Development Cycle Archive
Thread: Weekly Roundtable Discussion (Week Ending 3-15-04)
Remember that a company don't invest hundred of thousands to pay engineers to work for nothing. A company want their investement to pay off. This is not a game but a product they are trying to sell like any products we buy in real life.
The only way they can keep Jedi rare and leave the option open to all is to allow anyone to create a Jedi at the character creation screen. It's going to be a very very weak initiate.
But if you want to play "say" a doctor or a bounty hunter you wont be able to unless you delete your jedi or get a second account.
Jedi will be so hard to level that you will give up trying. You will then want to try another prof or get a second account.
I'm ofcourse just guessing, i have no clue what's going on.
I guess I've passed up on posting to any of these roundtable discussion threads for various reasons. Theproblem I have, and I've been here since Beta 3, is that it just seems like our concerns which could be answered with either simple yes or no questions are always answered with doublespeak, or elusive riddles.
When the FSCS was a mystery, I was doing everything I could think of to get my slot. The only thing I've ever wanted in this game is a FS slot.....I love RP'ing a Jedi character, I always have, and the thought of being one of the few players to have one has always appealed to me very heavily. I've played live since day two of launch and when the system was finally revealed, I worked my butt off trying to grind professions. With the advent of the Christmas holos, it definitely made my life a lot easier, and I was singing praise at every turn again to the Dev's and SOE for making it an attainable system.
Now 23 professions and counting after finding out the system, I find out that the system is being changed. I don't really mind that it is being changed, because I thought it was a really weird system to begin with. But...and this is a big BUTT, if the system has already been changed, and the current method of gaining a force sensitive character is different from the old manner, we need to be told. I have felt in the past I could count on SOE to do the right thing, and give the people that have worked their arses off trying to get this slot, but now I'm not so sure. The holos were handed out on Christmas, and I for one dropped a profession I was happy in because it was just my means to gaining a Jedi, and then you guys yank the rug out from under us.
This game has really lost the fun it had when I first started playing because I've spentthousands of hours playing and I'm no closer to my goal than I was at day 1. You simply cannot treat players in this manner. I know I'm only one, but I really hope you will listen to what I'm saying because I do love this game, and I think SOE has tried to make it better....but don't do it at the expense of the player. If there has been a change please just be honest with us, and when the new system is published, give people like me who will have 28 profs mastered at that point something for the work they have put into your game. You all should be proud of the achievements in this game, but without players, its just software.
RageGods wrote:
Thunderheart,
Ichange my professions tag from Master Doctor to None, leaving me with no professiontag under my name.
I logout with no profession tag under my name.
I login with the Master Doctor tag under my name.
Because the gamedoesnt ever save theNone choice before logging out, I get 10 tells asking "you buff?"
Any chance of this being fixed in the near future? Its very annoying.
When I choose None, When I login the next day it should still be set to None and not reverted back to the last profession tag I choose before I set it to None.
It saves the last title, even if you lose the skill. I found myself flying the master merchant flag when I logged in the day after the game revoked it when I dropped the skill.
Try setting your tag to novice medic and then to nonebefore you log. It should be novice medic when you come back in.
As bad as this is for us, imagine how it is for the Jedi that want to be anonymous... 
LeBob wrote:
TH
are you guys making any progress on the 'NPC stuck in wall' bug?
I've been trying to gain Jabba faction since COA III went live by hunting Valarians particularly in the slums of Mos Eisley, but they are almost 100% always stuck in the walls and therefore unatackable... plus no others will spawn since the area is spawn-capped (new word?
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I asked numerous CSRs via in-game ticket if they could do anything like 'unstick' 'despawn' 'suicide' the NPCs in question, but they said they could not...
if you guys are unable to get the primary problem fixed soon could you at least enable CSRs to do something like this?
ALSO another temporary solution (at least in the location of Mos Eisley) would be to move the spawn location 100m outside the city.... where there are no walls!.... no walls means NPCs cannot get stuck in said-nonexistant-walls
thanks
In walls they are still susceptible to grenade splash damage and will come out to get atyou if you can hit them with it. You can kite a mob to the location and then throw a grenade at it (even if you aren't certified to use it) and the mobs in the wall will come out after you. You might even be able to get another player to duel you on the spot so you can do it...?
Same thing happens with people camping meatlumps or thugs. In areas where they spawn near buildings, they are killed until such time as they have all respawned in walls, and then they just stay there until pulled out by grenade or server reboot lets them respawn.
want some one killed ? Give me a tell Combat Medics outrange all professions, and never miss..
BH/carbineers dizzy and knock down with one shot...
Special Protections work against Armor PIERCING(laff)...
And Whitey Is On TheMoon.
Mujaa wrote:
Combat Medics outrange all professions, and never miss..
BH/carbineers dizzy and knock down with one shot...
Special Protections work against Armor PIERCING(laff)...
And Whitey Is On TheMoon.
If you think CMs never miss, you've never been a CM.
Which means you're not qualified to make that statement
The following is a public service announcement originally written by Virtanis, a fellow Master Droid Engineer on the Corbantis server. However, it is important information for droid owners and enthusiasts on all servers, so I'm cross-posting it here for all of you.
Based on information coming from DE's on Test Center, the previous DE Correspondent (Drashk) and the current DE Correspondent (TheRealTK421), please listen to the following announcement:
SOE has made a major adjustment to the armor ratings of Droids scheduled to be released for P7. Previously, Armor6 modules (the best armor module, an MDE made component) would give a droid Medium Armor and 40% resists across the board. SOE has significantly reduced this rating. It's new level will be NO armor, 20% resists across the board. In addition, this change is retroactive to ALL droids of all types and models: even those in deed form and those already in your datapad.
I repeat: this is a retroactive change to all droid armor ratings.
[Virtanis]sent a PM to TheRealTK421 today asking for clarification and confirmation of this, here is his response:
Will the armor nerf be retroactive and apply to already tamed probots?
Yes.
Will the armor nerf be retroactive and apply to probots in deed form (but not tamed)?
Yes.
Will the armor nerf be retroactive and apply to already made Armor6 modules not used yet in a droid?
I haven't tested this yet...but I suspect that it will.
It is probable that CL10 droids are being "equalized" to other CL10 pets, but no new information regarding greater than CL10 droids has been given to us by SOE. There are other changes in store for droids, like increased HAM and damage, but thenerfing of the droid armor is pretty severe. I will say that, unless some drastic change happens between now and Tuesday, or the information given to our correspondent is in error, this is being released to the live servers.
I felt it's my duty to inform the people of Chimaera, my friends, my guildies, and all my current and previous customers of this change. I will also say that the DE community did not request this change, but this was made by SOE alone.
I would like to further ask that people ignore the new "Droid Invasion" wallpaper that SOE has made available. The only droid in that picture that Droid Engineers can make is the R4 that is running for its life in the foreground. We CAN NOT make any of the combat droids in the background, so please don't ask. Droid Engineers are very upset about this patch as it is, and bugging us about things we wish we could do only makes us more grumpy than usual.
Thank you for your time, I hope this PSA is useful. I wish I didn't have to post it.
I apologise for SOE's behaviour in this.
ENDQUOTE
Best Wishes
the entire Droid Invasion is a load of crap...
droids are no better than they used to be or anymore usefull
its all just hype over nothing
AN IDEA TO BALANCE "DABLLING FOR SPECIALS" WITH MASTERS
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def. Dabbling for Specials:
verb, the act of taking only a few skill boxes in a combat porfession to acquire the best special attacks. resulting in the dabbler being, generally, a stronger template than a Master of that combat profession by the fact that the dabbler has more free skill pointsto supplement his or her abilities.
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"dabbling for specials" works so well because special attacks have such high To Hit bonuses.
if it was the other way 'round, specials having a high To Hit penalty, then "dabbling for specials" would still be doable but only a Master of the combat profession (with his accumulated accuracy bonuses) would be really proficient at it.
TH
Crafters apron is unwearable by wookies
common ,we dont get armour,so many are crafters,and now we dont get apron either?
the dev team needs a manitory wookie time playin in live so they apreciate the severity of the gimp status of wookies now on both crafting and pvp.
i hope this is a bug ,but ive gotten no indication from any posting or csr that thats the case.
can i please get an answer to this