Development Cycle Archive

Message Edited by JavelinCatcher on 06-12-2004 09:26 AM

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JavelinCatcher wrote:

In Answer to your questions:

So far with 1 day gone, I see the experience gain/loss reasonable. We'll explore this more throughout the week.

Last night we promoted 1 individual, Garvin (Commando Correspondant) from Rank 1 to Rank 2. The transfer of Rank was successful and updated promptly with /show. However, it seems that only 1 person gets promoted per promotion period, and anyone not participating in the voting/challenge process looses FRS experience.

Right now, only a few of us can change rank. Also, the challenge system does not seem to go into effect until the rank you are requesting promotions are full (there are still some empty seats in the lower ranks for those still completing their trials)

Ok that said, I'm sure you heard about by now from a couple QA's that were on Yavin 4 last night about the Light vs Dark Enclave battle. To set this in proper perspective, I'll guide you through the course of events.

First, we determined that the "power" bonuses granted to each rank do not seem to be showing or arn't noticable. Once we discovered most of us needed more ranking experience, our first thought was to challenge the Light Enclave (a raid if you will). We preped for battle, and had scouts near the Light Jedi Enclave to measure their numbers. We were practically double in numbers to what they had at the moment, however the majority of us are either Enhance or Power Masters, with few of us having much in the way of the Defense trees. What ended up happening is the Light Jedi brought the battle to our Enclave while we were preparing. The Lightsaber/Master Defenders ruled the battle. Why?

1) Buffs. I'm going to take a lot of flack for saying this, but the buffs to secondary stats are what's making it hard to kill someone. They can regenerate faster than you can damage them. I don't mind seeing us have to fight 3-5k HAM PC's....we fight larger in PvE. However, the regeneration is the difference. I am one of those people who consider buffs to be overpowered and I think we've demonstrated quite effectivly how much overpowering they are.

2) Force Armor/Force Shield. At most, anyone only does about 10 damage to a person with high level versions of these abilities, coupled in with the "Jedi toughness" modifier and you have someone that takes 15-20 people to take down in a reasonable amount of time as we demonstrated several times during the course of that evening.

3) Our own sentinal (used to guard the Enclave) started to attack us while we were fighting the light jedi. We had to kill our sentinals in order to focus our attacks on the light jedi and by that time, most of us were already dead. I personally got killed by our own sentinal twice.

4) Master Power specials doesn't do nearly as much damage as someone with just a lightsaber. I recommend looking at these specials and their damage ranges.

5) Healers can't keep their group healed. I was one of the Healers of the group last night. The only heals of any worth is /totalhealother. Total heal other uses approx 1000 force. I have a total of 6-7 heals (not counting the number of folks using drain force on me) before I have to run and regenerate my entire force pool. Very quickly I rearealized the cost of Totalhealother and started to use /healother2. /healother2 doesn't heal nearly enough for the level of that special (approx 200 to each pool). I would also like to add that I would like to have a "area heal" at Master Healer if possible.

6) Transfer Force is broken and does not transfer any force pool from one player to another. Several folks who realized that they were going to be ineffectual in combat attempted to channel force to those who could make a differnce (healers/defenders) since Enhance only seems only good for running away. However, we discovered quickly that they couldn't.

Message Edited by JavelinCatcher on 06-12-2004 09:26 AM

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• It seems harder to figure out when you are attackable or not by the opposite faction? Maybe I attacked someone with an area attack; however, I've had times to be caught totally off-guard from another Jedi attack on me (probably due to some TEF I didn't know I had?)
  
  


• Many players are using the medical center elevators to escape attacks and to regain their force powers. They go up and down the elevator making it impossible to engage in battle and so that they can buy time for force regeneration. Consider making elevators not useable if you're under attack?
  
  


• Please consider capping the "bottom" as far as Jedi XP. I'm sitting at -2.5 million Jedi XP from playing a few days. I suggest the bottom should be around no more than -200k Jedi XP or maybe just 0 Jedi XP...?? It should be fun and fair for everyone!
  
  


• My experience was that I had to go to many Force Shrines (riding around and kneeling at random shrines). Boring and not Jedish. Please consider allowing us to "sense" what we should do next after our first Force Shrine visit? This might be the case now... I'm not sure. Just reporting my experiences.
  
  


• Killing 19 Tusken Raiders has proved to be a very long and very boring experience. When you have 50 Jedi trying to to get credit for the death of one Tusken Raider. I suggest lowering that 19 Tusken Raiders requirementto around 9 Tusken Raiders...? Also, consider telling us how many we have left to kill. "You have advanced in the Jedi Knight trials, you need to kill 5 more Tusken Raiders."

I really wish that Jedi could sense more things such as disturbances in the force.....

• Bounty Hunter with a mission on them is very near them (within a visible distance).


• Stormtroopers about to scan them for contraband.


• Rare NPC spawnof opposite faction are attacking in a particular city. Maybe Emperor's Hand have landed in a Imperial space craft with high-ranking Imperial and are attacking Anchorhead? Rare events that happen once a week?

Of course, not ALL the time, but maybe occasionally they could "sense" these things?

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ArianSix wrote:

The problem I see is that this system will benefit those Jedi that have nothing better to do all daythan play SWG.

The question is: what about the rest of the players? We have people that work, people that have families, etc... I think that a truly fair system should be designed around the "normal" player instead of the exception.

As stated by the devs, games are supposed to be fun, so is it possible to make a system that is more fun for everyone instead of just 11 people who have the luxory of being able to play all day?

I won't even pretend to have a clue on how to impliment this system, but I do feel that it is something that the devs should take into serious consideration...

-- A6

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Message Edited by MasterNerfSlayer on 06-13-2004 04:11 AM