Development Cycle Archive
Thread: Test Center Update Notes May 5, 2004
Everseeker wrote:
Rogue_5 wrote:
Image Designer Revamp
- "...Increased Colors for all Palettes: Hair color, Skin/Fur Color, Lip Color, Cosmetics, Eye Color, Markings and the existing tattoos will all have new colors added to their current palette choices.
- ..."
- As always, please post here with any issues you find with these new changes.
Enjoy!
OOhhhhh
I'll give a nickel to the first person to spot a lime-green or hot-pink wookee
You're missing the key word here guys: FASTER
you will still be able to do it slowly yourself. I see this as a huge improvement... makes ID usefull! 
-hypoxia
The screenshots on the main board show something called "Player Image Designer Tent". To me that suggests there is a player owned structure. The patch notes make no mention of this and only mention the static tents in the big NPC cities.
Could we get a clarification if there are going to be Player Owned tents?
Chianti wrote:
This is foolish.
I cant name a SINGLE Ahazi Image designer.
Chianti wrote:
This is foolish.
I cant name a SINGLE Ahazi Image designer. Now you're going to force some poor SOB to actually play this profession for facilitate the migration of thousands of players stats?
Lets be realistic here. I'm a very long term members of the Ahazi community, and literally cant name a single image designer I could reliably go to for stat migration.
I think that's the point of the change. You're not the only one that doesn't know an Image Designer, that's because they didn't have any function that was necessary, or at least highly desirable, to other players in the game. After this change you'll be forced to seek them out. Just because you can't name one, doesn't mean they aren't there.
With this change, you will come to be able to name some; just like you can name doctors, smuggles, and entertainers.
For that matter, this isn't a change that will make you constantly need one. I know I shift my stats far less often than I get my wounds healed, have my weapons sliced, or pretty much any other normal game function that requires me to seek someone out of specific profession.
The moral here is: Don't cry nerf until you've actually tried it.
LeBob wrote:
Utess wrote:
The question here is: Can players still migrate stats on their own just slowly and IDs can just do it faster? Or do IDs only now have the ability to migrate stats? This is rather confusing how it is worded hon.
Stat Migration: Image Designers now have the sole ability to migrate player stats faster than the previous default migration rates. The process will take 10 minutes and requires the Image Modification Booth located inside the ID tents. This functionality has been revoked from the general player base and now requires an Image Designer.
hypoxia wrote:
You're missing the key word here guys: FASTER
you will still be able to do it slowly yourself. I see this as a huge improvement... makes ID usefull!
-hypoxia
hypoxia wrote:
You're missing the key word here guys: FASTER
you will still be able to do it slowly yourself. I see this as a huge improvement... makes ID usefull!
-hypoxia
english is fun
hypoxia wrote:
You're missing the key word here guys: FASTER
you will still be able to do it slowly yourself. I see this as a huge improvement... makes ID usefull!
-hypoxia
Your missing the other key word: REVOKED (ie. can no longer do)
ID's only can do Stat Migration. How stupid is this? It is getting hard on servers now with less population base even to find a Doctor to buff you now. Some nights Im looking for hours for a buff. Now it gets introduced that ID can be the only ones to migrate stats.
Solution: Make it so if I as a player change them it takes 2-3 hours to migrate completely and with ID it takes 10 minutes. Thats all I ned to do is spend more time in a time sink looking for an ID. So now my day goes like this:
Check all harvestors to make sure Im still harvesting some metals or gas because there is no way to check them unless I go there in person (1 hour depending on shuttle wait times)
Stand at least 10 minutes at one shuttle I just missed
Look for ID online to migrate stats. Stand in line at ID tent for migration. Say another hour lost.
Go find a doctor to bufff. Pray I find one at all. If I find one there is a line (good thing is that my stats will be migrated by then). Stand in line again for buff. Lost time another hour!
Miss shuttle (8 minutes)
Finally get to Geno Cave, Corvette or some other GREAT Spawn. 30 Minutes.
Oh look its midnight now. Time for bed. No time to do spawn or event asthat takes 1-2 hours as I have a real job to go to tomorrow. Whew that was a great night of playing!
Thanks for the ban on playing this game for fun! I forgot to add in stuff like get my speeder fixed in my time schedule.
Hellshot wrote:
I have to agree that revoking the ability for a player to change his/her own stats is a pretty big downer, especially when you are putting it solely in the hands of a class that was origninally put into the game to ehance the social aspects. It would be nice if a second class, maybe master doctors, would also have this ability. Alternatively, allow players to migrate their ownstats at these stations at the existing rates, with an ID enhancing the rate of migration.