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Thread: Heads up. New Dev Q&A on the way.. grab yer shovels and hipwaders....
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Capt_Baobab
Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:10 am
#1
SWG Stratics is pleased to announce this month's House of Commons chat with the Dev Team of Star Wars Galaxies! The Dev Team will be waiting on Stratics IRC, Thursday, August 12th, to answer your questions! The time is 5pm Pacific Daylight Time (8pm EDT/1am GMT).
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But wait! There's more! We had a lot more questions than could be answered during our last Dev Chat, and even received some questions after the chat. We sent them off to the Developers; Thunderheart was kind enough to get us some answers!! Here's a clip:
There is indeed a mechanism to remove players that are not at the keyboards for a certain amount of time the issue is the use of recursive macros. A recursive macro is a macro that executes the set of player commands and then starts over again in a never ending loop. Some players have used this to play “AFK” or “Away From Keyboard”. This dramatically affects players who are present at all times and want to enjoy their gameplay. The change is being made primarily to improve the game world and the presence of players at all time. It is a huge request from many many players. The dev team agrees with them, so we are removing recursive macros and making some adjustments to some of the professions so that the removal isn’t too difficult of a transition for them.
yeah.. riiight. if someone could possibly sit in on this again, and maybe log it for those of us who won't be able to get in on? i need another good laugh/cry.
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But wait! There's more! We had a lot more questions than could be answered during our last Dev Chat, and even received some questions after the chat. We sent them off to the Developers; Thunderheart was kind enough to get us some answers!! Here's a clip:
There is indeed a mechanism to remove players that are not at the keyboards for a certain amount of time the issue is the use of recursive macros. A recursive macro is a macro that executes the set of player commands and then starts over again in a never ending loop. Some players have used this to play “AFK” or “Away From Keyboard”. This dramatically affects players who are present at all times and want to enjoy their gameplay. The change is being made primarily to improve the game world and the presence of players at all time. It is a huge request from many many players. The dev team agrees with them, so we are removing recursive macros and making some adjustments to some of the professions so that the removal isn’t too difficult of a transition for them.
yeah.. riiight. if someone could possibly sit in on this again, and maybe log it for those of us who won't be able to get in on? i need another good laugh/cry.
fishbrains
Mon Aug 09, 2004 10:50 am
#2
why bother with shovels and hipwaders? I'm bringing my M60 and flak jacket 
MISTagent01
Mon Aug 09, 2004 10:53 am
#3
fishbrains wrote:
why bother with shovels and hipwaders? I'm bringing my M60 and flak jacket
*grabs M-16*
*puts on uber hot para-military gear (modified to show some leg!)*
*grabs face paint for camo ops*
*jumps in Humvee and heads for Joras's place*
I'm with you...let's roll out and show those devs we mean business! Wear your Fan Fest Shirt.
P.S. If there is another Fan Fest before we get a revamp, Joras, we'll have to collaborate on shirts.
fishbrains
Mon Aug 09, 2004 10:59 am
#4
MISTagent01 wrote:
fishbrains wrote:
why bother with shovels and hipwaders? I'm bringing my M60 and flak jacket
*grabs M-16*
*puts on uber hot para-military gear (modified to show some leg!)*
*grabs face paint for camo ops*
*jumps in Humvee and heads for Joras's place*
I'm with you...let's roll out and show those devs we mean business! Wear your Fan Fest Shirt.
P.S. If there is another Fan Fest before we get a revamp, Joras, we'll have to collaborate on shirts.
WOOT!
*switches to his camo hawtpants
Smuggler_Caylin
Mon Aug 09, 2004 11:07 am
#5
I sure ain't making this one.
Have fun though, whoever does. 
One of the Four Horsemen of the Smuggler Apocalypse! 
actnjcksn
Mon Aug 09, 2004 11:26 am
#6
Smuggler_Caylin wrote:
I sure ain't making this one.
Have fun though, whoever does.
I wouldn't miss it for the world
It sounds like it's going to be a good'ol time.
Capt_Baobab
Mon Aug 09, 2004 11:28 am
#7
whoever is making this event, please log it for the rest of us?
Chavabegga
Mon Aug 09, 2004 1:47 pm
#9
These are always fun. Never anything really useful comes out of them but sometimes they say something new.
WesBelden
Mon Aug 09, 2004 2:31 pm
#10
I'll probably be there for this one. Had a question answered last time, so who knows, maybe I'll get lucky again this time around . Sorry to see Caylin won't be there this time, was great to see him enter the #starwars chat room.. almost like seeing someone face to face for the first time.. er, in an online chat sense anyways 
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. Sorry to see Caylin won't be there this time, was great to see him enter the #starwars chat room.. almost like seeing someone face to face for the first time.. er, in an online chat sense anyways .The best part is seeing the Devs are alive and real... albeit self proclaimed alcaholics (Hayden anyways ) and more than likely so high on caffine they can't tell their shoes from their ears
) and more than likely so high on caffine they can't tell their shoes from their ears
Ragnaat
Mon Aug 09, 2004 3:43 pm
#11
*wishes wookiees had hawtpants*
fishbrains wrote:WOOT!
*switches to his camo hawtpants
Ah screw it... I'll go nekkid!
fishbrains
Mon Aug 09, 2004 4:41 pm
#12
wookies do it commando style!
Ragnaat wrote:
*wishes wookiees had hawtpants*
fishbrains wrote:
WOOT!
*switches to his camo hawtpants
Ah screw it... I'll go nekkid!
actnjcksn
Tue Aug 10, 2004 12:41 am
#13
Capt_Baobab wrote:
whoever is making this event, please log it for the rest of us?
I should be able to make it and I will try to log it
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