Darth Hater

Georg Zoeller
Well, it seems an interesting enough discussion to throw a question in.

If there was a 'privacy' flag for your profile that prevents people from inspecting your character, would that help?

I assume not, because I assume those that want to judge you would just assume you are hiding your character because you are afraid to be judged and therefore possibly inadequate in their eyes?

I know there are additional considerations in regards to this, but I wanted to specifically know your opinion on this question.

Georg Zoeller
A favorite use of mine is for one player to go back to town and turn in quests and the rest of the group camping out in the wild. The player then turns in the quest and the group holos in.

It doesn't change the overall time to complete the quest, but it does allow the group to relax, hunt, craft instead of all spending time on travel.

Georg Zoeller
I don't think this is a concern for us. After years of playing legit characters and testing, I don't even know if there is a limit we are enforcing. And since you can hide quests that are not on your current planet and turn tracking on and off individually for each quest, you're unlikely to experience significant overload either.

Georg Zoeller
Does the quest log have preferences to let us set it to 'auto-hide' Quests from other planets? Or would we need to manually set each quest to hidden?That option does exist, yes.

Georg Zoeller
I don't think we have talked about this topic at all, so this thread is based on a guess, I suppose.

I don't see us rewarding people for rushing through the story either.

Georg Zoeller
In order to join a conversation via holo, you have to confirm you want to participate.

You cannot participate if you are in combat at the time, or on another planet, in an Operation, Flashpoint or Warzone.

Georg Zoeller
Any parent is well familiar with the 'are we there yet' situation on a long journey by car.

They also know that you lose when you say 'in 15 minutes'. 'Soon' is a universally accepted coping mechanism for these situations.

Daniel Erickson
I tried the search function but didnt see anything on this.

What happens if I log out or disconnect during the middle of a conversation?
Will I log back in and end up at the same place in the dialogue or will the conversation start over?

And if, lets say, I have a really big important choice to make, and I wanna sleep on it. Can I just abort the whole conversation and log out or do I just log out?

I guess its a technical issue, but I see a scenario where I by accident pick the wrong choice and in panic shut the computer off hoping that the decision I made didn't get saved. Could that happend?Hey Folks,

In the event of disconnects, you will start at the beginning of the conversation, as if it never happened. You don't need to rush to turn your computer off, though. The same thing happens if you hit the Escape key in the middle of a conversation. It quits out, dumps your choices and you can start over. It's not until the end of the conversation that it saves it out and sends it to the server. It's a good escape hatch for when the cat walks on your keyboard or you accidently hit a response you were just browsing.

Hope that helps,
Daniel

Georg Zoeller
Yet in SWTOR guardians and sentinels dps the same.Currently the Sentinel has marginally higher DPS while Guardian has marginally higher survivability.

Sentinels are more flexible in the way they DPS, e.g. you are able to specialize to be more bursty than a Guardian, etc.

Georg Zoeller
The Jedi Master that used that technique died before being able to teach it to anyone and Malgus isn't likely going to share it with you?

Point being ... powerful iconic NPCs might have abilities that players cannot learn ... at the moment.

Georg Zoeller
It is when you make the claim a developer isn't communicating enough. If a developer states the release window is the second half of 2011 and they don't want to give an actual release date yet it is not a problem with communication on their behalf. Failure to accept an answer says more about the person unwilling to accept it then about the person answering you.QFT...

Well, the way I like to phrase it is this:

Asking questions is one thing... being willing to accept the answers is another.

We're perfectly willing to communicate with you guys, often on a daily basis (as time permits). What we are unable to do is to give everyone the answers they want to hear. We can commit to answering truthfully... but we can't promise you that you like the answers, that is entirely up to you.

It's easy to summarize the current problem.

Q: When do you release
A: We plan to release in 2011

Q: When do you release exactly?
A: We plan to release in 2011

Q: Surely you must have more precise plans?
A: We plan on 2011. We're not precise for [number of reasons]

Q: I think those reasons are not valid. When do you release?
A: We plan to release in 2011

The answers are there. The communication is there. It's just that people don't like the answers. They have perfectly fine reasons to dislike the answers ("I planned to plan a vacation around release, etc."). We're totally understanding of it... but, sadly, none of the people you interact with on these Forums have any power to change those answers to something you like.

Finally, to the original poster, veryalien

If you accuse someone of calling people stupid, please back it up with a quote. It'll help for context. For reference, I never did. Damion wrote, month ago, a post with the words 'players' and 'stupid' in it. However did not call the community stupid. He made a tongue in cheek comment about how 'the other players' are always stupid when it comes to friendly fire. You chose to take that out of context and attribute it to me. I dislike that, but I take that this was a honest mistake.

Georg Zoeller
edit: und wie wir ja erfahren haben wird man ja selbst auf pve servern quasie zum pvp "gewzungen" zb am ende einer instanz wo sich dann auf einmal 2 gruppen an spielern gegenberstehen und sich gegenseitig bekmpfen mssen.EN: There are no forced PvP interactions on PvE servers.

Georg Zoeller
in every video i've seen, each class only has one set of animations for the basic attacks, and i myself am going to find that increasingly dull to look at, especially as a Jedi Knight/Sith Warrior, who build up their "rage" meter for abilities by spamming the basic attack.

please devs, add another basic attack animation set for the melee classes.There are multiple animations for basic melee attacks.

For basic blaster attacks, well, there is really only so many ways to shoot a gun.

Even classes that build rage/focus meters won't spam their basic attack for prolonged periods of times, there are plenty of moves that build rage/focus.

Damion Schubert
My question was more under the guise of wanting to play a certain character (say a Jedi Knight). Would I be able to collect resources using my other characters as I was playing my Jedi Knight? Yes.to me i think the whole offline getting resources thing is cool but its bad too. people will just make alot of alts and send out there companions to get resources and it will ruin the market.There are some preconceptions about the missions system, such as that it's an infinite money machine. Quite the opposite: it costs money to send your CC out looking for stuff, typically more than you can sell the returns for to a vendor. You can hit the jackpot, but this is because you find items that are of high utility to yourself or other players. For example, you might find rare crafting materials to make ubergear. The value in these items is what you sell them to other players for.

This is a delicate balance, of course, but a player who tries to farm non-stop is going to have a pretty severe cash flow problem, and basic economics says that if too many people are flooding the market with too many of the same goods, it's going to be difficult for you to get a price for the goods more than the cost to acquire it. Supply and demand, y'know, which most of the time should self-correct.

Could you send every CC on every character out all the time? Sure, if you have infinite cash. It's my team's responsibility to be sure that doesn't happen. =)

Georg Zoeller
Hangars are instanced. Spaceports are heavily guarded and frequented by players of friendly faction. There are no decent medical centers for players of the opposite factions around your spaceport and surrounding areas.