Development Cycle Archive
Thread: Publish 10 Feedback, “The Jedi Trials”: Live Issues and Open Discussion
RobtiVabin
Thu Sep 02, 2004 5:01 pm
#366
couple questions i'd like answered so any please feel free to answer them for me, i keep hearing to many different answers to these following questions it confussing:
1 - At the village while doing missions for the Captain, how many times do you have to do his quests?? ive already done one complete set of patrols, and now im doing what is labeled Extra Patrols.
2 - Who do you do after Captain quests, I talked to elder and i choose to do missions for Whip and find the lost villagers, and he told me i was busy doing missions for some one else.
3 - Do we have to continuely do missions in the Village to gain xp to convert into force xp, or can we go off and max out any where and come back to the village to convert them. Meaning are we restricked to the Village once we've begun quests for one of the npc's and have to complete the village phases?
4 - Any one have any idea how to defeat the padawan quest, freind of mine did it and could not kill the mob, not only does he have 80% resists but he wields a lightsaber and uses force powers including heal which he does ever 10 seconds or so, I watched a teams of 15 get wiped out by this mob and never even made a scratch to them??
5 - Why did SOE screw over us smugglers once again?????? Now we have to pull out all WUKS,AUKS, and clamps from crate instead of them being removed on there own. Not only does this cause a problem for the smugglers, but you will see a rise in slicing prices do to the fact taht we have to pull from a crate.
6 - I know this is the wrong forum for this one but... whe n the hell is the long over do Smuggler Revamp. Us smugglers are gettign shafted once again. Cant use our spice experimentation , slicing 4 is still bugged untill you reach master and we still get nothing for reaching master smuggler, only the so called bonus, which is crap cuz itsa ctaully the sliceing xp gained at slicing 4.
Please anyone answer those questiosn for me so it makes it a little easier to understand and easier to get threw, if need if your on eclipse server drop me a tell or email ingame name Robti Vabin
santachristo
Thu Sep 02, 2004 5:56 pm
#367
i wanted to thank the csr and devs that my problem was solved. it is now all working fine. thx a lot.
@quad shot
never heard of anything what you called groups. that was just an amazing idea from ppl in the forums, so dont whine about sth you just wished to be.
@robtivabin why dont you just go and find it out yourself? all you are stating here seems to work perfectly well. no bugs and nothing. you just have to play and find it out.
@quad shot
never heard of anything what you called groups. that was just an amazing idea from ppl in the forums, so dont whine about sth you just wished to be.
@robtivabin why dont you just go and find it out yourself? all you are stating here seems to work perfectly well. no bugs and nothing. you just have to play and find it out.
CaptDurFea
Thu Sep 02, 2004 11:07 pm
#368
Greetings....
I have been looking forward to Publish 10 since the news that the Jedi Path was being changed to a questing path. Several of my friends have also been looking forward to this patch.
I am not a holo-grinder...I developed my character to be very specific, because I am a roleplayer. The point of mastering professions never made any sense to me at all. Luke was never a "master" at anything except for recklessness, and little "Ani" might have qualified as a mediocre droid engineer in Episode I, but he certainly was never a master at it. So the whole notion of mastering as many professions as you can until a little magic box told you that you could create a whole new character from scratch just was a big fur-ball.
But I continued to roleplay with no intention of pursuing to become a Jedi through becoming a know-it-all philanthropist who has nothing left in the game to do except to get to know the ways fo the Force.
My character is a Master Dancer. And I mastered Merchant while I owned my own cantina and the money was good. But in preparation for chosing a side in the Galactic war I began training in polearm. I had to give up Merchant because dancers make more money than merchants that can't craft. So Here I am with two mastered professions and I know which end of a vibro lance to hit creatures with.
I like the idea of "learning the ways of the Force". I love the idea of it being a quest-driven system. Let's face it, that's exactly what happened to Luke. So I have been planning my character development to dabble in the initial Force sensitivity quests hopefully to create a more interesting character. Essentially a dancer who has an uncommon kack for using a polearm...well beyond that of a normal cantina entertainer. And I would intend to quietly pursue the paths of the Force.
But now we have Publish 10, here at last, finally....and where do I stand? My character has "a faint sense of the Force." That's perfect...that's exactly what I want....but what do I get for it? I should have a random proc in battle that doubles or triples the damage done by a single attack...and then a short phrase "You suddenly feel as if the world around you aids in heightening your senses." And for the next 20 seconds my health regen and action regen goes sky high. THAT would be interesting...it would coincide with an unusual sensitivity that I would have no control over....it would also raise my awareness of the power of the Force and lead me to want to learn more about it. Maybe every now and then, I could get a message that says "You seem drawn to the starport...as if you should board a shuttle, but you have no idea where to go..." Over time these messages could be more frequent or more detailed....maybe I'm at the starport and something seems to draw me to want to travel to Dathomir.
But no....instead of something that INCREASES the mystery around the Force, I am instructed to simply...and BLINDLY....just continue playing my character as if nothing ever happened. And maybe one day while I'm online at maybe about 2am on a work night, some strange old man will walk into the cantina and say "It is time....go here, do this, do that, have fun..." ????
I don't get it. That doesn't even make sense for the fantasy roleplaying setting that IS Star Wars. What if my character's father was a Jedi....and he was killed in the Clone Wars. Andmy character"wants to become a Jedi like his father"...where is the roleplay element for that character??
I just don't understand. The whole hooplah seems to be geared toward the "holo-grinders" that just want to be a Jedi because they have nothing else left in the game to become. These are the exact same players who will become Jedi through any means that you provide and then after attaining that goal, if you have nothing else to offer them, they will be off to another game.... While the roleplayers are forced to sit on the sidelines and simply watch because the system doesn't work for us anyway.
So now that I have a faint sense of the Force....what do I do to increase that sense?
It better not be "go master another profession" because that means you have not changed the Jedi system at all...only placed more controls at your disposal to manage the number of Jedi in-game.
And if the answer is to simply keep playing, and hope that someday some old man shows up, I'm not so certain I have that much patience. I've enjoyed the game, but after the Jedi system and the Space Expansion......I just don't see much left in the Galaxy for a Master Dancer from Tatooine to do.
I sure hope those holo-grinders find new content.
santachristo
Fri Sep 03, 2004 12:53 am
#369
i did it to the village, and started the quests from whip.
he told me to rescue 5 villagers. the 2nd one spawned in a tree, 5 hours ago. i filled in a ticket, and sometime after that i got disconnected. now the villager is completely gone, whip wont give me a new waypoint, and i cant go on with my mission.
no response from the crs so far. plz help me....
he told me to rescue 5 villagers. the 2nd one spawned in a tree, 5 hours ago. i filled in a ticket, and sometime after that i got disconnected. now the villager is completely gone, whip wont give me a new waypoint, and i cant go on with my mission.
no response from the crs so far. plz help me....
Ulysees
Fri Sep 03, 2004 1:13 am
#370
Okay, one very simple question, it may have been answered already but I cannot find it.
As a character that has recently come back to SWG and only having 2 professions unlocked (but I glow) lots of POI and theme parks done, I take it I am probably in group 4 of the listings TH posted.
I am now assuming that groups 1-3 have to pass through the "village" before I get my "visit".
As the groups are now set there is absolutley nothing I can do to become a Jedi but wait................... in a very, very long queue, marvelous.
This could be days or weeks but more likely months.
So much for controlling your own destiny.
If this is the case I haven't been this crushed since EA closed Earth and Beyond down.
Did EA buy SOE whilst I was asleep?
Bodecia
British Space Corps Officer (Farstar).
Casshern_Greyfox
Fri Sep 03, 2004 1:33 am
#371
Ok, now they said they got rid of holo grinding.....but no we have to grind even MORE than with holos, **edit** is wrong with you people, I have completed the crafting quest for phase one and cant train it cause i now will have to grind out 2000 ubese shirts to get enough xp to get Novice Master Crafting.Who comes up with this stuff, If i do pure combat, then i need 110250000 xp and the combat xp fromgaiining it to get Jedi Initiate. ONE HUNDRED TEN MILLION TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND EXPERIENCE POINTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I better be right when i hope that when i complete a quest I will be given a skill tree. Instead of grinding out professions we now grind through extremely high amounts of xp for skills that add very little to our existing skills. It takes 3 hours of buffs to get 450000 xp, Its going to take years.
Someone explain this to me please, I hope I am wrong in thinking i have to grind through all this. Is this a scheme to force peopel who really want to be a jedi to have to grind for a year and continue paying you.
Costello
Fri Sep 03, 2004 2:04 am
#372
Is there any way we can find out what group we are in and therefore how long we are going to have to wait. I met the old man today and he said something along the lines of we have nothing to talk about. Charming I thought given the force is with me but cause Im not in group 1 or 2 it seems im going to have to wait. And no doubt every day a new holo grinder does the easy new path to becoming force sensative and jumps in the que infront of me. So is there anyway to find how many if any of my proffessions are holo proffessions all my holocrons didnt was tell me that the ancients knowledge of the force is no good and now theyjust hum.
Maulibaer
Fri Sep 03, 2004 5:01 am
#373
TheRealBori wrote:
All this talk about grinding slots and no climax is interesting. And where does the old man fit into this? Seriously though, if you took vacation for this patch's release, it's time to go see a counselor. Please, please, cancel your accounts. All of you. Or here's a better idea, just keep crying and paying that cash without doing anything. If you really thought your posts would not be read by anyone, who are you writing to? Why waste your time? Find something productive to do with your life. Spend time with your families, get active in a church, maybe you need to get out and find a girlfriend. I'm amazed at what i'm reading. Simply amazed.
This is one that looks through the curtain of the silly-minded....or so...
There are really more bad things as: I cannot be a JEDI now....WHY?
Maybe some of youJedi-wanabes can afford a little time and look into the vendors/merchent thread for tets say 10 min? If you are able to read, you may be able to acknowledge that there is a bigger problem with that patch as the ICANNOTBEAJEDIPRONTO one.
THEY ARE ON THE WAY TO DESTROY THE ECONOMY OF THE WHOLE GAME...
Maybe that will be something that depends Jedis also??? Or need Jedis absolutely no stuff from other players? Are they independent? If yes, maybe they should get their own game? (JEDI-ZOO or so?:smileytongue
fn86
Fri Sep 03, 2004 5:48 am
#374
I have a question, do anyone know what the Wind Crystal Energy and the Rudic Ore is used for. I got the Wind one when the siths ambush me and the Ore from the sith camp. Do anyone know this?
straiceil
Fri Sep 03, 2004 6:06 am
#375
I had to do the Old man, the 2 sith and the 3 sith twice each in order to advance. I am not sure why that happened but it could be do to me missing the old man when he first came up to me and then rushed off.
I had to quit and relog several times to get things sorted out.
xlawmanx
Fri Sep 03, 2004 6:59 am
#376
Alright, got a noob question and hope somebody can answer it for me (Dev's). I got x amount of trees unlocked, converted points andgot more boxes. Now I have over 200k of enhance reflex points left and have been trying toget a veh box but naldon sayshe can not teach me anything right now.Thanks in advance to whoever can answer this for me.
Lawman
Bringing peace to the Galaxy
Morrendu
Fri Sep 03, 2004 7:55 am
#377
Did you do the quest to unlock that branch Lawman? If not, there's your answer.