Development Cycle Archive

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Sendeel wrote:

Ok this is really annoying. For all of you people complaining that the devs should put in more content for the casual gamer, LOOK AROUND. The entire game is full of casual-gamer content! If you need help finding it and are too lazy to go exploring on your own, check out these great maps ---> http://www.simantix.co.uk/swgmaps/ There are PLENTY of things that soloers and small groups can do with little or no experience or help.

The DWB is the first quest/dungeon for the truly hardcore gamer. The geo lab and the vette can probably be considered mid-level content, and can easily be done by a single organized group, even without the campers to help in the lab. It took my guild (1 group) 2 attempts to complete the lab...mainly due to lack of knowledge the first time through, and the vette is now routine. In my limited experience in MMORPGs, namely EQ for a year, there are many areas that you can't even access without an entire group of elite players, and have absolutely zero chance of surviving long without a raid force of 40+ players all maxed out on level and with the best gear available. This is what the devs were aiming for in the DWB....the first truly elite dungeon for a raid force of elite players.

Which brings me to my next point. You whiners are all being way too close-minded. Have a little more creativity. Why is every one stuck in the mindset that it should be doable by a single group? No, a single group alongside another single group alongside another, etc... does not help. Why not try taking in, say, 3 full groups, all working together as a team. When you add that to all the other groups and the campers, it shouldn't be too hard, as long as everyone works together as a team. One more thing: This dungeon can't be instanced. If it was designed for one group to complete, it would just be another vette. I for one am glad the devs finally put a REAL challenge in the game.

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The first ever mandalorian helm crafted on live server *SHADOWFIRE* came to a devestating end, when after giving all 4 components ( Binary Liquid, Protective Coating, Alum Mineral, and the Bounty-Hunter helm ) .. the forge is broken

This is exactly what happened step by step... CSRs pay attention, developers, all people on all servers..

This is the screenshot of me giving logic all of the components:

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=83848&poll_id=0&warned=y

Logic was our droid engineer who was going to craft the item. Just trying to open the door took forever, but it finally told us that it was being unlocked. We were going up the first ramp when... This is where it gets weird.

Logic dies .. from what we don't know, but we never started crafted so malynda rez'd him. On our end everything looked fine, but he wasn't moving. On logic's end he didn't rez, he went into a loading screen as if he cloned. When he stopped loading he was in the forge room. From our point of view he never moved an inch, just kept standing there.

At this point, none of us were ejected, and we wanted that helm made. We still had at least 3 minutes left. So Logic ran up to the forge.. inserted the 4 items and he got this series of messages:

This is the screenshot of us at the forge:

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=83849&poll_id=0&warned=y

These are the series of messages:

All items have been accepted and the manufacturing process is about to begin...

The terminal is displaying numbers and images. It is not ready for input at this time

(Keep a note, we had just put in all 4 items)

Check the terminal to continue the manufacturing process. If the process does not continue within the next thirty(30) seconds it will be shut down.

At this point logic has spammed the use button like 10 times.. then he gets this message:

The manufacturing process halted due to slow input from the end user.

(Keep a note, all items are already input into the machine, and it has already told us all items have been accepted and it was beginning.... )

Here is the screenshot of logic's log... i had to edit out the profanity. ( For the messages stated above )

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=83850&poll_id=0&warned=y

In conclusion, the mandalorian forge is indeed broken, and we have proved that tonight.. June 13th - 14th from 9pm - 2am... and beyond.. this is me standing there... at the forge and hour later after i should have been ejected long ago..

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=83854&poll_id=0&warned=y

To CSRs/Developers: We feel we deserve at least the item crafted, we had spent weeks preparing for this adventure to only get robbed of this historical event. It is not fair to us or to anyone on any other server for this to happen to them. Please do not give us the excuse, we are sorry for your inconvience. That is an old excuse.

Please contact Gair, Unicron, Machaca or Logic on Shadowfire for more information reguarding this incident. We have logs and screenshots to prove this happened. Not only those, but a group full of witnesses who will testify with their own screenshots and logs to validate this claim.

*Administrators do NOT delete this post, because you don't want people knowing of this bug like you did my other DWB post that showed the mine bugs. If it is deleted for any reason, you better believe i will repost it until i am banned form SWG*

Thanks for anyone who reads this, and i'm sorry to report such bad news.

Gair / Unicron of Shadowfire!

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spyles78 wrote:
I hope you and everyone in your group submitted a CS Ticket Gair, cause buried on page 25 I'm betting the CSRs or Devs or whoever aren't seeing this. Hell, I'm betting they stopped reading the thread after the 5th page.

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