Development Cycle Archive

The new system is mediocre because the grind to Jedi Initiate is too long. Everything should be reversed so that the grind from Initiate to Knight is longer, but the grind from FS to Initiate is shorter. What is fun about doing the same ole fencing/CH over and over for FS experience? Especially when you are making me wait 3 weeks to do the next quest. The time gate on quests is silly as well. This game has turned into a lot of repetition and waiting. I hope it can hold my interest since the JTL beta has not =I....

Altair/Rigel/Per/Dubhe

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Thunderheart wrote:

Thanks very much for your comments!

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I've played SWG since the first week of release. I did holos and professions, but didn't unlock my Jedi. Under the new system, I qualified for Force Sensitivity the first day of Publish 10, but I received no free unlocked branches. Ok, I did a quest and unlocked one branch. I'll do the xp grind, because I have something tangible to work towards. However... it is going to take me four more months at least under the 3-week Village phase scenario to unlock the 6 branches I need even to hit Jedi Initiate. Why do this to us? Why not let players unlock more branches at their own pace? We still have to get all the insane amounts of FS xp to fill those branches. Some of us will be faster, some slower. We won't all be Jedis at once. But becoming Jedi is one of those "carrots" the game offered us when we first bought it. Then the Devs secretly changed the 5 unlocking professions to 8, forcing many, many people to grind every single profession in order to unlock. Now you offer a new system and hold the carrot in front of us again, only to keep us dangling in the Village phase system. The Devs are holding the prize further away yet again. I can't even grind professions now to speed things up. There is nothing I can do at all now except wait and stock up on some xp. I've already lost many friends in the game who tried and tried and didn't unlock pre-Publish 10, and now they're just tired and demoralized, so they've quit and will go to EQ2 or something else. Looking at months more of waiting is nothing short of depressing. What does it matter if there are loads of Jedi on the server? It will make the Jedi Knight pvp ranking system richer, and you'll have happier players who won't feel left out or cheated by the game, who will want to stay and play their interesting new character. I left another MMORPG because the devs kept making things more and more difficult for the players. I love SWG, but don't annoy me and hurt me. I've been literally paying my dues since June 2003. I don't want to play a waiting game now.

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MajkStone wrote:
***** Bug found *****


FS Village - Phase 1

Combat Quests


Patrol 3 / 10 will not complete. It kept saying i messed up, but i had not seen any raiding party. . . i killed the 1-3 siths that appear at the other patroll points as the instructions say to.

Tried it about 20 times, and logged out/back in to try some more still got the bug.


Please address asap!


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This happened to me on my 7 / 10 patrol. I tried 4 or 5 more times to complete, but it kept failing me even though I was following the instructions and killing only groups of 3 or less. A friend joined me (grouped) on the 4th patrol or so, and left me (ungrouped) on the start of the 7th. After that point, I kept failing all my patrols. Could it be related to grouping? In any case, I logged off extremely frustrated and annoyed by the whole experience. If you are gonna make us grind to death, at least make sure it works right. I'm hoping that the problem will go away after logging back in after a server restart... (fingers crossed.)