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Thread: State Of The Smuggler Profession! (READ)
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ColonelRechna
Fri Aug 06, 2004 6:48 pm
#1
Ok this is a post i just placed on the Smuggler Revamp board, but i feel it needs a new thread, and it will get more exposure with this title (hopefully)
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It feels so good to be back!!!
Im actually glad to see im not the only one around here who is becoming a little less then faithful in the SWG dev team. I swear half the things in this game that are broken (ie: IMPERIAL COMMANDERS CAP) have been broken since launch or not to far after launch. In the meantime we have a full blown profession revamp underway (JEDI...btw F.U.C.K JEDI). While the Jedi revamp is being brought about the dev team has no time to change any of the other gaming systems because theyre all too lazy (dont listen to what they say about not having the time...**edit** i know if i had work to do where i work and i couldnt get it done id work *GASP* OVERTIME).
This game has deteriorated because of the (yes im saying it) JEDI and all you Jedi that wanna trump all over me for saying so....take a moment and think. When you bitched about not being able to deal a damage type that is UNBLOCKABLE BY ANYONE....well in a matter of a couple weeks you got your request. Second example, you complain about the fact that you need to hide while grinding. My opinion, KEEP IT THAT WAY! Jedi were NEVER meant to be out in the open in ANY of the Star Wars storylines. Hell im reading Heir to The Empire right now and Leia, Luke, Mon Mothma and the rest of the crew are....you guessed it. IN HIDING! But noooo....you guys got your TEFs removed with a simple request to the dev team. You know i wish the smuggle rprofession had gotten some of the leeway thats been granted to the Jedi, in respects that the Jedi make a demand and its met. Why cant, after our hundreds of pages of threads, we get even as much as an IMPROVEMENT to some of our current skills? Must we be floating the Jedi tag above our heads in order to be able to get what we want?
This has gone on for FAR too long and needs to be stopped. The smuggler revamp CANNOT and MUST NOT wait until after jump to lightspeed. What about the people who want to be smugglers and do not wish to participate in JTL? In essence what you are saying is an *OPTIONAL* expansion pack will now be REQUIRED if you wish to smuggle. Amazing, ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. I do understand that EVERY business is in business to MAKE MONEY. But how can you sit there and justify these actions? You are in every aspect of the word, deceiving the customer. Making them think they dont need to buy the expansion then when they go to the smuggler mission terminal they get a message "please purchase our expansion at the LOW price of $29.99. And thats where any SANE human being would CANCEL their subscription.
(Sidenote: I, for one, AM going to be buying the expansion. But im here defending the people who dont wish to spend the money/dont want the expansion.)
You would rather hang on to a smaller base of players (JEDI) then hang on to the MAJORITY of your players. I think in the next "State of the Game" letter you post on the main page, somewhere in that letter should be "This game will be progressing to making everyone a jedi and all other professions WILL be disregarded." As i see it right now the state of this game is HORRID and if i hear one more F.UCKING jedi complain about why they are repeatedly looked down upon im gunna explode. The games gotten worse and worse and wont be getting better anytime soon.
_____________________________________________________________
It feels so good to be back!!!
Im actually glad to see im not the only one around here who is becoming a little less then faithful in the SWG dev team. I swear half the things in this game that are broken (ie: IMPERIAL COMMANDERS CAP) have been broken since launch or not to far after launch. In the meantime we have a full blown profession revamp underway (JEDI...btw F.U.C.K JEDI). While the Jedi revamp is being brought about the dev team has no time to change any of the other gaming systems because theyre all too lazy (dont listen to what they say about not having the time...**edit** i know if i had work to do where i work and i couldnt get it done id work *GASP* OVERTIME).
This game has deteriorated because of the (yes im saying it) JEDI and all you Jedi that wanna trump all over me for saying so....take a moment and think. When you bitched about not being able to deal a damage type that is UNBLOCKABLE BY ANYONE....well in a matter of a couple weeks you got your request. Second example, you complain about the fact that you need to hide while grinding. My opinion, KEEP IT THAT WAY! Jedi were NEVER meant to be out in the open in ANY of the Star Wars storylines. Hell im reading Heir to The Empire right now and Leia, Luke, Mon Mothma and the rest of the crew are....you guessed it. IN HIDING! But noooo....you guys got your TEFs removed with a simple request to the dev team. You know i wish the smuggle rprofession had gotten some of the leeway thats been granted to the Jedi, in respects that the Jedi make a demand and its met. Why cant, after our hundreds of pages of threads, we get even as much as an IMPROVEMENT to some of our current skills? Must we be floating the Jedi tag above our heads in order to be able to get what we want?
This has gone on for FAR too long and needs to be stopped. The smuggler revamp CANNOT and MUST NOT wait until after jump to lightspeed. What about the people who want to be smugglers and do not wish to participate in JTL? In essence what you are saying is an *OPTIONAL* expansion pack will now be REQUIRED if you wish to smuggle. Amazing, ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. I do understand that EVERY business is in business to MAKE MONEY. But how can you sit there and justify these actions? You are in every aspect of the word, deceiving the customer. Making them think they dont need to buy the expansion then when they go to the smuggler mission terminal they get a message "please purchase our expansion at the LOW price of $29.99. And thats where any SANE human being would CANCEL their subscription.
(Sidenote: I, for one, AM going to be buying the expansion. But im here defending the people who dont wish to spend the money/dont want the expansion.)
You would rather hang on to a smaller base of players (JEDI) then hang on to the MAJORITY of your players. I think in the next "State of the Game" letter you post on the main page, somewhere in that letter should be "This game will be progressing to making everyone a jedi and all other professions WILL be disregarded." As i see it right now the state of this game is HORRID and if i hear one more F.UCKING jedi complain about why they are repeatedly looked down upon im gunna explode. The games gotten worse and worse and wont be getting better anytime soon.
ColonelRechna
Fri Aug 06, 2004 11:20 pm
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feel free to post any other rants or comments, id like to see what everyone else thinks about this.
Tomarr
Sat Aug 07, 2004 1:07 am
#8
personally I think its perfect. SWG is going to become something like KOTOR....
Nicolas_Frost
Sat Aug 07, 2004 1:20 am
#9
Yes, but durring the timeline of KotOR, Jedi *were supposed to be* common. Durring this timeline, they're *not supposed to be* common.
KyrainMcLeod
Sat Aug 07, 2004 2:43 am
#10
Jedis got their TEFs removed...
Jedis got their Perma-Death removed...
Jedis got a unblockable weapon...
Wookies got their armor...
(Things that were never supposed to happen when SWG was published)
Chefs got their food enhanced...
Bounty Hunters got their prerequ's lowered...
Pistoleer got some nice new weapons (Geo, DE-10)...
Entertainers got heir buffs...
(Creature Handlers got beaten down as hard as possible...)
Smugglers got.... buggin Colorwindows when slicing Compo
their spice faded into nothingness
I think I missed a few things, feel free to add things
Dakc
Sat Aug 07, 2004 3:01 am
#11
Amen, soooooooooo any Dev's wish to comment??????
as a novice smuggler i have to agree with all of the above, but i have to ask **edit** is the Underworld branch there for?????????/ dose any other profession have a useless branch on there tree???
Egowyn
Sat Aug 07, 2004 5:26 am
#12
KyrainMcLeod wrote:
Jedis got their TEFs removed...
Jedis got their Perma-Death removed...
Jedis got a unblockable weapon...
Wookies got their armor...
(Things that were never supposed to happen when SWG was published)
Chefs got their food enhanced...
Bounty Hunters got their prerequ's lowered...
Pistoleer got some nice new weapons (Geo, DE-10)...
Entertainers got heir buffs...
(Creature Handlers got beaten down as hard as possible...)
Smugglers got.... buggin Colorwindows when slicing Compo
their spice faded into nothingness
I think I missed a few things, feel free to add things
dont forget the image designers got the exculsive ability to stat migrate.
ohh and a quick few coments,
jedi bring back permadeath
bring back TEF
and hell a lightsaber should have been unblockable from the get go
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