 30 second delay after you call for a vehicle/mount/pet/droid before it will generate.
· A player will not be able to call a mount/pet/droid while mounted or on a vehicle.
· A player will not be able to call a vehicle while mounted or on a vehicle.
Vertexon wrote:
· There is a 30 second delay after you call for a vehicle/mount/pet/droid before it will generate.
I just cant believe they are gonna go thru with this insane 30 secondtimer. The given reasons were shot down over and over, its just another needless timesink (along with staggering the darn shuttles again). About to lose all hope 
Khel - Flurry
Banthas and Cu Pas... I think the devs like Tatooine 
Beta deprived me of my sand-envy for good though... 3 weeks of staying on sand kind of kills it for you... go figure 
As for the 30 second delay, well, it seems logical. That way you won't be able to flee right away when you see a BH coming for you, or when another overt comes for you, etc... Wich means the devs want the vehicles to act as fast rides for transport, not as backup escape plans...
Vertexon wrote:
Thunderheart will be posting the full list of major features for the next big update (Publish 7) later. In the meantime, though, here are the CH-related ones for your perusal:
New Mounts: Players have two new mounts available to them with Publish 7; Banthas and Cu-Pa’s!
Camp Restrictions Removed: After Publish 7, players will no longer be required to be in camps to pull out Vehicles, Mounts, Droids or Pets and can pull them out wherever they are, eliminating the player inconveniences of having to find rural areas far from cities, lairs and other no-build zones in order to build a camp. The basic rules of calling Vehicles, Mounts, Droids or Pets are:
· A player will not be able to call a vehicle/mount/pet/droid during combat or 60 seconds after combat is concluded.
· There is a 30 second delay after you call for a vehicle/mount/pet/droid before it will generate.
· A player will not be able to call a mount/pet/droid while mounted or on a vehicle.
· A player will not be able to call a vehicle while mounted or on a vehicle.
Item highlighted in red is totally unacceptable.
If this goes live, my account is cancelled.
Precisely the reasons I stopped putting skill points into CH.
A Dev team out of touch with the needs of its customers. I see a little tongue-in-cheek in Vert's posting too.
Imperio59 wrote:
As for the 30 second delay, well, it seems logical. That way you won't be able to flee right away when you see a BH coming for you, or when another overt comes for you, etc... Wich means the devs want the vehicles to act as fast rides for transport, not as backup escape plans...
And the reason for applying it to pets would be?? NONE
And vehicles are different than pets. I couldn't apply a paint kit to my pet, I can't mount all my pets, I can't feed my vehicle, I can't repair my pet. So clearly, the DB makes a distinction between the two, so if that's the excuse, let's come up with something better.
Vertexon wrote:
New Mounts: Players have two new mounts available to them with Publish 7; Banthas and Cu-Pa’s!
Whoopie 2 new mounts, both of them ugly as sin, but both are very star warsy.
Camp Restrictions Removed: After Publish 7, players will no longer be required to be in camps to pull out Vehicles, Mounts, Droids or Pets and can pull them out wherever they are, eliminating the player inconveniences of having to find rural areas far from cities, lairs and other no-build zones in order to build a camp. The basic rules of calling Vehicles, Mounts, Droids or Pets are:
· There is a 30 second delay after you call for a vehicle/mount/pet/droid before it will generate.
Message Edited by Ghostlion on 02-19-2004 06:39 PM
fantoq wrote:
A Dev team out of touch with the needs of its customers. I see a little tongue-in-cheek in Vert's posting too.
Vertexon wrote:
I regularly remind the Devs how the community feels about the unwarranted 30 second delay. I did so again tonight. I plan to continue doing so for the foreseeable future, or until this gets changed or better justified.
OMG. Vert now this is what I am talking about. You told them. Tell us you told them. I like this Vert. Seriously Vert you are gonna get 5 stars from me.
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