Teras Kasi Archive

Greetings all. I've got a few things I'd like to get off my chest.

A detailed, and informative post from a dev would quell much of the community while they work to fix TKA (and other professions), but we are desperate to know what they are fixing.It sounds like that's all the community is wanting for now. I'm willing to wait patiently while the fix us - but we want to know what they are doing so that we can at least give an opinion, instead of blind changes. The devs need our support more than ever, but they have to give us something to support.

Mankind - you are doing the an outstanding, excellent job, and the best you can under the circumstances. However I have yet to see one response directly from a Dev concerning our issues. I'm glad they at least gave you those three answers, but hontestly they were lacking the information we're looking for. "We're looking into it," does not suffice for a class whose members are alldemanding answers. What we needare plans - exactly what are they looking at, and what are the plans tocorrect it, or at least a definitive answer saying "this is how we designed it, live with it, no changes for you."

As it stands, swordsman can still beat the crap outta stuff (though I no longer enjoy that class) riflemen can still do incredible damage from afar, docs can still heal and buff (though more limited than before), combat medics can still area heal/DoT/debuff, bounty hunters are still efficient, but TKA can use CoB and take slightly longer to be incapped. That doesn't feel like an upgrade, let alone "more fun."I get the feeling most of the TKA community agrees with this and I feel we need to be addressed by the developers on this matter. I like much of the CU changes, and the ideas of theroles it has implied, but currently we cannot fullfil ours - the tank. Currently I'm having trouble taking on one opponent my level, let alone multiple. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

On a larger scope - Why take soloing out of the game? (All classes are complaining that they cannot solo effectively - we all need a group as a dependancy, not an option) Wasn't the original premise of SWG to play how you want - live the Ultimate Star Wars Adventure - Yours? My current adventure is repeatedly visiting a cloning station. (where I can't even clone because I can't "see" the cloningterminalI'm stading on top of.)Now the only viable option is to group to stay alive.

And woe be to the person who desides to be a mixed combat/crafter profession...

Answers. Real ones. Please. I beg all of you who want to know our future to chime in. I can be ignored (and probably will be), but a whole community cannot. Let SOE know we want answers and want to give our say as a community of TK Artists.

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Hello Everyone,

We realize that the recent Combat Upgrade has caused quite a stir. Yes, we've seen the petition. Yes, we're reading your emails very carefully.. in fact I've responded to many of you personally. From our perspective the Combat Upgrade was a crucial thing for us to do for the long term health of the game. In order to make the experience in SWG morediverse and to breathe new life into this game we felt it was important for us to entirely overhaul the current system and to make sure that it's balanced properly. Are we finished? Not by a longshot... by doing this what we've effectively done is to provide a new baseline to add a lot of new content into the game in a very short time, and to make sure that the professions really mean something in the game. We recognize there are problems that have arisen from this, and what I'd like to ask your help in doing is to target these problems so that we can knock them down very quickly. As you've seen in the last few days, the team is working tirelessly towards fixing any problems that have arisen.. and with your help we're confident we can get the rest of them taken care of as well.

Please understand that we love this game too.. our goal wasn't to upset the existing userbase.. but we do recognize that changing a game does inherently mean some people aren't going to like that change. What we're trying to do is to insure that we can accomplish a lot of what you've all been asking us to do (things like Galactic Civil War) in really cool and meaningul ways.. and frankly speaking, we just couldn't do that with the old combat system in place.

What would really help us is to give us ideas on how we can improve the new system and cool things you would like to see us do in the near term. We aren't going back to the old system, but with your help I'm confident in a few weeks you're going to feel this was the right call. Obviously you are our customers, and you pay the bills around here... we're trying to make changes that are going to make your experience better in the long run. Please bear with us while we make that effort, and give us a little time to respond and address your concerns.

Thanks a lot,

John Smedley

President, Sony Online Entertainment

[email protected]

Good to know our concerns are acknowledged as a whole.Now to await information as a profession. I don't know ifwe're any more broken than another profession, but the game as a whole seems to have issues that need to be fixed before it's playable again.They request more time, but our double XP time is running out, and useless if we can't kill anything. And we continue to pay for what I consider a broken game.