Development Cycle Archive

TH, I have a quick question: There is mention of lightsaber fighting styles, but nothing is said of what those styles are. I assume they mean single blade, double bladed, etc. However, will dual saber weilding be added as well? I know you already took some mokaps of duel weilding. I certainly hope we'll be seeing this, as it's very important to jedi continuity.

Other than that, may I say....

/cheer;
/pause 2;
/applaud;
/pause 2;
/congratulate

It looks like a beautiful system, and it was definitely worth the wait. Now I'm sure I'll be continuing my subscription for a long time to come.

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IdrisTycho wrote:

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Grimhand wrote:

We need toconsider the economic dynamics of "tuning" a Crystal.

All Crystal will have the same value in the un-tuned state, since no one can describetheir damage characteristics. Therefore the auctions for Crystalswill now reflect only demand, and not quality.

Once a Jedi "tunes" a Crystal, he sees the damage and it now can ** only ** be used by him. Its value to anyone else is zero.

I believe the Dev's intent in this approach is to reduce the price of Crystals.

Any confirmation from the Dev team?

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Actually he DID say that the higher level NPCs would have better crystals... didn't he? So there must be some internal crystal rating, maybe that "crystal quality" will be seen by jedi, but its actual stats won't be rolled until it is tuned.

Hopefully a Jedi can "tune" a crystal in an interactive way. Let's say tune it for speed, or maybe for low force cost.. etc. One can hope!

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"Players who have not attempted the Jedi path will be able to go through The Jedi Trials in publish 10. Players who have completed many profession masteries will be ranked according to how many professions they have completed and based on that information, they will be able to rapidly advance through the "Jedi Trials". Existing Jedi will be transitioned into the new system in Publish 9: "Secrets of the Force". "

this may have been gone over many times and beaten like a rented mule.....

but to me, this states that i now have to unlock my jedi before publish 9, not publish 10.

so how does this work, i thought we had till patch 10.

this says in order to be transitioned into the new system i must unlock before this patch.

So, is there gonna be a complete freeze on unlocking between patch 9-10?

or will i be able to unlock in this time period, transitioned immediately, and with my second char. slot?

thanks

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Soln wrote:
My God you guys have actually designed it the way everyone has been asking for and aspiring to. I'm impressed with how much SOE has improved over this year in design and release management of hotfixes and patches. Well done -- keep it up!!! /salute

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Alks wrote:

somepeople are deleteing messagesraising some very valid concerns about the new system

to put it delicately the new system is bantha *edit*

you mean that i have to *edit*-up my character in order to unlock the 2nd slot?! that's why i didn't do it until now in the first place, i liked my character the way it was

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I see this as good to keep people from dabbling into Jedi and also good for RP. Remember Luke had to leave his farm life to pursue his Jedi path. You'll have to make tough choices.

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John_DuMar wrote:

Thunderheart i've read all the posts in this topic and the one question that really stands out is - WILL CRYSTALS AND PEARLS BE AQUIRED IN THE SAME WAY AS THEY ARE NOW?

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No, but the design on how they will be dropping is happening as we speak, so I have no hints.