Jump to content

Ashenti

Members
  • Posts

    128
  • Joined

Reputation

10 Good
  1. Yes, I completely agree. The information presented needs to be understandable to the target audience or there is no point posting it. Too many liberties with the language make a post just as useless as a perfectly worded post in German targetted at English speaking readers. I have seen posts which fit this criteria, posts that I just cannot decifer the intent or purpose of. However, the majority of posts which criticize others use of language tend to be aimed towards mistakes/slang etc. which do not lead to the post being indecipherable.
  2. I work in a professional environment that demands the highest level of accuracy in everything that I write. I am also studying for very high level qualification that requires an extremely high standard of academic writing. I understand the rules of grammar, spelling, and the correct use of language. When I enter text into the ingame chat-box or post in a game related forum, the majority of that which I type would never make it onto the page of anything work or study related. It definetly would not make it past the first proof read. I just don't care to put that much thought into the construction of the text (construction of the ideas in the text are another matter). There is absolutely no need or requirement for perfect English in this type of environment. As long as the poster's meaning is adequately portrayed, who cares if every punctuation mark is in the right place? As for teaching standards in schools, I have the privilege of visiting many education centres in England. Correct use of language is taught at a high, but appropriate, level throughout. There are varying levels of pupil engagement however. The increasing use of text messaging, twitter type short-text engagement, and other forms of language adaption are having a huge effect on the language and its use. This is not a new phenomenon, simlar changes in language can be seen to have been caused by the introduction of the printing press, the telephone, the radio and the television among others. To re-iterate my point - language changes, outside of acadmeic/professional writing the content of the text is of far more import than correct grammar. I know I would much rather read a well thought through idea, in text full of spelling and grammar mistakes than a bad idea spelt perfik.
  3. People need to realise that 'class balance' only really matters to a very small percentage of the game's population. Those who don't parse/spreadsheet their way to maximum efficiency (and i'm not saying that there is anything wrong with that playstyle) will generally have no idea that their character is unbalanced comparred to any other. The simple fact is that this type of player (depsite what you may believe) is vastly outnumbered by those who just play to have fun, put some effort into getting decent gear for their character, and are happy as long as they can solo pve and/or accomplish HM flashpoints. In my experience (played since launch, several 55's, experience in solo play, HM FP/OPs, and non-ranked and ranked PvP) all tank classes are able to tank any HM OP or FP, all healing classes are capable of comfortably healing any HM OP/FP, and all dps are capable of putting out enough damage for HM OP/FP. Yes, get out the parsers and spreadsheets (or start hitting NiM) and it becomes obvious that some classes are better suited to roles than others. But, as stated before, only a very small % of the gaming population will ever see this kind of content. Balance is a great goal to aim for, unachievable I believe (well, I haven't played an MMO yet that has accomplished it) and some effort should be put towards it. But, in a business with finite resources, a much higher share of those resources are always (and rightly so, to me) going to be used on content that the majority of players will experience and feel a benefit from.
  4. I just don't get the reasons why people are moaning about this still. Lets think of some other, similar events. Do people moan in this situation You spend £60 taking your family to the cinema to see a movie on the first Friday night of its release. On Wednesdays the cinema runs a 2-for-1 offer, those who waited 5 days would pay £30. A few months later it becomes available on DvD, you could have paid £10. Within a few weeks its available as a pay-per-view purchase on cable, you could have paid £4. A couple more months go by and its available on the general movie channel of your cable provider. Its now free to watch (yes, I know there is a sub to pay, but you are paying it anyway, much the same as for SWTOR) 6 months later a free-to-air terrestrial channel picks it up, its free for the whole country to watch.
  5. not available on Red Eclipse think the OP may be mistaken here
  6. There is another way to get unflagged Queue for a PvP Warzone leave the WZ you will be back at your original location and unflaged AOEing a PvP flagged player 'should' not flag you for PvP Fixes were created to stop people being able to force flag you in this manner, but, I know from personal experience that some people have found ways to do it still. :/ As I have all 4 of the class buffs, I have got into the habit of buffing other players I pass, especially on lowbie planets. This gets me flagged quite often
  7. But, I would guess the exact opposite of yur scenario is more likely to be true. if people saw that only X people where in the queue they wouldn't bother queuing themselves.
  8. The reduced cooldowns are a great addition. Although we won't know until after the patch, I would asume there is still a minimal cooldown on the fleet pass. The unlock tooltips currently have something like 'reduces cooldown by X, to a minimum of 1 hour' or similar.
  9. the Piriority Transport- capital World needs to be altered (well, the missions that require you to return to DK/Cor do at least) If you get a mission that requires you to return to your capital world and use the priority transport to get there, the mission will not update. You will then need to go to your starship, fly to another planet and then return to your capital planet to receive the update. Once you have levelled past DK/Cor there are only a few reasons to return. There is the datacron assembly and legacy vendors (and, more recently, the BH missions) but the majority of missions will be for class mission updates. It seems that the Priority transport could really do with an update to make it more useful.
  10. by random I mean exactly that. The evidence I have seen suggests that each time there is a spawn due, there is a set chance of it being either a PH or Martinique and that the time since the last Martinique spawn plays no part at all.
  11. I believe that each time there is a spawn it is random chance to be either Martinique or her place holder. I have no hard evidence for this, only anecdotal and my own limited observations. My own observations are I saw a couple of people killing Martinique and I camped the spot for about 2 hours after, only the PH spawned during this time and I left. I returned to the spot about 3 hours later and a group was killing Martinique. Have camped the spot on and off several times, sometimes just for 3 or 4 spawns, others for longer, never over 2 hours. Last Sunday (8 days ago) I went to the spawn location, a Sniper was camping there and he invited me to group. He said that he had been there for 3 hours but someone else had been killing Martinique when he arrived. We camped together for 3 spawns of PH when the sniper left. 2 spawns later Martinque spawned! trusted anecdotal evidence. A longtime ingame friend told me that they and fellow guildmates had been on the spot at a server restart and camped for 9 hours before getting Martinque to spawn. Another ingame friend told me that they had seen 2 spawns in a 3 hour camp session.
  12. Class balance is the Holy Grail that all MMO players seek but never find. I have yet to play an MMo that hasn't had forum full of the vocal-minoruity screaming NERF!NERF!BUFF!BUFF!OP!OP! Paper says, "Rock is fine, Scissors need a nerf!"
  13. Sounds to me like you were in the right here. A lot of healers and tanks seem to think they must be pandered to and can act like brats as they are in short supply for GF FP's.
  14. I haven't tried her as a tank, but for endgame dailies I am finding that she does NOT heal as well as Dr Lokin (both geared at same level)
  15. Cross server queues will not help reduce the queue time for PvE, this has been seen in other MMO's which have the facility. For a group to form you need to have 1 tank, 1 heal and 2 dps queuing. As the ratio of tanks/healers to dps is vastly lower than 1/1/2 the bottleneck will always be caused by the tanks/heals (actually more by the tanks as there appears to be more heals than tanks also) There is going to be roughly the same ratio of tanks/heals/dps on all individual servers. Put all these servers together and the ratio does not change. While combining servers increases the amount of available tanks and heals it also increases the amount of dps waiting by the same ratio. There will still be the same X dps waiting on Y heals and Z tanks and so the waiting times will remain static.
×
×
  • Create New...