Player City rank 5 specialization

Unread post Thu Jan 19, 2017 11:20 pm

YES, IT'S HAPPENING WITH PUBLISH 8!!!!

Koven · Unread post Thu Jan 19, 2017 11:59 pm

Great news!!

Royan · Unread post Fri Jan 20, 2017 8:38 pm

That's awesome to hear - I've been looking forward to when this was added in

Fish · Unread post Fri Mar 17, 2017 12:26 pm

So, we see the patch 8 now on the test server.............. as the patch notes currently do not show any such new options as mentioned on this rank 5 city option, was there a supplement yet to come on this patch 8 with this opportunity? as the notes here are not the same as seen on SWGEMU version of this patch 8 here as they were suggested to be, there seems to be a vast difference, was there more yet to be announced?

Unread post Fri Mar 17, 2017 2:00 pm

We aren't done adding things to test for players yet. We also haven't finished our repo and our test notes
yet. I think I have been pretty clear to be patient. Right now it's opened just to get some people on to do some light stress testing and to give everyone a taste of some pub8 changes coming. Test will change multiple times over the next few weeks, fresh database pulls will happen every few days as changes are made. Got a long way to go before we are ready for live.

My friendly advice right now is don't push us on stuff. It'll happen when it happens.

Fish · Unread post Fri Mar 17, 2017 2:33 pm

We all should acknowledge the devs dedicated efforts to process not only this patch 8, but any patch in the future, as again we are all aware they do this tasking in their spare time, so I wish to clearly speak that we all do appreciate these efforts.

As we all awaited this patch 8, many here were unaware/misinformed that it would be pushed out in "phases" onto the test server, we wrongfully assumed the entire package would be presented for test all at once. This is news to many of us here that this is a "phased" presentation for stress testing on the test server, and its good that we are just now made aware that this is to be an on going/continuing presentation of the entire patch 8 package. So again we look forward to more features being offered and improved, aside from the Jedi/BH adjustments we are seeing thus far.

Unread post Fri Mar 17, 2017 3:04 pm

Don't worry on it Fish, and thanks for the kind words. Any time there are changes on Test people assume it's coming to Live server tomorrow, as is. If that were the case, why would we bother with Test Server? One can use what they experience on Test server as a basis of what the future may hold, but I would not recommend ever making major changes unless something is on a live patch list. Reality is that even then we aren't 100% sure until the full player load hits it.

Right now we are testing what is essentially vanilla publish 8 components (minus what we already had in) and some new custom code (for example the jedi respec to allow for FS points). Incognito did an awesome job with some stubborn database issues and we've come out more streamlined. We are working on changes to what we see, as we see them and as we have time.

As to the rank 5 spec, we'd love to include it but it fell a few notches on the priority list. Some planned things make it, and some don't. If we waited for everything to work 100% as we wanted, we'd never push a patch. We'll just have to see.