Jedi Archive
Thread: They are weakening Jedi Padawans (that's us folks all of us) to make way for the FRS.
Message Edited by VaainEldritch on 10-16-2005 07:44 PM
Gohma_Manovich wrote:
its just the stupidity of turning off the old FRS completely when they started making a new one
The old system needed to go, and it needed to go fast because it was too controversial and the implementation was full of holes.
It was full of cliques and made it so that unless you ad access to the powerful organised guilds, you had no chance of progressing and the boards were constantly plagued by posts by those "locked out" complaining about the terrible system arguing with those "on the inside and doing quite nicely thank you Vicar".
My theory is all who knew the decisions behindthe core rules ofthis gamehave either quit or been fired.
Have theygotten new dev's from when it was released?
Message Edited by Azzurri15 on 10-16-2005 01:59 PM
MsNiL wrote:
My theory is all who knew the decisions behindthe core rules ofthis gamehave either quit or been fired.
I'd be inclined to agree, but then theories are like... well, you know the rest. 
Aureas wrote:
The version of the FRS they sent to Lucas was shot down thats why there is no FRS.They have to start over.
Why?
1: The devs, as they currently are, have not shown this sort of initiative nor this sort of forethought concerning SWG in the past. I have no reason to believe they're coming up with this sort of revolutionary concept (especially with ToW in the works taking up all their time). Programming such a new system would require time. With the slew of new features and content they have to perfect in ToW, this simply isn't feasible. If it is coming, it's in purely conceptual stages, and none of the ill-advised changes they've made in the past are part of any grand master plan to revolutionize the Jedi profession. The devs have historically never done that: Their idea of a grand master plan is to release a major patch that underwent halfhearted testing in the Test center by players who just showed up for the blue frogs. This single patch will consist of a massive list of fixes, some of which might work, and others which will work but cause more problems. In addition, it will not include fixes for simple issues that have been around since launch (BER 15 anyone?)
2: This concept of the FRS you put forth is stunningly similar to the concept put forth by at least 3 different players thus far. Probably more, but I'm not hunting for the posts. This has been demanded since over a year ago by players who maintain that such a system would cause GCW balance as well as allow for an Alpha class.
Wonderful, right? Except one small problem exists: SOE has never been one to use player-created ideas. I don't know why. I assume there's some sort of intellectual property thing involved here, or SOE simply may not want to make themselves look ineffective and self-insufficient by not being able to come up with their own ideas.
Sadly, both tendencies point away from the implementation of such a logical, intuitive idea that would open doors for content and balance what little of the GCW remains. And we all know how SOE feels about that.
Message Edited by Darth_Meatloaf on 10-16-2005 04:15 PM
LOL now that would be very funny.
Take Jedi the way we were a month or two ago, and make that THE TOP RANK for FRS. Then nerf down to nothing and require 18 months to get to TOP RANK to milk subscriptions.
Uninformed wrote:
LOL now that would be very funny.
Take Jedi the way we were a month or two ago, and make that THE TOP RANK for FRS. Then nerf down to nothing and require 18 months to get to TOP RANK to milk subscriptions.
Eeeexcelent...
*twirles thin black moustache*
Message Edited by VaainEldritch on 10-16-2005 09:15 PM
Darth_Meatloaf wrote:
1: The devs, as they currently are, have not shown this sort of initiative nor this sort of forethought concerning SWG in the past. I have no reason to believe they're coming up with this sort of revolutionary concept.