Creature Handler Archive

I'm with you... after scouting the forums for info and finding out we're getting axed, I had resolved I'd only login to free my pets on their planet of origin. My wife wanted to know if I'd want to play any of the other content, maybe complete some of the quests we had started together (she's MDancer/TK/other random stuff wot doesn't lend itself to CL) and I wasn't sure.

She's on now, talking to a friend and I figured I'd get on just to vent a bit... got to the loading screen and ESC'ed out, with tears in my eyes. I couldn't face it. I hope I can steel myself for the duty I owe my pets to release them and thank them for their service (sounds silly about a game, but any CH should understand). I am fortunate to have many pets IRL, and spend almost all of my time (since I telecommute) with the little buggers.

I wish they'd at least have not screwed up Naboo before this. I'd like to have had it remain as it was in my memories, and not have wasted my last week of play trying to catalogue the problems and keep posting about them in the bug threads to try to get them fixed. What a f*cking waste. I wish I hadn't come back, as at least my last departure was gradual and for a good cause (preceeding the birth of my daughter). My wife and I jonesed for SWG, for the landscapes and our houses and the few close friends who had remained, and finally came back.

The feeling of betrayal is the worst. The devs certainly knew this was coming, and the announcement was timed blatantly right after the majority of ToOW purchases had been made. They even had the gall to entice CH to buy the damn thing with the lure of new tameables, missing specials, and the fricking Master Tamer's Necklace which for all we know NEVER EVEN EXISTED! However, that's just the tip of the iceberg - when they added pet specials we had to hunt down and spend hours/days grinding were they just thinking "they may only be 1%, but they sure are gullible!" and keep counting their money knowing they'd kept us paying for another few months before they just tossed us away?

I feel misled. I feel depressed. I feel betrayed. And I definitely feel sick when I think about life without the escape of playing with my pets outside my homes on the cliffs ofNaboo, or watching my wife dance, or romping through the wilderness looking for a (baby).

I will cherish one moment I stole from SOE last night, though, before I knew this was how things were going. I had discovered a week or so ago that the "no exp" bug has a bright side - that pet stops counting towards your total CL. I had out 7 pets last night - pets which otherwise wouldn't ever seen the light of day side by side. CL two-hundred-and-fricking-thirty-three of pets. Yeah, screw you and your stupid necklace SOE!

While it'd be a contrived attempt now, I found I could easily benefit from this bug by just checking to see if I could call something else every so often while running around on Naboo. It's prolly a server boundary thing, as I crossed a decent amount of territory and ran in circles alot trying to get stuff to spawn in dead zones. I couldn't add my CL69 to the mix for some reason, but managed 2x(58+12) + (50 + 20) + 23 (Mercy, my very first pet, a GPS I bought as a kitten the first time I had ever left Rori while delivering a gun for a weaponsmith friend... I used my payment from the gun delivery for him, and kept him ever since).

Maybe someone else can get this to work for them to get a screenshot of more than one of their stable at a time. It's a bit unmanageable to get 7 pets to line up in a sane manner, but man they sure can kill a Fambaa dead in no time flat.

Enough rambling from me. Off to try to be Productive Or Something.

*sob*

Ketu Sringa

+--------------------------------------->
| Ketu Sringa   //  MCH/MBE/Ranger0030      /) /)     "Fade away
|                                          ( o o )     into the
| near LOST City, Naboo                     = x =      ethereal 
| Lowca                                    m     m     grey..."
+-------------------------------->       ***(=======-

/grouphug

It hurts us all

I am too shocked to cry.

All I know is that I will leave if this happens...

Message Edited by Ritak on 11-03-2005 04:24 AM