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Thread: Daily Test Center Bug Thread: Friday May 7th, 2004

Thunderheart
Fri May 07, 2004 8:34 am
#1





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Kurt "Thunderheart" Stangl
Community Relations Manager
Hellshot
Fri May 07, 2004 9:14 am
#2

Special heavy weapon accuracy (flamethrower, heavy acid rifle, light lightning cannon) is less in the prone position then when the charcter isin the standing or kneeling position. All other reusableranged weapons have increased accuaracy when prone.



Ancient weapons and hokey religions are no match for a rocket launcher in your backpack.

Lowca- Col Hoopo Gringo 0/0/2/0 Commando, 0/0/0/2 Fencer
Test Center - Ahab Crestingrunner Master Commando and stuff

First player to wear Mandalorian armor
Jvani
Fri May 07, 2004 10:01 am
#3

Yay for pink hair and early morning bug threads!


ID can start dancing or playing music while in the middle of an ID session.



- Jv



* Jvani / Katrya / Nvara / Ishara / Tzia / Shyra *
* Refugee from the REAL Test Center, now hangin on Eclipse and Chilastra *
* Still proud to have been a part of SWG's greatest city, TC: Metropolis of Skystone, Tatooine -200, 3800*

Kwee
Fri May 07, 2004 10:14 am
#4



  • As others have said, the hair color bug is still there. You are the only one that sees your new hair color, presumably until the server resets (how it currently is on live).

  • New incarnation of the slider bug. At random times sliders default to a certain setting (min, middle, or max)and changes happen to the person being ID'd even if the ID is cancelled! Eek! More info when I post in the morning, have a huge bug list coming...

  • /holoEmote (How it's spelled in the //)is not working, neither is typing /holoEmote blossom for example

  • The stat migration window is grayed out even if the person I'm trying to work on has migrated their stats in preparation. The window itself looks odd, there is the right hand side of a little square, then a complete little square, then the words "Migrate Stats:" with nothing to the right of them.

  • Still no minimized timer (1/2 or 1/4) for master ID's or being inside the tent


  • Hairstyle color bug still evident (different animal than thehair color bug which is also still around), changing hairstyle makes hair color default to a certain color for each species, it's brown for humans, white for bothans, etc. On live this is fixed only when the server resets. One of our most hated bugs.


  • Head is off of the top of the UI (not visible) on seemingly random customers (been reported on other species than the ones I found): a minimum height femaleRodian (also an ID and while she used to see her whole body in the ID-side-UI, after I saw her with her head missing she began to experience the same thing on self ID's),a maximum height maleRodian.

  • Changing my Twi'lek's lekku style results in her lekku ending up in her inventory. If destroyed her lekku end up in the default position. This is also happening to other species, those with hair who destroy the little wig end up bald.

  • If you select a rodian frill color or zabrak horn color (there are prob more), it instead picks the eye color that is in the exact same position in the eye color palette and uses it to modify eye color. You can modify the eye color by using the eye color palette, that works fine.

  • UI - when window is open you can't make your character move at all (swivel, look up or down), use macros, use alt, use right mouse button

  • UI - ID window is so huge you can't see anything behind it (no exaggeration), including your chatbox which is obviously very bad in a profession that necessitates constant talking to the customer. Request a way to make it smaller.

  • UI - If you hit "enter" to start typing in your chat box while the UI is up all of the changes you've made revert back to how the customer was on arrival. Very very horrible to experience hehe. The only safe way to chat is to use your mouse pointer to click on the chat box (whatever tiny piece of it you can see anyway) and then begin typing.

  • Changes are still updating very very slowly in the customer UI after window. Sometimes it's so slow you get the impression no updating will ever happen. The fastest updating has been described as 1 per second, the slowest, it never updates in the whole ID session.

  • More info on the slider bug - When you first open the ID window you run the danger of random sliders going to a certain spot and sometimes changing the character even if you hit revert or cancel. Very very very bad bug, ruins credibility and instills fear in our customers. So far I've seen torso default to 50% (the worst one to have hit my poor Topaz so far!!), height default to 55%, eyeshadow default to zero, freckles default to the most righthand setting, lekku marking patternmove to seemingly random spots on the slider.

  • Happened one time as a customer to another ID. While their timer was counting down as it should be, on my screen it was permaset to 44641 minutes. As a result, even when the ID's timer ran out and he hit commit (or whatever it's called), my accept button never ungrayed. Presumably it thought the time wasn't up yet even though the section that shows whether or not the ID has hit commit said "yes".

  • One time with a human customer, I changed various things on him (hair color, facial hair color, eye color). When I hit revert everything changed back except the hair color. The hair color stayed at the last color I had showed him. If this is useful, the hair color that didn't revert back was the first thing I ever selected on him in the ID session, and also the last.

Ok I think that's it for now hehe. Good luck with the bug squashing **copied from my latest ID forum thread bug reporting**





Kwee Glitterwing of Starsider
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Electro
Fri May 07, 2004 10:24 am
#5

ID Bug... Client is Bald (no hair) If you give them hair, you do not have option to also set hair color in the same ID session. Instead you have to wait until the timer expires, set the hair style, then do a new ID session to set hair color. This should all be possible in one session.
jonyank
Fri May 07, 2004 10:30 am
#6

TH:


I know this is not the right board for this posting, but I and tons of other people have posted it in the designated places and can't seem to get any kind of response.


You and other Devs seem to pay close attention to these boards, so here goes...



TH:


Is there any chance we will ever hear any developer response about all of the complaints by players about the "fixes" to the Corvette?


10+ Super Battle Droids ina closet guarding an armoire?!?!?!


Come on.


20+ Super Battle Droids in one side of the Engine Room?!?!?!?


Come on.


Now a group can't possibly handle all the enemies on the ship, which apparently was how you guys wanted it done, given that this "fix" was implemented to prevent soloing.


Also, I don't really understand what the problem with people soloing the missions was anyway.


What's wrong with player creativity.


Also, what's wrong with players using the skills of a covert Rebel/Imperial/Jabba operative to get the job done.


For most of the missions, this would actually make more sense.


Indeed, the NPCs who hand out the missions (andthe developers' original description of the missions) made it sound like they were supposed to be secretive.


There is nothing secretive about a group of ten combat professionals leaving enemy corpses, as well as their own corpses,all around the ship.


Also, given the AV powerplant drop rate, it is totally unfair to people in large groups.


If the mission is completed by a group of 10, which is now absurdly difficult, there will be ten schematics and anywhere from 0 to 2 powerplants (more often 0).


At least soloing or going in small groups gave people a decent chance of actually being able create an AV speeder.


As it is, a group will either have to sell a powerplant (if any) so they can split the value fairly, or they fight over who will get it.


Very nice.


Please change the corvette back to the way it was.


I did it in groups and solo and it was tons of fun.


In fact, as others have said, it was incredibly tense, fun, and rewarding either way (perhaps more so solo).


Now it isn't.


Furthermore it's just silly (e.g., 10 Super Battle Droids in a closet guarding an armoire).


Please take the players' perspectives into consideration.


If you read these boards you will realize that these changer are not welcome by your customers.


Thank you.



Kersaltha - Uber-Wookie
Rebel Colonel / Rebel Elite Corps
Wanderhome
Ablon
Fri May 07, 2004 10:44 am
#7

TH-

Is there any chance that jet packs will be on test center and will be able to use them to fly?



~~~Bring forth the capital ships!~~~
- SWG - Capitol Ships!
FooeyFooFoo
Fri May 07, 2004 10:55 am
#8

ID Patch 3

Thanks for the bug fixes, especially the alt-key thing and can now move the camera.


Bugs

* The old when a hair colour is changed anyone other than the toon your playing sees it as the original colour is still present.
* If you press alt twice (to disappear, reappear the window) the customers view gets set to bald, but the ID's view gets set to hair, if you commit the changes the customer will become bald.
* The Theed tent still leaves the timer as if you were outside (maybe present in other tents cannot confirm)
* The Wookie zoom through the eye problem is still there if you click on face
* Heads of ID clients still go off the top of the window on rodians,wookies,twi'lek (possibly others)
* The holoemote help does not include the names of all the holoemotes.



Jirrag
Master ID - Kettlemoor
icklegoffgurl
Fri May 07, 2004 11:02 am
#9

IDing yourself and selecting the All [ ] check box on the holoemote panel prints an error message along the lines of "image design process aborted" about 5 times on your screen then renders you unable to design yourself any more due to an outstanding image design offer.



cdab Inferno abcd

Master Swordswoman / Teras Kasi Mistress

Proud owner of Wong Fei-hung


icklegoffgurl
Fri May 07, 2004 11:35 am
#10

similar to the above giving myself the Brainstorm holo emote gives me the message


"The image design session data is not valid aborting the changes"


and leaves me unable to ID myself due to outstanding Image Design offer.



cdab Inferno abcd

Master Swordswoman / Teras Kasi Mistress

Proud owner of Wong Fei-hung


icklegoffgurl
Fri May 07, 2004 11:43 am
#11

Sorry for the multiple posts (cant seem to edit for some reason).


Just pinned down the...



"The image design session data is not valid aborting the changes"


bug. It only happens if you press alt repeatedly while giving yourself a holoemote.



cdab Inferno abcd

Master Swordswoman / Teras Kasi Mistress

Proud owner of Wong Fei-hung


FooeyFooFoo
Fri May 07, 2004 11:43 am
#12


icklegoffgurl wrote:
IDing yourself and selecting the All [ ] check box on the holoemote panel prints an error message along the lines of "image design process aborted" about 5 times on your screen then renders you unable to design yourself any more due to an outstanding image design offer.




More info on this bug, if you select a holoemote and then press Alt during the ID session it will give this error.



Jirrag
Master ID - Kettlemoor
Jvani
Fri May 07, 2004 11:45 am
#13

During ID session the "Time Left" on ID'er window and customer window starts out in-sync. As soon as the ID'er makes a box change, the customer window "Time Left" suddenly reduces by 40 seconds. So the customer window shows "Ready" about 40 seconds before ID'er can commit.

Repeatable every time on lip color or eyeshadow color. Not sure if something wonky happens with timers on other changes since Im still at entertainer ID 2 now.



-Jv



* Jvani / Katrya / Nvara / Ishara / Tzia / Shyra *
* Refugee from the REAL Test Center, now hangin on Eclipse and Chilastra *
* Still proud to have been a part of SWG's greatest city, TC: Metropolis of Skystone, Tatooine -200, 3800*

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