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Thread: Publish 8 (Droids Rebuilt) Test Center Reports, comments, opinions and discussion

LeBob
Mon Apr 12, 2004 9:14 pm
#118

Runesabre


I'm concerned about the droid barking capabilites.......... as is now, we can /addignore someone that is being innappropriate or hogging the space in a chat window, however, (that I know of) NPCs cannot be /addignored

so this means that while in Coronet, nobody will be able to read spatial because there will be 50+ spam bots there


I suggest that NPCs particularly these barking droids will be /addignore-able


thanks



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TheRealTK421
Mon Apr 12, 2004 9:30 pm
#119






Jonas_the_hunter wrote:

One question for you Jenden and Tk - How are the schematics organized when you start the crafting tool? Since they're adding so many more it'd be really helpful to get these sorted better...




Yea, we are surely gonna need to move this up the Top 5 / Top 20 list for sure.


Update: I found the structure modules...finally.

More to come on the Merchant Barker droid I got working with the help of our Merchant Corr.


/bow

Respectfully,






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Handsnake
Mon Apr 12, 2004 9:35 pm
#120






Thunderheart wrote:


Because there are a lot of difficult changes here and we didnt know what we would be able to finish. A lot of people pu in a lot of extra time and came up with some pretty cool stuff





TH:

Give my sincerest thanks to all on the Dev team who put all this together. I owe them many beers, and will most probably come out to the SWG fest just to give them cool refreshing adult beverages for doing these changes.


And thank you for posting. May I suggest some lovely SIerra Nevada Pale Ale? I'll be grabbing some for you as well.


Thanks.



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Thornstar
Mon Apr 12, 2004 9:39 pm
#121

please please please please tell me these ad barking droids can be ignored?
yankee486
Mon Apr 12, 2004 9:44 pm
#122

OMG OMG OMG OMG!!! I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!! ESPECIALLY THE ONE WHERE ENTERTAINERS CAN RECORD MUSIC, THRN DROIDS CAN REPLAY IT!!!! sorry for the caps, im just so happy, they brough back droids!



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GnomeAd
Mon Apr 12, 2004 9:51 pm
#123






TheRealTK421 wrote:





I can't even find this on my list.What are you seeing it as, Jenden (or do you see it)?


Where are you seeing these, Jenden? They don't show in my list anywhere (or I'm insane)....

/bow

Respectfully,








TK,


I had this problem when I 1st tried out Publish 7 on TC. Some schematics were showing up as "Unknown". I logged out and did a full scan and it fixed it right up.


GnomeAd
Mon Apr 12, 2004 10:14 pm
#124






TheRealTK421 wrote:

- The Playback module (Entertainer) requires a "Dual Wave Synthesizer" part that I can't find (and may not be there).


/bow

Respectfully,






Found it....Novice Musician. Don't have the skill, so I can't tell you what it takes. Know any Musicians on TC?

CapnSteve
Mon Apr 12, 2004 10:16 pm
#125



"It only requires pharm 4 to load the stimpacks - anyone can use the droid."


That's like saying it only requires a medic to use stimpacks, anyone can be healed. Anyone using this droid would obviously want to bring a medic with them, this just takes some of the pressure off of him in the heat of battle.




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Iygow
Mon Apr 12, 2004 10:34 pm
#126

WOOT! WOOT! WAHOO! One very happy Droid Engineer here!



jefmes
Mon Apr 12, 2004 10:43 pm
#127

<Claps for the dev team>


Good job guys, we appreciate it very very very much Now let's get crackin' on those bugs!


ARGH, I wish I could character copy over and help test this myself!!!






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TheRealTK421
Mon Apr 12, 2004 10:48 pm
#128

He did it better than I can (currently), so here's a report on the new Merchant Barker modules...







DocSavag wrote:

My Report on Merchant Modules:


The droid has a new menu on the radial menu called "Merchant Barker" on that menu there are three options "Record Message" , "Set Waypoint" and "Toggle Barker on/off"


"Record Message" This command will record the next text you type into spatial into the droids barker message. The limit is 128 characters. If you exceed 128 characters it gives you a warning and doesn't save.


"Set Waypoint" This commands brings up a select box with a list of all your waypoints. You select one and it sets this as the waypoint the droid will give out for you.


"Toggle Barker on/off" This command switches the barking on and off. When on the droid currently barks the message about 1x every 30 seconds. I personally think this needs to be a longer interval about 60 seconds or better but that is just my personal opinion.


I tested out the ability to transfer the droid after it was set up with the following results. The waypoint stored in the droid by a merchant will continue to be given out even if the owner of the droid isn't a merchant. However the non merchant couldn't access the options to change the module. He also couldn't chagne the recording or turn the barking on. ( The menu doesn't appear for him at all). This means that while merchants could program the waypoint in and non merchants could allow people to get the waypoint, they can't get it to bark since the adbarking it turned off by storing the droid and must be re-enabled by a merchant. (This is a good thing I think. We don't really want every one owning an adbarking droid)


We don't know yet if only certain droids are allowed to be ad barking.. the only one we managed to get it to work on was a protocol droid but there may be other chassis that work with the merchant barker module.


128 characters isn't a lot of room. I wish it was a bit more..256 might be enough.




Enoy!


/bow

Respectfully,






TheRealTK421 a.k.a. "Doughbacca"
SWG DE Correspondent
Co-Founding member of Ahazi DENet & SWG DEA (Droid Engineer Association)
"I think all right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. ...I'm certainly not. And I'm sick and tired of being told that I am."


jefmes
Mon Apr 12, 2004 10:48 pm
#129

Hey team, please note:


"- Droid customization kits now have an extended lifespan before the custom colors fade. (Correspondent Issue)"


Am I the only one who constantly hears that ANY kind of fade on the coloration is an annoyance and that most people don't bother with it because they see it as a waste? I know you're trying to create a renewable market for Artisans and DEs by making the coloration fade, but I REALLY think that the majority of the player base doesn't like the feature.


Would you guys ever consider removing the fading completely? I still think people are more likely to purchase coloration kits knowing their favorite color combo is going to stick until THEY decide to change it. Thanks guys.




Rodo Doneeta (jefmes)
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Owner of: Rodo's Automatons, Tsarin, Talus
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GamerProX
Mon Apr 12, 2004 10:52 pm
#130

A Happy ending Im glad for everyone.



Headed to World of Warcraft


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