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Thread: One Less Master Smuggler on Eclipse, on Friday the 13th!
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mrbleepbleep
Fri Aug 13, 2004 3:23 pm
#1
Recent events have pushed me to the conclusion that there's no point for me staying as a Master Smuggler anymore - I'm sick of having no control over slicing (a few nights ago I sliced a suit of armour for a guildie who wanted encumbrance slices to wear it unbuffed - I got effectiveness on every single piece), spice sells at a snail's pace, and I've never ground FP to Colonel to sell faction.
I've been clinging on to Master for months through stubbornness, and the fact that this is a great roleplay / Starwarsy profession with a great community; I even took the skills to run a slicing tool vendor to get more "into" the profession. I made factory runs for clamps, knives, WUKs and AUKs, and stocked up - you guessed it - just in time for the announcement of the vendor nerf. The latest nerf on auto-pulling from crates is just the final straw. I've had my eye on tailoring for a while, so tonight I've dropped all smuggler but the Rogue line, to take up crafting.
So I'll give one last Secret Smuggler Handshake to a great pack of scoundrels, and I may wellwear the Master Smuggler title againif/when the promised revamp materialises.
Smuggler_Caylin
Fri Aug 13, 2004 3:25 pm
#2
mrbleepbleep wrote:
Recent events have pushed me to the conclusion that there's no point for me staying as a Master Smuggler anymore - I'm sick of having no control over slicing (a few nights ago I sliced a suit of armour for a guildie who wanted encumbrance slices to wear it unbuffed - I got effectiveness on every single piece), spice sells at a snail's pace, and I've never ground FP to Colonel to sell faction.
I've been clinging on to Master for months through stubbornness, and the fact that this is a great roleplay / Starwarsy profession with a great community; I even took the skills to run a slicing tool vendor to get more "into" the profession. I made factory runs for clamps, knives, WUKs and AUKs, and stocked up - you guessed it - just in time for the announcement of the vendor nerf. The latest nerf on auto-pulling from crates is just the final straw. I've had my eye on tailoring for a while, so tonight I've dropped all smuggler but the Rogue line, to take up crafting.
So I'll give one last Secret Smuggler Handshake to a great pack of scoundrels, and I may wellwear the Master Smuggler title againif/when the promised revamp materialises.
Well, I wish you the best and I completely understand.In stratics chat yesterday though, they said that the crate change was not permanent... and they would be setting it back right.
I updated the announcement thread I made with that, you can read it if you want.
One of the Four Horsemen of the Smuggler Apocalypse! 
Nurani_ENT
Fri Aug 13, 2004 3:52 pm
#3
i had quit the game in january becuase soe just wasn't living up to their promises of making SWG a good game. I am back now this week, and it scares me to see that the smuggler class is exactly as I left it....
is there any hope on the horizon for smugglers, or should i go ahead and cancel once again?
ZephenGreyhunt
Fri Aug 13, 2004 4:23 pm
#4
"i had quit the game in january becuase soe just wasn't living up to their promises of making SWG a good game. I am back now this week, and it scares me to see that the smuggler class is exactly as I left it....
is there any hope on the horizon for smugglers, or should i go ahead and cancel once again?"
I am going through the exact same thing Nurani. After I saw that SoE threw everyone the bone on how they could be come Jedi. I was four boxes away from Master Smuggler and when I looked at my Holo it said my path lead down tha road of Master Merchant. I logged right away and axed my account.
Over this past few weeks I started ratting around the forums again. Checking out the JTL and the smuggler revamp and decided it was time I gave them a second chance. Iv pretty much accepted I wont go down the path of the Jedi and am finishing out those four boxes to make Master Smuggler. Iv found a great PA to hang with (Go Blackhawks!) and Im hopeing SoE delivers on the smuggler revamp and JTL is as cool playing it as it is to look at the screen shots. If not I found out yesterday that I work a block and a half away from SoE HQ, where did I put my TP and eggs?
~Zephen
YamadaMan
Fri Aug 13, 2004 4:47 pm
#5
sad to see another sumuggler go
I know slicing is kinda messed up, tools dealing is not a good business, well I do none of those (I refuse to slice for privates 99% of the time, to avoid seeing em pissed off cause I screwd their 2M worth toy).
tailor is a great prof tho, I'm new master with my alt and really enjoying it, I just couldn't drop smuggler, like EVER, I might be master since january, and I'll stay until my toon dies, hoping for the best. I just took up some pikes skills to enjoy other parts of the game and to keep my Msmuggler tag py pride and to run my business wich is very profitable (I'm wondering why most of smugglers don't do it), I agree with the fact that merchant nerf is hitting us bad, but fortunately I had enough skill points to have it mastered with my alt toon, even tho I was planning to go for politician :/.
well, as said, it's sad to see you go, sad but understandable, Msmuggler might be in the top 3 useless skills to take, even over Ranger (still good for krayts) and SL (good for raids).
enjoy tailoring ! I love it
I know slicing is kinda messed up, tools dealing is not a good business, well I do none of those (I refuse to slice for privates 99% of the time, to avoid seeing em pissed off cause I screwd their 2M worth toy).
tailor is a great prof tho, I'm new master with my alt and really enjoying it, I just couldn't drop smuggler, like EVER, I might be master since january, and I'll stay until my toon dies, hoping for the best. I just took up some pikes skills to enjoy other parts of the game and to keep my Msmuggler tag py pride and to run my business wich is very profitable (I'm wondering why most of smugglers don't do it), I agree with the fact that merchant nerf is hitting us bad, but fortunately I had enough skill points to have it mastered with my alt toon, even tho I was planning to go for politician :/.
well, as said, it's sad to see you go, sad but understandable, Msmuggler might be in the top 3 useless skills to take, even over Ranger (still good for krayts) and SL (good for raids).
enjoy tailoring ! I love it
mrbleepbleep
Fri Aug 13, 2004 5:13 pm
#6
Smuggler_Caylin wrote:
Well, I wish you the best and I completely understand.In stratics chat yesterday though, they said that the crate change was not permanent... and they would be setting it back right.
I updated the announcement thread I made with that, you can read it if you want.
I've read the announcement, but by this point, I've no confidence left that it'll be fixed quickly. Historically, the Devs haven't given much priority to smugglers, and something that'll be considered a "nuisance" instead of game-breaking isn't going to be very highon any Dev's things-to-do list, if you ask me.
But thanks for the sentiment, and for your hard work as representative of the profession.
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