Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: The Infamous January Publish Quote...
l Added general module slot to the advanced Binary Load lifter droid, and both basic and advanced protocol droids.ffice
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l Droid storage compartments are now using droid experimentation rather than artisan.
l Droid customization tool now gives droid crafting xp instead of general xp
l Droid socket modules can no longer be plugged into one another.
l Multi-crafting station module droid capabilityfixed for some cases where one type would over-ride another type.
l Combat-related stats removed from examine windows for non-combat-capable droids
lItem Storage Module 2's now really are that, instead of becoming data storage module 2's during the crafting process.
l Added transition from combat to normal idle for Probe Droid.
So while Droids are not the MAIN focus, we are addressing some of the DE issues. In the next two publishes, after crackdown, we ARE focussing specifically on Droids. We plan on implementing combat droids (< level 10) in P7, and Utility Droids in P8.
Herein lies the main problem with telling the players anything. Things Change. Things change based on the current state of the game, and the desires of our publisher. And the second that they change, you drag up old posts and start screaming LIARS!!!
Do we lie to you? No. Do we tell you information that changes? Absolutely.
But things are going to change. If you want more information, you have to be prepared for that information to change. That is the very nature of MMOG's.
I want to keep you very informed about what is happening in our studio, for your game, because it really is your game. We are trying to have open discussions with you. We are trying to get the In Concept> In Dev > In Test > In Live system working. Please understand that this business is extremely unpredictable at times.
thx,
- g
Speaking of quotes, how do you explain this quote:
(no offense to them though, they are great people, opinions just vary)
The thing I like about this post most, is that I actually heard some frustration and some balls in it. Rather then apologizing it was to the point. When something does change people do scream LIARS and look for anything to back them up.
I'm looking back at all the things that have been said would be here or there or whatever that have changed, and looked at the other publishes and think to myself, I haven't been here long, but wow, some great things have happened, and so what if publish 6 gets changed to something else. Now I have something else to look forward to.
Paine
~Waiting excitedly for the crackdown
JustG wrote:
Combat-related stats removed from examine windows for non-combat-capable droids.
I was trying to get mouse droids to duel (the first step to Mouse droid "rooster" fights[Heh. Can't use their real name. **edit** censor]) but they ran from each other.Message Edited by ArchmagiCaT on 02-04-2004 06:22 PM
Thanks for explaining the situation and defending yourself, JustG.
We should also recognize that the alternative to being told something that might change, is being told nothing at all until it is too late to change. I, for one, would like to know the plans as early as possible, even if those plans might change.
JustG-
We all understand that priorities change, however, you could have informed us about this when you knew about the change, instead of letting us get crushed by false hopes in the 2 months since you stated that we (DE's) would be the main focus for January.
Nobody's calling you a liar, but your quote from November (and, so far, it's results) are typical of what DE's have been hearing since launch. We've been told, numerous times, by different people, that we were "next on the list", and these few bug fixes in Pub 6 are the first ones that have been fixed since launch.
And, I must say, adding ONE module slot to the Advanced BLL makes it half as useful as an MSE. And the basic BLL is still worth diddly...
I'm seeing baby-steps when I was expecting great leaps. That's why I'm irritated.