SOE currently have engineers working to resolve the problem. Once we know more we'll update you.

As has been already quoted, we're aware of the outage.

We're tracking a thread on this issue here. Once we know more, we'll update that thread.

Edit: I'm closing this thread so we can keep all discussion on this in one place.

Launchpad seems to be down. SOE has been contacted, and we're awaiting resolution.

Run Them Down isn't a speed debuff in encounters. If I hadn't changed then there could have been stacking conflicts.

It's on a single repair skill that repairs everything.

Yes, there is. I expect to make a variety of changes to Run Them Down to keep it effective, depending on how testing goes.

This came up recently, and last I heard it was believed to be a bug with kills not getting properly tagged.

I should note that it's also supposed to be given out at a lower level mission, something more appropriate for its level.

That's not true. If you have a Defiant outfitted for 20 max speed, it takes 30 seconds to reach 90% speed. Apply a 30% accel debuff and it takes 42.9 seconds. More importantly, it creates a disparity between the ship's acceleration and deceleration. The greater the disparity between those values, the more speed and maneuverability the ship loses. On a Capricieux, those numbers would be 10.9 and 15.6 seconds respectively. Acceleration values are scaled, thus a percentage debuff has a big effect at all speeds. For the lowest accel value ships, Run Them Down adds around 30 seconds to their 90% speed accel times.

Look for the Freetrader Career skills under help. It lists what they do.

No restructuring yet. We're planning/discussing future changes that will involve some restructuring, replacing skills and other things that would lead to a respec. I have a big list of skills I want to replace, and that'll eventually get prioritized and sorted out.

Removing the speed debuff requires using the repair skill. That has huge implications, and it means that reckless players will get themselves killed with poor timing on their repair.

As noted in the devlog, this is just a sample of the skill changes. A huge portion of the skills changed, and most of them were buffs. Run Them Down got the only real significant nerf, but it'll improve in the future once we have better support for how we can handle the skill.

Pirates received a variety of buffs.

We don't have that technical capability. I want to get it, and when we do it'll get some more changes.

What? Why do you say that? Around 28 Privateer skills are changing in 1.2. There's no way I could list every detail in a devlog.

The Battle Prep skills are on the list of ones I want to change, but that didn't make 1.2.

No change to the stacking of defense and evasion. There's some extra defense in other places, though.

Burst of Speed might change, but it's not slated for change yet. It's a speed boost, which means it hits your modified speed. So if your ship has a base 16 and a modified speed of 26, then +20% regular speed makes your speed 29.2. In the same situation, a 20% speed boost makes your speed 31.2. And it also can be used while attacking. Dump Guns is clearly superior for running, but it's not usable in many other situations.

The other dump looks like a problem after loading room information from the disk. You might try:

- Doing a full file scan in the Launchpad
- Running error checking on the disk
- Running disk defragmentor

I'll refer you to these (1) two (2) threads, which (1) explain where things currently are, and (2) where they're going within the next month. If you have additional comments or questions, please post them in either of these existing threads

For the ship rooms with a coastline the artists have to make sure that the coastline still looks good everywhere you can be out in the ocean part. If the room is really really wide, that can be very time consuming. The programmers start to have precision problems if the rooms are too large. Neither of them are really involved in what missions are in what rooms... I was addressing the "why aren't all the rooms big" question.

If you can tell me the name of any mission where you're cramped, I can go take a look at the room and see what we can do to fix the problem. I'm happy to help if I can, I just need a bit more information.


Joe