Personnnel Decoration Bundle

[CloudCastle]

I would like to see a direct sale deco bundle that includes a nicely rounded grouping of personnel. NOT random, it needs to be like the other stronghold bundles for sale that have a set number of items that you can count on. My strongholds feel empty when they should be lively places. Personnel decos are too rare and too expensive, making it very hard to create realistic scenarios such as cantinas, hospitals, casinos, academies, etc.

 

We need more people of various races and poses, preferably ones that move and appear to be doing things or are in conversations.

 

Examples:

 

People typing (who can be positioned in front of a terminal)

Serving droids

People singing, dancing (not half naked), and playing instruments

People engaged in weapons practice - swinging training sabers and shooting blasters.

People holding glasses, drinking and acting in conversation, laughing etc.

People making generic hand motions (who can be placed in front of casino tables or cooking stoves for example.)

People sitting or laying down (if possible)

People reading from datapads

Force users meditating

Prisoners kneeling with their hands cuffed

Officers pacing or engaged in speeches

 

I know a few of these can be found in some rare packs or vendors, but they are not readily available and they should be! (For example the only people I have found who appear to be sparring are the rakata personnel decos). I want my casino to come alive, and my ex-slave refugee camp to appear full of life. I would definitely buy a bundle like this especially if it had some unique personnel in it.

[Theeko]

I wouldn't mind if they copied the skins but not put the originals in them cause that would be unfair to those that spent to much on the packs, like change the name, colors something like that. Edited March 12, 2017 by Theeko

[Zhedzaban]

Just walking through Nar Shadda you see npcs doing various dances, playing instruments or just talking. Why can't we have these npcs in our strongholds? The Personnel Decoration bundle is an outstanding idea, BW would make a fortune!

[Damask_Rose]

I would like this a lot. Personnel are critical for a nice stronghold, but we've had very few new ones so they are all bloody expensive on the gtn. People's cartel cert stashes are drying up, so the personnel from that vender are much harder to get. Companions are useless since they are holograms for 7/8 characters.

[CloudCastle]

Thanks for the support, guys. I really like the idea and am surprised that BW hasn't done it yet. I have a lovely stage set up in my cantina area, but there are no musicians to play there. The tables and bar are empty. I have a lonely smuggler playing at the nearby casino table with one other buddy looking on, but that's it for that room as well. I have a target practice room with skytrooper dummies and targets to shoot at, but no one is there practicing. These rooms should all be hoppin'!

 

Make it happen BW!

[Xina_LA]

The top two things we need for strongholds are:

* NPCs -- These are critical to making a stronghold feel "alive". We only have a female padawan, a female Sith, a female togruta, a male destitute smuggler, and so forth. We don't even have an iconic wookie! The selections are extremely limited, especially if you take race and gender into account.

* Utilities -- These are critical to making a stronghold useful. We could really use a combat dummy, a heroic mission terminal, a space mission terminal, and even a jukebox that plays a continuous mix of songs (not background music).

 

A personnel bundle would help us catch up on our severe lack of NPC options. Either that or a pack with nothing but NPC decorations.

 

PLEASE don't forget to design these NPCs to work in a variety of stronghold hooks. There has been an alarming trend lately of adding decorations that only work in one hook type.

Edited March 16, 2017 by Xina_LA

[bncsmom]

The top two things we need for strongholds are:

* NPCs -- These are critical to making a stronghold feel "alive". We only have a female padawan, a female Sith, a female togruta, a male destitute smuggler, and so forth. We don't even have an iconic wookie! The selections are extremely limited, especially if you take race and gender into account.

* Utilities -- These are critical to making a stronghold useful. We could really use a combat dummy, a heroic mission terminal, a space mission terminal, and even a jukebox that plays a continuous mix of songs (not background music).

 

A personnel bundle would help us catch up on our severe lack of NPC options. Either that or a pack with nothing but NPC decorations.

 

PLEASE don't forget to design these NPCs to work in a variety of stronghold hooks. There has been an alarming trend lately of adding decorations that only work in one hook type.

 

Page 116 of all decos, they already have heroic mission terminals (Category, Technological, Sub-category, Computers) set to be released, I've just never seen any word on when/if they ever will be released at all. It'd be nice to have those actually be released, along with the training dummies and more NPCs, especially vendors.

 

Another game I play gives the ability to change the ambient music in your house. There's also a way to change your wall colors, textures, and floor types. You click a button and a panel lights up where you choose which item to slot: wall texture, wall color, floor texture/type, floor color, music. I'd love to see that here, too. But that's tangenting off to a different topic.

[MikeCobalt]

Very Good *Suggestion. I've gone on about this myself. In my Strongholds I also like scenes, looks and seeming activities that people actually Would be doing, Gambling, Chatting, Business Poses, and so many others.. More recent personnel would be Nice.

[Xina_LA]

Page 116 of all decos, they already have heroic mission terminals (Category, Technological, Sub-category, Computers) set to be released, I've just never seen any word on when/if they ever will be released at all.

That's a good point and I'm very curious about that, myself. They've been so good about giving us glimpses of upcoming story chapters and game improvements, it's a little odd that there's no mention of strongholds.

[Sazigirl]

I would like to see a direct sale deco bundle that includes a nicely rounded grouping of personnel. NOT random, it needs to be like the other stronghold bundles for sale that have a set number of items that you can count on. My strongholds feel empty when they should be lively places. Personnel decos are too rare and too expensive, making it very hard to create realistic scenarios such as cantinas, hospitals, casinos, academies, etc.

 

We need more people of various races and poses, preferably ones that move and appear to be doing things or are in conversations.

 

Examples:

 

People typing (who can be positioned in front of a terminal)

Serving droids

People singing, dancing (not half naked), and playing instruments

People engaged in weapons practice - swinging training sabers and shooting blasters.

People holding glasses, drinking and acting in conversation, laughing etc.

People making generic hand motions (who can be placed in front of casino tables or cooking stoves for example.)

People sitting or laying down (if possible)

People reading from datapads

Force users meditating

Prisoners kneeling with their hands cuffed

Officers pacing or engaged in speeches

 

I know a few of these can be found in some rare packs or vendors, but they are not readily available and they should be! (For example the only people I have found who appear to be sparring are the rakata personnel decos). I want my casino to come alive, and my ex-slave refugee camp to appear full of life. I would definitely buy a bundle like this especially if it had some unique personnel in it.

 

I like these ideas!

 

This is my top decoration list:

 

• Cantina band
  
• Wookie personnel
  
• Male Togruta personnel
  
• Female Rodian personnel
  
• Female Selkath personnel
  
• Ithorian personnel
  
• Sullastan personnel
  
• Seated republic / imperial personnel
  
• More ambient sounds (able to stay on once activated and only turn off once leave or turn off)
  

 

Themed personnel packs (8-10 in each of mix of 3-5 species with even number male/female)

• Cantina personnel
  
• Casino personnel
  
• Marketplace personnel
  
• Military base personnel
  
• Starship hangar personnel
  

[Riessa]

I would definitely go for a personnel bundle to make my strongholds look like more than a place to store a lot of stuff. Excellent idea.

[Tahirri]

/signed