Vegetator

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My favorite Troll!

Where ya been, Veg?!

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Gardvord hears fly buzzing around head.

Gardvord grabs fly and eats it.

Caliban laughs.

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In the case of making the higher level game more fun, I want to make the difficulty of the later levels resemble early gameplay. At first, some players will decry "but I can't do what I used to! Ack! I can't solo two +4 bosses anymore?" True - but they'll have fun battling 3 white minions - which is something you can say at level 15, but not at level 35. Long term, the entire game will sparkle once this sort of balance is restored - because so much of the game design hangs upon it.

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States, that is one of your less Cryptic replies and I applaud you
for it.

But, as long as the XP curve is so exponentially out of whack
battling challenging minions will not offer any reward it will just
make levelling (reward) that much harder/slower..

At least make the XP bar a toggle so that we can hide it and not
have to witness it's lack of progress.

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I like how "we're in the same boat," but sneakily my theories somehow ended up "even more" asinine than yours.

Anyway, I use relatively common sense and my own experience in the industry to make a comparatively well-educated guess that the developers, a group of professionals directing the fate of a multi-million dollar project which provides them and probably many others with income and therefore livelihood, are not making decisions based on the rants and raves of a FRACTION of 1% of their customers.

To get where they are, they would already have to be much smarter than that.

You on the other hand, well... lets just say you don't have to pass any tests to get an account and post on the forums.

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Lol, you make many claims, and then you assume that others
have no such experience ?

lol, you are nobody, kid.. Stop trying to make out like you matter
to the gaming industry.

My logic is sound, you were not around for the changes that were
made so you can have no informed opinion.

ergo, you have nothing to say about what you did not witness.

And, as far as I know, you didn't have to "pass any test" to post
on these forums either.. <wink>

Keep babbling and showing your ignorance.

Oh and keep up the professional use of curse words in every
other post, it really helps people to respect your teenaged trailer
park mentaility.

Volt,

You seen how many changes were made in response to player
levelling styles, haven't you ?

Be honest, is the trend toward or away from power gaming ?

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Sorry, I didn't realize I was speaking with a Cryptic employee who "was around" when the developers were making decisions about the game, I thought I was talking to a blowhard player who thinks he knows what happened because he spent his time trolling the forums and concocting asinine theories about how the developers make their decisions.

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You have described yourself perfectly..

You and I share the same boat on that count and you can eat
your own words as your ignorance is doubled:

1, you do not work for Cryptic either

2, you didn't witness anything that occurred so your "theories"
regarding what occurred are even more "assinine", and ignorant,
than mine.

Would you like your face wiped on the sidewalk a bit more ?

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Haha. Umm, no. Sorry, dude, I don't bow to the classic forum [censored]'s "I've been here longer so I must be righter," argument. It's funny to see you try to use it, though. I would have expected it from you if anyone.


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You do not have to "bow to it", twit..

But trying to speak of matters you were not witness to, only
proves that you speak from ignorance.

You weren't around, ergo, you do not know what happened..

End of story.

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I don't know why people are so hopped up over the "purple patch."

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Because you didn't have the good fortune to play the game
before they implemented it.

If you eat garbage your entire life, you will never know it tastes
like garbage.

But if you are forced to eat garbage, when it is not your normal
diet, you will find yourself less than happy with the meal...

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Uhh, hey, thanks for proving my point Vegetator.

The developers base decisions on what happens in game, not what gets whined about on the forums.

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No one proved any of your half witted points...

While it is by no means certain, many of the nerfs were made
in what appeared to be suspiciously direct response to posts that
certain people had made regarding their "accomplishments".

It is quite possible, given the huge volume, that the data was
only mined after those posts gave them reason to focus.

You weren't around for any of that so, kindly, shut the hell up
regarding matters of which you have no knowledge.

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I fail to see how any of those things prove that the devs changed things based on the forums and not the actual data they got from the servers.

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Touche'

You are absolutely right, there is no indication (other than timing)
that they used anything from the forums to base their decisions
on.

But, there was some suspicious timing involved...

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So true. This paranoia was rampant on the SWG forums, but I hold a firm belief that although game developers might use forums to help them, they do not let them sway them significantly in relation to actual data mining.

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How short your memory is...

You do not seem to remember how Mr. 152 hours came out
of the closet and how there were immediate nerfs to compensate
for his power levelling. (not referring to the exploit fixes)

Don't remember the purple patch either ??

Or how Equinox beat down blobbidon and there was a sudden
gang of nerfs related to that.

Maybe these will refresh your memory:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...rfPleadge2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...onminister.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2.../lilstates.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...nerf_daddy.jpg

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Im only 22, I dont get it.

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"Cats" was a broadway play that people went to see over and over
and over again...

It had a very long run, one of the longest.

The person is implying that your video is worth watching
repeatedly.

And to reiterate: How did you do the smooth camera rotations ?

How did you do the smooth rotations ?

I have bugged mission now and I waited between 2 and 2.5 hours for in game help..

Now I will get a flood of useless e-mails telling me to re-petetion
next time I am in game..