Development Cycle Archive
Thread: Friday Feature Errata... Part 2...
Aries1 wrote:
don't PvP very much but my .02
Decay is worthless. The only folks it hurts are those that use armor.
Wepons, backpack's, food, spice, meds don't decay on death
Clothes decay but you can wear them even at 0. So don't see how it helps Tailors.
Figure Decay hurts BE's some what who wants to pay big $ for BE clothing when it will be worthless in a week.
Me personally haven't bought armor or clothing since decay was put in and won't till it's removed. Doing fine with out it.
If they want a death penalty, they should go back to Don't clone massive wounds, BF. Clone minor wounds,Bf. Would require some downtime in Pvp for healing up after a few death and give the medical prof. some loving.
Another idea that won't be paid attention to....
Insured death decay is killing this game. If the outcry from us on this topic cannot convince you (the developers) of this, I guess the dropping subscription rate will.
-Hyssthi
this is madening when everone wants it and we all pay for the game. We play the game to have fun, its not fun to have to worry about having to make enough credits to keep my character equipt with what i need. I would rather spend my money buying a bada$$ gun or something. Its just frustrating when everyone playing the game we pay for want one thing, and you wont give that too them. It only makes me worry about what is to come. If i wanna be able to go PvP all day every day and not worry about decay, i should be able to. This is Star Wars for god sakes, we are supposed to be killin eachother, that is where a lot of the fun in this game takes place. Its hard to keep up with the other "uber" players when they are dishing out big bucks for armor and good guns, you gotta keep up so you do the same....but not everyone has that much money, its all really sadening.....well thats my ramble, not like it will get taken note of or really looked or read over by more than a few. Cuz what does a voice of a paying player matter....
moral of the story is listen to the voices of the game, REMOVE THE 1% DECAY!!!
thanks
raynedog wrote:Interesting to note the opions that are posted here only show about what %10-%15 of the people think.
Yeah, true, but even those 10-15 percent of people posting here shouldn't be even posting, they should be playing the game...
But, we the people, that really want to get involved, are voicing our opinions. Nothing wrong with that? Majority of the people in my guild I've talked with (we have about 54 members or so, and only a handful go to the SWG msg forum) do not like this decay upon death. We use to pvp constantly till they introduced the decay upon death, now we rarely pvp and I don't promote it because the risk vs reward isn't worth it.
I even told them that decay upon death in pvp were being taken out (they were all gleeing with joy), then when I told them that the 1 percent decay was still in, their attitude went back the way it was before I told them about death upon decay was being taken out.
And yes MAJORITY of the playerbase do not like decay upon death... you can tell by just going to AH (which is almost a ghost town now, other then some new players), or Coronet (which is basically the biggest trade city) and rarely see any pvping going on..
When I first played the game, pvp was very frequent, I got involved, and it was FUN.... I'm a wookie, and even I have some complaints. We can only wear BE clothings, and at the rate they decay, it's not worth the bother actually using them in pvp. I was planning on getting some decent BE clothings with defense modifiers, to actually give us wookies a chance in pvp, but now with that 1 percent decay... my dream is gone once more.
While it's nice to see efforts at good communication, and much appreciated, you need to listen to what we are saying.
We don't want your factional perk idea. PVP is *ALREADY* zero-sum as far as FPs are concerned. You *ALREADY* lose more than you gain by engaging in PVP.
We don't want decay at all in PVP. We know you can code it, you know you can code it, and you lost a lot of face by claiming you couldn't.
Make PVP non-zero-sum (i.e. make people gain more FPs from PVPing than they lose). I know you think this is necessary to "prevent exploits." It's not. There are tons of ways to stop two people from logging on and just killing each other over and over for FPs. Sharply reduced returns for killing the same person within, say, ten minutes, is a great place to start. And frankly, people can already get all the FPs they want with Macroing smuggler colonels using /delegatefaction.
To stop exploits you could have stopped many other ways, you've chosen a NET LOSS SYSTEM that means the only way FPs ever *enter* the economy is through PvE. *That*, plus the addiction you guys have to PVP death penalties, is why the GCW is dead, and will remain dead.
It's been nearly a year. Get it right.
Remove decay and re-insure for PVP deaths. Make faction points in PVP positive sum. This could be done today, friday, by 2:00 in the afternoon. You could get more work done today than you've accomplished, to be frank, in the last year.
Norn
Let me apologise myself for being harsh towards thunderheart
IM SORRY
Now let me address the real culprit..........
JustG wrote:
His job is to know your desires and represent them to us. And I think he does his job **edit** WELL.
BETTER THEN SOME EH?
It kills me to see how harsh some of the player population is towards him, because I know in no small part, we are responsible for any misinformation that you receive from him.
Sounds like someones trying to put the ole watergate spin on things............
No one is perfect, and things happen very rapidly from time to time.
Nope, thats what proof reading and proper board meetings are for where I come from......
Don't kill the messenger. Please be forgiving, or direct your wrath towards a more guilty party (me).
The kings always sent messengers wanna know why?
Noone wants to deliver the bad news........
Once upon a time there was a King who received a messenger from a far off land. The messenger brought news that the King's favorite daughter was about to marry the son of one of his most hated old enemies. The King was so angry that he killed the messenger on the spot. As the King's guards came to remove the body he discovered to his horror that the messenger was his daughter in disguise. Too late, he realized that she had disguised herself hoping to prepare him and dampen his angry reaction so that she could eventually reconcile him to her marriage and receive his blessings - for they loved each other deeply.
What is your first reaction to an uncomfortable or difficult emotion? Is it to seek ways - sometimes any way - to stop it, get away from it, kill it!
What is an emotion? These feelings that can run our lives, that are the glue that keeps us together or the force that can destroy us. An emotion is a thought or idea accompanied by a bodily sensation; it is experienced as a form of energy. We are frequently unaware of the original thought or the awareness is short-lived and fleeting. With intense and dramatic emotions such as joy or terror, the body sensations are obvious; however, when the emotion is more mundane and ordinary, as with boredom or annoyance, the physical sensations can be so subtle as not to be noticed.
There are no bad emotions; there are desirable and undesirable emotions, but no bad emotions. Because an emotion is painful or uncomfortable does not make it bad. When a someone one betrays you, it is human and appropriate to feel hurt and disappointed - you would be less than human if you did not.
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Its ok to feel guilty for misinforming others,,,,,,,,,, but please STOP MIS-Using the term dont kill the messenger !!!!!!!!!!!!
Stop trying to think of new ideas on how to make this game die faster than it already is!!!!
you DEVs....are missing the point!!! We bought this game to have fun!!!! do you understand the word or the concept of fun?????
Grinding for credits....................not fun
Grinding for Faction Points........not fun
Grinding for Holos......................not fun
Losing my freakin composite armor to PvP death..........NOT FUN!
Why cant you guys just listen to us? Please help us.....Stop the MADDNESS.........."Cant we all just get along?"
I feel like this a bad highschool relationship....you just dont get it!!! so im fixing to break up with you!!!!!
Get rid of the 1% decay on PvP!
Belasarius wrote:
DT...I DONT KNOW WHAT YOUR REAL LIFE IS MISSING.OR WHY YOU DONT LIKE TEENAGERS..BUT I BOUGHT THIS GAME TO HAVE FUN....I WORK IN REAL LIFE TO EARN A LIVING.....WHEN IM AT HOME PLAYING A VIDEO GAME LIKE swg...I DONT WANT IT TO FEEL LIKE WORK...CAN YOU DIG IT..OLD DUDE?
DT WRITES....
"and then spend my days hanging out in the forums just to look like a schmuck with no life".
EITHER YOUR ON VACATION OR YOUR SIMPLY AN OLD FART, SCHMUCK WITH NO LIFE!!..LOL
A couple hints: Proper period use and caps lock. Since you work full time, maybe you should take some night courses onsentence structure and keyboard use?
