Star Wars Galaxies

2000M to the East of Mos Eisley on Bria.....

I had a small tat house, no there was no city there, just a buttload of houses going up...it seemed to be more and more crowded on a daily basis....

I would sit in my house...watch the radar screen, decorate it.... Always there were some nearby critters...always.  I'd go out and shoot them just for fun....

Soon, the population got so high that Squill started spawning all over the valley....and being so close to M.E. noobs would wander into the area and find themselves under attack from these pests....  My entire "neighborhood" of vets there would always help keep the population down.  Making friends is easy when you lend an assist to a noob so they don't get killed. 

Best times I ever had were in my little tat house.  And yes, 10 min shuttle waits were THE BEST thing for the game's social growth....When modal chat came out it totally started killing off the community....before that time whold entire groups could be chatting and laughing it up while on a major hunt....once modal chat came up the groups fell to silence beause you could no longer chat and fight at the same time.....dark days from then on.

I swear to God I'm still waiting for Torres and Smed to get what they deserve.  Do not think for one minute we're going to "get over" anything SOE.

Faxx of Bria

My first house was just to the SE of Doaba Guerfel, along the shores of that little lake there.

Every morning before heading to work I'd log in and clean up the meatlumps/swoopers who would show up on my doorstep overnight.

Was good training for the dewback.  He'd go whomp the NPCs and bound back to me like a big puppy.

Originally posted by SioBabble

My first house was just to the SE of Doaba Guerfel, along the shores of that little lake there.

Every morning before heading to work I'd log in and clean up the meatlumps/swoopers who would show up on my doorstep overnight.

Was good training for the dewback.  He'd go whomp the NPCs and bound back to me like a big puppy.

That's not all that far from where mine was.  My guild had a rank 3 city that was about 1500M from the DG starport.  Back when vehicle speed was saner, that trip actually took awhile to make.

I had my house on corellia, but my home always was Tatooine. First time i left tatooine, i think it was after like 2-3 weeks in game, we headed for coronet, and all the people there made it almost impossible to read the chat. I felt like the farmer from the country who arrived to the big city for the first time. My friends had to convince me to not return with next shuttle to Tatooine hehe.

Never forgive, never forget

Efferet, Farstar

My first house (Manse D'Blawblaw) was nestled in between the river, and the mountains that run along the western side of the Corellia map. Just south of a player city named Rivendel (no longer there of course).

I socialized often with the citizens of Rivendel, and had alot of trade with them, but never joined them because back then one could actually get a sense of being a pioneer, out there living in the wilderness.

Aw hell I love 'memories' threads.

To give a proof that the SWG community WAS the best ever....

I made friends in that game (from 4 years ago now)  That I talk to daily still to this day...and we've not played any games together since the NGE.

The guild I was in had 12 members fly from CAli, AZ, Tenn, ...they all flew into Dallas to meet a member who was there on a business trip.... It was over holloween (2 weeks before the NGE) and we had the best fun we'd ever had.....It ended so suddenly.

Anyway...by comparison..  Every MMo I've played since the NGE hit....not one new friend that translated beyond the game.  (And don't tell me it's something I did different either! lol)

There is one game that matches the social lvl of Swg...though most of you will laugh when you read this...but it's Second Life.   (I don't call that a 'game' though just in case you wondered)   But the community in SL is broad and diverse ....and....most ppl there actually went into SL FOR the social reasons....But when you consider SWG had that lvl of community without trying (as opposed to SL being MAINLY intended for social community) it speaks of what SWG really was.....The most unique game ever made....and it's such a shame SOE didn't spend enough time IN their own game learning what was broke and improving THAT...rather than fall to the 'WoW-eyed' sickness.

Faxx

I paid in over 2 million credits for my house maintenence.....the week of the nge....anyone think my house is still there?  (My last guild was the city of Concordia on Rori and I had a Large naboo there...hehe) ..and on Bria, most of our cities were lvl 5....There were no new cities by the time NGE hit due to population density.....

Originally posted by Faxxer

 

To give a proof that the SWG community WAS the best ever....

I made friends in that game (from 4 years ago now)  That I talk to daily still to this day...and we've not played any games together since the NGE.

The guild I was in had 12 members fly from CAli, AZ, Tenn, ...they all flew into Dallas to meet a member who was there on a business trip.... It was over holloween (2 weeks before the NGE) and we had the best fun we'd ever had.....It ended so suddenly.

Anyway...by comparison..  Every MMo I've played since the NGE hit....not one new friend that translated beyond the game.  (And don't tell me it's something I did different either! lol)

There is one game that matches the social lvl of Swg...though most of you will laugh when you read this...but it's Second Life.   (I don't call that a 'game' though just in case you wondered)   But the community in SL is broad and diverse ....and....most ppl there actually went into SL FOR the social reasons....But when you consider SWG had that lvl of community without trying (as opposed to SL being MAINLY intended for social community) it speaks of what SWG really was.....The most unique game ever made....and it's such a shame SOE didn't spend enough time IN their own game learning what was broke and improving THAT...rather than fall to the 'WoW-eyed' sickness.

Faxx

I paid in over 2 million credits for my house maintenence.....the week of the nge....anyone think my house is still there?  (My last guild was the city of Concordia on Rori and I had a Large naboo there...hehe) ..and on Bria, most of our cities were lvl 5....There were no new cities by the time NGE hit due to population density.....

It's not just you Faxxor, I too have made some close friendships Pre-CU which have lasted way beyond my SWG subscription. One of which I may end up going into business with in the future. I've tried to create the same sort of friendships with other MMOs and it just doesn't seem to work. It seems the 'modern' MMO is so loot/status based that people don't have time to spend with each other outside of grouping to take down a prestigious boss etc.

Yep. I had that same social experince with pre-CU.

So far I've not found anything that comes even close to it.

I remember my first house also. A friend of mine bought it for me and we placed it on Tattooine also. I haven't played in so long, I've almost forgotten the server I was on. It was Kettemoor. A roleplaying server.The guild I was in was named Heaven and Earth...(HaE). We had both rebels and imperials in it. I remember I was close to being an imperial colonel when the CU hit.

I couldn't believe my eyes when my translucent interface suddenly had color.  I was a Master Fencer/Master Rifleman. My combat animations changed, the entire UI changed. All of a sudden I was a level 90 MF/MR. I quit shortly after that and haven't been back. I started about 3 months after the game came out and it was the first mmorpg I've played.  To me, it will always be the best game prior to the changes I have ever played. I hated when folks started holo grinding, however, I did the same thing.

I never became a Jedi and that's ok. I'll never forget looking up in the sky from Naboo and seeing the destroyers orbiting or fighting the rebels who invaded the Theed starport. Those were the best time's I've ever had playing a game. I liked skilling up from Scout to become a creature handler and working my way around to become different professions. Running from a Rancor the first time I saw one. Before you could actually take one out by yourself by the way. I would sign up in a heartbeat bugs and all if there was a pre-cu roll back. I know that'll never happen though. I'm just so so sad they let the game degenerate to what it's become. They were so close to being perfect on it. Just keep random Jedi with a perma death feature, eliminate some bugs here and there, balance some combat issues and Boom! about as close to perfection a game could've been in my opinion. Instead, well, we all know what happened and that's that.

Thacalme Bruce,

Kettemoor

My only regret is there's many many folks out there who'd have loved the game the way it was and never got the chance to experience it.