Development Cycle Archive
Thread: Crystal Drop Rates 2.0
guantan
Wed Jun 09, 2004 11:52 am
#27
350 Force NPCs (Dantooine) = 1 Damage crystal
200 Janta = NOTHING
raz1337
Wed Jun 09, 2004 11:53 am
#28
If I have to go camp spawns just to make a lightsaber, you can bet I'm not going to be staying long. This has been brought up in the Jedi forums. Out of all the in-concept threads that were made to gather our input on the Jedi revamp, this is the best that you could come up with?
Excuse me if this comes off as flaming, or ranting, but this is the end result of my frustration with this profession.
bioshock
Wed Jun 09, 2004 11:57 am
#29
Tuskens - 300+ 0 damage crystals, 0 color crystals
Nightsisters - 300+ 0d, 0c
Ewoks - 100+ 0d, 1c
Lokian Pirates 100+ 0d, 1c
Janta - 100+ 0d, 0c
Kunga - 100+ 0d, 0c
Various Wild Force Weilders on Dantooine - none 0d, 0c
High Level Corvette Mobs - none 0d, 0c
NPC Dark Jedi/Light Jedi - none 0d, 0c
[EDIT: I have 4 boxes of Jedi's Luck.]
Nightsisters - 300+ 0d, 0c
Ewoks - 100+ 0d, 1c
Lokian Pirates 100+ 0d, 1c
Janta - 100+ 0d, 0c
Kunga - 100+ 0d, 0c
Various Wild Force Weilders on Dantooine - none 0d, 0c
High Level Corvette Mobs - none 0d, 0c
NPC Dark Jedi/Light Jedi - none 0d, 0c
[EDIT: I have 4 boxes of Jedi's Luck.]
Message Edited by bioshock on 06-09-2004 11:58 AM
CedenoChiron
Wed Jun 09, 2004 1:07 pm
#31
NemsisJedi wrote:
It is simple - Skill Jedi Luck prevent Crystal drops, it drops random items like clothes and weapons and overwrites "Crystal" in defeated foe's.
Killed 10 Nightsisters Outcasts - 2 damage crystals. Without "Jediluck" skill.
Killed 50+ Nightsisters Outcasts- 1 damage crystal. With "Jedi Luck" skill.
Nemesida Fire Girl From Far-Star.
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this is correct, i have a friend who without jedi luck has gotten 15 damage crystals off NS without killing too many of them
FreestyleMiami
Wed Jun 09, 2004 1:10 pm
#32
Am averaging about 1 crystal every 25 NS Ranger/Stalkers. This is WITH jedi luck, and stats range from 5/5 to 43/43 with -3 to -9 force cost. All crystals looted so far have been of "good" condiation
Latent
Wed Jun 09, 2004 1:15 pm
#33
~100 Jinda = 1 color crystal
~150 Korga = 1 color crystal
~100 Lok Pirates = nada
~75 Tuskens = nada
Damage Crystal? Whats a damage crystal? These exist? I thought they were a myth or a legend or something? 
Devs For The Record: Having to kill mobs for BASIC saber components is sooooo not a good idea.
**If this is the case, and isn't going to change, PLEASE make the drop rate for the damage crystals 2-4x the rate for color ones. This only makes sense since we need (up to) 4 damage crystals for every 1 color. **
Message Edited by Latent on 06-09-2004 04:20 PM
ArjunThakur
Wed Jun 09, 2004 1:17 pm
#34
Demigoth wrote:
100 Nightsisters of all kinds = 0 crystals of any kind
About the same for me.
StringereDomani
Wed Jun 09, 2004 1:26 pm
#35
40 assorted Nightsister Rangers, Sentries, Sentinels = 1 power crystal (+3 dmg, -0.36 speed, -8 force)
60 assorted Jinda = 0 crystals
20 Hutt Force Epedition = 1 color crystal
60 assorted Jinda = 0 crystals
20 Hutt Force Epedition = 1 color crystal
Chianti
Wed Jun 09, 2004 1:28 pm
#36
essentially, with the current drop rate and the current crystal decay rate, by the time you loot a new crystal you'll need to use it to replace the one you used to kill all the mobs.
Crystal decay is horrible. Crystal drops are horrible.
Just increase crystal drops and revert sabers to the way they used to be. At least that way we had a chance to repair them. Crystals decay worse than sabers did in the old system and we have no chance to repair them at all. Wonderful solution.
Thrasher13
Wed Jun 09, 2004 1:28 pm
#37
I would like to see crystal rewards for doing epic quest the only jedi could do.
Chianti
Wed Jun 09, 2004 1:32 pm
#38
Thrasher13 wrote:
I would like to see crystal rewards for doing epic quest the only jedi could do.
you mean like locating mobs that dont spawn in the game? /sarcasm
Number-1-Commando
Wed Jun 09, 2004 1:39 pm
#39
I suggest that you would make a NPC near a shrine or something thatwas like that one Cries of Alddrean quest, this would be easier to implement because you have done it before. That one quest thatif u go to the guild hall, u can get a mission to go to a base and kill whatever is inside there and loot the plant to make the dead-eye. I suggest something similar on these lines.
For example, go to the NPC and talk to him he will give u a waypoint. You go to the waypoint and if u are want to be lightside you have help with a complex puzzle, if u wanna be darkside kill everyone there, and this adds up to lightside or darkside points. After you have completed the quest, either using the darkside kill method, or the lightside puzzle method, you get 10 crystals (5 damage, 5 color) regardless of which method you chose.
This system would be more quest involvement, andget tou make decisions of which side you would want to align to. Believe me, this is something that we would want, more story aligned and less camping.
In the movies a jedi should never be without a lightsaber, this is how it should be. I don't recall light or dark jedis killing ewoks for crystals, or tuskens or anything for that matter..............
I never saw this,
Yoda: "Luke you must kill millions of ewoks to make your lightsaber"
Luke: "But Master Yoda, Ewoks are so cute and cuddly, how could anyone kill them?"
Yoda: "Luke you must kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!"
Luke: "But Master Yoda, isn't that the ways of the darkside?"
Yoda: "......................"
Luke: "Master Yoda?"
Yoda: "Shut up Luke"
I don't think this is how it happened.....