Doctor Archive

Docs are awesome. However, I read some of the threads and don't like how some of you think. Why should a Doc be able to have a vendor and why should a Doc have special surveying. A point part of SWG is the player economy. I don't think any proffession should be entirelly self-sufficient to be successful.

Doc's have medicalforage which is a type of survey but is very ineffective right now. It's existance shows that the devs wanted the medics to be able to survey as part of thier class. As for vendors I don't think anyone said that they wanted vendor ability built directly into the doctor class. I personally think that Merchant Class should be made more able to middle man sells. Right know people can figure out how the Merchant makes money since they pretty much have to show you thier markup and then you could just sell it at that price without thier help.

first of all i think it goes to /medicalforage...

its pertty obvious that the devs meant for us to have some kind of survey ability and this got lost in the shuffle...now i dont think you are really hearing what people are saying...we arent asking for artisan survey...

in fact all most of use are just asking for the ability to effective put down harvesters like most the other crafting classes (excluding smuggler and scout/rangers), We arent asking to be as effective as a surveyor. Most of the people here who lament the survey issue would be happy for the ability to 1) use a survey tool, even add the most basic ranges and not the incredible range of the surveyor and 2) the ability to pull 1 sample in order to find the stats on it. I dont see this in any wya ruining the player economy if anything it gives more business to the architect rather than taking out the importance of surveyors. Surveyors and miners get most they money from architects who need tons and tons of ore to make buildings. So if you really think about it, it actually would help the economy since more medics would drop survey and rely on harvesters for their resource needs. That mean architects build more harvesters and thus need more supplies to make them hence helping the surveyor. Right now a lot of medics run harvesters and sell their extra supplies cheap to cover maintance costs keeping only what they need. Hence we are actually hurting the resources market by injecting cheap resources into it.

So if you look at the overall effect of allowing the medics to have the basic ability to place harvesters you are actually helping the economy.

as for the vendor thing...never heard that one before....so dont know what post u are refering to

The Vendor thing was only a single post on one of the stiky threds (not sure if it was Top 5 or Big list). Someone requested that Docs getting a Vendor be added to the Issues list. I reasoned my arguments against that and have been waiting to see if there were more folks agreeing that Docs should get a vendor. There have been no other agreements, so I won't be adding it as an issue to the list.

I wouldn't take *1* post and just assume all Docs think like that.

As for the Survey thing, you'll need to read the threads. You'll see that there is reasoning and thought behind it. There are alread plenty of dependencies for Medics on other classes and there is good reason for them to get a crippled version of Surveyin, IMHO, that would in now way unblace or even effect the general economy of Artisans, who already make far more money in game than any Medic could ever hope to anyway.