Development Cycle Archive
Thread: Test Center Update Notes May 5, 2004
Rogue_5 wrote:
- 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 This functionality has been revoked from the general player base and now requires an Image Designer.
- 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 This functionality has been revoked from the general player base and now requires an Image Designer.
As always, please post here with any issues you find with these new changes.
Enjoy!
Trayson_Antilles wrote:
For those that don't like the Stat migration thing... how often do you Stat Migrate? I've only done it twice since the game went Live and I hated the fact that it took days to get it to where I wanted. Now that the ability to have it done in 10 minutes has been added I don't have any reason to avoid it like the plague.
Well, one of the first thing most newbies do when they figure it out is stat mig, way to annoy the new player.
Trayson_Antilles wrote:
For those that don't like the Stat migration thing... how often do you Stat Migrate? I've only done it twice since the game went Live and I hated the fact that it took days to get it to where I wanted. Now that the ability to have it done in 10 minutes has been added I don't have any reason to avoid it like the plague.
Speaking as a Master Image Designer, that's exactly what we didn't want! We're all for having a "critical function," but having that function given to us in the form of a nerf to the entire playerbase?! My god, we're going to get it worse than tailors did when decay went in. Yet another system implemented based off of player suggestions, but done in such a way that even those that suggested it don't want it. Please, for the love of god, at least don't remove the old migration method—we do not want to be the only way to migrate stats!
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.
...it takes 35 minutes to level image designer...GUARANTEED...there will be about 300 to 600 on your server before the first day this is live...its called the next big income...and this gives image designers a very steady income...which is good...tho unexpected.
Darkagent101 wrote:
Trayson_Antilles wrote:
It's actually quite simple.
- If you don't want to facilitate Stat Migration... Then don't.
No one is forcing you to migrate someone's stats. Let the people who want to do this hang out in Coronet or Theed or Bestine and do it. The rest of you can hang out in your Beauty Shops and do what you've been doing all along, but with more options. According to Kwee, the tents just cut down the amount of time it takes before a change takes place. I'm sure the customers willing to seek you out will be more than happy to wait that little bit of extra time in exchange for the atmosphere you povide.
It's not so simple. What if, every day, almost every twenty minutes, someone asked you to train their pet? And if you refused, then what? A lot of people (some I know, some I don't know, and some I don't want to know) know I am one of the few career ID's on my server. I would be constantly bombarded by tells to go to bumsvilleCorellia to change some stats for someone. Harrasment is already and issue for ID's who refuse to work sometimes. Repeated /tells and even E-Mails for us can be worse than lamerz who whine if they die in PvP. I see it now...
((y wont u com hlp me PLZ PLZ PLZ!!! Its not lik it takes u anything 2 just hlp me! **edit**?! U wanna charge me 4 this?! **edit** are you thinkin?!))
Which is exactly how it is for EVERY crafter profession, and Master Doctors? What's your point? there is none. If you don't want to...don't...if they send you hate tells...wait till they send you a few...like the idiot they are and report them...trust me....they do investigate harassment charges in game...
Giamai wrote:
Skedoozy wrote:
What he said. All you people whining about not being able to migrate stats on your own are the ones who need to learn to read and stop pointing out that others can not.
The only thing REVOKED was the ability for the normal player to use the ID Stations to Migrate their stats FASTER.
Your stats will still migrate as normal without an ID.
Again YOUR STATS WILL STILL MIGRATE ON THIER OWN, YOU DO NO NEED AN ID JUST TO MIGRATE YOUR STATS. YOU WOULD NEED ONE TO DO IT IN 10 MINUTES.
I now return you to your regulary scheduled program...
"......can you tell me how to, get how to get to Sesame Street.."
actually, viewing the original post .. it says "..this functionality has been revoked.." to me that says, i can't stat migrate anymore, at all, at any rate.. anybody on TC try this without an ID yet? with or without a station? kinda need a definitive answer otherwise this is just an argument over symantics just as skedoozy here is doing.I can't check it atm,i'm still at work
as one of my fellow ahazians points out, if an ID is required for any stat migration this is devastating because there are maybe 4 ID's on ahazi on any given day (not necessarily at the same time) and probably 3 of them are hologrinding..
umm...as master doctors sit in the major npc cities, most servers coronet and theed, so id's will be in the ID tents, advertising this...the only place they can "migrate stats"...so you don't need to "find them" you GO to them...
darthstyx wrote:
Annoka you idiot!
Who said I changed stats daily. I was making a point of the time sink created by hunting down all these individual players in the dwindling player base to get services. If you want a time sink to keep looking for players to fullfill your needs in game then this is the game for you.
Im glad you just think of the time to getdoctor buff's is just the stand in line time. I guess for you there is no travel time or time set in there for even finding a doctor or telling around asking to get one. Perhaps on your server there is a 100% chance of always getting a doctor in the Coronet courtyard. (if you answer yes to that I know you are a liar. )
Cafa wrote:
DraxellX wrote:
Jesus...complain complain..I want my professions to be fixed..make us useful. They give you something & people still **edit**. Honestly I bet it was hard for the Devs to find new things for an ID to do. Now you will be busier from the fickle people who migrate 5times a week & the noobs.The holo emotes are cool. Don't give me this " this is so un star-warsy " . This whole game is nothing like the books or movies. We have 50 jedi on each server..mando armor..nova troopers..I could go on & on..holo emotes are hardly the item that will destroy what little part of star wars we have left. You got some love from the devs..be happy.. It could be worse , you could be a BH.
Yeah all us people out here begging for BUG FIXES for the past 8 months are just selfish as hell.
...Pretty much ya. They are getting to all the professions...one by one...two by two...selfish and impatient would be my words...Stop hating on the professions that get love...yours will eventually...just like theirs did now...Did you do this for all the other professions that have been fixed or revamped in some way...find something you don't like about it, complain, then say you aren't hating?...dude...bugs happen in EVERY online game...they are too complex NOT to have them...
LLJK_Griz wrote:
Giamai wrote:
as one of my fellow ahazians points out, if an ID is required for any stat migration this is devastating because there are maybe 4 ID's on ahazi on any given day (not necessarily at the same time) and probably 3 of them are hologrinding..
also, most non-holo IDs are social players tied to a particular town who don't want to have to sit in a tent in a laggy npc city all day. they're not going to use the tents, and i doubt if many people will pick up ID as a result of the increased functionality (especially with the 2 minute timer on changes which will make grinding even more of a pain in the ass)
You miss the point...people will grind to master ID BEFORE the minipublish comes out...and the ones that do, will be doing it for the money...so there will be PLENTY of people...may suck a bit you have to pay for something you did get for free...but hey, the fact you are getting it in 10 MINUTES...instead of 10 DAYS makes up for the 20k or so people will charge...prolly be more the first few weeks, but the price'll come down.
Uh,.. Have you any clue how often i tweek my stats? Sometimes iI will change 20 or 50 points around just because i got a new weapon with slightly different HAM costs than my last weapon... Or to be able to equip all of my armor after having to replace a piece..
On the flip side, I've *NEVER* migrated my stats and probably never will.
I "yam what I yam" and will make it work within the game mechanics.
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Rouge_5 Wrote:
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This is a terrible idea IMO. What about my jedi? How can I possibly follow the creed of being in hiding if I have to enter one of the 5 busiest cities in the game, and /shout "Need an ID for stat migration please!" any time I want to tweak my stats 5 or 10 points?
Of all the things to help make ID's useful, this is not the way to go. If you want to do the insta-tweak by the booth, great! Revoking the slow normal process from the general populace is bad.
Zzeke