Development Cycle Archive

This is my first, and very likely last post since the removal of the Discussion Forum. This format is very hard to use, requires that I read countless pages of random messages with no topic or title, and otherwise just wastes my time.

At least in the Discussion forums I could read threads I cared about; unlike this one.

I'm going back to playing the game, I'm sure there are enough people here to keep a single, muddled, wandering, offtopic thread alive for the week. I'll come back and post when its more productive.

-Hyssthi

I think this thread is out of control. There is no direction, no moderation. It's like we were all scooped up and dropped into a giant void... out of sight, out of mind.

Please re-evaluate your communication system.

I didn't think I had too many issues, til I started reading the ones here. Here are my top 10:

1. Buff + Server Crash bug. The server is able to remember that we were buffed after a crash, but able to give us the stat bonus. Which means we are at base stats unable to buff until the next server reset or death.

2. Vehicle auto-store.

3. I really don't know what can be done about this, but Dantooine is overpopulated. It has become the favorite planet of every character and it'd be really interesting to see the % of overall connected characters and what planet has the largest population. I truly believe it even rivals Corellia.

4. Difficult quests to get uber items like Krayt Pearls, and Force Crystals... as opposed to AFK mass killing of NPCs, and Krayt farming. How about you have to find one randomly placed NPC on the planet that knows someone who sends you to 4-5 randomly placed Krayts before you get the right one which he said should drop the pearl.

5. Character titles. Once you have chosen a title, it will always be there when you log in, whether you have turned it off or not. Pretty **edit** annoying, as it seems there is no null setting for character titlesthat are saved.

6. How hard to fix is this sitting warp thing that has existed since beta? Please for the love of all things Star Wars do not make me slide around any more. I realize it's low priority, but it really is annoying to see this bug existing for more than 7 months. (maybe longer, but that's as much as I remember of it)

7. How about some user customizable chat settings. For example, popular IRC scripts include flood protection and what not. So if someone is spams something once per second I can automatically /addignore them. This would make going to coronet more enjoyable.

8. /badname needs to work properly. I see so many names that are ridiculous. Ulik M'balzak was the worst.

9. I love the artisan theme park idea, and the Faction Points for orders the empire places for weapons, or clothing or armor. Perhaps the mission terminal can even give the schematic. What a great idea, to whoever that was.

10. Please get things right before more content, this means *you* SOE managers!

Misc. Items ...

• You dismount from vehicle and land 100m away from the vehicle. If you all known (and you do) where the vehicle is parked, how about drop our character there? As opposed to 100m away from the ride?


• You have to close extra copies of Compose New Message when you write onein-game email.


• If the server crashes, you loose your buff, but the server believes you still have a buff (timer bug?). (Only fix is to have someone kill / rez you.)


• Doctors (or Master Medics) need to be able to cure fire DOT attacks. Also, Doctors should have AOE Disease Cures and AOE Poison Cures.


• You get a TEF to your own faction bug... I believe its caused by CMs doing area heals.


• No on-screen notification when your character becomes Overt after taking a flight somewhere or after logging into the game. Remind us that we are now officially "overt" with an on-screen notification.

1) Please fix BH droids and also give us some defenses.

2) Please post here from time to time. I thought increased communication meant there would bemore talking between players and devs, not less.

This post contains my ramblings about houses...

First, I think that there needs to be a /movefurniture up and /movefurniture down command. Everyone is doing something like this in rooms that have stairs by dropping the item on the stair, then moving it, but what if the room does not have stairs... what if the whole house does not have stairs? Does that mean that small houses shouldn't have the "power" to be able to have a desk lamp that is actually on the desk top instead of on the floor under it? That a small house can't have nice stuff on the walls? Add the command and people will have more fun and creativity in their houses. (=more fun)

Next, think of how messy your real house would be if you didn't have any dressers, armoires, book shelves and the like. Everything wouldn't fit in your house and it would look like a tornado passed through it! Well, that's what it is like for the houses in SWG. Some people have went to putting stuff in backpacks and lining the walls with backpacks, but that is not very nice looking nor very realistic! What we need is for armoires, bookshelves, toolchests, chests and the like to actually be containers. I would also like to go one step further by saying that, like items in an equipped backpack on a person, items in these "containers" should NOT count toward the house limit! You can limit the spaces in the furniture to reasonable amounts, but you should make them appropriate. Like a bookshelf could have a capacity of like 10 items or so. A large toolchest should hold more than a small toolchest.

Last, guild halls need to have larger house capacities. Some of these are huge! One has 3 or 4 levels to it. Even if I did not put any storage of crafting or personal items in the house, it does not have a sufficient capacity to decorate it to the level that a hall should be. (at least not every room) A building should have enough capacity to put stuff in it to not only make it look like it is a real place that people are acutally living in and using, but also look lived in! (like plates on the table, lamps on desks, stuffed bantha on bed, etc.)

Thanks for reading my ideas and let me know what you think. If they want SWG to be about roleplaying, then we need the tools and abilities to do it. (small details make or break the atmosphere of the game)

Jerry

Ibakko - Master Bio-Engineer, Master Creature Handler, Intrepid
Aazur - Master Weaponsmith, Master Droid Engineer, Master Shipwright, Intrepid
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What's up with the fusion reactors. All they seem to be is a very expensive mineral miner that can only mine radioactives! (my mineral miner can harvest the same resourses) And there are so many times that my fusion reactor can't harvest any energy! That doesn't seem right or realistic AT ALL! Fusion power is supposed to be clean, reliable power. (the harvesters certainly cost enought)

IMHO, fusion reactors should work something like this: Fusion Ion Reactors should harvest only one resource, Fusion Power. This resourse should never change, always be at 50%, and available everywhere! This way, it is more realistic, behaves in a fashion one would expect of a fusion reactor, and would make it worth the high price of the harvester.

To add a little more to it, you could make radioactive material part of the crafting resourses needed to make the reactor deed (nuclear subs don't need to be "refueled" with radioactive material for the entire life of the submarine!)... (harder and not necessary IMHO) you could make it so that the reactor needed to be feed radioactives like maintenance. If you do this, though, make sure that it burns through the radioactive supply VERY slowly. These reactors don't need a lot of "fuel"

Jerry

Ibakko - Master Bio-Engineer, Master Creature Handler, Intrepid
Aazur - Master Weaponsmith, Master Droid Engineer, Master Shipwright, Intrepid
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The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance
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I have to agree with the above post. There is just as much random threads in this one topic as there were topics in the old Discussion Forum. However, on the old Discussion Forum you could bypass what you didn't care to read and move onto another subject matter. How anyone could narrow anything down in this is ridiculous. I'm sure as heck not going to wade through 15 pages of much looking for some meat. As this game has progressed decisions that the Devs have put into affect just keep me discumbobulated and trying to figure out what logic they are applying...

I'm not impressed and really wonder about the future of this game that I've invested many hours upon hours on...

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TrekDude wrote:

This is sick.

I TRIED to read two pages of this thread. Most of it I skipped, this in NO WAY improves communication.

BTW, how come like more than half the posts are to fix BH. How greedy are you guys for crying out loud!Hundreds of problems in the game and you think that not being able to TRACK a PC jedi is the biggest problem?!?!

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