Development Cycle Archive

This publish violates Koster's Laws of character ownership.

I'm beginning to think we need a new Sr. Producer and Lead Designer.

Edsoni

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jd2134 wrote:

quick question wasnt the whole reason the publish was pushed back a few days to slove this bugs? issue and stuff? what the point of having a test center if there still issues with the patch when it hits them servers in live?

nagyt

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The biggest problem with test is that there aren't enough players there to accurately test anything. For instance the Death Watch. They haven't gotten a single piece of mandolorian armor made, but they have had groups of most of the players that are elite combat profs heading in there several times. The player base there must increase, or we will keep getting crappy patches.

I am a Master Image Designer and my thoughts are:

1. The timer is a pain in the butt. But, there NEEDS to be something
to stop people from macro grinding ID I guess was the reason I just
think there's probably a better solution somewhere (and I don't know
what that would be, sorry!).
2. I love the fact that we're needed for stat migration. Finally something
that will bring good income!
3. The pasty white skin tones are fantasic!
4. I was hoping for more hairstyles in the publish.
5. Holo-Emotes are neat.
6. I was hoping for things like scars and tatoo's and the like.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

I forgot to add this bug:

After I change someone's hair color, the change is visible to THEM, but not to me.
They have to go fully (LD) then log back in for me to see the new them.

1. The new interface makes actually DOING an image design on a customer easier.

1. You have to actually MAKE a change to get any xp when trying to become an Image Designer. Previously, you could "change" something to what it was in the first place and still get xp. This made it easier to find a willing victim to practice on. That said, why not give ID a "practice" option similar to that crafters get?


2. Xp gain is too small for the time spent making each change.


3. I totally agree with the HUGE number of posts that want the general player base to have the stat migration capability.


4. Looking at the Skill Sheet for Image Designer does not tell you when you will be able to do Stat Migration or Holo-Emotes.


5. The timer is overkill with the changes to the interface. Having a timer for stat migration is fine, but not for any of the other changes. I also agree with the poster who said that this timer should be for the client ONLY, not for the image designer.


6. Player booths that can be placed in private houses, Droid modules and/orPlayer ID Tents are a MUST with this change. Where are they? They should have been included in the mini-publish.

I see three obvious problems:

1. The timers. I don't see why the timers have to be so high, 5 minutes to change eye colour? The 10 minute migration timer is ok though,I suppose.

2. Some way to identify the different settings in the UI would be nice. In the old system, you always had those numbers to go after, made it alot easier to change someone back to a previous look.

3. The time it takes to master is now insane. I agree that the previous system was way to easy to macro through, but as it is now... Horrible. I can't even imagine how the poor novice Entertainers will ever become novice Image Designers. I mean, they have no marketable changes they can do at that level, and they almost certainly need someone to work on to even have a chance of getting decent xp. How many people, besides the ones with several accounts, can find someone who is willing to sit and have their looks changed every 2.5 minutes and then click accept for hours upon hours?

This is the most amazing waste of time even better then camping the AC in EQ....

Lets play circle jerk...or ID now don't do anything for 5 minutes....just waste your time...........FIRE the ID10T who though this was playing

my god this is such a bad idea the time delay....it's just a joke right....so next the aritasn will be making one item every 5 minutes, only one heal for the medics, and you can't do anything for 5 minutes...will it apply to combat I'm sorry only one hit every 5 minutes, heaven forbid you actually play.............

this is a joke right

sad

I'm sorry but the timer for changing features makes absolutely no sense on any level. I don't know who's wonderful idea that was but they must have been under the influence. The only justification for it I can think of is adding another bottleneck for holo grinders as if bounty hunter and bio engineer isn't sweet enough. If you really want to cut out on the number of people making jedi before the quest just come out and say it, don't make the image designer profession suffer for it.
The time it takes to master isn't just completely TERRIBLE it takes two people to master it! This is completely unacceptable and I really hope you reconsider taking the timer COMPLETELY OUT it serves no purpose. I really don't understand why the least played profession in SWG needs to be the biggest pain.

As soon as the jedi quest goes in the timers will mysteriously be gone or be greatly removed... you can quote me on it.

Removing stat migration from the player base at largewas just about the meanest thing you could have done to the players...and sets a very bad precident that all of us who play this game to have fun should make note of.

Aside from that, the colour selectors need to be bigger. I mastered ID for a holocron and planned to keep it for a little bit, but the combination of the tiny colour boxes and being mildly red-green colour deficient made me drop the profession. Might I suggest seperatng the colours with black lines to make them easier to distinguish (I realise that people with colour recognition problems are a massive minority, but even my girlfriend couldn't easily use some of the colour selectors)

Timers are far too long for stat migration, especially if you are going to keep the nerf in place. I play to have fun, not to stand around for half an hour or more for my turn to have my stats migrated.

Hated the idea of the holo-emotes, but loved the execution. However, they appear black on a caracter in the examine window.

The timer for stat migration...okay, maybe. (what do I gain with instant migration? hmmm)

For everything else, WHY?

Liani

No changes I know from this mini-publish should have caused either of the errors, but for the first time ever (and I play 8+ hours per day since launch - yea I have issues) I experienced these yesterday (yes, both were /bugged):

1. Could not Exit my AV-21 Speeder. Tried to "exit" said Unknown error transfering container" then the Exit/Enter option disappeard (with me still in the speeder) Tried to Select "Store" and got the same error message. Had to /quit to get out of the speeder. I did have my inventory at 60/60 and only occured with my AV-21 speeder (not with swoop or other speeder)

2. Closed out a vendor I was browsing and walked away. Suddenly started getting Spammed with "Target not avaliable, closing interface" (or some message similar.) I was able to browse other vendors a nother building no issues. I had to go to original vendor and Re-Open vendor to get the message to stop.. however as soon as I canceled the vendor The Spam started back again. I tried to just log out and back in, but the message was still spamming (about 1 per second) I had to completely shut down the game and restart for the message to stop