Smuggler Archive
Thread: Disappointed with UI staying the same?
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DigiDante
Tue Jun 21, 2005 3:20 pm
#1
Who else is?
I was told that the system would be a game and have some danger to it... not this "click a button its done, oh but it may break a week or two later" type danger.
I was told that the system would be a game and have some danger to it... not this "click a button its done, oh but it may break a week or two later" type danger.
Ragnaat
Tue Jun 21, 2005 3:25 pm
#2
yes and no...
there was too much hype, they could have erred in the opposite direction and made it too much of a time sink/burden.. to the point where no one would want to do it.
but on the other hand, i would have liked some choices or varity in the interface during slicing... maybe a wider variety of tools / parts that youd need as aftermarket addons, or so variance in outcom instead of a simple 3 staged click through system.
there was too much hype, they could have erred in the opposite direction and made it too much of a time sink/burden.. to the point where no one would want to do it.
but on the other hand, i would have liked some choices or varity in the interface during slicing... maybe a wider variety of tools / parts that youd need as aftermarket addons, or so variance in outcom instead of a simple 3 staged click through system.
Saarek
Tue Jun 21, 2005 3:48 pm
#3
I would have liked a change - something that made slicicng a skill and not mindless clickies.
Zhagadska
Tue Jun 21, 2005 4:32 pm
#4
Saarek wrote:
I would have liked a change - something that made slicicng a skill and not mindless clickies.
while slicing can be a pretty good way of life and a solid way to make a living for a smuggler, it shouldn't be the total focus. if our slicing game is compact and simple and QUICK, then it means that we'll have more time for when real SMUGGLING is one day introduced to actually SMUGGLE!
smuggel...smuggle....omg i cant spell today.
dlc3007
Tue Jun 21, 2005 4:41 pm
#6
I was going to ask about the interface. Perhaps this is why the docs came out of the concept forum.
I'm pleased that slicing will work again and that I'll be able to put my M.Smuggler title back up, but I'm a little disappointed if it is only a matter of clicking menu items.
I'll hope that they are testing the numbers before putting the interface in the TC, but I'm not really expecting it.
HimFan
Tue Jun 21, 2005 4:51 pm
#7
Yea that was the first thing I was pissed about, I opened the slicing menu and boom same old pop up window. 
TimSpork
Tue Jun 21, 2005 4:53 pm
#8
I was shooting for the ID type window with a wirefram of the gun in it but, alas poor slicing I knew it Horatio,a skill of finite use and ability....
no idea why I went into Shakespeare there..... Damn long hours working in a library this stuff is taking over my mind........
Zhagadska
Tue Jun 21, 2005 4:54 pm
#9
TimSpork wrote:
I was shooting for the ID type window with a wirefram of the gun in it but, alas poor slicing I knew it Horatio,a skill of finite use and ability....
no idea why I went into Shakespeare there..... Damn long hours working in a library this stuff is taking over my mind........
something from MacBeth may have been better...
something wicked this way comes?
TimSpork
Tue Jun 21, 2005 5:03 pm
#10
Zhagadska wrote:
TimSpork wrote:
I was shooting for the ID type window with a wirefram of the gun in it but, alas poor slicing I knew it Horatio,a skill of finite use and ability....
no idea why I went into Shakespeare there..... Damn long hours working in a library this stuff is taking over my mind........
something from MacBeth may have been better...
something wicked this way comes?
How about Julius Ceaser?
Friends, Pirates, Smugglers! Lend me your Comms! I come to bury slicing not to praise it. The evil the skills do live after them the good is oft enterred with thier bones, So let it be with slicing. The noble Devs haft told you slicing was advantagous. If it where so it where a grevious fault and greviously haf slicing answered it.
Message Edited by TimSpork on 06-21-2005 07:04 PM
VadenK
Tue Jun 21, 2005 5:17 pm
#12
I am curious to see if slicing will truley be different with different smugglers. If you have to total your 100 custom points, but really find a sweet spot between upping speed and damage to make the weapon actually much more effective. Slicing a n00bs gun for instance, you may want to sink the majority of your points into speed for him, or the legendary MBH on your server wants pure damage or something else thrown in the mix. e.g. will it be 50pts Damage, 40pts Speed, 10pts Acc or something like that for a truley custom weapon.
Zhagadska
Tue Jun 21, 2005 5:25 pm
#13
VadenK wrote:
I am curious to see if slicing will truley be different with different smugglers. If you have to total your 100 custom points, but really find a sweet spot between upping speed and damage to make the weapon actually much more effective. Slicing a n00bs gun for instance, you may want to sink the majority of your points into speed for him, or the legendary MBH on your server wants pure damage or something else thrown in the mix. e.g. will it be 50pts Damage, 40pts Speed, 10pts Acc or something like that for a truley custom weapon.
ideally, every customer will want something special for their way of fighting. but, int he end it is a computer program and limited by so many factors. sooner or later, that magic "sweet spot" will be found and there will be a handful of templates that work best for certain weapons.
but, since this is a MMORPG, the devs can make changes at will just to shake things up 
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