Player Associations Archive
Thread: Honestly, how long would it take to add a PA Message of the Day?
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Feynan
Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:10 pm
#1
TH or Tiggs, please, please pass this message on to the rest of the development team. It cannot be that hard to assign one person to the task of adding a PAMessage of the Day to the system. It's a (seemingly, at least) very easy thing to add that is necessary for a game that requires so much socialization and organization. For a game that does require these things we seem to be lacking a huge number of tools to aid us in this...the PA system needs work, otherwise it just makes things harder to organize for people and more time-consuming for the organizers, which simply isn't fun.
atytula
Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:02 pm
#2
Aye, I don't see how a combat upgrade will make SWG great without the proper support on the guild system. I can only hope that they have some major changes to PAs that will occur with the combat upgrade, and I also hope MOTD is one of them.
Rothin
Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:05 am
#3
Patience young one, patience! I've submitted our wishlist to them so they do know everything we want and hopefully as things continue to move forward and the new team members further settled in, we may be able to see some of it added. Right now they, their focus is the CU and they're putting almost everything into it. And while it probably wouldn't take a long time to do, asking them to reassign a developer to do this isn't the right answer because I seriously doubt it'll happen. Just know that I have submitted the wishlist and pointed out the things that would be easiest and go the farthest to help us.
Leana_Txorana
Thu Jan 27, 2005 2:39 pm
#4
Since it is so easy, help them out and list every single game sub-system that will be impacted. Cover all the interactions with the other parts of the chat system so they dont have to regression test anything, oh and accept all the heat this will cause all the other things (CU, CGW, Smugglers) that will have to slip when the move a developer from a high priority change to a low priority change.
atytula
Thu Jan 27, 2005 3:05 pm
#5
Leana_Txorana wrote:
Since it is so easy, help them out and list every single game sub-system that will be impacted. Cover all the interactions with the other parts of the chat system so they dont have to regression test anything, oh and accept all the heat this will cause all the other things (CU, CGW, Smugglers) that will have to slip when the move a developer from a high priority change to a low priority change.
I am a smuggler and a PA leader, and it is things like this that is higher priority then the CU, GCW and Smugglers. Without guilds, this game will fall down to nothing, and a simple feature like MOTD will bring guilds up a few notches. As for simplicity to add this, I expect it to take a developer 2 weeks to add the code and another 2 weeks to test, that is not to bad.
I personally think that PAs should get one developer which dedicates his time to making guilds work better, until the point that guilds are the best they can be, since guilds encompasses 90% of the playerbase, whereas CU, GCW and Smugglers encompasses less.
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