Development Cycle Archive
Thread: Patch Notes for Publish 8
LonelyGhost wrote:
Hey peeps....just let the Starport thing go already, jeez. It will get adjusted as they want, and you guys filling up a whole page of posts about it wont do any good. They just ignore these kind of posts. They did not promise to drop Starport times, they said they were discussing the Starport wiat still. Notice how they distinguished between Shuttles (stating implicitly the time) and Starport (no implicit statement on time).
Move on.....nothing to see here.....
JennerCobrari wrote:Just a comment.....
The Harvesting module only seems to be used by Novice Scouts.... didn't you mention in the patch notes "anyone" could use it?
WHY would a novice scout use it if he can harvest himself?!
And before people start chiming in "Well you can harvest twice! With the droid and the player!" Apparently, NO, you CAN'T. You can either harvest yourself, OR with the droid. Not both.
THIS IS CURRENTLY COMPLETELY USELESS.
ok, done with my comment.
Not for me it isnt Jenner... I can sit back at ranged distance.. kill something with my pistols, send in good ole (harvey) to harvest without placing myself at more risk of close combat. Kiting is my friend..
Starports are still 10 minutes...... Oh and out of sync..nice....what about direct flight? did that get shot down by the "Immersion fools"? I could give a rat's hat about shuttles. I don't use shuttles I use starports and since we got exiled to Rori with the dumb city cap trying to go places takes an hour. No wonder our city is starting to die.. did u seriously listen to the people who said standing around for 9:50 at each port is somehow StarWarsy?
Droids LOL.
2 thumbs down on this Pub. I swore if I ever canceled my SIX accounts it would be because of travel and that time is coming soon.
JennerCobrari wrote:
The Harvesting module only seems to be used by Novice Scouts.... didn't you mention in the patch notes "anyone" could use it?
WHY would a novice scout use it if he can harvest himself?!
THIS IS CURRENTLY COMPLETELY USELESS.
*** Droids Rebuilt *** - Scheduled to go live on April 27th Profession: Droid Engineer
Added an Interplanetary Survey Droid - This droid is capable of using survey tools and traveling to other planets to report on the resources present on that planet.
THANK YOU!!!!
As a resource collector since launch, this is a MAJOR thing. Thank you. I hope there will be some kind of HIGH END droid module that lists all the resources stats perhaps?
Added Merchant 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.
Great idea. Thank you. Just please allow us to turn them on or off. And once these are live and working, can we start cracking down on those who do it? Also, can we make sure that these are not just placed outside a competitor's business?
Added Structure Maintenance Module to the DE skill tree: This module will allow a player to pay maintenance on structures they own from a remote location.
Wonderful idea. Thank you. So I assume this also allows you view the status of the structure remotely as well..... Right?
It can add power perhaps? With radioactive stored inside a storage module?
Added Auto Droid Repair Module to the DE skill tree: When this module is activated, it sends out a "healing pulse" which repairs every other nearby friendly droid within a 15' radius. The pulse fires every 10 seconds and heals an amount equal to the droid's Auto Repair Power. The more auto-repair modules that are added to a droid, the higher this attribute will be
Very cool. Sounds interesting.
Added Stimpack Dispenser Module to the DE skill tree: This skill allows a player with Pharmacology IV to load up a properly equipped droid with Stimpack A's. Once loaded, any player within the droid master's group may issue a /requestStimpack command to receive healing.
WOW! A use for Stim A's without the loss of reason for a novice medic cert!
Added Musician Playback Module to the DE skill tree: This module allows an entertainer or a musician to record a musical track onto the droid. The droid will then be able to play back the music that was recorded as accompaniment in the player's band. Multiple modules of this type will stack and allow multiple musical tracks to be recorded, although only one track can be played at a time
Can't wait to see what they come up with, great.
Added Entertainer Lighting Effects Module to the DE skill tree: These droid modules can have up to 5 unique lighting effects that can be used by dancers and musicians.
Great.
Added Scout Trap Module to the DE skill tree: This module will allow any player with the novice scout ability to program and arm a droid with player made scout traps which will then fire when given the command by the player.
Excellent
Added Creature Harvester Module to the DE skill tree: This module will allow any character with the Novice Scout ability to program and control an equipped droid to advance on the look-at target of the player and harvest the resources on the creature. The player can preset the droid to harvest one of the three types: meat, hide or bone. Or the player can just let the droid pick a random resource type.
So does the droid can a storage area and can store and autocombine 10 to 15 types of resources?
Added Detonation Module to the DE skill tree: This module grants Bounty Hunters and Smugglers the ability to destroy his droid causing damage to every enemy target nearby. The destruction is ordered by the /detonateDroid command or via the droid's radial menu.
How is it determined how much damage the droid does, by it's HAM? Armor piercing?
Displaying remaining battery power when examining a droid pet (Correspondent issue) Increased the effectiveness of combat droids so that they are more effective.
Gameplay
Reduced the wait time on shuttle ports to 5 minutes (Starports are still 10 minutes).
NOOOO!!!!!!!! I was so excited when I first heard starports were only gonna be 5 minute. This sucks.
Although if my droids can check on my harvs and all that... I guess that's ok.
NPC's should now use special attacks in combat again (such as Nightsisters using the Force)
Great.
Fixed a bug commonly referred to as the "armor hole"
GCW
Now players can manually control turret targeting for turrets that protect bases. This will give defenders a much greater chance of success in defending their HQ and make attackers have to be more organized when attacking a base.
THANK YOU!
If this works, I will place and defend my bases again.
Exploit fix: flooding the combat queue while out of combat range will not cause multiple attacks to go off when combat range is entered.
This took WAY too long to fix, but thanks, finally.
Added additional novice player tutorial to improve the initial experiences of a new players to Star Wars Galaxies. Once the current tutorial has finished, new players will have novice profession quests to complete that will make being a new player more fulfilling.
Great, thank you. It was always entertaining to find brand new players thrust out in front of a starport with no idea what to do next.
Iage Designer Tent: The Image Designers are moving into the galaxy! Image Designers now have professional tents in Theed, Moenia, Coronet, Bestine and Vreni Island. Look to see them have additional features for the Image Designer Mini Publish.
Great, hope they get to be involved with smugglers and the GCW as well as customizating avatars.
GUI
Fix HAM bar to reflect increased (buffed) maximum attributes.
Thank you, think this on is already on live if I'm correct. Working pretty well.
Fixed a problem with power of cure dot medicines not being displayed.
Yeah, I'm guessing this is cure dot compared with potency power of DOT.
Profession: Bounty Hunter
If a Bounty Hunter with a Jedi bounty mission is incapacitated by the Jedi, the Jedi loses his Bounty Hunter enemy flag.
Profession: Jedi
Tweak to Jedi Bounty Hunter TEF clearing. There is a 30 second wait before the TEFs are cleared giving the Jedi a moment to perform a deathblow if he/she so desires.
OK, does this system take into account a 100% incap reduction food? Where the BH may immediately get back up? Will the BH still have 30 seconds as well?
Profession: Pistoleer
Fixed problem with dodge; dodge no longer stops Pistoleer from running while in combat (Correspondent Issue)
Great, will make the dodge resist food worth much more.
Profession: Scout Fixed a problem where traps could not be thrown indoors.
Vehicles / Mounts Vehicles will no longer auto-heal when left out and stored after a player has taken a transport to another location.
OK, how about this, when a vehicle is disabled you can trade it to a master artisan who can recycle it.
Neeka Looma - Chilastra
Just one question to those that might read this:
Item storage in droids is currently limited to 10 items. I tested to see if Item modules stacked by building two small modules and indeed they did. so I built a droid with 4 level 6 item storage modules thinking that they would stack too. Indeed they did.. but only on rating. I now have a droid which has a level 48 item storage module that can only store 10 items. This prompted me to look in the CSR section of the holocron where I found the information about droid storage. What I did not find was whether this limit is a bug or intentional
If its a bug - why is there no mention of it being fixed this patch?
If its intentional - why the hell is there no mention of this on the droid module data and why does the overal rating stack? (IE the stacking rating is very misleading)
One last thing to a post prior in the thread:
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A 10 minute wait from talus to endor wouldnt be an issue, its the 10 minute waits between EACH stop that you have to wait for. Either give us 5 minute star port times OR direct travel to any planet, I don't care what some pansy roleplayer wants, waiting 10 minutes at 3 different starports to get to one place IS NOT IMMERSION.
Dude what PC are you using? I can to Lok-Tattooine-Corellia-(Hometown) in a SINGLE RUN if I start at Nym's just as the shuttle arrives (you can substitute any similar run you like in there) I recommend you ditch your current processor and memory and get at least 1 ghz and upgrade to 512mb ram, oh and get a newer graphics card like a GF3 - its load times that are skinning you NOT the game.. defrag your HD... stop running mp3s in the background .. You know, the usual stuff. And if role players are pansy then you are definately in the wrong game mate.. suggest some more advanced power gamers game for you with instant travel like Diablo2.
Other than that - who cares about shuttle times? - fixing the repair bug - now that was more important that shuttle times and it too 3 patches to do it? (the last patch being you allowed player garages but DIDNT fix the bug.. well at least they will be usefull now)
Come November I'll be a father and its hard for me to justify playing this game when I have to spend10 minutes sitting at a starport. I've got so many projects to do around the house that when I can find time to playI don't, and the starport wait time is just the icing on the cake.
The public voted and we voted for 5 minute STARport times. Standing around is NOT immersion. It ruins the game. This one change would make this game so much better. Please hear us Devs!!!
I tried to wade thru the development thread on the travel topic to see if there was a similar idea and I did not see it but there are a LOT of posts there Anyway here is one I think is worth putting out there.
Immersion and Short Times You can have the best of both worlds and here is how.
Lets say you are planning a trip to a new starport or a new shuttleport, in this case having the delay builds suspense and excitement at going to the new locale and the delay is appropriate 10 mins for starport and 5 mins for shuttle shoulds good. However, if you have already been to that starport/shuttle location than your travel ticket should contain a "travel instant" option. It is then your choice wait as maybe your with a group and some members have never travelled to that destination or go ahead and not unnecessarily delay your getting into your activities.
This would make it a lot easier for the crafting professions to do custom deliveries.
It would also make travelling more interesting you might chose a known starport and plan an evenings hunt for example to come out at an unknown starport so you add that one to your list of "known starports/shuttles". It seems this could be done similar to the badges that are givin out for POIs.