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Thread: Any news on new Once Per Day POI Spawning?
Jaenus
Fri Oct 15, 2004 2:59 am
#14
Well one things for damn sure. If you're an American, you're screwed. Server reset time on the westcoast is at 5am. So while Im passed out, and you on the east coast (8am) are going to work or school, or passed out 
) our Euro friends are cleaning out the POIs - not that it's their fault SOE blows.
) our Euro friends are cleaning out the POIs - not that it's their fault SOE blows.SOE - pull your head from the dirt and look around. SOE IS DISCRIMINATING AGAINST AMERICANS. Godamnit.
Ma-We
Fri Oct 15, 2004 4:37 am
#15
yeah im from the EU too and if you think we got it easy we don't theres not that many POI's and every server has there campers, so they get cleared and thats it for the day just coz you lot are still asleep don't mean your losing out, we all are, the only people that are benifiting from this are The CAMPERS, they now have the monopoly on anything that they manage to get from these places, sucks if you ask me, i just wish someone with a RED name would anwser us.
BattleSw0rd
Fri Oct 15, 2004 4:43 am
#16
SolzDevius wrote:I can confirm the Woolamander is still a spawn per hourMessage Edited by SolzDevius on 09-06-2004 02:34 AM
the above message brought to you by a devoted spawn camper
Fallsguy
Fri Oct 15, 2004 5:55 am
#17
I agree - they are so jacked about JTL and new subscribers they care less and less about everyone else.
I cancelled all my accounts I have had enough - I enjoy the free JTL beta but it is not enough to keep me in their pockets.
Battlefields gone for over a year. Once a day spawns on major playing areas. 15 credit rewards on 99% of all the NPC quests. This is a borked game and has not improved just regressed.
You got vehicles so you can go to empty worthless places faster. Yahoooo!!!!!!
Borgle bat caves that a newbee could tackle gives some of the best loot around and killing a mauler lord gives me 20 credits. Balance my foot.
mythronde
Fri Oct 15, 2004 7:14 am
#18
When is this getting fixed Tiggs? This is broken, and you guys can try and sweep the issue under the carpet but it is definitely out there and real. How can you ignore fixing this content for so long? Very disappointing
MadDog36
Fri Oct 15, 2004 7:36 am
#19
Don't you people get it?
They (and for once, I don't mean the Devs, but the Producers and Marketing people at SOE) have most likely ordered this nerf, so that more people will get bored out of their skulls (like me) and play JTL beta, or when JTL comes out, JTL itself.
SOE wants you to be bored as all hell so that you buy JTL, so that they can tell Lucasarts, "SEE! EVERYONE wants to play JTL, look at how many people are playing beta and have bought the expansion!". This is a short term ploy so that people will buy the expansion.
Maybe it will be a longer ploy, since it's mostly Jedi doing grinding in the Geo Caves, and the DWB is so hard that you CAN'T really grind in there. This will allow the Devs to appease the Jedi community, while keeping the amount of Jedi down.
Oh, and don't think that they won't nerf spawns of one of the jedi trials if there are too many jedi out there. All of a sudden Graul Marauders, or whatever one of those creatures are that need to be killed in the trials, no longer spawn and no one can complete the trials......
Personally, I am just so sick and tired, of being sick and tired. This game COULD be so great, but SOE doesn't listen to it's subscribers, and doesn't seem to do any type of market testing. Why have the DWB SO hard. I have to group with like 10 people to do well down there, same with the Corvette. How much development time did that take, and how many people actually USE it? 5% of the server!?!?!?!?!?!??
It's like the braintrust over there just said to make it hard, instead of thinking about strategy. So instead of saying, "Gee, we can make them vuln to cold, or vuln to heat, or something.....it's let's give them heavy armor and 90% resists to everything!" That takes ZERO imagination.
Anyways, that's my rant for the day.
Wakkoin
Fri Oct 15, 2004 10:22 am
#21
Here is my conspiracy theory on it. They nerfed spawn rates now in order to remove land content so when JTL comes out there is even more incentive to buy it and get off the planets. They just did it before JTL was released so it wouldn't be as obvious. But you can't trick me. Everyone keep your eyes to the sky.
Alucard96274
Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:22 pm
#22
I doubt it's some kind of plot to get you to play JtL...
It is, however, extremely stupid and illogical.
quitch
Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:59 pm
#23
IT IS A BUG...
A dev has officially said this, and they are fixing it. It seems that the POI parts that are inside are the ones that dont respawn, like: Nightsister caves (but the outside respawns), force crystal cave, Weapons development facility.
The ones that respawn are outside... Fort Tusken (cave also, because it has 2 exits), and anything else outside.
Fallsguy
Fri Oct 15, 2004 4:48 pm
#24
quitch wrote:
IT IS A BUG...
A dev has officially said this, and they are fixing it. It seems that the POI parts that are inside are the ones that dont respawn, like: Nightsister caves (but the outside respawns), force crystal cave, Weapons development facility.
The ones that respawn are outside... Fort Tusken (cave also, because it has 2 exits), and anything else outside.
Yeah and they have some swamp land in florida they will sell you - The NS dungeons have been broken since March - they move fast fixing things don't they.
AEK
Fri Oct 15, 2004 8:05 pm
#25
This is really a disheartening NERF. Pesonally I like to when near stop by the POI caves when I am out in the wild and looking for some excitement. I've done this many times and gone to places I did not know existed. This is especially bad for new players who are looking for low level places to take a group and have a sense of accomplishment (narglatch cave for me as a noob.) I believe it is a conspiracy, but not because of JtL, but because the powergamers would have easy access to "grind" points for force XP. Why the Geo cave was not included I don't know but can only theorize that it is a favorite jedi hotspot and is some of the relatively new "content" that should have the spotlight.
Fingerofthrawn
Sat Oct 16, 2004 5:08 am
#26
The worst freakin thing is that the caves/dungeons/POIs ,whatever you prefer to call them, are about all the content left in the game. I wonder if anyone else seems to notice that the only caves left un-nerfed by the devs in their less-than-infinite wisdom also happen to be the prime Jedi camping grounds (geo labs, squill, sennex- we seeing a pattern here?) I mean it's bad enough that the only instanced dungeon HAS to be run through in a state of utter panic UNLESS you happen to have 3 Jedi Knights in your group (the 'Vette of course), any group I've been with does fine until we get over-whelmed by SBDs- yep that's fun, might as well solo, I run better by myself anyways, and at least no one ELSE has to die....
Funny how they haven't bothered to punish the AFK ninja looters at the borgle bat and pygmy torton caves either- they just have to set their macros a little longer is all.
I mean it was bad enough going through the time and effort to get a group together only to find your hoped-for hunting ground at any given POI camped- but at least you had a chance to outdamage and grab some loot and a little fun. Now unless you ditch work/school and find a way to get on and buffed as soon as server resets, there's no chance at all of anything at any given POI (and very little chance anyways- bet if you hung out at the cave entrance to some of the better POIs and were there RIGHT AT server restart there'll be a master doc/name-your-melee-prof master there, buffing themselvesand ready to clear it) 
I know, I actually DID ditch work last week to try this, got to Nym's 30 $%&$ minutes after restart and it was cleared already. If they don't instance them, at least fix them- and if they don't do thatthen get rid of them so at least it'll be the same for everyone, instead of this "early bird gets all the loot" crap they're feeding us.
I know, I actually DID ditch work last week to try this, got to Nym's 30 $%&$ minutes after restart and it was cleared already. If they don't instance them, at least fix them- and if they don't do thatthen get rid of them so at least it'll be the same for everyone, instead of this "early bird gets all the loot" crap they're feeding us./rantoff
And to those that flame- you're probably the dungeon-campers that have contributed greatly to ruining this game, and I could care less about your opinions....Flame on.
"You may not believe what I believe.....but my beliefs do not require you to."
the SOE motto: " If it ain't Jedi...don't fix it." 