Development Cycle Archive

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Curxcha wrote:
Its all a show for the gallery as we say in Norway. How his exact wording was, is. How he wanted it to look, what he ment by using this and that word. I get the meaning. When its boiling down to what you associate with the words he use instead of looking at the meaning of the bigger picture... *shrug*, who cares, as in I sure as hell dont.
All I say I sure feel sorry for the staff working this boards. Watch your tounge and think it thru 10 times and then run it thru 2 others atleast before you dear posting it becouse someone can missunderstand it and always think the worst. Then the conspiracy theorys starts, the roumers, the whining kids and what not. I realy started wondering sometimes how ppl can understnad "this like that?!" and a lill further down a dev say in "baby language" how the above dev post was to be understood.

Anyway, i'm more fond of a "spit it in my face" kinda comunication instead of all the "wooly" talk. HIT MEH!

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I understand what your saying, we in the States have a saying that is similar to the point you are making in your reply and I will say it loud and clear so Haden can hear it.....

"Your actions speak so loudly we can't hear what your saying!"

Message Edited by scall01 on 08-02-2004 05:46 PM

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Shug_Ninx wrote:

(in fact,just to show that everyone has their own opinion,I talked towell over a dozen people at Comic Con who felt that the current combat system is great and doesn't really need any changes).

Haden Blackman

LucasArts Producer

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The issue here is I believe this. The Smugglers were repeatedly told they were a top priority for a revamp. I believe that a couple Devs even gave them a date. None of which came to pass. Look at GreenMarines first set of responses when the Smugglers were assigned to him. It was because of past broken promises.

Smugglers are a combat profession. At least partially. Therefore it was reasonable to assume that their revamp would be included in the Combat Revamp. Since the stated object of the revamp was to 'balance' the combat professions it was fair to assume this. Otherwise the question becomes if this profession isn't included in the revamp then what others ones aren't? Then how can the revamp bring 'balance' if it excludes some professions.

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The other problem has been the amount of secrecy about the revamp. This revamp was first mentioned in Dec. Since that time the answer to just about any question from the combat professions has been "wait for the combat revamp". You'll see that that answer has been a line for amusement by the players for awhile now in some posts.

The players were told to keep waiting for a system that was mentioned in a number of ways. Such as 'dynamic', 'revolutionary', etc. However no acutaly information about it has been forthcomming. Which has lead to a fair amount of frustration. Our questions are answered with a generic statement, we have little to no information, and this has been going on for eight months now.

Many are also worried that a system will be created with little or no input outside of the Correspondents and we'll end up with a system that is going to be bug ridden or just not work as advertised. Or a system that has already been created yet by those who do not really play the games and are hence likely to miss things that would be obvious to even the casual player. Case in point was the Wookiee armor requirement that required Dantooine Horn to make. Those kinds of mistakes do not foster faith in the Devs. If such a mistake could be made there, what kinds could be made in a sweeping combat revamp that should be obvious? Which is why we've been asking for information for months.

There is a large player base on these forums that can analyze any system to help find the flaws in it before it goes live or even to TC.

"Haden, I'm confused. You said you had nine programmers in your origional post but now you say fifteen. Did I misread something?"