Development Cycle Archive

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Due to high player demand, we have revamped and reintroduced the famed “Hero of Tatooine” quest. The quest utilizes brand new static and dynamic content. Find the hero and see if you have what it takes to acquire the Marks of Altruism, Intellect, Courage, and Honor. For players who previously completed the quest, you will retain your badges and may complete the quests from where you left off or from the beginning. To start the quest, the player must first seek out and speak with the Hermit of Tatooine…

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Have you attempted the Hero of Tatooine Quests?
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What were your experiences?
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So I thought, cool, having not been here for the first one - YAHOO!! something different to do.

Off i go on my first quest. Got my sliced cleaver and 1/1/1/1 novice heavy swordsman. YEAH!!! put on some sliced comp armor. ARRRRRGGGHHHH!!! buy a set of buffs! WhodaMAN!!! drunk on V-Brandy WHOO BOY!!!!! Big Steak Dinner! YUMMMY! Gonna get me some MEDALS!!!!!

Find the squill cave- did that. just fine. go in .... WHAT THE COW IS THAT????? Beasties to the left of me! $&%^! Beasties to the right of me. *&^%&*^%&*! They're LAUGHING at me!!! RUN AWAY RUN AWAY RUN AWAY. INCAPPED. RUN AWAY RUN (incapped again)AWAY RUN AWAY (Jeezums, Marty, and Jacob get me the COW outta here.)

So THAT'S why its called a squill cave. I have a name change suggestion.

How about the EVERY SQUILL IN FEAKIN' CREATION FAMILY REUNION AND BAD ATTITUDE CAVE?!?!?!?!

breathing. breathing and healing. breathing. Thinking that this is a little more difficult than I was led to believe.

Purchased a second account to grow a gunbunny and a TK tank.

SOE wins.

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Antiwan wrote:

Could either TH or any Dev just let the community know whether the Mark of Intellect quest is broke or not. It would be really great for some communication, instead of letting ppl waste there time on a spawn that will not happen.

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Message Edited by IgescaStorm on 07-08-2004 11:44 AM

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Ackis wrote:

My character is bugged and I cannot do the altruism quest.

I've found the moisture farmer 2x. First time I got the mission from him. The wp didn't go into my datapad because it was full (that stupid n00b droid filled up my last spot), but I got a wp from another person. Went to the cave, got the explosives, freed the family. They despawned and never gave me a badge. Now I found the farmer again, thinking I can reset the quest that way, and alas the only option I was given was basically reconfirming I'm going to do the mission.

I submitted an in-game ticket and to paraphrase ChrisO "Tough luck, bug it".

What I need is for a dev to go into my account and reset the flag that says I've completed the mission so the explosives will spawn.

I'm a badge collector, and this is the third badge that I've lost because of bugs in the game. I sent you a PM TH on the other two (they were vette missions) and I know you read it. I can only hope that my comments will be addressed.

Not being able to get this badge prevents me from getting the mark of the hero which also contains a very very nice reward.

Help me TH, you're my only hope!

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If you choose to burst run out of the Sennex cave, the wife and kid will despawn. You must 'lead' or walk them out to safety.; completely outside and then you get the badge.

But the need in a haysack if frustrating I agree. Especially if someone bugs the Pirates by KD/dizzy and they won't spawn the rest of the day. I guess that server reset is the only hope of doing these quests.

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  First off I checked the boards and found usefull information as to what to expect and what I would need to do. In truth I had no freaking clue what I was really in for in terms of wasting countless hours of doing absolutley nothing thereby boring and angering myself to hell.


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  The quset started out nice, having to fight my way into the squill cave then after talking to the hermit having to fight further in the cave to retrieve the item he asked for.


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  Thank god the forums have some detials of what to do because based on the conservation with the herimit after he tells you how to become a hero you'd just stand there scratching you head going Huh? Basically all he tells you is to search the "world" looking for some people and a beast. Ooo ride/run/walk around the entire world hoping you may come accross a few very small dots that you can pray spwan when you happen to be in the right spot! Wow what a facinsating, challanging and creative peice of game design this was, give that dev a raise!


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  So after two days searching the right spots (thanks to the forums for help on this) I come across the boar and get a badge and I'm thinking my luck may change and I'll find the other spwans a little faster now. GOD WAS I WRONG!


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  FIVE more days and hours and hours of looking and I finally come across the farmer in a spot I've been to about a million times before and GUESS WHAT some one else is there too and beats me too him by maybe 10 seconds or so, I'm able to start a conversation tree with him but soon it just automatically closes and he tells me someone else is already helping him and he Dissapears. WOW I have nevered enjoyed myself so much in a game before in my life!

I would truly love it, if someone at SOE could change the spwan times and places drastically then make the devs play and complete the entire quest on a server where other people were playing trying to beat them to the spwans, THEN after the countless hours of fustration, hook them up to a lie detecor and ask them two questions:

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   Can youhonestly sayyou are proud of ther work done on this quest?


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   Do the think this set of quests added a valuable, fun and rewarding aspect to the game inducing players to want to play the game more?

There is a very nice reward at the end of this quest and I am by no means saying this quest should be quick or easy; However I am looking for activecontent to occupy my game time not a huge mind numbing time sink doing basically nothing and depending on random luck to complete a mission. Hell if that's all you need to know to be a game developer then hire me I can give you plenty more of that crap!

-Lorik, Soldier of Light