Development Cycle Archive

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Templar1865 wrote:

JustG: Thanks for being open to feedback. Here are some comments/suggestions/observations

Travel: If possible, decrease travel time in selected cities only; perhaps make less-used starport the 5-minute ones (or zero-delay ones) to distribute population away from Coronet and Theed. Coronet and Theed could stay at 10 minutes, thus encouraging people to visit other cities.

Wookiee Armor: I don't play a wookiee; however, this kind of change happening so quickly after the armor release does suggest that some more internal testing before release would be a good idea.

Profession: As a doctor and a combat medic, a couple issues here. First of all, giving both innoculations and area cures to the doctors was a pretty fantastic blunder. The innoculations make sense (doctors prepare people for combat and heal them afterwards), but area effects have always been the domain of the combat medic. Area curing is really only applicable in a combat situation, so the combat medics should get this one. Honestly, I believe that this is something that should be changed in time for publish 10.

Combat: This is a major anti-CM nerf on FOUR fronts: 1) doctors area cure 2) doctors innoculate 3) poisons and diseases no longer auto-hit 4) poisons and diseases, if they hit, no longer auto affect. I use the word nerf specifically as it connotes an unfair change. A "balance" is a fair change. Based on this information (will test it out in live later), combat medics should nowhave zero offensive ability in team PvP combat, and reduced effectiveness in PvE combat (no auto-hit). CMs were overpowered in PvP, but reducing their effectiveness to zero is a nerf. CMs were underpowered in PvE, so reducing their effectiveness there is as bad if not worse (here's a radical PvE thought--have poison and disease be lethal to MOBs but not players). Another suggestion would be to allow poisons and diseases to autohit (kind of hard to avoid a cloud of toxic vapors, a la the Geo Lab). The chance to resist, coupled with innoculations and area cures, seems more like a balance than the current nerf.

Poison/Disease Message: makes perfect sense from an interface standpoint. Please continue with these kinds of usability improvements.

Fire/Bleed stick frequency: Fine with this as long as it affects MOBs and players equally. Does it?

Turret Hitpoints: Ah....a factor of x3?? This smacks of the "it goes to eleven" habit we've seen with MOBs, POIs, etc. This will discourage low- and mid-level players engaging in GCW activities. Is that what the devs intended? Smaller, incremental changes, ladies and gentlemen--enough with the pedulum swings!

Crafting: Makes senses, especially in light of the impeding doom of recursive macros. Did the devs intend crafting professions to be a tedious bore until attaining Master? Anything that moves these professions into a more interesting, interactive way of gaining experience is great (I suggest substantially increasing user XP, but that's just my opinion. I know that this can be exploited if implemented incorrectly).

Please continue to fix bugs and correct imbalanced game systems.

Thanks.

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Shann0w wrote:

Combat: Poisons and diseases no longer automatically hit, but now have a chance to hit based on their potency.

I've said it before, now I'll say it again, poisons and diseases were N-E-V-E-R AUTOMATIC!!!!!

I've had (notethe past tense there) three accounts since launch, I'veused poisons and diseases on my other toons, they were NEVER automatic!!!!!

I don't expect the TKMs, Swordsman, rifleman, pistoleers, etc. to know, understand, or even care how CM works, they've never gotten the 'X has resisted' messages like we have, but the DEVS should at LEAST know how the system works.

I've been here since beta. I remember the first time I spawned into Kor Vella, I was abolutely amazed. I see things in the details of SWG every day that are amazing. Once when I was waiting for my harvester to appear after a server restart, I watched one of the lizards on Tatooine. It breathed, when it walked it's joints moved, when it put its foot down the toes spread out, it even responded to other creatures. Why can't we get that level of attention to other aspects of SWG???

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I was a CM very active in the GCW for over 3 months, and during that time I could count on one hand the number of times I got resisted (and I was using top-of-the-line poisons/diseases). I quit the profession in disgust because of the sheer overpowered nature of it in PvP. I actually felt guilty whenever I used it in combat.

It was, for all intents and purposes, automatic. It needed to be fixed, and hopefully it has been. Sorry.

Falin

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BrainMandinga wrote:

The point being on the encumberance is the fact that the new armor is equal to what others have in terms of resists, but as it was put into the game initially it had an incredibly low encumberance compared to Comp armor. I could put on my full set of 80% Kinetic 60% base Wookiee Hunting Armor without having to buff when I got it. That is not balanced. Balanced is requiring the same buffs that any other species should have to have to put on their top quality armor. Did I like the fact that I could put on my armor while unbuffed? You bet I did. I am not going to complain that it is evened up though, it just doesn't make sense to me. When the buff values drop sometime in November or December then I am sure the Devs will have no choice but to make changes with the armor values (which are also slated to change) in order for all the species to put on their best armor. We as wookiees will not be the only ones who are affected by it, but at least the rest of the players don't get to gripe about wookiees not only having increased stats, and equivalent protection, but lower encumberances as well. I have been listening to the wookiee whines since day one being a wookiee. The playing field is now level, lets keep it that way.

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Woot! Excellent changes!

Falin

Message Edited by FalinMor on 08-10-2004 11:19 AM

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SithLord2000 wrote:

DEVS,

6. Why can we build on Dantooine and Lok but not, Endor, Yavin or Dathomir? Make this possible. It would further help to spread things out. There are some places on south Dathomir, that would make great city locations. More of these planets would be accessable also.

SithLord

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JustG wrote:
Travel: Decreased starport wait times to 5 minutes!!

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