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It does not require 6 hours of grind to farm some creds. Hell, just do 30 minutes (Ilum and BH, no Heroics) and you'll have a cool 100K. Your contention that there is a huge hurdle against those with limited playtime to acquire creds is simply false.
Your contention that those who choose not to guild or group up require an outside source of creds is baffling. First, guilds do not require you to coordinate your playtime each week - save for (obviously) scheduled Ops runs. There are myriad guilds that are levelling/social/helpful guilds that merely require you to login and have fun. Insofar as someone who lacks the social wherewithal to interact enough to type out "LFG dailies," well, not to sound harsh, but perhaps in-game currency is not the greatest problem for someone quite so insular.
Also, and I'm not sure how your post went off on this tangent, but the idea of continuous exp growth while logged out is just about the worst idea I've heard - and I've been on these forums since well before launch. Play should be rewarded, not merely having an account.
I am not saying those with limited time are less deserving, instead that you must determine what your time is worth and what rewards you desire are worth that time. Simple.
Depending on my schedule, I have varying times each week to play. I determine what I want accomplished that week, and plan accordingly. Farm BH comms high on my list? Then I focus on GFHMs, EC runs, etc. Creds a tad low? I'll run dailies till my funds are at a level I need. Regardless, as my time is valuable, I budget it accordingly.
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If you have wondered why there are not enough tanks queuing for HM's and raiding, you only have to look at the mechanics in this game.
I have tanked in just about every MMORPG I have played. I mostly enjoy it. I tank in this game. I find myself pulling my hair out more often than not. Just about half of everything in this game stuns the tank, or knocks me back 100 feet and snares me, or CC's me, or stuns me, knocks me back and CC"s me. It isn't fun, it isn't strategic, it's just frustrating and terrible. Even trash does this consistently. Stuns and knock backs should be used extremely sparingly. You have given NPC's so many powers that only players should have.
The issue is exacerbated because DPS tend to just jump in .01 second after me and start blasting on the thing. Meanwhile I'm two miles away because I've been knocked back into the last room and am snared and/or rooted and some idiot Marauder is getting laid on by some huge robot and complaining that I can't hold threat.
Yes I realize they should play smarter but you have to design around these kinds of issues.
Tanks have enough to deal with keeping threat on everything. We don't need to deal with getting stunned and shot around the room every pull.
Just to reiterate the prevailing response to the OP, tanking in this game is fine - no - it's at a really nice sweet spot that feels gratifying and fun while not being faceroll. Stuns, KBs, interrupts - those things should never be player-only. To remove those from mobs would be tantamount to removing a huge portion of fun from tanking, not to mention strategy.
Yes, it is strategic for mobs to have and use those powers, just as it is strategic for us to counter them. Our job is to control the battlefield. If the mobs merely stood in place and accepted the occasional Smash, Sweeping Strike, and Taunts to maintain control then the role of tank would be watered down to the point of meh. The fact that I have to know who does what, who must be interrupted, who must be pushed/pulled where, how best to shape the battlefield to the advantage of my group - that is the essence of tanking. That is what makes tanking fun, and what most players who tank enjoy.
To be sure, tanking is not a job for everyone. It is not a role I would ever force upon a guildie or random stranger because we need a role filled. It is a job that requires that you not just know what you're doing, but enjoy it - otherwise, you'll be shoving that role onto someone else and hitting up the Skill Mentor in no time.
If the frustration of the role is lessening your enjoyment of the game - respec. Not everyone enjoys every role.
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And this is why in Beta and the pre-launch forums we were asking for either 1) unique Legacy names and non-unique Character names, or 2) a system similar to Cryptic's which has Character@Handle. Unfortunately, some of the same people using the tired line of, "If your name is taken it's not unique, so get over it," would post as to the lack of need for that system. Seems not so silly now, eh?
Either way, it not only would have allieviated the mess we have now, but further functionality could have been implemented such as Legacy/Handle-wide Ignores, Legacy/Handle-wide Friends, chat @Legacy/Handle regardless of which toon is logged in, etc.
And, BTW, I pre-ordered and made darn sure to be one of the first (8th toon on Korriban on my original server) to login to my designated server when I could so I could get a couple names (one of which is rather basic, the other is one I've used in MMOs for well over a decade) for my toons. Unsuprisingly, I lost the common name in the first round of transfers to a level 1 placeholder. Now that /played seems to be a factor, someone else gets to benefit from the change in criteria and get my name from said placeholder.
All in all, it's not hard to see why so many people are upset.
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I know TFB, but other than that. Like say Cathars. Or Mekab. Or anything really. I would really hope that 1.4 does not ONLY come with TFB as that would be pretty sad for point anything update.
Simple. They announced it's on the PTS. Go to the PTS forum. Click the thread containing patch notes for 1.4. Understand those notes are for a test build and subject to change. Be happy with your newfound knowledge.
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Seriously...I share a RL last name with millions of people and I don't get all sensitive about it and call all of them up asking them to change there names!?!?!!
Except you fail to see the point being made repeatedly throughout the thread. As it stands unique legacy names - and yes, thay are unique, since even changing a character to an ASCII one to "fit" your name in still has the uniqueness of said ASCII character - enable you as a player to establish a reputation across your server and to keep tabs on the reputations of others.
As a former denizen of Space Slug, I can tell you that there were a few people who became known for their poor behavior and subsequently earned a less than stellar reputation server-wide. Yes, they could try to be sly and hide their legacy name, but all you had to do was ask to see the legacy before you sent a ginvite and your bank was safe from the aforementioned character.
This is not hard to see, and framing the argument as you do as one of pure vanity is skirting the issue. It has less to do with vanity, and more to do with the ramifications of changing a system that up till now allowed for a great method by which to establish, build upon, and monitor the reputation of toons.
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I don't care about what they're working on today, tomorrow, or this week specifically. What do I care about?
Example - In 3 things you'd like to see changed about this game, person X asked for more options to customize your starship.
1) Do the devs like this idea - e.g. let us know you're working on x idea suggested by the players
2) How high of a priority is this idea (can be general), but is it something that will take weeks, months, or years, based on where it is ranked? I don't want to hear "we want to do this someday", too noncommittal. Is there or is there not a resource working on it.
3) What's the rough timetable for the implementation of this idea? Can be tentative, but 3 months, this year, this spring, are all nice things that give us something other than "soon" or "not any time soon" to look forward to.
Except that it isn't nearly as simple as you make it out to be. This isn't you, or anyone else for that matter, on the consumer side of things reading some posts and having a few minutes to peck out a response. While we all have the luxury of having one game, and one community team (which is quite different than a dev team) to communicate to, the community team has myriad voices all begging to be noticed, let alone responded to.
I realize that the feedback in question was confined to the space of a couple of threads. That said, to expect the dev team to take time away from their duties to confer with the community team concerning every suggestion proffered and give a response such as the three-tiered one you suggest would be incredibly time-consuming and wasteful from a business perspective. Doubly so concerning the nature of the industry and how things may develop that can cause one team's priorities to shift drastically.
Case in point: the devs responded to some suggestions prior to launch. One of these was the question of Guild ships and their possibility of being introduced in-game. The devs responded that 1) they liked the idea and had been talking about it themselves prior to the community suggestion, 2) it was not a priority and as such they currently had no resources alloted to it since 3) it had been relegated to the "wall of crazy" and thus was merely something they may get to at some point.
The suggestion was floated, and all three of your questions concerning suggestions were answered. The payout for the dev team? Threads to this day that bemoan the "broken promise" of guild ships and other, similarly discussed but never promised suggestions.
Simple truth is "imminent," "soon," and "not any time soon" are sometimes the best a dev team can muster even internally. They can relay that to the playerbase, but vagueness such as that is invariably going to get eviscerated just as easily as more detailed answers. Either way the dev team receives the exact same vitriol.
In light of this, asking them to devote more time to a more detailed account of each suggestion and the Dev reaction to it is time wasted.
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Mmm hmm. A stim that gives a 5% better buff than what can be made. A health kit that heals just like what can be made but puts a 2-tick HoT on you... or increases your armor by 5% for 10 seconds. An adrenal that lasts an extra 5 seconds. They're "boosts" and now we have 2 EA employees saying "boosts" will be in the shop. They're much lower on the P2W chart than, say, a +51 crystal, right? Maybe they'll try something like that. Maybe the uproar will be loud but the sales will be compelling. So maybe they'll put more in. See how far they can push it.
This is EA, after all, the company that purchases, consumes, and destroys great game-makers for fun and profit.
Then there's the ever insidious key that opens up those cool boxes that bad guys have started dropping. Each box has a 0.01% chance to drop top-tier raid gear. Each key costs 25 cents worth of cartel coins. That's not P2W (well, maybe if it really is top-tier raid gear dropping), but it sure is... something... isn't it?
Speculation? Absolutely. That's all we have given the lack of clear, specific communication from EA.
Is it entirely outside of the realm of possibility? Not even close.
Damn bro, you start off with speculation, take a turn at assumptions, and end up in a back alley full of what-the-hell...
You're right though, no clear communication - except for the continued reassurance that F2P will not be P2W. But you can always disregard that communication you ask for since you can't trust them...
Fanciful stories, paranoia... Maybe lay off the THC, eh, Darth?
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Unnecessarily vague? No.
Case in point. During development, it was said that this would be a game where choices mattered. The weight of choice was something that the devs seemed genuinely proud of. Then Beta happened and scores of testers were horrified that they killed a potential companion or quest giver. The story changing weight of choice was dropped. Flash to now, where you still have scores of people complaining because they "were lied to" and had to endure the "slap in the face" of a duplicitous development team.
Or perhaps the "phantom promises" that are bandided about as further proof of developer "lies." Still, I see threads where people demand the release date of guild capitol ships - a feature that was never promised. A feature that the devs themselves said they thought about releasing, thought it was fun, but relegated it to the "wall of crazy." Despite this, it is still quite the common example of suppossed lies.
Speaking to us plainly and frankly merely fueled the rampant over-exaggeration that is the lifeblood of internet forums. Judging by the forum traffic since launch, I understand the vagueness. Communication may very well have gone from frequent and specific to limited and vague, but that is a by-product of the reaction it has received.
TL;DR: If you feel they are talking to the forums like children, it's probably because that's how the forums act.
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Ok, my point still stands that there was whole other community before launch and the forums were free, probably filled with all the people from creepy fur websites if indeed the Cathar won, as you claim.
Again, send him a PM. You have the tools, get the knowledge first-hand. And I'm not the only one claiming it, many others have told you the same thing.
Those same diehards that have followed the game during development are largely still subbed right now (I recognize a great deal of the posters from back then), and they are still part of the active Forum community. It makes complete business sense to listen to the fans who have stuck it out from development through today when installing a new species rather than fans who may have a couple months under their belts. For the record, I am one of those people that has been here since the development phase but my choice did not make it - oh well, majority rules.
Also, while Cathar may not be the species you or I want the most, do not insult those who did clamor for it by assuming that anyone with an interest in them is a creepy furry. Inferences could be made about your choice of species, but we'll all assume it's because you dig that species, nothing more.
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I keep making referece to Cel Cawdro's poll because it's evidence that the people wanted iconic and classic star wars species that were featured in the movies, series, etc. Bioware goes with Cathar, that to me is a sign fo disconnect, but that's my opinion.
One. Good thing you understand this is all your opinion, as basic facts indicate it is wrong. Yes, opinions can be wrong.
Two. Cite CelCawdro's poll all you want, but you miss the basic point that as Cathar were already added at that point it is a moot poll in relation to determining the community's desire for Cathar. Why vote for an option that is already included? You fail to grasp this simple concept.
Three. To my knowledge, it was CelCawdro that did the polls prior to launch and the Forum wipe - you know the polls that indicated Cathar as a community favorite. Send him a PM, find out for yourself.
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Guild capitol ships were never a promised inclusion. The most that was spoken of them was that it was something they talked about, that they thought would be fun to include, but did not. They indicated it may be something they add down the line, but it was essentially added to the "Wall of Crazy."
Not saying you believe that it was a promise, BTW. Just wanting to make sure the general community understands that as this is an oft cited "broken promise" by negative posters.
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...Cathar? Really Bioware? My opinion, but I think they are disconnected from their playerbase.
The Cathar were the top species in every species poll taken prior to launch. You want a link? Since the Forums were wiped at launch, you'd be hard pressed to find one. But ask anyone who was here and they will tell you Cathar was always number one. Is it my choice? No. But it's what the community wants and clearly, according to the dev posts in the poll you so often site, BW is listening to the community when it comes to new species. The only disconnect here is your own disconnect to the facts.
The caveat to that is the restrictions that BW, and I'm sure LucasArts, has in place for playable species. These restrictions were known prior to launch and have not been altered. Call the romance argument bunk all you want, but it is one of the basic tenants of selecting any new species, as is speaking basic. They have often indicated that they may relax these restrictions in the future, but for now that's what we have.
So continue to rail against the inclusion of a species you don't dig. Just be aware that you are in the minority and no amount of whining will change that.
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...I watched this game from the moment it was announced, and dreamed of it before then. I participated in the closed Beta when everyone was warning them that what they had wasn't enough, and launch needed to be delayed. I was there when they promised guild vs. guild capital ship battles, space expansions, and all sorts of other things that have never made it to the game, or been shown that any plans to work on them still exist...
I think we have found the major source of your complaints. Your expectations and desires have merged with your recollections of what the devs "promised" you.
Never was it said that guild v guild capitol ship battles were in. They said it was something they had discussed, would have liked to include, and may do so in the future. A promise, or even a confirmation of intent, it was not.
Space expansions is rather nebulous. If you mean more missions, yes, those are incoming. If you mean the holy grail of the space gamers; i.e. a re-working of the system to include 3 axis control and free flight, no, it was never even intimated that that was incoming.
Again, your desires have now merged with your recollections and thus have created a storm in which nothing is ever going to measure up. I won't tell you to find a game that you prefer, but may I suggest that you take whatever game you play with a grain of salt. Accept it for the fun it gives, realize it - and no game - will ever be perfect, and use it as intended - to have fun and pass some time.
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Long story short. We're not entitled, were F2P, and we should be able to use anything we earned while we were subbed. You may take away access to FP's, you may limit my war zone usage to bare minimum, you may take away my ability to raid, you may take away EVERY SINGLE THING at 50. But touch a single piece of gear/equipment/credits/mats/inventory on my character and I will put this game down and never look back and I assure you, I will not be the only one.
No, you are suffering from entitlement. It is a feeling of entitlement that makes you believe that things you had access to during your subcription phase should be available during a free-to-play phase.
Free-to-play accounts have restrictions, subcription accounts do not. Those are the two options. Nowhere on the chart deliniating the perks available to each is there a column for Free-to-play Accounts That Were Once Subcription Accounts.
Entitlement is exactly what is causing you to wail and beat your chest despite the basic facts presented. You feel you are entitled to access to things that a subbed player would have. The two-tiered account structure flies in the face of your expectations, yet you still fell entitled to the perks of subscription accounts.
This insistence that you have a right to things for no real reason other than "because I should" is the definition of entitled.
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What was that stuff that they used to have in the old Astrodome and other stadiums of the era? You know, the grass-like substance that was installed on the field in lieu of actual grass? Hmm...
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Please list any and all bugs you are encountering. For months now I have yet to encounter a single one.
Not. A. One.
In other words, Soa is fixed.
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To reiterate: the Group Finder will often queue you for a role you do not have selected. It rarely happens on my Tank/DpS toons, but for guildies with Heal/DpS toons the bug seems to be almost constant. One workaround we've found is to give Lead to the Heal/Dps and have them queue up, it usually works that way.
What is a problem, are those who click accept even if the Group Finder tells them their DpS toon has been selected as the Heals for a group. Take the time, look over your confirmation window, and if you are being inserted as Heals, but are not, please don't accept.
Oh, and filing a Bug Report couldn't hurt.
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I can sympathize with all of the OPs gripes. I tank in SWTOR, in every MMO I've played, and will continue to do so because I love the role. So, yes, everything the OP mentions is something I've griped about myself. One thing to remember though, is that we tanks can do something to alleviate this. Communicate.
Now, don't get me wrong, magically typing into chat won't make bad DpS better, or Captain Zergfest any more patient, but by communicating some basic tenents before the FP begins you can make things easier down the road. Maybe the DpS won't break the CC on a mob till you tag it first, maybe they won't go KB crazy and allow you to corral mobs better, or maybe they don't and - because of your initial communication - you can now kick them to the curb with no drama and nary a blink of your eye.
It boils down to this, for me at least, we chose a role that inherently comes with a greater responsibility to the group as a whole. As such, it is not outside our purview to take that role of responsibility and request some things that would make the run better and smoother for all. Does this mean we bark out orders in some dictatorial manner? No. But it does require us to do more than walk quietly into a run, expect others to know our desires, then fume at our keyboards when things go south.
Communicate. I've yet to come across anyone who takes offense to my clarifying some things that would make the run easier for all.
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Let me encapsulate things:
If there exist bugs and BioWare does maintenance, scheduled or not, to fix them people will gripe about the loss of playtime.
If there exist bugs and BioWare does only the scheduled maintenace people will gripe about having to wait a week for fixes.
The end.
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Because the subscription model right now doesn't work, don't take my word for it
http://www.gamespot.com/news/new-subscription-based-games-a-flawed-strategy-ccp-dev-6341348
http://www.vg247.com/2012/07/10/swtor-is-proof-subscription-mmos-have-peaked-says-pachter/
Let's see, the linked articles include 1) A developer who takes his cues from a listing of what's being released (of 30 to-be-released games he saw, four were Sub-based) and admits that even if his opinion is that F2P is a current trend, that it's cyclical, 2) A six paragraph excerpt from Turbine basically defending their own business model, and 3) An even shorter four paragraph blurb from an analyst whose basic presumption - that SWTOR isn't on-par with WoW numbers and thus failing - is flawed, and half of which is talking more to the console side of things.
While a basic tenent of the masses may be that we are generally frugal with our entertainment dollar, that does not mean we are unwilling to purchase entertainment that deserves the cash outlay. Sub prices include maintenance, content updates, customer service, and a myriad of things that make a Sub-based game a "premium MMO." Even most F2P games that you champion have these things essentially subsidized by a smaller percentage of the player base who, depending on the implementation and model of F2P, either pay for "premium" access (read: sub-based) or purchase things through MTs. You may argue that you pay for only what you want to access, I argue that relying on the smaller percantage of paying customers to fund the maintenance for all is a flawed strategy that has limited prospects long-term.
The illusion of F2P is just that, an illusion. Someone, somewhere is paying for the maintenance any MMO needs. Purchasers of Sub-based MMOs simply would rather pay their fair $15 and be done with it, rather than be forced into a pricing model that will extract every last dollar from you in order to access all the content that a game has to offer while subsidizing the gaming of those unwilling or unable to pay their share.
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To reitierate what the patient and informed have already said in this thread:
While these perks are unlocked through the Legacy System, they are 1) clearly labeled as Character Perks, 2) are segregated from the Legacy-wide perks by way of an entirely seperate tab, and 3) each contain text explaining that these apply only to the character who bought them.
To argue that it is not the method by which you wold apply Legacy rewards is fine, but to argue that you were somehow duped into buying them by BioWare because they falsely implied that these would be Legacy-wide is asinine.
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What if we are waiting on paid transfers? I am still on an origin server waiting for paid transfers to join my other characters on a server that was NOT my destination server. Am I going to miss out on this pet because I am waiting to pay to move instead of going to the free transfer server where I have no other toons or friends?
Would really like to be able to take advantage of this as well...
If the paid transfers aren't implemented by the cut-off date specified then, according to the stipulations laid out in the post concerning this incentive, yes, you would miss out. This is not to say the pet will not be available in some other way after the rewards are sent. However, going simply by the available information, then you would miss out.
This is an incentive for those who have not transferred to do so. If you are waiting for paid transfers then that is your choice, as is missing out on the associated reward.
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In appreciation for the community’s support of the Free Character Transfer service, we are giving all characters on qualifying servers (including all destination servers) an in-game pet, the Gannifari, and 25 Black Hole Commendations to help purchase high level gear. Visit www.swtor.com/transfer for a list of qualifying servers.
This clearly states "all characters on qualifying servers." Seems simple enough to me...
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Unfortunately even if he is on yoru ignore list the current iteration of the group finder doesn't check ignore lists, and will potentially match players up with those they've ignored.
Nope. Characters on your Ignore list will not be matched up with you when using the Group Finder.
Buying currency: thoughts
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@MaxIdaho - No, your ability to purchase creds with real currency wouldn't make you instantly better, you're right. But that isn't the issue, the issue at hand is that all the suppossed obstacles in your way are self-imposed, and inflated to such a grandiose scale that you make it seem as though it's nigh impossible to keep up with skill purchases as you level.
Currency gain is exactly where it needs to be for progression; i.e. as you level, you gain enough creds to get every skill you can - including speeders and their associated skills. At end game, the ability to make creds essentially boils down to how much time you want to allocate to cred making. As stated, even a simple half hour nets you 100K. If your playtime is so limited that a half hour per week is sacred, then perhaps you need to adjust your expectations vis-a-vis gear/currency gain.
That brings us to the crux of the matter, you are in full control over what you accomplish in-game whether it's cred gain, gearing, levelling, etc. The main point of any MMO, or even RPG for that matter, is that as you play you increase your toons skills, gear, cash - not that as a consequence of my subscription I gain X amount of exp per day while logged out, or that I can easily hop over to a cred farmer and pick up a few hundred thousand creds.
You get what you put in, in other words. Don't expect a forum full of sympathizers when we all have the reality of real life to work around. And while there may be those players that you look down upon for their circumstance of having mroe playtime than you, realize most of us fit our game into our real lives, not the other way around.
Budget your time, put in the effort with the limited time you have, and focus on the goals most pertinent to you. But don't sit here and act petulant because those of us who do the above don't agree with your need to have things given to them simply for having an account in good standing.