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• • Been playing it for a few hours now since I left when NGE started...

  • I logged in as well- will add to your thread. Servers are really low in population. It really warrants a server merge down to 5 servers at the most. I know this is a hard fact to accept because of resources, player cities, etc. But the game was designed to be a massive multiplayer RPG and right now due to "time" and business decisions the game needs it. NPC cities need players to thrive in them and right now its dead.  I can also see a FFA Galactic Server that is needed. I think SOE won't do a thing though.

    A lot of the NGE bugs are fixed but you can still look in the sky and see stars shinning through the planets and star destroyers- all 3 of them.  This just represents how the whole is blown off by management and that is a shame.  Basic MMO development 101 says this is a no no. Fishing lines still have no strings- funny that I bring that up!  But the graphics cranked up with anti alias look great. Player houses and player cities still are unique.

    The UI is horrible and I can see how it has been band aided since the NGE. There have been steps but they really need to shine it up. The target system is a little buggy in mobs. But I do see improvements. I suggest for vets to press "Y" when in combat. I don't care for FPS's in RPG's. Tabula Rasa's target system is much smoother than the NGE targeting system.  Crafting is still king compared to other mmo's and I made a much needed swoop bike.  I laid some harvestor's down. Kosters design is still king.

    I keep coming back to populations. There are no time sinks on travel time which can be a positive or a negative in terms of design and social game play. Only Mos Eisley was populated. But this is nothing compared to Pre NGE.  

    Role players should swarm to SWG. The story teller features are nice.  In fact they are some of the best options I have seen amongst SOE's decisions. EQ II should be jealous. But over all the game needs content that is not rehashed items or instances that are cloned WoW rip offs.

    If SWG actually merges servers, adds more professions, builds a story, and gets back on track with star wars fans who are adults, things could change. But over all the changes since Helios has been gone have been positive. But now that DM is gone who knows. In the end for a new player they will have a purpose but there are still loose ends in the game play and many many aspects of SWG has been dumbed down.  And for that- it is a shame because I can see post NGE fans who would really love a game that offers more challenges such as Pre CU.  And the universe stinks of jedi. Order 66 needs to be upheld in SWG<
    

    So in the end I won't be staying with SWG. I find potential in it. But how can one engage in SWG when even Lucas Arts ignores it in the newsletters? They should be building stories. Featuring it in magazines. Instead they have done nothing.  I prefer CCP over Lucas Arts and SOE's handling of what should be the greatest game of all time.

  • Posted: 7/05/08 2:46 AM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • w00t, Star Wars Galaxies gets its own Legends of Norrath CCG!!!!

  • FYI- todays kids think Star Wars is dated. In other words they think it is LAME> Just go to a Star Wars fan fest. 95 out of 100 are adults...who have money...who left SWG.  The new site does look better but has loose ends.

  • Posted: 7/03/08 11:16 PM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • Welcome the new king of MMOs: Age of Conan

  • I am enjoying AoC and taking my time to level. But honestly the bugs are there in game as well as the content that is not. I like this game but Funcom needs to get the gears going which I feel they are doing. Besides WoW will be a very large game for some time to come. They are adding Russia. In the scheme of things I honestly could care less about WoW. I really can't agree with the OP.

     

     

  • Posted: 7/01/08 6:36 PM
    Age of Conan
• • Astromechs, Friday Features & Other Stuff (2003-2005)

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    I miss being  a master droid engineer even though droids really had no purpose. They did make great pets and great house decorations. I always wanted to be a a Jawa and travel Tatooine selling droids on a sandcrawler. I am sorry to say that will never happen now....maybe I might make my own HL II mod just for that and call it "Jawa".

     

    I have to add this on- someone should post this in the SWG boards as new game suggestions.

  • Posted: 7/01/08 6:14 PM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • 3 days into SWG after returning to the game.

  • Just for video game talk do you have anti alias enabled?

  • Posted: 7/01/08 6:12 PM
    Star Wars Galaxies