Development Cycle Archive

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• The Jedi conversion process

Went seemlessly and had no trouble. Allowing /restartconversion once would be a very good feature if Jedi makea mistake or a bad template. It can take months and months to rebuild your template if you screw up; unlike mundane professions which take hours or a couple of days max.

• The lightsaber reconstruction/deconstruction process

Deconstruction went well. Pearl qualities were low and resulting tuned pearls were mostly crappy and not usable (Force cost not low enough).

Reconstruction went ok and thankfully I had friends with good resources and I only had to buy good culsion gas for 200cpu (still high but livable).

Saber experimentation is close to useless even with 10 pts (as it was on TC2). The point of even having experimentation is almost mute. Why not just make the entire result based off resources? It currently is 99.5% anyways.

• The Jedi Robes

They are ok but look like bath robes somewhat and no customization is allowed. Ranked Jedi should be give HOODS and more color palette.

Robe DEFENSE? It was in the Archives. TH, you have used the Archives as a backup document for other things like why the PSG should be LS resistance. So where are our armor-like defenses?Statedefenses?Additional Force power and regen was a nice touch.

• The Force Ranking System

Ruining GCW plain and simple. Other players are sick of being "farmed" by ranked Jedi and the hatred towards Jedi for ruining the game is at an all time high. We all know Jedi didn't build the system but the are acting out what the system has dictated to them.

• Light Powers vs. Dark Powers

No difference between Light and Dark below Knight. Overall Force Powers and Force Defense are seriously weak and very few are fitting them into their templates.

Ranked Dark Jedi apparently get bonuses to Force Powers but with Light side using feedback they just kill themselves faster.

Overall the range of Jedi skills is too limited. Defenses is useless and toughness should just be spread across the the Lightsaber, Enhanceer and Powers trees instead. Any Jedi in their right mind will not train to Master Defense or even close.

Force powers are far too weak compared to cost. Reduce cost or boost powers.

It would be nice to see more general bonuses to non-ranked for Light and Dark to add variance.

Much has been written by Philosopher and Arjun about this topic and has gone largely ignored. Dark Side should have bonus Force powers/offense and Light side have bonus healing/defense.

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Aanu wrote:

Well, controlling the Jedi population is what the BH is for. D'uh!

So what you only get 1 in 8 shots to land when fighting most Padawans at this point. You have more SPs as a BH now, so go and drop your blaster for a gaffi stick since Melee is the ONLY way you will be able to take many low level Jedi and just scratch a mid-level one.

I mean, what is Star Wars without the Kung Fu fighting?

Blasters are soooo 1977.

-a

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Message Edited by HavelockVetinari on 07-10-2004 12:50 AM

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HavelockVetinari wrote:

Covert jedi can heal overt and tef'ed members of their faction without getting a tef. This is a problem; it's no fun chasing down the combat medic who keeps hucking poison and disease at you only to see all your damage to him wiped out by a stream of force coming from some pansy jedi you can't attack. This is a PvP breaking exploit and needs to be addressed immediately.

Message Edited by HavelockVetinari on 07-10-2004 12:50 AM

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ONE SOLUTION:

use of force powers = TEF

use of lightsaber = TEF

use of jedi clothing = TEF

Public Jedi Combat WITHOUT a Bounty being served (ie: for fun) = Exhorbitant Loss of Force XP (should drain all accumulated xp to 0)
in addition to the above (public duels) - player will recieve LARGE loss of player ranking.

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I'm REALLY getting sickened by seeing peeps GANGBANGED by THREE JEDI...

FIX THIS PLEASE

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Nakajima wrote:

ONE SOLUTION:

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lagasse wrote:

It makes absolutely no sense to me why or how a tribal npc automatically puts you on the boards.

1. I kill the whole pack in less than 30 seconds.

2. I never looted a transmitter off of a tribal.

3. I have never had a tribal escape my 128m radar or even get more than 40 meters away from me.

Here's my suggestion:

Re-examine what npcs have technology to report a jedi and if they report the jedi, I highly doubt it would be an instant or relative instant placement on the terminals. If it makes no sense for an npc to be able to report or make any form of technological communication to a magistrate, then they should not put you on the boards automatically. Especially if you kill them all in under 30 seconds.

Another problem and suggestion. It makes nosense whatsoever that a friend of mine both in and outside the game (outside doesn't matter) sees me utilize my jedi powers/saber and that places me on the boards. Any and all players should be required to utilize a command such as:

/report (jedi name)

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