Creature Handler Archive

Guys, you can protest till you turn blue, or another color if you're already blue.

Took some windshield time and gave some thought to the game as a whole. Unfortunately, I can see the plan and the error in my previous thinking.

Look at this way: If someone waved a magic wand and fixed all our problems today, would the boards go away? Nope, in a couple of weeks, if that, we'd be screaming for more content. Corrals, CH missions, whatever. With the magic wand theory, that's not much of a problem.

In the real world (or that we've seen from SOE), we know these fixes will take weeks or months to accomplish. The net effect would be to delay new content by the amount of time put into fixes. The loss in subscribers from boredom of the silent majority not posting here would be far worse than those lost to single profession bugs. How many of us can honestly say we'd still be paying to play every month if the game were the same as it was in October, except that bugs were fixed?

I read in another post something like rather than being a nerfed CH for the past four months, the writer could have been doing Krayt missions as a TKM or something. Really? Four months of doing Krayt missions would keep you happy? After doing a few days of Enraged Rancor missions they get pretty boring in my book. Rinse and repeat isn't what's going to keep gamers happy; there has to be a challenge and variety. Like it or not, the way to do that is to add content. Sort of a 'damn the torpedos, full speed ahead' type of thinking.

Before y'all think I lost what little mind a Bothan has, I think it would have been better if moredevresources were put into the game as a whole. Then the tradeoff would have been a lot less. But that's not the case and I don't think we're gonna see that. The SE will buy a nice chunk of time to work on cleanup since that content will probably keep players busy for a while.

But after seven months, I'm leaning towards seeing more content and I can live with the bugs and imbalance. Things like:

Why aren't there CH missions?

Why can't we get some kind of corral going, even a simple one?

Start bringing in some of those extincts, even if a couple at a time?

Whether I can solo a Krayt or a Kimo makes no difference. If I solo a fambaa or a voritor, it's still send in the pet and shoot at it. The challenge and mechanics are no different. Not true for the PvPers, but IMHO the entire PvP combat system needs to be redone. That's a whole other thread. And that die is cast, the rebalance 'should' take care of some of that and it is scheduled, whether we like the schedule or not.

fantoq
MCH
former Medic
App. Carbineer
Society of Interplanetary Mercenaries[SIM]/ stargate/ naboo