Creature Handler Archive
Thread: Seven Months Ago I quit Playing SWG.....
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Zephrum-Tracer
Sat Jul 17, 2004 10:03 am
#1
Not because I didnt think the game had future potential (because I did),but because the game was totally aggrevating with all its broken Professions,Missions,Lack of support by the CSR's, and there refusal to acknowledge that what you talked to them about over and over and over and over was BROKEN.How many tickets I put in for NO reward on missions,Pets never following or responding to commands or just plain warping out of existence.Tremendous amonts of lag and Framerate problems even with a high end computer and great connection.
With all this going on I felt myself becoming so annoyed when I played the game that it was no longer worth it, as I do play to have fun with a game that actully works.
Well 4 days ago on July 13th I said to myself let me subscribe to a month of SWG and see if they have made any changes to make the game a bit less annoying and more playable .So I pay my money and log on with a bit of alearning curve at the beginning it all came back to me in about 2 days of playing .Not only did my memory begin to get back into the game but it seemed to be all TOO FAMILAR!!!!
1st Problem I grab a mission take out my pet and begin heading toward my mission.Well not being fully tuned yet I get too close to the Mobs and they begin to attack .I say to myself no problem Ill trow my pet on them which was my intention all along only thing is HE"S NOT FREAKIN THERE then i look up and see hes only 300m away.Hummmmmm Thats that memory thing again this seemed to jar me just a bit 
.I said to myself it cant be , 7 months and still the same problem ??? 1 year after release!!!!!
.I said to myself it cant be , 7 months and still the same problem ??? 1 year after release!!!!!2nd problem I finally get my pet to follow and when I get to the mobs well out of range the COMBAT music starts going crazy But there is nothing near me I have not attacked anything ,Yet its playing out of control over and over then when it finally stops I try to send my pet in on a mob and the pet is just standing there as the mob aproaches from some 80 + meters away I franticly press the attack button NO response now Im geting hit so not prepared for that scenario I have no choice but to run.(Yes I did retrain the pets to make sure they knew there commands) Well the pet never responded and I gotINC then guess who showed up to come watch me lay there ??? I asked the CSR but that must have been too much of a mind bender for him .
3rd I remember when I played 7 months ago that the CSR's never once helped me with one of my Numerous tickets I placed and I placed a BUNCH and very respectfull too i might add meaning no sarcasm until I began to become just fed up and didnt care what I said.It was always the same answer EVERY SINGLE TIME were sorry for the inconvience.
4th now there seems to be a new pet prolem for me I can't invite my pets into my group ??? My old pets all group with me but the 4 new ones I have will not no matter what I do .Sent a ticket and yep you guessed it sorry for the FREAKIN inconvience.So now I cant keep tabs on my pets health very good at all and when I have 2 pets out I have no Idea where the other one is cause hes not in the Group.
This may not be a shock to most of you who have suffered through this CRAP for the past year but it sure did to me when I realised nothing that aggrevated me before was ever fixed at all.What would possibly motivate a company to IGNORE there paying subscribers other than the fact they must have lost so many accounts they no longer care and realize they screwed up so bad its beyond any help .
Now I see there in a big hurry to realease there new Broken Expansion JTL .So then they will have a broken game and a broken expansion .Well I ask you what will they fix first ? The BROKEN COMBAT SYSTEM or the BROKEN EXPANSION?
The reason I'm so annoyed is because I really like the game and its content but its so frustrating when It does not work I feel myself getting so stressed I want to just punch the screen in.So at this point for my own benift I will once again cancel my account and wait like so many others I have spoken to fpr WOW .As Im sure Blizzard will take the time to release a close to finished product (ya always have to expect a few bugs right)
Well at least I got a day or 2 of excitement running around learning the game again but even that was a drag sometimes due to all the Vendors who had no stock on them to sell .Looks like SWG is heading for alot of bruning ghosttowns.
I never cry about Nerfs or content changes ya just have to rol with the punches but when ya pay a monthly fee for something thats broke well thats a whole different story.
P9M
Sat Jul 17, 2004 10:21 am
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From reading your post, I assume a welcome back and a fond farewell are in order. The Devs remain clueless. The diehard star wars fan will be the only people that remain. I am not one. Aug 8 and 9 marks the last two accounts to be cancelled.
Dreamflayer
Sat Jul 17, 2004 10:35 am
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We have something in common....I too quit for 7 months, then came back, though I'm taking it a bit slower, I seem to forgotten almost everything about beinga MCH. I also made the mistake of signing up for 3 months Of course I signed up the day before the BIG announcement by TH.
Of course I signed up the day before the BIG announcement by TH.Oh well, I'm going to spend my time taming a few pets and buying things I don't need.
Dreamflayer
Sat Jul 17, 2004 10:39 am
#4
Another interesting thing about being gone for 7 months...when I left the game, Bestine was literally overflowing with pets, and now, mine is the only pet in town. Any town for that matter, I seem to be the only CH left in the game..or maybe I haven't played enough. People actually seem glad to see a pet running around. Very strange times
NikiSar
Sat Jul 17, 2004 1:32 pm
#5
I left six months ago, and recently came back. I left when the big sledge-hammer hit CH. Came back to check things out.
The thing is, it's still fun. For me, more enjoyable than killing monsters with no loot, is to maskscent, and walk into the middle of stuff that would take me out easily, and walk away with one of the babies.
Or train a baby right in front of its mother, whom I had to run away from (who broke maskscent), then destroy the baby right infront of mommy. It's bad; I know. I laugh.
I don't know, I'm not trying to kill off every last player, not trying to be the baddest in the galaxy, just enyoying the ride.
The thing is, it's still fun. For me, more enjoyable than killing monsters with no loot, is to maskscent, and walk into the middle of stuff that would take me out easily, and walk away with one of the babies.
Or train a baby right in front of its mother, whom I had to run away from (who broke maskscent), then destroy the baby right infront of mommy. It's bad; I know. I laugh.
I don't know, I'm not trying to kill off every last player, not trying to be the baddest in the galaxy, just enyoying the ride.
decoy33333
Sat Jul 17, 2004 5:29 pm
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i think that the bugs should be fixed but a lot of them r not bugs. it took me a long time to figure out that pet commands r case-sensitive.
Zephrum-Tracer
Sun Jul 18, 2004 4:54 am
#7
Sometimes I wonder if the pet Pathing Issue is just Unfixable due to the way the game world is laid out with so many obsticles,rocks,trees,buildings,harvesters etc.....BUT if this is the case why not come clean and admit to the people that basicly PAY there salaries that there will always be problems .This is just one of many issues. Obviously the pet command issues are just inexcusible you know the ones that don't work at all .
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Electro5
Sun Jul 18, 2004 5:49 pm
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I think the creatures not attacking while you are too far away is intended. If you order a pet to attack from a distance, it will stop when it gets to 64m. I assume this is to keep CH balanced with the ranged professions that can only attack from 64m max. Perhaps anything outside of 64m can't be targeted by enemies, and so they want to make sure that the owner of the pet still has a chance of aggro from the creature.
Indene
Sun Jul 18, 2004 9:31 pm
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Electro5 wrote:I think the creatures not attacking while you are too far away is intended. If you order a pet to attack from a distance, it will stop when it gets to 64m. I assume this is to keep CH balanced with the ranged professions that can only attack from 64m max. Perhaps anything outside of 64m can't be targeted by enemies, and so they want to make sure that the owner of the pet still has a chance of aggro from the creature.
What a good idea. NOT. How am I supposed to help a fellow groupmate who is 60 m on the other side of the lair? I certanly hope this is not what is happening and not intended. If however it is it would be nice if it were mentioned in a patch note. Silly me for expecting communication on such an important point. I will have to check ingame now and see if this is why my pets often seem to stop and stand there even though the group display shows them as in combat. Wonder what happens when the pet runs away drawing the MOB with it to outside 64 m. Does the MOB stop attacking the pet? Does the pet stop attacking the MOB. Does the pet ever stop and attack the MOB again? So many questions
-Indene-
Zephrum-Tracer
Wed Jul 21, 2004 3:56 am
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Electro, You make a good point but I was using the distance as an example .When I hunt I almost always get closer before I send in my pets.BUT!!!! if you are 80 meters out and you send your pets why do they 1. Move forward toward the mob there too far away to see? and 2. Why do they always get agroeven when they dont move ?
Now for a different point.This is not directed at you Electro but everyone.
The thing that stumps me about people on these boards( from the threads I have read ) is they still keep suggesting Ideas for a profession that already has a boat load of Questions and Broken commands. I think before we suggest anymore Ideas the Dev's can Break, we should put all the pressure we can on them to fix what currently exists.
I'm really not trying to be a smart A$$ but it gets very old when you come back to a game that still has the same bugs as when you left 7 months prior.You begin to feel that the dev's really could care less and that creates alot of disturbed customers .If you go to the store and by something you expect it to WORK os you replace it or get your money back .Right ? Well when are we going to get our moneys worth? I want to play to have fun not to be aggrevated.
Also now I have a new problem would like to see if anyone has experienced this .......When I got back into the game I had a bunch of credits so I went to a bio engineer to buy a few pets to use that had specific resists for specific missions.Well all my old pets will join me in a group but the new pets I bought will not group with me at all .Sometimes I get the message they are joining me but they don't join then other times I dont even get the message.Has something changed about BE pets I don't know about ? This is very annoying due to the fact I can't monitor my pets health without having to untarget the mob Im fighting to target the pet .Of course I got the same answer from the CSR's sorry for the inconvience we will loo into this matter ......yeah just like you looked into the other 50 bug tickets I sent ya ?
Santini
Wed Jul 21, 2004 10:34 am
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Same here. I quit in March and just came back. Same old stuff is still broken. (sigh)
My pets store in the middle of battle. Quit following. Suddenly disappear from group. Skills points are gone and nothing to do. Barely anyone left I know in the game. The only reason I don't cancel is I still love my pets and like playing with them.
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