Author Topic: Star Wars Galaxies.... (Read 1547 times)

Dowding · « **Reply #30 on:** June 21, 2003, 05:36:51 AM »

Nifty - Oops.

I'm not a MMORPG fan. The ones I've played just seemed to be a very poor, dated single player game with a chat room attached. SWG looked to be different and I was really attracted by the emphasis they were going to put on crafting. The other parts of the game bore me senseless and since they changed things to a more 'Resource Collector Pro' type of game, it's lost its shine.

T0J0 · « **Reply #31 on:** June 21, 2003, 07:46:40 AM »

When everquest came out there was a young engineer at my company who got addicted to it.. after about 4 months one day he just never showed back to work, never called, his family came in and picked up has last check and told us he hadn't left his room for 2 months, his mom was very concerned and asked me to call him and see if I could get him out of his room.. I did get him on the phone one day and he explained how he was making more money building EQ characters and selling them on Ebay then
he could make working his job?! "I don't and didn't believe it"
So I left it alone... 2 years later I had one of the engineers call the family of this guy and they were still concerned he was still not leaving his room... That was Dec. 1999 when he quit work, so 3 1/2 years later this guy still hasn't left the house because of everquest... Now this guy is a legitamate research candidate for some university study.. But I suspect he will just eventually become a ward of the state of florida.

0J0T

Bodhi · « **Reply #32 on:** June 21, 2003, 08:24:45 AM »

TOJO,

Looks like he really went into business...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3529907290&category=2333

Son of a beotch, next thing you know, people will be Ebaying AH perks, LOL

StSanta · « **Reply #33 on:** June 22, 2003, 10:24:21 AM »

Umm, game seemed interesting to me. On a sidenote, I know it's old, but is Everquest worth purchasing for a newbie MMPORG guy like me? And what exactly is it about- quality links with info would be appreciated.

Am getting bored. Bad weather has meant no skydiving for three weeks, and prior to that I did a landing with the wind in my back (by mistake, lost my glasses during free fall) and got somewhat busted up...

So, links/info will be appreciated.

TPIguy · « **Reply #34 on:** June 22, 2003, 01:30:52 PM »

Santa, EQ is a relativly slow paced game. If you're into alot of action you will likely get bored fast. If you like a slower paced game you can play for hundreds of hours you might like it.

Also, its a grouping game for the most part. You can play solo, but its much harder and even slower paced that way.

Yesterday I played it for the first time in 2 years. On my old server my main is lv41, there are now 65 levels. All the old zones that used to be popular are now empty and desolate. It seems on the older established servers very few people play in the low-mid levels. Everybody is higher level.

So, I started a new guy on the newest server. The newbie zones had alot of people in them. Quite a few of them seemed to be totally new to the game. So, you'll be ok if you start on the new server. Otherwise, you'll probibly be playing alone.

You might consider DAOC as well. Gameplay is very similar to EQ, but the graphics are better and its faster paced with more action. Plus there is some limited PvP if you like that.

bigsky · « **Reply #35 on:** June 22, 2003, 10:42:02 PM »

yes, i was a swg beta tester. i didnt think much of it though. sweet f/x but not much on gameplay. im not into role playing games. the problem i had with it was that you had to shoot something 87.5 times to kill it. i like being in charge of the aiming and the part im aiming at. in the movies they didnt seem to have that problem. the game itself moves very S L O W L Y. i can see why someone would buy accounts so they dont have to spend hours apon hours to get to the good stuff. as mentioned about everquest( which i have not played nor want to). now if you want a good game, one very fun but highly addictive get "day of defeat". its a half-life based ww2 game and free to play online. when i started playing that, i deleted MOH, because its fun offline against the puter but online it sucks. i get much satisfaction when i sneak up on a pesky sniper-camper dweeb and get out my e-tool(shovel) and brutaly whack him or use the knife and shove it up him butt( thats how it looks in the game). so in other words anybody want to buy some highly collectable swg beta3 CDs??

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #36 on:** June 23, 2003, 10:48:48 AM »

HAH! I have Beta II CD's!!! Theyve got to be worth more, right?

PS: If you like DoD, stop by the 4th Wehrmacht server sometime - good fun.

Syzygyone · « **Reply #37 on:** June 23, 2003, 10:54:00 AM »

I beta'd it for about two days, got bored and quit cause I really didn't care much about ground missions?

Did they ever put Space Flight into SWG? If so, maybe I will go back and try it again.

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #38 on:** June 23, 2003, 02:14:52 PM »

Space Expansion is supposed to be just that - an expansion.

My interest may be brought back once that is released... but it will probably end up being another point and click - shoot 3,000 times and reduce TIE Fighters hit points to 0 routines...

CavemanJ · « **Reply #39 on:** June 23, 2003, 04:50:03 PM »

Nifty they're trying to pull off a 100% player-driven economy, to the point of literally shoving it down everyone's throats. The whole interdependency thing was from schematic revocation, higher level crafters would have to buy parts from lower level ones, because the higher level ones couldn't make those parts any longer. Schematic revocation got dumped.

The game as a whole, it has some potential. I'm expecting the release to be alot like Falcon4's, in that people are going to buy it, try it, and within a week be returning it in droves because the game sucks bellybutton right now. Game play is boring and repetitive, they're going to be doing serious nerfs across the board over the next 2 months as they sort balance issues that should have been done during beta. Quite a few advanced/elite proffessions basically got reworked from start to finish a week ago, and there's NO time to properly test play balance. Lots of game stopping bugs still present, and that can't be fixed before release.

All in all, the release is going to be remembered for the serious belly flop it's going to do. PvP has been totally borked with the last rash of patches scrambling to get the master data set, and try as they might to avoid it there's going to be a big patch on release day. The Lucas Arts bean counters have shafted this big time. It needs a minimum of one more month in beta for the balance issues and bug squashing, then it could have a deent release. Another glaring problem is the lack of 'star war-sy' content. Most of your time is spent running around in the wilderness blasting creatures into pieces =)

SunKing · « **Reply #40 on:** June 23, 2003, 05:43:22 PM »

So when's the next movies slated to come out?

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #41 on:** June 23, 2003, 06:00:26 PM »

MrCoffee · « **Reply #42 on:** June 25, 2003, 02:00:07 PM »

I was playing and having a great of time then ll of a sudden I was attacked my a jedi knight!

Oh yeah amd his R2D2 stole the stereo from my tie fighter!

Then I got stuck in the swamps on the planet tutoon or something like that.

Nifty · « **Reply #43 on:** June 25, 2003, 02:13:52 PM »

saur, oops, I thought you were trying to compare gameplay or something. my mistake!

dowding, completely understandable.

not every game is for everyone. 450,000 people subscribe to EQ and I have negative desire to play that game.

muckmaw, I'll shoot you an email later. I think me and a friend are going to play on Starsider server at release, so if you hadn't made plans for a server, you can do that one. I'll let you know what the random name generator spits out for my char's name.

(actually, looks like you have your forum email turned off. You'll have to send me one first, or post your email.

)

you can tell cavemanj is a beta tester.

He used the word "borked." I bet 95% of the testers don't even know where that came from. anyways, what you're talking about is "vertical" interdependency, cavemanj. Where upper level artisans needed parts from lower level artisans. I think what Dowding was talking about was horizontal, where advanced artisans needed would get supplies from advanced miners and advanced scouts, same thing with advanced medics/docs getting supplies from scouts and miners. Basically dependency in a class vs dependency across classes. In any case, both are pretty much removed from the system given resource gathering is just one discipline instead of a whole advanced profession. By the way, those people will probably be highly upset when trying to return the game. I don't think any game store will accept returns on a MMORPG. I could be wrong though.

heh, I've got Beta 1, Beta 2 AND Beta 3 disks.

MrCoffee · « **Reply #44 on:** June 25, 2003, 02:15:43 PM »

Luckily thanks to my training, I was able to survive on this swamp infested planet by eating the weeds that were abundant everywhere, though it made my lips swollen.

Then an Imperial Destroyer came by and rescued me.