[Stop making things so easy!]

Cheaper speeders? Doesn't mean its difficult. It just means it takes less time to get money.

 

If something takes less time or costs less, it makes it easier to get.

 

Quicker to 60 Valor and Battlemaster gear? Good. Now those people that don't have battlemaster like me will be on an even footing and have a higher chance of beating me. So actually, PvP becomes harder because I have less of an advantage, not easier.

 

Nowhere did Remec say he didn't want an even footing.

 

The only argument you have that could hold any value is making VIP items available to all ONLY if they don't add new items to the VIP vendor.

 

Everything he said holds value, the VIP item change is an example that reinforces the other examples.

 

Oh, and incase you missed it, they're ramping up the difficulty of Nightmare FP and releasing more difficult FP in general.

 

Unlike the other examples he gave, there has been a huge consensus from the community that Nightmare FP was a joke in relation to hard mode.

[Forum Avatars?]

My Account and look to the right.

[So it's not ok for "hardcores" to have gear progression?]

Actually, this thread is about wanting a gear advantage and a steady supply of other players to faceroll over because of that gear.

 

I was kind of looking at this thread being about part-time PvPers wanting gear handed to them without much effort.

[Thank ya, EA.]

I think it was the references to Nascar that pissed off the Austin mindset.

[BattleMaster gear vs Champ Gear]

If 500-550 is the ideal amount of valor with DR kicking in at 10% currently then ideally you want the 10% and then focus your attention on whatever other stats are important to you.

 

Am I understanding this correctly?

 

Someone started that lie and others ran with it. 500-550 is not ideal. 500-550 is when you start (repeat START) reaching the DR curve hard. People have been arguing this point for weeks now and I will still hold to the fact that expertise is the best PvP stat until you start getting over 700.

 

I'd rather have a half percent increase in expertise than a half percent increase in base stat. The problem is that a lot of BM gear is accuracy (which is useless for my class). Of course I did swap out accuracy crap for crit/surge mods from champ gear.

[That PVP healer adjustment was a JOKE]

This has got to be one of the funniest threads I've read. Cap healers because Imps don't roll healers?

 

I can't stop laughing.

[Please reduce number of polygons in WZs by at least 40%]

Muniek, just out of curiosity, what FPS are you getting when you are just standing at the arrival point of the speeder and not actually engaging enemies?

 

I don't think removing some polygons is the real problem, at least it's not for me. The moment I notice any lag is when I get near a turret and enemies get within range of rendering.

 

Now if you want to talk polygons, look at the gear players are wearing. Polygon size isn't the issue, the number of them are.

[Increase Commendation gains.]

Welfare have been working great in the USA.

 

It has? Well if the plan was to make it easy for people to not work then yeah it's working great.

[Increase Commendation gains.]

Who cares if they make it easier to obtain BM gear?

 

Players like me and I'm not alone.

[Stop making things so easy!]

I really don't think they are making the game easier...

 

I stopped right there. They are making it easier. Remec is 100% right.

[Stop making things so easy!]

I'm really disappointed in the way that bioware as made things easier and easier in this game.

 

Disappointment seems to be contagious in this game.

[Is logging in getting slower?]

I'm confused. Do the infants have to be random or does the sacrificial method have to be random?

 

Does anyone know where I can get a selection of random infants?

 

I would suggest you head to Austin. There's a bunch there it seems.

[So where did it go wrong?]

Approximately here: http://kotaku.com/309937/ea-buys-bioware-pandemic

 

Now are we supposed to be looking at the EA buying BW part or the part that isn't written that BW hired Mythic developers that destroyed WAR's endgame?

 

Or both?

[Disable premade groups for PVP?]

Well, my friend, YES, you can, since I AM IN ADVERTISING.

 

And this is called "INCENDIARY" in advertising jargon.

 

And IT IS a sign of "we don't have enough customers and we didn't make our plans or we have big immigration!"

 

There are many reasons why companies advertise. Sluggish revenue is one of them but not the only reason. I've seen companies advertise, not because they were dropping in sales, but to acquire more market share. Typically, though, revenue is the main reason.

 

BW asking people to get their friends to play MAY not be a revenue issue, but it's easy to see why it probably is.

[Disable premade groups for PVP?]

You'll see less and less premades when rated WZs hit.

 

I want what you are smoking. Escaping reality looks appealing right now.

[Guild summit fail imho]

One thing that boggled my mind was the comment that the UI changes were mostly done by one person who volunteered his time on weekends as he felt it was important to get into 1.2. There were other examples where I question their priorities but that's one I remember best.

 

That one boggled my mind too. If what he said was true, it makes me question where the priorities really lie since 1) he clearly said that "one person" was not tasked to work on the UI and 2) he worked on his own time (nights/weekends) to finish it in time to make the 1.2 patch.

 

On top of that there's this statement from the DarthHater article:

 

Damion Schubert says only about half the changes being shown will make it into 1.2 update, but the UI team was very passionate about the changes and wanted them shown.

 

These two statements open up a world of questions in my mind.

 

1) Exactly how many people are tasked to work on the UI?

 

2) Why did someone have to work on his own time to work on the UI?

 

3) Why is only about half the changes going to make 1.2 (which is still weeks away)?

 

Think about this for a sec. The reason I point these out because we've been hearing over and over about the upcoming changes for the UI. Stuff that the vast majority of players have been asking for over and over. BW never downplayed this at all and even gave the strong impression that UI changes were a major priority. You see, as a developer, that the statements seem to contradict each other. If the UI is such a high priority, why did it take someone, on his own (that we have to assume was his own initiative) to work on the UI during his offtime?

 

While I don't know the exact makeup of staff at BW working on SWTOR, I do know that telling users (us) that a feature is a high priority (UI) and then state that it's being worked on by a developer during his off time and only about half of it will be ready many weeks from now is very discomforting.

 

Go back, when you can see the video of the conference, and watch that part again. It was obvious that most there didn't get it or didn't have time to think about what he said. On top of that, he asked for everyone to applaud that "one person" for doing this.

 

All I know that in my line of work, if I tell the users that a feature is a high priority and someone is working on it during off time, and only half of it will be ready weeks down the road, I will get a lot of stares and I sure won't get applause.

[Don't you hate when they don't cuddle?]

You fail. You aren't pompous enough or stroke your own ego enough to warrant a job with them. You want to actually help the community, not appease them with vague promises to keep them from unsubbing.

 

Go back and work on that and maybe they might give you an interview.

[R.i.p. Ilum?]

Who knows what the future holds for Ilum. One thing I do know, is they are doing their best to keep people away GRADUALLY and allow it to die on it's own right now.

 

Typically on a Tuesday (weeklies) on my server there's a large amount of players running around Ilum getting weeklies/dailies done. This morning, there was only a handful looping mid for crates. Is it dead? No. Did I stay? No.

[Bio says no to macros at Guild Summit.]

Next stop: Pay to win Micro Transactions.

 

So BW doesn't want players to macro combat? No problem. There's always a workaround.

 

Razer Naga Mouse

[This is troubling news about valor...]

This is what happens when PvE developers try to simulate PvP. The constant arguing on these forums on what PvP should be is the result.

 

Bioware screwed up making gear important in PvP. That should have never been the focus and now they are in major damage control mode trying to fix their mistakes.

[Ranked Warzones Broke on Arrival?]

They said they are changing the determination of winner/loser in 1.2.

 

Yeah, they will probably make the RNG even more innocuous.

[Did I hear this right? We won't need to be Valor Rank 70 to get War Hero Gear]

No one in PvP deserves, or needs, to have better gear than anyone else.

 

Well the flip side is true then that no one in PvE deserves, or needs, to have better gear than anyone else.

[[Panel Discussion] State of the Game (10:30AM CST)]

The only thing is that my game runs FASTER on High settins than it runs on Low.

I wonder if it run even worse on even lowest settings...

 

I hope they add a super, Ultra texture pack, that way I'll get something around 24 fps on Ilum... maybe.

 

Until they fix the core problem with the graphics engine, all the different textures in the world is not going to fix open pvp lag ever.

[[Panel Discussion] User Interface (6:00PM CST)]

I've seen the freezing you're talking about, and while I don't know the cause of it, I can certainly say that this isn't the only MMO to experience that particular issue.

 

We know exactly what causes it. Read this thread LINK

[[Panel Discussion] User Interface (6:00PM CST)]

When will I be able to jump in the air, open the character or inventory window and not have it lag out where the next image is me standing on the ground?