Development Cycle Archive

HOLY

THIS:

A findFriend command has been added. findFriend will only work when the player you are trying to find has you on their friend's list. It will create or update a 'friend' waypoint to a friend's current location

Is complete, utter, horse patooey.

As of today, my friends list is empty. The LEAST you could have done was send the user a message "friend A wants to find you, will you allow them to know your location?"

I'm completely blown away by this change.. what the HECK were you thinking?!!!?

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Selandria wrote:

I was unable to find a Pub 10 Feedback thread that directly referenced the new /findfriend feature. As this seems closest to a GUI modification, I am posting in this thread.

In short, this feature has resulted in my eliminating 90% of the people from my friend's list. It is a HUGE invasion of privacy. I am something of a 'public' figure on Eclipse -- I do a lot of buffing and am constantly pestered for 'where are you? are you buffing?'. This this new 'feature' I can no-longer go do something on my own in peace and quiet as people will still magically show up.

Many people complained about this feature's implementation when it hit TC and yet it has still gone live. As a result, the friends list has become useless to me. Using mutual inclusion in the friends list is an insufficient way to determine /findfriend authorization. Another checkbox needs to be added to each person in the friends list, much like the 'System message on online/offline' checkbox. This new checkbox would be the 'allow friend to /findfriend you' option.

Until something is done about this, the friends list is no-longer a viable feature for me in this game any more...

Very unhappy...

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I agree with this as well...

TH,

First time I can really say I'm disappointed. I've seen some pretty scary things transfer from TC to Live, and I cannot for the life of me believe you let the font changes go through. I honestly don't care if it saves you even 90% of your database overhead, it is -not- the way to go about it. This is horrible, and I'm at a loss of words on how to emphasize this.

It's nearly impossible to see titles of vendors and players in certain situations, and trying to see titles for more than 5 minutes now gives most players a headache. This is unacceptable, and even more so is the fact that it's not even mentioned in the GUI update (along with an explanation of why it was implemented).

I thought it might have been a bug, but apparently from the comments so far you've known about it since the publish hit TC. The fact this was approved and passed to Live means either A) The Devs who wrote this are color-blind and should not be working with the code of graphic games or B) You really have no concern for the player's health or enjoyment of the game. Many will quickly point to the second answer, but I've always tried to keep an open mind.

TH, please at least respond with an answer on why this was implemented. If it's a bug, hotfix it asap. If it is not... As insignificant as it may seem, you will notice a lot more account cancellations. This time it won't even be because players don't like the direction of the game, it will be because they're not willing to develop a headache each time they play. At the very least, an option should be provided for a player to switch back to the old settings. Maybe a few individuals won't, and you'll save a bit of database usage. But I repeat, this is NOT the way to go about improving performance.

Signed,

V'Tal Fion.

i love the new resourse red/yellow/green system, with the bars next to the ingredients, makes life so much easier. I dont like the fact you didnt have a solution to ppl who for whatever reason cannot have a vendor. For example why carnt ppl with no merchant skill rent a space and vendor off a merchant, where the contents sales go into the produce owner pockets and special fees go towards the Merchants wealth, perhaps take a percentage off the sale (i hate the say the e word "ebay" style) this way the Merchant will be opening up new buisness for himself, while controlling a skill that is rightfully theres.

Feedback Request:

What do you think of the new GUI features?
Player names are hardly visible with light background
Camera Shake Toggle
never had problems with shaking
Crafting Inventory option
Great (and seems to be working)
Con(sider) circles on radar
Targets became too big on radar - not using it.
Is your XP updating
So far so good

Crafting enhancements: This is a great feature and works well.

XP: I didn't have problems so far/ last night

BUT: The find command is bugged since yesterday. If you are 50 meters away from the entertainer trainer for instance and do a /find you get the trainer in Tara city which is a player city over 2000 meters away from Mos eisley on Gorath, not the one you try to find. Happened also with Guildhall:Theater. /bug -ged it.

Trainer and titles of buildings don't show on the overhead map, but this might be toggled on and off? I haven't found the button/checkbox yet.

I can retrieve empty crates of resources from the harvesters. I did that per accident when I changed the rescource and marked the wrong one for retrival...(I don't know if this is an old issue). /bug -ed it.