SWG Tales

So what yall think? Servers down for 2-3 days ? New nerfs that make everyone change templates? Sky falling ? Raining Alligators ? Godzilla making land fall in coronet ? Lol sorry its really early and im bored.

I forsee a "ho-hum" response to the new expansion. So far, I haven't really heard anything about it that peaks my interest and makes me want to buy it. It just seems very Jedi-themed and since I don't have a Jedi character, I couldn't care less about it.

Now, if suddenly, as a smuggler, I could smuggle with the expansion, I'd buy 10 copies of the damn thing. But, since it's now been over 2 years and I still have a master profession that's got 50% of it's boxes with little or no purpose or benefit I doubt I'm going to get that.

Im a jedi and i have little to no interest in the expansion lol. Ill buy it cause theyll put some have to have item in there thatll make me get it but bah id rather not get another expansion for a year and get hoth. Guess we gotta take what we can get while soe is in "dont give us what we want mode".

Yeah same here... I am not interested in Jedi-based content. As a matter of fact I am getting annoyed by the sound of my own saber and I am not even full template.

Jabe

Jabe Adaks wrote:Yeah same here... I am not interested in Jedi-based content. As a matter of fact I am getting annoyed by the sound of my own saber and I am not even full template.

Jabe

I hope that when the final product comes out, it will be an interesting set of quests for everyone. The Devs have said so many times now it makes my head hurt, this expansion and nearly all it's quests are open to ALL players, this includes the headline quest given by Obi-Wan.

I'm sure that the developers really don't have any say in matters like these. The players all bitch and moan "why didn't we get Hoth?" or "Fix more bugs, not expansions". The simple fact is SOE develops/maintains the game but Lucasarts has creative control. SOE wanted during the CU to make Jedi even with normal characters and Lucasarts refused to sign off on it.

Looking at the release date, which coincides with SW:RotS DVD release, I have to assume that SOE's hands were tied and were forced to go along with Lucasarts wish for another tie-in product. My only hope is that after this, they'll have rung the life out of Episode 1-3 content and begin looking to more appropriate content, ie Hoth!

Bespin would have been alot more fun in my opinion. They could have put in atmospheric flight.

oh hooraah (slightly sarcastic) a third expansion with barely any new contents to be CALLED a expansion, JTL did tons for swg but i think it was thin with contents =P ROTW gave us a corridor-like planet full of quests (even though it can be fun hehe)

SOE gotta darnit stop being so ignorant, if they dont for once stop doing poor choices and make stupid ideas there wont be enuff ppl in swg soon to fill ONE server =P

I hope that they give the crafters some luv too, i have a armorsmith / architect on bria and i get killed on a daily basis trying to manage my harvesters, ive lost numerous vehiacles and got tons of goods damaged.

I also wish they could improve interface, its bulky and humongous, the group member window is too big nd thats annoying, even though i think swg kick worlf of warcraft in all aspects i think they should look at how they have solved some things, there is lots of very good solves on general mmorpg problems in WoW (+ they have a development team which is interested in what the players thing, THAT is sometihing swg dont ahve)

What i wish most of all though is that they gave back the posebility to get exp in smaller groups or best of all, being able to get exp yourself, im sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo tired of having to go to dantooine to kill pikets n bols, there is almost never i find any other groups elsewhere, pre cu people were all over the GALAXY alone or in groups, hunting everything from rancors to spiders and other critters, but since cu all is jamming mining outpost and the area around MO is very very full mostly of piket n bol lairs made by mission terminal, missions often abandonned since they tend to bug and the critters get lower cl than the mission said they should have making it often to a lagging hell =)

Id like to see hoth yes, but i dont whine about it hahah, id also love to see nar shadaar and cloud city. I wonder when theyll make so you can enter and walk around in capital ships like that movie someone posted a link to, which were shown on the..........fan fest i think it was.

However it might be that were walking toward better stuff, i read soemthing about that soe had hired some company to get peoples opinions, and that they were payed 100 bucks to attend that discussion in santa clara califonia, what has made players most pissed is that soe hasnt cared about the players but i hope thats about to change

just a tip, most don't hunt out of just dant anymore...as it serves no advantage. Some cling to it just out of habit, but many have key player cities they grind out of, mostly the ones with Improved Job Market for extra money.

Blizzard Dunes on Tattoine for example is abig grind spot for jedi...as a bh i travel there so much i should get a free shuttlepass.

Just graba couple guildies, or random friends and go, soloing is still decent xp too. Now the SICK over the top xp is the jedi spin grouping but just because that's the fastest way doesn't mean the other ways are bad, its just the most tweaked way of getting xp.


But yeah, just check a few places like BD and Archidia, etc, not just Dant. Probably have better luck

I'm probably one of the few looking forward to the new expansion.

Anything that brings new content is good in my book, I loved RotW, and I suspect I'll like this one (What is it called again? "Shadows of Obi-Wan"?) just as much.

Sure, they could have done better stuff. But I'll take what I can get.

Well, I'm curious about it. The screenshots aren't as tantalizing as Kashyyk and JtL looked. The one thing that gets me about the like, press release thing...

"Like Obi-Wan Kenobi after his death, Star Wars Galaxies has become 'more powerful than you can possibly imagine.'"

...what an odd choice for a press release about your game.

the expansion includes graphical updates and groundwork for even further...perhaps this is what they mean

I'll be darkly honest...I've been gone what is it, 6-7 months? Other than being curious about the new vehicles and creatures that appear, maybe also curious how the cybernetics work, I really feel that SOE has taken the wrong path with SWG and made it worse.

I hear there are something like 600 Jedi on Gorath alone, with another 100+ in the pipeline because of decisions made. The entire concept of a measured few jedi in the Empire is dead and gone. The world feels nothing like it's supposed to now. I can see ignoring a couple battling jedi as it was in Feb or playing it as the rarity it was. Now they are common. And they are designed to be completely superior to any other character.

SOE honestly must have changed designers and these new ones must think that everyone playing SWG doesn't care about world content -- they only want to become a jedi. Everyone just wants to become a jedi.

The new combat and stat reduction. I just can't say the change will grow on me. It's as if everyone just became less 3D. We are just HAM now.

I'm griping, sorry. I don't want to gripe. I just looked at things more last night and talked to friends who were on at the time. Nobody likes change. This just feels like poorly thought out change.

:x Ranting Jinx :x

hey...sepiv, i would suggest taking one of my pvp classes...combat now is better than ever...we more more "3d" than ever. There are real strategies rather than just "wail with your best special until their mind runs out"


Contact me in game sometime, we usually had pvp class on thursday nights...but i havea thursday evening class now so...that might be changing

Viceroy Odantis wrote:hey...sepiv, i would suggest taking one of my pvp classes...combat now is better than ever...we more more "3d" than ever. There are real strategies rather than just "wail with your best special until their mind runs out"


Contact me in game sometime, we usually had pvp class on thursday nights...but i havea thursday evening class now so...that might be changing

That does sound encouraging. I'd like that. Baby-willing, sounds like fun. Of course, if Sepiv is still IC "paralyzed" -- or maybe it's some kind of insidious trick? -- then I'd have to come sort of OOC.

I sort of hope to get ideas and interaction if someone feels like role playing. Whether it be straight or with a twist. Anyway - night night for now.