Development Cycle Archive

TH - All I gotta say is you just lowered the subscriber list in this game, by a lot. Putting the Jedi trials ahead of the broken things, to create more broken things, is the dumbest decision ever.

I and most the community probably think that there already enough jedi running all over the damn place and trying to put jedi trials in front of the combat balance probably made many people PISSED OFF. The jedi can trials can wait because as it is there are already too many.

TH I thought you said you guys have been workin on it. How hard can it be to type out everything you already have coded. OHHH wait mabey you guys never really started because as it it you guys never talked about it. TH I am not bringing it down on you or blaming you, but i think a team of monkeys are better than this dev team. The decision you mentioned is the worse decision made in history. Its worse than the decision of going to war with Iraq.

TH I think you and the Dev team need to do some serious thinking and organization on how much of the time you guys are actually doing, I say the Dev team should discuss it over and make it actually work,fun,balanced, and most of all makes sense for the combat system. Then start giving us feedback on what you guys did and then let us as a community say what you need to add get rid of, or fix up.

As of now TH the Dev team has convinced me to drop my account in 2 weeks and not come back until June of next year.

Im not the only one who will probably drop thier account.

All i can say a miracle can fix the Devs minds and this game.

I have stuck with this game too long and have seen some stupid decisions be made by the devs.

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Ryquin wrote:

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Dharma812 wrote:

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Ryquin wrote:

What the heck is the "Character Transfer System" ?

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Just another revenue stream...one that once again only applies to 0.000000000001% of the population.

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Um, that really didn't answer my question.

Could someone post a link to the info on this?

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Combat Balance will now be at least 1 year late if it goes live in November (we were told the CB would start in November 2003 for 3 months).

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Yes. I'll be working with all of you and the correspondents to identify the most important changes and work with the team to add them.

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Good job TH!

Just as an encouragement, and it would be great if you could pass this on to the other Devs and coders. You guys are doing a great job. And I'm very glad that you guys are delaying the combat balance. It is much better to do something right and later, than to do it now and horribly.
I hope you guys manage to read this message in the midst of all the other negative ones floating around.

YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB! KEEP IT UP!

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Raikan wrote:

I also think the character transfer system is bs, going to ruin so many communities and break any relations within the server "clik"

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I fully agree. Unless it is to make a copy and not a complete transfer. Or else it is going to be used to consolidate the servers or something.

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Ryquin wrote:

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Dharma812 wrote:

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Ryquin wrote:

What the heck is the "Character Transfer System" ?

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Just another revenue stream...one that once again only applies to 0.000000000001% of the population.

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Um, that really didn't answer my question.

Could someone post a link to the info on this?

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The Character Transfer System means that you'll be able to Transfer your Character between servers (ie. from Eclipse to Bria) for a small fee.

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Oireg wrote:

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Ryquin wrote:

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Dharma812 wrote:

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Ryquin wrote:

What the heck is the "Character Transfer System" ?

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Just another revenue stream...one that once again only applies to 0.000000000001% of the population.

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Um, that really didn't answer my question.

Could someone post a link to the info on this?

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Maybe to allow you to copy your Live toon to TEST?

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No allow you to move your char from one server to another for a few In everquest it was 50 bucks and you lost all items and money.

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downertool wrote:

so can we get a timeline kinda thing to show what is coming out when, like when JustG made a state of the game letter that showed what was in publishes and mini pubs

like this

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The development cycle still has momentum and we still have some other important items, big and small, coming out of the pipeline.Here is what still lies ahead:

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  Before publish 10, we plan on launching the character transfer system


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  In Publish 9.2 We’re publishing Wookiee armor sets #2 and #3, new crafting quests and the second swoop race


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  Publish 9.3 will bring us the third swoop race


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  Publish 10 will be the Jedi Trials.This will be the new gateway to the Jedi profession that will by a mysterious path to unlocking Force sensitivity.


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  Publish 10.1 is going to bring us an exciting surprise and also a list of Correspondent requests


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  Publish 10.2 is focused on the entertainers which features a unique new game experience where entertainers, Dancers and Musicians can perform for an NPC audience for the reward of a new song and dance.

Publish 10 is slated for the end of August, but one of the reasons for these delays is to make as much room as possible for extra implementation and testing time.

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Publish 10.1 had better be a heck of a surprise, that's about all I have to say.

OK - on the entertainer thing. This is *not* the best use of developer time. The number of dedicated entertainers in the game is very small - and while I appreciate the fact that they deserve new content as much as anyone, you've just posted that you don't have enough time to fix the core game properly.

Shelf the entertainer publish and work on things that are most critical to the most people. This is triage at this point - treat the most critical problems first.

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yusonge wrote:

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Dharma812 wrote:

FIX THE GROUND GAME FIRST.

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as was stated FIX THE GROUND GAME FIRST.

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I am not going to buy JTL until the Smuggler profession is fixed, be it within JTL itself or after JTL is released. I'm also encouraging friends RL not to buy the game either, because your current game doesn't work and you're just going to add more shoddy work to an already broken system. How in the hell can you add more features to the game when you're already going to be overhauling several major systems within it right afterwards? It's an arse-backwards approach.

This game has a long and hard road to becoming the "finest MMORPG ever."