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Thread: Welcome to the Rumor Mill Rangers
Buffs - There was a question entertains had about expanding mind buff time limits to 3 hours like doc buffs. TH hinted that buffs will be changed, but didn't hint if they'd be shortened by time or buff max.
Armor - Suppose to be a 60% max on all resists. All armor will be changed, so no pre-nerf armor. RIS, BH and Mando armor are lightsaber resistant.
Jedi - Won't become bounties on BH terms until they reach Initiate. No Force Sensitive bounties. Getting nerfed big time.
Bounty Hunters - There are no plans to make bounty difficulty or payouts higher at the Master level. Jedi bounty missions fixed. Log off/Log on exploit being fixed. Battlefield exploit being fixed. The SP requirements for Mastering are being lowered. Fastblast will continue to be useless. We get no love from the dev's.
Smugglers - There are no plans to place bounties on them after they get their revamp. They'll never actually get to "smuggle" anything and will not getspecific content out of the SE. They get no love from the dev's.
Combat Rebalance - 3 second time limit between changing weapons and armor. Going to completely change the game play as we know it. The answer to everything that's currently wrong with the game. TH's answer to all the 19 questions.
/shrug Never had a music or dance buff lol. Doc buffs are way too powerful. I am not a combat profession but I can take out 5 Stormtroopers no problem when I am buffed without pets. Thats just wrong.
Armor - Suppose to be a 60% max on all resists.
Cool
All armor will be changed, so no pre-nerf armor.
Thank God!
RIS, BH and Mando armor are lightsaber resistant.
Cool. BH armor is pretty common though. Not sure that should get the resists.
Jedi - Won't become bounties on BH terms until they reach Initiate.
Cool, I guess. Padawans with no armor = dog meat. Will be a lot of magic wand waving though!
Edit: That made no sense. Initiates are the ones with no armor. Padawans I believe can still have the reg professions? They are pretty powerful if they are defense stacking I've found. See LS Novice comment below. Sucks for the Initiates who have to give all that up though.No Force Sensitive bounties.
Good. Don't want those FS crafters getting whacked everytime they craft an item!
Getting nerfed big time.
Never been a live Jedi so don't know. From what I see on TC though I would guess not. Me and four other unbuffed unarmored Lightsaber novices were pretty much taking out Nightsisters right and left looking for crystals.
Bounty Hunters - There are no plans to make bounty difficulty or payouts higher at the Master level.
Cool. Makes sense - just because the Bounty Hunter has changed doesnt mean the bounty itself has changed.
Jedi bounty missions fixed. Log off/Log on exploit being fixed. Battlefield exploit being fixed.
Good
The SP requirements for Mastering are being lowered.
Good. Never understood how mastering scout was supposed to help you.
Fastblast will continue to be useless.
What the heck is "Fast-blast"? Lol!
We get no love from the dev's.
Untrue if the above bug fixes are true. The devs love everyone. Unfotunately they have schedules and Real Lives, damn them!
Smugglers - There are no plans to place bounties on them after they get their revamp.
/shrug. They have to work out player bounties first I guess. As soon as they get the Jedi missions bug-free maybe they will work on this if there is the demand. Sucks for the non-PvPers though. They will not be able to access a lot of the content.
They'll never actually get to "smuggle" anything and will not get specific content out of the SE.
Untrue. The devs specifically stated in the forum that the reason they pushed back the revamp was because they see smuggler as mainly a space profession. They want to work out space before they add the smuggler content.
They get no love from the dev's.
What, not ever?
As far as I know they are on GreenMarine's schedule after space. Then maybe us. Or SL. I can't remember.Combat Rebalance - 3 second time limit between changing weapons and armor.
Ok
Going to completely change the game play as we know it.
Definitely
The answer to everything that's currently wrong with the game.
Is this sarcasm or a real rumor? I doubt it will fix everything in the game but it will get rid of some of the combat monsters I hope and make people unable to solo con red creatures. But we can only hope.
TH's answer to all the 19 questions.
Poor guy. I bet the drafts of his posts read like the CIA files. Censored by the boss!
These are my opinions. I doubt you'll get any real facts from posting this in the forums. But speculating is always fun.
Message Edited by Vorpaks on 06-09-2004 07:11 PM
Message Edited by 1000thghost on 06-09-2004 04:28 PM
1000thghost wrote:
Hi everyone,
If your like me you want to weed out the facts from the rumors so I'm starting these posts in multiple forums.
Please add any that you have heard and answer any that you can. Thanks fellow gamers.
The following arerumorsnot facts, until confirmed otherwise:
Buffs - There was a question entertains had about expanding mind buff time limits to 3 hours like doc buffs. TH hinted that buffs will be changed, but didn't hint if they'd be shortened by time or buff max. Have not heard anything about this, but I"m sure they will get lowered, since every defence is from the CB.
Armor - Suppose to be a 60% max on all resists. All armor will be changed, so no pre-nerf armor. RIS, BH and Mando armor are lightsaber resistant. Have not read numbers like this, but that for sure all armor will get defences/stats lowered at CB, and all new armor will of course be lower. Just armor stats in general will be lower after CB.
Jedi - Won't become bounties on BH terms until they reach Initiate. No Force Sensitive bounties. Getting nerfed big time. True. There will be no Force Sensitive bounties. Trust me, I thought of this and was concerned right off the bat, so I watched/read for info on this. It was confirmed from one of the Jedi archive posts, that Jedi will not show up on BH terms until after the trials.
Bounty Hunters - There are no plans to make bounty difficulty or payouts higher at the Master level. Jedi bounty missions fixed. Log off/Log on exploit being fixed. Battlefield exploit being fixed. The SP requirements for Mastering are being lowered. Fastblast will continue to be useless. We get no love from the dev's. Have only read from devs that they are currently working on these and related bugs right now on TC2 where the jedi are playing/testing. They are about to drop BH on the TC to test the BH/Jedi stuff.
Smugglers - There are no plans to place bounties on them after they get their revamp. They'll never actually get to "smuggle" anything and will not getspecific content out of the SE. They get no love from the dev's. No idea about this at all.
Combat Rebalance - 3 second time limit between changing weapons and armor. Going to completely change the game play as we know it. The answer to everything that's currently wrong with the game. TH's answer to all the 19 questions. This also is data coming from what devs said at Fan Fest. That there will be a 3 second delay to equip or unequip armor. So you throw on one peace, and have to wait 3 seconds to put on next peace. As for weapons, I know from Dev info, that weapon size will effect how fast you move. Example, carrying a rifle means you run slow, carrying a pistol means you run faster. And along with that, equiping/unequiping weapons, will be put into the combat que.
Hmmmm... Calc and Hotpants.... now there is a rumor I would love to explore!
Trandos are the only species that actually look good in those things. Well, sorta good. 
We'll have to pants him next Ranger Meet and find out!Soooo... anyone want to start some rumors? Hehe. I hear Rangers are getting the stealth ability in their revamp. The devs are really excited about it! And.... lets see... (flips through the Outdoorsman proposal) I heard from the mmother's brother's roomate of a reliable source that they are already working on something called "modular camps" for us - they sound really cool! And they are almost fully coded! And won't disband in combat!
Vorpaks wrote:
I overstated the smugglers in space, the devs said that they strongly feel some aspects of smuggler should be done in space. See here for the post: http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=smuggler&message.id=92465
Hmmmm... Calc and Hotpants.... now there is a rumor I would love to explore!
You want to explore my hotpants?!?!?
Soooo... anyone want to start some rumors? Hehe. I hear Rangers are getting the stealth ability in their revamp. The devs are really excited about it! And.... lets see... (flips through the Outdoorsman proposal) I heard from the mmother's brother's roomate of a reliable source that they are already working on something called "modular camps" for us - they sound really cool! And they are almost fully coded! And won't disband in combat!
Be careful what you say becuase people will believe it
Calculus_Entropy wrote:You want to explore my hotpants?!?!?
You don't want to know how many /forage jokes I'm holding back right now.
Message Edited by Vorpaks on 06-10-2004 01:33 PM
Calculus_Entropy wrote:
You want to explore my hotpants?!?!?
/areatrack
you find nothing in the surrounding area...
^just joking lol
(now i know what people are talking about when they talk about how their post got submitted by just pressing a button)
Calculus_Entropy wrote:
Vorpaks wrote:
I overstated the smugglers in space, the devs said that they strongly feel some aspects of smuggler should be done in space. See here for the post: http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=smuggler&message.id=92465
Hmmmm... Calc and Hotpants.... now there is a rumor I would love to explore!
You want to explore my hotpants?!?!?
Soooo... anyone want to start some rumors? Hehe. I hear Rangers are getting the stealth ability in their revamp. The devs are really excited about it! And.... lets see... (flips through the Outdoorsman proposal) I heard from the mmother's brother's roomate of a reliable source that they are already working on something called "modular camps" for us - they sound really cool! And they are almost fully coded! And won't disband in combat!
Be careful what you say becuase people will believe it
How often does a red name show up outside of the new forums we cant post in? Only reply to. Not even TH who is supposed to be our liason, hardly posts in the profession forums. So rumor is all we have.