Development Cycle Archive
Thread: Live Issues Publish 9: Secrets of the Force
Xlot
Wed Jun 30, 2004 2:41 am
#391
I just went linkdead during a fight (ISP is having router trouble), and got back in 5 mins later to find I was unavoidably dead.
I'd been on full buffs (2500+ doc buffs, master musician, and brandy) and had Force Armor 2 up, as well as being Master Lightsaber with +60 LS toughness.
Through no fault of my own, I lost 200k xp.
Perhaps we could have the /deathcount system brought back, modified to apply xp-loss after the 3 tracked deaths?
Geno
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The Mercantile
Theed, Naboo, Tempest
I'd been on full buffs (2500+ doc buffs, master musician, and brandy) and had Force Armor 2 up, as well as being Master Lightsaber with +60 LS toughness.
Through no fault of my own, I lost 200k xp.
Perhaps we could have the /deathcount system brought back, modified to apply xp-loss after the 3 tracked deaths?
Geno
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The Mercantile
Theed, Naboo, Tempest
Arvidb
Wed Jun 30, 2004 2:42 am
#392
There is one thing we can do that will make also the jedi complain.
Use the /tauntjedi macro.
Itmight belike this: /yell Stop haunting meyou ghost. Darth Vader has killed you.
/yell Hello mr. Stormtrooper... There is a jedi over here. Yohoo ?
/yell I will tell Yoda there is another hope. Another 3643 hopes. (Still counting)
/yell Soe has brought balance to the force. The jedi counsel must be informed.
/yell We are saved from the jedi ! The USS Enterprise has promised to teleport them to the klingon quadrant !
/yell Grand Moff Tarkin has lost his marbles. This antient religion is boosting !
Can someone else come up with one ?
ValkadeshLor
Wed Jun 30, 2004 2:49 am
#393
I have never complained about anything till now, cause all change made sense until now in my opinion 
. Actually you are right when you say "Dont complain, simply list whats wrong" or so But this time I couldnt keep silent hehe Well, I find that really breaks fun ingame as well as the gameflow or gameflux (?). We can only hope that they do another change somehow.
*silent and no complaints anymore*
. Actually you are right when you say "Dont complain, simply list whats wrong" or so But this time I couldnt keep silent hehe Well, I find that really breaks fun ingame as well as the gameflow or gameflux (?). We can only hope that they do another change somehow. *silent and no complaints anymore*
Andur
Wed Jun 30, 2004 2:50 am
#394
Server: Chimaera-Euro
What happened to the Player City Terminals?? Was looking forward to go hunting with my guild and citizens.
Also, shouldn't badges be invisible to other players in the new changes?? If not, why did you change it in the first place???
Goldsmith
Wed Jun 30, 2004 3:23 am
#396
Profession: MASTER PIKEMAN
Issue:
1.) REDUCED DEFENSE
2.) REDUCED SPEED (DELAY BETWEEN SPECIAL MOVES)
3.) NO RED STREAKS ON POLEARM SWEEP 2
Issue:
1.) REDUCED DEFENSE
2.) REDUCED SPEED (DELAY BETWEEN SPECIAL MOVES)
3.) NO RED STREAKS ON POLEARM SWEEP 2
Maximus-LP
Wed Jun 30, 2004 3:29 am
#397
Server: Chilastra
Location: Endor, near the smugglers outpost
Bug: Speederbike would randomly de-spawn or dismount automatically during combat. Very annoying and cause of me being incap twice while trying to leg it. Did this 4 times since patch. No previous occurence in the last 6 months.
Cuality
Wed Jun 30, 2004 3:33 am
#398
Jarik, Master Commando/Master Smuggler:
Issue: Too many people whining over new issues
Too many Jedi threatening to leave the game over new issues (a nice sideeffect)
Jedi are no longer super-leet gods but can be killed by someone with the right template (gogo commando/TKM)
For some reason, i can't equip an entire suit of armor in less than 5 seconds... and it makes sense, but it can't be right. Also, I can't instantaneosly switch from firing a weapon to pulling out a completely different weapon in the blink of an eye, quickdraw my foot!!! Now...it...is...strangely more realistic, how dare you!!
More junk has been added to the game, thus giving me a need to have more room in my house, please, if you are going to add something new in the game, give us more space, what are you devs thinking? Ohmigod, maybe i'll cancel my account now!!!
PeeyoNiba
Wed Jun 30, 2004 3:41 am
#399
Intended or not, there is an extreme delay (5+ seconds) per piece of armor that I attempt to put on. With a 9 piece suit of composite, that would take 45 seconds. It's an awful lot of time to be wasted on such a small task. I can understand a delay when in combat, however outside of combat is simply ridiculous.
Profession: TKA
Server: Radiant
How to Recreate: Attempt to put on multiple pieces of armor at once.
CresenKitty
Wed Jun 30, 2004 3:41 am
#400
Indene wrote:
DraxellX wrote:
StumanKadir wrote:
Issue: Launchpad continually does a full rescan everytime I try and log in to the game.
What he said. Takes me 35 mins just to log on. /flail
What they said and this started this EVENING not with the patch. I logged in 2-3 times during the day
without problem. Now this evening it does the full scan every time. (I thought it was Windows Media player
9 which I downloaded between the login that worked fine and the ones later that now do the full scan.
-Indene-
I am having this same problem. TREfix did not work (CSR response). It is almost like the computer wants to continually download all the previous patches. PLEASE FIX THIS IMMEDIATELY.
Champion-Ahazi
Wed Jun 30, 2004 3:50 am
#401
to: AmonTdow and anyone else you got bent out of shape over my remarks
Ishnar'Tdow - Master Bounty Hunter Adali Laomi - Master Commando/Master Pistoleer
Don't get all bent over shape about my disadifaction about the game, the only thing I wasn't sure about is the amount of skill points that a jedi gets. I don't have one to know for sure, I don't even want one. I don't have to lie to kick it. But 400 is a lot if that is true and a jedi has told me that is how many he gets. They do get 250 skill points to spend right away, which means they get more then the norm.And why is there 200 jedi running around and not in hiding. If you see darth vader, pls tell him to get up off his fat ass, there is over 200 jedi running around. If you don't like what I have to say, deal with it my friend. Maybe I'mwhining a little, the game is starting to suck! I don't know why you fear the letter I wrote AmonTdow, but it wasn't for you so don't flatter yourself, it was for the devs.
Sufi
Wed Jun 30, 2004 3:53 am
#402
shopping onbazaarand vendors needs more time to spend now. do removing amounts and types of resourceshelp anything in roleplaying or something? i think no.ihope itwill be fixed.
gm_al
Wed Jun 30, 2004 3:59 am
#403
Last night in the SOE marketing and dev department, the following discussion occured:
M = Marketing; D = Devs
M: We found out the only guys staying true to the game are the jedis. They take the longest time to reach that statuts and therefore give us the cash for way longer then any other players.
D: Ok, lets tease them a bit. We give themour nextpublish.
M: No, no - we need at least TWO publishes for it ! And those BHs - we must nerf them again, otherwise the jedis are put in danger and will quit.
D: Ok, ok - we can do that. Weve nerfed others before - if we can do it to CHs then another BH nerf will be easy.
M: Good. Do we have any new ideas on how to increase the timesinks ? After all we want players to take 3 more months for every profession now. The ID revamp was a good start at that.
D: Yes, we tried to come up with some new ideas there. How about we introduce a few more timers, like when players want to switch equipment ?
M: That sounds good. Any other suggestions ?
D: We could also change item sales a bit, so customers to a vendor will take a few hours to scroll through the offers. Smugglers could be forced to click a lot more when they want to slice things from a crate.
M: Excellent. I love it when they have to click a lot. *laughs* Do we have any new dummy features that can be timesinks ?
D: Hmmmm.... we could use the Junk Dealers to trick people into collecting junk for endless hours. And offer them a "reward" of like 1000 credits for that.
M: They will love it. Just make sure not to put too many changes on the test servers...
D: We wont. Its way more exciting for players to find out things by themselves - we usually fake the publish notes and claim to have fixed lots of stuff, so they try to reproduce this for weeks.
M:And make sure the jedis can be seen by all now in public - that will want the kiddy players to stay in the game, so they can be one of them one day too.
D: Yeah, and to get there in the next publish we force them to kill a creature that spawns every three months. *laughs*
M: I see you have it all under control. I gotta get to my golf training now.
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PS: my last thread was asking about what the current PAYING playerbase of SWG might be (and it got happily locked). With all the test accounts running around now I believe SWG might already be down to some 150k of paying customers. Any link or more precise info on that is welcome.