Development Cycle Archive
Thread: Friday Feature Errata... Part 2...
WarNerve5776 wrote:
Then death would go back to meaning nothing. Before decay was put in all death meant was a free ride back to town.
you guys know what's funny...
The problems with decay wouldn't be NEARLY as bad if we could repair armor with some type of accuracy. Hey, make it an artisan specialty or something. Give another group something to do...
Ugh. I just found out that we are still forced to deal with 1% decay on insured items in PvP. I just want a simple response on why we have to deal with ANY decay on insured items????? Players do not want it. Armor decays enough without the 1% penalty. I was looking forward to no penalty, insured PvP play - had my brand new composite armor all ready to go, and now this?????
Devs, please reconsider andaddress this decay nonsense on insured items ASAP. This one thing would make such positive difference to the majority of players. Please respond to us......do not leave us hanging.
JustG wrote:
We want the GCW to be everything it can be. We want factional PvP to be fun and exciting. We understand that as players, you don't want the 1% decay. We think it is an important game mechanic in the right situations, but we want to remove it from factional battles.
Right now you Dev's need to do everything in your power to make PvP apealing to players. Until you can sort out some new content and come up with an overall solution to combat balance and the GCW, PvP is the only end-game for a lot of players.
Currently, there aren't any good reasons to participate in the GCW - just penalties. I don't PvP, but I see plently of those that do on my server giving up and leaving the game. The TEF rules and decay on armor make most battles just a pointless exercise in who feels like wasting the most credits on armor decay until one side goes home.
The shrinking PvP player base (largely because of this 1% insured decay on armor) is not helping Armorsmiths like me at all. The armor decays just fine through use, and the additional penalty just keeps me from selling to a larger potential market.
I understand you want a 'sting' to go with death, but this isn't that. Its an annoyance that keeps people from PvP, in which getting 'pwn3d' is sting enough, not to mention the faction loss.
Please guys, keep the PvPers happy. They are the engine that pulls the SWG economy.
At issue is NOT who knew what or told whom... I dont really care who is involved inthesedecisions.
Devs need to stop playing the blame game. Stand up and take your lickin for the fact that I have met NO ONE who favors PvP decay, the AT-ST nerfs (whendid youlast see one in-game), or for that matter,the Imp crackdown.
Overwhelming player opiniondoes not play a role in shaping game development. Please stop saying otherwise-it's insulting.
/salute JustG
It takes a real leader to stand up and be counted for their own mistakes. As far as the harsh comments from the "community," I must say that you only hear from a minority of players via these forums.
The majority of the friends I play with on a regular basis do not frequent these forums, and rely on me for information concerning upcoming events and publishes. We're here to have fun and enjoy ourselves, not to ridicule others for making mistakes. After digging through all of the whining, crying and flaming on these boards, I feel a if I just swam through raw sewage.
Keep up the great work and /addignore the whinners, cry-babies and flamethrowers.
Ya know...
It's like we are talking about the real world here. When players say hey I wanna fly in real life you can say well no you can't do that.
When we say we don't want PvP decay you don't say "No" because you CAN do that!
A death is a death is a death is BS sorry. Change the code. It's a simple flag and while I might sympathize with you that it's not easy to add that code even if it is but a flag I expect you to add it just the same. There is no "well that's the way it is" in a MMORPG everything is open to discussion and possible change with very few exceptions.
Also remember when thinking about adding in a 24 hour pass that a player needs to be able to gain X amount of faction points during the day in a play session to both do PvP as well as have enough to do it the next day.
FOR EXAMPLE:
A player who wins every fight or say 75% or more of his PvP fights would gain X amount of faction on average during the Average playsession one night. this person should ideally be able to continue PvP the next day without having to farm faction points to be able to afford to do this. Kinda like they got a passing grade in PvP so they can continue the next day for free.
You need to not stiffle those who regulary would PVP everyday by forcing them to go out and faction point grind after each PvP session. Use your metric's and find a nice balance and lean on the side of being nice about it.
PS-> I am not a heavy PvP kind of person but I would like to be when the system embraces it a bit more.
how bout take the **edit** decay and make it on houses and harvesters not clothing or armor
it all decays anyway when u get hit DUH
so take the decay and put it on houses so architects have renewable income
i know that rasing the ber is a good way to get more biz to the architects but come on i don't even make houses to sell anymore besides to people that want to join our city
why CUZ EVERYONE HAS ONE AND THEY DON"T DECAY!!!!!!!
i've paid o what almost a mill or 2 on armor and gee that compos junk collection will just get bigger
but you know SOE i think it might be time to start looking for a new job cuz the way you guys are going there is gonna only be 0 players left
and o yeah just wait till the new starwars games come out (not made by you guys THANK THE LORD)
but the trailer on KOTOR of the Republic Comandos Looks So awesome
but seriously the devs better wise up or some people will be driving thru CA and will have a ex soe dev washing there windsheild for spare change
remember we are the ones who pay you without us your out of biz for good
have a nice day backstabbers
Who are the ones that destoried PVP SOE
back in the day b4 decay everyone was a pvp manic now its Anyone wanna friendly duel no DB
just take it out already and watch the PVP go back to the way it was and put decay on to houses harvesters
stuff people really don't care about cuz it won't take them 4 weeks of running missions to get them
my bill for armor so far over 2 million
well time for my saying and i think soon you devs will no it by heart
Unempolyment is always hiring
wise up or be out the door
we can start a boycott to get what we want
thats how groups that are offended with content or are sick of it do it so why not us
just image no one loggin in your servers empty o wait its already like that
Just for your own good wise up and listen to all of use
GET RID OF IT OR FACE THE UNEMPOLYMENT LINE