Development Cycle Archive

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Do you guys do ANY PLANNING at all there?

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Yes they have a dart board with 50 little pieces of paper taped to it... whichever they hit they implement/stealth nerf without telling anyone!! Great system!! I am glad that I can play with new fonts now that i have removed all my Bio-Engineer skills because it still does not work correctly...

Seriously people...you are whinning about a temporary font change. My guess is the Euro servers support their special font characters but the US versions do not...hence the change. If a Euro player chose to play on a US server instead, thenall the fonts need to match. Now they do. You can wait a few days for a 'better' font, its not that difficult. Besides, if they changed the font to the 'better' font today then half of you would still complain that they wasted valuable time making a new font instead of fixing the chef profession. And for all of you who think the DEVs make the fonts, guess again...its the artists that do not program the game. If you are going to whine about something then formulate a viable argument first.

Weryn Bryu
Smuggler/Pistoleer/TK Artist

Sigh. Well your great new font screws up my typing. I am no longer able to use apostrophes in guildchat, tells or groupchat (ironically it's working in spatial), because hitting the apostrophe on my Euro keyboard will cause the game system to swallow the following letter. So any time I type "it's" in group chat, it shows up as "It' ". This is ***incredibly*** annoying - as image designer I use a lot of tells and groupchat to communicate with my customers, and wouldn't want to use spatial chat as it's already spammy enough in the cantina. I tried to reset all chat relates options to default, which didn't fix it, and I see no way to remap the apostrophe key.

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Thunderheart wrote:

Q-3PO and I wanted to make a quick announcement about the new fonts.

Just so everyone knows, this is only a temporary font. With the European launch, we had to add the international keyboard support that contained new characters.

The cool new fonts we're working on will be on Live Servers by the middle of next week.

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Yes, because you, as the company who is selling the games to the European market, had no idea that you were going to be selling to the European market and had to whip up a font fast? I mean there isn't much excuse room here. I can hardly read this new font, though the text bubbles look somewhat nicer I guess. As it stands, you should have been responsible and taken care of this long ago.

Given that some people like this font and others do not why not give us a choice of fonts?
Maybe this is a silly question, but it seems like a good idea to me.
happy people pay happy money to happy devs more often, i think.
and little nice bits like that go along way.

the new font blows. please be quick about changing it to something that looks better than toe-jam.

This is a good thing, that font really sucks.....

.....can I be a Jedi yet?

Hurgis, it's possible to use the backslash with a Euro keyboard regardless of the font. I did it myself, cause I was unable to colorize crafted items due to not being able to type a backslash. I can't totally track down what exactly did it, but I tried to a) change the keyboard setting to English, and b) mess around with the Keymap options. Somehow I got it to work.

I'd rather not be able to use backslashes though, and instead get working apostrophes back. That's extremely irritating.

You guys it's not SOE. I've Been in Beta for 3 dif games. The complaints are the same. When you got to Horizons you will see more of the same. Don't blame SOE all Devs are clueless.

w font rules its alot easier to read when in small font mode because of the finer lines

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Rhensis wrote:
hey Thunderheart, any chance having a font selector in the options? would be nice to choose from the fonts on our systems or at least a short list of swg-provided fonts if the former is too difficult.

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Yeah, I'd like that. Cool idea.

I actually likeit too! It rocks!

teh font hurts teh eyes.