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Thread: I dont get it...
Samtha
Wed Sep 15, 2004 8:15 am
#14
Zarchad wrote:
I read many posts on the doc forums about how hard it is being a doc with all the rude customers and how to price buffs.
This is quite odd since I have been a doc for8 months and I have never encounter a single rude person that was related to my doc profession.
During these 8 months I been both a crafting doc and a doc that buys all my stuff so I know both sides of the coin sort of speak.
Am I the only one who didnt become a doc just so I could self-buff or make a ton of money on over priced buffs?
I wear my master doctor title 95% of the time, I earned it so dang it I want to wear it. I get the random /tell from time to time, especially when going throuh busy areas... 99% of them are respectful and asking for a buff....
I dont buff the general public often, but will stop every now and then and buff.... but one thing I truly enjoy doing is ninja disease heals... people wandering around with that ticking away annoy me when there are enough doctors to deal with it with no problems... I regularly see a large percentage of docs out there....
And no, I am not saying that I feel that all other docs should carry a full compliment of meds and heal everyone on sight, just that seeing stuff that is easily taken care of is a personal issue 
So I carry enough basic meds to get teh job done...
I also have no qualms on those who are rude to give them an earful and a denial of service.
SolomanWolf
Sun Sep 19, 2004 7:58 am
#15
Yes the bombardment of "U BUFFIN?" is quite annoying. I have a Wookiee master doctor. I have been a doctor for about 6 months. I rarely turn on my "master doctor" title. I did the usual job of buffing at the starports and it was quite profitable. I tried building my own buffs but found the gathering of resources too time consuming for me. Luckily on Gorath we have some great crafting doctors who build and sell buffs for great prices. So there I was master doc and master pistoleer Wookiee. I originally went doc to be able to buff my own charater. I enjoy the combat aspect of the game and I wanted to be buffed at all times. As time went on I became increasingly annoyed with being a doctor. Not with the profession, but with the players. I spent a lot of time grinding to become a doctor. I don't want to stop what I'm doing and buff you. Most players feel like a master doctor owes them something. They think you are avaliable to buff when they want you. Newsflash, it doesn't work that way. Especially in my own guild, the players annoyed me. When you are one of the few docs in your guild, the other guildmates expect you to be at their service. Never mind that you spent 150k on a set of 32 buffs. They never paid. Never even offered.What have you done for your doc? Why should he buff you for free? Have you given him any resources in trade? So I was losing money coming and going. Solution? I changed guilds, and got a second account. Now my master doctor is mostly support for my second charater (an all combat charater). I log my doc on and buff my TKM, ask if any guildmates need a buff (these guys always offer to pay) and log him off. So what am I saying here? Well, master doc is fun. It's great if you have a good guild where no one takes advantage of you. Maturity of players around you makes a huge differance. If you walk around withyour master doctor tag on, expect a barage of /tells asking for buffs. Tell them it's 50k and they come to you. Or better yet turn your AFK on and create a nice friendly message saying "no". Doc for me is great, I don't ever plan on dropping it. I don't see what SWG could do to make it betterfor us. We are always going to have to deal with the 15 year olds out there. Enjoy the game, turn you tag off and try to have fun.
Zarchad
Mon Sep 20, 2004 12:28 am
#16
SolomanWolf wrote:
Yes the bombardment of "U BUFFIN?" is quite annoying. I have a Wookiee master doctor. I have been a doctor for about 6 months. I rarely turn on my "master doctor" title. I did the usual job of buffing at the starports and it was quite profitable. I tried building my own buffs but found the gathering of resources too time consuming for me. Luckily on Gorath we have some great crafting doctors who build and sell buffs for great prices. So there I was master doc and master pistoleer Wookiee. I originally went doc to be able to buff my own charater. I enjoy the combat aspect of the game and I wanted to be buffed at all times. As time went on I became increasingly annoyed with being a doctor. Not with the profession, but with the players. I spent a lot of time grinding to become a doctor. I don't want to stop what I'm doing and buff you. Most players feel like a master doctor owes them something. They think you are avaliable to buff when they want you. Newsflash, it doesn't work that way. Especially in my own guild, the players annoyed me. When you are one of the few docs in your guild, the other guildmates expect you to be at their service. Never mind that you spent 150k on a set of 32 buffs. They never paid. Never even offered.What have you done for your doc? Why should he buff you for free? Have you given him any resources in trade? So I was losing money coming and going. Solution? I changed guilds, and got a second account. Now my master doctor is mostly support for my second charater (an all combat charater). I log my doc on and buff my TKM, ask if any guildmates need a buff (these guys always offer to pay) and log him off. So what am I saying here? Well, master doc is fun. It's great if you have a good guild where no one takes advantage of you. Maturity of players around you makes a huge differance. If you walk around withyour master doctor tag on, expect a barage of /tells asking for buffs. Tell them it's 50k and they come to you. Or better yet turn your AFK on and create a nice friendly message saying "no". Doc for me is great, I don't ever plan on dropping it. I don't see what SWG could do to make it betterfor us. We are always going to have to deal with the 15 year olds out there. Enjoy the game, turn you tag off and try to have fun.
Heh well, I walk around with my master doc title up most of the time, except for those times I am in a hurry (guild bases under attack or something like that)
Other than that I pretty much walk around with the tag up, yes is has happened a few times that I get a pure tell hell with ppl who wants buffs. No problem, I eat some havla and2 minutes later I have buffed them all. (ok, ok I eat more then 1 havla 
), but most often I get a tell here and a tell there asking for a buff.
), but most often I get a tell here and a tell there asking for a buff.As for payment I often say that they should tip me what they feelits worthbut sometimes I ask for a very low sum (6k), I mean, cash is so easy to get on my ownso why should I ask for a fortune just to buff them?
As for my guild, they want to pay but I refuse to accept lol, they are my guildmates and I want to help them.
What you said in the end is true, enjoy the game! Everyone should play as they want, as long as it dont spoil the fun for others, my playstyle is to help others and I enjoy it very much
Caelrie
Sun Oct 31, 2004 1:49 am
#17
The people who double-sliced got warned before they got banned.
biwan: 
ArctikCamel
Sun Oct 31, 2004 4:10 am
#19
They can't start banning every Jedi who does this. They would lose tons of money. Its all about the paper guys.
-Arctik
Daadian
Sun Oct 31, 2004 4:23 am
#20
I totally agree with this, any exploiter should get banned period, however i think it should work on a 3 warning system. Any 3 warnings could do, it wouldnt have to be all for the same thing.
AriasTheOne
Sun Oct 31, 2004 5:04 am
#22
Unfortunately there are some stupid players out there still that dont know that what they are doing is wrong,so i agree with a warning system..but with this situation i dont think jedi should of gotten a warning..they should of been banned..sure,its about making money with the devs,but its also about keeping the jedi population down
I_Win24
Sun Oct 31, 2004 8:43 am
#23
CaptainWinkii wrote:
u guys forget that 1 ban = 15.99 in lost revenue
This is true but, how many jedi could of possibly been doing this? My guess would be around 1%-10% of the entire jedi population. It seemed this exploit was caught fairly early on and not many people heard of it untill the warnings starting coming. If infact it was such a low number doing this, i dont think it would of hurt SOE to bad to ban them.
Shadowreapx
Sun Oct 31, 2004 8:48 am
#24
I know a few people personally that never got warned and got banned JUT FOR TRYING to double slice IT DIDNT EVEN WORK so you are wrong !!
Halfblood
Sun Oct 31, 2004 9:08 am
#25
I have yet to see a Jedi using this exploit. It must not be easy to reproduce. Are you sure the Jedi you fought and beat you used it? Do you have proof?
I hate to be an ass about it, but if you have proof of someone exploiting, maybe you should post there name and proof. But dont bundle all Jedi together into this Exploiting category.
The only exploit i have used is the bike repair exploit! BAN ME!
iskareot
Sun Oct 31, 2004 11:18 am
#26
Here is what is the facts:
To triple/double yada yada-slice a saber some things have to be done in a tricky manner... i.e. (Put saber in a droid and have traded it) also then making sure the saber didnt get hosed on the way back from the second party (Smuggler) to get it back and then use it again.
(It takes some planning and some tact... sure its lame and it was done back in the day..).. so be it devs said don't do it and all jedi stopped.
(As for the saber power)
To make a strong saber THIS WAS FOUND OUT AS A FLUKE THIS WAS NOT AT FIRST A INTENTION AND KNOWN.. result.
Not only that people posted it was odd but they lost crystals and had no idea why when they made a saber why thier crystals dissapeared. SOME turned in tickets.. of course (WE ALL KNOW HOW REPORTING A "SOMTHING MISSING" ticket ends up.
Now then... this was a bit a of a different type deal..so you make a saber and add some crystals and they are gone.. you see your saber has good damage.. but NO CRYSTALS...? So soon it was a known bug and there you have it.. a mistake made into a killer used weapon..
Thank god though, I was thinking for a minute there , that there was some other uber exploited rifles,stun battons, or geo pistols out there... wheeeeew thank god there isn'... right >?
lol---- that made me laugh... you know its bad when you get hit with eyeshot for 1000 damage...LOL then you have a issue..