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Upcoming Town Hall - Player Q&A

brellon

Member
Hey Beyonders!

Our next town hall is approaching. Our dev team has been hard at work in implementing changes that you all requested from the previous town hall. During the next one, we plan on showcasing things we were able to accomplish, provide details on things that are still being worked on, and as always allow for further discussion with the community on additional topics. Please submit your questions here so that we can prepare to answer these questions during the next meeting.
 

THORUS

New member
Are there any plans to add new instances or missions to the server that are not PVP? Maybe something that doesn't require a full group?

Are there plans for any events that are special to this server?

What are your main goals to Achieve by the end of the year and looking into 2025?

Is there plans to try and make our community stand out and try and draw new people into the server?
 

Esquire

New member
If you're going to draw new people, a complete re-think needs to be completed.

I've invited a bunch and heard the same things every time. "It's a PVP server". "The server is live grind times 10". "No way to make money". "Economy prices are way too high". "Not enough crafters." There are much easier servers to get started on". "Come to ______ server and play with us". And this is with most probably Beyond having the absolute best additions in PVE content out there, most probably the best development and developers out there, and most probably the best server stability to boot.

Beyond is in AFK hell. Just about every fast spawn is camped 24/7. If you're lucky enough to get a couple of spawns not being camped to even try to level a pet, some1 will come on you with more DPS. And these "groups" are nowhere near running an invite macro. It's been told me to go AFK as that's the only way on the server to make credits. I've tried it a couple of times, but my live experience keeps coming into play there. I just don't care much for AFK gameplay and I'm not the only one. A player told me last night he was AFK with 5-7 toons in space. Ridiculous? You tell me.

Since I've been back, I've seen instance groups go unfilled, the ones that ran have been botted. World Boss weekends end in nothing, and generally not much going on at all population wise. The guy that talked me into coming back over here has all but gave up the ghost and set up his own server. BTW, it's so easy, it's frogged.

Nobody wants all this grind any longer, much less a boatload of added grind via crafting, credits, pretty much every system in SWG added grind, X 10 above live even. We've all done it multiple times on all of these servers. And that goes for credits, crafter tokens, all of these multi currencies that have been added, etc. etc. etc. Look at the "Suggestions" forum, about 90% is get rid of 1 grind or lesson the grind of 1 or the other. That credit cut was probably the worst idea I've seen on any private SWG server even if it was a mod from Eclipse that just kills new players completely off your server. About the only grind I can get people to agree with is the instance grind(s). The population of Beyond has fell off considerably since I was here before. Long time players are now gone. Perhaps server management needs to answer the question of why. And this comes from the guy who ran private servers for 6 years also. 2 on a SWG server, 4 on an ARK cluster. I'm sorry, but you'll just get a trickle of new players that will not surpass people leaving until something is done. Beyond has to compete with all these "easy mode" servers that are out there now. Another one just launched this week, in fact. I got the invite for it.

If all you want is a Friday night PVP server, that people play on the other server Sat-Thurs., leave it alone, cause that's exactly what you have now.
 
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OMGABRIT

New member
Can we get Bacta Grenade unlinked from Bacta Spray

Can the Heal Cut debuff from spies snipe/ambush line be its own debuff instead of sharing a slot with Medics Bacta Corruption or give each the ability to override each other as Bacta Corrupt takes priority and overrides while also being a weaker heal cut

Can the OG loot tables be revamped to mix things up

Can we make it so TK has minimum 2 experts for each Call

Any ideas at creating another profession like you guys did with Vanguard
 

Erotica

Well-known member
If you're going to draw new people, a complete re-think needs to be completed.

I've invited a bunch and heard the same things every time. "It's a PVP server". "The server is live grind times 10". "No way to make money". "Economy prices are way too high". "Not enough crafters." There are much easier servers to get started on". "Come to ______ server and play with us". And this is with most probably Beyond having the absolute best additions in PVE content out there, most probably the best development and developers out there, and most probably the best server stability to boot.

Beyond is in AFK hell. Just about every fast spawn is camped 24/7. If you're lucky enough to get a couple of spawns not being camped to even try to level a pet, some1 will come on you with more DPS. And these "groups" are nowhere near running an invite macro. It's been told me to go AFK as that's the only way on the server to make credits. I've tried it a couple of times, but my live experience keeps coming into play there. I just don't care much for AFK gameplay and I'm not the only one. A player told me last night he was AFK with 5-7 toons in space. Ridiculous? You tell me.

Since I've been back, I've seen instance groups go unfilled, the ones that ran have been botted. World Boss weekends end in nothing, and generally not much going on at all population wise. The guy that talked me into coming back over here has all but gave up the ghost and set up his own server. BTW, it's so easy, it's frogged.

Nobody wants all this grind any longer, much less a boatload of added grind via crafting, credits, pretty much every system in SWG added grind, X 10 above live even. We've all done it multiple times on all of these servers. And that goes for credits, crafter tokens, all of these multi currencies that have been added, etc. etc. etc. Look at the "Suggestions" forum, about 90% is get rid of 1 grind or lesson the grind of 1 or the other. That credit cut was probably the worst idea I've seen on any private SWG server even if it was a mod from Eclipse that just kills new players completely off your server. About the only grind I can get people to agree with is the instance grind(s). The population of Beyond has fell off considerably since I was here before. Long time players are now gone. Perhaps server management needs to answer the question of why. And this comes from the guy who ran private servers for 6 years also. 2 on a SWG server, 4 on an ARK cluster. I'm sorry, but you'll just get a trickle of new players that will not surpass people leaving until something is done. Beyond has to compete with all these "easy mode" servers that are out there now. Another one just launched this week, in fact. I got the invite for it.

If all you want is a Friday night PVP server, that people play on the other server Sat-Thurs., leave it alone, cause that's exactly what you have now.
Prices are to high has to be a joke 35s are litteral free as are pups if your after overcap thats a you issue.
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Food is about same as legends somewhat cheaper unless Bespin cause there hasent been stuff in ages to recap.

Armor is dirt cheap it used be 5-8mil suit when me/nitro came over. we lowered that to 2mil. mando is disgusting cheap 25% what other servers.

Weapons are cheap as hell compared other servers where cap runs 100mil+

Servers already joke and easy mode. yall expect shit be hand fed on silver platter and it already is.

7 pieces are also easy to get now there not any value in them. 35s are dumb easy to grind . resources are easy you get 7 toons....

Plenty vet players left where all just taking break some us been running content nonstop. Lot vet players that left dont even SWG anymore and ones that do are over on legends because thats where all BFs are at atm or world.

SWG is and has always been endgame is PVP. even live it was advertised as such


There is no real grind on beyond takes a day to 2 max to 1-90 combat. 2h max for trader 4h max for ent and on 2x events...it even easier.

Only grind is credits and thats a joke as well harvest resources sellem , holos? better yet go DWB. anyone new gets basically almost 40mil in vet rewards/earring boxes. if lucky your 2 RLS Boxes can net you up 300mil... or sellem unopen.

There aint ton crafters because its boring its like actual job and people dont wanna do that thoughs of us who do have supplied community last 2 years and lowered cost by almost 400% on some items....

example VRK's use to be 3-5mil till me/sage lowered them to 250-500k pop food was 3mil crate for 25 we lowered it with adork down 250-500k crate.

like i said prices here are stable or to cheap.

i know people complain about weapons being $$$ but holy fk go make a WS then and go gamble your life away then. cause 10-20mil for non heavy capped with 250/30 is disgusting cheap when it was 50-80mil when we came here.

Heroic 5pcs are dirt cheap as long 10mil .

backpacks are almost free cause we get them out loot boxes like mad.

legendary weapons now have no value because how many there are unless heavy then the prices on these are legit stable esp with 1403 cap is considered more rare then a SRD/Mando suit here.
 

Tony_Mendez

New member
Hey Beyonders!

Our next town hall is approaching. Our dev team has been hard at work in implementing changes that you all requested from the previous town hall. During the next one, we plan on showcasing things we were able to accomplish, provide details on things that are still being worked on, and as always allow for further discussion with the community on additional topics. Please submit your questions here so that we can prepare to answer these questions during the next meeting.
Great job 👍 👏
 

Somatical

New member
Is there any chance we could look at making shipwright ship parts able to be ran in a factory?

Maybe a possible future revamp of the mission terminal missions and such to be worth doing?

And lastly, could a portable BH terminal be introducted? As it is i dont believe you can get bounties from the same planet but this would be an awesome QoL for BHs.
 

yendys

New member
How are we doing as far as monthly donations? I see Discord reminders, but personally don't have a lot of extra money to help out with.
 

Yekzunno

Active member
Give CSRs few admin commands - Server needs late night admin to help with certain things like instances bugging. admins are great about getting to the tickets and reports and solving the issues. but many times after a certain time the admins are in bed (understandably) and theres no longer any help available for late"night"(evening) players

Jedi theme park/Jedi update - add a Sage stance for jedi healer, and a Duelist Stance for melee jedi. making it comparable to a melee spy/melee smug, possibly slightly less dmg depending on balancing, but the idea is high dmg low defense melee. Sage can be hopefully comparable to medic to allow for some diversity in healing for PvP/Legendries
New Creature Handler Profession - create a specific Beast Master profession that can be played DPS/Medic/Support
Pet ability updates - ie: canines need a new ability.
Side toolbar - Don't care if it's not keybindable yet.
Jedi slice for Lightsabers and Robes (can be part of theme park vendor for jedi if thats an option)
Weapons/Armors/Clothes can only be sliced X amount of times before they can no longer be sliced
Update RLS Boxes
- Mix Series 1 and 2 with the better of the items left in and call it Series 3. too many bad drops in both of these series. ie: Series 1 has naboo signaling unit, legendary weapons. series 2 has legendary weapon crate in the legendary box. things like that need to go.
 
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ono

New member
1. server lacks players and specially lacks crafters. Consider blue frogging items that are hard to craft/rare to find crafted, with such a chronic low population. Maybe once a month open up blue frogs to give specific items that are lacking on the server, with a limit on the ammount people can get. There are a lot of items you just cant find at all, let a lone a a reasonable price for the new to the server.

2. Consider changing how exotics and pups work, by making generic weapon crit/action cost/damage modifiers. "one size fits all" exotics and power ups, to make it easier for people to switch suits between alts and to find what they want.

3. Vanguard drag corpse. Sometimes it is needed to pull copses out of lava (CoM for example) so ressuscitations can be performed. Maybe balance it out with a single target only drag corpse?

4. More teleporting commands would be useful. Sure, at this point, most have seen what the game has offer in terms of ambience and scenarios. Driving around can be very time consuming. Making everyone able to teleport to their house wherever they are would be nice, specially since there arent enough people to mantain cities. Being able to use a command to teleport to a house means someone can place houses close to contente they like to do or where they would live to live, without worrying about driving 20 minutes to it.

5. QoL to speed up OGs even more, maybe? Suggestions:

5.1. ISD: Maybe remove the need o fly to ISD, considering:

5.1.1 - Difficulty in grinding to ace pilot and equipping ships: Most people don't have a POP. May be the lack of interest in flying, difficulty finding the support to complete quests, difficulty finding space parts to equip ships, and difficulty affording said parts, after finding them. Seen several people not able to equip a POB due ot lack of money.
5.1.2 - Bugs: Bugs flying to ISD happen very often in this server, such as not all making inside the instance or getting stuck in space without being able to leave without a CSR. A character of mine was stuck in space for a few days, once. Also, might be a bug that so far happened just with me, but I'm not able to invite others to my POB, as the invite system bugs. So I got a POB mainly to fly to ISD, but it turned out to be useless. I need to test it more, though, as I only tried once and was dual logging.

5.2 - Exar Kun instance: Speed up the ammount of cultists that Spawn on first boss concurrently; Lower by half the ammount of mitigation the 3rd boss has.

5.3 - Tusken King instance: Minimum of 3 experts on TK on each spawn. make experts walk a little faster.

5.4 - IG instance: remove IG's Shields.

5.6 - Axkva Min instance: maybe possible to give an option to skip Akxva's dialogue before the final fight with her?

6 - New profession roles. The dwindling population also affects the availbiliy of players and player roles for doing group content. Consider creating more role diversity? Suggestions:

6.1: Commando can be a minor healer. Create a mechanic similar to jedi light and dark sides, where a Commando can enter Stances. One stance forces the Commando to use only pistols/carbine/rifles, and gets access to a expertise tree that focuses on healing. This way, we would be able o "make do" wihout a medic for easier content (such as OGs), or have Commando's backup the Medic when its not possible to get two medics for harder conten such as Legendary insances. And wouldnt be overpowered, since the Commando would not be able to use heavy weapons and heal. He would have to switch stances in between fights and would have to invest into expertise to heal.

6.2: Bounty Hunter tank. Again, make it more of a "make do" tank and not as good as jedi or vanguard. Maybe give the Flawless set a new taunt that Works for high end bosses and more glancing blow in pve with said taunt?
 

Yekzunno

Active member
1. server lacks players and specially lacks crafters. Consider blue frogging items that are hard to craft/rare to find crafted, with such a chronic low population. Maybe once a month open up blue frogs to give specific items that are lacking on the server, with a limit on the ammount people can get. There are a lot of items you just cant find at all, let a lone a a reasonable price for the new to the server.

2. Consider changing how exotics and pups work, by making generic weapon crit/action cost/damage modifiers. "one size fits all" exotics and power ups, to make it easier for people to switch suits between alts and to find what they want.

3. Vanguard drag corpse. Sometimes it is needed to pull copses out of lava (CoM for example) so ressuscitations can be performed. Maybe balance it out with a single target only drag corpse?

4. More teleporting commands would be useful. Sure, at this point, most have seen what the game has offer in terms of ambience and scenarios. Driving around can be very time consuming. Making everyone able to teleport to their house wherever they are would be nice, specially since there arent enough people to mantain cities. Being able to use a command to teleport to a house means someone can place houses close to contente they like to do or where they would live to live, without worrying about driving 20 minutes to it.

5. QoL to speed up OGs even more, maybe? Suggestions:

5.1. ISD: Maybe remove the need o fly to ISD, considering:

5.1.1 - Difficulty in grinding to ace pilot and equipping ships: Most people don't have a POP. May be the lack of interest in flying, difficulty finding the support to complete quests, difficulty finding space parts to equip ships, and difficulty affording said parts, after finding them. Seen several people not able to equip a POB due ot lack of money.
5.1.2 - Bugs: Bugs flying to ISD happen very often in this server, such as not all making inside the instance or getting stuck in space without being able to leave without a CSR. A character of mine was stuck in space for a few days, once. Also, might be a bug that so far happened just with me, but I'm not able to invite others to my POB, as the invite system bugs. So I got a POB mainly to fly to ISD, but it turned out to be useless. I need to test it more, though, as I only tried once and was dual logging.

5.2 - Exar Kun instance: Speed up the ammount of cultists that Spawn on first boss concurrently; Lower by half the ammount of mitigation the 3rd boss has.

5.3 - Tusken King instance: Minimum of 3 experts on TK on each spawn. make experts walk a little faster.

5.4 - IG instance: remove IG's Shields.

5.6 - Axkva Min instance: maybe possible to give an option to skip Akxva's dialogue before the final fight with her?

6 - New profession roles. The dwindling population also affects the availbiliy of players and player roles for doing group content. Consider creating more role diversity? Suggestions:

6.1: Commando can be a minor healer. Create a mechanic similar to jedi light and dark sides, where a Commando can enter Stances. One stance forces the Commando to use only pistols/carbine/rifles, and gets access to a expertise tree that focuses on healing. This way, we would be able o "make do" wihout a medic for easier content (such as OGs), or have Commando's backup the Medic when its not possible to get two medics for harder conten such as Legendary insances. And wouldnt be overpowered, since the Commando would not be able to use heavy weapons and heal. He would have to switch stances in between fights and would have to invest into expertise to heal.

6.2: Bounty Hunter tank. Again, make it more of a "make do" tank and not as good as jedi or vanguard. Maybe give the Flawless set a new taunt that Works for high end bosses and more glancing blow in pve with said taunt?
OGs are already stupid fast and easy on this server. go check the leaderboard terminals.. EK - 7minutes. ISD - 10minutes AM/IG- 3 minutes each. TK is 20minutes and the only thing that slows that down is RNG on not getting Mansion calls. Thats the only thing thats "slow" about the instance.
Blue frog idea is bad. rare items should be rare. rewards players that do the grind for it. free hand outs are never a good idea. because then it creates a place for players to complain for items to be given out for free.
Removing the need to fly to ISD is fine.. just make it so you don't get the smuggled buff that you get for actually flying to it in a POB. if no one in the group has a POB the yacht flight sucks.
Bounty Hunter already has a taunt built into their profession wheel. so BH tank is already an option.
More diversity in healers would be nice. could give a couple different professions. a healer line possibly
This server has more than enough teleporting options. my main has a toolbar full of just ITV's between ability ones or items. theres more than enough,
Pups and exotics are fairly easy and common and cheap enough that having more than one set of pups isn't an issue. my jedi has 4 sets of pups. and i never have issues getting them. 300k for a stack of 7's usually. can afk grind a full set in a day. or go do the daily missions for credits. in an hour you can get 500K+ just from those
 
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