Development Cycle Archive

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NordaIspe wrote:

TH haven't tested today but did the last patch fix the Smugglers not being able to use Clamps and WUKS/AUKS from crates? Really sucks to have to take each clamp out and each WUK/AUK.

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Col_Osiris wrote:

Im going to post this here, because its the only place I could gather to post it. And really, it wouldnt surpise me if it were deleted. Im just here expressing my view of the game, as it is right now, while following the rules of conduct. If this isnt the right place to post this, then there should be an SOE Representative post explaining what this particular forum is for, because there isnt one there now. I post here because this is the forum dealing with the Live gameplay, and everything I will write will be about the Live gameplay.

Welcome to the world of SWG. Everything in this game is bugged, and if it isnt bugged, its not working right, or its incomplete, or it needs a revamp, or it needs an update, or it needs etc..... Basically, everything in this game needs to be dramatically altered (except for the recent Jedi revamp, but honestly it wouldnt hurt to throw that back on the drawing board either so that it doesnt screw the people who unlocked their Jedibefore pub 10over like it does because of bugs and design).

Theseare the very reasons why Ill be cancelling my account (and pretty much everyone I know in game (which consists of my guild of around 25 induviduals), and Im sure we arent the only ones)when EQ2 comes out. Im not promotingEQ2 here so dont misinterperet me. Im sorry people, flame me if you want to, but Im sick and tiredof dealing with these issues that shouldnt exist a year into live. I use to want to wait for them to be fixed, but its just gotten way out of control, and no one who has been playing for at least a year can argue this. Ive done my share of offering input like the rest of you. My arguement here is that I am tired of waiting for results on issues that still dont work. Not that the dev team isnt working hard, just that if things had beenhandled properly, not only would they already be fixed, the problems wouldnt have existed in the first place.

Want toknow why it takes so long to fix all these problems? Because this game is still in production. We are paying for, as best I can categorise it, aBeta, and that is the plain and simpletruth!! Why do you think 'our input' is so important? Look people, if they wereasking us what we would like to do or seein the game, as far as adventuring is concerned, and then they makeTHAT instead of hotfix afterhotfix after hotfix,it would be different. But they arent doing that. Theyareasking us to tell them what in the game isnt workingcorrectly orwhat we dont likeabout what already existsso they canfix or changeit. This isnt adding new content, this is changing what already exists because what DID exist, didnt work. And everything they do manage to add, doesnt work correctly, because everything else it relies on doesnt work. Why does that sound like a Beta Testto me? Oh I dont know,... maybe because thats what a Beta Test is!!!! Were suppose to be enjoying this game, and we arent (and when i say we, I mean me and everyone I know in the game, and again Im sure we arent the only ones as appearent on these forums), except the people who a)either took a break back in the day and have come back (only to soon realise nothing has changed), b) Jedi and/or the people trying to be Jedi(because theyre the only people who have a purpose in the game, or the game allows them to actually follow through to a goal. Hmmm, why do you think that is?), orc) people who havent been playing but for a month or so and havent yet been agitated by the bogus bullcrap thats going on with this game.

Im not one here to start an arguement, or some crappy farewell address (which this is not), Im just saying that after a year of playing, Ive gone through every emotionwith this game: love, hate, patience (though it isnt really an emotion), and now cold heartedness. I dont hate the game (I actually really want to love it), I just simply have no desire to pay for an unfinished game that doesnt work correctly, nor play it even if it were free, any longer. There is a certain level of tolerencerequired foran MMO, which I understand, but I think everyone has truely gone above and beyond the call of duty for this production team as far as waiting and being patient. This isnt about waiting for a game that we can all truely relate to and love. At the end of the day, its about us spending our money on a crappygame!!!

I still stand on my arguement that if this game had taken another year of solid production, it would have been for the better. EQ2 took one extra year, and that was only to add voice-over and even more polish. This game didnt even make it that far into production. Its like they went half way and decided it was good enough. They havent even gotten into the 'polish it off' phase; theyre still building an engine!!!

But, thats beside the point as its too late to redo that. So where do we go from here? Well since I know that the devs wont stop Live and just spend an extra year on solid development, then all we can do is keep going like we are. And as time passes by, around half-way through the third year, this game will probably be at a level of where it isnt so much a Beta anymore and an actual MMO,where they are adding content more than hotfixes or game altering. But by that time, the game will have already gone through its prime, andproduction on SWG 2 will start underway.

I guess this is more of me saying I am very disappointed with the game and the way it has been handled. And I hope whoever runs this production, Hayden Blackman, whomever, learns something from this so when time comes for the sequel (if there is one), they wont make the same mistake of releasing a game before its time. Its almost like a premature birth. At the younger years, the baby experiences difficulties. But later as it gets older, it adapts and becomes a fully correctly operating person.

But Im sorry to say that until that sequel comes, this game is for the most part going to be in the state of always trying to catch up and make up time. The development and content wont ever catch up with the overall value of what the game should be until its too late. Why? Because poor decisions were made. I tip my hat however for the effort to correct the mistake. But the damage has already been done, and at best, the devs will struggle to keep.

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• Items removed from a house get removed from the player (who has admin rights to the house)andreappear backin the houseas soon asthe playerexits.

• Items removed from a house disappear from the players (who has admin rights to the house)inventory (does not reappear) after a player exits the house and travels a short distance from it.

Kainus - They increased the number of required professions to EIGHT from 5 without telling us, so you've done 2 of EIGHT. Spread the word.

-Kainus- wrote: According to the conversion chart, someone who has unlocked 2 of 5 holo professions should have more than one free skill branch open to them in Aurilia. So far I have only been able to unlock one. has anyone else had tihs problem? and is it being taken care of? Kainus

Message Edited by martinit on 09-06-2004 10:12 PM