Rifleman Archive
Thread: State of the Rifleman -=Sunday Oct 16 2005=-
you may laugh.............but I certainly don't
DaxHerder wrote:
Rifleman definitely needs some tuning. Heck the bugs you mentioned have been around so long I start to think they are there on purpose.. lol. Just accepted it I guess.
Ackehece wrote:
wait and see
one hint which means nothing out of context.
"SWG willbe Action Oriented"
I love obscure hints that I can read volumes into 
My gut tells me this is about Macroing in genreal and AFK-Macroing in particular (everything that folows is pure opinion based on this conjecture). I can see the AFK-grinding Crafters, Jediand whatnot (all the bots) getting angry about this. I agree with your earlier statement that while this would not effect us Rifleman, it would effect the game in a positive maner. It would end the complaints of AFK House Sitting on the BH boards, it would reward the Entertainers that are actually sitting ATK, and make the Crafting game more active.
The only downside I see to this is the Crafting activities that have a partially legitimate reason for being AFK. Since most of the lower-end products available on the Crafting trees are rarely used by the population, there is not going to be a quick way to make Master and actually make credits for the effort - and that could lead to additional Crafter frustration and cause some to abandon the crafting profession...and on some servers it is hard enough to find certain Crafters as it is.
Resolving that issue of making lower end products that no player uses actually ties to Ack's stickied thread on Signiture Mission Terminals, and it could also have a tie to the GCW. If Crafters got a Manufacturing mission to produce X hundred (or thousand) CL 28 rifles for the Rebels or Imperials, or just CorSec or Jabba (or any NPC Faction like Meatlumps or whatever), or some Helmets or Chestplates, or Training Clothing (Tailors) ...the non-Master Crafter could potentially make a modest profit and have some fun on the way. Producing components for a GCW Faction could produce FP, but might expose the Crafter to certain risks (I wont even start to speculate what those might be).
Anyway, we will all just "wait and see" like you suggested.
Since this is a Rifleman thread, I will make a Rifleman comment...drop the Concealment line and give Conceal Shot to Rangers in their Revamp, and make Rifle-Sentients a pure long range Damage Dealer/Nuke. Also, change the name of our profession to RifleSentient, so we arent sexist.
Darth_Spike wrote:
change the name of our profession to RifleSentient, so we arent sexist.
Ackehece wrote:
Uthyr wrote:
Darth_Spike wrote:
change the name of our profession to RifleSentient, so we arent sexist.
Looks like the name of our profession is about to be changed to "Commando" or "Bounty Hunter."
actually I learned today that our skills have migrated to leader