Force Sensitive Archive
Thread: New XP conversion rates just mean more mindless gameplay
You guys need to stop being selfish and admit that something had to be done. It was was too easy to become Jedi period! Where did the devs promise that Jedi was just within reach? I have been on these forums since waaay before launch and I always read the path to Jedi would be HARD....I am sick of noobs joining the game late and thinking they deserve to become a Jedi in 5 months. It should take much longer.
I am still waiting for the devs to do something about all of the very visible Jedi in the major cities. Clearly the BHs are not powerful enough to do much about the Knights so we need some uber NPC Jedi masters roaming and purging the repeat offenders who consantly show off in the major cities. And those people should lose boxes and they lose xp from being killed.
NACHODEWI wrote:
You guys need to stop being selfish and admit that something had to be done. It was was too easy to become Jedi period! Where did the devs promise that Jedi was just within reach? I have been on these forums since waaay before launch and I always read the path to Jedi would be HARD....I am sick of noobs joining the game late and thinking they deserve to become a Jedi in 5 months. It should take much longer.
I am still waiting for the devs to do something about all of the very visible Jedi in the major cities. Clearly the BHs are not powerful enough to do much about the Knights so we need some uber NPC Jedi masters roaming and purging the repeat offenders who consantly show off in the major cities. And those people should lose boxes and they lose xp from being killed.
You're missing the whole point here, something had to be done, but nerfing the combat xp which griefs the people grinding using weapons and not grenades, is not the way to go about it. It would be better, more interesting and fun to be able to do more different varying types of missions to get FS XP from the village, than the long boring dull round trips to whichever planet you get your missions from to get your standard XP, even if it meant the time taken to get to melicahe is 10x longer than the current system, especially if you get rewards/loot which you can only get from these imaginary village quests, it makes it all worthwhile, but with the devs changing the goal posts all the time, and making it harder to the point of wanting to quit, makes all that time grinding a waste of time, but if you got different rewards from it, even if it took longer to do, it would be more rewarding in itself to do.
ALso the FS shouldn't be hard as its the only way to get a 2nd slot. Jedi is easier to grind than the FS way, and it should be the other way round.
Broom wrote:
/qfe
The combat upgrade cost me about 60% of my guild. This is likely to cost me a few more. People do not enjoy the forced grouping, People hate having to be 'LFG' all the time. People want other things to do than just the mindless grinding.
Yes, there will be less new jedi due to this change. Simply for the reason that people are burning out, and cancelling their accounts. I highly doubt that this is a good thing, either for the game or for the player community.
And SOE: better believe there will be yet another bad backlash for this. You cannot market your product by promising jedi is within anyone's reach, and then make the entire proces of getting there so unenjoyable people quit.
Linna
There will be less Jedi because there will be fewer players. You're right though, most of my guild can't take more than a month or two of grinding before they go off to play another game for a few months, then come back.
It is extremely Tough Times for SW:G. Though I don't think SOE sees that, because most of the players I know keep their accounts active. But the servers are pretty empty if you go anywhere besides Theed/Coronet/Kash/Dantooine.
It makes finding a decent group nearly impossible.
The thing that gets me about this nerf is that they make the fs village grind so much longer, while at the same time lowering the difficulty in getting fs... Makes so little sense. I miss the fact that getting fs used to actually mean something. Not anymore...now any nooblet can get fs in a couple of days.
And people who want less jedi are just ignoring the facts that 1)everyone else pays to play this game too and should be allowed to gain any profession they chose with the work put in 2) THERE IS NO TIMELINE TO THIS GAME AND HASN'T BEEN FOR A LONG TIME...you are flying clone era ships and expect somehow we are still in the ESB era...we are not, so get over that thought process, please.
Aalob Alarios 
ulls out pre-nerf DE-10 to continue his grind:: I feel it already!" The ultimate prob here is in the simple fact that it is to easy to get a max template with any regular char. It is way to simple to max any player temp even if you are a casual gamer. Once you hit CL 80 youll find that SWGs second major prob is lack of content. Since it is entirely too short a grind for regular profs and once you get your maxed template there is not enough high end content, what is left you ask?
Jedi is whats left to try! It is the last bit of content for those who have been a max template of any other kind.
So what happens when people try to get a Jedi? THEY BIT@$ AND MOAN because they couldn't get a max template jedi as fast as the other profs. So now they demand that it be given to them and when SOE tries to slow it down they bit@$ some more. I havent played every MMO out there but I have played a lot of them and I can tell you that it takes A LOT LONGER in other games to get a maxed out character. Just cuz you got your regular profs so easy doesn't mean it should be the same to get a jedi.
This game needs to be harder during the regular prof grind, and it needs at least double the content. In what other games do mid level chars get to group with maxed out chars and get basically the same exp with little risk? NONE
Norewgian-Scout wrote:
working as intended then.....
GunFu wrote:
Although Im done with the FS grind, this patch did effect me. I lost 17 good friends who are also casual gamers who just said they had enough nerfing. SOE did nothing to stop the powergrinders, instead they just slapped the casual (family men/women) gamer in the face.
QFE
As a casual gamer (three kids, FTJob) with one branch left, I'm bummed.
I would really like to do other content in the game other than grind continually.
/bah
Seething wrote:
GunFu wrote:
Although Im done with the FS grind, this patch did effect me. I lost 17 good friends who are also casual gamers who just said they had enough nerfing. SOE did nothing to stop the powergrinders, instead they just slapped the casual (family men/women) gamer in the face.
QFE
As a casual gamer (three kids, FTJob) with one branch left, I'm bummed.
I would really like to do other content in the game other than grind continually.
/bah
/shake fist
i suppose its SOEs fault for MAKING you get a jedi asap and MAKING you do the last line of FS asap.
when will they learn eh? SOE stop making people do stuff!!
