Development Cycle Archive

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BleuDestiny wrote:

OK, whats going on with:

1. The expected change to 5 minute wait for ships, and then being surprised by 10 min. at starports. Why do the devs like to waste our valuable time? What is more important in our busy lives in today's stressed out world (RL) than our time? So out of touch and disconnected from ... *scream*

2. Why did our pets stop following? What happened and when will it be fixed?

3. What is the deal with repairing vehicles after every outing, multiple times per day? They can build starships but they cant build a bike that will last a freakin week? It's too expensive and too frequent. More stress, more worries, more monitoring, more work, and it all adds up to less fun! What's wrong with having to repair a vehicle after about a week's time at least?, and for REASONABLE tune-up costs?

4. Fraud. Getting ripped off by players should notbe tolerated. Had an instance this week where someone sold me a bogus AV-21 power unit for $1M. This is my first time being ripped off, and I learned from it, and I got my money back through 2 hours of being harrassed by the perp and threatening to report him, but lets look at CSR's SOE response. I acted immediately with a knowledge base search, and reported a ticket, explaining that I had screenshots of the perp's admission and disdain, and I had the part, with his name as the "crafted by." Doh on me for not checking that in the trade. But here's the rub, they will not accept screenshots as evidence, as if somehow I'm going to be able to fabricate an ingame window conversation clearly demonstrating guilt, but OK!, also, they require some kind of /report function that captures the last 100 lines of text conversation, and which despite a debate by Holo Ticket with numerous explanations by the representative and the unclear knowledge base explanation of the /report function, I still to this day do not understand how to properly use the /report function. Do I use my name or the perps? When do I have to do it for anyone to ACT ON IT? During the transaction? Or during the admission of guilt during chat? Both? Finally, the perp was such a fool that with the crafted part in hand, any CSR could have used it to get an admission of guilt by the peep in question,but because it didn't follow this /report protocol, they refused to even try. I am telling you right now that they could have gotten this guy to admit what he did, and still could. But instead this creep who harrased me every step of two hours before i got my money back is still among us on the server.

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No SOE has continuously supported making it easier for the person committing fraud against other to prevail. Right now, I can pull the still existing posts about the subject, but I will not list them as I am sure they will mod delete them from public view then, just as they did whenthe previous perpsproblems disappeared on the forums after the perp found out that someone had documented the posts offsite. They mysteriously are unable to access logs unless they want to, they know that screen shots could provide them with quite enough evidence, and if nothing else help them reference something in the logs to check, but again they only apply the letter of the EULA to people that are the victims, letting the fraud perps get away with it time and time again.

In the Tempest forum we had the guy come onto the forums, openly BRAG about ripping people off, and yet when we, the playerbase at large, got pissed and demanded action we were all threatened with banning if we didn't shut up about the situation. So to this day I really have lost all faith in Garva, the mod, and any sense of supposed authority he has is basically abused to grieve players in the game that look out for each other, while championing game criminals, AFAIC.

So my respose to you is basically anoticeto the managers of this game. Keep shoving your heads in the sand. The day someone commits a crime on this forum I can document you won't be able to mod delete it away. I guarantee that.

Thunderheart, please answer this in the spirit of the GCW revamp approaching, without going to a faction recruiter, how do I know what rank I am?

I would like to have the option to display my imperial rank instead of a profession over my head, I would also like to be able to know what rank I am...

Thunderheart:

Vehicle decay times need to slow down.

I spent 10 hrs playing SWG yesterday

I had to repair my bike 6 Times at 3500-4500c per time.

So lets say approximately 24000c for playing for 10 hours.

Maintenance on a PA hall costs less. (the most expensive maintenance in the game)

I shouldnt have to repair my bike more than once or twice a week.

And even 4-8k a week is more than most houses maintenance.

CAN WE PLEASE DO SOMETHING.

This is not fun.

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TheWeaponsmith wrote:

Thunderheart:

Vehicle decay times need to slow down.

I spent 10 hrs playing SWG yesterday

I had to repair my bike 6 Times at 3500-4500c per time.

So lets say approximately 24000c for playing for 10 hours.

Maintenance on a PA hall costs less. (the most expensive maintenance in the game)

I shouldnt have to repair my bike more than once or twice a week.

And even 4-8k a week is more than most houses maintenance.

CAN WE PLEASE DO SOMETHING.

This is not fun.

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i agree but i think the problem is that with vehicles the planets seemed to shrink by like 1000% and everyone dropped creature handler, now it forces us to walk from the starport to the bazaar terminals instead of whipping out the speeder for the 100m walk. Or better yet, buy a mount, food is cheap...

Either way, if the intention was to make it so that we didn't do everything in the game from a speeder, then it makes sense and now we just have to consider the other options. Walking around in this game seems painful nowadays, but it does bring back some fond memories...

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wickedHangover wrote:

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TheWeaponsmith wrote:

Thunderheart:

Vehicle decay times need to slow down.

I spent 10 hrs playing SWG yesterday

I had to repair my bike 6 Times at 3500-4500c per time.

So lets say approximately 24000c for playing for 10 hours.

Maintenance on a PA hall costs less. (the most expensive maintenance in the game)

I shouldnt have to repair my bike more than once or twice a week.

And even 4-8k a week is more than most houses maintenance.

CAN WE PLEASE DO SOMETHING.

This is not fun.

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i agree but i think the problem is that with vehicles the planets seemed to shrink by like 1000% and everyone dropped creature handler, now it forces us to walk from the starport to the bazaar terminals instead of whipping out the speeder for the 100m walk. Or better yet, buy a mount, food is cheap...

Either way, if the intention was to make it so that we didn't do everything in the game from a speeder, then it makes sense and now we just have to consider the other options. Walking around in this game seems painful nowadays, but it does bring back some fond memories...

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/disagree

been playing since 6/29 and if they hadnt introduced vehicles when they did I would have quit.

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Shorym wrote:

Thunderheart, do you think it would ever be possible that there could be a way to view in-game SWG email via a website? That way when we aren't online, we are still able to keep up with in-game email and stuff.

Thank you.

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I hope to have some very exciting news on this front