Pilot Archive
Thread: Player Correspondent Opening: Pilot
Ice-Cold
Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:30 am
#66
Tiggs wrote:
Player Correspondent Opening: Pilot
- Are you knowledgeable about the Pilot profession?
- Are you a community leader?
- Can you objectively identify relevant issues and distinguish them from simply passionate arguments?
- Do you like organizing information and corresponding with other members of a community?
umm, am i a community leader? heh, no, I like to stay hiden and crawled up in my own space.. maybe blending into my surroundings like a Chameleon 
why cant we just reinstate the old Pilot Correspondent? he was okay
he was okay
Kitten_Starsider
Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:33 am
#69
Ducimus wrote:
My vote is for
Vegitaa or TomoRainer or Kitten_Starsider
Thanks a lot for considering me
I'd be very happy with either of the other two becoming correspondent as I respect their opinions and I think both would do an extremely good job. Both are also very active players on these and on other boards, indicated by their way higher post count.
I am usually trying to read more than i actually post and only give my opinion if it is required and welcome. Unfortunately,a few posts heretend to be quite predictable if you look at the title (usually the "instant kill" myth threads)
Don't sell yourself short, Ducimus as you are very activewhich makes you a community leader on these boards. I just hope Tiggs didn't mean community leader as ranking/post countbecause that is very hard to reach.
I personally would love to see a correspondent from Starsider though but again this should be no argument for any correspondent just an expression of a wish.
I think I will apply as well, as we won't have an election system which would make it some sort of competiton (i hate politics ) between the pilot community members. I am very flattered that someone actually nominated me
To my mind either of the pilots named above would do a good job which in the end allows all of us to support them and make an effort for the community and the pilot profession in general.
Kitten
Coran_Sienar
Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:46 am
#70
BleuDestiny wrote:
Tiggs wrote:
Player Correspondent Opening: Pilot
- Are you knowledgeable about the Pilot profession?
- Are you a community leader?
- Can you objectively identify relevant issues and distinguish them from simply passionate arguments?
- Do you like organizing information and corresponding with other members of a community?
Are you knowledgeable about the Pilot profession?
- Master Pilot, and "yes."
Are you a community leader?
- The only community leaders around here are the only ones who have input into the game, and that's SOE, who continuously craftsthe game design in the ivory tower vacuum.
Can you objectively identify relevant issues and distinguish them from simply passionate arguments?
- Very well, I'm a 20 year veteran of successful business leadership, but there's no point in doing so as a Correspondent, since their input does not figure into the ivory tower methodology that lead to the game revamp we're being force-fed. The Correspondents didn't like it either and many have left their posts as a result.
Do you like organizing information and corresponding with other members of a community?
- Very much so, but that effort would be wasted, and I see no reason to be disrespected as a Correspondent by SOE. It's worse than a thankless duty, its also one that is ignored, disrespected by SOE's behavior, and lacks any substantive purpose or effect.
I frankly have no idea why anyone would want to bea Correspondent in the SOE SWG team's regime. It's an affront. It's simply a ploy by SOE to give players a sense that they have a voice, when that has time and again proven to be far from the case. Absurd.
QFE
And furthermore, from the JtL Forum:
Well, the first testers have started crafting the new "POB Only" components that are a part of ROTW. When news of these components first leaked, a lot of us were quite excited that POB ships were finally going to be made viable. Sadly, that's not the case, by a long shot. The stats on the new components, even when crafted with high quality resourses, are terrible. The new "Elite" guns are no better than the Level8 reward gun, and are easily outmatched by the level 10 guns that most serious POB pilots are using right now. The new "Elite" shields are only 2700 front/back protection, which is only about 5% better than the level 8 reward shield that everyone gets. Not to mention that RE'd level 10 shields can already surpass 2700 if you're patient. The new "Elite" capacitor is about the same as a decent RE'd level 4 or level 6 capacitor, and the new "Mining Ship" capacitor is about the same as a decent RE'd level 8 cap. The only two decent "POB Only" components are the new Engine andthe new Booster. The new engine can hit 115 speed, though it still has terrible PYR stats, and the new Booster is 65 Speed. Apparently all of these new "POB Only" components are about 250k in mass, so you won't be seeing any of them on fighters. About all these new components will be good for is helping out complete noobs who didn't save any of their loot and quest rewards while working up to ace.
I got the stats for these items from a thread started by Skuzz in the Shipwright Forum. Here's a link to his original post...
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=profshipwright&message.id=17311
What exactly is the point of having these forums that SCREAM with useful suggestions when you're just going to ignore them? 2700 front/back shields on a 250K mass POB ship COMPONENT!? Has any of the JtL Devs taken a good, hard look at the average damage output of a RE'd reward gun per shot!? There's a frickin stickied post with the math that proves that POB ships are sitting ducks and require shields that are at least 5-10 times stronger than the reward shield. It runs for 6 pages!
Ugh.
Message Edited by Coran_Sienar on 04-13-2005 08:47 AM
MonsofoLexius
Wed Apr 13, 2005 2:50 pm
#71
MexicanMafioso wrote:
Monsofo was THE best correspondant i have ever seen. He will be missed.
I guess that mean I am paying for the beers on Friday
MBLAST
Wed Apr 13, 2005 6:25 pm
#72
I just want to wish everyone running for this position lots o' resumé luck. 
SheenaBrelya
Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:01 pm
#73
I held off from applying last time, for multiple reasons. Now that Monsofo has shown me what a great Corro can do, I figured I'd apply and do what I could, if selected, to continue that work. Still, there are some fine player-Pilots around here and I hope the best for whoever gets the job (errr...task...ummm...burden).
Shona
Shona
SwordNMace
Wed Apr 13, 2005 10:18 pm
#74
I'd throw my hat in the ring in the (probably misguided and futile) hope that I could lobby the other correspondents and push for a positive change. Although, Even if we do get a miraculous turn-around, it's probably too late. I've waited for nearly eighteen months for some portions of this game to improve. I'm done waiting. Rather than add consistent content or fix the critical issues, the Devs have turned this game into a marketing tool for Revenge of the Sith. Kinda sad, really.
SwordNMace
Thu Apr 14, 2005 7:29 am
#76
psikobunny wrote:
SwordNMace wrote:
the Devs have turned this game into a marketing tool for Revenge of the Sith.Incorrect. LucasArts has told the SWG dev team that they need to have something done to tie in with Revenge of the Sith. There is a BIG difference. Blame the devs for bad code and bad implementation, do not blame them for coporate level decisions they have no control over.
Does it really matter who's responsible? Either way, the responsible party has taken the potential for greatness away from this game and left us with a lame promotional tool. If they wanted to integrate Episode II and III content, why not set the game between those two movies? Our experiences ingame could've helped shaped a story that wasn't fully written yet. Instead, they've taken a part of the story that's been told already and tried to shoehorn in a bunch of shlock.
Matthevv
Thu Apr 14, 2005 9:27 am
#77
I would love to be a correspondent! I think honestly we should have 3 per server though. one for Rebel, one for Imperial and one for privateer. I'd nominate myself for the imperial one (of course) taverain for reb and evvo for neut. I have been working hard on making space worhtwile. And am currently admiral of the Imperial Guards navy, and we are very active in space.
psikobunny
Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:09 am
#78
That would be something like 78 new corrospondents. This has to be the most ridiculous idea I've heard all week. Hope you do apply, I think Tiggs could use a laugh. Since I didn't recall seeing your name before, ever, I checked you post log. 10 recent posts in the pilot forum does not a corrospondent make I'm afraid.
Matthevv wrote:
I think honestly we should have 3 per server though.