John, what happened to your plan to reincorporate Creature Handler in some capacity?
it's on the list.. but lower down than I would like. One thing I don't get to do in my job is only have them work on the things that I want them to.... although I will be the first to admit that would be fun I suspect the bunch of really smart people that work at SOE wouldn't enjoy it as much as I would.
I get my "Smed" list worked on once in a while when I **edit** enough.
Smed
Thank you for keeping it on the list. May I suggest a posting for you, if you have not seen it:
-------------------------------------------- Kurruk - Wookiee CH/Ranger. "I sat around in camps and it was fun" Kuroc Tre'lya - Bothan Dark Jedi Elder. "Bad Doggy" Yog-Sothoth. Retired Rebel Lieutenant.
I want to handle creatures again! Without getting arrested, I mean.....
If there's any justice in SWG, CH *will* be back, and Hanse and Addy will both work on it. :-)
Am unsure if anyone has mentioned this - but with the introduction of Respec NPCs, surely that renders the proffession restarter kits useless? - such as what happened to ADKs? I dont know about other servers but on Radiant prof restart kits sell from 8 mil upwards. Will the devs be changing these into anything? Possibly they could change into 1 of 8 or 9 new pieces of furniture/paintings? This would be a good legacy for those who have hoarded them for use at a later date - and originally payed a pretty penny for the?
Lots of talk about the "secret" project which really isn't a secret anymore. We are doing a playable demo for E3 and Swede is working on the team that is putting that together. The project is actually going to be larger then just the demo and become a new themepark with a GCW theme (lots of Rebels v. Imperials) to it, which will be put into the game in publish 29.
The intention of this themepark is to cover our bases with E3 and develope a new set of repeatable, high end content for all of you.
The expansion team, which is no more, is now working on nothing but high end content that will be sent out in our regular publishes.
SpaceRancor
Eli Holding
SWG Design
Thanks SpaceRancor! PLEASE tell me this GCW content will be for both PvE and PvP GCW participants...
That is just the High End Content that will be coming out for Publish 29. We want to do alot of different types of content for people to do at the high ends. Some of them would be things like class specific story arc missions, new dungeons similar to the DWB, PvP battlefields, GCW ranks and rewards systems, etc. Basically, we really want to give our high end players a lot of different choices of what they want to do when they log in.
SpaceRancor
Thanks SpaceRancor. Does this mean the new GCW themepark will be for PvPers only? Are CL90 PvErs not considered High End Content?
The GCW to me is setting up conflict between Rebels and Imperials. This doesn't always mean PvP content. Sometimes it will and sometimes it will not. The current plan for the upcoming themepark is to give PvE missions in a PvP environment. For expample, players might be asked to stop the enemy forces from taking a piece of land. When they enter the area where this is going to take place they are flagged PvP. They may or may not ever fight other players but they are put in that situation. But this is one of the aspects of the upcoming GCW themepark, it will have other aspects. Of course, future publishes will focus sololy on the PvE players and some will focus completely on the PvP player.
SpaceRancor
So you are bringing back battlefields?
Yes. Expect to see something different than what we had before though.
Can you get rid of the old battlefields then?
Eventually. We are using those as placeholder for some of the new content we will be adding.
Grant "Rogue_5" McDaniel SOE Producer, Star Wars Galaxies
No, I'm saying that they aren't one of the heroic roles from the movie. There were a lot of other entainters in the movies, but, again, they were not the focus of the films. We want to, first and foremost, deliver on the SW fantasy.
KO
I'll be honest - It is this line of thought that has lead me to believe I no longer have a place in this game. You people still don't understand why so many of us are upset. We don't want to be Luke. We don't want to have a heoric adventure when we log in (well, maybe some days).
I was Yivvits, living in the same universe that those iconic people lived in.
Somebody had to make Boba's armor - We could be that person.
Someobdy had to make R2D2 - We could be that person.
Somebody had to dance at Jabba's palace - We could be that person.
Somebody had to make Han's blaster - I was that person.
Somebody had to track down rancors for Jabba's palace - I was that person.
Now, I can no longer have many of those adventures, only ones that you've preprogrammed for me.
Y i v v i t s
My words of wisdom to the developers: Fix, Improve, Never take away.
Listen to "Star Wars Galaxies with Yivvits and MrBubble"
We recognize that the current profession system doesn't allow for any real level of character differentiation. As such, we're currently working on an "Expertise" system, that grants the players "points" to spend on specialization. The expertise system gives the profession system a similar feel to what we had pre-nge as far as character customization goes. The tech for this system is being developed for the next publish (this won't be visible to you guys). The publish after that, we're looking at pushing out the first two professions's worth of expertise trees, with two professions targeted for every publish after that. Generally speaking, we'll have three trees for each profession to choose from, including a GCW tree and a "path" tree that will hold things like "dark" and "light" side powers for Jedi, for instance (or droid specializtion, vs poisons for Bounty hunters - for instance).
That's the plan.
Does this mean for example that the first 2 professions will have this edge over all other professions and then 2 more approx 2 months later until all are completed? If so, which 2 professions are first to be elite?
Yes. It's either that or no profession updates for the next 6 months (or whatever the time frame is).
Jedi & Bounty Hunter are on the books for first pass.
Imagine that!!! Wow paying attention to Jedi and BH, if they would have done this at start, there would be no problems. Can we do something besides these two profs for once, I mean seriously, I cancelled my Jedi because I hated that everyone was one.
the most recent profession polls indicate 34% of players are jedi and 23% bh and like 12% commando im sure its changed a bit but u need to attend to the masses
The masses are this way because thats all they pay attention too. There are no CHs because you can't be. Smugglers are broke, so no smugglers. Same with everything else. Why do you think Commando makes your list? Only thing that has been "fixed" since NGE. Sorry but that was an ignorant statement you made.
Question Im happy the Expansion has been cancelled to improve the game but it has sparked interest in me an prolly the rest of the community what was the expansion going to be?
I'm not going to get into the argument of what is and what isn't a SW game. I will, however, state for the record that there are some elements that more clearly fit into the SW universe than others. In fact, I'll go so far as to say that there are some elements that are objectively more SW than others.
We're going to put the stuff that's clearly SW in first. We're going to modify or retrofit the best of what was fun but not completely SW in second. We're going to remove or eliminate those things that clearly aren't SW.
And, we're going to do it all at a pace that ensures quality and fun.
KO
You guys have missed the boat on one of the most Star Warsish things: Droids
Ask GL how important R2 and 3PO are to his saga.
Now, ask yourself, "what have we done to droid engineers?"
/AGREE
/runlikehell
Smed
QFE
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Will Smuggler's be able to Smuggle (i mean ACTUAL Smuggle) Publish 31. We'll determine what 'smuggling' actually means. - ChrisCao
Are you going to get an "actual" SIG??? (Smed this is to you.. btw)
What are your thoughts on this Idea: {PLUG: My idea for LS Crafting}?? I have recieved a response from Ex-Lord TH & Dev_Mercy on this... curious as to what the others think...
Any chance you could put in a "good" word for me, in the Galatic Senate Program? Word - ChrisCao (for some reason... i'm afraid... but i hope i become a Galatic Senator)
Need CLARIFICATION on what "Respec NPCs" means... Still wondering if CL's comes into play (Currently we'll get a free Respec from the NPC, but then it will cost Credits (100K - 25 Mill (hopefully that will be reduced in price))
Need Info on the XP Situation... They are looking into an "Increase" in XP from Wild Spawns... However we (Community) don't know how much of an Increase it'll be...
Future "New" Species? (Will there be any "New" Species being added... any point in the future?)
Helping you here Alt
Sweet thanks T_Sekanis
NP.
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Will you ever make if so that we can respec without using kits/destroying toons...?
Respec NPCs are going with pub 28. This needs MAJOR Clarification
NPCs will be stationed in some cities that allow you to change your profession for a price. As a gift for publish 28 everyone gets one respec from the NPCs for free. The NPCs work essentially the same as the respec devices.
That is EXACTLY how it is done in WoW. No wonder your detractors keep saying you are copying WoW instead of doing your own game.
-Indene-
guess where they got it from? EQ
Smed
That must be some high level stuff I don't remember I Only got to lvl 39 in EQ. So let me restate it. No wonder your detractors keep saying you are copying EQ instead of doing your own game. It happens that most of the folk know WoW thanks to the CU so it is a natural comparason.
Thank you for answering both that and all these other pent up questions.
-Indene-
Wow's a great game.. not knocking it at all (I happen to really think very highly of it). Just pointing out we're not out to make a WoW clone or anything.
The GCW to me is setting up conflict between Rebels and Imperials. This doesn't always mean PvP content. Sometimes it will and sometimes it will not. The current plan for the upcoming themepark is to give PvE missions in a PvP environment. For expample, players might be asked to stop the enemy forces from taking a piece of land. When they enter the area where this is going to take place they are flagged PvP. They may or may not ever fight other players but they are put in that situation. But this is one of the aspects of the upcoming GCW themepark, it will have other aspects. Of course, future publishes will focus sololy on the PvE players and some will focus completely on the PvP player.
SpaceRancor
My experience of PvP is unfortunately mostly of exploiting 12 year olds, who shout leet speak and have a better ping. I don't mind being bad at PvP, but I don't find it fun being a corpse. hence I prefer PvE
And what about Decay...I don't mind items being disabled and needing to be fixed like vehicles currently are, but I don't want my quest rewards to become just home decorations or become impossible to replace because they are going for tens of millions on the bazaar. Decay only makes me hate PvP more.
How are you going to make PvP fun for people like me?
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JetStrike wrote: Smed, could you increase the XP made off of killing creatures, OR add quest xp to terminal missions?
at least until there are more quests added to the game, it would be very nice for us all, the xp nerf on kashyyyk was a kick in the teeth for all player's below lvl 60.
Smed please take a look at this post.
please smed, also consider Quest XP for space quests.
sorry to bump my own post again
Although this isn't the fix you guys are looking for, it at least makes the game bearable until there is enough quests in the game
PLEASE respond to this..
SOMEONE PLEASE RESPOND TO THIS
I know you guys are swamped, but we really would like to know this.
RESPOND PLEASE
We are working on a fix for this. We understand this is an important community issue and are working to solve it as quickly as possible.
So what u gonna do? Raise xp for quests? Add more quests? Or just raise xp for kills?
Short term we will likely be increasing the XP for kills. Long term we will be adding more quests and other content.
No! Don't give into the whining babies who are too lazy to truly develop their characters. I love the NGE and everything you guys have been doing to develop the game and push it in a direction that will make for a more enjoyable game in the long-term. Changing profession progression in a way that prevents anyone from grinding a master in a weekend, a week, a month, even a quarter plays a large role in this.
BioEngine wrote: About content - will we witness the return of the Force Sensitive village quests?
No.
Even as a type of themepark for high end content? The stuff is already there it could be great to keep for a themepark with a badge after you go through all 4 phases helping every npc
The issue of vast ghostowns filled with houses of people that don't play anymore has to be addressed. It kills creation of new cities, restricts where harvesters can be placed and results in pretty much limiting player interaction to the game created cities with spaceports.
I understand this creates technical issues but can't they be overcome? Without "REAL" player cities this game really becomes shoot, kill, loot, next.
Alph/Fonzie/Wort Scylla Two Convenient Locations Fonzie's Emporium in New Republic, Talus 1805, 850 (next to Guild Hall) and just outside Anchorhead, Tattooine 459, -5023
Will you ever make if so that we can respec without using kits/destroying toons...?
Respec NPCs are going with pub 28. This needs MAJOR Clarification
NPCs will be stationed in some cities that allow you to change your profession for a price. As a gift for publish 28 everyone gets one respec from the NPCs for free. The NPCs work essentially the same as the respec devices.
Please define "price"
You mean Credits or exp?
An wbout how much of it?
Starts 100k credits and goes up to 25 million i think.
Just my opinion, but I think 25 million is a little steep.
I know a lot of players have that much money to throw around but the other 65% of us can barely scratch together 10 million.
Starting at 100k and adding 100k per level of profession to be transfered would be fair I think. That puts it at a minimum of 200k (at first level) and a max of 9,100,000. That's an awful lot of money for most of the players, prohibiting changes on a whim, but doesn't put it firmly out of reach of casual players (or players like me who have about 2 hours a day to play 'cause we have little kids).
Again, that's just my opinion.
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Yima wrote: Wow, im quite scared by the amount of dev posting in the forum today! Did Smed made you all gather for a kind of communication attack hehe Can anyone clear up if there are plannings to include again some sort of a creature handler / droid handler or another class that uses pets into the game ?
Read the thread and you'll find out (yes, but not for a looooong time). READ BEFORE YOU POST QUESTIONS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN ANSWERED!
Let's maximize our dev time!
Besides, I haven't gotten an answer if camps will ever come back.
We have no plans to re-introduce camps.
Wow. That's really very dissapointing. There's no good reason why they can't be in the game, they added rp possibilities and communication for people (stop by a strnager's camps and make a new friend)... very sad.
vJoodah Macabeev Spy/Elder Carbineer
Leader - Safe Haven, Corellia and all around nice Bothan
I suspect the bunch of really smart people that work at SOE wouldn't enjoy it as much as I would.
