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Star Wars Galaxies: Enough Holobits to drown a household pet!!!
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Holocron's Massive Holobit Update:
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What is the process/time frame from transitioning from overt to covert status and vice versa?
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A few hours I believe, but it's subject to change during beta. Like everything else.
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Can STs be rented, and can walls and turrets be built, outside of battlefields?
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No to walls, yes to the others, but it's a faction perk, and you can only do it while Overt.
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So as I understood it from the chat tonight no matter how well I take care of an item it will decay in 3 real life months. Is this correct?
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No. You can take care of it with a "polish kit" which will extend its time. As long as you are willing to pay for polish kits to keep it maintained, you can keep it indefinitely.
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Are there any no drop items in the game??
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No trade more than no drop. They're mostly faction perks though, like Imperial uniforms. You can't wear them when not Overt, and you can't trade them.
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Why do we only get one FS-Slot per account?
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Actually, unsure if the limit is per account or per server.
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There was no mention regarding Beta 3.
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Because we're not going to commit to a date until we're sure we can hit it.
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Does planet to planet travel involve "flight" or are we just presented with a loading screen, and blam, we are on the new planet?
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Loading screen.
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will there be an in-game mechanism that will allow a PA to tax its members?
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No, but there will be a bank account. Taxation is up to the PA leader.
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how are mass goods (resources) transported from one location to another? Ex: Do we carry them? If so, what is max we can carry?
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You carry them, or you get your droids to schlep them (some types of droids are containers). "Max you can carry" is misleading, because mass goods (resources, and crates of items) mass less than actual individual items. You can transport a pretty large amount of stuff.
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is there a finite amount of credits each PA bank can hold?
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I'm sure the programmers put in a limit, because programmers always do. But it's probably a long int or some other huge number.
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Do you anticipate the Smuggler profession being finished by launch?
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That's the plan currently, yes.
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Do you know what prerequisite skills the Politician profession will require?
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I'm not gonna speak on cities and politicians until we know for sure, because I don't want to make any promises we cannot keep.
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Is it possible to start on the road to a Politician, then wait for the patch to officially become a Politician?
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As above.
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If you are a Twi'lek, will the name generator force you to use the apostrophe?
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Nope.
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Player Houses can be moved. Are there:
- Deconstruction times or costs?
- Reconstruction times or costs?
- Does reconstruction require the aid of an architect.?
-Do you have to take all items stored out of a house before you deconstruct it or are they automatically moved with it?
-Can monsters , players, NPCs, large armed vehicles, or turrets and other large armed installations damage your house from the outside?
- It was stated that you can control access to your house. Can you restrict access to your house from NPCs or monsters?
- Will attackers be able to detect or attack you through the walls of your house?
- Will players with slicing skills be able to 'break into' your house?
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No, but it has to be fully paid up in maintenance fees. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes, I believe so, but ya know, I don't think we've tested that! No. No.
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can tailors use an imported gif or jpg to place a 'stamp' or 'insignia' on a piece of clothing? (aka like the game Black and White's creature stamping. ) This in my opinion is a very important feature for being able to make uniforms for militias, etc.
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No.
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Since Vehicles have been rolled back...
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I'm not going to answer things on vehicles for the same reason I won't answer things on cities.
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What is to prevent people on one faction from camping newbies on another faction?
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Newbies aren't IN factions, for one. You have to earn your way in. For another, most faction members will be covert most of the time.
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What is to prevent people from, in EQ terminology, "training" monsters or NPCs onto people they don't like or trying to make life miserable for an opposing faction.
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AI is tethered to its home location, and most AIs are not instantly aggro on just anyone. They're mad at the person who made them mad.
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Aren't Jawa's in Jawa Sand Crawlers just conveniently "boxed Jawa munchies" for Krayt dragons?
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Nah, not really. Krayts aren't THAT common, for one.
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Will that be stimulants only, or will it be antibiotics, surgery, etc. full spectrum healing from a distance?
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Actually, I'm unsure, I'll have to ask which sorts of meds work at a range, but right now I want to say it's only straight pool healing, nothing more exotic.
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Will that require Medics to have some ranged combat skill? and can they hit the enemy by mistake? If they can, a could medic stim monsters or NPCs fighting folks on an opposing faction on purpose?
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No, friends only.
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Will dual wielding smaller ranged weapons be available at some point?
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Who knows? I won't say never, but it's not planned for and would be a heck of a lot of work.
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Will farmers, miners, and droid engineers just "build" their farm, mine, or droid assembly plant when they have the funds or do they need special tools or the help of another class to do so... like an Architect for example?
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The architect makes installation deeds, the farmer then places it...
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Other than directly controlling a droid like a pet, will Droid Engineers have some way to 'program' actions or behaviors into their droid? Perhaps something akin to the Star Craft map editors ability to let you select the type of AI a unit uses?
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No, You can do some commands that are things like patrol points and patrolling and guarding though.
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Will Droid Engineers be able to make combat droids? If so, will they be able to 'program' the faction the droid is on and what its aggressiveness level and 'wander' range will be?
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Yes, they can make combat droids. The faction of the droid is always the faction of its owner. Droids are not just made by the engineer and then let loose. :P
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Will we be able to make droids for transport? For example Droids that can carry large loads or heavy objects? i.e. Forklift droids.
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Some droids do cargo, some droids are crafting droids, some are medical, some are combat...
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Has it been decided which elite professions branch off of which starting professions? We are kind of clueless on some of them.
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Yes, it has. But why spoil it?
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How long does a TEF last?
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Either three or five minutes, I don't think it's been settled.
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How does one go from overt to non-overt, and what effects will this have on my character?
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You go to any faction recruiter, and go on furlough, basically. It takes hours to take effect. You cannot use certain perks when you're covert: uniforms, display of rank, checkout of soldiers, etc.
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Are you planning to implement any kind of effects on non-overts from the GCW?
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Not much at the moment.
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Will bases have any effect on the surrounding area's NPC, non-overts, and overts?
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if you build a turret as an overt, it'll get your faction and shoot at anything it considers as enemy. From there, it's simply application of the PvP rules to answer your question.
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Will there be any benefits for non-combat overts, if so, how will they gain faction points without engaging in combat?
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A non-combat overt will likely die very quickly.
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Can overts transfer faction points to each other?
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No.
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Are there any plans to allow some form of spaceports or cloning centers to be bought by players or PAs now that player cities are being postponed.
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No, not until there are player cities.
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Any chance they will give the option of becoming an overt mercenary?
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There's a chance, but only if it's a five minute task or so. It may actually be only a five minute task, believe it or not.
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Is coup-de-grace range, melee range? Or is it a bit farther for missle-type attacks?
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Currently, it is melee range only. There is some concern about the balance of this though, and we've been discussing having a sniper skill that can do it at a distance.
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What will happen to fictional cities once player cities come online. Will they be destroyed? Possibly in a Battlefield situation...
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Nope, they're there to stay.
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Could we please be allowed to move our main character into the FS slot if one should appear?
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No plans for that. To repeat something I posted tonight on the beta board: a Jedi isn't really a "character" in the sense that your main is. He has more in common with Crash Bandicoot than he does with a roleplayed personality. He starts out weak like any newbie, but permadeath enabled. You're gonna start him over dozens and dozens of times. And he's going to spend his life in hiding. This is simply put the toughest thing to do in the game. I don't want to even hear the panicked cries of someone who copied over their three-year-old well-developed persona into the Jedi slot and then lost them instantly to a gnort.
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It seems implied but there will be more than one way to finish most POI's/missions? Can you say how many endings a POI might have? Any more POI descriptions?
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I assume you mean narrative POIs. After all, many many POIs are simply camps, villages, etc, and there's really only one ending for them: they get blown up, or they stick around.
Some narrative POIs have multiple endings and some don't. And I'm not going to describe any more of them right now.
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How will service professions (doctors, image designers, entertainers, etc.) make money? Will they have to ask for donations or is there some automated game mechanic in place to accept payments for services rendered?
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Just today there was a bug that came in from the beta test saying that entertainers need to be able to grant permission to people to watch them, so that they can effectively charge for their performances. In addition, there's planned to be turnstiles you can set on doors so that you can charge cover charges in cantinas and the like.
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What professions are now under the Elite Hybrid model you diagrammed showing a *two* profession Mastery prequisite? Is Bounty Hunter like that? Any other professions?
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There's a few, and you'll have to speculate for a while.
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What makes the Architect profession fun?
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It's a crafting profession. If you like crafting and home decorating, you'll like architect. If not, you won't find it fun.
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will rebels have large units like at-sts they can rent?
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No, not really.
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2. how much freedom will be given in gunsmithing? will you be able to make entirely new kinds of guns or will it be restricted to a few types with different styles and stats
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You can create new guns, sure, but there is a relatively limited palette of possible appearances. When I say limited, I mean "dozens" not counting scope attachments and the like.
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What kind of time frame are we looking at for (lack of a better term) mastercraft items/unique item creation from a crafter?
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If you mean, how long until a player first gets there? You can start creating unique items after only a few skill boxes. If you mean, how long to produce something? It takes between minutes and hour depending on the item.
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What do overts have over coverts with the ability to attack an opposing overt faction member on site? Is it just me or do coverts just look like neutrals who want to avoid PvP combat but still want faction perks? Overts SHOULD be given more bonuses.
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They are. They get a bunch of perks such as checkout of soldiers and the ability to place turrets and the ability to wear uniforms...
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Does weather kill or only slow people down?
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It mostly affects accuracy in combat, that's all.
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2. To become a master in the newly created sword fighting profesion, take up as much xp as what seems like the bigger profesions, bounty hunter, musician?
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All professions are the same size, so to speak. But some have entire other professions as pre-reqs and others have only a few skills as pre-reqs, and some are starter professions and don't have any pre-reqs at all.
Sword fighting has a few skills as a pre-req. Musician has a few skills as a pre-req. Bounty hunter has two whole professions as a pre-req.
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3. What is the difference between the regular and collecters editon of SWG?
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Got me! One for Shug.
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The only question that matters at this point is what the monthly fee will be.
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I don't even know the answer, believe it or not.
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If im a neutral player grouped with a Rebel declared player who is being attacked by an Imperial, can i join in and defend? Or must i sit back and watch?
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You sit back and watch. There were so many nasty exploits involving giving defensive TEFs to groups that it was easier to make groups completely transparent to the PvP rules.
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A while back you mentioned grouping or a friend list giving the ability to have players attacking your group/friend become TEF to you to let you help defend. Do groups work this way now? Or do groups follow normal PvP rules.
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They and the friends list, and PAs too, are completely transparent to the PvP rules.
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If so, does this mean declareds and neutrals should never group?
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Not at all. Why?
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Describe PVP battle fields a little better.
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Erm, I thought I was fairly thorough in the chat.
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As in mechanics of it, what are the rewards for winning costs for losing?
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Faction standing.
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Are they static, are they like AO missions, are they like zones in EQ?
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Neither. They're more like big arenas.
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What happens when someone wins? Lose?
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The battle ends, everyone gets ejected from the battlefield, and the battlefield resets.
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My question is after the fight in the battlefield is over, is there an amount of time one has to wait to enter a battlefied again? Or is the battlefield immediately ready for another fight to ensue once a previous battle ends?
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There's a wait. Not a huge one though.
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When the X-box and PS2 versions of the game are released Will they be able to play on the same severs has the rest of us.
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We cannot comment on the console stuff. These boards are about the PC version.
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Lightsaber construction? i dont remember seeing anything about it, was wondering if it would be a required part of Jedi Training, as well as if its detailed, or more like get this this and this put it in a lightsaber container and hit combine..
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You'll have to wait to be a Jedi to find out. Why does everyone want to know all the cool secrets of the game?
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Also if helmets actually changed what you see though, any of the 'i cant see a thing in this helmet' type things....
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No, helmets do not affect your field of view or occlude your 1st person perspective. People tend to get nauseous with stuff like that.
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Will I be able to go out into the wilderness and plant my farm/mine soon after release, or will I have to master the elite profession first?
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You don't have to master ANY profession. New abilities get unlocked at the BOTTOM of the profession. Going up confers more abilities and so on, but you can place a farm as a novice farmer.
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How much time will farming/mining take up? What I am asking is, if I want to go off and battle after I setup my farm/mine, can I? If I want to spend ALL my time working on my farm/mine, can I?
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Go off to battle. Your farm pretty much works by itself. You just need to make sure that you've got the maintenance needs handled, and that you empty the hopper periodically, and make sure that the land hasn't been farmed out.
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Can I master an elite profession and still have enough points to master a single weapon? To what extent?
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Depends on whether the elite profession calls for one prior profession as a pre-req, or two. We refer to the latter as "hybrids." If you master a hybrid, you only have 11 skill points left over. That's enough to only get a few skills. The hybrids tend to come off the combat professions though, so you're likely to have a pretty good handle on weaponry already.
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How quickly does a Mine eat up all the resources in its spot? Would I (and would it be economically feazable) be able to move my mine once every couple days, onc every week, or once every month?
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Depends on how efficient the location for the mine is. Sure, it's economically feasible to move it.
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Does weather effect farming?
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No.
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Is a mine something htat I can carry around with me and deploy, or is it a large endeavour that I must plan and build and cannot move?
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You carry around a construction deed, and you place the mine.
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Did the expansion of NPC cities come at the cost of player lots? There is only so much room on the map and I'm sure these cities ate up at least some portion of the real estate.
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Yes, it did chew up real estate. But we're able to flatten unbuildable ground, so we could put down our cities anywhere we wanted. I don't think the impact on usable terrain was that huge.
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How does a melee fighter compare to an unarmed fighter?
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They're comparable, basically.
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Was Bacta Bomb a Joke?
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You mean, "bacta grenade"? No.
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How effective is a rocket launcher?
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Very.
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What does it feel like to have the ravenous hordes of the damned hound you in a chat room?
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Verdigris umber, with a hint of chocolate strawberry.
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Will we know how to achieve Elite professions or will we be required to fumble with our skills until the Professions skills unlock?
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I'm pretty sure that everyone will have mapped out the entire skill tree within hours of Beta 3 opening.
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Should we be prepared to see production of the Space Expansion delayed in order to complete the release of the features cut from SWG's initial launch? Also, will any of those features have to wait, because of size, until the expansion CD is ready to roll?
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We honestly don't know because it depends on how beta 2, beta 3, and launch go. We don't plan to hold any of those features back because of size. The only one that risks that is vehicles, because that's a lot of art, but we're planning to make sure that art is on the gold master CD.
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I also would like to know how often you can do it [go from Overt to Covert and vice versa] if there is a maximum number of times a character can do it.
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There is no maximum. In the PvP system as it stands now, Overt is designed to be a state that you enter periodically to accomplish certain goals (like say, placing turrets around a mining area that you don't want Rebels to have access to).
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In regards to ranged combat, are bigger targets easier to hit, like in real life, or is it mainly based on the "skill level" of the creature?
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Mainly on the skill level of the creature.
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Besides the cut features, many new changes are very contreversial, like the new melee professions and the ranged healing. Are those changes "locked" for the release, or is there still time to change them?
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These changes were made for the sake of game balance, basically.
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