Development Cycle Archive

Thread: Friday Feature Jan 23rd Jedi Revamp

Teegs
Fri Jan 23, 2004 7:49 pm
#261


Huge Mistake!!! You are just going to turn the game from Pokeman Online to Knights of the Old Republic Online. Permadeath should stay in the game in some form. This change will really hurt the game.
Claidheamh-Mor
Fri Jan 23, 2004 7:50 pm
#262

Grinding was not fun for anybody...not fun for those that were doing professions they did not have any interest in and for consumers that could not find quality artisians or goods.


Jedi are getting off way too easy, there is no respect for those that played their character smart, avoiding the terminals and advancing their character by using their heads.


I was looking forward to meeting one of these Jedi, it would have been a challenge and great game play to hunt and try to defeat them. As I had mentioned on another post...I would have been lucky to survive such an encounter. I did empathize with the loss of high priced items, but I don't believe the loss of a "box" and the decay of deaths is the best solution.





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billy128
Fri Jan 23, 2004 7:50 pm
#263

glad to see the back of holo grinding . i think it was ruining the game . But im worried there will be too many jedi . The system needed to change lets hope the devs get it right this time



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Evan-Nash
Fri Jan 23, 2004 7:52 pm
#264

Smart move Devs. Permadeath = crap.



Good work. Now fix BHs!! =p





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RohmEnari
Fri Jan 23, 2004 7:58 pm
#265

Halfway tempted to go bounty hunter now so I can kill all these stupid jedi...oops, lol, forgot...Bounty Hunter profession is BROKEN!!!!


FIX THE OTHER PROFESSIONS!!!




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xxNaftxx
Fri Jan 23, 2004 7:59 pm
#266

With the removal of holocrons how will this affect the current cron-grinders finishing up their path to becoming a jedi?
Incarnation
Fri Jan 23, 2004 8:06 pm
#267

You know what really pisses me off? That they post something like this, get a response like this asking for clarification and then Q just posts on something else and wishes us a "good weekend."



"I can not properly describe the wound Terrel's tone has opened within me: the way he says stinking Jedi tells me more than I want to know about what Depa has doen to our Order's name on this planet. It was not so long ago that every adventurous boy and girl would have dreamed of being a Jedi.

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J2xC
Fri Jan 23, 2004 8:10 pm
#268

3 deaths per week is ridiculously forgiving. You want a system that makesa real challenge to master jedi? Well this sure as hell isn't it.


Maybe if it was one skill box lost per death, it'd be much more sensible. I'm working hard toward unlocking jedi now, and if jedi is such a copout, you're removing the entire challenge from it. The game will be crawling with masters in a few months.



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Renairdor
Fri Jan 23, 2004 8:12 pm
#269

All you guys complaining about 'hundreds of Jedi' already realize that even as things sit now, players never lose their force slot?


If the biggest complaint is that we'll have 'plenty' of Jedi running around- we already have that. Anyone wielding a lightsaber, to me, and slicing things up *is* a Jedi.


If a complaint is that we'll see Jedi contribute more to the game and some PvP battles, I think that's quite silly- we already see lots of NPC Jedi running around. No one minds them.


If a complaint is the game does not follow the 'movies' (um game does NOT equal movies, or books or whatever) then consider just what a TKA is and how they are already a dime a dozen, or the fact any player can reclone and die a billion times.


This is a game folks. And this is a good change to make it more fun. Heck, I might make my main a BH now to have fun hunting Jedi. The more Jedi players, the merrier to me- more targets. There are tens of thousands of Bounty Hunters, I am surprised you guys don't look at it the other way and see how now you'll have a busy job ahead of you, and lot of work to do.


I only see these changes as adding more Star Wars feel to the game *shrug*. And yeah- there are a LOT of players who are playing to be Jedi. Hence the 'complaints' about all the holo grinders. The majority of players really do want to be, and play, Jedi. The proposed quest changes, in addition to Holocrons, is one AWESOME announcement for everyone.


Ren
AntiXryst
Fri Jan 23, 2004 8:14 pm
#270

Man, I am glad I didn't wastemillions of credits and tons of time grinding 21 professions to open Jedi so that I could learn they are going to switch it around and make it easier.


Oh wait, yeah I did.






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Wise_Old_Jedi
Fri Jan 23, 2004 8:14 pm
#271

The fact that there are whiners asking for Unlocking and Playing a Jedi to be "Easier" is proof positive that the Jedi system is working. There should only be a handful of Jedi per server.

Heres why the system as it currently is works. It is time consuming to unlock the Jedi Master, not only is it time consuming but it requires people to change professions which keeps the apprentice system functioning and keeps the item and resources market moving. This keeps Jedi population down. Further more permadeath culls the herd even more. You have people who play Jedi soon as they unlock them, but soon as they are permadead a % will not opt to restart keeping the Jedi population down.

Meanwhile, for the people who do have the determination and skill to be unlock and be a Jedi they are richly rewarded for it because it is UNIQUE, RARE, and POWERFUL. It can't be any of those things if you water it down.

SOE stop meddling with the JEDI and fix the real problems with the game.
LeBob
Fri Jan 23, 2004 8:14 pm
#272

this link:


http://starwarsgalaxies.station.sony.com/content.jsp?page=Jedi%20Friday%20Feature


is blank...





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Josue15
Fri Jan 23, 2004 8:17 pm
#273

I like to ask one question to the Producer, Dev and TH.


What era of Star Wars are we in ?


If I'm not mistaken are wein the time period after the destruction of the First Death Star.


If this is correct and if I remember correctly from the movie and the many books I read. The Jedi in this time period were dead and if any where found they were hunted and killed.


I'm really trying to understand what your doing here with this game. If I'm not correct when you first publish this game you announce that become a Jedi was going to be very hard. Become a Jedi Master was going to be almost impossible when you think that during this time period the only Jedi in the galaxy was Obi-wan and Yoda.


The current system and this new system you announce will mean that every Person in the galaxy will be Jedi.


First off your Jedi Control class the Bounty Hunter is notthing but a Joke. First the only tool we have to track Jedi is broken. Second the Profession itself for the Skill points a Bounty Hunter invest is a just funny Our Bounty Hunter Correspondant that you dev's think Bounty Hunter is a Powerful profession. TH and Dev have you tried playing a Bounty Hunter? It funny, if I recall theUber profession when Bounty Hunter was nerf was the Master Pistoleer/ExpertBounty Hunter who used the bounty Hunter Eye shot to be successful in PvP. That wasbefore the development of Adv composite with Layers resistance against Acid)


The truth is that Master Rifleman/master Pistoleer with TKA and fencer are the Godly profession in SWG. This Hybrid profession allow you to stack Dodge and Evade and defense resistance so they never get hit for damage.


Anyways thank you for Making the Bounty Hunter Profession even a bigger joke. Now I really feel like a second hand Citizen.


How the hell do you wait three months to fix Bounty Hunter Driods ability to track jedi. Thank you for waiting a year to look into our driod speed.



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