Development Cycle Archive

Message Edited by OHMSS225 on 06-29-2004 07:26 PM

• I love the weapon/armor delay. It's about time. Yep, Bounty Hunters use it to quickly serve a variety of specials, all at once. That's the point - you shouldn't be able to do that. Neither should Pikemen be able to play "Gatling Nightsister Lance", in which they keep several lances, each with different DoTs, and macro-attack you with them. Hell, by the time you realize you're UNDER attack, you've been set on fire andpoisoned on all your primaries. Neither should TKMs be able to take their 90% composite armor off to keep their HAM costs low, then KD/dizzy you, then hit you with Warcry, then pound you for 10 seconds, then put their armor back on. (You'll notice from my sig that I'm a TKM, and I don't like that sort of thing.)


• I'm glad Jedi can now pull their lightsabers without having every friggin' person on the planet, including their alleged allies, pound on them. This game isn't just for "uber leet" PvPers, but also for PvE folks who'd like to run a single mission without having to see if someone's going to drive by and kill them in passing.


• The bazaar/vendor changes are terrible. I have three accounts - all three of them make a living by selling items to buyers, including resources and crated items. I'd really like to continue selling things to other folks, and this isn't helping.


• Crafters got screwed yet again, Merchants in particular. What's it going to take before the designers realize that Merchants sell stuff from other people, to other people? We need things like vendors with "admin/user lists", the ability to sell on commission, that sort of thing. Hell, I'd just like it if they added an option to automatically place an item in the storeroom that was previously on a vendor back with one click, instead of spending 2 days having to look up the price for the 400 or so items that just came down after 30 days (and, no, just having the price in the /examine window doesn't help.)

I've been playing for over a year now, and I mean, damn, I'm patient, but it's reaching its limits.

Message Edited by SarakKye on 06-29-2004 04:48 PM

Issue: ARMOR AND WEAPON DELAY

I believe this is my first post ever since I started playing the game a year ago…that’s how bad the delay ruins gameplay.

Might there be a better way to fix exploits that I never personally used and never even witnessed being used?

POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS:
1) WEAPON DELAY---Allow at least one weapon change with no delay and wait 10-15 seconds for next weapon change?
I am almost a Master Rifeman after playing for a year (not much for the grind). The wide range and subsequent penalties for rifles makes it necessary to switch weapons depending on the situation and enemy. When in combat I may use a rifle with a powerup for creatures and then another rifle w/out powerup for the lair. Delay makes it extremely tedious to change weapons at all. It even seems that it may be bugged as well since I could not change weapons at all while finishing off a lair---until the specials cache ran out…then still had to wait 5 seconds.
As far as immersion, I can’t imagine any character in the Star Wars movies needing 5 whole seconds to switch weapons while in combat!!!
If it’s DoT that is the problem, then limit (or don’t allow DoT stacking), instead of requiring a mandatory delay on all equip/unequips

2) ARMOR DELAY---Allow one macro armor equip but you then must wait 15 seconds to remove again?
Understandable to make a delay for those who abuse and switch in/out in the blink of an eye just to do special attacks but also penalizes sensible gameplay. As rifleman I can’t drain a lair with armor on and use specials to do it---too much mind drain with encumbrance. So now when shooting a lair and I want to put on the armor for the emerging creatures it is impossible….something may be bugged during combat? I have to hit “peace” to equip now and then get chewed on for 20-30 seconds while all the armor SLOWLY gets put on (as far as immersion who would really sit there putting on armor anyway while a creature is biting your neck?)

The delay is a heavy-handed, across the board slap to everyone just to fix a small exploit that affected very few!
PLEASE COME UP WITH A BETTER WAY TO FIX THE EXPLOITERS!

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Rogue1970 wrote:

Using the Bazaar or Vendors now to purchase Resources SUCKS!

Why would you change this? Do you sit around all day and try to think of things to make mundane tasks more difficult and time consuming.....

Hmmm, how can we make the game less fun today? Nerfs are getting old - lets make shopping more annoying?

Every think of running this by TC first? I HIGHLY doubt any of them would have approved of this change. Who would?

CHANGE IT BACK PLEASE!

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As it happened this was run thru TC (at least TC-2) and we ALL complained about it in the testing forums and thru /bug.

-Indene-

Issue: I did not receive a ROBE or a CRYSTAL with my conversion

Server: Tarquinas

Planet: Naboo

Location (x,y): N/A

Your profession: Jedi

Instructionson how to recreate the bug: N/A