Droid Engineer Archive

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Drashk wrote:

I was able to gain some information from TH about the next patch, after pestering him a couple of times during the day, but I can't release any information until I am given the go ahead to do so. I can understand that everyone wants an answer right this minute - imagine my frustration in this matter - but we are going to have to be patient for a little while longer.

Message Edited by Drashk on 01-13-2004 02:58 AM

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Drashk,

A few items...

• Is TH helping to fix the database?
  


• Does he have to spend time hawkishly watching the vendor/bazaar thread and gathering info on the vendor/bazaar issue?
  


• How does this issue prevent us from hearing information about the next patch?!!?

I understand the vendor/bazaar issue. If it's game-breaking, then yes...they have to address it first.

The HUGE problem here is that they do NOT have to remain silent while that happens.



How, exactly, does not passing information to us now in any way hurt "the plan", the discussion or impact the future of anything?!?!

Giving us information now has NOTHING to do with the vendor/bazaar issue. Nothing.


"...I can't release any information until I am given the go ahead to do so."


Then they should clear you to give information on the new patch. What is the harm in that?!!?

AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!!

Please as TH to explain better. In this case, you got 'stalled' by an issue that does NOT affect our discussion.


TH: I blame YOU for passing Drashk such a horrid reason for not moving our discussion forward. You're starting to behave very much as the standard SOE mouthpiece/puppet that I feared you would be.


/bow

Disgusted but always respectful,

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DaHumAn wrote:

that's why i keep my expectations so low, ever since they announced combat droids, my attitude has been "well, it will prolly suck." and im probably right about it which is the sad part. if i don't see anything good that's suppose to come out in feb.(aka high lvl combat droids or whatnot.) im dropping mde and will waste time on something else i might enjoy, killing stuff.

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TheRealTK421 wrote:

Let me state again...

Working on the vendor/bazaar issue (while important) does NOT impact their ability to give us information and start the DE discussion and communication.



/bow

Respectfully,

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All i have to say is that i agree with that, if they try to keep the schedule ( which i know it is impossible ) the droid invasion will be on live before the discussion thread willbe on the forums ....

Seriously guys, its a database issue, the same one that has been an issue since day one, the same one that effects everything about the game, the same one that cant handle new content like new combat droids, The good news is the same people who havent been able to fix that will be handling the new combat droids coming out.

Man i have a warm fuzzy feeling all over.

A little insight as well, thuderheart flat out lied in his post about the vendor issue. No where was it said this is a database issue, instead it was a spin fest of how its unfair bla bla bla.

Thunder you a community respresentative so how about doing your job? Rather then typing the crap your boss wants to feed us.

In the words of John Cougar, Calling it your job, sure dont make it right.

Sincerely,

Sins

I have said it once, and I will say it again:

If it is a database issue, remove the cap on factory crates and make it configurable by the artisan when the schematic is created. If crates had a 1000 item limit, I could easily do away with 300-400 items on my character alone, and then get rid of the eight small houses that I have to maintain for storage. I could reduce all of those hundreds of items down to 10 crates (Ie a 1000 unit run of GP Modules takes 40 crates. It would be much better to have 1 crate of 1000 gp modules).

I really dont understand the cloak and dagger nature they have towards game features.

i mean...

TH had the time to tell Drahk

Does it magically take more time to tell us then him?

Dont think so.

He obviously has what he's going to post ready to go. TH is being prevented by his bosses from giving it out for whatever reason.

Its like they are waiting to finalize plans to give out information, which totally contradicts the idea of the In Concept/In Development thread. At the least it tells me that when it does show up, its not going to be up for discussion.

stating no reason why the can give out the information basically means they dont have the information.

fooled again.

And a million different types of every resource doesnt help either ! And I didnt know TH was a programmer too. Is he fixing the vendor issue ? Glad to see he had time to stop and talk to jedi forum while personally fixing our database problem. Do you think he can stop for a sec and give you the ok to speak ?

I too am getting awfull tired of hearing about limitations. Thank GOD that "lineage 2"is comming out this year.

Must be a Network Issue.

So after they "fix" the bazaar/vendor issue what then? Oh, must be time to work on those BEs. AFter all there aren't enough creatures out there. Or maybe TKA - they are so nerfed right now. Perhaps they only have one dude working on the bazaar/vendor problem and the rest are working on the Space Expansion. Gotta attract more people to the game for all the loyal ppl they fsked so far.

Well time to go run a bunch of factory jobs, use up my resources and start working on TKA. Maybe they will "fix" that once I hit Master there.

Ho...

Has anyone noticed there is LESS communication since this whole "communication improvement"? and all the posts from devs dont have any meat on it.

common devs! spit it out!

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Thanks for the info Drashk. To all those impatient folk out there, we have no idea what TH's day is like and to what level he is involved in dealing with many different issues. So to say his work is don't on the Vendor issues is a shot in the dark.

To those saying Drashk knows why can't he tell us. So lets say they tell Drashk to go ahead and release the info he has, then something comes up, and things get delayed or changed, you will be even more pissed off than you are about this overdue thread that TH promised. They are taking the advice of some and not spilling any beans or making promises they can't keep.

Kudos to Drashk, from what I've gathered by reading the DE forums you've got a top notch correspondant here. Kudos to TH and the Dev team for this cthulian beast of a game.

Thanks Ogova-Regulator. You pinned tne manipulator arm on the Probot. Not everything is as it may seem. There are all kinds of issues that can slow down the entirecommunication process and I only listed one of them, the vendor issue.

DO NOT QUOTE ME ON IT, but TH should be posting patch notes tomorrow. It may not be exactly what everyone was hoping for, but there are a number of issues getting some attention.

I'm doing the best of my ability to steer the future of droids and our profession into the right direction.