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Oh man, that really (insert word of choice here). I'm really sorry this happened, especially to such a stand up member of Corbantis. I can't say much as to the state of smuggler (not being a smuggler myself) other than I know that slicing armor is worthless if not damaging to armor except on low end stuff that won't get its hindrance pushed past what the using can mitigate. Unfortunately this event is an example of this problem with smuggler

If I can help you out in game somehow let me know.

Saw a note from some Fan Fest people that the new Slicing Revamp will include the possibility of destroying the item completely. Oh joy, won't that be an exciting mini game.

"Oh sure, I'll slice your UberGun001.. whoops, I destroyed it! Win some lose some. That'll be 5000cr please. Want some spice I stole from a ship last nite?"

I dunno, taking our money making ability and making it ruin items for people sounds bad. It's one thing for customers to deal with a bad slice, but a ruined weapon? That's too much. Wish they'd push it to TC so we could start playing with it to see how bad it'd gonna be.

Egar:

Have you managed to contact a CSR to see if they'll revert it?

If not, then when our slicing system gets fixed (in Publish 18, we hear) then try and bring it back to a smuggler, we may be able to remove any customization on it.

But I still think that a CSR would do something. It's not like you're asking them for a full suit of RIS, just to fix one their system borked.

5477 is the limit for slicing (when using 6000 as the max.) Anything higher and you will go over the hinderance limit. Anything under and you SHOULD be safe, but really what is safe in Smuggler these days? This is just a theoretical limit as I haven't sliced any 5476 or 5478 protection armor. I used the formulas on the Armorsmith boards.

Sorry to hear about your loss, though. There is a lot to learn about Smuggler. We are here to help so make sure to check this board first!

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cpz wrote:

To be honest, the Smugglers who know their trade aren't slilcng anything at the moment

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Not quite true. I don't slice armor. I've found that loot weapons, and mid-grade weapons benefit quite well from a slice. High end weapons still benefit but I'm not certain the effect is worth it. SAC increase sucks. Or at least it did on the few I've tried it with.

I feel your pain.

I sliced a superb set of armour just before the slicing problems were well known and it took me and the customerseveral daysto figure out what had gone wrong. He also ended up with a suit that he couldn't wear, what we did was go 50-50 on replacing as many pieces as we could between us, we had a few friendly and sympathetic crafters help us along it has to be said though.

I spent almost eveything i had and so did he, plus he lost the outlay cost for the armour i wrecked.

I know he petitioned the CSR's, but i don't know what they said, I will ask him next time i play that server. However i don't play that toon right now, it still stings a bit

When I have encumbrance after getting my armor sliced, i never notice any movement or combat penalty.

Message Edited by Scheedo on 06-13-2005 06:59 PM

Please don't forget that not everyone reads all the forums and has full knowledge of every bug in the game. I've been a smuggler longer than most and it wasn't until tonight when I sliced some armor for myself (I almost never slice armor except for myself) that this bug made itself apparent to me. Egar (as a customer) has even less reason to be aware of the bugs with armor slicing.

Neither I as the smuggler nor anyone else as the customer should have to run to the forums to dig through multiple pages of posts to determine if there's currently a bug with any particular skill. It's impossible to keep up with the current status of every bug in the game.

Blame poor programming and worse communication. Both smugglers and customers are the victims of this, and neither should be told they should have known better. They shouldn't have to know better, the problem should be fixed.

I'm curious, has anyone with armor that has been given encumbrance via slicing recieved a reasonable response from a CSR? I've seen posts suggesting contacting them, just wondering if anyone actually has and has been successful in getting the encumbrances removed.

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annelid0 wrote:
Please don't forget that not everyone reads all the forums and has full knowledge of every bug in the game. I've been a smuggler longer than most and it wasn't until tonight when I sliced some armor for myself (I almost never slice armor except for myself) that this bug made itself apparent to me. Egar (as a customer) has even less reason to be aware of the bugs with armor slicing.

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Message Edited by Mentski on 06-14-2005 05:51 AM