Development Cycle Archive

I had not logged my Jedi in almost two weeks. I converted and it went rather smoothly. I donned my spiffy new Jedi Robe and proceededto go hunt. I died to a lone Tusken Executioner in about 5 seconds. He "blew my mind" so to speak. I was fullybuffed including dancer/musician.

Immediate 200,000 xp loss and now I'm in the negative. Woot! I'm not complaining but I must have missed that part of the patch notes.

Hi, I have played since the beginning of live, although this is my first post on the forums.

This particular post details a small list of possible solutions that would allow Jedi to play completely PVE, yet not allow Jedi to run around town freely. The point is that these solutions keep Jedi “feeling” more rare, even though the system is still PVE.

Here is the general idea before discussing the possibilities:

Jedi can be a PVE profession, but in order to keep Jedi “feeling” rare, we must reduce their visibility in the areas that are most frequently entered by players. Being a Jedi with a saber out, in the middle of a town, is like being overt, where as running around in the wilderness using force powers alerts no one.

So here are some of the possible Solutions that would allow PVE Jedi, but reduce their presence in towns:

1. Jedi get a TEF for using their saber or a force power in town.




1. One option: Only in dev built cities does this apply.


2. Another option is this TEF occurs in all cities, player or dev built.


2. Jedi get a TEF for using their saber or a force power within a certain range of a town. For example, if a Jedi is within 500m of Coronet and they use their saber or a force power, they get a TEF.


3. Jedi get a TEF if “seen” by players. The developers could then discuss the appropriate range at which a player must be at for a Jedi to be considered “seen.” This is not the best option, because players should not be able to grant TEF’s to Jedi, at least not if the system is to remain PVE viable. This could cause exploits to the system, but I am mentioning it nonetheless as a possibility. However, if this choice is considered, there are some options:




• Jedi get a TEF if seen by a single player of an opposing faction, which smells of exploits.


• Jedi get a TEF if seen by x number of opposing faction members, perhaps 5 or even 20. This still smells of exploits.


• Jedi get a TEF if seen by any one person, opposing or not. Again, this smells of exploits and I recommend against this option.


• Jedi get a TEF if seen by any x number of people, like for example 20 people in the starport in coronet. (Sniff, Sniff, exploits)


4. Jedi get a TEF if “seen” by an NPC of another faction. Players seeing a Jedi does not grant the TEF, which is probably a good thing if the system is to remain PVE viable. With that said, if there are NPC storm troopers in a Jedi’s local area, the Jedi must be wary as to pulling out her saber.


5. Jedi get a TEF, again in town etc, if they have their saber out, use a force power, or have their saber equipped.


6. Jedi get a TEF, again in town etc, if they have their saber out, use a force power, have their saber equipped, or have their robes on.


7. Jedi get a TEF, again in town etc, if they have their saber out, use a force power, have their saber equipped, have their robes on, or have a Jedi Title above their head.

My own suggestion would be a combination of number 1, 4, and 6, although this post is just one possible set of ideas to fix the problem of Jedi "feeling" to common. There are thousands of posts on the board; sorry if this was mentioned already. This would mean Jedi can play the game completely PVE, up to the force rank system, yet they cannot use their saber around town, or next to a group of storm troopers, without getting a TEF.

Lastly but not least, and unrelated, could you please lower the amount of xp you lose on death. In the previous system it took me about 3 hours to get 100k Jedi xp, perhaps I am slow at this. Dying once now would cost me about 6 hours of play time. I understand we need to have a punishment, and that is awesome, but 200,000 xp points is too high. I would suggest about 1/10 of that value. This would mean, at least for a slow grinder like myself, a little over a half hour, plus time to rebuff etc, to get out of xp debt. More punishment than that is discouraging, and boring to do repeatedly, especially on multiple deaths.

Thanks for making a fun and rewarding game to play.

Oh Joy server downtime for the EU people in the day, because didtn do it at 4am like they should.

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Don't care if this is the wrong thread, everytime someone tries to post about how **edit**ty this publish is it gets deleted, if you're looking at this TH, take notice.

This is the worst publish yet, seems like the devs are just catering to their precious fan boy jedi (only freaking 5% of the community's population) I mean come on, how un star wars can you get. Did you see Luke carrying and beating people with a gaffi stick? Did you see Lord Vader tossing poison at people. How un star wars can you get, this is absurd.

Because of this publish 2 of my guild members are leaving the game, and one of our jedi deleted his jedi because he doesn't want to contribute to the end of this game. Their reasons are that SOE is neglecting the major population of their suscribers and just sucking up to certain groups. Jedi (5% of the population) get 2 freaking publishes before the the combat rebalance (something that caters to the WHOLE server not just 5%) Besides just sucking up to Jedi this patch has stupid updates. 3 seconds to change armor? O that's just 3 more seconds thata jawa using mind spamming riflman can attack your brain while you're switching to a stun helm, and also for the love of god, rid of CM's or put in a simple way to counter them.

I don't think I can take 2 more months of this, DEVS guess what you're ruining this game, and I know a lot of people agree with me.

My jedi robe offers no protection, it should be comparable to 65% composite atleast, if not get rid of them and let us wear our armor. Also maybe you could let jedi wear PSG's?

Also how about letting us pick between black or white for our robes?

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SOE Company Slogan: "If it's broke, don't fix it. If it ain't broke, break it."

server: bria

issue: force crystals

i looted 18 force crystals today (no joke). i understandone of thepurposes of the publish was to upgrade jedi, but do you have to completely ruin the ingame economy? (i think you guys went a little overboard with this one...lol)

Issue: Launchpad does a full scan everytimeI try to log in. Waste of my time.

Armor equipping delay. Waste of my time

Weapon switch delay. Waste of my time.

So what are you guys thinking? There are only 24 hours in a day. 10 of those I spend at work, I also need to sleep and eat occasionally. If people were exploiting a bug in the game ban the exploiters do not punish the entire player base for that. It takes over a minute now for me to put on a full suit of armor, gee thanks. Every publish my hopes in this game get dashed more and more. Please for a change listen to the testers and the issues the testers bring up on TC and you would avoid so much grief and actually start to have happy customers.

The combat revamp looks like it will the be all and end all for me and a lot of your customers. Please make sure you do it right and listen to the issues we have before it goes live, then actually do something to fix it.

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Yup annoying like hell

Ok whatsup with the auto storing bikes? I had my bike store on me like 10 times yesturday.

BTW is the spawning around the hermit quests locs working right? I'm on Flurry and some areas have tons of spawns while other areas have long dry periods of no spawns. I'm just wondering if thats planed.

The mark or courage area is the area I'm talking about.

Also are the loot tablesrelated tothe junk dealer kits working?

BTW anyone read the new forum members names lately? I hope 'csr-dumbazz' is not a real CSR. lol

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