Development Cycle Archive

Well here we are, page 20 and still no response from TH or any Devs. TH, what exactly is your function? Are you here just to make players think someone is listening to us? I've seen 20 pages of complaints and suggestions regarding all the nonsense and unnecessary changes in publish 7. IF you hadn't noticed also, there seem to be some "fix the wookiees" posts snuck in there. Perhaps those players felt that perhaps after 9 months or so of pointing out the Wookiee problems that it's possible nobody saw them.I mean seriously, is there some office joke having to do with wookiees or maybe someone has a beton how manymore people we can get to leave this game at one time. It has reached a point for me where trying to role play a wookiee is pointless. If someone ticks you off, you can't exactly threaten them with any kind of harm because the wookiees can't do any before dying in 10 seconds. Here's an idea, since the devs love nerfing stuff and also seem to not care about wookiees, just nerf everyone else's armor and bring them down to Wookiee level. That'll make even more people pissed off... but then, that seems to be the goal here anyway. Man if EQ was ever run this way, it would never have lasted as long as it has. Why don't you give someone on the EQ team a call and find out how you are supposed to run a game? I'll pop back in another 20 pages, maybe by then this thread will see some response.

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SSquirrel76 wrote:

1) the Surrender Skill Tree Button

Wow 5 whole minutes to get rid of an entire class. What WOULD you do with that 5 minutes back?

Having to click Surrender Skill and type 'yes' 18 times to release a profession is irritating. Why are youmocking the guy's suggestion? It would certainly be a convenient addition.

3) Vehicle customization

These won't be permanent so that artisans have a steady stream of biz. If they were permanent, someone would buy a kit once, use it and never again. Not what the artisans or devs want.

Nobody's buying customization kits, anyway. Look at the Droid Engineers. How many of them have crates and crates of unused droid customization kits? Lots. Why? Same reason. Nobody buys them, because it's a pain in the butt to have to recolor your droid every week. Moreso with vehicles, as their paint degrades more quickly. Personally, I think the Artisans will get more business out of return purchases to change an existing color, or to paint a new vehicle. Decaying paint with the excuse that it helps Artisans is absurd.Further, no Artisan in his right mind would rely upon a vehicle customization kit as his source of income. Suggesting this is the source of steady business is a bit naive.

9) Remove the Imperial Faction Hatred to all races non-human

So you shouldn't have tried to be an Imp Wokiee. Get real here, the Empire HATES non-humans and doesn't really consider them people. Why teh heck would it cost the same faction points to buy something? If you really wanan be a top level Imp, you should make a human.

I actually agree with this one. Frankly, I don't think any race other than humans and zabraks should be able to join the Empire. The Empire at least accepts zabs, as they at least look human. The other races are clearly alien.

But for playability, it's unreasonable to tell a new user they can't join the Empire if they're one of the alien races. Hence the racial penalty.

19) Resource Grind Professions

Big no here. Unattended macros are against the EULA. Moreover, they're lame.

This isn't actually entirely true. Unattended third party software controlling SWG is against the EULA. Using the in-game macro system is perfectly fine. One of the CSRs even said so in a recent thread (which I can't find now).

Astu (Valcyn)

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SWG1989 wrote:

does anyone know if DEs will be able to craft ig assasin droids?

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WHAT ABOUT PIKEMAN!!!!!!!???????? You know before I started playing one because my holo told me too I thought that pikeman sucked but I really like it the only down fall is most of the good stuff is broken and because of that I can't fight a Bantha without draining my action and health. So I need a Medic or doctor around all the time or be buffed 24/7.

Some ideas, these dont exactly pretain to combat so if thats all your interested in, move along

1. Along with move up/down, awesome, you need rotate up/down to create the neater things

2. Architechts should be able to customize the colors of their furniture, why cant a you make a metal chair that has green instead of blue?

3. Surrender skill tree is a good idea, for safety against dropping something you dont want to maybe where you type yes it shows the list of what you said to drop and you can there remove things you didnt mean to drop and keep them

4. vehicle customization: Hows about only master artisans can paint a vehicle and each vehicle can only be painted once. This could get expensive if a master messes up your perfect paint color.

5. Garages, i think that only master artisans, or possibly archs, should be able to place garages in a player city much like you need to be master musician or dancer to place a theater/cantina

6. Have your guild title dispayed in your bio automatically

7. Street signs would be cool (see frostbrimstone's post above

8. Following that there should be more paintings, possibly a paint program (i dont know just thinking).

9. be able to place things on your house's front porch and balcony

10. Theme parks for entertainers and artisans. This im think would be cool but needs to be done good in order for it not to be really stupid. I mean in a entertainer theme park you cant have them doing the same go here play for x minutes, and have them do that 100 times. Although im not entirely sure how it could be done im sure it can be done

11. Make experimenting on instruments have a point, at least i think it doesnt have a point, Ie. Faster wound heal, better buff, faster buff. In with this make higher instruments buff better and faster so they are worth the extra action cost

12. Tune down how much spam comes out of wandering storm troopers. Its real annoying even for imps when a ST comes in and says "Checking it out" 400 times then stands next to someone and says a insulting comments about rebels every 10 secs or whatever

13. Calling pets/mounts in a town takes no time but in the wilderness it takes 30 sec

14. I love banthas thank you!

So there you have my ideas and comments i probably have some bad ideas, but whatever

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DroppingEnglish wrote:

6. Have your guild title dispayed in your bio automatically

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Patch sounds awsome. Can't wait for the combat droids. And most of all, the up/down commands!

I would LOVE to see pictures of the new mounts on the site. So excited bout Cu Pas!