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Thread: Friday Feature, May 20th: SWG Medals and Modeless Controls

Masen
Sat May 21, 2005 1:19 am
#66

Medals sound great, any plans to make some for existing badges, etc?Perhaps mastery miniquests to get a Master AS medal or a Master Ranger medal? At the very least, ones for the existing themeparks?


As for controls. I'd rather just say no to Modeless, thank you. I don't like the controls in EQ2, and rarely play it because of them. I'll be sticking with my keymap, thank you. The controls are one of the reasons I stick with Galaxies, despite the nonstop flow of annoying nerfs and gamebreaking bugs, especially lately (being incapible of taming for 3 days as a MCH, and having pets autostore more than ever, as well as the abnoxiously slow aging of pets now come to mind). I hope these will be options, and not the only supported control schemes. And yes, I used the new modeless on TC excluseively all through CU beta, and it made the beta seem 10 times worse than it was to me.



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jas0nk
Sat May 21, 2005 2:01 am
#67

Nice idea, these medals. They add that little bit more satisfaction when you complete quests




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Glzmo
Sat May 21, 2005 3:31 am
#68

I really like the medals. It would be nice if we could wear more than one of those at a time

Now to something a little off-topic, but still master pilot related. Will the pilots who became master pilot during respec and did not receive the badge for it and dropped pilot to start a new squadron get their lost badge after the respec period and be eligible for the master pilot XP bonus? This is a huge issue with badges not being awarded during the respec period currently. Why not just make it so that the only badges that are not awarded are the ones that are being respecced? Master Pilot isn't even eligible for respec and thus still doesn't gain a badge for becoming master pilot the right way if he decides to drop it to do missions from another squadron!

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Vicotnik
Sat May 21, 2005 4:14 am
#69






RSQViper wrote:





KapowBzapp wrote:
Hey that's true, I did love EP3!

Can someone verify whether the Medals of Honor are granted for mastering a Pilot profession? I'm already an Alliance Ace, so want to know if I need to re-grind in another squadron to get my medal.




Just go talk to your master trainer and he will give you the medal. It's retroactive.




Doesn't work for everyone though. Some people just can't seem to recieve the medals, the admiral tellsthem that he'll give them one but never does.


Then there are those people who have been able to get several...





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Particle effects, BAD!!! Nice, realistic graphics, GOOD!!!
baxnzar
Sat May 21, 2005 6:16 am
#70

Now it is clear. Instead of fixing a broken unbalanced game, all they will do is give out plaques and trinkets.

Clearly, they won't stop this hack job until every last one of us has cancelled their account.

I say, bite my bantha pole. Fix the game and shove the medals up your ithorian.
Now at four weeks unable to play and have fun- $15 SOE owes me that I'll never see.

THANKS A LOT!
baxnzar
Sat May 21, 2005 6:23 am
#71



fox183 wrote:

DO NOT REMOVE the "ALT" KEY.

What is wrong with you SOE?

I have never seen anyone complain of the current interface. The other one SUCKS!

It is very difficult to use the chat system.

You can not control the "Chase Camera" very well.

When you get attacked from behind, good luck getting the screen centered before you get killed..

Why can you not just leave this a choice?

SOE are you just bound and determined to bury this game deep in the dirt?
Are you getting your "polls" from the same people who voted for the CU?
C'mon man!!!!





Agreed- another thing that wasn't broken- that noone asked you to fix. If I thought you people actually read this stuff I might care, but as I havent loggeg on in a week and a half because the game is broken, it's clear that you just don't care about us.

I'll be sure to send you all a fruit basket in the unemployment line.

May the force totally abandon you and the horse you rode in on-

THANKS FOR ALL OF YOUR HELP AND CONCERN.
Vicotnik
Sat May 21, 2005 6:35 am
#72






baxnzar wrote:
Now it is clear. Instead of fixing a broken unbalanced game, all they will do is give out plaques and trinkets.

Clearly, they won't stop this hack job until every last one of us has cancelled their account.

I say, bite my bantha pole. Fix the game and shove the medals up your ithorian.
Now at four weeks unable to play and have fun- $15 SOE owes me that I'll never see.

THANKS A LOT!




Why is it so hard to understand that the art department doesn't do bug fixin'?



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Particle effects, BAD!!! Nice, realistic graphics, GOOD!!!
The_Yettii
Sat May 21, 2005 7:02 am
#73






Nastypope wrote:

I bet the wookiee get messed over on this also, I bet we cant wear them.






I got an black imperial medal at some point from the Imperial Theme Park that I was unable to put on. How ever I was able to put on a red and gold imperial badge for finishing the masterpilot for the imperials as a nutral pilot. get quite a few questions about it realy. I realy wish i could wear the black one though. Helps being a wookie as you don't realy have to wear cloths.



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"That ain't much."
"it's enough"

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Keep Fly'n
Efix_Lordana
Sat May 21, 2005 7:57 am
#74






Jadai wrote:

Friday Feature, May 20th JEDI FIXES


Misc.
Added brand new saber animations
Re-added some old saber animations
Added Master/Apprentice relationship. The Master and Apprentice will recieve force bonuses when grouped.
Added 6 new styles of jedi robes to increase diversity.


Visibility.
Reduced Visibility decay timer to one week.


Combat.
Saber Damage has been significantly increased.
Force attacks now have an increased range of 50 meters.
Fixed a bug where improved force lightning was not appearing in the command list (ctrl+A)
Force breach should now work properly
Fixed PreNerf Saber (Added special action attack costs)


Missions.
A bounty hunter will now have to wait one week if he is deathblowed by the jedi before that bounty hunter can take his mission again.
The max number of bounty hunters that can take a jedis mission has been decreased to three.
Reduced jedi's experience loss upon a Bounty Hunters Deathblow by 1/4 th.


Pearls.
Krayts should now properly drop quality pearls.
Fixed a problem where crystals where not showing their elemtal damage when tuned and out of the saber.

Force Ranking System.
You can no longer get FRS from bounty hunter.
Everyone has been reset back to knight status

Jedi Specials
Reduced Force Drain powers

Oh wrong forum

Re-instated Jedi "I-Win" button






fixed




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MBLAST
Sat May 21, 2005 10:43 am
#75

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baxnzar
Sat May 21, 2005 4:18 pm
#76



Efix_Lordana wrote:


Jadai wrote:
Friday Feature, May 20th JEDI FIXES
Misc.
Added brand new saber animations
Re-added some old saber animations
Added Master/Apprentice relationship. The Master and Apprentice will recieve force bonuses when grouped.
Added 6 new styles of jedi robes to increase diversity.

Visibility.
Reduced Visibility decay timer to one week.

Combat.
Saber Damage has been significantly increased.
Force attacks now have an increased range of 50 meters.
Fixed a bug where improved force lightning was not appearing in the command list (ctrl+A)
Force breach should now work properly
Fixed PreNerf Saber (Added special action attack costs)

Missions.
A bounty hunter will now have to wait one week if he is deathblowed by the jedi before that bounty hunter can take his mission again.
The max number of bounty hunters that can take a jedis mission has been decreased to three.
Reduced jedi's experience loss upon a Bounty Hunters Deathblow by 1/4 th.

Pearls.
Krayts should now properly drop quality pearls.
Fixed a problem where crystals where not showing their elemtal damage when tuned and out of the saber.
Force Ranking System.
You can no longer get FRS from bounty hunter.
Everyone has been reset back to knight status

Jedi Specials
Reduced Force Drain powers

Oh wrong forum

Re-instated Jedi "I-Win" button



fixed





Broke Creature Handler
Killed the ability for low and mid level characters to gaing xp solo.
Removed the combat que
Eliminated 80% of the player population.
Crased PC's with the latest "patch"
Added gay fantasy animations to increase lag.
completely borked the spawn time of most NPC's
Screwed every soloist out of the ability to enjoy the game and progress.
Broke more than half the quests.
Replaced an interface that nobody had a problem with.
Got Imperial NPC's to shoot at and kill each other for no reason at all.
Destroyed all vendors.
Eliminated the need for crafters.
Eliminated the ability to sell armor.
Removed all distinction between SWG and any other generic hack and slash MMORPG.
Managed to anger and frustrate 90% of the userbase of the product, while pleasing the remaining 10%.
Took the money and ran.
Lorgara
Sat May 21, 2005 5:09 pm
#77

Good FF. Only one problem. I've run into a bug where the Admiral will not give me my medal. Yes I've put it on the issues thread and bugged it in game, but figured I would make mention of it here too.


I was and am an Imperial Inquisition Master Pilot. I went to the Grand Admiral after seeing this feature, and he gave me this long paragraph about how he had audiences etc. with the Emperor, and he was authorized to give me a medal. I do not receive the medal. I talk to him again, the same paragraph, no medal. I've met at least 2 other Inquisition Aces (one got masterimperial box AFTER RotW) and both are having the same issues. Once a new Issues thread is up, I'll update my bug list.


I've ALSO heard from a neutral pilot who did his master missions from the Rebel Admiral in Doaba Guerfel, and had gotten his master pilot box pre-CU as a Smuggler's Alliance Pilot. He told me that when he goes to talk to that Admiral, that he got the same little paragraph about getting a medal, and he also didn't receive one. I guess I'm lucky, because he talks to the Reb Admiral again and the Admiral thinks he already gave him his medal. At least the Imp Grand Admiral will theoretically give me mine if he ever fixes himself.





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Captain of the Stealth Nerf

Elder CH / Smuggler / Certified Forum Troll


Ice-Cold
Sun May 22, 2005 6:03 am
#78

All I dont like about the CU is that buffs dont work, armor sucks, and we cant get solo xpanymore.. I "need" to solo because all my friends are too busy getting/grinding jedi to even care about helping.. so I'm screwed.


I havent even mastered pilot yet because no one wants to help, but thats mainly because of Jedi.


And whats with NPC CL 51's being able to defeat PC CL 80's?.. and 1xp perNPC anywhere underneath your Combat Level?




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Imperial Commando
- Best Pilot in the West Quadrant

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