Ranger Archive
Thread: Retrospect.....
JBMat wrote:
I can sum up the entire original post in a short sentence:
Ignore the Rangers
I mean, really - who cares? We are low density, rarely complain, and while we can kick butt and harvest like fiends we get no love from the devs. A few of us have voiced honest opinions and gotten banned for it. We are forced to fight the same fights over the same issues time after time (e.g. - maskscent dropping when entering combat - a fight Brisc won on the Scout board with Greenmarine almost 18 months ago that was resurrected recently) It's not that the Devs don't care - they clearly don't - but they never get bugged too much from us for us to matter. If we were higher density and threatened in l33t speak to leave, they would care. If we go to the Jedi board and whine, they would care; but only if we were Jedi. We are basically non-entities in the grand scheme of things, a source of free gifts to other professions.
I know that I am not selling camo kits for love nor mad credits. The artisans can continue to get eaten by wild durnis and I personally will applaud their deaths. Pass the popcorn please. They want to be all master artisan like, oh well, you get ate by durnis. Until I get free use of rez kits, all the docs can be bantha bait for all I care. Such is game life. If you can't spend your SP wisely, you get ate by chubas.
I am seriously considering not selling anything to anyone.Creds I can get doing missions. Kill enough NPCs and no missions even.
The revamp is after this, and that, then this, then the other... can anyone seriously think it will be this year? I reckon about 2006, maybe June.
Rant, nope. Vent, nope. Honest opinons, yes. Ready for the banning too. Even tho I did not use the "special word" anywhere in here.
JB
btw- Dariane and I know the special word, ask in PMs
Your comments about us not having the density and pull that Jedi do are spot on. Or any other serious combat profession for that matter. I wish this was not the case, however I am not going down without a fight. Guys like you, Fred Skinner, myself, Agonthalia, Phenix, Owen, Delta, Calc, Paks, Aragorn, Kimi, Nem0, and many others have worked too hard to let these issues walk quietly into the wilderness.
We have done all that the Devs have asked of us and more, and you are correct about another thing. I sincerely believe our calm, collected, articulate nature, is going to be our doom. We do not cry and whine like the Jedi, or the Bounty Hunters, or even the IMAGE DESIGNERS, who got a freaking revamp before we did. Explain that, if you will. I will not however, surrender this fight. I am going to do what I can in this forum and anywhere else to see the Rangers live up to their potential.
The problem is that all these revamps needed to happen a year ago, ESPECIALLY ours.
Fixed.
Almagill wrote:
The problem is that all these revamps needed to happen a year ago, ESPECIALLY ours.
Fixed.
Paks I have nothing but love for ya...but ID's getting a revamp before Squad Leader, Smuggler or us was just ridiculous. I still have yet to have anyone point out to me where in the Star Wars universe, Image Designer's come in. Or what part they play. Or anything. IGN and Game Informer even mentioned this. Rangers have SO much potential it's silly. In the GCW, PvP, AND PvE, yet they just keep picking us apart.
My frustration grows when I read what they had on the table for us (new traps, hunting blind) as well as what we had suggested (stealth...TWO years ago, now Rifleman and Jedi/human traps, now roots for everyone) and all of this goes without mentioning one of the best documents any profession has ever seen, in the Outdoorsman Proposal versions 1 and 2.
Anyhoo not ranting...just pointing out what was supposed to be, what should have been and what still can be.......
P.S. Junk Dealers got a revamp before us too. Think I'm kidding.....check it out.....
Rancorrider4 wrote:
P.S. Junk Dealers got a revamp before us too. Think I'm kidding.....check it out.....
Serraphin wrote:
I am obviously behind in my reading but would someone please enlighten me or be so kind as to place a link here that would indicate why we as a community should expect anymore from TIGGS then we have received from GreenMarine or any other Dev?
Thank you
Perfectly legitimate to be doubtful. Hopefully your mind will be changed for the positive in the future.
It is from page to of the following: http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=ranger&message.id=68628&view=by_date_ascending&page=2
PS: If someone could clicky this one it was very well written: http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=ranger&message.id=48183
Message Edited by Serraphin on 05-29-2005 02:24 AM
Personally I think they do need to do this, but with different developers because quite honestly I don't think the current team can do the job. Perhaps it's as simple as the code is so messed up that there is no fixing it and there is nothing they can do but placate the playerbase and keep them around as long as possible.
Until I hear news of an inherent code failure I'm going to stick by the arrogance notion. Nobody likes to be told how to do their job, especially those who aren't very good at it.
I'd bet that's what Thursday was.
mcpryon wrote:
Until I hear news of an inherent code failure....
Serraphin wrote:
Never been good at the clicky but this is a response from Tiggs to us in the thread that orignially welcomed her i believe.
Serraphin wrote:
I am obviously behind in my reading but would someone please enlighten me or be so kind as to place a link here that would indicate why we as a community should expect anymore from TIGGS then we have received from GreenMarine or any other Dev?
Thank you
Perfectly legitimate to be doubtful. Hopefully your mind will be changed for the positive in the future.
It is from page to of the following: Click Meh!
PS: If someone could clicky this one it was very well written: Me too.
Message Edited by Serraphin on 05-29-2005 02:24 AM