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Star Wars: The Old Republic |OT| EA: "Let's blow this thing and go home!"
- Thread starter Emitan
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Wow thats bad
Skellig Gra
Member
That doesn't sound very bountiful.
Attackthebase
Member
This is bullshit. There's no point to splicing anymore. I was getting so close to my speeder too.
BattleMonkey
Member
You always took a risk of not making your credits back. Is this how all of them are turning out?
cartoon_soldier
Member
This is bullshit. There's no point to splicing anymore. I was getting so close to my speeder too.
The point always would have been to get some sort of return on credits + Schematics + Augments
I was hoping they would hold off, I wanted to reach 2 million by 50
I don't get why everyone's so down on the graphics. I'm looking forward to playing SW:ToR when my PC components get delivered at the end of the weak, and I'm pretty pumped!
I mean this just looks awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLCAz-Q1tNA
I mean this just looks awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLCAz-Q1tNA
That risk was only if you got a white credit box before. Now even a green box can result in a loss.
Skellig Gra
Member
Not sure if serious? This is a cut scene not in game footage.
Edit: That being said, I don't have any issues with the in game graphics. But I'm not a graphics whore like some others.
Here's one for you, sent all my characters out on slicing missions before I went to sleep last night.
Class 5 Rich Yield
Cost - 2375 Credits (Going by the other 2 Rich Yield missions I have in the list)
Time Spent - 28 minutes
Reward - Green Credit box, 1645 credits.
On the flip side, my other companion that was on a Class 5 Rich Yield came back with a blue credit box, and 6.8k credits.
fizzelopeguss
Banned
Classic panic nerf.
bluedeviltron
Member
LowParry
Member
I'd say more risky. It's a gamble. I've seen plenty of people getting blue boxes and triple the amount back earned just now in my guild.
Edit: Misunderstood because I'm an idiot.
Another blue credit box from a slicing mission, when I've never gotten any before today. Did they up the drop rates on the blues or something?
Definitely a panic nerf but the whole concept of earning money while you're logged off is completely unbalanced for a game that lets you have alts. It's balanced fine in moderation but MMO's always have problems testing the extremes of player behavior for some reason.
Slicing is not worthless, however. It's just not free money.
LowParry
Member
We got a guild like on my server. Their ball carrier for Huttball is...eh......let's just say he's a bitch to kill. So we generally aim for the healer but by the time we can get that even done, they're already in for the score. Wish I could say the same with Republic games. Terrible players. Even the 50s we've ran into just don't know what to do or whatever. Either way, good times ahead
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
That's because Augments are pretty much worthless for the majority of the game. When it comes to gear, folks generally want Orange or GTFO. Since augments generally only come on the occasional green/blue/purp crafted item, the opportunities to use them are restricted only to items that can't be orange, like earpieces and non-weapon offhands.
I was immediately concerned slicing would be overnerfed into uselessness, not psyched that I was correct.
cartoon_soldier
Member
Augments will be required for min/max players.
Good. I hope that is the case. This game was already seeing mudflation and it would only have gotten worse.
Are people forgetting about about harvesting credits in the game world with Slicing or was that nerfed too? I would net a decent amount from just walking around the world. That's how I made most use of the skill early on, before I got an extra companion to send out on missions.
Well I'm dropping Slicing for Underworld Trading. The metals will be of higher value at 50 since you can sell the metals as they are used to make blue armor/weapon enchantments. With the profits you just buy the augments.
It's going to have a huge effect on the overall economy. Non-slicing players are likely the ones to be hit the worst by this as no one's going to be able to afford anything. Slicing produced the money that paid for the gathering of those materials. My fix would have been to make slicing one character per account, but that's too much of a metagame/immersion breaking fix for bioware.
Enough people don't understand how gearing is going to work yet. It's not like wow where even the casual and terrible players know a ton of theorycrafting basics. That stuff will come out but augments are still going to be underpriced for awhile till people realize you only need one set of them.
BattleMonkey
Member
You also get blue/purple missions, augments, etc out of it but it's going to become real unpopular if its no longer instant free credits.
Well of course but you weren't able to basically do nothing but send companions out like before which is going to piss ppl off (already is). Just slicing crappy lockboxes doing questing yesterday for a bit got me several thousand free credits out of them.
Slicing is also helpful in various flashpoints to open shortcuts and other tasks
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Just did a rich yield class 5 lockbox. Got 4k credits. This is with my droid who has 0 affection, slicing at 380. Cost was around 1k (or maybe 2k? can't remember), took about 30 min.
Doesn't seem so bad!
LowParry
Member
Is there any other way to get missions? I would think those would become a huge money maker.
They're too common to be a huge money maker overall, at least the blue ones. They're also on such a long cooldown that it's probably not worth the investment if you're crafting, you'd be better off cycling through the basic missions. The max level ones will likely sell for a decent amount as those resources will be in constant use.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Agreed, but so is a ton of other stuff that comes from other skills that are generally more worthwhile at this point.
BattleMonkey
Member
I've only found them when using slicing so no idea. Not sure on resale value as I've been giving them away to guildies, but you can usually sell them to a vendor and make a decent amount of creds on them too even that way.
tycoonheart
Member
Around what level do you get your 2nd companion?
24ish.
BattleMonkey
Member
I was about lvl 22 with my Sith Warrior
mocolostrocolos
Member
Guys, I'm having problems with the launcher.
It doesnt appear when I click on it and if I click twice it shows me a message that is already running. I kill the task but the problem persists.
It doesnt appear when I click on it and if I click twice it shows me a message that is already running. I kill the task but the problem persists.
Extra Sauce
Member
Um.... this is a cinematic. The game doesn't look like that.
I think I got it around 26 as a merc.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
As others have mentioned, in the 20's. Companions (almost) always come at the end of class quests on a particular planet, and the 2nd companion can come from the end of Balmorra (20ish), Nar Shadda (24ish), or Tattooine (27ish), depending on your class.
Trooper's second companion comes when you get your ship (end of Coruscant), so like 18-20. He's nearly useless in a fight, though.
The third companion, the second that is useful in a fight comes at the end of Taris (like 22-24ish).
Totally unscientific results here, but yeah, slicing's not so hot anymore. Guess I better start working on my Scavenging and Armstech and hope they can make me money.
17-24 For Better Or Worse (Rich)
Cost - 535
Time - 6m
Result - Standard Medium Credit Case (green) 470 credits
25-32 The Automated Saboteur (Rich)
Cost - 870
Time - 12m
Result - Reinforced Medium Credit Case (green) 920 Credits
33-40 Pointing Fingers (Bountiful)
Cost - 1250
Time - 19m
Result - Gilded Medium Credit Box (green) 1183 Credits
49-50 Data Race (Abundant)
Cost - 1485
Time - 36m
Result - Ancient Small Credit Box (white) 1365
17-24 For Better Or Worse (Rich)
Cost - 535
Time - 6m
Result - Standard Medium Credit Case (green) 470 credits
25-32 The Automated Saboteur (Rich)
Cost - 870
Time - 12m
Result - Reinforced Medium Credit Case (green) 920 Credits
33-40 Pointing Fingers (Bountiful)
Cost - 1250
Time - 19m
Result - Gilded Medium Credit Box (green) 1183 Credits
49-50 Data Race (Abundant)
Cost - 1485
Time - 36m
Result - Ancient Small Credit Box (white) 1365
