Jedi Archive
Thread: Theory: Pearl Drops temporarily nerfed because of delayed FRS
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Greddy
Wed Sep 14, 2005 6:14 am
#1
Yes i know its a shame we dont have an FRS, and that premium and flawless pearls do not drop at the moment, but anyway i dont want to beat the pinata too much.
As i understand it, Premium's and flawless pearls and crystals will drop again but it is bugged. What if the Dev team actually intended this because of the delayed FRS? Think about it, they need time to make the FRS, in that time they know they screwed up and now have too many jedi coming through, and completing templates. What they might be doing is trying to give older Jedi a chance to cut ahead in the FRS by making new Jedi being able to not get as good pearls and therefore not as good in fights, and not as good in the FRS, therefore keeping the old jedi happy, as the new jedi try to get good pearls before they can beat older jedi in the FRS. Jedi can still get good pearls and crystals so they can get a good enough sabre to fight well pve and general pvp
My bet is that the better pearls will come back with the FRS
If this is what is going on, the flaw is that some older jedi like myself who unlocked before pub 10 especially, or the Combat downgrade suffer ebcause they did not get all very good pearls.
What do you think?
Huples_Cat
Wed Sep 14, 2005 6:20 am
#2
Kinda doubt it. They'vetried todone alot of sneaky little things to make sure that premo's and perfect tunes don't last until the FRS. This could be explained by the fact that they dont want older player dominating, but i prefer to think they're too lazy to crunch the numbers to adjust the loot drops for high level mobs and NPC's.
Wasz
Wed Sep 14, 2005 6:29 am
#3
Maybe. Making distinctions of old and new jedi will not work if and when the FRS comes out. As it stands now we are all padawans regardless of when you became jedi. Your titles are in name only. The only thing that distinguishes some jedi from others is the fact that they harvested and tuned near perfect pearls and crystals. We have seena consistent downgrading of our ability and skills before and after CU. So,your speculation may see fruition in the next iteration of SWG, where the FRS will probably have a plethora of quests, PvP, and other desiderata only the dev team can imagine and design. The question then becomes, do we SWG junkies buy into it?
Livius-
Wed Sep 14, 2005 6:58 am
#4
Greddy wrote:
Yes i know its a shame we dont have an FRS, and that premium and flawless pearls do not drop at the moment, but anyway i dont want to beat the pinata too much.
As i understand it, Premium's and flawless pearls and crystals will drop again but it is bugged. What if the Dev team actually intended this because of the delayed FRS? Think about it, they need time to make the FRS, in that time they know they screwed up and now have too many jedi coming through, and completing templates. What they might be doing is trying to give older Jedi a chance to cut ahead in the FRS by making new Jedi being able to not get as good pearls and therefore not as good in fights, and not as good in the FRS, therefore keeping the old jedi happy, as the new jedi try to get good pearls before they can beat older jedi in the FRS. Jedi can still get good pearls and crystals so they can get a good enough sabre to fight well pve and general pvp
My bet is that the better pearls will come back with the FRS
If this is what is going on, the flaw is that some older jedi like myself who unlocked before pub 10 especially, or the Combat downgrade suffer ebcause they did not get all very good pearls.
What do you think?
the devs give a sh*t on it
believe me. They never cared the players, not even the old ones, if they would have, they would not have nerfed us to the hell.
QStonecloud
Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:01 am
#5
The quest will probably have something to do with sitting in lava and spinning.
perfavorebasta
Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:03 am
#6
Premium/Flawess dropped in the new expansion for just 29$, that's what I think
Zoei
Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:50 am
#7
Im pretty sure if they fix the pearls same time it will be a different download. You will just have to pay for the new planet and what is included on it not the changes they make to the game. They could add FRS , fix pearl drop problems, and also fix the speed problem and release at the same time as the expansion to make it seem more worth while but i am sure they will not included these fixes in the expansion those would be downloaded regardless if you buy it or not. Foolishness thinking otherwise, it would mess up the game bad if some people had fixes and other didn't. Think! let the people do their job they are paid money to do what they know best.
Zoei Onar
jcesare
Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:09 am
#8
The drops weren't nerfed, they are screwed up because of bad programming, bad planning, bad implementation, and bad testing. It's a side effect of the implementation of the class system in the CU. Just another Jedi related item that was never tested BECAUSE JEDI WERE NOT ALLOWED TO TEST THE OPEN BETA!!!
Message Edited by jcesare on 09-14-2005 08:09 AM
CURBhater
Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:11 am
#9
Tiggs has mentioned that they (premiums,flawless)will only drop from very high CL mobs or from quests
So I am quite sure we are all gonna have to do quests for Obi-Wan on Mustafar and/or kill some mob there over and over 
Xull_2004
Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:15 am
#10
there is a big misconception on how easy it was for pre cu jedi to get perfect tunes. it took me nearly a year and 250 mil to put together one good saber. Except for a short time when krayts were everywhere these premium and flawless pearls were almost unattainable for most jedi and the prices on them now only mirror what they were then. Post cu jedi have not been at it anywhere near a year. They are right to complain that they are not dropping but if they were the same krayt crews that hoarded them before would be hoarding them again. If you want a good saber i suggest you loot like mad till the premiums are reintroduced cuz you will surely have better luck buying them at that time than looting just like it was for most pre cu jedi.
jonaga
Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:35 am
#11
Greddy wrote:
Yes i know its a shame we dont have an FRS, and that premium and flawless pearls do not drop at the moment, but anyway i dont want to beat the pinata too much.
As i understand it, Premium's and flawless pearls and crystals will drop again but it is bugged. What if the Dev team actually intended this because of the delayed FRS? Think about it, they need time to make the FRS, in that time they know they screwed up and now have too many jedi coming through, and completing templates. What they might be doing is trying to give older Jedi a chance to cut ahead in the FRS by making new Jedi being able to not get as good pearls and therefore not as good in fights, and not as good in the FRS, therefore keeping the old jedi happy, as the new jedi try to get good pearls before they can beat older jedi in the FRS. Jedi can still get good pearls and crystals so they can get a good enough sabre to fight well pve and general pvp
My bet is that the better pearls will come back with the FRS
If this is what is going on, the flaw is that some older jedi like myself who unlocked before pub 10 especially, or the Combat downgrade suffer ebcause they did not get all very good pearls.
What do you think?
All these theories of Intentionality and the devs depend on one false premise. That is that the developers are capable of achieve their design and implementation goals successfully.
When, in the history of this game, have they ever done the above?
Scenario One:
The Developers intentionally plan, design and implement a system to turn off loot drop and it works.
Scenario Two:
The CU level system was installed, the MOB drop tables were subsequently bugged and the developers may know how to fix it. However the have not done so yet for various reasons, one of which is another excuse for some new re-vamp.
Which one is more plausable?
Message Edited by jonaga on 09-14-2005 11:36 AM
Greddy
Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:35 am
#12
I think scenario 2. Although my theory is based on them screwing uip, but then trying to use it constructively. 
VaainEldritch
Thu Sep 15, 2005 6:23 am
#13
jonaga wrote:
All these theories of Intentionality and the devs depend on one false premise. That is that the developers are capable of achieve their design and implementation goals successfully.
When, in the history of this game, have they ever done the above?
Scenario One:
The Developers intentionally plan, design and implement a system to turn off loot drop and it works.
Scenario Two:
The CU level system was installed, the MOB drop tables were subsequently bugged and the developers may know how to fix it. However the have not done so yet for various reasons, one of which is another excuse for some new re-vamp.
Which one is more plausable?
Message Edited by jonaga on 09-14-2005 11:36 AM
Ockham's razor swipes again...!
Well done that man there.
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