tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post8376240967176657451..comments2024-03-26T20:47:12.919+00:00Comments on Going Commando | A SWTOR Fan Blog: Currency ConfusionShintarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-79442011248657545012020-01-09T18:48:23.111+00:002020-01-09T18:48:23.111+00:00Sorry, but that's a big "what if" th...Sorry, but that's a big "what if" that just doesn't strike me as very likely, considering that it would go in the complete opposite direction of all the other changes they've made this expansion. Not only has there been a big focus on making things easier to move around your legacy, they've also been flooding our inventories with more items than ever before.Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-18106107551049185022020-01-09T18:33:00.751+00:002020-01-09T18:33:00.751+00:00You seem to be saying that putting tokens in the l...You seem to be saying that putting tokens in the legacy bank is the common case. What if it wasn't? What if 90% of the tokens were kept on a single character?<br /><br />Their solution improves the common case and frees up inventory at the expense of the uncommon case.<br /><br />As well, every single item created in your inventory needs to be tracked. Automatically converting to currency probably eliminates the creation of that item data. Reducing the data associated with a currency by a large amount may well have been judged acceptable, especially when it improves the common case as well.Rohanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09090769681887119989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-81611514345445478732020-01-09T06:40:08.737+00:002020-01-09T06:40:08.737+00:00The new endgame currency, tech fragments, is legac...The new endgame currency, tech fragments, is legacy-wide. I do seem to recall someone saying that this was tricky to get right, so I can absolutely believe that this is something that's not trivial to implement though.<br /><br />I would say that literally doubling the amount of currencies and making the player visit a specific fleet vendor every time they want to add tokens to their legacy bank is more than "slightly" more work!<br /><br />Basically what your comment is telling me is that this change may well have made sense to some programmer with no care for the user experience. Somehow I don't find that very comforting, lol.Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-42443215424814094972020-01-08T23:03:06.062+00:002020-01-08T23:03:06.062+00:00Do legacy currencies actually exist?
Maybe every...Do legacy currencies actually exist? <br /><br />Maybe everything shown in the Currency tab is per-character, and they can't actually set a currency to be legacy-wide.<br /><br />From the developer point of view, in the previous system, you had to transfer tokens to other characters manually. In the new system you have to do the same thing. So they didn't see it as that big a deal. The single-character case got significantly simpler, and the multi-character case was only slightly more work.<br /><br />It's also possibly that there's data savings by not creating the item first.Rohanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09090769681887119989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-34975733475881716062020-01-08T20:06:00.860+00:002020-01-08T20:06:00.860+00:00Yeah, it's a weird situation. I only knew abou...Yeah, it's a weird situation. I only knew about the BBA contracts because I ran across a comment about them while researching what was needed for that broken down speeder from the Chevin event. I assumed it was meant to keep the currency within an account. I guess there was some programming/database issue with just making everything legacy wide.<br /><br />This is the type of stuff I wish I could learn about from GDC sessions. :)Pallaishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01052537793722183657noreply@blogger.com