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KzinKiller

Tue Apr 20, 2004 2:01 pm

Have you tried to craft Publish testing feedback threads before the Publish was started to be trickled out? What were your experiences?

Have you used Publish testing feedback threads before the Publish was started to be trickled out to positively impact the Publish? What were your experiences?

Absolutely classic ..... yes, this thread needed to be up & running much earlier than 5 days before the projected Live launch.

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PadreBook

Tue Apr 20, 2004 2:08 pm

#15

Comments, people rarely used droids for combat before the change to armor ratings. Why was this done as they clearly (i.e. in practice) were not overpowering or even considered significantly useful when they had medium armor?

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LadyLeala

Tue Apr 20, 2004 2:19 pm

#16

I didn't see it mentioned here, TH... but I'm assuming this is still in effect:

Does the Merchant droid module still require the person to have Advertising 4 to use? If so, please consider this:

Make this Advertising 2 instead of 4.

At Advertising 3, we get the ability to advertise on the PLANET MAP. So it doesn't make sense that Advertising on a much more localized area (i.e. /shout range) should be at a higher advertising level. So it should properly fall into level 2 of Advertising.

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Haruspex77

Tue Apr 20, 2004 2:36 pm

#17

TH wrote:"AddedMerchant Barker Module to the DE skill tree: This module allows for the owner to input a short message that is continuously transmitted to nearby players. It also allows him or her to place a waypoint in the droid that is given to any player that requests it via the radial menu on the droid. "

This is reduced functionality from the preliminary description which also allowed the placement and request of "additional information" via the radial menu.

This loss makes the feature only marginally beneficial to the game as a whole. While the droid module will find some market, it will tend to increase total spam in populated areas rather than reducing it. The only place the user can put any significantinformation about the contained waypoint is in the bark which must be spammed to everyone nearby. The droid name, the only other place for any information, is still broken for conversational droids.

With the addition of the ability to enter and retrieve (to the requestor only) a reasonable sized text block (at least 256 char, prefer much more), the information need not be spammed to everybody nearby. It may be possible to eliminate the need todevelop the display dialog box by emailing that information, rather than doing an immediate display. The source address and subject are unimportant (suggest defalut to "droid" and "requested information").

This is a major implementation failure that should be fixed before release to live. Without that fix, most players will likely see it as a detriment to the game, and only DEs and Merchants will see it as a positive.

Cafa

Tue Apr 20, 2004 2:42 pm

#18

TH,

I have a pre-publish 5 droid which I keep to prove that at some time in the past my droid could be trained and I could see the commands in the datapad much like CH commands for pets.

Since pub 5 all droids I have owned and trained show no information whatsoever in the datapad sidebar.

Is this information being fixed in this patch? If not, I would like to assert that it is very hard to remember everything I set as a command for my droids without this information.

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Deidre_DE

Tue Apr 20, 2004 3:25 pm

#19

Jenden nailed every relevent remaining issue about this patch.

Maintenance droid functionanlity needs to be Interplanetary.

The Survey Droid needs to return resource stats.

We need all the combat stats to show on the deed.

Thanks, for the new toys!

Deidre

raynedog

Tue Apr 20, 2004 3:39 pm

#20

WOW

This game is coming around. Outstanding, I would only hope that the other proffesions in the game will endup being as great as this proffesion is shaping up to be. And yes I understand and know how long the DE have waited.

Before, why waste money on a driod, now I'm all, I need more space in the data pad to hold these things.

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JediGohan

Tue Apr 20, 2004 3:55 pm

#21

Barker module?

As if we needed more spam in the major cities.

we better be able to ignore these

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CLab2021

Tue Apr 20, 2004 4:36 pm

#22

When I saw the Playback Driod I was, hey that is very cool, then I read what it was. Boo!

I thought it was a Droid, that Entertainers could record music or whatever in to, and then selling to customers, and when you play the driod it heals your B/F and Mind wounds..thus players wouldn't have to head to the cantina as often and entertainers would actually make money..(Music Driods play music, and Dancers Driods would play a holo image of the Dancer)

but meh...they are not..

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SkyeDarkangel

Tue Apr 20, 2004 5:09 pm

#23

I'd like to see the Merchant Barker Module changed so that it's name is always displayed and can be set easily, and then people can REQUEST the information like an NPC conversation.

This would cut back on spam, let people who want information get information without disturbing players, and cut down on lag in general.

If I saw 20 droids lined up with names like "Lots of resources!" "Blah's BE Stuffz", etc, it would be so much more useful than 20 droids spamming, which will fill my Spatial chat so fast I won't be able to track down the information I want.

[sarcasm]We CAN ignore these somehow, yes? Otherwise I'll be reporting harassment from Droids as a ticket.[/sarcasm]

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LeBob

Tue Apr 20, 2004 6:13 pm

#24

CLab2021 wrote:

When I saw the Playback Driod I was, hey that is very cool, then I read what it was. Boo!

I thought it was a Droid, that Entertainers could record music or whatever in to, and then selling to customers, and when you play the driod it heals your B/F and Mind wounds..thus players wouldn't have to head to the cantina as often and entertainers would actually make money..(Music Driods play music, and Dancers Driods would play a holo image of the Dancer)

but meh...they are not..

it only takes 30 seconds to record a track onto the droids... if everyone in the game had one of them and the worked like you describe wth would be our purpose?
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lachewe

Tue Apr 20, 2004 8:15 pm

#25

skye has a good idea, the way it sounds it might cut back on some spam, but something more drastic needs to happen soon. if we go with his idea it may actually bring people back to spatial chat.

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Ly-Mantok

Tue Apr 20, 2004 9:19 pm

#26

Many great changes. Are we able to set ignore tags on these blasted merchant barkers? There is already a tremendous amount of spatial spam at starports and other locations. Merchant barkers are going to make this worse if players are still allowed to AFK spam their messages for hours on end.

Any chance you can make vendor droids...these would be droids that seek out vendors with zero content that seem to be all over the planetary maps. It is a complete waste of time going to such vendors. A droid that could make the run and ascertain whether vendors had any content would be great.

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