Elana

Elana (JE), Meilyna (JD), Irissa (PS), Kyrin (TT), and Elexys (PW)   Miss them all   :)

<3   Loved working on those files.  Very first one to be animated was one of the Earth sectors.  Spent a lot of time working with the speeds to get it to feel just right, and if you watch it long enough, you can see a solar eclipse with Luna.   :)

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Must be a per-user thing. I had my graphics tweaked so much through my vid card control panel, that there weren't any jagged areas anywhere for me, except where water intersects land in planets. (which is unavoidable)

[quote name='Phorlaug' timestamp='1320762394' post='48212'] You know that would be a little frightening to see a ship like that. Kind of like a Borg or Reaver [url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/"](Firefly/Serenity)[/url] ship and add a couple of partially Decomposed head. Gives me chills just thinking about it. 4 [/quote] Funny you should say that, I like both of those factions, haha! Maybe I'll model up an example of what I'd want to make. The basic idea is a Jenquai fore hull, modified Scout aft "profession" section, and modified Sentinel "sails" for wings, then splice it all with a V'rix explorer vessel, and make it chrome.

I would actually just combine things I adore from each of the three explorer classes. ...and I'd probably want to reconfigure bits of each race's ship hulls to make a disturbing hybrid ship. and maybe a couple warrior skills. Skills: Combat cloak Prospecting Hull patch Repair equipment Jumpstart Nullfactor Field Passive: Scan Navigate Negotiate Builds: No thanks. Not interested. Can I have Afterburn , and Power Down instead? Weapons Beams -L9 Missiles - L7/8 Tech: Reactor - L9 Engines - L9 Shields - L8 Devices - L8 Those, along with my skill build from live, and I'd be a happy girl.

I'd kind of like to see mobs that are not killed/do not kill their target apply a debuff to the miner that triggered it. Have the debuff use a very long duration, and every few minutes, has a chance to cause the mob to spawn right on top of the player (so long as they are not in warp), fully hostile to them specifically. Debuff would be removed when the mob is killed by the miner or his/her group. Then make the debuff stack, increasing the spawn chance, and number of mobs.

Indeed, and that's about as well put as it could possibly be.

It's not really as simple as that with EnB's handling of graphical assets and the UI, but yes, that could probably be done. Unfortunately, to make it actually function correctly, is a little involved, and time consuming (so far that I've seen while poking around in it myself). As such, it's not likely to be something that will be addressed anytime in the near future, but again...not completely impossible.

Modifying client files is, for the most part, a no-no. We've done a few small changes here and there, but in general we avoid anything more involved, as EA still owns everything (client files and geaphical assets), and could shoot us down over any changes to their software if they really felt like it.

I should hope so! As you said, it is unlikely to be a full list of item names, but I'm sure that when the items are added in with new class specific buffs, it will be mentioned in the patch notes for the most part.

The other three classes were not anywhere near finished at any point during Live. All of the available data for all of the above discussed things exists in a number of different control files in the client. The three unfinished classes were extremely skeletal in their designs, and had very few skills or information attached. The idea that time was the only thing keeping them from being added is completely false. Also found in those same sets of files were the skeletal remains of the tech-sharing plans. "Lore" skills that would have allowed the building of various racial tech for whomever would have put points into the skills adequately. However, as previously mentioned, the addition of the two "new" trader classes makes those lore skills an obsolete idea.

My Opinion --> ES should protect against all environmental effects that existed in Live, while possibly not protecting against a few select new ones to be added in time. Nullfactor should be about the same, really. Here is where the differences between them are, as i see it: Environment Shield is targetable, has a cost per application, and a defined duration. Nullfactor Field is more a constant. It has a reactor capacity reduction, and a small buff to recharge rate to even it out, but has a limited range around the Scout ship, in exchange for having no defined duration (instead being a toggle).. In formations, or close proximity, Nullfactor is more efficient (no "cast time", no remembering to refresh, blankets the whole group in range). In all other applications, such as mining groups who must spread out to make the most of a field, etc...You'd really rather have ES, because it doesn't force everyone to stick together. As more environmental effects find their way into the game over time, each will help more in some cases than the other, so neither becomes favored. As for ES/Repulsor colors, they worked just like psi-shield did. As you leveled the skill up, the shield would shift tint colors. Max level would have been red, while minimum level would have been blue, with gold-ish being the middle color.

I don't remember seeing anything about it being changed, though I could have missed it. I think what MAY have happened, is that the environmental effects have only recently all been done up, and Environment Shield might just require adjustment to work properly with them now.

If I remember correctly from my JE (main) during Live, once Enviroment Shield is leveled up sufficiently, it should protect against all of them.

And mining is one of those things that needs some serious, affectionate attention. And creativity. And time. If I had more free time, I'd be tempted to take it on, as mining was one of my favorite things.

We love the game too. we promise! Hehe

Even worse, I have yet to see anything appealing about TOR. On-rails, tunnel-style space combat...completely incoherent story between characters...(Bounty Hunters are all competing for work from a Hutt, but can team up with each other to do it...wait, what?!) From what I've heard so far, it's KOTOR with halfassed, clumsily cobbled multiplayer. Maybe I'm completely wrong, but that's what I've been reading in PC Gamer and the like. Not impressed, and not interested, personally. SWG was a fantastic game that jus needed more creativity in it's content devs, and coders to fix the broken functions an bad XP curves. The NGE was a mistake, which they admitted, and the space portion was great, but shouldn't have been added so much later. In my opinion, they ruined SWG from the start. I had such high hopes for it.

Many of the original design docs made mention of faction based PvP goals, particularly those relating to the older iterations of the game, which was initially based on "twitch" type gameplay. He may be referring to that, or other points during EnB's lifetime, in which the subject was brought up, but never pursued.

Not at all, aside from that, actually. The reason is simply that nothing has really been decided, nor talked about in depth. In-fact, I'm pretty sure we haven't got any of it written down at this point. Keep in mind, most of what I posted above are my own ideas on the matter, combined with vaguery we've kicked around over time.

[quote name='Tyran' timestamp='1308898598' post='42445']The endgame of EnB was meant to revolve around PvP but given that PvP is combat...that would not please everyone. I hope these devs can cook up something better because I would hate to waste time and be forced into an IRL life because the emulator bored me... [/quote] This has actually been talked about a few times over the long time I've been around the project. Many of the devs have the same mixed feeling about PvP content as the community has voiced in the past, but I personally feel certain that combat could be balanced out to be interesting, and I also feel confident that there are plenty more options that can count as PvP content without being full-blown combat at all. However, this is one of those matters that tends to be a bit delicate, both in the playerbase, and among devs, as we all have our own preferences and feeling on things. Once more major issues are addressed and balanced out a bit better, I'm sure you'll see some interesting things cropping up in terms of "Endgame" content, as well as more forward looking things, such as skills, levels, and the leveling-up experience.

..or punched? Hahaha

Wow, I totally missed that, Terrell! Haha, nevermind then!

Not a problem, Jenq, just letting you know it was discussed in another thread that ended poorly (in case you wanted to have a look at it). In this particular case, closed only means you have no input in the other thread. Clearly, this thread is still opened. Terrell, were you looking at a different thread in another tab and posted to this one by mistake, or just changing the subject? Haha