Publish 24: The Flea Nerf

[Rinna]

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/boar ... ge.id=2937

We had to know it was coming.....

Update Notes November 23rd, 2005
Version 0.142954

On November 23rd, 2005 at 4:00 AM PDT all U.S. and European galaxies will be taken down for server maintenance and a live update.

Art

Improved many animations for NPCs and players while they are in motion.
Combat

Running now gives you a 50% chance to be missed by an NPC using a ranged weapon (Up from 25%).
Profession: Jedi

Decreased the cool-down time for Force Run.
Increased the duration for Force Run.
Increased the duration of Force Throw snares.
Profession: Medic

Executing the Nutrient Injection ability or any of the Heal-over-Time commands without a target should now target the Medic.
Quests

Reduced the experience point rewards for Mustafar hunting quests.
Jabba's Palace quests will now properly award experience points (XP) for the quests.
If you deleted your Bactapack or Slitherhorn on Tansarii Point Station and cannot complete your quest, the quest giver will now give you a new quest.
User Interface

Chat is now modal. Any time you want to chat, hit ENTER to begin chatting.
Double-clicking on a vehicle deed will now generate the vehicle.
Fixed the incorrect cursor that was being displayed for generating and storing vehicles or pets.
Fixed the incorrect cursor that was being displayed for activating and deactivating waypoints via the Datapad.
Fixed an issue where a rapid accumulation of fly-text would cause it to be pushed down on the screen.
The new player tutorial continuation screen displays in the proper location at all resolutions.
Veteran Rewards

Those players which should have been granted the Elder Buff, but were not, will now properly be granted the elder buff when they login.


Message Edited by Thunderheart on 11-22-2005 06:04 PM

Kurt "Thunderheart" Stangl
Community Relations Manager

[Sai'nu]

Ouch... and that's the only sane way to grind for people that've completed the Mustafar Content. Want CL 90? Better do it tonight. : p

[Dew]

Ya that doesn't make any sense, hey dont offer enough content to grind up to 90 so what do they do? Take some more away....argh..

[Dwilah]

I'm curious about the "chat is now modal" note. Wasn't it modal before? Are they taking away the ability to make it non-modal?

[Sai'nu]

I'm curious about the "chat is now modal" note. Wasn't it modal before? Are they taking away the ability to make it non-modal?

Yeah... that does sound... icky to say the least. I took out the Enter Command on my map key so I wouldn't have to hit Enter. Bad enough having to use / to do it. But I'm just now getting used to it.

If they balance out some quest xp in other places than Fleas... I won't mind that being taken away so much.

[Revis Xizi]

Heh...I can honestly say that I think SOE is trying to get everyone to leave Galaxies. It's just one thing after another. The punishment never ends!!! I don't know how much more I can take of this garbage they keep throwing on us. The main reason I stick around is this community...but with everyone leaving, some community, huh?

[xyryn]

Wait awhile. They are trying to respond to player gripes.

But, to quote the Djinn: Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it. (Djinns have the same nasty habit as Old Nick of giving you what you want in a way that you don't want...such as a fortune in gold coin dropping on you out of the sky...from a great height.)

[snado]

Request: Shoot me please.

I mean can they actualy not be, if you don't mind me saying so: IDIOTS!
COME ON SOE! PULL YOUR HEADS OUT OF YOUR COLLONS!
They make my character look perfectly mentaly stable with this crpa they are pulling now.

[Revis Xizi]

*sigh* I'm depressed.

[snado]

yeap. I know the feeling. This games appeal is near absolute none for me now, I am at the point of being ready to go to sony HQ and find the devs and slap each and every one of em for putting this bull into the game. No uniqeness is there anymore. Only the characters body features are uniqe now.

[Dwilah]

Here's my question.

What do the developers WANT us to do? What do they want the focus of the game to be?

The game's population has been grind oriented. They took away group grind and so the game's population went to repeat quest grind. They just wanted a grind somewhere else.

Here, we have RP. Right now, admittedly our RP is suffering because we just flat don't know what to do with ourselves and a lot of people are floundering as the game's direction seems to.

However, the game's content hasn't changed. We've gotten NEW quests, if anything, and a brand new expansion. We've gotten a new chance to level more slowly. The devs are saying hey, slow down. Why do you have to grind so fast? Stop and smell the roses of this new system. Take it slow, learn it.

I don't think it's valid to say now, hey, there's NOTHING TO DO with this new system, or that once you hit 90 there's nothing left. We've been playing this game for a long time, and after the CU many people were level 80 and 'capped' as it were but they still played and still enjoyed the content in the game.

If anything, I think there's a lot of people who've just played the game for a very long time and have been wishy washy about leaving, and this just gives them a good excuse for quitting.

I've said it before--we can all agree that the way this was introduced was bad. But there are people who like the new system and there are people who are just kinda neutral to it. I'm sorta neutral to it myself. I liked the old system better, yes, and this new system is buggy, yes, but as long as my friends are here and it's SW I'll have fun.

Just some thoughts.

[Revis Xizi]

I'm revising my last post after reading Dwilah's response. I think I'm confused AND depressed with SWG right now.

[Dwilah]

I think we're all kind of bummed about the massive changes going on. It's hard to be okay with massive change. It's stressful...and that's natural.

[Sai'nu]

I think we're all kind of bummed about the massive changes going on. It's hard to be okay with massive change. It's stressful...and that's natural.

/agree

A rule of thumb has always been that no one likes change. Especially drastic change. And that is what we've been given. Asking everyone to be patient may be unreasonable. But it's the best thing some of us can say right now.

[Revis Xizi]

People on test center are saying that the quest only gives 1000 xp now, compared to the 50,000 that it was. We're screwed.