Development Cycle Archive
Thread: Great Expectations, Major Schedule Changes and making SWG the finest MMORPG ever
Maidenchase
Thu Jul 15, 2004 4:08 pm
#417
oh man that Fonz line was awesome ( I got it) , and someone got owned. Good one.
Heineken
XxEvilFirexX
Thu Jul 15, 2004 4:08 pm
#418
Some people are so supportive of Sony that they would follow them no matter what. Everyone who has commented about this hasvalid points, this game is going downhill really fast. They will need that character transfer when the servers start to get really empty
Treguard
Thu Jul 15, 2004 4:08 pm
#419
Pre Balance change #1
Disable Jedi.
Period.
There are no Jedi in the time frame of Star Wars Galaxies.
Get rid of them.
All.
Prebalance Change #2
Disable the recursive Macro.
Do it for the social players you promised to support.
Do it for the people who like to fight "at the keyboard"
Do it because it just *feels* right. Do it. Now.
Prebalance Change #3
Go back to working on Balance; and Fark everything else.
-Treguard
Oireg
Thu Jul 15, 2004 4:10 pm
#420
joydiv66 wrote:
LOL
How many of you realize that this is just a game?
Some of you are being civil and letting SOE know you're disappointed...But others....ROFL.
This is just a game. If you're not having fun, take a break or quit...but for god sakes, acting like they murdered your mom is a bit over the top, isn't it?
"OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"YOU'VE RUINED MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Sorry, but this is ridiculous to me.
Combat Medic!! 
I've been holding onto Commando... I needed this publish 
Message Edited by Oireg on 07-15-2004 07:12 PM
SaleusCorwen
Thu Jul 15, 2004 4:11 pm
#421
Treguard wrote:
Pre Balance change #1
Disable Jedi.
Period.
There are no Jedi in the time frame of Star Wars Galaxies.
Get rid of them.
All.
Prebalance Change #2
Disable the recursive Macro.
Do it for the social players you promised to support.
Do it for the people who like to fight "at the keyboard"
Do it because it just *feels* right. Do it. Now.
Prebalance Change #3
Go back to working on Balance; and Fark everything else.
-Treguard
omg something that make sense..
Wolfmann31
Thu Jul 15, 2004 4:12 pm
#422
Great Expectations, Major Schedule Changes and making SWG the finest MMORPG ever
Oh man...it could have been...But not with this dev team.
I hade trolls, ogres, orcs and dwarves. I hate swords and magic.......And now, I'm so close to jumping ship...To ANY other game but this game.
thanks SOE, thanks TH, thanks Q3PO, thanks Dev team, for setting my record straight, and showing me, that me believing in you, was wrong. I will not be doing that mistake again.
Gorecki
Thu Jul 15, 2004 4:12 pm
#423
..that's a nice try of putting the poll result into words...
Thunderheart wrote:
To become a Jedi, there needs to be a known path with mysterious quests,
DawsonDraco
Thu Jul 15, 2004 4:12 pm
#424
I love this game and frankly I can't figure out why losing 10-20 percent of the community is worth all this work doing Jedi and that makes me sad. Many people I know have been holding off quiting because of the Combat Balance and GCW Update.
So expect a huge number of Smugglers to quite, Squad Leaders and GCW players.
Really, how many customers do you expect to play a Jedi 2%, 5% 50%?
Wow I am stunned I think many people will pull the plug and not come back until JTL release to check out the expansion...
Chavabegga
Thu Jul 15, 2004 4:12 pm
#425
SO.... on top of the new delays and pushing off stuff the community wants you are going to make the path to unlocking the FS slot mysterious DESPITE the fact that a MAJORITY of people favor it being known!?!? Yes the margin is small but 54% is still a majority and in the US, where this game is based, unless you are talking Constitutional Amendments or Senate Treaty Ratifications you only need a majority.
Thunderheart wrote:
The development cycle still has momentum and we still have some other important items, big and small, coming out of the pipeline.Here is what still lies ahead:
Publish 10 is slated for the end of August, but one of the reasons for these delays is to make as much room as possible for extra implementation and testing time.
Before publish 10, we plan on launching the character transfer system
In Publish 9.2 We’re publishing Wookiee armor sets #2 and #3, new crafting quests and the second swoop race
Publish 9.3 will bring us the third swoop race
Publish 10 will be the Jedi Trials.This will be the new gateway to the Jedi profession that will by a mysterious path to unlocking Force sensitivity.
Publish 10.1 is going to bring us an exciting surprise and also a list of Correspondent requests
Publish 10.2 is focused on the entertainers which features a unique new game experience where entertainers, Dancers and Musicians can perform for an NPC audience for the reward of a new song and dance.
Jediblues
Thu Jul 15, 2004 4:13 pm
#426
TH,
Speaking as one of the few positive voices left on the Creature Handler forums. you are making the job of myself and others like me impossible. We were nerfed a long time ago, the balance which is supposed to bring others in line with us is continually pushed back, some of the biggest creatures almost always run away, regardless of how much ferocity etc you have the BE's put in them. (Espescially rancors and Kimos).
I realize smugglers and a few others, along with all of us getting ganked on a daily basis by people that call themselves Jedi but never actually act like one, have large bones to pick, but please, for those of us that love the game and try to be beacons of positive light in an ocean of anger, throe the Creature Handler's a bone. Even if someone could take a long look into what seems to be a complex issues of why the larger pets, and certain others, are "runners" regardless of how you adjust their stats so they should not be, and some like Woolamanders never or hardly ever do.
I have been waiting a long time TH, we all have. I love CH, but if it is not viable in the stated end game, the PVP GCW, I have to dump it, sadly. Now I have to wait at least another six months to know.
Help us Obi-TH Kenobi, you're our only hope.
Eert
Thu Jul 15, 2004 4:14 pm
#427
I unlocked now let me play my jedi! i have to wait till ned of august, why????
LET ME PLAY MY DAM JEDI!
P9M
Thu Jul 15, 2004 4:14 pm
#428
This should be called:
Greater Flatulance, Majorly Shafting CH, and making SOE a laughing stock at MMORPG Development.
FOR ONE YEAR, SOE has promised CH's the Combat Rebalance. For one year, SOE has had no intention of making it happen. SOE wishes to see the demise of CH and just does not have the bollocks to be forward enough to tell the people.
I have placed my confidence elsewhere, SOE will no longer earn my 60 bucks (4 accounts). I would rather pay for Disney's Toontown that continue to playin thissadistic comedy......SWG.
MrRiflemaker
Thu Jul 15, 2004 4:14 pm
#429
Begun Flame war has.....
I fear the Devs have embarked the biggest flamin against them and godspeed to them during thier chat, dont mean im on the DEVS side because IM totally ticked they dont delay the jedi trials and put the combat balnce before the Trials.
If anyone really wants to know what happens in a game programmers life at SOE or any other company, it goes meetings, 2 hours(only 2 hours) of programming for the game itself and more meetings and probably test whatever they have of the game or get ready for the next day. I know this because my cousin works at a gaming company and that is the life of a developer companies life, but for a company to develope an MMO, they are there 24 hours a day programming and commited to their work.
I dont think any of this his happening in SOE, they are working only 2 hour programming shifts a day and the rest with meetings of how to avoid us or piss people off and make people drop there accounts.
I fear the Devs have embarked the biggest flamin against them and godspeed to them during thier chat, dont mean im on the DEVS side because IM totally ticked they dont delay the jedi trials and put the combat balnce before the Trials.
If anyone really wants to know what happens in a game programmers life at SOE or any other company, it goes meetings, 2 hours(only 2 hours) of programming for the game itself and more meetings and probably test whatever they have of the game or get ready for the next day. I know this because my cousin works at a gaming company and that is the life of a developer companies life, but for a company to develope an MMO, they are there 24 hours a day programming and commited to their work.
I dont think any of this his happening in SOE, they are working only 2 hour programming shifts a day and the rest with meetings of how to avoid us or piss people off and make people drop there accounts.