Development Cycle Archive
Thread: In-Concept Open Discussion (Week Ending 3-22-04)
sweatyclimber
Thu Mar 18, 2004 8:22 am
#183
ever plan to come back to the dancer/ musician/ entertainer threads th? after all it was a prommis of yours over two months ago to give us three 10 questions exclusivly. Then you added every proffesion and then just never did it. PS were still waiting on our top 5 to ever be answered too.
damocles88
Thu Mar 18, 2004 9:01 am
#184
WookieePower wrote:
Holstering and unholstering weapons, no real game mechaincs but a little more realism and SW feel. Running around with your weapon out dont allways look right and would look sharf having in on your side or back
Can we get a 'Hell, Yeah'?
More than just looking cool. If your character is peaced, they holster their blaster/scabbard their sword. Any attack command or special that initiates combat has a brief unholstering animation that blends directly into combat stance which then blends directly into the attack or special animation.
Love to see stormies in Kaadara break up a cantina brawl (duel), for instance. "Citizens, put your weapons away or you will be fired upon..." That would be fun.
wcusnu1
Thu Mar 18, 2004 9:09 am
#185
Here's a concept.......fix the professions before you revamp combat! that melee/defense junk doesnt cut it
NagaSri
Thu Mar 18, 2004 9:11 am
#186
"Last but not least "Rank Pips" please please let us have those nice chunky blue and red squaredrank pips, these could be used like player jewlery and could be worn on all types of clothing provided you were declared."
I think this a great idea, and it should be given to us each time we go up in rank or something like that.
Actually I think the Imp hat should be added as something we can buy with faction points. That would be cool as well. Other uniforms both rebel and imp would be great too. They don't have to be armor, just clothes.
Na'ga
Thunderheart
Thu Mar 18, 2004 9:27 am
#187
damocles88 wrote:
Do not show logon or logoff to those who have you in their friends list
Do not show at all in others friends list
tells to you indicate to the sender that you are offline
We're adding a toggle to accomplish this. Its in the works.
Drakforge
Thu Mar 18, 2004 9:42 am
#188
Love the new look of the storm commando factional pet! Beef up the others look and add a few usefull items to purchess with factional points as far as armor and weapons (revamp em) these can only be used factional anyway and would push more use of the factional system and overt. Add AR:1 to those pets to make them used more in combat.
Add a reward for promotions of some kind. Be it more then 1 factional pet or access to better weapns/armor/uniforms/vehicles/skimatics.
Also there is a bug with the rifleman and sniper factional pets where they only fight melee as they have no weapon.
Cafa
Thu Mar 18, 2004 9:46 am
#189
yoda042 wrote:
Here is an idea for profession retention. This should give a reason for people to devote time to thier professions and cut down on the number of people who grind out profession after profession and never actually stick with one.
Give skill boxes that open up after a person has Mastered a profession. These skill boxes require no additional XP to get, only time. Lets take Creature Handler for example, once a person has been a Master Creature Handler for one month (earth time) they get the ability to train in "2nd Degree Master Creature Handler." This will give extra bonses to taming, training, or new tricks to teach your pets, or maybe even new creatures you can tame, but the only way to get this box, is to be an MCH for 1 month. You could add more boxes at varyinig intervals culmanating at "8th degree Master Creature Handler" after retainig MCH for 1 year.
I think this would be great for all those people that have devoted so many of their skill points to a chosen profession, for such a long period of time.+
Cool I guess this means my architect Fivo would get to stare at even more things he cannot build more than once, or experiment on to make better.
I like this idea, but literally everything I work on in architect crafting, even harvestors, has many lines of experimentation that were obviously put there for a reason but do not work.
Faster factories, more storage for housing structures, the list goes on. I like new things as well as the next guy, but I would love the current professions being fixed first.
BenkeiHami
Thu Mar 18, 2004 9:46 am
#190
I hope this won't affect Jedi bounties. I can accept that they will appear offline in my friends list but I hope droids will be able to see through this and do their job.
Thunderheart wrote:
damocles88 wrote:
Do not show logon or logoff to those who have you in their friends list
Do not show at all in others friends list
tells to you indicate to the sender that you are offline
We're adding a toggle to accomplish this. Its in the works.
nolan007
Thu Mar 18, 2004 9:49 am
#191
Thunderheart,
Please consider adding more Star Warsy things into the game?
Perhapsmini-publishes?
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=csystems&message.id=10715
Also, I really would like to see the Droid Invasion.
You'll know the Droid Invasion is a success when you see players use droids quite often in battle. How will this come about? Consider introducing new droid chassis and bumping up the CL of a droid? Anything less than a 1.5k HAM with 40% resist across the board is silly for combat (ie. not worth the credits to buy one). Maybe allow the DE to customize droids with certain weapons and attacks as well (of course new sounds and visual effects)...?
Also, how about giving +Terrain Navigation with riding on a creature mount?
Maybe a +25 to terrain navigation if you're riding on a creaturemount? (creatures should be adapt to navigating mountains) In my opinion, vehicles have destroyed the creature mount business.
Please fix the vehicle heal bug that everyone is using... it's destroyed thevehicle business.
Kanubis
Thu Mar 18, 2004 9:52 am
#192
Personally I have the feeling that you're still in a dilemma as to what to do with BH's and Commandos, perhaps Hybrids as a whole.
On one hand, if you're expecting people to sacrifice a higher amount of skill points, you have to give them advantages appropriate to this sacrifice. On the other hand you suspect (quite rightly, to be fair) that if they are even remotely more powerful than standard Elite profs, you'll get moaners and whiners giving you grief.
If this is anything like the case, you, the Devs, need to be stronghanded and ignore the whiners, and make these classes what they should be... and soon.
Why soon?
The Elite dabblers have severel professions to balance, play with. By and large us commandos and Bounty Hunters have very little else due to our skill point outlay.. therefore whilst our profs are weak and to a degree broken, we have very little else to console us.
I'll say this now; I love the game and will wait publish after publish. I won't throw my toys out of the pram. I hope that to a certain degree this faith can be justified in the not too distant future.
nolan007
Thu Mar 18, 2004 9:58 am
#193
Also, due to buffs and armor, you all shouldprobably consider almost doubling the HAMs on most Stormtroopers, Nightsisters, City Guards, NPCs in general, etc. etc.in this game (probablyx1.5 on all NPC HAMs). All NPCs (with a few exceptions) are very easy to kill.
Also, I noticed some Dark Troopers in Theed last night... I really wish we'd see them again (scanning players, etc.)... but like groups of 3 or 4 and standing in front of the cantina or about 35m in front of the starport. (not out in the open in front of the med center with zero people werebeing scanned... well, some people TRIED to get scanned and I think 1 actually did).
Angetenar
Thu Mar 18, 2004 10:19 am
#194
Thunderheart wrote:
damocles88 wrote:Do not show logon or logoff to those who have you in their friends list Do not show at all in others friends list tells to you indicate to the sender that you are offline We're adding a toggle to accomplish this. Its in the works.
Do me a favor. Make sure Jedi can't exploit this to avoid BH.
Angetenar
Thu Mar 18, 2004 10:21 am
#195
nolan007 wrote:
Also, due to buffs and armor, you all shouldprobably consider almost doubling the HAMs on most Stormtroopers, Nightsisters, City Guards, NPCs in general, etc. etc.in this game (probablyx1.5 on all NPC HAMs). All NPCs (with a few exceptions) are very easy to kill.
That's the ticket, screw the wookiees.