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Thread: Publish 9 Patch Notes
rogi wrote:lightsaber system looks like its gonna be even worse then the current one
well if the crystal drops are vry common wont be as bad
ArjunThakur wrote:I agree the system as explained seems just as bad. We'll have to see this new method of obtaining crystals and pearls though..
jroth79 wrote:
sometimes I wonder...we still need A LOT of questions answered. This pearl/crystal decay sounds even worse than what we have now
Ok, so the crystals and pearls now decay. In addition to waiting to understand how to acquire these items, we should also reserve judgment until we see the condition range of crystals and pearls in the new Publish. A good crystal might have a condition of 32000, like a well-made piece of armor.
Does anyone know otherwise?
Condition is completely meaningless unless they offer a better and easier means for Jedi to obtain needed crystals/pearls to begin with. It's practically impossible to obtain crystals ingame right now, and the graveyard is nothing but a lootfest/killsteal zone, so obtaining pearls is hard as hell too. And buying them for 3-10 mil a pop is outrageous. A good PvP saber can cost upwards of 40 mil creds ingame right now, and I don't know about you, but I can't afford to make even one of those, let alone do it every 3 weeks. This is the same type of uselessly vaugue information they always post. They create more questions than they ever answer. If the publish has been pushed already, they could have detailed this all out in notes. Especially since only a handful of people have Jedi on TC LOL. I just wish these guys would try anticipating questions once in a while, because a lot of the flaming they receive is self inflicted.
Grimhand wrote:
Ok, so the crystals and pearls now decay. In addition to waiting to understand how to acquire these items, we should also reserve judgment until we see the condition range of crystals and pearls in the new Publish. A good crystal might have a condition of 32000, like a well-made piece of armor.
Does anyone know otherwise?
But, we'll see soon enough. Here's hoping.
Message Edited by FR33K on 05-26-2004 06:40 PM
All I see is nerf, nerf. Especially..
"now, crystals and pearls decay based on damage. Once the condition of a crystal or pearl reaches 1 or lower it must be replaced. The crystal/pearl’s text will change to red when it is no longer usable. "
However many you put in based on its generation. IE, A fifth generation lightsaber will yield 4 pearls.
1: How will their stats be determined?
Crystals and pearls that were deconstructed will have the stats they had previously, however they will be skewed towards the rebalanced lightsaber stats.
2: What is the decay rate on the new pearls and crystals
Based on usage. Part of the engine. Im not going to give you formulas.
Durability should range from 700 to 1400 per crystal/pearl. Multiply that by how many are in the lightsaber.
3: What is the new saber damage type?
Its a surprise.
4: How many slots are available in each council
10.
5: Will robe resists have hidden code like sabers to keep them in tune with the current game?
Yes.
Bonus answer: Crystals versus pearls - - the crystals and pearls are now comprable and in some cases, crystals will be better. IE, a crystal off of a highlevel nightsisterhas a strong chance to be better than a pearl from a Canyon Krayt.
Kurt "Thunderheart" Stangl
Assistant Community Manager
Acouple things from this...
1. NEW SABER DAMAGE TYPE 
2.Crystals will still drop from NPCs and Pearls from Krayts, hopfully there is another way for jedi only (we can only hope)
3. Crystals/Pearls will decay from conditions 700-1400 X the number of crystals/pearls but still, we have no way to repair them, so this actually seems like a step BACKWARDS 
RAMBOW wrote:
Acouple things from this...
1. NEW SABER DAMAGE TYPE
Not necessarily, but they'd be very mean not to answer it straight up if it stayed kinetic. Given this response, I am also encouraged that damage is different now. Hopefully more than one type of damage based on the crystals or color crystal setting.
2.Crystals will still drop from NPCs and Pearls from Krayts, hopfully there is another way for jedi only (we can only hope)
I hope the same! Being a "Jedi Slave" with my precious main character is not fun.
3. Crystals/Pearls will decay from conditions 700-1400 X the number of crystals/pearls but still, we have no way to repair them, so this actually seems like a step BACKWARDS
What if you add up the condition of all the pearls/crystals together so that 4 of them in the saber makes it like a condition 4000 and slowly decays from there? Oh I sure hope they decay slower....
Why do they decay at all? It would seem to me that we should just buy power supplies for them, or plug them into something, or take power handlers out of other weapons to charge sabers up (see the EU, or books and they did this all the time).
I understand decay on artisan crafted items to ensure their successful long term future, but Jedi should not have to replace their sabers components on an economy dependent system.
Well, if generations still apply in lightsabers after the revamp then the pearls and crystals taking damage is a good thing if, at say 5th gen, the previous pearls and crystals are not tampered with, but only the crystal/pearl that was used to make that generation. This would allow you to stay at 5th gen and not have to waste 4 more crystals/pearls to go back up to it.
Yay!!!!
Fixed typos in NPC conversations: Besting Political Quests, Corellia Heralds, Corellia Static Quests, Corellian Corvette, Dantooine Static Quests, Dathomir Static Quests, Imperial Theme Park, Jabba's Theme Park, Junk Dealers, Loading Screens, Rebel Theme Park Quests, Talus Static Quests, Tatooine Heralds, Tatooine Static Quests, Yavin IV Static Quests
Looks like they forgot how to spell Bestine though.