Proc Descriptions

**Demoder** · Oct 18th, 2009, 02:19:52

Originally Posted by Romaas

macrosun will /wrist if means tells him to redo all the proc descriptions.

I thought this was more a designer job than a codemonkey job?

Anyway... Yes. The proc descriptions are HOSTILE. Especially against new players who don't know how to find the information they need from third party sites. The same can be said about perks as well.

**Ayria** · Oct 23rd, 2009, 23:58:05

Bump

**Ayria** · Nov 5th, 2009, 01:34:39

Do iitttt.

**Ayria** · Nov 23rd, 2009, 12:49:52

Bump

**Ayria** · Nov 27th, 2009, 05:20:21

Bump

**Ayria** · Dec 20th, 2009, 04:54:22

Bump

**Ayria** · Dec 22nd, 2009, 02:41:37

Bump

**Ayria** · Jan 15th, 2010, 10:05:00

Bump

**Xeralix** · Jan 15th, 2010, 11:11:53

C'mon funcom, hire a trainee and let him do all this crappy work

**lostlife** · Jan 20th, 2010, 01:22:31

come on guys, if we get this to 20 pages FC will have no choice

**alfora** · Jan 20th, 2010, 09:05:00

Bump

...and started a thread with ready-made updated proc descriptions

**BranDango** · Jan 21st, 2010, 07:06:52

This is one of the first things I noticed when I upgraded from froob to all expansions...it just seemed like a laziness bombed happened on all the perk/research descriptions. Mech. b'mup.

**Raggy** · Jan 21st, 2010, 15:58:38

Bump this.

Come on FC, pull the finger out. This would take a few hours at most

**Oliveerz** · Jan 22nd, 2010, 14:19:04

bump so damn much.

**Ayria** · Jan 25th, 2010, 00:32:58

Bump

**Ayria** · Feb 4th, 2010, 01:49:51

Bump

**BugsCoT** · Feb 4th, 2010, 20:08:37

I hate forgetting which proc HoT is which. tooltip them, too!

**Mastura** · Feb 5th, 2010, 02:21:03

Originally Posted by Demoder

I thought this was more a designer job than a codemonkey job?

Anyway... Yes. The proc descriptions are HOSTILE. Especially against new players who don't know how to find the information they need from third party sites. The same can be said about perks as well.

Yep, I agree 100% I've always thought that the perks and proc descriptiosn leave much to be desired. Originally they were designed as static career choices your pfoession made, then the community shouted reset ! reset! i want to reset them! Then days for resets, then hours, now all in 1 go!

IMHO perkline choices or even LE research choices, determine your profession skew, what differences you from other Engineers for example. Combat specialist, Laboratory Engineer, Handyman Jack-of-all-trades, etc. Now it has become just about mechanics. You can change your playstyle and perklines as often as you change your huds or rings.

This imho not only nerfs noobs by having no description, or too much technical information which is overwhelming, but it also kills the ambience, when selecting Gadgeteer perkline it says "+20 ME/EE/NP/CL/PH" I mean it still should, to avoid auno lookups for everything, but it should be as a small note at the bottom.

It should read like the original prof descriptions did long ago, more like this:

You are the nerd of nerds. You spend most of your time rereading old 21st century comic books, playing video games, online browsing websites for the latest beta mod or reading the latest issue of Popular Rubikaian Electronics.

As a matter of fact, the only reason you're still on Rubi-Ka and not got off this rock on your very own handbuilt junkship is because you..

If you are Omni-aligned:
...because of that damned OT sargeant's been pestering you to finish that new 72-crystal core capacitor interface you've been working on for the past time = played(seconds) % (getplayerlevel(*me) * 60 * 60)
hours in the promise you'll get that new NCU upgrade, which you're pretty sure is never going to happen!

If you are Neutral-aligned:
...because you STILL haven't finished compiling that catalogued list of junkparts from Backyard rand(9)
in Borealis, even after time = played(seconds) % (getperklevel("Gadgeteer",me) * 60 * 60 * 24
days!

If you are Clan-aligned:
...because the last informant who spoke to you promised freedom from slavery and unity amongst clans as soon as you finish your latest anti-control unit to free clan robotic units models 3000+ from OT control

Gadgeteer Level 3 bonuses:
+20 Mechanical Engineering
+20 Electrical Engineering
....

etc etc you get the picture.

Same tihngs for procs... Procs are permanent so its even more cooler.
the descriptions should reflect moods for that day or things like that, as you can switch between them. But they should definitely include a technical description of what it does as well as a consequence, as well as a clear indicated if it is of higher ql or lesser than another proc along that line.

**Hvyshadows** · Feb 22nd, 2010, 22:14:33

Okay, BUMP this one instead of the other than I put in game suggestions today.

Note to self: Learn to use the forum search properly.

**Tazalanche** · Feb 22nd, 2010, 23:54:24

OP: May 25th, 2008

This thread needs bumps hourly until it is done.

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