Development Cycle Archive
Thread: In-Concept Open Discussion (Week Ending 3-15-04)
Teras kasi only has one,swordsman only has 2 as well...so you dont have the smallest
Nerj wrote:
2) With all of the new dungeons I have noticed that there are no carbine weapons or schematics. In addition, we have the smallest range of weapon types Acid, Heat, and Energy (Which alot of MOBS have high resists to). Why?
Hey, i have no idea wether or not anyone will even bother reading this as i dont post many things on the forms, however ive noticed that people only go to the cantinas to heal their minds...(obviously).
anyways...
i was just thinking that the Devs should add a card-game to SWG, i was thinking it might add different aspects to the game and give people more of a reason to go to the cantinas
, on the other hand theyll have something to do while they wait for their battle fatigue 
. obviously this one message wont change anything, so if anyone thinks this idea would be any good, if its even possible?
thanks
Here's some changeI'd like to see.
1) Allow multiple Shuttleport, Clone center ... in player city. It'll begreat for large city (450m radius) and will be a new money sink.
2) Allow the mayor to place spynet, random quest NPC, faction recruiter ... player city actually looks like ghost town.
3) Actually, crafters got millions of credits and no use of them. Beside this, they complains that for some item's shematics, named resources always have poor required stats. For exemple, people always use Laser carabine, because Elite carabine that normally should be better required this kind of resources. A way to change this will be to implement a new kind of building : Refinery.
Those "refinery" will take an amount of resource fo input, and artisan will be allow to change some of its stats. It'll cost money and a part of resource. It may looks like that :
-Bob got 100K of "Dipatoiz" iron, CD 135 / OQ 890 / SR 901 / UT 948
-Bob go toa public refinery, and choose to enhence is Iron CD by 400%.
- To enhance his iron, it'll cost Bob :
(100K * 400%) / 10 = 40K of resource
((100K-40K) * 400%) / 100 = 240K credits
- As result Bob now got a crate of 60K "Refined Iron" CD 540 / OQ 890 / SR 901 / UT 948 witch can be used in craft as normal "Dipatoiz" iron.
Politician Issue:
Adan Of AoW
Obi007 wrote:
I finished redoing all the theme parks this week and one of the things I thought was what a shame I'm never going to return to any of these characters and places.
A lot of the quests in SWG's are kinda dull because you deal with people that you've never heard of and you run out into the middle of the wilderness to meet them.
It would be great if you could incorparate the theme park characters and locations with quests. Maybe you would get a Imperial mission where you had to get something from Bib Fortuna and the only way you could complete it would be if traveled to Jabba's Palace and had access to Jabba's Throne room or if you could group with someone who was a friend of Jabba's (had finished the theme park) and he/she could get you inside enough to talk with Bib.
You could make this work with all the theme parks doing quests involving Han Solo or Darth Vader. It would also add some extra meaning to finishing the theme parks and add some much needed star warsness to the game.
Anyway just an idea I had.
- Watching the emperor arrive at some important locations, like for some control visit or sth. like that, or let him make a parade with troopers, at-st, at-at etc. during which no reb should let himself be seen near. Of course, the imperial march has to be played
- similar stuff could be thought for the other main movie-characters
- some jawa sandcrawlers driving through the deserts of tattooine, either pre-routed or random. maybe a player can stop them and try to sell them some junk, as they are known junkdealers
- two npcs sitting in a cantina, suddenly one shoots the other, stands up, looks around, throws some coins to the barkeeper and leaves the cantina with a "sorry for the mess".
- looking up into the sky to the three star destroyers, suddenly you notice little points around them, which are rebel X-Wings, cought while fleeing. for minutes, red and green laserbeams change, and then there's silence again
- let dirty spaceships start and land in/from hidden bays at the starports (btw. is it possible you took out the spaceships flying through the air out of the game?)
I could think of a bunch more, but they would greatly rise the feeling to be in Star Wars. I could think they should be rather easy to implement, as most routines (spawn) and models are already there.
Enhance the life and SW-feeling for smugglers and bounty hunters:
Let npcs not only be passive, but actively talk to (non-grouped) smugglers and let them try to give the playera delivery mission with a timer. if he cannot or doesn't want to fulfill the mission, put the guy on the BH-terminal. Of course, that should be clearly stated before he takes the mission Maybe you can make it so that the bounty will be withdrawn if the smuggler manages to kill the npcs involved before the hunters get him.
As for the GCW, i dare to raise up a point I already brought up in beta: remove the color-coding of factions in the radar, to enable ambushes and unplanned encounters for the overt players. This would mean that at least sometimes there will be short fights nobody expected, like in cantinas, and the combattants have to be more aware of their environment.
Re-invent at least some zones of control as was planned a long time ago, bringing benefits to the side which is in control, to bring back something to fight for, not just the fun. I hear here and there that the fun alone is just not enough.
And I like to see imperial places where rebs cannot go without the help of an image-designer to hide their faction and viceversa. I really like that idea, although it has been brought up a long time ago, too.
And finally, i think it would be cool that imps could only go overt when wearing an imperial uniform 
Just wanted to slip in some of my 2 cents again 
Kravin_Morehead wrote:
I pmed thunderheart this idea with no response but, Armor Dyes would be sweet. DAoC had them and i liked being bale to change clors when i fealt like it. with the dyes you could get new colors and stuff
Armor Dyes is something we want to add at some point, but there are some tricky sticking points to work out before they can be added. There are some technical issues with changing armor palettes (or any palette really). What happens is that for every color on the palette, it is associated with a number. That number (which represents a palette color) exists in the database as part of each customized item. If we change the mater palette colors, then there will be lots of of armor (and wearables) that will have different colors. Beyond that core challenge, there is the considerations of design. Once we get some other existing issues taken care of, Ill push for this to be added to In Development.
Netninjax wrote:
Can we get some missions for xp and maybe loot for our sabers soon? Its bad enough i cant socialize with my friends with my jedi but to just hide in the cornor of a planet all day is getting really boring
We're pushing hard for the Jedi revamp to go live in two phases during Publish 9 and 10. Here is the thing though, the devs want to get it done and done well so if the development time goes a little long, then so be it.
KaptainKrude wrote:
TH, is there an "In Development" thread for Publish 8 yet? If not, can we get one started please for comments concerning the Publish 8 preview notes?
And sorry in advanceif it's there alreadyand I missed it.
Thanks,
KK
Ill be putting those up this week once Publish 7 goes Live.
I enjoyed reading it and with each of the weekly threads, they are circulated internally so everyone can read them.
Thanks for all the great posts everyone.