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Thread: GAH!
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Fignuts
Thu Oct 09, 2003 6:52 pm
#1
Where are all of you looting these crystals from? I look through the posts but nobody says where they got them. I would like to know where to get one, if anybody would be kind enough to tell me I would be grateful. I don't believe these are a key to opening the FSCS but I want one just to have one.
Also, where can I find a holocron, and not by just getting a mission and quitting I want to know where to get one legitly.
Sorry if this sounds demanding, but I am in the middle of something and I am trying to keep the post as short as possible.
Hollow1Neville
Wed Nov 03, 2004 5:13 am
#2
/rant
Okay, sometimes customers REALLY make me want to tear my eyes out. I am SO sick of people thinking I'm the expert when it comes to what stat set is the 'best' for what tasks. People have different play styles! I don't know! I'm not a bounty hunter, how should I know? Go with high secondary stats! What? You mean you don't know what the secondary stats are? ARGH!!!!
/endrant
I was wondering however, if there is a DETAILED and simple article that I can refer people to when I'm asked "well, I want to do combat, but I don't know what my stats should be!" that clearly explains what the stats do, and a step by step instructions on HOW to migrate your stats (you know, take points from here, and put them there. I cannot count the number of times this has had to be explained over and over again) so your image designer can apply them. Also, what affect each of the stat have. I swear, no one reads the manual.
It would also be nice to have an article related to "how to migrate your stats so you can fit into that snazzy new armor!" (without your image designer having to migrate you six different times).
Do such articles exist? Anyone?
TechnoCan
Wed Nov 03, 2004 5:19 am
#3
I had been bonking my head against the next wall for half an hour after dealing with similar folks myself :/ I can be really frustrating how... stupid and naive some folks seem to be and how persistent their are with staying with their wrong knowledge they 'know' to be 100% true.
There was a friday feature about stats and stat-migration some time ago, but the page isn't loading at the moment. And yes, some guide about migrating your stats to fit your armor in ONE try might be usefull.
Maisland
Wed Nov 03, 2004 5:31 am
#4
Tell me about it! I had one customer recently that practically had me tearing my hair out! 
Didn't know what secondary stats were... apparently couldn't figure out how to move sliders back and forth. Made me wish I could just go in and move everything around for him myself like some people think we can! The guy was such a noob Imigrated him for free! 
Kyree-Sunrunner
Wed Nov 03, 2004 5:45 am
#5
My standard reply is, "I can't see your stats, I'm sorry. I know very little about combat, but I'm pretty good with hair and such. Honestly, I'd recommend that you find someone with a similar profession and ask them."
Most people take this pretty well, especially when I point out that I think it's GOOD that another person can't see their stats and possibly share them with an enemy.
Most people take this pretty well, especially when I point out that I think it's GOOD that another person can't see their stats and possibly share them with an enemy.
Vorpaks
Wed Nov 03, 2004 2:33 pm
#6
If I'm in a bad mood I just tell them to go get buffed and drink enough brandy to put on the armor they want to wear. Then note down the encumbrance that shows up on each stat and make sure they have that much stats at the very least.
Cerridwen3
Fri Nov 05, 2004 10:55 am
#7
I had one dork come in the other day. Said she needed her stats done. I asked if they were all set up and she said yes. So I image design her, we wait for the 10 minutes. After it was done, she says that nothing had changed and that I screwed up. I told her all I do is click a button, she needed to change her stats. She then asked how she can check them to see if they changed. I said, cntr-c under stat migration. So obviously the dough head didn't change her stats in the first place since she had no clue on where they were located and after she checked them she still accused me of screwing them up on her. I then said, welcome to my /denyservice list.
Cerridwen3
Fri Nov 05, 2004 11:11 am
#8
Forgot to add that during the 10 minute wait she kept telling me that the profession was useless, and how can someone actually play star wars and NOT want to be a jedi! How dare I not like combat... I'm apparently stupid and dumb for not wanting to become jedi and she told me that in not so nice a words. People dont' understand that some just dont like to grind out combat professions. I'm a master doctor and ID for a reason. I like the interaction between people. At least I'm doing something usefull in helping someone. And if Image Designer is a useless profession then why the hell come to me for a stat migration??
people make make me so mad.... I can't deal with stupidity and ignorance.
NJ62
Fri Nov 05, 2004 11:22 am
#9
I find that the clientele for aesthetic work is much more "genteel" than the clientele for the stat migrations. I still work off tips for aesthetic work because it's viable. For every one guy who doesn't tip me, I get 4 who do. The last 4: 20k, 15k, 50k (boggle!), 20k. With stat migrations, it's so hard, but I have to take a hard line. I don't start the session until I ask "have you moved your stats yet?" and have stated a price. And - here's the tricky part - they say okay to the price. If they don't say okay, then later on they may play dumb and say they didn't hear you.
One guy the other day (in full composite of course) needed a migration. He didn't have enough money (so he said) and he started trying to talk me into taking a lower amount. When that didn't work he tried to marry me. He then tried a different lower amount, and shouted at me that he was in a hurry. At that point 2 other customers came in and I stopped paying attention to the smacktard. Right after I finished with customer 2, I get a tip for 20k, and an apology, courtesy of smacktard. So I migrated him. Then he wondered if it had worked because he was buffed. I didn't even attempt to explain to him that he could figure it out using "math".
One guy the other day (in full composite of course) needed a migration. He didn't have enough money (so he said) and he started trying to talk me into taking a lower amount. When that didn't work he tried to marry me. He then tried a different lower amount, and shouted at me that he was in a hurry. At that point 2 other customers came in and I stopped paying attention to the smacktard. Right after I finished with customer 2, I get a tip for 20k, and an apology, courtesy of smacktard. So I migrated him. Then he wondered if it had worked because he was buffed. I didn't even attempt to explain to him that he could figure it out using "math".
Atlantiss
Tue Nov 09, 2004 6:17 am
#10
Cerridwen3 wrote:
Forgot to add that during the 10 minute wait she kept telling me that the profession was useless, and how can someone actually play star wars and NOT want to be a jedi! How dare I not like combat... I'm apparently stupid and dumb for not wanting to become jedi and she told me that in not so nice a words. People dont' understand that some just dont like to grind out combat professions. I'm a master doctor and ID for a reason. I like the interaction between people. At least I'm doing something usefull in helping someone. And if Image Designer is a useless profession then why the hell come to me for a stat migration??
people make make me so mad.... I can't deal with stupidity and ignorance.
I'd have just let her ramble on a little more and then cancel the ID session. No way would I sit there and listen to that from a customer regardless of how much they were paying me for the migration.
KaiaClodgah
Mon Dec 13, 2004 7:50 am
#11
So I decided to make a new character on Bloodfin, just to try something new (tailor/BE/fencer) I'd been killed a few times and had wounds and BF so I sit in a player city cantina and hit ctrl-c so I can flip back and forth to see how my wounds were coming along (because, yes, I was too lazy to make a wound pack) Imagine my surprise after flipping back a few times and seeing that my mind and BF was healing right along with my normal wounds. What's next? Am I going to walk out of there with a mind buff??
Barb-Wire
Mon Dec 13, 2004 2:43 pm
#12
in ye olde days before time began and everyone thought a CDEF pistol was proper krayt hunting gear there was a lack of entertainers in the wee hours when people from foreign lands would find time to play. there had to be some way to fill a need to heal wounds so it was deemed that they would auto-heal VERY painfully slowly in certain locations.
the fact is that if your going to get worked up over a 5 point wound heal that tickes every 10 minutes or so your having deeper issues than a stubbed toe...
Xyrdre
Mon Dec 13, 2004 6:02 pm
#13
My preliminary tests have been showing 3 points of BF auto-healed during very erratic timespans. Sometimes they were as little as 3:31, or as long as 6:37 by my short run samples, with no apparent rhyme or reason to the difference between healing 'ticks'. Very odd... and I fear that to try to get some meaningful data, it's just going to take hours and hours and hours of sitting around counting healing in empty cantinas. I'm up for it. 
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