Development Cycle Archive

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Knapf wrote:

Please TH I BEG of you.. PLEASE put the text back the way it was.. I have three 21" monitors and I have to Make the fonts HUGE just so i can see them. and even then I am squinting so much my eyes have started bleeding.. For pete's sake.. why fix what wasn't broken?

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"Drop shadows not showing - Fixed morning of Tuesday, Sep 7"
This should fix the font problem, but not until Tuesday, since Monday is a US Federal holiday.

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Thunderheart wrote:

Let me explain this again.

We do acknowledge and address things that are reported for test center. Just because you see them re-appear on live only means its a new and/or different instance of the bug. Database differences create changes from server to server that can cause things to reappear - - and we address them as quickly as possible. As always, we apologize for the inconvenience and we'll work to repair them as quickly as possible.

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Umm, TH, the drop shadow being missing on text never wavered once on TC...it was NEVER fixed after being reported. Sorry to say, but your reasoning that things "re-appear on live [because] it's a new and/or different instance of the bug" is simply laughable. It wasreported. And reportedagain. And again. By many many testers who finally realized what was missing in the text within the game. Some folks knew something made it harder to read text, but couldn't quite figure it out. And nothing happened to solve it - and it went Live. It was as if all those reports and bugs, and pleads for any recognition that the bug did in fact exist, all must've gone into the shredder or in the recycle bin.

This is more than frustrating for your testers, TH. It is very unsatisfying to join in the TestCenter to confirm bugs and weirdness in the game, and have that many posts go unnoticed, and the bug goes uncorrected.

You tell me - what sells this game. If it were stick figures holding 8 pixel lightsabers, would people buy it? In this day and age, no...quality and appearance is everything. By mysteriously removing shadows from text, it's made the game look horribly amateurish and very unrefined from a UI perspective. If I saw this as a new player (how many of those are on these forums or know they exist?) I would think this game looks like garbage, and I can't read anything. 1st day would be the last day.

1st impressions are important. Not just from a UI standpoint, but from griefers stealing your "handy" Helper droid, when you have no idea how to counteract that, or that you even had a Helper Droid to begin with - because when you load, there's nothing there, and you have no idea what that helper droid text box is about. I've helped COUNTLESS new player in Eisley with the /summon griefing situation. How long did it take a CSR to respond to my ticket about the shmuck running around doing it in Eisley and screwing with YOUR customers? 3 hours, TH. Do something about /summon, and respect the people who are providing you with FREE employees to use as testers, in fact PAYING you to test. Don't feed us a line full of malarcky about how you guys do fix bugs, but the Live servers mysteriously resurrect them. The drop shadow on text was NEVER touched or changed on TC. Don't feed us a line, we deserve better than that.

Thank you.

Now, back to helping YOUR new customerswho you guys don't seem motivated enough to help out by just removing the /summon command...

Great news, thanks for the quick updates TH, though the harvester bug is quite frustrating when one manages it's guildies' 50+ harvesters, filled with random ressources *hangs himself*


Anyway, would there be a way for people who got free FS-skill branches, didn't spoil themselves with the Village's quests content, and sadly... unlocked a skill-branch they previously had bought from the trainers ? =/
Yeah i know, forums were filled with spoilers on the quest, but we were not meant to know everything before we actually did the quests.

Lots of people did this on live, and thereforce feel quite cheated and disappointed by not receiving their full "compensation" for pre-pub9 efforts.

Message Edited by 4Bidden on 09-03-2004 12:27 PM

There is a Major Bug/Exploit where people with only 1-3 masters are getting glowing and heading to the village and recieving 4-6 UNLOCKED Trees!

PLEASE address this ASAP.


3 people in my guild have gotten 4 complete trees unlocked and all had under 5 mastered professions.


There was another guildie that had done about 13 masters Including 4 holo professions and got NO unlocks at all.

Message Edited by Drunkenjedi420 on 09-03-2004 12:36 PM

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MojiTiwlon wrote:

I would like to open Pandora's box. I received 2 trees free for FS. I believe I earned 3. Here's why. I did 4 holo professions. That leaves 4 out of 28. I mastered 9 other professions out of this 28.

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Admiral Ackbar Says: "It's a Combinatorics Problem.

You got 2 trees -- therefore you had 4 silents remaining.
You had 4 silents remaining -- therefore you found 0 of your 4 silents.
You ground 9 of 28 possible professions in your search for 4 silents.

P(found 0, got 2 trees) = 19%
P(found 1, got 3 trees) = 42%
P(found 2, got 4 trees) = 30%
P(found 3, got 5 trees) = 8%
P(had you finished your next one, n=10, that it would have unlocked) = 1%

So. Getting 2 FS trees having ground 4 known holos + 9 others = 19%. You're unlucky. But one out of every five players had the same bad luck as you did, so don't feel that bad.

(Posted here in order to direct other players with the same question to the Jedi thread. The thread links to the tool, and they can use the tool to solve it for themselves.)