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Thread: Publish 9 Feedback: Hero of Tatooine

CobaltBloom
Tue Jul 06, 2004 8:54 am
#105




Logray wrote:




CobaltBloom wrote:

i enjoyed these quests, but i have one problem. i finished the intellect last fall, and i still had the badge, so i didnt have to redo it. so i went and got the hero badge and reward. then a guild mate figured out to put all the mark "artifacts" together to form the mark of the hero sphere. well, my problem is that i didnt have the mark of intellect artifact in my backpack to complete the sphere. i found the BH spawn in mos espa the other night and he wouldnt let me redo the quest. so since i did the quest last year, im out of luck. couldnt SOE haver given those of us with the intellect badge the mark of intellect artifact for doing it last year? i can never complete the sphere now, and there is nothing that i can do about it. i know it's not that big of a deal, but i do collect the rare loot, and would like to have this....




You have to be f***ing kidding me. This is even worse than I thought. Make SURE you submit multiple bug tickets about this until you get your item. Then post the ticket number so others in our shoes can reference it in more tickets.


i just think that once publish 9 went live, i should have logged in and found the intellect artifact in my backpack. unfortunatetly thats not the case. ill do your multiple bug ticket suggestion and keep everyone in a similar situation as i amposted with what happens....






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Lord-Brisbane
Tue Jul 06, 2004 9:48 am
#106
I have completed the whole quest (i am hero of tatooine) but i tell you its a real pain in the ass when you have to get up and server restart thats 4:15am PST for me to find these spawns or like on the mark of the hero you have to get up before some NOOB KD his and bugs the mission for the whole day. you should really look at the FUN FACTOR cause its not there granted dont want everybody to have the badges and rings right of but why does the farmer walk all the way to bestine? theat a little retared to look for one NPC who does not even appear on radar.



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MeSleep
Tue Jul 06, 2004 10:38 am
#107






DarcoDecker wrote:


While I did find altuism, courage, and honor farily easily, I willconsiderthe Mark of Intellect (if I ever find the BH spawn) an enormous sign of dedication. I have spent hours upon hours waiting for the BH spawn (which I don't think has been working properly since early in the second day of the patch). As have many others. I spent SIX hours straight one day in Mos Entha...nothing. I've tried "camping" other cities for very long durations. So yes, you can camp one spot, but I'm not sure that even works. It hasn't for me. I've tried searching all parts of one city for hours...nothing. I've done the log on right after server reset thing...nothing. And I've done the cities "tour" a couple of times. I've tried EVERY method I know. So I think I've showed my "dedication". So if you think the "new" quests (well...the intellect portion anyway) isn't a rare spawn, I beg to differ (at least on the Shadowfire server anyway). And I am not, of course, speaking of the first day post-patch. That day the BH was spawning like mad, but nothing since. I've said it before...I don't mind the challenge...don't mind the time spent..IF...and I say..IF..the thing is actually working.




In the fall, I found the Intellect camp twice in two days - I was very lucky. After I got the Mark of Intellect I helped others find the camp - it took two weeks to find it again, and some never found it. I then spent at least a week trying to find the Altruism camp, of which I only found once - and it was broken. You feel you've spent alot of time searching for the BH NPC, but many others have spent much more time than you have.




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0rv0
Tue Jul 06, 2004 11:33 am
#108
...I spent SIX WEEKS+ last summer searching for Intellect...I EARNED it, along with Altruism.


Do NOT tell me I have not put in enough time...

6days/60+hrs since the publish...not ONE SINGLE SIGHTING ON AHAZI.

...and our server is not alone...


I am doing this quest with my jedi, now, as my main CANNOT complete the Quest Item...

This Quest is SERIOUSLY BORKED and needs to be buffed a bit...



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0rv0
Tue Jul 06, 2004 11:54 am
#109
TH~

How about some official word on the BH/Intellect spawn?

You are REALLY losing the faith of your player base with your lack of response on such an obvious issue...



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zRhyno
Tue Jul 06, 2004 12:12 pm
#110
Quite simply, theyre too easy. Way back when only 2 were working, youd labor for weeks to find just one spawn, and even then you were lucky. if it were like that now, the hero badge would really MEAN something, aka, a hero. Now, i had no problem with it, not like i had the months before. My guild leader finished it 4 days after patch, i finished it 5, and both of us did very little camping per day. It would make it MORE interesting and BETTER IMO if the spawns were random on all of tat, not just in a general area.






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DarcoDecker
Tue Jul 06, 2004 1:14 pm
#111



I have no doubt that there are people who have spent more than me looking, and I know there are people who spent far less time looking and found it. It's all kind of irrelevant to this thread. This thread is supposed to be about your experiences with this "current" hero quest. I think we are getting a little of track with this "who really earned the badge" thing. The more important thing to note is that we just want to know if it's working. Period. That's it. That's all. Official word from someone... that it was spawning at a higher rate on the first day...that it is still working.Things like that. They don't need to tell me where to stand and at what time. Just...IS IT WORKING?! We've had no confirmation from any playerson Shadowfire since early on the second day after that patch that the BH has spawned.


I did say that I don't mind putting the time and effort in so long as I KNOW it's working. So forget about all this "I earned it more than you" stuff. I mean to come here and post something thatimplies "you people are not as dedicated" or "haven't earned it" to an already group of frustrated people isn't helping matters.


To all those who got it on the first day after patch...awesome. Of course I am a little jealous, but I am not frustrated with the players who have completed it. I am frustrated with the what seems to be an inconsistant and possibly brokenelement of the game.If you spent days/weeks/months way back in the fall, you should have shown your frustration to those responsible then..and the people responsible for that frustrationwas not the other players.


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CobaltBloom
Tue Jul 06, 2004 2:17 pm
#112
i finished these quests fairly quickly. i did spend about 4 hours looking for the moisture farmer before i received word from someone else that had found him and hooked me up.i just happened across the intellect spawn in espa a few nights ago while passing through to the tusken fort. he was there, and wouldnt let me redo it, so ilet a guildmate come get it done. in all i found it easier than the ones from last year where i would spend weeks in the designated area, only to have someone tell me me they found it around bestine, way far from where it should have been according to the WPs i had.





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zRhyno
Tue Jul 06, 2004 3:44 pm
#113
Dont expect to find anything by just sitting there waiting. you have to forcespawn stuff.






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Tantalus010
Tue Jul 06, 2004 3:58 pm
#114
My two cents:



So far, I have completed only Altruism, and I have tried to complete Altruism, Intellect, and Courage. I have spent four days searching the spawn points for Intellect, found nothing. How exactly does that work? I read that when someone completes the quest, the bounty hunter spawn despawns. If so, does another spawn immediately take its place elsewhere? If not, IT SHOULD. I don't like spending hours upon hours (I only have 256 MB of RAM, so even walking across a city can take up to an hour because of all the lag) for several days with nothing to show for it. I haven't spent as much time on Courage, but again,I've spent several hours scouring the spawn 'area' and found nothing. I know my search here isn't as accurate since there's a wider area than Intellect, where the spawn occurs in an exact place in the different cities, however, my suggestion for Intellect should also hold true here, and for all the quests as well. There should ALWAYS be a spawn for each of these quests somewhere on Tatooine. Basically, here's my bottom line: I don't mind searching at all, so long as I know I'm not wasting my time by looking for something that may or may not even be there. So, if it isn't already this way, please make it so that the spawns for all the quests are ALWAYS in game.
Kisedd
Tue Jul 06, 2004 4:21 pm
#115
I'm not a big fan of needle in haystack quests that seem to be the new way devs give us content. From the corvette, to the BH and mando armor drops, to the new loot kit. This isn't the way I like to play a game. I like to spend my time doing something fun. Fun to me isn't just driving around the terrian on my bike looking for something that might not even be there, or killing things for loot that I may never find.

There were quests in Asheron's Call that were very much along these lines. They drove me nuts and ultimately I got tired of the random quests of this nature and left the game. I like to be able to set a goal and have fun doing it. For some people this type of random searching is enjoyable and people are good at it. For me, there isn't enough content in the game yet where I can pick and choose have always have something fun to do.


I'll use the corvette for instance. If you want the AV-21 rare you don't have to make the motor a random loot drop. Just make sure that a person can't loot the motor more than once in a certain period of time. That way they can't be farmed constantly and put into the economy. They might be a bit more common than now, but people migth have a bit more fun with them too.
IgescaStorm
Tue Jul 06, 2004 5:00 pm
#116

In the text of yesterday's hotfix we can read: "Hermit Quest: Corrected some typos in the hermit conversations."


So, I assume, the DEVs think, the quests are working as intended.



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0rv0
Tue Jul 06, 2004 6:46 pm
#117
...it really is inexcusable to go another day without DEV comment.





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