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Thread: an idea on buff packs-- devs, plz read
MyT_Chicken wrote:
GKeeper316 wrote:
bull**edit** you did.
OOOOOkkkkk guy.....just because it took you weeks to do it doesn't mean its hard.....BH was 50x easier to master then any profession I've done yet. Master Scout took me 3 hours....because oh yeah you know that "Camp" Xp you so baddly need.....well you can get it by fishing, but you would have known that if you actually paid attention. Oh and Master Marksman....oh my GOD that took all of4 hours because thats just so hard! AP who needs ap when 90% of the people in this game have enough scout XP to teach you for 5 years straight....AP 10 minutes. Nope not hard yet, hell I did 75% on Talus. BH Pistols not hard, took me about 18 hours, BH Carbines...took about 20 hours. LLC took about 7 hours. Damn BH sure is hard Whew. Investigation I maxed out on points and lvled to Invest 2 right off the bat....About 2 hours. Investigation 3 and 4....roughly half a day...11 hours.
Gee that looks like 65 hours to me. So tell me again how riding around on a speeder to your marks is so difficult??? Please enlighten me. Infact dont....Frankly I don't give a crap if you believe me or not,from my point of view SOE did a **edit** job putting BH together and I dropped it anyways.
Buffs are for DOCTORS. You don't like it then quit...because I can say this much....this thread is just a stupid joke. Like I said before, along with all the other doctors in this forum....you want buffs PICK UP DOCTOR!!!! If its so easy for you to master then who cares right? Or infact here is a better idea. Take that "Worthless Master Scout", as you so blantently put it, and HARVEST AVIAN MEAT. Find a Doctor, and I bet you cash money he will be more then happy to stop whatever he is doing to buff you for FREE as long as you keep the meet coming in. But since your obviously not smart enough to think of that on your own after being told time and time again Docs need Avian meat.....well I guess you will just have to figure that one out on your own.
This thread is the biggest joke I have ever read....while your idea may have been well though up....it will NEVER EVER happen....even *IF* the "devs, plz read" which they wont any ways.
Ok. I came into this one late, but I just have to respond to this guy.
No way you mastered Scout in 3 hours, no way you mastered Investigation in 11 hours. Sorry. *BUZZZ*. Thanks for playing "B.S.'O Rama!"
Back to the topic at hand.
As both a Master BH (as Ikrin) and Master Doctor (as Nirki), I'll reitreate to our BH interloper the following: If you want to buff yourself, do what I did. Master Doctor and buff yourself. Sure, I mastered Doctor in a long weekend. Skill-box Mastery does not make you a Master of your profession. It has taken me months to amass enough resources/SEA's to make high quality buff packs. It's HARD WORK to bean effective Master Doctor. To heck with the idea that you should be able to buff on demand from a droid. On the other hand, sure. Make a buff droid. Every doctor will then charge you what we would make from buffing you for each pack. So a set of buff packs with 25 uses will cost you 250k. Wait. Let's add in our expenses. Make that set of buff packs 500k. Will that make you happy?
Message Edited by Ikrin on 05-16-2004 08:38 AM
I'm not sure if this has been mentioned, but there are a decent number of people that are not master docs, they have all of the med use and med effectiveness trees, but no crafting. Can you imagine how much this would hurt them? I think that there could be a request like the above mentioned for almost any profession. Non-medics using stim B's for example, or being able to harvest in small amounts without novice scout. Healing mind without entertainer (or massive wounds from CM /healmind). Even surveying without artisan. Please don't take this as a flame, (seeing how you've been getting plenty of it, and for that I'm sorry) but each profession has something that makes them unique, if you look at it like buffs are just a medical item on the lines of cure poisons/diseases, high-rated stims, fire blankets, and cure states, then what is the point of a doc if anyone can use these...the answer is crafting, in which case Doctor should be off the artisan, not medic tree.
I know that you aren't asking for all the things I just mentioned, but they really are along the same lines and if one was included, logically, although not realistically, all other doc items should be. As for the economy of things, prices are on the rise: buff packs, buffing itself (some servers I've heard of an 18k AVERAGE for buffs), and meats needed (avian/herb). Doctors have a decent income, if nothing else, it's stable because people won't stop getting/buying buffs. But I did some calculating: Recently here on kettemoor, there was a lokian avian spawn. Lok was crowded with people taking perlek missions (flits too if they didn't have much combat). During this time, I figured how much I could gather per hour, and how much I generally made from buffing in coronet per hour. A scout harvesting and doing missions for any length of time selling to any number of doctors buying at 100 cpu could earn more money than the doc.
Doc is a great money maker, but not an extremely fast one. People have begun to take buffers in coronet for granted and forget that buffs are a luxury to be able to take on larger/harder creatures. They are not supposed to induce the "if I'm not buffed, I can't kill anything" type of thinking. I just don't see how if a non-medic can't heal it's own damage for a 1000-2000, why should they be able to cut in on a hard-earned doc's profit and buff for that much. Again, I don't want to sound like a flame, it's an original idea, but will end up hurting the doc community.