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Even though I agree with you completely on the realism part, "realism" itself is a big no-no in an MMORPG when talking about game mechanics.

Let's see, what would probably not be in SWG if realism was a deciding factor:

- mission terminals, especially bounty hunter terminals (hello? pulling out missions to kill someone from a public computer display?)
- calling mounts and vehicles from wherever you are out of nowhere
- an inventory where you can store more things than a bantha could carry
- the way you can just buy huge closets to store in said inventory
- having to kill thousands (!) of soldiers in order to advance in military rank (hundreds of them being highly decorated officers)
- big cities like Coronet actually being as large as your local redneck-town

... the list goes on forever.


In conclusion: Yes, its frigging silly that a master smuggler obviously isn't able to decide which part of the weapons systems he wants to alter. But realism ...nah, that argument won't work.

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Nicolas_Frost wrote:

Shhhh... talking common sence to the devs gets you banned!

Luckly, you're talking in the Smuggler forums, they'll never see it.

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hahahah that made me laugh But seriously, I totally agree with the original post. Yes I also agree that realism is not the greatest of arguements, but I have always felt that at the master level you should be able to pick which type of slice you are doing. Or, at the very least, not have to worry about getting a 16% slice. This is something that has really bothered me ever since I became a smuggler. I think that the realism argument is flawed but only to a point. I mean it just seems to be a common sense thing to me that a master smuggler should be able to have some kind of idea as the what he/she is doing to a weapon. Yes it is unrealistic that you can pull vehicles and cretures out of thin air, and that you can walk up to any terminal and get paid to kill stuff, but those are extreme examples. I think that having someone that is a MASTER of his trade actually know what he is doing is not a steep request. It just seems logical and (dare I say it) realistic that a master smuggler should be able to a) know what he is doing and b) not have to fear getting the worst possible slices. I have always thought that the complete randomness of everything associated with our profession was ridiculous. Why can't our tools have stats? Why doesn't resource quality matter? We should be able to have stats on our tools, and be able to experiment with them so that we can have great tools thus increasing the chance of a good slice. And spices, where should I begin? Aside from them being totally useless except for emergencies, they are screwed up too. Why no experimentation? Why can't I play around with experimentation and high qual resources to make my spice better than the next guy's? I swear, it seems like this whole profession was just thrown together the day before they started beta. I mean seriously, how hard would it have been to allow our tools and our spice to have stats, allow resources to matter, and allow experimentation? I think that just that alone would seriously help the profession.

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BrekCoronus wrote:

Heck, I'm still looking for the jerk putting red and bluewires on stone knives!

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HA! I'd never thought about that before. Now I'm going to grumble every time I slice a non-mechanical melee weapon.

i agree with the original poster, this randomness sucks... course the one guy had good points about this whole game bein illogical... but you cant have 5 kimos 2 kaadus a cu pa and a bantha follow you everywhere while dragging your 3 bikes now can you

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Dessimus wrote:

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Nicolas_Frost wrote:

Shhhh... talking common sence to the devs gets you banned!

Luckly, you're talking in the Smuggler forums, they'll never see it.

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hahahah that made me laugh But seriously, I totally agree with the original post. Yes I also agree that realism is not the greatest of arguements, but I have always felt that at the master level you should be able to pick which type of slice you are doing. Or, at the very least, not have to worry about getting a 16% slice. This is something that has really bothered me ever since I became a smuggler. I think that the realism argument is flawed but only to a point. I mean it just seems to be a common sense thing to me that a master smuggler should be able to have some kind of idea as the what he/she is doing to a weapon. Yes it is unrealistic that you can pull vehicles and cretures out of thin air, and that you can walk up to any terminal and get paid to kill stuff, but those are extreme examples. I think that having someone that is a MASTER of his trade actually know what he is doing is not a steep request. It just seems logical and (dare I say it) realistic that a master smuggler should be able to a) know what he is doing and b) not have to fear getting the worst possible slices. I have always thought that the complete randomness of everything associated with our profession was ridiculous. Why can't our tools have stats? Why doesn't resource quality matter? We should be able to have stats on our tools, and be able to experiment with them so that we can have great tools thus increasing the chance of a good slice. And spices, where should I begin? Aside from them being totally useless except for emergencies, they are screwed up too. Why no experimentation? Why can't I play around with experimentation and high qual resources to make my spice better than the next guy's? I swear, it seems like this whole profession was just thrown together the day before they started beta. I mean seriously, how hard would it have been to allow our tools and our spice to have stats, allow resources to matter, and allow experimentation? I think that just that alone would seriously help the profession.

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