Development Cycle Archive

First off, I'd like to say good job devs, the jedi system definitly needed some tweaking. However, I think totally eliminating permadeath may be over compensating a bit. Maybe take away 2 skill boxes for every death. No matter how far in between the deaths are. Then maybe at 10 deaths = perma death, and you have to reroll your jedi.

Also I'd like to see some defensive mods added to jedi. As it is now, my character has to always wear full composite armor, and cannot think about hunting without it. Some dodge would be nice. Make it so wearing armor still helps, but hinders movement, and negates said dodge modifiers. Jedi are all about freedom of movement, and speed....I would think a jedi would have inate dodge bonuses, and be better than most all other classes in this regard, even at padawan. I have only gotten to 4,2,2,2 in the initiate trees, and my char is a pve machine yes, but not very good for pvp. I dont know if that will change at jedi knight, but I dont see myslef taking on 10 advanced players like we were all lead to believe we would be able to. That would be impossible with Zero defensive bonuses, and everyones armor resisting 80% of our light sabres.

Secondly, lightsabres need to do some sort of rare damage other than kinetic. The fact that my light sabre does the same type of damage as a club is beyond me. Make it do some blast damage, or a new type of damage, that only very, very rare armor could resist. As I stated, most players have 80% comp or ubese armor, and can easily resist light sabres.

Lastly, krayte pearls, and sabre crafting...... Jedi are not supposed to need, nor want for money, but the way it is now a jedi needs millions just to craft anything better than a training sabre. Jedi sabres should have nothing to do with rare loot drops. The way it stands now, If i dont have any crystals, or pearls, i cannot make anything better than a training sabre.

Also just to mention....I think many in this thread are jumping to conclusions. Until the statement about becoming jedi is clarafied, I wouldnt worry about your holo grinding going to waste. Even if it is going to change, its the second phase of all this, prolly take months at least. So keep doing what your doing, and good luck to you all in unlocking your slots.

Jadasin

I'm sorry to hear you are leaving. I have never met you, but you sound like an intelligent person and oneI would have liked to meet.

The community will be worse without you

Good luck on your future endeavors, and no, I dont want your stuff

CHEERS

I've read the phrase "rare and mysterious" so many times from the devs now that its become yet another political/marketing buzz phrase like "family values" and "working families." You say phrases that sound vaguely good the first couple times, but once you've heard them 50 times, they are absolutely meaningless.

Someone said it and I like the idea of having 4 professions like now, and instead of the fifth being silent, instead you get a waypoint to the beginning of a quest that will either reveal the fifth or take the place of the fifth profession.

Keeping the need of people grinding every profession away and allowing people to spend more time rping.

Great...The whiners got their way and now there will be Jedi everywhere.

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Ryutek wrote:
I honestly think this is going to cause us to see a lot of Jedi running around evrywhere, further destroying any semblance of continuity. But oh well, it seems continuity isn;t cared for, and the life of a Jedi just got drastically easier.

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Yeah..too easy. Alot of them wont even be afraid of being seen now.

Ok I just want to ask one thing.......Will characters that have already opened their fs slot lose there jedi character and have to reopen it with the new system....if so that is a horrible idea that i think will result in many canceled accounts. But i am all for removing perma death and instating a skill revocation system instead if current jedi will be able to keep their character. I would still like to see some things changed about saber crafting though being as crystals and pearls are entirely too hard to come by now that krayts are near impossible to kill without a large group and everyone seems to be collecting them now. In my opinion crystals and pearls should be an optional component to the saber crafting. I would like to see some jedi type quests to do with my jedi once perma death has been removed....since solo hunting gets kind of boring after a while.

Q,You said something about recognizing players work. Does that mean even if you've only just started on your first holo profession you will be able to continue this,with the holos. I finally aquired several holos,and I know people that spent alot of credits on theirs,will they be useless to us now?