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Thread: As shipwrights, what do you dislike about ROTW

CorporalClegg
Mon May 09, 2005 4:48 am
#14

i am appalled that they have introduced the new ships as quest rewards and not as manufacturable items. Five of the recent interviews of SOE staff state roughly "we recognise that the crafting community of SWG is what makes the game unique" and yet they show disdain on us by no giving us items of worth to build.


The Y8 is unusable


Stats on asteroid materials are unusable and borked


SOE's understanding of the games dynamics are untenable



Thinks SOE killed SWG
Thinks SOE are a laighing stock
Thinks Smedley should throw himself on his own sabre
Is disgusted with SOE's changes to the game
Will have his signature deleted and account banned bacause SOE doesnt like people saying they are useless
Joyce
Mon May 09, 2005 6:05 am
#15

One thing I wouldnt mind seeing is that sence the new ships are quest only and as far as I know can only be done once I wouldnt mind seeing a option for shipwrights to create a chassis repair kit which allowed a shipwright to restore the hitpoints of the new high mass versions of the ship.


But the way this could be done is take the repair kit require a regular chasis simular to the ship body so say the high mass x-wing that you get from the quest would require a regular x-wing chasis to restore its hitpoints back to full. And simular things for the other quest versions of the new ships. I would think this would be almost a fair trade off and maybe give crafters a little bit of a market back with some of these new ship frames.




Lorane Stormbringer
Master Droid Engineer
Master Shipwright

canary
Mon May 09, 2005 6:09 am
#16

IIscander,


1) I haven't run any of the ship qwests yet, but from a business standpoint, a schematic would be nice. As mentioned by another, to aquire the AV-21 took an Master Artisian to actually craft the item along with the resources needed. That would seem to be a reasonable course of action for the SW trade. This would allow for the Master SW to utilize the best resources at their current disposal and tailor it to the customer's needs along with making a sale. What better way to continue personalized customer service.


2) As others have mentioned here and in the pilot forums, the Y-8 is practually useless in its' current form. Getting the crew part is not as big as a concern as the ships inability to be used in the manner it was intended for.I'm just assuming one would "expect" the ship to be able to park in front of the astroiod and just blast away. A middle gunner slot under the bridge would makelife a bit easier.


3) The limitations of the non-mp cargo holds at 1k will not be too bad if the Y-8 is overhauled quickly. If that is not in the plans, then I think and increase in the cargo hold to 3k to 5k would be in order.


Just some of my thoughts from the last four days.


Canaryville








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xtxShifter
Mon May 09, 2005 8:42 am
#17

I just crafted a large starfighter cargo hold and I thought you guys would be interested to know that it came out to 1550 storage capacity. The resources it used had only OQ (two asteroid types with 1000OQ) and the recipe called for 50% OQ and 50% UT, so the real cap could be around 2000 units.



Elder Shipwright Ledaio
Kaadara - Naboo
Valcyn

Rypht
Mon May 09, 2005 12:26 pm
#18

Strakes need to be more than just for show, make them an extra weapon mount or something.

Need some new schematics that we can actually build, and not just rehashed old garbage that has been given amazing mass... how about another run of POB ships? I still get people begging me for the Lambda Shuttle. Yes it'd be nice to be able to craft the new ships too, I'd love to see some kind of long drawn out quest for master shipwrights to earn the schematics much like the RIS armor quest.


Space mining is very tedious and slow.


Dire hatred of thetexture kits...


Haven't gotten the Y-8 yet but heard it needs some serious work.


Need more storage space for yetmore materials... can you beg for the structure lot limitsto get upped to 15? *grovel*




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xtxShifter
Mon May 09, 2005 1:05 pm
#19

Thanks.

*crosses fingers and hopes for shifting space resources*



Elder Shipwright Ledaio
Kaadara - Naboo
Valcyn

IIscandar
Mon May 09, 2005 1:09 pm
#20




Need more storage space for yetmore materials... can you beg for the structure lot limitsto get upped to 15? *grovel*







In the state of the shipwright profession, there is a proposal for a new structure. A starship hanger, as sort of a master shipwright only building. The idea would be it has room for 500-1000 items. I'm trying to get away from more small homes placed everywhere and more toward an interesting new stucture.
xtxShifter
Mon May 09, 2005 1:23 pm
#21

I would drop to the ground and /worship devs if they gave us a hanger.



Elder Shipwright Ledaio
Kaadara - Naboo
Valcyn

BonesDragon
Mon May 09, 2005 1:48 pm
#22



IIscandar wrote:
In the state of the shipwright profession, there is a proposal for a new structure. A starship hanger, as sort of a master shipwright only building. The idea would be it has room for 500-1000 items. I'm trying to get away from more small homes placed everywhere and more toward an interesting new stucture.






/drool

Yes, that would be fantastic. Right now my resources occupy my main pack, and a corner of my shop, and all I build these days are chassis. Add to that storing components for RE, which I use a vendor for. It would be so nice to have a building in which I could just PLACE the items. This would be a remarkably useful addition.




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gojimbogo
Mon May 09, 2005 1:59 pm
#23



xtxShifter wrote:
I would drop to the ground and /worship devs if they gave us a hanger.




I'll match that and raise you "I'm not worthy!, I'm not worthy!"



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CommTampers
Mon May 09, 2005 2:10 pm
#24



-(merchant related): Items quit going off sale from vendors. -----Nerf Vendor Vomit.


-"Declassify" the schematics to the new ships.


-Nerf the aquiring of uber components by ground quests involving combat.


-We should be able to build anything we have to fight against; that includes gunboats, corvettes, ISDs.


-Hangers are a great idea.


-Put up a sticky post with pictures of ALL thetexture kits on ALL the ships.


---Would somebody please tell me how the heck to make "clicky" links?



---Until then, we shipwrights should all spam in Kachiro in protest of uncraftable ships. That would probably enwrath the CSRs.


---Read my signature.


Message Edited by CommTampers on 05-09-2005 02:14 PM

Message Edited by CommTampers on 05-09-2005 02:17 PM



Lieutenant Bon ~ Sabre 4 ~ Captain of the Midnight Blue~ Field Doctor
IIscandar
Mon May 09, 2005 2:12 pm
#25



---Until then, we shipwrights should all spam in Kachiro in protest of uncraftable ships.


---Read my signature.







I highly suggest that you DO NOT spam about this or encourage anyone else to spam/protest. This issue has been addressed to the developers in the best way possible.
CommTampers
Mon May 09, 2005 2:16 pm
#26






IIscandar wrote:



---Until then, we shipwrights should all spam in Kachiro in protest of uncraftable ships.


---Read my signature.







I highly suggest that you DO NOT spam about this or encourage anyone else to spam/protest. This issue has been addressed to the developers in the best way possible.






You got it. The CSRs would probably hunt me down KGB style. In the meantime, I'll promote the heavy starter fighters.



Lieutenant Bon ~ Sabre 4 ~ Captain of the Midnight Blue~ Field Doctor
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