Development Cycle Archive
Thread: On Mandalorian Armor
Just one question (haven't read all 6 pages of posts yet)...
If you go with a cave format, how will you prevent campers, kill stealers and ninja looters from ruining this aspect for others who what to earn it?
Sounds like this could create yet another camping nightmare in game...We saw it happen with the Faction bases....we can see it in the Borgle Cave...you can see it at any cave/base location anywhere in the game where nice items drop...it frustrates and ruins the games for others...do you want to place such an item that a large number want (probably more folks want then any other item in game) in a place where camping and such will take place? This could end up being a CSR Nightmare...
PadreBook wrote:
My concern is that SOE is going to bow down to the ever yipping BH contingent and make it BH only. Why would that be the case? It's worn by mercenaries and warriors--not exclusively Bounty Hunters!
Padre
Because if I see a Jedi running around in Mandalorian armor there is going to be hell to pay....MBH/Master Commando certseems fair to me....
Sipu wrote:Imho that is an exlusive BH armor and should be wear it just by them.. something like in the armor request should say"BH novice".. i am not Bh but wil be stupid for Sw universe ingame to see imperials or rebels.. chef's or CH.. wondering arround in the specific BH armor.. i mean even BH's were just a few that had it...
What? How could a guy dressed in all but a full set of Mandalorian while wearing a chefs hat possibly look out of place?!?
Shug_Ninx wrote:A few months ago,a LucasArts employee who plays the game religiously started a grass-rootscrusade toget Mandalorian armor into the game.
Thank you LucasArts employee who ever you are!!!
No offense offended to all the "BH-Only" advocates, but making this a BH only armor seems ridiculous. Unless I'm mistaken (which is possible), the Mandalorians were soldiers and not BHs. That said, at least some other advanced combat classes besides BH should be able to wear it.
As someone who has both an armorsmith character and a combat character (commando), I agree that there should probably be armor certs. I also, however, don't think that most armor is overpriced. People expect to buy good armor, but until you actually become an armorsmith and see how hard it is to gather the good resources that are needed, you don't really know how much effort goes into making that armor. When I was just a commando I thought AS were overpriced moneygougers. Now that I have an AS character, I feel much more sympathetic.
Sure, we can make it, but to get the ingredients to do so is laughable. Especially the woolmander stuff. I have yet to see someone wear a set of RIS armor, let alone even sell it.
For mandalorian armor, this would be a good thing. This armor will be the most sought after item in the game (except for maybe holos). The requirements to get this armor should be very, very steep. The metal for this armor should be found only on one to two advanced planets planets (dath and endor, perhaps)and be very, very rare spots. The quests or dungeons to get the schematic should be very difficult. Make it hard for us.
I also wouldn't object to random spawns of the dungeons (kinda like the "mark of" camps).