Development Cycle Archive
Thread: IGN Vehicle Video Nov 25th
RepublicSoldier wrote:
Seems to me it's the way most folks are in this game. We get mounts they whine, we get the first REAL info on vehicles.....they whine. I for one like the mounts,
People like whining. They whine when they don't get their way, then whine when they do.
Look at the speed of mounts. They are slightly slower than burst run. A person runs 100m in 20 sec, a mount does the same distance in 15. Burst run is about 12 sec. Mounts' gallop will cover 100m in 10 secs, and lasts for 2 minutes instead of BR's 1 minute.
Looks good once I finally got to see it.
Thanks for your hard work on getting this mirrored guys! And THANK YOU again for making so much smaller! 
I agree that you deserve some free play time for that!
People specialize. The person making up the vehicles addition has probably been working on this for about a half-year now and has neither the expertise nor the responsibility to fix harvesters, any more than the guy who does accounting for Chevrolet has the expertise or authority to install door panels on the cars.
Software development is not digging trenches, it is preparing a fine meal. People are not interchangable, and too many cooks will always spoil the broth.
Phomeister wrote:
Hm.. nevermind.. I just saw how slow the vehicles are in the video.. can you say foot burst run speed?
Thats still pathetic tho..but now its just laughable too.
"Vehicles, however, are much faster than mounts. They will be the fastest mode of ground transportation available in the game. The slowest vehicle has a higher speed than any creature mount. Because a vehicle does not slow for anything, even combat, we see vehicles as becoming the standard means for "cruising" around a planet, especially for non-combatants. "
Well, according to the article, they should be fairly quick... but hey, I'm still waiting for the video to download... 11 more minutes! 
/wow
Gimme!
This game is starting to become outstanding despite some of the amazing features (aka bugs)
Also forgot a big thumbs up to the ppl who sorted this vid out. Top job.
1 months free subs if it was upto me!
Phomeister wrote:
Welp there go creature mounts.. Do they devs really think people are gonna want to use a slow, weak kaadu once vehicles go in?
Pathetic.. just pathetic development.
lets think thru this *LOGICALLY*
what will win in a race:
1) a friggin high-performance racing motorcycle
-or-
2) a horsey
i vote #1, but of course, maybe if the horsey had an ion engine up his ass........
I think at this point it's a law of nature that no matter what updates a game developer releases, the related forum thread will be at least 2/3rds full of people complaining and whining over it. Either moans of "It sucks!" or "Why the heck aren't you working on the issues *I* deem important instead of wasting time with a video?" I'd pay money to see, for once, an entire thread related to a new update that isn't filled with complaints. Also, how IGN posts the article and video is not the fault of SOE or LA, so go to their forums to yell.
That said, I agree with those here who aren't tossing a fit, that video absolutely rocks and it's just what I was hoping out of the vehicle system! This, next to ships, is what I need to make this game feel more star-warsy on a personal level. In a few weeks I hope to be cruising Naboo in my brand new TFOBuilt (TM) swoop bike!
w00t I say... w00t
-Z
Drab wrote:
Okay is it just a rumor that the Vehicals are hitting the Test server tonight? or is there some fact on that?
The Texture files were sent to the server. But other than that, I dunno.