Smuggler Archive
Thread: Why I support the NEW LOOT-SLICE system :)
Is that certified? because well, Veela... She's probably got a plaque or trophy or sceptre or something attesting to her hawtness...
Saarek wrote:
AngusMacGregor wrote:
MISTagent01 wrote:
Me neither. I think someone reported me...that's the only way I could have gotten it deleted.
/shrug
Maybe a Jedi reported me because I compared us to them.
More likely because you're not posting in pink.... just a thought.
ROFL.
I love you guys. Angus, Hotdog, Keck, and of course you too Veela. You guys are like mirror images of my thoughts opinions, and sometimes attitude. You're just so much fun to post with.
But I do have to declare that I am the best looking one out of us all. Sorry.
Just thought I'd throw that out there.
maxtheusher wrote:
I'd like to thank GM first off, for being there for our profession in whatever way he can be.
- There's no way that big slices will be that significant. The Dev team seems committed to maintaining the damage cap. Until that goes away, your 60% T4 slices just aren't happening. Given the current situation, 12% on a decent weapon looks generous.
- We'll need our customers to supply the looted parts, at which point we've lost all our negotiatingleverage. If a guy spends 2 million credits on a loot bit, he's not going to pay you a significant amount to attach it to his weapon. He'll find his friend Joe Smugglerand have it done for free. Talk to crafters in WoW if you don't believe me.
- We're far more dependent on other players than before. We used to be angry that we needed WS/AS support in order to get Upgrade Kits. Now we'll need to kow-tow to JEDI defenders in order to get any significant loot drops. Yup! The same Jedi that we regularly hate on.
- Large dungeon raid groups needed for grabbing parts from the DWB/Corvette/Avatar? Ok.. sure. Mando is tough to get too, and people manage to put that together. OH WAIT, Mando winds up in PA halls as decor, since collective efforts are for collective gain. One slice to disperse among 6 players? Good luck with that.
Message Edited by BaronJuJu on 06-24-2005 01:00 AM
MaxSteele wrote:
Daturaze wrote:
Fair enough Evarn,
I spent time as a weaponsmith myself and brother did I learn to hate that profession!
What I'm having trouble with right now is that we're suddenly equating a high end slice with the materials needed for a high end weapon. A slice is not a weapon, a slice is a jury rig or alteration to improve a weapon or armor and I don't think that a trek into a dungeon is needed to do this.
Our fingers are so nimble and dexterious that we no longer need knives or clamps to perform our magic, yet suddenly we need to become Indiana Jones and search for the Mystery's of the lost Firing Pin to uber up a weapon?
Like I said, I can see the logic in both arguments here and that's why I'm torn - but I just don't think enough thinking has gone into this yet, or if it has, it hasn't been shared with us.
Cheers
Dat
But again, we don't have to be the ones going down into the dungeons to get these items. We can be Smugglers and use our "contacts" (other players) to locate these items and make deals with those contacts to get the components.
That sounds more like being a Smuggler than going down into these areas and fighting to get the components. And I'll role play the hell out of it, and I'll have a great time. And I hope that other Smugglers will do the same.
I know that many people here will not agree with that, because that requires *role playing* and *make believe*. How *dare* I suggest Smugglers do something like that in a Star Wars Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Game.
VERY much agree!
Its becoming a little disheartening to see how much a lot of us seem to want everything spoonfed to us, I've always thought of smugglers as the great RP profession of the game. I can see nothing but good things from this from an rp standpoint just wish we could keep a bit of an open mind as a community
"An open mind is a fortress with it's gates open and unguarded."
I don't mind going to the extra effort for a goodslice. I *do* mind having my roleplaying supersmuggling opportunities be completely dependent on the services of a Jedi Defender. In this instance, it's the Defender that does all the work, and I push a few buttons at the end. Gee, I wonder who will be making all the money with this new system?
-Zz
Bzzzz wrote:"An open mind is a fortress with it's gates open and unguarded."
I don't mind going to the extra effort for a goodslice. I *do* mind having my roleplaying supersmuggling opportunities be completely dependent on the services of a Jedi Defender. In this instance, it's the Defender that does all the work, and I push a few buttons at the end. Gee, I wonder who will be making all the money with this new system?
-Zz
"A Closed mind is a fortress that lets nobody in, and everybody inbreeds to the point of retardation, and then a disease that they're all susceptible to kills them all"
Defender's are getting the Bat in this same publish.
I don't think you're supposed to use bunny-ears when ya pulled the "quote" outof your ass.
Don't bet for a second that Defenders or the new Jedi Template of the Week won't be waltzing over these mobs while we struggle to find a group for them. That's the whole point of being a Jedi. If they weren't an uber Alpha-Class, nobody would play them.
-Zz
Saarek wrote:
maxtheusher wrote:
Is that certified? because well, Veela... She's probably got a plaque or trophy or sceptre or something attesting to her hawtness...
Saarek wrote:
AngusMacGregor wrote:
MISTagent01 wrote:
Me neither. I think someone reported me...that's the only way I could have gotten it deleted.
/shrug
Maybe a Jedi reported me because I compared us to them.
More likely because you're not posting in pink.... just a thought.
ROFL.I love you guys. Angus, Hotdog, Keck, and of course you too Veela. You guys are like mirror images of my thoughts opinions, and sometimes attitude. You're just so much fun to post with.
But I do have to declare that I am the best looking one out of us all. Sorry.
Just thought I'd throw that out there.
Well, I mean of the men, anyways...Veela is in a class all her own on that one (being the only female in the list...)
I was gonna say something, and then I saw this... 
Seriously, I just wish people wouldn't look at T2/3 slices as "mediocre." That should be a normal slice. The T4 stuff should be "elite" slices, something few people will be able to achieve (much less afford!)
I lubs you guys.
MISTagent01 wrote:
I lubs you guys.
Not as much as we lubs you, hon.
Ok, enough mushy crap. Gimme a beer.