First Strike Forums — STAR WARS GALAXIES thread

Re: STAR WARS GALAXIES thread

2007-10-04T16:48:07Z

I love SWG i was a top structure enginer i had only 1 more level to go before i completed all the levels.

Re: STAR WARS GALAXIES thread

2007-10-02T17:05:56Z

They should never have put Jedi in at all. The original idea of making it rare was never feasible in an MMORPG. Making it common, as they inevitably had to do, is counter-immersive.

They made fundamental errors in the player driven economy which doomed it from the start. The two biggest mistakes where basing the crafter templates on the combat character templates, when really, the crafter were playing a completely different game. The second was not putting in place an easy way for crafter to get their goods to the combat players. As a result despite a vast variety of goods which could be made, only a handful were actually manufactured, and those goods that were made were difficult for the combat players to find.

The result was the NGE, I wish them well, but I am not playing it anymore.

Re: STAR WARS GALAXIES thread

2007-10-02T10:06:37Z

I played it for a while, but only the Jump To Light speed part caught my interest.
And in the end I gave up on that too, because of the stupidly long missions you had to complete to advance.
Having to complete an hour long mission which is moderately challenging, just to get the difficulty cranked up to "near-impossible" at the end get old real fast.

The ground-based game seemed rather uninteresting.

Re: STAR WARS GALAXIES thread

2007-10-01T10:08:28Z

I've been playing the game for over 3 years and i'm still enjoying the PVP and RP. The game IS getting better slowly, with a new dev team their slowly adding content. It's not cool telling players that are considering to try out the game that its crap, let them try it out.. Theres no other Starwars game like it out, except for Kotor and thats not online or in the Galactic Civil war time period.

Re: STAR WARS GALAXIES thread

2007-09-30T09:58:21Z

I still play and would have to say that all in all JTL (Jump to Lightspeed - aka the Space expansion to SWG) is really well done. Granted, there's not much content for JTL and the grind gets a little old but there's some great action on servers like Starsider and Valcyn. That said, considering how amazing the graphics are and how well designed the engines are (the old Wing Commander team put together JTL), one would think Space would be as intense as say BF 2142. Don't get me wrong the battles are amazing but the larger 20 on 20 battles don't happen as often as we'd like. As far as the "ground game" goes I've heard and read a lot and have a bunch of PRE NGE and PRE CU friends. Needless to say they hate the NGE. In my opinion, I think the game definitely lost depth and I don't like the notion of "respec" Jedi's. (pretty much any yahoo can run around with a lightsaber as opposed to the old days where one had to train in a variety of skills as well as complete a hard grind in the "hope" that one day a mysterious old man "Obi Wan Kenobi" would appear and being their Jedi training) It would be nice if there were more complexity to player characters, more story line (maybe even story line campaigns in the GCW) and just more of a Star Wars feel. As far as ground PvP goes it is intense and competitive. There's a lot of nasty behavior/drama that can take the Star Wars right out of the game. I'd have to say one of the greatest losses be how the old PRE NGE style promoted teamwork. In retrospect, though, there are huge battles on a regular basis and they can be pretty intense. Some last for hours and hours at a time. However, SOE's main PvP zone consists of one city in ruins. In a nutshell, you basically end up standing in front of one door grinding NPCs till the NPC boss comes out and you kill him in about 4 seconds flat. Then repeat, over and over and over lol There are some great battles and tactics in the midst of all this mindless grinding and you do have the option of traveling around SF (Special Forces=PvP enabled) but that really doesn't do it for me. Of course, theres also the options of attacking and trying to hold a handful of Static Bases (which are PvP Zones) as well as player bases in player cities but all in all I'm disappointed in all this. You'd think there be so much more to do in the Star Wars Galaxy rather than just standing in front of an NPC door waiting for the Star Wars Galaxies equivalent of King Koopa to spawn so you can kill him over and over again. Bah.. I still enjoy playing it and hope for more positive change from SOE but I say again, Bah... On the brighter side, Chapter 8 is going to be a dedicated to JTL. So far it's pretty exciting. If anyone's interested in playing for the space aspect you might want start up in the next month or so and get prepped. It takes some time to gather enough parts to really "load out" a starship thats viable in PvP. That said, f you are coming to PvP be ready you will be up against a ton of seasoned vet's with amazing starships and some brilliant tactics. All in all the Pilot community is a good one and should you need a hand grinding or getting your feet wet, there are a lot of Imperials and Rebels that would be willing to help. I suggest Starsider personally although Valcyns has been pretty busy since the Roeving Line Squad (An elite Alliance Starfighter Squadron from I think the Ahazi server) transfered over. Starsider is the unofficial SWG "Space" server though. Some really awesome pilots there as well as the other servers.

Note: The game has definitely improved in the past 8 months and a ton of players have returned... it's fun but it's also a major investment of time to get anywhere really... I don't know that I can really say it's worth it but there's definitely some cool stuff to do and some great times and good people playing SWG... I gotta say though it doesn't quite capture the Star Wars feel. Firststrike, however, does. Space maybe simplified here but it's awesome - ROTJ style

B - E - W - A - R - E

Re: STAR WARS GALAXIES thread

2007-09-30T08:29:25Z

Awesome. Can't wait 'till this comes out. I loved SWG pre-cu, but the NGE made me quit. I just started playing again a few weeks ago and while it will never be as good as pre-cu, it is getting better.

Re: STAR WARS GALAXIES thread

2007-09-30T08:21:11Z

I played swg until NGE. I dont like playing with shi't.... Also they are making a swg pre-cu game emulator here: www.swgemu.com

Re: STAR WARS GALAXIES thread

2007-09-18T02:04:33Z

generalrievous wrote:

the funny thing is that the emu would almost already be complete by now if there hadnt been the split in the team of swgemu but you can thank teh "Rtard" ultyma for that

nah ultyma may be a idiot but hes a great worker. Snow just couldnt live with him on the team and ditched when they outvoted him on the removal.

Re: STAR WARS GALAXIES thread

2007-09-17T23:03:02Z

yeah i know, but hey at least the project is still alive and kicking nicely just a few setbacks here and there thanks to stupid people

Re: STAR WARS GALAXIES thread

2007-09-17T20:48:46Z

the funny thing is that the emu would almost already be complete by now if there hadnt been the split in the team of swgemu but you can thank teh "Rtard" ultyma for that

Re: STAR WARS GALAXIES thread

2007-09-17T19:41:23Z

I just want to say Thankyou Azron for that excellent read about the state of SWG on page two. I have to say it cleared up just about all the questions I've had about what has happened to SWG since I left several years ago. Much appreciated for it

Re: STAR WARS GALAXIES thread

2007-09-17T17:07:15Z

and about that nose dive, yes swg took one and now it's deformed haha

OHHHH YES i remember doing that alot, stayed up almost all night sometimes to bad we don't get that in any mmo's these days....

but one things for sure the next star wars mmo when ever that will be i'll be on that gravy train

Re: STAR WARS GALAXIES thread

2007-09-17T11:56:42Z

Star Wars Galaxies had been one of my favorite star wars games. Until KOTOR. ^_^

but seriously...

SWG was an awesome game. It was about the same time that the jedi were unlocked and player cities came around that the game started to go slowly south. Then it just took a nose dive. lol.

Im just using the unlock of the jedi system as a time frame, it would have been about... january, so 6 or 7 months into the game??

I dont know about any of you, but going from Anchorhead on Tat to Bestine with a group of 60 rebels fighting the imperials in Bestine and holding the city for over 8 hours while wave of imperial players come at you... that was awesome.

Re: STAR WARS GALAXIES thread

2007-09-17T07:04:15Z

yeah, there were some good points in the NGE, combat being one of em with faster Rates of fire and the option to auto target or manual target, but Cover did nothing for you, and everything "good" with the NGE could have been done without messing the rest of it all up

Re: STAR WARS GALAXIES thread

2007-09-17T06:49:46Z

I got into SWG a few months before the NGE. The thing I liked about the NGE was the combat. It was more fast-paced and I enjoyed playing it, but the dumbing down of the game was the killer. When I first started playing, seeing a Jedi was very uncommon and you knew that the people who were Jedi worked for it and had done a lot in the game. The professions that were trimmed and made the jobs that players had obsolete ruined the game.

I understand the mass appeal may be higher for new players, but the oversimplification of the game left a bad taste in player's mouths.