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The Infamous Caylin Borealis - First Master Smuggler on Bria
One of the Four Horsemen of the Smuggler Apocalypse!
:The Ghost with the Most:

As much as I appreciated Thunderheart responding to my question, he still really didn't answer it. Is the Smuggler revamp going to come after the GCW and Combat revamps or before? I think it makes a huge difference, time wise. If it's before, then yeah Feb. sounds about right, if after we're looking at July...2 years from when the game was launched and smuggler was broken

I think when he says the same timeframe, he means "after JTL." Well, that could be anytime. I don't think we will see a revamp until at least late spring of next year.

Michi Mi'i
Stalker of Hypocrites (retired)

The smuggler revamp is at least 1 year off from JTL. Each of these major revisions to the current system: Jedi Trials, JTL, combat revamp, GCW revamp, will add bugs and balance issues of their own, all requiring additional patching. Couple that with the fact that - if EQ is any indication - it will be SOE's goal to release a new expansion pack (if not two)every year for the life of the product.

We're a back burner issue for them. We may not even be on the stove at the moment. Not enough people want to be smugglers like they want to be a jedi or pilots.

If the smuggler revamp is a make or break issue for you, then it might be time to find a new game to play.

Guys, we are not going to receive a revamp, bug fixes, or new spices. Its just not going to happen. STOP putting money on a certain date, or trying to figure out which publish we'll be in, or when we will be following what or which. I can give you that answer.

Ready?

Here it comes....

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius --- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. "

I'm inclined to agree with fallingdown. It's going to be a LOOOOOONG haul to get to our revamp if we have to wait until after the combat balance and the GCW.

The questions are: "DO we have to wait until after those two revamps?" and "Should we wait until after those revamps?"

Is the smuggler profession going to be a big impact to what they are going to do to the GCW? I mean they don't even know what they are going to do with it.

Also, are they going to be using those lists that they made the corrospondents do to make "hot fixes" until the fabled revamps?

And what the hell is supposed to be happening to prepare the "ground game" for JTL?

Man, I wish I could get in on that stratics tonight.

Until you've been in the industry, you wont know what a bunch of liars and back stabbers devil-opers are. Welcome to my world.

And to all those that say be patient, I'm tired of being patient.

I am an SOE customer, now only if they'd treat me as one...hell, I'd be happy if they treated me like a McDonald's customer.

I wholeheartedly agree with Shrendy. Why? Because we have ZERO evidence to point to the contrary! After more than a year of constant, reasonable feedback, what do we have to show for it? All the same bugs, some nerfs (Panic, Feign Death, etc.), hollow & broken promises and no dev attention whatsoever. Sure, GreenMarine deigned to grant us a moment of his time, but it was unpaid time and he's not permitted to DO ANYTHING until after the Jedi fixes, the rebalance, endlessrebalance fixes, JTL, more endless JTL fixes, and then all the higher-priority profs get their turn (BHs, Jedi again, etc. ad nauseam).

So one-star us if you like, but your patience and passive waiting offers exactly what the dev team wants, it puts you on the backburner until you raise a stink with your wallet.

Zz ("Sorry Virginia, there may be a Santa Claus, but the Smuggler revamp is a fairy-tale.")

I'm all kinds of frustrated today. The combat balance was the last tiny piece of rope holding the piano of the game system from falling on all of us. No all I hear is wood breaking and strings whipping around.

The affect on the amuggler revamp is so incredible. We literally went from getting a few lame fixes this month, to not getting anything for 6 to 8. I feel like we should have taken the original revamp plan and thanked them for assigning the monkeys they have trying to type out shakespeare to fixing us up a bit. Then we still could have begged for a revamp next year but now we got nothing. No spices to sell, broken pistol specials, uncontrollable slices and skills to help fight a GCW that has ground to a halt thanks to the new super-jedi. Since pub 9 I haven't sold a single person fp and the other day I had to resort to running missions! MISSIONS! I'd drop smuggler but its not like any of the other professions are any fun right now either.

What does it take to hire more developers? You keep missing goal dates, you add more staff. Its not like they don't have the money that we've all given them.

So anyone have a creative way to stay in business as a smuggler until they fix us some time in the dim future?

Antonius Ordnung
Master Smuggler, Master Commando (Thanks NGE!)
Resident of Shadow Impire, Lowca
Colonel, Imperial Supply Office / Master Pilot, Corsec
Captain of the YT-1300 "Overdue Revamp"

Phoenix Orion - Master Smuggler, Master Teras-Kasi, Scoundrel, Rogue & Entrepreneur
Owner, Operator - Orion Transport Company (-3579,4347), outside Theed, Naboo - Clamps, Knives, AUK's, WUk's & Spice!
Slicing: 5000cr/Item Faction Point Sales: 15k/100fp (1 day notice by email necessary!)
(Known Rebel Terrorists and people who contact Zarrn Orion for Smuggler Services are automatically Blacklisted.)

V E E L A "her royal hawtness"
I am Jack's Smirking Revenge. I am Jack's Ignored Profession.
Theed was a bustling commerce city...people hawked their wares, danced, laughed, dueled, and had a rollicking good time. Cantinas packed with Entertainers of every race, shape and size...along with scoundrels, Stormtroopers, and drunks. People grouped up and stuck together in the wilderness, and you ALWAYS took a Scout or a Ranger with you. We lived our own Star Wars saga. We created our own personas, our own histories, and it all blended into this wonderful, magical experience that I will always remember...

That magic is gone now, but I'd pay 50 bucks a month to have it back.

Editor's Note: The author of the above post has quit giving SOE her money. She suggests you do the same, because this game will never be what you want it to be.

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Drekkenkoe wrote:

I'm scared at where this is going... I just hope the good intentions pan out... otherwise there will have to be a SWG summit like the EQ one

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We are already planning a correspondent summit for the Combat Balance already. One of the things I am doing today is working out dates and times.

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The Infamous Caylin Borealis - First Master Smuggler on Bria
One of the Four Horsemen of the Smuggler Apocalypse!
:The Ghost with the Most:

I happen to agree with Shrendyk...it will never happen.

Each time the seem to give us nothing but lip service. Hell they even blatently lied about working on it for Publish 9...they obviously never started.

I do believe I'm done with SWG...and I started way back 3 months before live. I've done my time being patient with them and supporting them with my money.

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Smuggler, Smuggler, Smuggler Pie, Two years of "Soon"(TM), a harsh bunch of lies.
Ask me a riddle and I reply: "Smuggler, Smuggler, Smuggler Pie"

Smuggler, Smuggler, Smuggler Pie, Dancers can't smuggle and neither can I.
Ask me a riddle and I reply: "Smuggler, Smuggler, Smuggler Pie."

Smuggler, Smuggler, Smuggler Pie, Why are there Jedi, I don't know why.
Ask me a riddle and I reply: "Smuggler, Smuggler, Smuggler Pie."

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