Development Cycle Archive

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Tapa wrote:

Now that crackdown is in full swing starports are laggier than ever! Why? Becuase there is approximatly 50 stormtroopers camping the kor vella spaceport and I cant move!

Get out your nerfing sticks and nerf the montrosity of this crackdown. I can see 10, but not over 50.

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Just found this out, myself! On Eclispe server.

There were so many STs, my system crashed. Won't be surprised if I find I've been db'd when I relog.

I don't know if there was a bug that caused all these STs to keep spawning on top of each other, but this is ridiculous, Devs. There were so many STs, my radar was full with yellow blips. Each of them seemed to be scanning for rebels, saying that "such as such" is a suspect (my name, and several others, came up in the few seconds I stayed). So what, now covert rebels aren't even allowed to use the Starports without being made overt?

This is game breaking (literally) and must be fixed.

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Hlicalanthe wrote:
Just found this out, myself! On Eclispe server.

There were so many STs, my system crashed. Won't be surprised if I find I've been db'd when I relog.

I don't know if there was a bug that caused all these STs to keep spawning on top of each other, but this is ridiculous, Devs. There were so many STs, my radar was full with yellow blips. Each of them seemed to be scanning for rebels, saying that "such as such" is a suspect (my name, and several others, came up in the few seconds I stayed). So what, now covert rebels aren't even allowed to use the Starports without being made overt?

This is game breaking (literally) and must be fixed.

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(sigh)

Well, I reloged, and made it past the STs without them firing on me (and before 1/10 of them loaded). But by the time I made it in the starport, the area outside was full of st's again, and the system crashed.

FYI, Devs, you may want to reboot Eclipse.

As a covert Reb, I'm not going to jump on the "let's use Forced PvP as our euphamism" bandwagon. Honestly, this sort of crackdown is what I was expecting from launch. I want to have the feeling of being under the thumb of the Empire. Before the patch, I never carried any contraband on me--never needed to. Now, I might carry a bit of rebel gear just to increase the fun.

So here's one covert Reb looking forward to more CRACKDOWN

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CerionSkydreamer wrote:
So here's one covert Reb looking forward to more CRACKDOWN

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Honestly, I don't mind being emmersed in the oppressiveness of the Empire. What I do mind is being forced into PvP. Whether you like the euphamism or not, that's what's happening when the game changes a players status from covert to overt. There's no "if's," "and's" or "but's" about it.

The devs should consider other ways of accomplishing their "immersion" goal than punishing PvEers by making them susceptible to PvPers.

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ImpTrooper wrote:

Would it be possible to remove faction point gains from the STs that participate in the crackdown? And if not, please make them harder to kill. Give them back their armor and better resits. They are just a joke now and can be killed by almost any rebel. Now that we can call only one faction perk at a time, it not going to inbalance the game.

Please stop this Rebel Faction Farm festival that is the Crackdown.

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No, it wouldn't be possible. You can't have your cake and eat it, too. All you Imps are telling us covert Rebs to stop whining about being FORCED into PvP. Well, the same Imps can just zip it and sit down. If there are more STs around, of COURSE there are going to be more FP around. What good reason could there POSSIBLY be for a Rebel NOT getting faction for killing an Imp? I'll tell ya what reason: NONE.

Sorry if I have no sympathy. I didn't expect this nice side effect from this screwed up patch. Frankly, I'm glad the other Rebels who don't mind PvP'ing have figured this FP thing out. Way to turn a negative into a positive!

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Mrjuice wrote:

The Imperial NPC presence needs to be increased tremendously as well as removing any FP gain for "camping" one of the Imp controlled cities and farming the Imp NPCs. Plz consider making the Imp controlled cities practically invulnerable to Overt Rebel assaults, similar to how DAOC made their Frontier Gates (Vast Amounts of Insanely high HP Npcs protecting those areas).

As of now, this patch theme is really "REBEL FP BLOWOUT !"

I do enjoy the timers though on the new Buff Icons very nice addition. Just need a way to (shift + right click) or some method to remove buffs when desired.

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Oh, so only IMPS can camp, right? Rebels in cantinas? Scans? HA. I don't think so.

Well, I saw an unbuffed Teras Kasi Master take out the 4 stormtroopers that shook him down without breaking a sweat.

Is this working as intended? Or are the stormtroopers supposed to be more than faction bait?

GREAT JOB!! really.. you know... great F'ing job guys!!!

you put them in kor valla or however you spell it, and what do you get, the respawn bug, hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands. can't move, crash, can't load in, you crash... great job.... fix the bugs so that this doesn't happen