Force Sensitive Archive
Thread: Persuasion is officially broken now... 13.1
Since the GCW "upgrade" my persuasion ability has done just about ziltch for me (it was strangely uneffective before that as well) let me break it down to my understanding.
BEFORE GCW "upgrade"
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Passing Scans was spotty Even with FS Persuasion 4(4 was worse than 2, but may have been a patch issue)
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Opposite faction NPCs would help me in a fight
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On some missions, a key NPC would call for my death, and his troops would just stare at me...
AFTER GCW "upgrade"
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No scans so far, as I'm always being shot at on sight
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Same faction NPCs don't help me when i'm attacked(Combatant & Off Duty)
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Everyone attacks me in missions.
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Opposite faction NPCs no longer assist me when I'm attacked and they're near. THis worked before but now nothing at all happens.
SonGouki,
Mabey the persuasion branch of FS could be looked at. I'm fully suprised that persuasion doesn't affect the Mind Trick in some way. Perhaps it does and the people telling if it's worked could mention wether or not they have the FS Persuasion branch or not. I REALLY don't mean to be a griper, I know there are plenty but for the love of all that is decent,.. the GCW "upgrade" seems to have not taken into consideration the persuasion branch in the least. If they did, or if it's actually doing something for those of us that spent hours and hours of our time healing or buffing to get the skills because we thought it would be fun, perhaps Tiggs, or Thunderheart, or you could get the facts of what the super-ecretive FS skills do and let us know. Please.
-X
Update: I've been doing my best to get scanned and test all manner of these events with another who has FS-Persuasion 4, and we've seen some odd results since the most recent GCW patch (13.1).... Such as..
- Rebel combatant attacks Imperial Officer (non Stormtrooper), Officer is attackable but when the rebel attacks, the Imp fines him 12K credits... Rebel kills officer... loses 12K anyhow.... Bugged it, and CSR says "you're rebel... you have to attack" /boggle
- Since the "update", Persuasion has done very little as far as I can tell.. less than before.
- If persuasion has been keeping me from scans, I'd like to know about it, but I'd rather get scanned like everyone else, and then have my persuasion work in some visible way, to verify that it's working so i'll spend the next week or so running around Off Duty with lots of spice in my bag.
I'll keep this updated. I'd love constructive input here, and mabey some attention from the Dev Team so we can get some questions answered on how this should be working.
betenoir wrote:
NO Interest? No inquiries? Can this topic get some attention from the powers that be?
What you actually think SOE cares what we think LOL thats a good one, made my day
Attn Tiggs: Some of the following info may be irrelivent to you. I repost in full for posterity and continuity. THe main issues conserned may be dealt with when the "Same faction supporting players" comes off Test Server. Although... it is of deepest importance that we, as the players be able to make informed decisions as to wether or not to choose Persuasion for our skill branch in what is commonly known as a very long process, with a huge investment in time to complete. I like the idea of Persuasion in the Force Sensitive line, though nobody I know can tell me what it does beyond save me 50 -1000 credits here and there when training which doesn't happen much anymore once you reach the point of working on FS skills. Thank you much.
And added at the end...
As it stands, the only thing Persuasion claims to do, as per the description is offer a reduced rate for training, 20% I believe at Persuasion 4. As anyone who is working their way towardsJedi knows, 20% of 5000, ... 1000 credits is tip money. By the time we're grinding the force sensitive trees we use massive amounts of cash on a daily basis and receive 20 times that ammount from doing one animal mission on Dantooine.
Thus it's clear that this skill may need re-evaluation if that is the only benifit that is trackable or infact intended.
-X
The concerns you have posted are development and design related, and should be mentioned in one of the Daily Issues Threads , an appropriate Focus thread, or in the GCW or Jedi forums. While you may not see an immediate response, the correspondents do pull together information and pass it along to Development on a regular basis, based on what they see in their forums and the community as a whole. Customer Service does not have any influence over these areas unless an exploit or disruption appears on Live, at which time we work with Development to address the concern. One of the issues you mentioned is listed in the most recent Issues thread:
Faction troops no longer support players of the same faction - Fix on Test Center
Ethan Nason
Customer Service Star Wars Galaxies Sony Online Entertainment