Dev Team TweetChat Q&A: The Official Responses at ZAM!!

[Calthine]

<p>Cyliena's fingers are just FLYING!  <a href="http://eq2.zam.com/story.html?story=30381" target="_blank">Here's her transcript of the Dev Team TweetChat Q&A.</a></p>

[Raienya]

<p>Well, it looks like they aren't completely ignoring tradeskills. I was particularly excited by the following question from Zam's transcript of the Q&A:</p><p><strong>Q11) Is there any possibility of recipes being available in the SC Marketplace?</strong></p><p><strong>Smokejumper</strong>: A11) Yes, sort of! Other way around though. Clarify: We're going to turn a bunch of SC items into recipes. Moving recipes into the tradeskilling community. Much design still to do, but we want this stuff made instead of SC.</p><p>How they intend to get much done with a part-time developer is still a big question in my mind, though.</p>

[Mermut]

<p><cite>Raienya wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Well, it looks like they aren't completely ignoring tradeskills. I was particularly excited by the following question from Zam's transcript of the Q&A:</p><p><strong>Q11) Is there any possibility of recipes being available in the SC Marketplace?</strong></p><p><strong>Smokejumper</strong>: A11) Yes, sort of! Other way around though. Clarify: We're going to turn a bunch of SC items into recipes. Moving recipes into the tradeskilling community. Much design still to do, but we want this stuff made instead of SC.</p><p>How they intend to get much done with a part-time developer is still a big question in my mind, though.</p></blockquote><p>I'd have thought actually making the item was the 'hard part'. Making the recipes is probably time consuming (deciding how much of which items for each recipe and assigning a craft and station then putting all of it into the database). But that is not 'hard', just tedioius and time consuming if they don't automate it. (speaking from experience here <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> )</p>

[Daalilama]

<p><cite>Mermut wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Raienya wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Well, it looks like they aren't completely ignoring tradeskills. I was particularly excited by the following question from Zam's transcript of the Q&A:</p><p><strong>Q11) Is there any possibility of recipes being available in the SC Marketplace?</strong></p><p><strong>Smokejumper</strong>: A11) Yes, sort of! Other way around though. Clarify: We're going to turn a bunch of SC items into recipes. Moving recipes into the tradeskilling community. Much design still to do, but we want this stuff made instead of SC.</p><p>How they intend to get much done with a part-time developer is still a big question in my mind, though.</p></blockquote><p>I'd have thought actually making the item was the 'hard part'. Making the recipes is probably time consuming (deciding how much of which items for each recipe and assigning a craft and station then putting all of it into the database). But that is not 'hard', just tedioius and time consuming if they don't automate it. (speaking from experience here <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /> )</p></blockquote><p>Intrestingly enough they ignored any pointed and direct questions as to when they would (if ever) address the long broken mechanics, ignored class fixes, the etch-a-sketch loot tables...not suprised though kinda what we get on the forums now.</p>

[Halo of G4]

<p>A bunch of fluff questions and nothing more. Time to find a new game if the developers of this one aren't going care.</p>