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Thread: Pearl/Crystal drop rate answer from Tiggs
ArranSound wrote:
Lorelai_Seabreeze wrote:
WizKid72 wrote:
starji wrote:
2-5 min?!? LMAO...
Based on what. You know absolutly nothing about the actual code of this game unless you are working for SOE...
It's like saying...I'm not an uber football player...but I could play in the NFL.
Don't be too sure of that. They fired people so many times there that I doubt if there are original coders in there anymore, and that the current batch of devs had to take crash courses on how SWG codes work. Nevermind the ones that grew disgruntled at the way SOE is handling things and quit voluntarily.
They know what they're doing. The removal was deliberate and tied directly to levels. All they have to do is bring up the database and change the value to tie the loot to another level and/or specie. Tiggs and a couple other devs even acknowledged this when they said premie crystals were removed from the game as a side effect of bringing DJK and DJM level down.
Kind of reminds me of when certain creatures stopped having babies.
They hemmed and hawed about it till they admitted to taking them out till they did the creature rebalance.
This is pure speculation, but it has crossed my mind that they may be considering a lightsaber revamp in terms of construction, skill, and the effect of pearls/crystals.
This may be the reason why premium pearls are not being reintroduced, much like the baby creature issues you mentioned.
With all the heated discussion on this forum about pre-CU vs post-CU sabers, it may very well be a pre-requisite to any new FRS going live.
Again, pure speculation on my part.
I agree that it is all speculation. But I do think that SOE disables a lot sometimes and calls it 'bugs' without telling any outsiders that itis intended. I just don't hope that they change the whole lightsaber crafting and pearl thingyprocess. It takes a lot of loot time and luck to get a acceptable saber. I don't mind spending 2 months krayting for the ingredients. But i do not like all those changes all the time. But perhaps that's because i just started playing at a time that SWG was undergoing mayor changes. And i didn't like any of em to be honest. Things are more balanced now but that's it.
There is not more strategy involved to killingPVE as there was pre cu. PVE is still all about running a macro and then keep ur finger at the heal button. That's it, but what do you expect, it's a mmorpg not a strategy game imho.
By the way, coding a mmorpg is completely different then coding a normal application. And there are a lot of coders and a lot of code. If just 1 persons mess'es things up it's all over. Bad documentation, unstable code at a place that could be overlooked by future programmers, etc. Believe me 
big multi user projects with programmers coming and goingis hell for the average programmer. It ussually comes down to (a) good project leader(s) and resources imho. And SWG is the most extended mmorpg i have ever seen (not that i have seen that many).
EvilHomerSimpson wrote:
Bh XP loss needs to put on hold until pearls are fixed.
XP loss needs to be removed in general and finally for all time.
It was the most horrible decision to allow one playerclass to discomfort another.
Im not talking about the BH/Jedi machanism in general, that is cool, part of the SW saga and could be even FUN.
But the XP loss is completely unnessecary and discomforting.
The Jedi populationcontrol, XP loss was the "instrument" for that, has bloody failed anyway. XP loss is an outdated relict which needs to be removed asap.
A one year reward like a "crystal", allowing a player to become Jedi, THAT would have been the appropiate instrument. Making sure Jedi is a BONUS and gained as a reward after a period of being a loyal customer.
But THAT is too late now...so we deal with what we HAVE, not with what COULD have been...
Message Edited by kudil on 08-13-2005 05:52 PM
Lestat0193 wrote:
I believe that SOE just wants to see how many Jedi players they can frustrate into quitting until the population is lowered again. Right now if anyone has noticed that we are on the same level as all other professions tho we still have to do 7 times the work. Tiggs in the response to our profession correspondent has shown the total disregard shown to players who have worked thru the BS to become Jedi.
2) FS Grenade grinding - This took about 11 months for a response
3) Rryatt Trail - Again it took months for a response
2) Armor Break Slices.All BHs have them now. Armor break was the ace in the hole for Jedi and the reason everyone went 0/4/0/4. It helped our nerfed damage, a lot. But now it's gone and we are swinging nerf bats again.
3) Jedi only do Energy damage. Therefore, all a BH needs is high energy resists because a Jedi has no choice but to use that damage type. Slap energy layers into your armor and Jedi are seriously handicapped.
4) I take more damage than a BH. Despite being a master defender, BHs take my HAM down with no problem. Most of them aren't even elite ranged. They are MBH/MCM and limited pistol or rifle skills. But even without being a master ranged they can use very high end ranged weapons that do 700 - 900 modified DPS with PuPs. Not all BHs have weapons this good, but some of them do. I know this, becuase some of them are in my guild and I've seen the weapons. This is about 3X more damage than my jedi. Oh yeah, Jedi can't use PuPs or get their sabers sliced either. Even if they have the more common 500 - 600 DPS, that's still consiterably more than most jedi.
5) force regen limitation. MCM can go forever. Their is food and spices they can use to keep their Mind bar close to full for the entire fight. They can keep going forever so long as the jedi can't damage them faster than they can heal which is always the case, at least for me. Jedi on the other had use force for anything they do and Force really doesn't regen in combat at all and there are no foods or spices to help that. The only option is channel which which decrease your health by 300 - 400 points per channel, takes about 1/2 your action and 1/3 your mind. It only gives you maybe 300 force which lasts for maybe a minute. You can't keep this up, if he got you that low to begin with you are just delaying the inevitable since you are just gimping yourself every time you do it and you are still going through your force where the BH is not going through their mind.
Put all these things together and I can't win unless I get lucky with a KD bug or the BHs is one of the few without uber gear. It's very frusterating playing my Jedi -who took me 2 years and grind -trying to help my friends level or general PvE when I get sucked into hour long battles with BHs I will inevitably loose to - when I run out of force - on a nightly basis. It is making it really hard for me to even want to log in right now.