Development Cycle Archive
Thread: Publish 8.1: Image Designer Issues
Please, please, please, please stack the XP for Image Design. You can spend a lot of time with one customer making many changes and alterations.... chatting about things and interacting in the way the devs are trying to encourage... and yet still only make a basic amount of xp.
As I progress up the tree and can do more complicated changes I should earn more XP for the advance changes I can do now even if this means that the XP levels for each stat boxes are adjusted slightly.
And dump half of the subtle holoemotes that noone ever requests. Replace them with profession linked ones like the holonotes that people can use to attract business.
GrethFord wrote:
Please, please, please, please stack the XP for Image Design. You can spend a lot of time with one customer making many changes and alterations.... chatting about things and interacting in the way the devs are trying to encourage... and yet still only make a basic amount of xp.
As I progress up the tree and can do more complicated changes I should earn more XP for the advance changes I can do now even if this means that the XP levels for each stat boxes are adjusted slightly.
I can see why they decided not to use stacking XP. The higher you climb in the trees, the more changes you can do. That would mean that the higher you go, the easier it is to progress. (Since the timer is the same for everyone).
It could work if the XP levels for the stat boxes were adjusted though, as you said.
Well Lamaerina in our group is going fencer. When we get to a certain point it's gonna be drop ID or a lot of things, including medic. Personally I don't care anymore. Master ID was fun but the DEVs have yet again thrown their great vision on screwing anything I explore in this game. The SIMPLEST student could pull out a calulator and see that to get Master ID you basically never get to play the freaking game anymore other than to talk to people. Well, I guess you guys promote that too since the five times I've been on the csr chat board to get any help they were too busy talking about peoples' relations and sex lives.
So i publicly apologize. Apparently they're following me around. All fencers, I apologize in advance.
Seriously, get rid of the freaking timer.
I have an issue with this Publish. I think that taking away a players ability to migrate their own stats is wrong, and I'll explain why. I needed 400 total stat points migrated, so I head to the ID tent in Coronet since, courtesy of this publish, I can not migrate my own. The lowest price I could find on stat migration was 50,000 credits.
Let me say that again for effect... FIFTY THOUSAND CREDITS TO MIGRATE 400 STAT POINTS.
This is a license to steal for ID, and they are taking full advantage. Why can't you let players still have the ability to migrate their own stats? Treat it like a tradition exercise/watch-what-you-eat diet and the Atkins/South Beach way. You need it done right now? Go to an ID and get your head ripped off and your pocket lightened. You don't mind a slow migration that may take a week to two weeks? Go that route, and save your money. Patience is a virtue, and should be rewarded to players that don't mind the wait. I think I'll get together with all my Doctor friends and make sure if an ID wants a buff we charge 25,000 credits minimum. That's basically what they are doing to all the players in the game.
Rahb'e Lache
Master Doc / Master TK - Starsider server
At least you could find an ID to do this, I have been at thetent in Theeds the last 2 nights with a bunch of other people just waiting for somebody to come by and help us.
Whatever happens with timers etc. the experience gained for performing a stat migration needs to be changed.
At the moment you only get 600XP which is exactly the same as the amount of XP you would get if you stood there for the same amount of time and performed ID changes on yourself. This doesn't exactly encourage you to do stat migrations particularly as you may miss other ID changing opportunities on other players while you are tied up with the stat migration.
Perhaps the experience should be doubled? Or players should also get experience for other changes performed during the stat migration process on top of the 600XP.
I am so tired of management and the dev team just arbitrarily going through making knee-jerk balance changes I could puke. It's almost like I am playing Diablo 2 again, BUT you are charging me $15 a month to put up with this crap too! You guys have your heads screwed on backwards. Did you really sit down and do the math on how long it takes to master ID now? Obviously not. I have jsut wasted the last 3 weeks of my game working my way up the Entertainer/ID ladder to get to master, and you pull the rug out from under my feet. I am giving it up now and honestly I am trying to convince myself why you should continue to get another dime from me...
Who the crap is running the show there? I suggest you put somebody else in charge for a while who doesn't have such a twitchy finger over the "change" button. My subscription is up for renewal soon and I sure hope I am not pissed off at another carelessly planned balance tweak (read timesink/moneysink) at the time because I really don't think it will take much to push me over the point of no return any more. Too many professions nerfed out from under me I suppose. Aren't I supposed to enjoy this game? If I want grief, I can go to work and get paid.
ugh.
What the heck am I doing here?