Development Cycle Archive

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RageGods wrote:

Do you ever plan on putting in an option to turn off the nearest mission waypoint from apearing on screen?

If you group with just your pet or join a solo group there is no need for the nearest mission waypoint.

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I ran into this when i grouped with my pet on TC. It doesn't really matter. If you get two missions, instead of two orange arrows, now you get an orange and a yellow arrow. The yellow arrow being the closer of the two missions.

You're right in that it is not all that usefull, but it also does you no harm whatsoever.

What ever you pushed live with the DWB and Group Enhancments you broke something with the missions So Far I've come across 3 people who aren't getting the money for missions completed, me included. The WP for the mission stays but It plays the music when you beat the mission, and you don't get the money and a fraction of the normal XP. Trying Reloging at the moment

I enjoy the nearest waypoint. Works well especially for large Vor hunter groups. Saves the annoying distance question.

Working fabulous for me, one of the best additions to date.

I think you guys are misunderstanding the "out of range". You won't be able to see the HAM bars if you're too far, which i believe is intentional. However, you can now see the direction arrow and the distance updating dynamically, which you couldn't before.

The one bug I've seen is that when someone is out of range to see their HAM bars, their name is sometimes replaced by another person's in the group who is near, so they show up twice. A bit irritating when you're looking to see who's missing.

It seems these enhancements were done with no regard to solo groups. Solo groups only became popular relatively recently so I assume the devs aren't aware of them yet. So let me list what new problems these changes made for solo groups.

1. With everyone spread out some player's names aren't listed and the if the group leader changes the list won't update it.
2. Without a majority of the group near a single mission the wp to the closest mission changes literally every 5 seconds, if you deactivate it, it comes right back.
3. It's understood in solo groups that the mission money isn't shared, but now a griefer can follow the arrows and steal people's mission money by being near them when they kill the lair.
4. As a low level jedi, I like solo groups because I get extra creatures at my mission lairs. I don't have force throw yet so I'd rather do missions then find wild lairs. But since I usually don't know the people I'm grouping with, I'm paranoid an imp will remember that I'm a jedi and use the arrows to easily find me while I hunt. There should at least be an option not to include an arrow for you.

For those of you predicting the end of solo groups, even with the upcoming supernerf it will still be preferable to hunt alone when you're after quick xp or easy cash. You might have to fight easier things then before but it will still be faster then group fighting. I only picture people grouping when they want high level loot. Now don't misunderstand me, I would like the solo groups to stop also, all they have to do is let us decide what the mission difficulty should be when we take missions instead of this silly way of basing it on the combat skills in the whole group. One way or another we're going to take the missions we want, stop making us jump through hoops.

Actually there have problems with the group all day

First - the group list is showing people more then once

Second - People who are logged out and have been logged out for some time are remaining in the game and remaining in the group.

Third - For a little while we showed more then one group leader . Then that turned off - however the group leader indicator is incorrect. It's not showing the actual leader. The leader of the group can not seem to be able to kick anyone from the group either and at times has been having trouble grouping people.

Yeah it's a little buggy. I think everyone has said the problems I have had with it. Can we now get the group options working? It would be nice to get those working that never ever worked.

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• Group member status bars will continue to report position information, even if the player is on the other side of the world. If the group member is on another planet, the planet name is displayed in the status bar.
  

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Just a minor thing, why not capitalize the name of the planets ??

Bug: Group displays showed, no names, duplicate names, and wrong names while members were not in the immediate area. At one time we had the same person listed in the group twice, once as the leader, then once as the member. Their display showed someone totally different as the leader. This all occured on Endor.

Repeatable: Happened several times while the group was hunting.

Able to bypass: I was not able to bypass it.

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