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Thread: Publish 8 Mini Publish Testing Feedback: Image Designer Revamp
Darkagent101 wrote:Gawd! What is it with you people and fear of price-gouging. You didn't pay us jack for our time before, and now you need us! I don't like the change as it stands totally, but since it's here all I can say is it's about damn time some of you got what you deserved.
Really? We didn't pay jack? I dont think so.. whenever I have requested ID work I have paid whatever they asked, since it is THEIR profession and time... heck, I usually paid OVER AND ABOVE what they wanted, just because I know that time is valuable to people in the game.. the fact that you dont have more than 200k in the game is your fault not MINE...
I am not worried about price gouging, what I am concerned with is the removal of a player ability just to enhance another class... where is the removal of Jedi abilities to enhance bounty hunter? Where is the removal of 90m poisoning from CMs to enhance the combat classes? Dont nerf US to make it SEEM like they are fixing/enhancing YOU.
If this goes through it will be one of the more stupid ideas yet I have seen by SOE and the developers... but hey, I will be able to have a blue glowy skull above my head.. yay! (sigh).
Stat migration ID's only!!!!! Ouch Bad Bad idea!!!
The whole point of stat migration is to test what migration is best for yor template and you might go through 5 migrations before you get it tuned just right.
Will these tents be manned like how the med centers are SUPPOSED to be manned by Doc's????? Instead of afk tumblers??? Or will we have to hunt them down and drag them to the tents??? Oh and i have to pay for it too??? Hmmm well to quote another post " It may cost you a couple credits" Well if memory serves everything on my server is very overly priced. So another way for people to control how rich they become woohoo.....
My personal opinion this idea should die on test center, but that's just my 25 cents
Bumpinthedark wrote:
Check out the ID forums guys we are ALL over this and there are far more than 5 non-hologrinders online. Look up your galaxy and find out who the IDers are in each one once this hits live. Besides i dont know many people who stat migrate often enough to make this a crunch.
IMO this is exactly the point. For those rare times where someone does want to migrate their stats they can't anymore, because they have to spend 10 minutes with an ID. Like you said, most people don't do this very often. I may have migrated 3-4 times in the past 8 months(major migrations at least). I'm just curious to how that helps ID's?
If finding an Id becomes easier I don't have an issue with this, I don't see that happening. Even with these changes people aren't going to flock to image designer, it won't be an easy way to make credits so the people that are ID's are the ones that want to be because of the profession. I just see that number being very very very low. I guess maybe I'll be wrong on that though.
You wont believe it, but there are more Master IDs then Master Rangers 
jrudden1924 wrote:
Note: Players can no longer do their own stat migration, please consult an Image Designer for pricing.
That doesnt make much sense. How about an NPC ID or something because it is not easy to find Image Designers.
I'm also on Wanderhome and have not been able to find an ID in several weeks. I have been actively searching for one to change hair style. Now this is the ONLY means of stat migration? I guess we have to re-roll our character or take up ID profession on Wanderhome then, that's just great!
Why???? Do the Devs deem this worthy SW content? Holographic images are only used by HOLOVID equipment in the star wars galaxy. Be it holocrons, droids, holorecording devices, interplanetary communications, whatever. Not Image Designer emotes.
Sure the emotes are cool, but it's not Star Wars. Granted, there are many aspects of this game that would potentially make an EU fanatic cringe already, this feature is just another item on a growing list. If you go ahead with this and continue implementing (admittedly cool) features that don't quite feel like Star Wars, you'll be shutting out a huge portion of the SW EU fan base.
My suggestion? Let the DEs be able to design holorecording devices for droids, and let the droids emote holographic images at the owner's command. This seems like a reasonable suggestion. Give the ID's a cool new feature, like cybernetic designs (hint, hint), etc. as a peace offering. Having people with cybernetic limbs/enhancements would be a lot cooler than this.
glory wrote:
I think there are more master IDs than players think. I have a master ID that is also a master tailor but she only wears her master tailor tag. To be honest, I hate getting stopped in the space ports etc to spend forever going through all the hair styles for someone who does not tip or decides he/she likes what they have and just wanted to look.
The tent will be so nice..a place to give us the opportunity to say, here I am ready for business. I just really hope it is a player city tent too.
And there you have it from the mouth of an ID. Maybe this (hiding title and "hate getting stopped" )explains why I can't find an ID on Wanderhome for weeks on end (even though I DO know the hair style I wish to obtain, and I have money to pay for it).
If they hate the indecisive public regarding hair styles, just wait until they get a few rounds of an indecisive or very "tweaky"stat migration session. I know when I work on my stat migrations, I can spend upwards of 20 minutes ticking the bars back and forth as I consider the end results and impact to my plan for HAM needs.
I was rather hoping the Doctor Profession would get a new specialty to become plastic surgeons for such things!
Burr wrote:
That is such a brilliant suggestion that I never see it happening. If they can migrate stats for whatever apparent reason, than just let them be crafters and make the implants (n.breast) too. If watching a Dancer/Musician can somehow magicallyincrease my Mind/Focus/Willpower than getting an implant from an image designer doesn't seem so far fetched.
Dodd wrote:
A kitty emote????
My suggestion? Let the DEs be able to design holorecording devices for droids, and let the droids emote holographic images at the owner's command. This seems like a reasonable suggestion. Give the ID's a cool new feature, like cybernetic designs (hint, hint), etc. as a peace offering. Having people with cybernetic limbs/enhancements would be a lot cooler than this.
JagoKien wrote:
Personally, I think having to find and PAY an ID to migrate my stats will be annoying as hell.
Yeah, it is a pretty bad idea - and my wife is a Master IDer. Of course people with two accounts can just powerlevel their alt to a Master IDer in about an hour if them want to migrate their stats 
Players can no longer do their own stat migration, please consult an Image Designer for pricing
Thunderheart wrote:
Note: Players can no longer do their own stat migration, please consult an Image Designer for pricing.
One thing to say... W T F was someone thinking?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Consider the reason you cannot find one is because their profession is made extremely difficult because of bugs. The tents and terminal should help this. If you have never played an image designer before, believe me. It was like playing a combat profession without the ability to target anyone.
I think you should start seeing a lot more IDs around, especially now that they can actually get paid.Please be careful of how you word your posts on this forum. You may think you are being reasonable but saying things like IDs are a waste, or that anyone that doesnt constantly migrate stats and change professions is not fully experiencing the game is hurtful. All of us play to have fun, not to be sneered at, or to sneer at other people.
If you can't keep yourself from hatin'
You might want to go on the ID thread and consider the "Syndicate" thread. Somewhere in the dark recesses of that organization I wouldn't be surprised if there is a black list of people who will only get max-weight zero-stat changes 
These ladies and gentlemen have long memories so beware lol!Eeep. One more point. After the change you will supposedly not be able to "grind" ID anymore. Each change will take at least two minutes. The point is to make sure it takes the casual player at least a month to Master.
So if you are holo-grinding I suggest ID be next on the list, before this publish goes live.