Development Cycle Archive

Trek dude,

Actually, the cries for droid fixes are primarily for the droid speed issue. This bug causes the droid tracking speed to decrease instead of increase as player makes their way towards master. It sounds like a minor issue, but due to this bug, your average investigation mission at level 4 takes an average of 45 minutes andup to 1.5 hours. Considering that you get appx 400xp per mission, and you need a total of 18k...that is 45 missions. You will get at least 10 missions which are bugged during this time, so at minimum you will be running 55 BH missions just for one box in the BH profession. 55 missions takes 41 hours of play time. This does not include stopping for heals orstopping to findadditional probe and seeker droids. In the time it takes to complete investigation 4, an experienced player could master pistoleer 4 times. If you add this to the already geuling investigation 1, 2 and 3 grinds, as well as the 3 combat trees (carbines especially) BH is a ridiculous profession to attempt to master. There are actually more force sensitive characters than masterbounty hunters. Oh, and just so you know, the great reward for mastering BH include less defenses than a master dancer and specials that have nearly all been purposlyrendered ineffective (i.e. most carbine attacks hurt the attacker more than the attacked). As tracking jedi is a related issue, it is only nature that BHs would ask for that to be fixed as well.

Most BHs realize that they are dependant on droid engineers in order to be successful in their profession. A droid speed fix would GREATLY benifit DEs as a investigation 3+ BH would use as many as 7x the number of droids to complete a mark. This would greatly increase the income of a profession that is in dire need of help. We BH REALLY appreciate all the hard work DEs put in for little reward.

I would hope that after reading this, you would take a little bit more time to consider your position before attacking an entire player class as selfish.

Small complaints:

• I'm tired of falling out of my chair, sliding out of a camp, etc.


• I'm tired of having my vehicle spawn on my head.


• I'm tired of owning a large house but not being able to put more than 3 small houses in it.


• I'm tired of my jaxes giving me a million colour options in creation, and having 4 after being tamed.


• City Decorations should level the land like a building or a camp. I'm tired of seeing the understide of the braziers.

Large complaints:

• Provide documentation on the Bio Engineer crafting process. Yes, some things are obviously flawed, but others are not and we don't know until AFTER you cry "invalid" and we have people complaining that they cannot use their pets. Include a chart of some sort showing us what each CL should look like.


• Provide replacement systems when you do "invalidate" pets - just like when you change normal wild creatures, create a second pet trade in system so that the pets still are obviously BE (i.e. they retain unique things such as special attacks).


• While it will make life difficult for the CH that have them (I have three, personally), please look into the creatures that have CL 1(0). These werecreatures made by a BE prior to the December creature changes, but tamed after the changes. If their CL were changed, they would be perfectly legit pets. Either force their levels to update to what they should be, or create yet another pet trade in program that repairs them.


• Send out notification that a building's maintenance is low, and needs to be replenished. The city I live in lost it's rank 4 status because a couple of people didn't realize that their maintenance hit 0, which caused the city to shrink and several homes then became undeclared.


• Give faction rank meaning. Let faction rank be visible to your faction only (covert) and eveyone who looks at you (overt); let faction rank determin additional faction perks; let faction rank determin how many people you can command as pets; let faction rank determin what kind of missions you can do.


• Don't just suddenly ban people for using exploits you won't announce or fix. Announce them as exploits, warn the account, if they continue then ban them. I mean, SOE made EQ and had the balls to say "Hey, this is an exploit, don't do it" before instabanning. Everyone got at least ONE warning and the order to stop before a ban. Be fair, kids.


• Communicate better with the player base, in the profession forums, and in this thread. If our input is so important, acknowledge it.

That's my 0.02 credits, not that they count for much, apparently.

Just as I thought, this is just like all the "round table discussions" i have been in. The people that want to participate to get something done are here. The people who can do something about these things are absent. Exactly what it is supposed to be. Good job SOE, you FINALLY did something right.

OH and if you did not get the sarcasm in that post, then you are a freaking moron!

Where the heck are the devs? Before the holidays we would see 5 posts MINIMUM made by devs/Thunderheart. Now we're lucky if we can see 3... What gives, wasn't the idea of the new forums to improve communication? Right now the only communication is us asking where you guys are. So, where are you? Wasen't THs job to communicate with us? Hello... Anyone?

...Thought so...

Maybe they found the HUGE file with everyone's top 5 issues... you know, the ones that they misplaced 4 or 5 times? That would be a huge time sink...

I want to know when we will start seeing blasters on vehicles. I love my swoopbike, but it's not half of what it should be without being able to shoot down something while riding it. Maybe Master Artisans should be able to craft vehicle upgrades that you can attach to your vehicle to give you a certain upgrade, like armor, speed, blasters, etc.

Also, ever since the /citywarn command was taken out, there's been no real way to protect a city from an invasion from the opposing faction except by faction bases. Will there be a new command added into the game to allow militia members to be able to defend their city from an emergency?

I forgot something in my previous post on this thread. Sorry.

Caves:

There are numerous caves on every planet. Some have Mag Seal containers, others have what's called "loose debris".Any cave that has "loose debris" needs to be looked into. It appears that the only people able to fully loot the "debris" are slicers. In effect making the debris no different than the Mag Seal containers. As an example lets take the great borgle cave on rori. I walked into the cave no one else was there and it was obvious the place had been empty for hours. I move through the cave killing all the enemies and see "loose debris". So I walk over to the debris and "open" it. Apon opening the debris I recieve a credit reward, but I "Do not have permission to loot items" in the debris. So I stood staring at some extremely rare items such as skill tapes, and milk but could not retrieve them. This issue needs to be fixed for us non-smugglers. I told a CSR, and /bugged the problem in the game but it was never looked into. Please fix this otherwise it's pointless to go visit these caves at all.

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sweatyclimber wrote:

wow can you say selfish.... and please don't assume for the other players you are not every player out there...

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