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I will be the one to rip this open, after all the DEVs openedup this and now its time.

WHERE IS MY ZABRAK ARMOR?

I do not give a crap about its stats, I am SICK and TIRED of seeing the same composite on everyone, the SAME ubese, the SAME everything.

YOU opened up the door with the wookie armor and you HAD to know this was coming.

How about Twi'lek armor, or Bothan.

Maybe Rodian?

Don't they all deserve something of their own?

Don't you DEVs get tired of looking at screenshot after screenshot, where you have gone through such lengths to allow character customizing (better than any game ive played) but as soon as the armor goes on....everyone looks pretty much the same.

Chitin is crap, Mabari is crap, Padded is bugged to hell, tantel is bugged to hell, faction you have to be overt (which i think is retarded, you would see more of it if you would take that away.

It isnt like people do not use the clone cheat or the overt / covert glitch to wear it at times anyway.

Are you trying to tell me that no other race has armor? Well let me point you to that nice book of art that I paid 30 extra dollars for with SWG (along with my shades *rolls eyes*) and show you the Zabrak armor in there , ugly as it is.

Clothing and armor attachment-Loot idea

Remove them from spawning in the bat cave disperse them to drop from mobs.

Kill x mob % chance of attachment drop based on lvl of creature so that newbs can go out kill a few low lvl mobs and get some +1

attachments for their armor .

Higher the mob better the attachment exclude attachment drops from kryat since they already have good drops "pearls".

This would promote exploring and limit most camping which is what happens now.

We need more diversity to the looting process atm

My idea isnt perfect but hope it will be implemented in some shape. thx .

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Eteto wrote:

Nerf Buffs

Every other post is the same,

With buffs and brandy I can solo anything in the game make some harder mobs.

So and so dungeon is too easy I can so it with good buffs and brandy.

Armor is too powerful, with good buffs the drawbacks of armor are a joke.

Missions pay out too much, if i'm fully buffed I can solo rancors for 35K a time, the only time I group is so I can get the harder missions.

Buffs are too powerful

+2000 health, action or mind might not be too powerful on its own but + 2000 to the secondary stats is ludicrous HAM costs for specials becomes practically 0 and regen rates become so high that you don’t need a medic at all.

A simple (and effective) nerf would be to remove all buffing of secondary stats and let both Musician and dancers buff mind.

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And this echoes my earlier post, concering Risk vs. Reward.

If these buffs and armor fail, who cares? The death penalty is a joke.

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wickedHangover wrote:

I decided that I will be posting this every week until we get a reply.

I want, on the character sheet, this changed:

Lots Remaining: 3

With something more like:

Lot 1: Small naboo house.Status: 23d14h.Rori -4500, -2500 (create waypoint)

Lot 2: Equipment Factory. Status: power 6d4h maint: 7d 23h Rori -4500, -2600 (create waypoint)

Lot 3:Food and Chemical Factory.Status: power 6d4h maint: 7d 23h Rori-4500, -2550 (create waypoint)

Lot 4,5:SmallGenerichouse.Status: 4d8h. Corellia 2200, -1500 (create waypoint)

Lot 6:BER14 Fusion GeneratorStatus: power 2d14h maint: 3d 13h. Talus 350, 781 (create waypoint)

Lot 7: BER14 Mineral Harvestor. Status: power 12d9h maint: 13d 3h. Tatooine 3256 4567 (create waypoint)

Lot 8: (empty)

Lot 9: (empty)

Lot 10: (empty)

I am really tired of losing track of where my lots are spent. I have a bad habit of deleting waypoints and would like either a screen that gives me my lot usage, or have the character sheet better display my lot usage.

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Meplorium wrote:

I wrote this in response to a thread in the BE forum called, "Where did all the CH go?" It is addressing concerns about falling pet sales due to a lack of CHs in the game. The basic reason for the lack of CHs is because they are now way underpowered compared to other classes. Players with high combat abilities, 80% composite, full buffs and food now fight at a level of CL150. People routinely pull CL150 missions in large groups, just to pull the mission, but then go slowly that mission on their own. They can also kill any CH pets and then the CH. The CH bugs are still annoying and 15 seconds to pull one pet is too long. It needs to be, Call - Pet, Call-Pet. The autostoring, slow pets that don't keep up with the speeders, and them slowing down and not following problems make them not usable. In the time it takes to pull out all the pets to be used on a mission, the fully armored, fully buffed TKA will have the layer destroyed.

Posts follows:

I can still sell pets, though I happen to be in a town where there are a number of CH left. Coronet use to be a zoo with more than 50% of the spamers selling animals. Now you don't see a one out there.

The problem is, something people are missing, is that harvesters got a hug boost. Everyone is on all the planets, so SWGCraft.com is kept up to date. So when there is a shift of great resources everyone mines the hell out of it. This means armor is amazing, weapons are top notch and doctors can buff for 2500 a pop. Not only that, but people can buy enough armor and weapons due to huge supply and lots of money from 25k missions that they can get good slices on everything.

CH was popular when an animal was the only thing that could tank. Now people with the uber templates, full comp and buffs are by far better tanks and they dish out unreal damage. No pet can complete with that. So while CH got nerfed, everything else got far far better.

The bugs are huge. They make pets annoying to work with. Speeders are huge too. Even the fast cat skins don't keep up fast enough to make them worthwhile. In the end, their power is weak and their usability sucks. Therefore they go unused and CH is something to drop, not pick up.

Only the diehard CHs are left. Those that really love animals keep them. The problem is those that really love animals will not delete their pets for anything, so they don't buy new ones. Pet stims sell well and I noticed vitality packs sell well. Still if you make a really nice pet in a popular skin, those will sell well.

The Solution to the very weak CHs can be fixed by: 1) Zero wait time to call pets. This helps with the pet following and getting lost problems and have persisted for nearly a year now, ie the programers can kill this bug, so do a functional work around. Having to wait is not a work around. 2) Release the hounds on BE pets. No upper dna sampling level for BEs. This will allow BEs to make good CL70 pets. No upper limits for resists. A AR1, 100% Kin pet goes a long way to bridging the gap between CHs and other combat classes. CHs will still be underpowered with such a pet, so don't worry. 3) Mounts need huge improvements to be made useful. Either allow specials to be usable from a mount, maybe have the mount slow down when this happens, or have the mounts move at a rate similar to speeders. That would be a substainable rate, not a gallop rate, so they can compete.

As it is right now CH is a underpowered, over nerf class that everyone else caught up too and surpased while CH was still being nerfed. This is partly why DEs don't want the DH class. CH has been made too weak. Another unused, weak class riddled with bugs when there are more powerful, quicker and easier to use combat classes doesn't help DEs and has made pet making BEs more difficult with things only going down hill. Yes I can sell pets for now, but only if they are top notch and only because I have a small but loyal market. Those few people quit, and I am out of my pet business. No, I don't care to go looking for my cheese elsewhere, if that referrence is understood, as having to go looking else where is just one of those WoW things. Though that is elsewhere I suppose.CH needs to be competitive once again.

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thats cool.

the idea of sneak attacks is good.

so is the idea of sagas.

and to add to the proposal of sagas, how about "instanced" planets or citieswhere the sagas take place. this game needs to get bigger.