Development Cycle Archive
Thread: Thoughts on the Warren?
I have almost completed the whole thing and the quest itself is exellent. There is only one major flaw that is making it less fun then it could be. The loot respawn for several of the quest items is WAY to long. What happens is your whole group will do alot of work but only 1 person will advance due to long respawns on the quest items. If several groups go inside the dungeon it only makes matters worse because the questloot will be split between the groups.
I really enjoyed the way you had to deactivate certain things inorder to get further in the dungeon. Npcs gave just the right amount of info. The way you type passwords in spatial chat was also a neat idea. Overall it is a great quest, it would be near perfect if you can work on the waysome of thequest loot works and make it more group firendly.
You don't know how happy this feedback makes me. 
And hopefully, it makes you happy to give it, because it will mean more content of this type! 
Holocron, this is exactly what we want.However, the warren is, unfortunately, very easy to complete with a few people....and it's also bugged at Mr. Heff 
Just another bug for you to be aware of (and you probably are). Armor is all messed up (all types). You guys really need to take a close look at it. Wearing armor actaully amplifies melee damage to a person rather than reducing it lol But overall this patch rocks!!! Great job guys, i can't wait to check out the warren myself
Siefex Carmeli
Bounty Hunter / 0/3/1/1 / Chilastra
"Perfection can be Perfected"
Holo, I tried to enter and the warren constantly eats tickets up like every 2 feet... this happened on myself, a friend, and some random guy I saw stuck 
He warned me he was stuck before I entered, so I got about 7 tickets from the escaped prisoner and went inside.. I got a few rooms in before I ran outta tickets and discovered that i couldnt walk back to the entrance - it wanted more tickets
The consoles and the atmosphere look awesome, and I cant wait to go deeper... but... the ticket thing needs to be fixed.
I appreciate new content and stuff to do. How bout you take the new content team tho and change their job to implementing current professions. Specifically droid engineers. Doesn't anyone notice that they've been half broken since release and have only gone downhill from there? or on the same hand take the team that has slowly been changing all the combat professions so they are resembling each other with different names for specials and turn it around so each profession has a point, a perk, something that makes them stand out.
Holo, so far your posts haven't stated anything about if it's bugged. My friends and I spent 7 hours there last night, each got the compassion badge, and after that could not "finish it". I don't want to give away spoilers, but can you verify if the "rods" are working? We spent the entire night, seriously Raph, 7 hours was not an exaggeration in the slightest (we died a "few" times ) and it's very frustrating to spend that much time and hit a brick wall. Is it working? Is there not a brick wall and we just didn't figure something out? I have all three downloads, the encryption key, the rods (which don't seem to work, talked to researcher and tried the "bucket")
When is the rest of the warren going to work?
I spent all night on this crap only to give up finally cause I was falling asleep at keys.
I will say that the warren is great in general, butC'MON. WHY CAN'TSOE ACCURATELY TEST OUT THINGS BEFORE RELEASE. Why is this concept so hard?
How hard is itto run through the warren once or twice and figure out that"Hey, I have theserods and I can't do anything with them." and "Oh man, CaptainHeff will not talk tome ortake these disks that were specifically designated for him."
I started a thread about both of these issues on the discussion forum (which I thought was about bug issues and such) and they both got locked (for what reason I have yet to figure out, the moderator reason is bogus). The moderators really suck on these boards and it's sad that if you post a related CONSTRUCTIVE negative thread, it gets locked anyway. Give me a break. I wish you guys would stop the political CRAP.
Bottom line: Please don't releasestuff like this when you can't even finish it. It's so easy to tell it's borked. You are just aiming to get aggrivated customers and piss people off.
My locked threads:
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=Development&message.id=667806&highlight=warren#M667806
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=Development&message.id=667925&highlight=warren#M667925
hes an advise:
as u did with the dungeon of thekidnaped royal family u could post a introduction to this warren. like what u are supposed to do to find the girl/guy that gives u acces, if this is a rebel/ imperial only dungoen and stuff like that.
or maybe put an npc on the outpost that talkk about rumors and gives clues, so we dont just have to go wandering around, ruinning and nothing to be found.
btw while exploring outside one of the hurtons that where inside warped to the outside and atacked us, we killed it but still heh.
Been looking forward to 'The Warren' for a while now, was hoping to gather together a large group of PA Mates and friends to take it on...
But now that the commandos I've always depended on for protection have been crippled, and the fact that the buffs I and my group depended upon to keep us alive longer now actually cause permanent stat loss, I find myself not able to go to The Warren to even check it out...
Maybe in a few weeks, when they get some of these issues fixed, I'll be able to tell you if it 'rocks' or 'sucks' Holo...maybe.