Merchant Archive
Thread: Combat Balance Sandbox: Testing Volunteers Needed
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RamhornSWG
Fri Aug 27, 2004 3:40 am
#14
Ok Ill bite...
What change in the combat balance would effect players that place vendors that can be used to sell items?
Well, uh, I think that is the point of having some merchants,to see if there are any changes. It is hard to remember that your primary goal was to drain the swamps, when you are up to your neck in alligators [Murphy's Law #14, which deals with the law of unexpected results]. When they added mounts to the game, why would that effect anything to do with harvesters? Yet, if you rode a mount up to a harvester, in order to take resources off of it, there was about a one in three chance that your resources would simply vanish, existing neither on the harvester nor in your pack. I don't know if they ever got that one fixed, because soon after that the vehicles came out, andvehicles didn't have the same problem.
Hippocratic Oath of Programmers: First, do no harm
Message Edited by LadyGrey on 08-26-2004 10:52 PM
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Very well thought out post. Point taken. 
I am getting this mental image of a "sandbox" with combat professions inside fighting. On the edge of the sandbox is a ring of vendors manned by the best merchants in the galaxy.
All of sudden TH announces that the Ham costs for specials is changing!
A sense of hurried panic sweeps through the merchant testers as they quickly list items for sale.
Luckly the vendors are still working as usual.
Ok Ill stop.
Also, I was a Master Merchant for some time and would be happy to help test any combat changes in terms of vendors.
Message Edited by RamhornSWG on 08-27-2004 03:43 AM
Andymantium
Fri Aug 27, 2004 7:32 am
#15
Better to have a presence, twiddle your thumbs, and have nothing impact you...than to not be there, have something happen, but nobody around to see and report it.
DocSavag
Sun Aug 29, 2004 3:22 pm
#16
Anyone taking part in the combat balance sandbox will be expected to help test the combat changes. None of you are JUST merchants you have other professions as well and they will all be affected by the changes. Merchants themselves will not be directly affected but the economy as a whole undoubtedly will be affected by the changes. Every correspondant is naming 5 people to participate. If you don't feel you can effetively contribute to testing the combat changes that is fine however there will be a TON of things to test when this gets rolling and we will have people in the mix that can help test and also look out for economic changes that need to be discussed.
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