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TH, I'm a long time listener and first time poster . My questoin pertains to wookiees andarmor. Now, i PVP very often, sometimes for hours a day and i waswondering if the devs have come up with something in regards to wookiee armor. I am a TKM / Master Brawler/Master Fencer and can take a pretty good beating but nothing likesomeone in full comp can take. I have no ranged mitigation (by choice) nor does my human buddy that i PVP with and he can take blaster fire MUCH longer than i can and we have almost the same template, his armor just sets him above me. If the two of us sqaure off and go TKM vs. TKM i can beat on his comp armor all day with VK's and hardly make a dent while at the same time he is hitting me for full damage. I have thought a lot on this issue and have serveral ideas.

1)Give wookiees a natural armor rating that willcompare in someways tocrafted armor. For one, i think a wookiee should have very high kinetic defense but possiblyvuln to heat. Don't make the vulnerablitystun damage, because thatis a rare type of damage and due to the fact thatit will be a natural armor, the vulnerability should be a somewhat common type of damage. Maybe even a few vulnerabilities like heat/electricity/blast. That would nearlycover a weapon in every classes arsenal.

2) Allow Armorsmiths to craft wookiee armor. Personally i don't like this idea due to thefact that wookiees are supposed to be naturally stronger than other species but if natural armor isn't going to happen then this is the only other option i can think of.

Thanks for listening TH, hope my input helped. If you need a wookiee helperin this issue let me know.

woolie

Valcyn

Proud member of the 20's club

Thunderheart, I posted on last weeks round table, with no response ... there is a serious issue with publish 7s crafting nerf.

I will irriterate At this point on intrepid alone, there are 260 + accounts from crafters that are ready to say bye to SWG if no one will listen to them.

Everyone figures the CSRs and DEVs just don't care and will do whatever they like, I hope this is not true and you guys will listen to the community on this nerf ... PLEASE LISTEN TO THE PLAYERS !

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=Intrepid&message.id=221969

above is the link to the petition ! .. I hope you at least reply this time to us with anything ...

Thanks killgore'

Guys - - the FS slot has not been turned off...

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MathiusStonehammer wrote:

TH, I'm a long time listener and first time poster . My questoin pertains to wookiees andarmor. Now, i PVP very often, sometimes for hours a day and i waswondering if the devs have come up with something in regards to wookiee armor. I am a TKM / Master Brawler/Master Fencer and can take a pretty good beating but nothing likesomeone in full comp can take. I have no ranged mitigation (by choice) nor does my human buddy that i PVP with and he can take blaster fire MUCH longer than i can and we have almost the same template, his armor just sets him above me. If the two of us sqaure off and go TKM vs. TKM i can beat on his comp armor all day with VK's and hardly make a dent while at the same time he is hitting me for full damage. I have thought a lot on this issue and have serveral ideas.

1)Give wookiees a natural armor rating that willcompare in someways tocrafted armor. For one, i think a wookiee should have very high kinetic defense but possiblyvuln to heat. Don't make the vulnerablitystun damage, because thatis a rare type of damage and due to the fact thatit will be a natural armor, the vulnerability should be a somewhat common type of damage. Maybe even a few vulnerabilities like heat/electricity/blast. That would nearlycover a weapon in every classes arsenal.

2) Allow Armorsmiths to craft wookiee armor. Personally i don't like this idea due to thefact that wookiees are supposed to be naturally stronger than other species but if natural armor isn't going to happen then this is the only other option i can think of.

Thanks for listening TH, hope my input helped. If you need a wookiee helperin this issue let me know.

woolie

Valcyn

Proud member of the 20's club

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Thanks Mathius. I'll be meeting with JustG, Blair and Runesabre later this week to talk about some more changes to the wookiee armor situation. Ill have a post afterwards, I'm sure

Thunderheart...I was just informed about a change that is coming in a publish concerning items not being able to be sold in packs on vendors. I know I have heard it said that the reason for this is because some people could use this method to deceitfully sell something other than what was advertised. But, I have a business in the game that is 100% custom orders. It is the way I like to do business. If I am no longer able to put my orders in packs with people's names on it, it will severely limit what I can do. If this goes into effect, will you have a method for me to mark an item as sellable to one individual only or someother scheme so that I can continue to do custom orders for people? Also, I like giving my regular customers perks and so I will throw in free items into the packs for them. I would like to be able to continue this practice. Will there be a system in place so I can do this? This would be similiar to the armorsmiths for whom it is very, very beneficial to be able to sell a whole set of armor as 1 package deal. They would need a similiar system.

Anyway, I was just curious if with this package on vendors changes is going to have other changes along with it so that we can continue to effectively do business with our customers.

Thanks,
Jiist

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KiIIgore wrote:

Thunderheart, I posted on last weeks round table, with no response ... there is a serious issue with publish 7s crafting nerf.

I will irriterate At this point on intrepid alone, there are 260 + accounts from crafters that are ready to say bye to SWG if no one will listen to them.

Everyone figures the CSRs and DEVs just don't care and will do whatever they like, I hope this is not true and you guys will listen to the community on this nerf ... PLEASE LISTEN TO THE PLAYERS !

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=Intrepid&message.id=221969

above is the link to the petition ! .. I hope you at least reply this time to us with anything ...

Thanks killgore'

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Hey TH any news on if you guys are going to fix the loot drops on Tusken clothing? This would help a lot of rpers such as myself.

I have been a fan of starwars since I was 4 years old, and a reader of alot of the post movie books, and even the Galaxies series that this game takes its name from ... and I must say that the devs need to listen to fans more.

It is time to quit thinking about just one thing and start worrying about this resembling starwars, any game can throw darth vader in and say hey this is starwars, but things like :

Hologrinding for jedi : load of crap, luke, anakin, etc, never had to master 18 - 32 professions ... special deeds and quests should unlock your jedi potential.

Jedi : this is a joke right now, I have never heard of jedi slaughtering inocent creatures to be strong, not even the sith train this way. ... I can see rescuing a family from tuskan raiders, etc ... that makes sence, but who am I to think ...

Ah well ... anyways I hope the devs start to listen to players and start to worry more about this being like starwars and less like being a PvP MMORPG all the time, a lot of players are here just because they love starwars ...

I am 27 and in law enforcement, and the only reason I bought this game was because of starwars, and I am on the verge of quitting my 2 accounts if people don't start caring about their customers wants soon.

Is the backpack issue really that nasty? Why not make it so that you can look inside containers in trade windows/Bazaars. Im sure the whole backpack issue can wait for such a feature instead of adding the limits you're suggesting.(Items not being able to be sold in packs on vendors.)

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Thunderheart wrote:

The team met late last week and we're working on a long post. It should be up some time this week, but its dependent on the folks putting it together.

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Heads up, Thunderheart Drinking Game players!

Once again:

When are the new pet bugs introduced in publish 6 going to be fixed?

Specifically:

Pets (creature, droid, faction) upon call are 0 meters away from the master.

Mounts no longer autofollowing their master

Mounts and vehicles autostoring at random when not being ridden, sometimes (in the case of mounts, obviously) in the middle of combat.

Pet HAM bars not being updated when being stimmed, doing creature tricks, or being repaired.

It's been over three weeks. When are the developers going to fix the things they broke?

Thx for the answers TH..

ossi