Development Cycle Archive

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Jekkra wrote:

TH,

Are you aware of a certain Corellian Corvette exploit? Allowing players to blow through with ease?

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Yes we are and it will be patch up soon.

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Xindaxxia wrote:

Sorry if i've repeated myself here,bit new to forums posting.

Why can't we wear cloaks and dusters OVER the top of our armour, thats what I thought cloaks were for? To wear over the top NOT instead of our armour.

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Well, we've talked about it, but it is currently a graphics limitiation since armor and dusters occupy the same outermost "layer".

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Also on the bazaar vendors it has you can search for capes, butI have never seen any of these are they in the game? or are they going to be in the game?

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They are not in the game at this time and there are no current plans to add capes.

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What about speeder bike upgrades made by players to boost the speed of your vehicle further?

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The current vehicle speeds are the fastest they can technologically travel.

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SioBabble wrote:

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taloncard wrote:
Can you fix the forums!!
I keep getting logged out while writeing posts, then have to log back in and re write whatI just wrote.

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Really.

There seems to be a 10 minute or so "inactivity timeout" and preparing a post is not considered "activity" by this time.

I understand the need for inactivity timeouts, but it needs to be substantially longer, like 1 hour, minimum.I work with systems for a major telco (a baby bell successor company) and they allow at least that much timeout time on their web-based information and ordering systems.

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Im pretty sure we extended the lithium time-outs to an hour late last week. I'll check again with the team to make sure that is on track.

Updated from TH's reply two threads ago.

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DVader539 wrote:

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LLJK_Griz wrote:

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Thunderheart wrote:

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DVader539 wrote:

Here's a real, real, real simple fix for you.

Spraystick is supposed to be Acid damage
Tusken Rifle is supposed to be Kinetic damage
T21 is supposed to be Blast damage

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The correspondents and I have looked at this many times. Sorry, but its not an easy change. Damage types have a relationship to damage and by changing the damage type, it also changes the damage modifiers (numbers) and throws them out of whack. This is something Im checking to see if we can address in the weapon balance part of the larger combat balance, but I don't know what the answer might be. And in any event, concentrating on these minor things before the weapon balance isn't productive. We'll want to look at things when the combat balance is on TC.

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If that is true, then why did the Tusken start off as kinetic and then mysteriously change to another useless energy rifle around publish 4? Why has it taken this many months of weaponsmith and rifleman correspondents complaining before we got ANY response on this?

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First off, thank you TH for a response to this issue. Before you read anything else in my response, please understand I am directing no anger at you, since I know you are only fielding the question, and are not responsible for the error nor ignoring the error.

With that said, LLJK_Griz makes a very valid point. If it's not an easy change, then how did the Tusken Rifle change it's damage type? If it was unintentional, then I'd like to meet the unlucky guy who by-mistake did the complex job of reprogramming it. If it was intentional, then I'd like to meet the doofus who went to all that complex work to screw up a weapon. Or is this a case of "if you had a dozen programmers sitting at a dozen terminals typing randomly, in twelve days they would reprogram a complex variable of this game"? of course that last one was a joke. I hope...

Finally, what bass-ackwards logic made the Dev team make a weapon's stats not variable-entry based? That being, a weapon's code is a string of numbers, each number representing a stat. Like 1=energy damage, 2=heat damage, 3=kinetic damage, etc. Then a seperate function takes certain numbers during a fight and puts them through an equation set to figure out damage and such. If the Dev team made it any more complex than that, then please hire my service of logical thinking. I'll sell you my services at a good price since I'd enjoy making this game better. (p.s. I'm serious.)

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After discussing this with my fellow Riflepeople, the idea of the T21 being blast damage is debatable. But a very good point was made.

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T21 ws only blast for a few days and IMHO it should stay energy cause a blast rifle would be overpowered for the stuff that is sposed to be what commandos are made for taking out.

However the fact that within a week the T21 was changed from Energy to Blast and back to Energy does show just how full of [balogna] old TH is with his responces to us idiots that play this game

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Oh, then we got this little doozie last Friday...

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Keldarin wrote:
I just went through the revision history of those weapons [spraystick, tusken rifle] and they have never had those damage [acid, kinetic] types.

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Now, please... this is complete BS. If the Dev team has screwed up, please admit it. Don't treat us like morons and try half-arsed lies. My reply to this was...

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First off, an article from bloodfin.org

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ranged attacks generally do blast damage (unless the weapon is an acid rifle or lightning rifle - i expect some common sense here) ... however there are 2 guns which do kinetic damage - the tusken rifle and the striker pistol

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And then a weaponsmith's guide from swgcraft.com

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Q. What are the damage types for each weapon?
A.
Heat: EE3 Carbine, E11 Carbine, FWG5 Pistol
Cold: SG82 Rifle
Acid: DXR6 Carbine, DX2 Pistol
Stun: Tangle Pistol, Jawa Ion Rifle
Kinetic: Striker Pistol, Tusken Rifle
Energy: All others

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And finally, the piece of evidence worth a thousand words from swgcener.com
A screenshot of a King Tusken Rifle with kinetic damage!


Proof that the Devs lie and the Tusken was kinetic!

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Thunderheart wrote:

The answer is that it never was kinetic. If it ever was seen that way, it was some sort of odd bug. In the data tables themselves, they've never been listed that way.

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Your "answer" is false. I cited three different sources in my original post that say the Tusken Rifle was Kinetic. Would you please care to prove those sources wrong before denying the claim in total? If you are indeed drawing your info from your data tables, then those data tables (that no one other than SOE employees have access to) are in conflict with several sources of info, including the players, which anyone can see and compare. I put out a small survey, and got minimal results, but the end result was that 9 out of 10 players who were around before the Tusken Rifle was changed from Kinetic remember the Tusken Rifle as Kinetic.
I'll be the first to admit, the sample of players I got was not enough to draw a good conclusion, but frankly it only adds to the mound of evidence I've gathered from verifiable sources. You only offer hearsay evidence.
And even if your data tables were correct, they are inconsistant with the system of the game. The parts that assemble the Tusken Rifle are ones that express that the rifle would be a slugthrower, a kinetic weapon. Not to mention according to Star Wars lore, which this game is loosely based upon, the Tusken Rifle is a slugthrower. Kinetic damage.

This is getting real old. I'd expect this behavior from a forum Troll or a immature pre-teen poster. Not a Dev. Please look at the facts and give a truthful answer.

"The Tusken Rifle not dealing kinetic damage is like the Devs deciding that TKM doesn't have enough damage types and therefore make the Vibroknuckler deal acid damage. It's wrong for oh so many reasons, despite the good intentions."

When are BH's going to fixed? Or perhaps even better when is a dev going to visit the BH forum again and actaully post something constructive instead of all this it will be addressed in the combat rebalance publish, tanks is doing a great job etc etc. We are sick of hearing this we want answers and results not more lies and standard answers.

what is the latest on battelfields?
what was the resoning behind taking them down?
why couldnt you have left them up while you "revamped"them?

I am a citizen of Edge Noir, one of the few battlefield cities left alive. Cities that were built to use the battlefields. Shortly after player cities were initiated you removed battlefields and said you would return them in 3-4 months. That was January, its now nearing the end of april and no word whatsoever on battlefields.

while you "revamp" is there anyway we can have the old ones back?

Thunderheart,

I noticed a lot of problems pulling missions over the weekend. I was trying to pull a mission West, and I find one that is the price range I want, and it says it's 1250 meters to the West. I grab the mission, and my wp is 500 meters to the NE?? This happened to me numerous times the past few days, and I've never seen it happen before. I /bug'd it, just bringing out to you attention as well.

What about a revamp of the Bounty Hunter profession, like I suggested in my post here? If you revised how the bounty hunter profession was created, you would eliminate the complaints of the bounty hunters who are upset at the number of skill points that we use just to get a cookie cutter profession with very little customization.

Some of us want hand to hand based bounty hunters, some of us like pistols, some like carbines, some like rifles.. let us CHOOSE what we are based on.. It would eliminate the "lack of defenses" complaint, the "incapable of being effective in combat" complaint, the "we spend more points than any other class and are beat by people who spend considerably less" complaint.

At the very least, even if you dont like my idea, then please ELIMINATED scouting and all but the pistol and carbines branches from marksman. We dont get bounties on a Rancor or durni, so scouting is not relevant to what we do.. we hunt PEOPLE, people usually are in cities.. not the wild... if they run to the wilds and we WANT to be effective on foot long term in the wilds, let us make the choice to be scouts.. Free up our skill points to be a more complete and well rounded character..

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Jekkra wrote:
TH,
Are you aware of a certain Corellian Corvette exploit? Allowing players to blow through with ease?

Yes we are and it will be patch up soon.

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Exploit!?!

Yet another example of them finding where people are having fun in the game and removing it.

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Thunderheart wrote:

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Jekkra wrote:

TH,

Are you aware of a certain Corellian Corvette exploit? Allowing players to blow through with ease?

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Yes we are and it will be patch up soon.

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