Development Cycle Archive

Welcome to the “general feedback” thread for Publish 9. We would like to hear your thoughts on the publish and how its affected the game in your opinion. Also, please post your feedback here on some of the Publish items that are not major features.

Some items we are particularly interested in hearing your feedback on are:

Badges

• Character badges are now located on the "personal" tab of the character sheet in the middle box instead of the examine window


• The Character Sheet now displays a list of badges earned by the player and also badges not yet won

GCW

• Fixed several fire rate problems with manual turrets.

GUI / Keyboard

• Fixed problem with the GUI not updating XP totals when XP is gained or lost


• Items that are reduced to 0 hitpoints, show up as red in your inventory (unless it is equipped in which case it still shows up as an equipped item)

NPC’s

• AI improvements: on steep hillsides and cliffs, creature aggressiveness and accuracy has been improved

Profession Entertainer & Dancer

• Modifying /watch and /listen so that you can perform these actions while sitting on the ground

Profession: Image Designer

• Master ID timer changes (a master outside the Image Design salon gets 1/2 time, a master inside the Image Design salon has no time required)


• Fully decorated and added music all the Image Designer salons

Vehicles / Mounts

• Enter/Exit vehicle changed to toggle


• Vehicle hit points should now be saved properly when making repairs


• Fixed vehicle orientation when traveling over water


• Smoothed ground effect more when driving off of a cliff


• Players can now use the radial menu, in addition to the previously working slash commands to enter and exit a vehicle while in combat.

Vehicle works much better with the toggle, still occasionaly warp though.

Badge addition is nice, I like being able to see what I need to do.

Bad: I can get hit by a NPC from over 100m, through a hill/cave wall. Not good. Plus they will warp away when health is low.

All other comments I posted on the other thread.

I checked the other threads and did not see anywhere else to add this where it might get noticed. Weapon delay, awful, kills hybrid professions.

Also noticed speederbike hp restored correctly as well.

Thanks

Message Edited by redimaster on 07-02-2004 08:38 AM

Wrong feedback thread.

Message Edited by Vissix on 07-02-2004 11:42 AM

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Thunderheart wrote:

• Character badges are now located on the "personal" tab of the character sheet in the middle box instead of the examine window


• The Character Sheet now displays a list of badges earned by the player and also badges not yet won

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! Love seeingthe badges I still need. Are all of them achieveablethough? Like the race course ones?

GCW

• Fixed several fire rate problems with manual turrets.

Never fired one, haven't since. Sorry.

GUI / Keyboard

• Fixed problem with the GUI not updating XP totals when XP is gained or lost


• Items that are reduced to 0 hitpoints, show up as red in your inventory (unless it is equipped in which case it still shows up as an equipped item)

My mineral survey device is red, but at least can still be used. Haven't run into other items that are red before they should be. XP I haven't been grinding, so thankfully haven't noticed either.

NPC’s

• AI improvements: on steep hillsides and cliffs, creature aggressiveness and accuracy has been improved

Hmm, still got the creature warping when low hits thing. I was killed a few times on hills by Nightsisters, so I can assure you that have no problem with aggressiveness! heh Will their Force Powers ever be turned back on though?

• Modifying /watch and /listen so that you can perform these actions while sitting on the ground

Works great and was a wonderful addition, thanks!!

• Master ID timer changes (a master outside the Image Design salon gets 1/2 time, a master inside the Image Design salon has no time required)


• Fully decorated and added music all the Image Designer salons

Love the new design of the ID tents. Saw the one inTheed and want thosepaintings. I hear the othercities are differenent too? Great job. Didn't hear the music though.

Mounts

• Enter/Exit vehicle changed to toggle


• Vehicle hit points should now be saved properly when making repairs


• Fixed vehicle orientation when traveling over water


• Smoothed ground effect more when driving off of a cliff


• Players can now use the radial menu, in addition to the previously working slash commands to enter and exit a vehicle while in combat.

Toggle is nice, but still using my mount/dismount macros. Good thing about the hit points, that cost me 5k the other night. Water and flying off cliffs does seem a bit smoother.

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Still absolutely hating the armor change time and weapon change time things though. This is causing so many more problems than any possible Jedi exploits ever could have. Could you perhaps remove the weapon change blunder and instead code in something like "You cannot apply more than 1 DoT/State every 5 seconds" to take care of the DoT/DoT/DoT/DoT weapon macro exploits? And could you please remove the armor change blunder and replace it with "You cannot use Force Powers for 10 seconds after unequiping any piece of armor" to take care of the "Jedi uses armor macro to take off armor, use powers, than put back on armor". These are issues that would have been solved easily without adversely affecting everyone for minor problems with a handfull of bad players.

Character badges are now located on the "personal" tab of the character sheet in the middle box instead of the examine window

The Character Sheet now displays a list of badges earned by the player and also badges not yet won

Nicely done, I like this feature as it helps goal driven individuals keep track of what other things we might like to pursue.

"Badges, we don't need no stinkin badges" - J/K

GCW

Fixed several fire rate problems with manual turrets.

Have not tested this yet.

GUI / Keyboard

Fixed problem with the GUI not updating XP totals when XP is gained or lost

Items that are reduced to 0 hitpoints, show up as red in your inventory (unless it is equipped in which case it still shows up as an equipped item)

Good work here, just a couple of problems I noticed.

1. Ubese shirts showing up as red

2. I removed 50 Laser rifles off of a vendor and as I was retriving them very rapidly from the vendor to my inventory several of them showed up as red in my inventory. I was able to fix this by equiping and unequiping the item.

I also noticed that you guys fixed the help box popping up when opening the datapad everytime - Thank you, this was very annoying.

NPC’s

AI improvements: on steep hillsides and cliffs, creature aggressiveness and accuracy has been improved

Have not noticed any isses with this.

Modifying /watch and /listen so that you can perform these actions while sitting on the ground

Not an Image designer

Master ID timer changes (a master outside the Image Design salon gets 1/2 time, a master inside the Image Design salon has no time required)

Fully decorated and added music all the Image Designer salons

Not an image designer

Mounts

Enter/Exit vehicle changed to toggle

Works fine so far

Vehicle hit points should now be saved properly when making repairs

Looks good so far, but this was an intermittent issue so we will see how it looks later this week

Fixed vehicle orientation when traveling over water

Never noticed a problem in the first place

Smoothed ground effect more when driving off of a cliff

Players can now use the radial menu, in addition to the previously working slash commands to enter and exit a vehicle while in combat.

Will try these 2 later

TH, any more input on the equip/unequip delays?

There have been a lot of posts and concerns over this. Is there any chance we can open up a seperate sticky thread on this to discuss this change?

Personally I loathe this change and it has caused me to shelve my alt Bounty Hunter out of sheer frustration. That and the change to having Jedi able to be anywhere is very irratating, they are supposed to be in hiding. I tire of seeing 3-4 Zabrak jedi per starport showing off their characters. I feel the TEF revocation was a big mistake, in hindsight I probably should have been more vocal on this prior to the patch.

Message Edited by Camrux on 07-02-2004 10:23 AM

Players still need to /wave or perform any other emote while moving on their speeder to avoid being tossed up to 200m off their bike. Its a really simple fix, that they can't seem to add to the bikes to do it automatically.