Development Cycle Archive

Message Edited by Tenfo on 09-25-2004 09:29 AM

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otzotrixo wrote:

i did a mission in the village...and it unlocked a skill i have already unlocked. what junk is that. more bugs for more patches.....you would think you could fix this stuff before it goes live....but you don't.

if your csr's tell me they can't do anything....you just lost another account.

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Message Edited by otzotrixo on 09-26-2004 11:24 PM

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Tiggs wrote:

Thank you in advance for your help!
Message Edited by Tiggs on 09-24-2004 10:26 AM

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Tiggs, seriously now, why isnt there a Dev Hosted Thread with known issues. I know your Policy is "no information is better than negative information" but here's the deal

There are dozens of bugs/issues i can think of off the top of my head. The Problem is, i dont know if they are intentional or deliberate.

For Instance, specifically relating to pub 10.3:
Weapon/Armor Decay is GREATLY increased. (with the price of good armor so high, repairs constantly failing, and good weapons being so expensive, its real difficult to get by without doing dozens of missions to sustain your gameplay and have fun in the game without doing mindless missions
Some Original Game POI's are spawning once a day: I havent seen a ewok, nightsister inside stronghold, janta inside cave, or ANYONE at any point spawned after 12noon anytime ever since this patch, or maybe a early patch but who knows. I mean Sometimes i like to "Roleplay", you know, that thing that this game was originally intended for. SO me and some friends will throw on out camo gear, get on out rebel commando helmets (which dont drop due to a bug/deliberate removal and cost millions) and head out on endor on our speeder bikes. Head to the ewok village and setup a ranger camp and have fun, we have our musician play and the ewoks used to dance and stuff it was great. But again that hasnt happened cause the 0,0 ewok village is often overtaken by spawn/bugged super battledroids that kills everything in site. and the other villages are cleared early.

Anyway You want us to communicate, and yet you have the audascity to ask us to basically keep feeding you info that is:
1. Either Never answered or confirmed to be a bug and is just a mystery all together
2. To Avoid the Answer all together.
3. To silently change things or push patches out too early without being tested.

As a software developer myself on a small scale, i understand if you change one thing, another thing changes. and i know alot of the original dev team that wrote this code for the game either no longer works there or the current developers cant understand the code they wrote two, three or even 4 years ago.

Here's What REALLY REALLY REALLY Needs to happen. Make a New Forum Section or whatever. Call it "KNOWN DEVELOPMENT ISSUES"
what needs to be inside is this,
1. a List of currently known bugs
2. Items that were removed from the game (like commando helmets and nightsister biceps, people are spending millions on them, like they did with tusken masks beofre they were fixed)
3. Known Skill Mods that are Broken
4. A List of All Nerfs/patches/fixes/balances and a short explanation possibly and reasoning so people can adapt their playstyle
5. POSSIBLY a List of Exploits including info on what is a an exploit and what should be reported, like corpse camping, 40k swoops, bh's getting a group member to DB them so they can get a jedi mission on you as many times as they want.
6. Live and Known Issues that appear day to day. Such as FS quest bugs and work arounds, like if you need to converse with someone and he attacks you, you can kill him then before you loot them you can do a /conv and complete the mission. Stuff like this, that would be SOOOOOO Helpful to people and ease alot of frustrations

Make this message board not able to be posted by players to avoid statements and rants like mine i made above
Just keep it dev moderated with all that info above.

To be totally honest, i would have SOOOOO Much more respect for the devs if i was able to go onto a message board, and am able to find the info i want easily regarding bugs and known issues.
Like if i was able to read "All POI's are now spawning once a day, it is a bug, and the dev team is working on it, but is low priority at the moment" I would be SOOO totally happy and satisfied with that answer because its the truth. Or read something like "Return of the Jedi/Rebel Themepark helmets were removed from game because of a graphics issue with video not being displayed properly and have been removed from the game for good" i will be satisfied with that answer also.

"No Information is better than negative information" should NOT be your companies motto, try the truth for a change, it may keep the players that are currently playing a little longer. Most quit because the shroud of mystery surrounding stupid things is too much for them to keep hoping for a fix to the issue.

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Rithius wrote:

I have a question for anyone willing to answer, mainly the Devs. I have done the FS quest for phase one and now that I try to do the crafting quest for phase two I can't. I offer to help Quarhek (the crafting quest NPC)and he won't give me the quest for phase two. All he will say to me is he has all the help he needs. What can I do to have him give me the quest? Is this a way to appease the whining people who want the nuber of new Jedi limited? I am sorry to gripe, but that means those of us who run our own businesses in Real Life and have limited playtime can never hope to make Jedi. I think this is an issue that needs to be reconsidered. Yes I agree there may be an unrealistic number of Jedi running around, but this is a game, and games are meant to be fun for everyone right?? I have already petitioned in game on this matter and I hope to hear from someone on this as I would very much like to continue playing this game. Thank you for your help, I look forward to hearing from someone soon!!!

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i agree, it seems the developers have forgotten one key peice of info when patching the game, its supposed to be fun. This is a MMORPG, role playing game being the key. What happened to the role playing aspect, have their views been SO greatly distorted that theyve forgotten that? how come there is no functional factional armor, how come there is no rebel or imp clothing to roleplay in. What About Imp Hats, Rebel Helmets, they are all gone, the Most Littlest thing in the game to roleplay has been taking out of the game for bugs and never fixed. Why cant we have imperial uniforms that match our rank? the higher ranks get a black uniform or something. and they should be wearable covert also so people can have FUN instead of worrying about being ganked by some 12 year old with a krayt jawa ion rifle in 5 shots. Many People Dream of being the jedi and for most i think, THIS IS THE ONLY reason they are still playing. ONLY to become a jedi and realize visibility is broken and they are getting on the forums when using tka/fencer/rifles and NOT EVEN weilding a lightsaber or padawan robe, they just MAGICALLY appear on the bh boards.

Ive seen new padawans with 1mill negative XP due to griefers and bug reports are either totally ignored or informed that if they didnt witness the act nothing they can do. Well isnt that just great customer service.

If this isnt considered a bug i dont know what is for christ sake.