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No, they didn't.

Does it bother anyone else that yet one more thing requires loot drops, with the best things required for your profession coming from high-level MOB's?

Smuggler is a little bit combat, a little bit crafting, and it seems more and more that crafting is taking it in the backside because of the amount of loot drops required for it, loot drops unobtainable by crafters. As a crafter/smuggler, I'm out of luck. I'll have to pay the obscene prices people will be asking for these tools.

Did anyone stop to think that maybe, just maybe, having Smuggler specific quests for these items instead of loot drops (what in the hell does a Krayt dragon need with a slicing tool!) might be the way to go? How hard is it to write Profession Quests? The tools are all there, I've seen them and played them and with just a little thought and creativity, Smuggler Quests with these tools as a reward could easily be made! You could tie the difficulty of the quest to the level of the tool, and have NPC's like Borvo, Jabba, and....that guy Mara Jade worked for, name slips my mind....give them out "if you do this one favor for me".....

No, apparently they didn't, and once again content is locked out of a large portion of the player base simply because of the short-sightedness of the Development team. Krayt Dragons? Come on.....

I don't mind interaction with others, but I domind forced interaction with others. MMPORPG doesn't mean I should HAVE to play with all the others online and I resent the fact that I can't enjoy this game without being a CL80 PC with a large group of people to game with. All the people I gamed with left the game months ago and are fearful of coming back to a game that, more and more, resembles a certain other SOE product (and I hate saying that, but others were right. I just didn't see it until recently).

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Romulus76 wrote:

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PikechickLei wrote:

As I'm cruising around the forum, I'm starting to get this impression that Starsider was simply missed when they did the database sweep and tagged the kits to be salvagable. If you are a Starsider smuggler, and if you had uncrated kits on hand before the patch last night, please post here if you've been able to convert them or not.

I really believe we were simply overlooked, and hopefully we can call attention to this.

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This is not limited to StarSider, I have over 1000 clamps, wuks, auks, and plk's that are worthless, not one has a salvage option.

On a good note, I looted 2 Delicate Trigger Mechanisms (1 off CL 85 NS Stalker, 1 off CL 82 NS Ranger) and 1 Mandalorian something or other (armor slice I assume) off a NS Elder.

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I got a reply from a CSR today regarding this. Gave the usual "devs are aware of the problem and are trying to fix it, please be patient" bull.

What always amases me, as a programmer myself, is where they say the devs are "TRYING" to fix it. Whenever I write a program, however complicated, if there's a bug stopping something from working there is no such thing as "trying". The bug is either because I tried to get the program to do someone beyound its capabilities or because I simply made a mistake. 9 times out of 10 its a mistake ... so I don't "try" to fix it, I know exactly where in the coding the bug is likely to be, go into it find the error and fix it.

This game's downfalls are a result of one good coder, GreenMarine, and a bunch of other idiots faffing about with "oh lets do this" .. "wait lets not, lets do that!" so ultimately nothing gets done.

The team leaders need to get new jobs.

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Solidous wrote:

Or not the only one. Yesterday I tried to convert the upgrade kits and there wasn't a salvage option for me either and I'm on the Bria server.

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Message Edited by Mentski on 06-30-2005 08:43 AM

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darkstar1313 wrote:

shadowfire here...no salvage

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