Development Cycle Archive

...You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Go back to Coronet, go back to Anchorhead, go back to Theed, go back to mos eisley, go back to Kor Vella, go back to the slums and ghettos of our modern cities, KNOWING that somehow this situation CAN and WILL be changed.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that even though we face the difficulties of unresponsive development team. I still HAVE a DREAM. It is a dream deepy rooted in the star warsy-ian dream.

I have a dream that one day the development team will rise up and live out the true meaning of their creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all races should be created equal.

I have a dream, that one day on the red hills of dantoine, the former gimped wookiee's and the former gimp-enabling development team will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day, even on the planet of coronet, a planet sweltering with the heat of oppression will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice for equality.

I have a dream that mywookiee friends, will one day live in a galaxy, where they will not be held back by the lack of foresight from the development team, but embraced as a strong viable character.

I HAVE A DREAM Today!

I have a dream, that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and every mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight and the glory of the development team shall be revealed, and all the races shall see it together.

This is my hope. This is the faith that I will log in to Bloodfin with. With this faith I will be able to hew out the mountain of despair a stone of hope.

With this faith, we will be able to transorm the jangling discourds of our galaxy, into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.

With this faith we will be able to work together, to fight together, to struggle together, to clone together, to climb up for armor together, knowing we WILL get armor one day.

This will be the day when all my wookiee brothers and sisters will be able to sing with meaning. "we can wear armor"

And if SOE IS to be a great development team, this must become true. So let Wookiee Armor Ring from the hilltops of Dathomir outpost. Let Wookiee Armor Ring from the mighty mountains of Yavin.

Let Wookiee Armor Ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Naboo.

Let Wookiee Armor Ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Hoth (yeah i know its not in the game sue me

Let Wookiee Armor Ring from the curvaceous slopes of Rori.

But not only that, Let Wookiee Armor Ring from the Stone Mountains of Lok.

Let Wookiee Armor Ring, from EVERY hill and mole hill of talus, and every mountainside.

And WHEN this happens, when we let Wookiee Armor Ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every city, and every planet, we will be able to speed up that day when all of Lucas's children: human, mon cal, zab, tran, twils, and wookiee's will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old spiritual "FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST, Thank SOE Almighty, we have ARMOR At last..

1. Please fix warping! I'm still warping backward 20-40 meters when going prone to open fire


2. Please fix warping! I'm really getting tired of warping off my chair, or sliding across the floor when sitting.


3. The shuttle wait time bites! I'm cursed with the ability to arrive at the starport as the ship's taking off. It's extremely annoying, and is not fun. In fact, I've taken to just logging off in frustration when this happens. Please remember your promise to make the game fun. Waiting for a shuttle is un-fun.


4. Bothans continue to ask for a +15 Mask Scent bonus to make up for the loss of our +15 Camouflage bonus at Scout level when Camouflage was nerfed. Yes, we still have a +15 Camouflage, but it's only useful for those Bothans who are Rangers. We previously had the +15 Camouflage bonus at Scout level, and want a +15 Mask Scent bonus to compensate.


5. Further, no Devs have bothered to respond to the Bothan Issues thread.


6. If you're going to be adding new mission rewards to the static missions, you have got to give the folks who have already run those missions the opportunity to run them again. If you're going to modify a mission set, clear the 'mission completed bit' for anybody who's previously done that mission.


7. Ditto the Huff Darklighter missions. There are a lot of folks who lost the gun to Huff's guard before the missions were fixed, and hence cannot progress on to Huff. I want to be able to complete these missions, and get my krayt skull.


8. Give us the ability to place items on the roofs of guild halls! I have a generic hall with this large roof I can't do anything with. I can put statues and lights on it -- no, wait, I can't. Only the Mayor of our city can do that. Not very helpful. I'd like to be able to put furniture, pet deeds, lights, statues and fountains up there, without the intercession of our Mayor.


9. Give us windows on the sides of our generic guild halls, so we can see out. The walls are so high I can't see over them. It'd be nice if I could actually go up there and look out upon the nearby terrain.


10. Please sort the bazaar across all pages, not just the current page! If I'm looking at Resources, for example, every single page sorts from A-Z. This is really dumb. The entire listing, regardless of how many pages it covers, should sort from A on Page 1 to Z on Page X. It shouldn't start from A on each page.


11. Remove the Premium auction column in the bazaar, and give the space to the Name column! I can't believe you put in an entire column to hold an asterisk. It's a terrible waste of space. Instead, make Premium auction entries appear in yellow, and always sort them to the top of the list.


12. Give us back the ability to color the names of crafted items! If you don't want multiple color listings on the bazaar, just disable coloring on the bazaar, for anything other than Premium auctions.


13. Stop changing the color of my R2 every time I call it! It's annoying! I want it colored once, and I want it to stay that way forever. Our clothing doesn't change color, nor do our pets. Are our bikes also going to change color? It's a stupid way to keep the specific crafting professions in business, by forcing customization on everybody else after 20 calls...

RIS Amour race compatability...

C'mon Art Department!!

When will the issue of Wookiee armor be addressed? Wookiees need better defenses or the ability to wear armor! I'm not asking that Wookiees be made better than the other races, I'm asking that the playing field be leveled. Equity please.

Thank you.

I was wondering if Carbineer is in this mix of "combat balancing."

Im VERY close to Master Carbineer and I have to say i've been outmatched since day 1 of retail when I picked up a carbine and was hoping that high end carbine would be better. It honestly feels like im playing a broken class.

Im 4/4/4/3 now, and have heard from many master carbineers that they dont stand a CHANCE against Pistoleer or Rifleman in pvp of equal or sometimes lower level...

My leg shot 3 hit too low to be consistant on killing someone by action. Burst shot 2 seems to hit 1 of the 3 stat pools(random) for a little more. Cripple Shot also hits a random pool for a little more then burst shot. Wild Shot 2 is a nice Area Effect shot for PVE, Useless in PVP.

I aslo am having a hard time finding a decent carbine for my level on my server(Starsider)

As of right now im dropping carbineer as soon as I master it for Rifleman or TKA(undecided). I'll probably keep Master Doctor forever =)

I am one of those who havehad their accounts re-activated for two weeks.

I wish it would have happened when all the professions have hada revamp.

A higher priority was given to adding new features rather than fixing professions, and I couldn't disagree more with that decision. It's basically the reason I quit the game in the first place.

I experience more tedium and frustration while playingthan I do fun, and I really have no faith that things will change for the better, so I won't be rejoining the game.

TheBlur wrote:

...You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Go back to Coronet, go back to Anchorhead, go back to Theed, go back to mos eisley, go back to Kor Vella, go back to the slums and ghettos of our modern cities, KNOWING that somehow this situation CAN and WILL be changed.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that even though we face the difficulties of unresponsive development team. I still HAVE a DREAM. It is a dream deepy rooted in the star warsy-ian dream.

I have a dream that one day the development team will rise up and live out the true meaning of their creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all races should be created equal.

I have a dream, that one day on the red hills of dantoine, the former gimped wookiee's and the former gimp-enabling development team will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day, even on the planet of coronet, a planet sweltering with the heat of oppression will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice for equality.

I have a dream that my wookiee friends, will one day live in a galaxy, where they will not be held back by the lack of foresight from the development team, but embraced as a strong viable character.

I HAVE A DREAM Today!

I have a dream, that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and every mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight and the glory of the development team shall be revealed, and all the races shall see it together.

This is my hope. This is the faith that I will log in to Bloodfin with. With this faith I will be able to hew out the mountain of despair a stone of hope.

With this faith, we will be able to transorm the jangling discourds of our galaxy, into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.

With this faith we will be able to work together, to fight together, to struggle together, to clone together, to climb up for armor together, knowing we WILL get armor one day.

This will be the day when all my wookiee brothers and sisters will be able to sing with meaning. "we can wear armor"

And if SOE IS to be a great development team, this must become true. So let Wookiee Armor Ring from the hilltops of Dathomir outpost. Let Wookiee Armor Ring from the mighty mountains of Yavin.

Let Wookiee Armor Ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Naboo.

Let Wookiee Armor Ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Hoth (yeah i know its not in the game sue me

Let Wookiee Armor Ring from the curvaceous slopes of Rori.

But not only that, Let Wookiee Armor Ring from the Stone Mountains of Lok.

Let Wookiee Armor Ring, from EVERY hill and mole hill of talus, and every mountainside.

And WHEN this happens, when we let Wookiee Armor Ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every city, and every planet, we will be able to speed up that day when all of Lucas's children: human, mon cal, zab, tran, twils, and wookiee's will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old spiritual "FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST, Thank SOE Almighty, we have ARMOR At last..

this is funny

Oh, something I would like to discuss as well... what happened to taking away double-armor decay (once when damage is taken and once on death) for pvp? Why not just take away double-armor decay period?

I have a question about the crack-down, as it relates to Bounty Hunters and Kaadara.

(Sorry if this has already been posted and answered...)

Bounty Hunters do most of their Inv III and inv IV out of Kaadara out of necessity...it is the only location with SpyNets in close enough proximity to the BH terminal.

Given that crackdowns will occur primarily in Imperial Cities, and Kaadara is such a city, will Bounty Hunters be needlessly hassled while trying to level? (Even more so for Rebel BH)

Its not as if we can go to another city to get BH missions, as SpyNets are extremely scattered outside of Kaadara.

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josfe wrote:

The Top 5 Species Issue: Zabrak (NO REPLIES AS OF YET)

The Top 5 Species Issue:Wookiees (NO REPLIES AS OF YET)

The Top 5 Species Issue:Bothans (NO REPLIES AS OF YET)

See a trend here? I've tried to get ThunderHearts attention on every one of these blasted roundtable discussions and guess what? (NO REPLIES AS OF YET)I thought the communication between the community and the developers was supposed to improve. This is honestly as bad if not worse than when the game launched.

With the removal of mod stacking (comming in patch 6) along with the new armor types and weapon types (comming in patch 6) the wookiees armor plight has turned from a huge imbalance to a game breaking bug.My fellow master wookiee combatants will be confied to their homes and cities for fear of being slaughtered by meatlump baffonswhile the rest of the population explores, and hunts kryats. You need to address the Wookiees species requests immediately and give us a time frame on when we can expect these changes to be implemented.

I've been patient, I've been nice, I've gone through the official communication channels. However these "Official communication channels" have failed the Wookiees and so have the developers. It's about time we recieved some answers!

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1. tankability (look it up): Zabrak Swordsman > Wookie Swordsman

2. Damage threshold: Zabrak Swordsman = Wookie Swordsman

Why? Damage is TOTALLY dependent on a weapon's stats (assuming both are masters, here).

The Devs stated that wookies are not allowed to wear armor because of their stat bonuses. It has been proven MANY, MANY times that the stat bonuses a wookie has does NOT come remotely close to offsetting the defensvie penalties the wookie race suffers from not being able to wear armor.

However, the Wookie race IS stronger than the other races, yet their melee damage is not significantly higher than the other races.

In conclusion, ADDRESS the Wookie ISSUES.

- JustG, 11/25/03: "I will tell you this, Droids (and DE's) are going to be the MAIN feature for the January publish. We will be fixing alot of things and adding combat droids.Yes, talk is cheap.

This has been asked before but I have never seen an answer from SOE.

Why do shuttles have a 10 minute wait?

What purpose does it serve?

Why is it still in the game when so many people seem to dislike it?

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Mackle wrote:

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Thunderheart wrote:

Move up/move down abilities should be available in Publish 7

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Woohoo! That is good news. I can't wait to finally turn those little small rooms at the back of my house into an office.

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I to am pleased to hear that. I do however have a related decor question about furniture.
This is a hi-tech future with repulser craft, laser cannon, light sabres, space shuttles and everything. So why is my home illuminated by tiki torches?

-Indene- (who has installed a few street lites in the house but they only work at nite.)