Originally posted by raymerjacque

Seems SWG is increasing their dev crew ?

I see them advertising for new programers. Anyone that can shed some light on the subject ?

( And please NO FLAMING in this thread, if you flame i will report you. And please do not post the ussual crap about SWG dying etc unless you have solid evidence. I have heard it all before. Also i play the game and altho it not exactly in the top 5 it is still active and an enjoyable game, and they would not be hiring if things were not going so well. )

Well I sure hope so... It would be really cool if SOE would spend some serious dough on making this game great again. Fix the bugs, introduce content. That is all it takes. They could do that if they wanted to. The question is: Do they want to repair their bruished reputation or not??  

SOE should revamp the game around the current mechanics. Add a little complexity to the fighting system, but completely (!!) update the graphics for anno 2007. Revive this game! Add all the stuff that was before like camps, GCW needs to make sense, add tons of creatures, campaigns, missions. Spend some serious dough and make this game great.

It has huge potential..

Dammit... hire me SOE and give me creative freedom and a shiitload of money for development and I shall turn this ship around..

Don't kill of the game!

Originally posted by andeemann10

The time period that makes the most sense is that of the New Republic, after the movies ended. The reason is that (my speculation) people want the Galactic Civil War era. They want the the empire with the stormtroopers, and the people from the original trilogy fighting against them. People also want Jedi, however, and it is the stupidest thing ever to make Jedi available during the Galactic Civil War. It simply isn't canon, and when they make an MMORPG from a preexsisting IP they should do their best to follow the reality that has been made.

So there you go, two factions, New Republic and Imperial Remnant. They need to make Jedi  rare somehow because the are the chosen few and it doesn't make sense to have a bunch running around. Like have anyone be able to make them, but the only way to level them is to stay in the temple and train, and it takes forever.

Of course we want stormtroopers and galactic civil war. One thing SWG did right was to time the game in the right period. KOTOR is completely uninteresting setting. They might as well make any random sci-fi mmo then.

I really hope the next mmo will be based on the movies or just after. Personally I want them to be based on the Order66 period just like the upcoming tv series.

What the next SWG mmo really should do is to make jedis hard to get. Simply making the grind really really hard wont be good for the game. It is not about how hard it is to unlock or how hard the jedi grind is. If they want them in the game they should only be open for people willing to shell out 100-200$ and another 50$ pr month. That will limit them.

Another possibility is to make them randomly selected on the server, a few every month. Just enough to make an encounter possible but not frequent. I really dont mind UBER jedis if they are really rare. It would make an interesting challenge to meet a real strong character when you  are say, a commando or bounty hunter.

The key to jedi really is to have them in the game for the AWE factor (npcs wouldnt be the same) and to make them really rare and powerful. This way everyone is happy. Well almost, there will always be whiners.

But making certain random accounts forcesensitive could be really cool. Even they could make them forcesensitive with different potential. Say some are little powerful, some medium and some very very powerful.. for diversity..

Also to play a jedi it should be limited so that the player can not have any other characters on that server!

Anyways I dream of the day where they will make a new SW mmo. SWG pre cu and pre nge was an awesome but bug-riddled game.

I laugh at all the people who wants pre nge and pre cu servers because it would be hell on SOE and a financial abyss. The best thing they could do at this point is make swg 2,0 and bring in the diversity.

The second best thing SOE could do is to hire 200 people to update the graphics and the game, bring in more of the old professions, do what I said about jedis above (and let all level 60+ jedis stay and wipe the rest) and put in shitload of graphics, missions, content, monsters, details. It might cost SOE a fortune but it would REPAIR THEIR IMAGE. It would actually be a really sound business move to invest in the community and make the game GREAT AGAIN. They could do it if they had the balls ...

My biggest (gaming/entertainment) dream is that there WILL be a SWG 2.

But it would have to be set in the period of the six movies or max a decade after the last.

I am not interested in the other periods KOTOR etc..

What I want is a real SWG2 based on some of the original game ideas but much more polished..

There seem to be a misunderstanding of the pre CU and pre NGE game. It wasnt as great as people say. I loved it. But it had an economy running wild, huge balance issues, loads of easy exploits such as macro exploits, simple exploits where you could stand in a tree and shoot at things that couldnt fight you back or stand on a cliff and shoot at things that couldn't reach you. There were lots of content that hadn't found its way in and Bounty Hunters missions were crap and broken so you couldn't complete them..

SWG is THE mmo with the most huge potential ever, lets have a sequal. But if whoever gets it SOE or otherwise, I pray they have learned the lesson and dont go warcraft on us... be daring, try something new..

KOTOR I wouldnt touch with a fire poker, I need the characters and feel, the emperor and vader... I need SWG the way it should have been now with DX10 graphics

/rant off  

Well well well 40k sounds like a very sweet thing..

I like it how GW chooses Vigil for 40k and mythic for WAR .. that should give them a different mmo, a different feel ... good job..!