How are they ranking up so fast? I'm confused.
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How are they ranking up so fast? I'm confused.
Based on that post, they're saying people are ranking up fast from controlling all the opposing teams points and killing players.
Not from farming turrets. They said no valour gain from turrets or NPCs.
Gunmonkey36
Member
You get 200 valor per kill if you control all things. If you are in the enemy base enemies are forced to respawn when you kill them there. They cannot escape and with an Ops group you can kill people in a few seconds.
So its basically 200 valor every 3 secs on imbalanced servers.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Oh please, theres no need to be so dramatic. If anyone is seriously considering a petition to get the lead designer removed or going to unsub from this..
Start petitions, uninstall the game, whatever. It seems like such a big deal over nothing. Win trading Tol Barad was much worse than this (you actually got the currency used to directly buy gear and items from doing so) and it wasnt even that bad. The most these incidents get from me is a yawn.
i dont feel bad because they have tangible rewards from doing that (actual currency to buy stuff with) whereas all the people got Valor rank in this method didnt afaik.
TheDancingWatermelon
Member
Well I was wrong. :lol
Interesting that they say absolutely nothing about those who "valored up" through this, I don't think they'll be able to sweep that under the rug the way they did the credit dupers.
cartoon_soldier
Member
They valored up by being able to camp the taxi point
Azzurri
Member
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TheDancingWatermelon
Member
Oh no I saw that, I meant more in regards to "are they going to let the people keep the valor or do something about it?"
On a personal note, my favorite bug from this patch is the random 1-2 second loading screen while I drive around the fleet.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Why have mounts? Just have people run at mount speed.
Better question is why don't they make sprint passive. :/
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
First Mark Laidlaw, then James Ohlen. Pretty soon, we'll be asking Brent Knowles to resign.
Oh wait.
Oh wait.
Because you're not always on your mount.
Yes. The all the damn problems. Performance issues, lack of high resolution textures, etc. Let's be realistic for a second. Will this ever get better?
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Sprint is not always active either.
cpp_is_king
Member
Ok whatever. If you see Sprint and mounts as the same thing then good for you.
I'm not going to argue about the differences/non-differences of Sprint and mount with you.
They're not the same thing to me. And I don't think Sprint should exist.
Uh, what? It's rank 60 regardless. Now they can start gearing out their characters accordingly with the best PvP gear in the game.
Only they didn't earn it at all, there should be no reward for people spawn camping the Republic base for a few hours. Versus the Days & Hours it took others to legitimately achieve it through actual Warzone's.
The title and rank mean nothing now.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Sprint is useful for moving across large indoor areas where mounting is not allowed. It turns off when out of combat. It would make more sense if it were passive as was said earlier. As a stealth class i also found it handy because it had a visual and audio cue for when i dropped combat. i dont see the issue with the ability though.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
What has used the HeroEngine before?
Angelus Errare
Banned
Indeed, engine blows hard. For all the shit WoW gets for it's asstastic graphics and cartoony art style, at least the engine can handle a bunch of people kickin it in IF without shitting on itself.
Just doesn't really make sense that this whole mechanic, the changes to Ilum weren't somehow tested before deployed.
Surely someone on their team knew what a disaster this could potentially become.
People below BM have a random chance to get a random piece of champion-level gear (that they may not need). BM's are guaranteed commendations to buy any pieces of champion-level gear that they want, in addition to commendations for BM gear.
the way people are going on about htis is really quite dumb, there are much bigger issues in the world (at large not swtor) than someone getting to valor early
i agree if they exploited it, ban if not get over it. Not talking about gaffers, here talking about the main forums of the game.
Anyone would think they murdered their mother the way they are going on.....
i agree if they exploited it, ban if not get over it. Not talking about gaffers, here talking about the main forums of the game.
Anyone would think they murdered their mother the way they are going on.....
Angelus Errare
Banned
Nothing and hopefully it stays that way (unfortunately some small time MMO in development is also using it).
Sloppy is all I can say, and it's not hard to spawn NPCs with heroengine, I use to mess with it alot and spawning NPCs on the fly to stress test is ridiculously easy.
Lightsaber noise depends on the crystal you use
Unless you mean something else?Nothing really. Some game nobody has ever heard of. The company that made HeroEngine has never released a game with graphics*. They make text-based MUDs.
*well they did recently make an iphone and facebook game I guess
Better? Sure. Nearing WoW quality? Never.
lol, I know I'm in the minority, but I have to turn sprint off in large areas because I outrun the speed at which my PC loads stuff and it turns into a slideshow. I have a new PC on the way though, so this won't be a problem much longer!
They should just make it a passive skill, not a toggle.
Edit: Late reply is late. Should have refreshed. I see Varna beat me too it.
TheDancingWatermelon
Member
Whether they actually do something to them or not, most are going to view this as an empty threat after the example they set with the credit dupers.
cpp_is_king
Member
Yea I actually agree with you, just figured it was worth posting anyway.
Slayer-33
Liverpool-2
Damn lol.
Indeed.
Credit dupers? Oh, here's a 7-day ban (slap on the wrist). And while you're at it - keep the credits you made.
The economy will be just fine.
It just adds the line to the ini
Depends on if you have it set to override in you CP I imagine. Bigger question is... I don't understand what the settings mean...
Low x 2
Med x 4
High x 8?
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
New Game Enhancements. Hes trying to equate this to what killed Galaxies.