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Thread: Shipwrights support giving smugglers the ability to slice ship components?
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=profshipwright&message.id=19646
believe it or not, the shipwrights have always been in favor of smugglers.
Countless threads discuss how smuggs and sw's should be working together.
Guess thats why my alt is a master shipwright, hehe.
I think we might have a better chance working together than just sitting around talking about it in our respective forums.
Granted the devs will likely ignore anything we say or do, but who knows? If the BHs and the Jedis can nerf things by a whine war, maybe the smugglers and shipwrights can get something constructive done by being just the opposite of the BH/jedis. Instead of whining and flaming and generally going at it like spoiled children, maybe SW's and Smugglers can do it by working together, maybe start a joint petition or something. I just wanted to know if people would be interested in a little constructive cooperation between two professions.
With the impending (wait...impending YET AGAIN) Smugg revamp, it may be hard to push this...since it's already slotted for the revamp.
Good idea though, and I support the push 100%.
Now, back to stomping a jedi's skull and smushing their eyeballs like Beatrice Kiddo in Kill Bill 2....
zirzo- MS/MSW
lurdanta wrote:
I believe it, and have seen it, I'm just trying to see if we can go beyond that and actually join forces to pressure the devs to let us.
I think we might have a better chance working together than just sitting around talking about it in our respective forums.
Granted the devs will likely ignore anything we say or do, but who knows? If the BHs and the Jedis can nerf things by a whine war, maybe the smugglers and shipwrights can get something constructive done by being just the opposite of the BH/jedis. Instead of whining and flaming and generally going at it like spoiled children, maybe SW's and Smugglers can do it by working together, maybe start a joint petition or something. I just wanted to know if people would be interested in a little constructive cooperation between two professions.
It's worth a try. I haven't been really active over in SW lately, but they're my second favorite forum after Smuggler. Tends to me nice and communal over there just like here, at least as long as noone's discussng factory support. Plus, Platypus was wandering around over there in regards to the looted/crafted issues recently, and I suspect they've probably still got some of his attention.
I've got a master shipwright too, and this would be unbelievably cool. The only problem is that the items that can be sliced needs to be restriced to either finished components OR component upgrade.
Think about what would happen if weaponsmiths could have sliced barrels, grips, stocks, scopes, etc, and then a slice on the completed weapon. It would end up ridiculously over powered, over ranged, and over sped. It would be even worse with armorsmiths
I think this is an unbelievably cool idea, but should be handled carefully.
Wookus wrote:I've got a master shipwright too, and this would be unbelievably cool. The only problem is that the items that can be sliced needs to be restriced to either finished components OR component upgrade.
Think about what would happen if weaponsmiths could have sliced barrels, grips, stocks, scopes, etc, and then a slice on the completed weapon. It would end up ridiculously over powered, over ranged, and over sped. It would be even worse with armorsmiths
I think this is an unbelievably cool idea, but should be handled carefully.
I think it can be handled carefully because there really isn't any hate or whining involved. We're not asking to nerf another professions, in fact, both professions concerned seem to support it, so it's a win/win almost all positive proposition.
I think at this point in time, I'd like to see Wes and the SW correspondant's view on it, for any such effort should be led by them.
Wes, you out there? Any interest in a joint Smuggler/SW effort to ask the devs to allow us to slice ship components? A completely civil, positive effort?
Hey, that master SW i mentioned is also master WS (wookie)... I think sliceable components are a great idea all around. Share and share alike and what not, and THAT i don't see happening. Other crafters are going to want this as well, and they'd probably be right in being upset if they couldn't. And hey, more slicing for us, right?
I'm just terrified of pvp with multi slice krayt weapons. I'd love to have one, and that's the problem.
As to SW components, if the slice was restricted to just the upgrade kits, it would mean only crafted items would be sliceable. For those that don't know how it all works, most components have a slot for different kinds of "power-ups". Beef up RE a bitto keep loot somewhat"balanced", problem solved.
I'm down for ANYTHING that puts more slicing into the process AND environment (think Han Solo "hot-wiring" the bunker door in Jedi...).