Creature Handler Archive

Hi,

This is an attempt to try and bring some action to the plight of all gamers in SWG.

If you are a new gamer in SWG, you are still discovering the diversity and struggling through trying to find your niche and master your profession, and so for you this letter will make no sense. But if you have been around SWG for at least the year, then you know that what is going to follow is pretty much the truth.

Since release SWG has had it's fair share of bugs, one of the largest problems with the game was the immediate benefit that most players found in having a pet or two or three even. So in the beginning Creature Handler was the choice of professions for both PVE and PVP. In trying to address this the community that were melee characters raised a large stink and in December of 2003 the death nell for CH was sounded. It was called Combat Rebalance. I want you to know that we were not combat rebalanced our profession was destroyed. We have always had certain bugs that we had to deal with, pet autostore being one of the most annoying.

But since the big December Nerf many of our bugs have now become universal. Now the development team is talking about the space expansion and has totally left, not only CH but many other professions completely broken.

This letter is a call to all SWG players to demand that the development team put the JTL on hold and get back to SWG to actually FIX the bugs that are plaguing the game.

Combat rebalance has been postponed till past publish 10, which means that CH has been running on less than playable for over 6 months and it appears that it will be a year before we see the other professions brought into line. This is not just unfair it is not just. More and more bugs are introduced into the game and none are being fixed. Combat Rebalance will not solve all of our problems in fact I believe that combat rebalance is going to seriously destroy many other professions that have been used to getting high end loot. As a CH I used to kill Krayt dragons, now we can hardly kill gnorts. I believe that the development team is going to nerf the other professions so bad that much high end loot will not be available to players.

Fixation over Jedi. Less than 5% of the SWG are interested in Jedi, contrary to what the development team believes. I know that most of my long time associates have quit the game because of the holo grind and many left because they had no desire to be jedi but the devs have been pushing that so hard that all the other professions have suffered.

Galactic War is an absolute joke. Rebels run around overt with no consequences, the storm troopers are a joke as people farm them for FP. If you are going to have a Imperial crackdown, bring in 100 stormtroopers backed up by 50 ATST's and 50 force sensitive/weilding dark jedi. That would make being a rebel a little more challenging. Make it so that armor will automatically be replaced with clothes if we are not in combat for 15 minutes. Make brandishing weapons and wearing armor in space ports illeagal and punishable by facing the wrath of the empire. You can't even role play a game that has no role play or content.

Which brings us to the content issue. So much of what we have doesn't work. Instead of bringing on a new dungeon why not just make what we have functional?

Again I am calling on all players to start inundating the forums and the mailboxes of Sony with demands to bring this game back to the focus of fixing and making playable all professions not just the flavor of the month that the devs happening to be playing.

Thank you for your participation.