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Thread: Tuesday Tips November 1st How to use the Droid Programming UI (Flight Commands)
ElanMak wrote:
/rant on
Dude! We said FIX bugs, not revamp the game. Bug fixes are all about the "tiny inconveniences" - which sometimes are not so tiny. Those little bugs add up and pretty soon drive you crazy.
Who's we? Not me. Probably not a lot of the Ranger community, who has waited for 2 years for a single update to their profession that didn't negatively affect them, and havn't had any abilities that work in PvP or PvNPC combat. Probably not a lot of the smuggler community, who hasn't been able to smuggler since the game started.Probably nota LOT of Jedi who'd rather have a fully functioning FRS than have a few minor bugs fixed. Probably a lot of Commando's who'd like a major role in the game having done without one since Launch. Probably not all of the crafters, who since the CU, have been weaker than your average Durni. Probably not entertainers, who are still waiting for them to implement the changes that making AFKing their profession obsolete.
To be honest, if it came down to fixing the issue of being able to decorate the Y-8,and having the proper color armor, and all the little bugs they fixed in pub 22 & 23or having smugglers be able to smuggle, having Rangers have a role in the game, have Commandos be Commandos and not Heavy Weapon placeholder profession and having a fully functional, fun FRS, having crafting be a fun and fully functional alternative to combat toon (rather than something for use with an alt), and having entertainers be the centerpeice of a vibrant cantina life again, I'd chose option B in a heartbeat.
So don't talk about "we" when what you mean is "I". YOU wanted bug fixes. Many people did not. And given the option, I think a lot of professions would have swapped bug fixes for content for themselves. I can almost guarantee if you gave people the option between Y-8 decorating and a FRS, you'd see a one-sided answer.
back to droid commands - out of the rebel ones, there are two varieties: "reinforce" programs, which transfer some of the existing energy from front to back or vice versa, and "adjustment" commands, which actually make the front or rear stronger while making the other weaker.
I prefer the adjustment commands, because I like to plan ahead of time. People who end up having to react to unexpected damage might consider the reinforcement commands, but the freelance "capacitor to shield shunt" is much more useful for these situations.
A place where I would use the adjustment commands is when attacking a target where I might have to run for it - before starting a fight I might lose, I'll run a "heavy rear adjust" so that when I run, my rear shields can take the beating while my boosters put some distance between us. alternatively, I can run "heavy front adjust" so that the front shields last that much longer, and booster away when they're almost gone while praying that the weaker rear ones hold. Assuming that your shields had 1000/1000 front/back hitpoints normally, heavy front adjust changes them to 1750/250. The rear adjust makes more sense to me; when I'm attacking someone I'm usually not giving them a good line-up to fire on me, but running from them gives them a perfect line-up on the rear shields.
Message Edited by Khyron42 on 11-01-2005 04:35 PM
publishes 22 & 23 fixed a lot of bugs in the game. There are several professions out there anxiously awaiting much needed changes (Rangers, Smugglers, etc.) whose content and role in the game needs to be fixed.
/rant off
You will see all programs that are in the droids, how much space they exactly take and how much space there is left
Also notice that if you want to surrend a pilot master : get droids/flights computers before and program them with what you currently know : you won't loose any flight computer or anything inside and you will be able to start you new pilot with ready to use flight computers
I personnaly took all flights computers from all levels and programmed them with all privateer programs i knew before i surrendered my privateer master.
Now i'm imperial pilot with ready to use flight computers and i can add my imperial programs myself
Phenix1050 wrote:
Washell wrote:
You're using something as it is intended to be used, not an exploit. Just a bug, which a lot of pilots want to see fixed.
A bit further off-topic: TH, a while agoit wasjudged the majority of the players favored bug fixes over new content in the publishes. Both you and Tiggs posted(iirc around p20/p21) that the next few publishes will be dedicated to fixing stuff. Is it currently still "the next few publishes" or is the team shifting back to both fixes and content? For what it's worth, I'm still in favor of 90 to 100% bugfixing publishes.
publishes 22 & 23 fixed a lot of bugs in the game. There are several professions out there anxiously awaiting much needed changes (Rangers, Smugglers, etc.) whose content and role in the game needs to be fixed. To focus 100% on bugs is to say that tiny inconveniences are more important than those entire professions. While I certainly advocate fixing game-breaking bugs and exploits, 9/10ths of bugs are simply inconveniences, while it is litterally impossible for a Smuggler to smuggler or for a Ranger to use their skillsduring PvP or PvNPC combat. In the end, I advocate fixing game-breaking bugs while also revamping those professions whose role has not been addressed in over 2 years (rangers, smugglers, commandos, crafters, entertainers).
Just one thing Phen, everyone can be a pilot no matter what else they are, therefore any bugs within say pilot adversly effect the whole game communtiy (be they a ranger or jedi). Plus, Space is where most people play when they get tired or the button mashing dumbness of the smack-talking leet-speak ground game. As someone once said, Space is where a lvl 1 crafter can own a Jedi, for that you have to love it.
CuchulainnDarklight wrote:
Just one thing Phen, everyone can be a pilot no matter what else they are, therefore any bugs within say pilot adversly effect the whole game communtiy (be they a ranger or jedi). Plus, Space is where most people play when they get tired or the button mashing dumbness of the smack-talking leet-speak ground game. As someone once said, Space is where a lvl 1 crafter can own a Jedi, for that you have to love it.
That's why I love the JTL aspect of the game.one hit killing is not owning someone pounding someone while manuevering so the couldn't hit you would be owning them and until spacePVP is balanced there is no point to it flame all you want but i wiped a YT1300 in a heavyXwing in one hit he came back to deep space and i sent him to the spaceport again also in one hit. though now with the POB sheilds and such he might have a chance to last two hits but 10k damage even at 60% will wipe 2400 shield if you are using the reward and 2-3k of armor in one direct hit so PVP is not viable in space unless neither pilot is very accurate.
Just one thing Phen, everyone can be a pilot no matter what else they are, therefore any bugs within say pilot adversly effect the whole game communtiy (be they a ranger or jedi). Plus, Space is where most people play when they get tired or the button mashing dumbness of the smack-talking leet-speak ground game. As someone once said, Space is where a lvl 1 crafter can own a Jedi, for that you have to love it.
Baltraseic wrote:
one hit killing is not owning someone pounding someone while manuevering so the couldn't hit you would be owning them and until spacePVP is balanced there is no point to it flame all you want but i wiped a YT1300 in a heavyXwing in one hit he came back to deep space and i sent him to the spaceport again also in one hit. though now with the POB sheilds and such he might have a chance to last two hits but 10k damage even at 60% will wipe 2400 shield if you are using the reward and 2-3k of armor in one direct hit so PVP is not viable in space unless neither pilot is very accurate.
Just one thing Phen, everyone can be a pilot no matter what else they are, therefore any bugs within say pilot adversly effect the whole game communtiy (be they a ranger or jedi). Plus, Space is where most people play when they get tired or the button mashing dumbness of the smack-talking leet-speak ground game. As someone once said, Space is where a lvl 1 crafter can own a Jedi, for that you have to love it.