Smuggler Archive

Smuggling is smuggling, land or space.

They have yet to tell us why it is requiring space in order for us to do our profession definining skill.

Last I checked, I didn't see a notice saying 'Smugglers are FUBAR till the Space Expansion, if that is the profession you want to play, I suggest waiting till then.'

I appreciate the effort to update us on these things, but I'm not about to start feeling this is a turn-around point in how they treat our profession.

Yeah we've heard this...most recently from JustG's currently hidden SotG letter.

You're really telling us nothing new...and like Caylin said, they haven't offered up any explanation as to WHY it's going to take JtL to make this happen.

In short, we appreciate your attempt at keeping us up to speed, but we'd REALLY like to know HOW we're going to be smuggling in JtL. That's the important question. Because just giving us ships (which is my nightmare response) ISN'T going to give us smuggling.

But PLEASE keep up the updates, and thanks for thinking of us!

We do appreciate the news, but there is more at stake here than just smuggling now. It's how we've beentreated during the whole process. I think we're not taking any more. And besides, anything the people at fan fest say is geared towards getting applause. They certainly wouldn't say a class won't get something and bum people out. This is a "look what we're going to do!" fest; it's to appease the masses, nothing more. I don't believe that they know how to tell the truth at this point.

Thank you for keeping us in the loop - you've done more in 5 minutes that the developers have done in months.

If this is true all smugglers should get a FREE copy of JTL. No other profession requires the expansion.


Groovykool

Thanks for the heads-up I jsut wish the devs would explain how we smuggler...juts giving me a ship and having me modify it to go faster doesnt make me a smuggler. Keep the updates coming and please please talk to the devs for us...since most of us are leaving smuggler or the game... I fear anything they say such as JustG's little note is too little too late for many of us.

Caylin you are yet another great light in our community being extinguished by the devs... Just as Vader and the Emperor wiped out the Jedi...So too are the Devs wiping out the smuggler community.

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Shrendyc wrote:

We do appreciate the news, but there is more at stake here than just smuggling now. It's how we've beentreated during the whole process. I think we're not taking any more. And besides, anything the people at fan fest say is geared towards getting applause. They certainly wouldn't say a class won't get something and bum people out. This is a "look what we're going to do!" fest; it's to appease the masses, nothing more. I don't believe that they know how to tell the truth at this point.

Thank you for keeping us in the loop - you've done more in 5 minutes that the developers have done in months.

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I understand your frustration -however I should note that while the devs aren't saying things like "oh yeah, we're ignoring that profession" they did tell the player asking about rangers that there was a "balancing act for priorities" and a commando that there "wasn't much support" for commando fixes (he was talking about support in the attitude of the attendees, not among the devs).My interpretation of the comment (again a neutral non-ranger, non-commandoparty here) was that rangersand commandos are just going to have to wait, and that commando might not even be considered broken. On the other hand,my impression of the smuggler comments was generally positive. There was none of the vague "that's something we're looking at" or "we'd really like to see that" type comments.It felt very firm, like getting smuggling in is asignificant developer goal. Of course, this is just my opinion.

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Zelos1 wrote:

I understand your frustration -however I should note that while the devs aren't saying things like "oh yeah, we're ignoring that profession" they did tell the player asking about rangers that there was a "balancing act for priorities" and a commando that there "wasn't much support" for commando fixes (he was talking about support in the attitude of the attendees, not among the devs).My interpretation of the comment (again a neutral non-ranger, non-commandoparty here) was that rangersand commandos are just going to have to wait, and that commando might not even be considered broken. On the other hand,my impression of the smuggler comments was generally positive. There was none of the vague "that's something we're looking at" or "we'd really like to see that" type comments.It felt very firm, like getting smuggling in is asignificant developer goal. Of course, this is just my opinion.

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To echo what others have said: if smuggling requires the space expansion..... then we should all get free copies of it. Any other current professions require the expansion to actually play the content of their profession? "not very compelling" is just a terribly poor excuse - they are trying to justify their complete failure to make smugglers smuggle. Our profession name should be changed to "Slicer" so they can add the real "Smuggler" profession to the space expansion.

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Smuggler_Caylin wrote:

Last I checked, I didn't see a notice saying 'Smugglers are FUBAR till the Space Expansion, if that is the profession you want to play, I suggest waiting till then.'

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Then he:

A) should have said that long ago instead of stringing us along.

B) should outright say it now

C) Shouldn't have included this half-assed profession that, unlike all the other professions, REQUIRES the expansion to be bought to actually play.

It's the misinformation and lack of real communication, and the broken promises of MEANINGFUL communication that are the real crimes here. Instead of discussion the ONLY feedback we get on our proposals is...

"Make it shorter."

What? Can't they read? Do they not honestly have ten minutes to read the 100 page proposal. It really is a quick read. Bulletpointed and everything. Sheesh.

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JTGAlpha wrote:

Then he:

A) should have said that long ago instead of stringing us along.

B) should outright say it now

C) Shouldn't have included this half-assed profession that, unlike all the other professions, REQUIRES the expansion to be bought to actually play.

It's the misinformation and lack of real communication, and the broken promises of MEANINGFUL communication that are the real crimes here. Instead of discussion the ONLY feedback we get on our proposals is...

"Make it shorter."

What? Can't they read? Do they not honestly have ten minutes to read the 100 page proposal. It really is a quick read. Bulletpointed and everything. Sheesh.

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Absolutely.

AO