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What do you Miss?
vontornm
Member Posts: 23
The things I miss about SWG are not found in any other game out there and I don’t’ think it will ever be put in any game any time soon. I’m very tired of looking for a replacement to the addiction I had to SWG and the style of game play I enjoyed.
I want a sandbox game with player run cities and economy, mounts and vehicles large groups with an interdependency that is not based around combat levels, quests and hack and slash for loot that is better than a crafter can make. I want to build houses make furniture, clothing, foods and drinks and have shops to set up vendors in and sell my wares. I don’t want to see NPC’s selling goods or services or setting prices of what things should cost.
I was never an entertainer but my wife was and I miss all of them it was a nice place to hang out as I sat and chatted with them and ground out artisan. I can’t think of how many times I sat in the cantina and helped a new entertainer out with giving them some new clothes that I could make.
Now I’m not against combat but that’s not why I played SWG I did enjoy doing hunts with my guild and helping some new players get some skills and trained in the professions that they wanted.
Pre-CU I was a architect and TKM I did the village not to become a Jedi but to help my friends that were wanting to do that. I just couldn’t see giving up all that I had worked for (crafting) to become a PVP player. PVP is not my game play style.
After the CU hit my toon was about worthless in combat and I could no longer harvest the resources I needed to craft. After about a month of being gimped I broke down and dropped my crafting on that main account. I opened yet another account so I could still have my Architect. (this makes 4 accounts now) O re-rolled my main to commando/ combat medic and 4/0/0/0 rifleman had a blast with that template. I had a few Skill points dumped in the force tree I slowly dumped the commando and went full rifleman to get some Skill Points back to train more in the force tree.
I read some post on the SOE forum about giving the DEV’s credit for what they have done and I have to say we should give them some credit. The ones that coded the game we all miss and the team that had the vision to make that game not the CU or NGE. I know not everyone liked it and that’s fine if you don’t like that that’s cool just like I don’t like the NGE play style or anything that is left in the shell of the game.
You know I could care less if it was a fantasy theme game if it was set up the way the pre-cu was built and was a true MMORPG and not a very bad FPS. The Chronicles of Spellborn looks like it might be a good game I was interested in that until I found out it was a FPS style game what a shame.
Well that’s enough of me ranting about what once was I know we will never get that back Maybe someday a game company will produce a game to replace what we once had.
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I don't miss anything about this game that would give me excuse to go back.
Now that times gone by...I dont miss it at all, at first admittingly, I'd have said I missed the people, but now...Im just glad Im not involved with any of it.
I've been reading thier forums and lots of things posted in here, the same way I do with games I played in the past...and honestly, the direction they took the game in and now are seemingly trying to pull a halfass 360, by trying to put old things back but not entirely is complete bs. I always believed if it wasnt broke dont fix it, thats never been the case for that game. Its always been broke and will always need fixing.
>>What do you Miss?
SoE having a clue, generally.
The last comment from Helios, that a SPY should have an unbreakable cloak but Jedi should not shows clearly that they absolutely have no clue.
Considering the spirit of Star Wars, a "regular" Spy should be "invisible" due to "a skill" but a Jedi, being one with higher forces, feeling the power of a thousand year old force - should not?
That dude must stop developing software and start a french fri shop, seriously!
Claude
Actually, if they had a clue....there would be no Jedi in this timeline.
Also, I can't really think of a specific occurance of a "spy" in SW. I don't remember Liea calling in orbital artilery either but thats her "iconic" role. Not that it wouldn't have been handy. I musta missed that part of the movie.
I miss having choices in what i want to do when i log in.
Log into wow, your choices are pvp,quest, or raid. Or start your 47th alt.
Log into GW, your choices are pvp..... and pvp.
Log into swg and you could do anything.
For the Horde!
i miss choice of professions
i miss my guild events
i miss huge pvp battles
i miss CH
i miss BE
i miss buffs
i miss bounty hunting (as far i know they is none in my current game)
i miss not having to start again to change what your doing
i miss 22 member groups
i miss spam lag
i miss complexity
but most of all i miss my game RIP SWG
Tin Foil hats dont work.. its all a conspiracy
-- xpaladin
[MMOz]
AC1/2, AO, DAoC, EQ1/2, SoR, SWG, UO, WAR, WoW
Oh crap! Two more things in the NGE that were taken from another game.
Damn, now I feel like loading that game up on my computer, I hope the urge goes away by the time I get off from work.
I miss the nice little diverse community we had in our PA. The folks who liked to hunt were always on the lookout for the best quality skins and meat for the BE's, crafters, docs ETC.
Making deals with friends in the nearby PA for factoried pieces my DE couldn't make then giving them a droid or 2 for their troubles.
Making droids for my friends that did different things. Cramming the R2 droids with all kinds of wierd entertainer effects then going to the local cantina and seeing what it did.
Finally mastering DE and making the interplanetary survey droids ( which weren't all that great in the long run ).
Loved to make the tanking droids for my pistoleer and rifelman friends then constantly tweaking the build for the best balance in damage absorbtion and self mending to limit down-time.
Well the list could go on and on to include the search for the best DNA with my master BE to make the best pets for my CH ETC. The fact there was always someone in the city to yack too whenever I logged on and there was always something to do in regards to finding better resources, getting the perfect expirementation done yada yada yada.
That is no longer there and either am I.
I miss the fact that I would race home from work because I ALWAYS had something to do. I was NEVER bored. People around??? Do a guild hunting mission. No one on??? Check your harvesters. I swear to god I avoided content like the plague and I always was off somewhere or doing something.
There are only 10 types of people in this world, those that understand binary and those that don't
/sigh
I spent most of my 2 years hunting key animals with my Ranger and then updating the SWGcraft website for my server. I had three non-guild rangers that would always ask me if there was a good spawn somewhere. Most of the time I could tell them what planet, what spawn, and general location to spot wild spawns (I rarely used missions).
To be fair, you can still do that today. However, most of the crafters that I sold to had long since left, and I didn't like the combat enough to bother sticking with the game and finding new crafters.
Space
The Community
The fun
My Scythe
My FWG5 and DE-10
My ships... especially the YT-1300 and the Bellebub.
My pets
Actually palying a Star Wars game worth a damn.
Shayde - SWG (dead)
Proud member of the Cabal.
It sounds great, so great in fact, I pitty those who canceled
I don't like it when you say things. - A Vanguard fan who does too.
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MOSTLY, I miss the enjoyment of investing my time and energy into an MMORPG without the thought of getting bent over for it later. (That's not to say the time spent wasn't enjoyable but those that went through it ought to know what I mean.)
Most of all, I miss my friends and the overall sense of community.
The rest are pretty close and listed in no order:
My pets, I especially miss my first Greater Sludge Panther (Dartagnan) who I had from Sept. '03 until i quit the day after NGE. Along those same lines, I really miss taming new pets.
I miss my Nightsister Energy Lance, I worked so hard for it and felt such a sense of accomplishment when I got all the pieces.
I miss going to swgcraft.com and seeing what all new resources were spawning for my doc and shipwright proffs, and then goin to search for the best sights.
I miss crafting some of the best ship parts and doc buffs on my server, and establishing relationships with the people looking for the best (this was especially true with ships).
I miss dancing in the cantinas, just to cut up with everybody who was hanging out.
I miss collecting rare artifacts and decorating my houses and shops with them.
Hell, for that matter I miss running missions with a group on dant. or wherever, and cutting up with them. I had become slightly famous for my music trivia contests during hunts. Being fairly wealthy, and routinely drunk, I would offer nice little cash rewards to whoever could name the band to whatever song lyric popped in my head.
I miss helping noobs out, especially if they had a good attitude. I would take them hunting to level up, teach them what they needed to know, and usually give them a stake to get started with.
Oh, I shouldnt leave out my first and greatest Krayt FWG5. This was also in Aug. '03 and as far as I know one of the first on my server. At the time, this was considered one bad boy.
That brings up a whole different thing that i miss. The fact that you could distinguish yourself from the crowd by putting forth a little effort and learning about the intricacies of the game.
There is much more, but these are the basics...........I guess basically, I miss the whole game.
"The man who exchanges Liberty for Iconic classes is a fool deserving of neither." - Me and Ben Franklin
" want a sandbox game with player run cities and economy, mounts and vehicles large groups with an interdependency that is not based around combat levels, quests and hack and slash for loot that is better than a crafter can make. I want to build houses make furniture, clothing, foods and drinks and have shops to set up vendors in and sell my wares. I don’t want to see NPC’s selling goods or services or setting prices of what things should cost."
That sums it up pretty good to me. I hate levels above anything else, that's why I can't stand most of todays MMORPG's. A game focused around levels is a lame game. Very non flexible.
I liked ... LOVED the way of progression. 32 ish different professions where you could chose ANYTHING! Medic + Melee? Sure, politician and rifleman? With a taint of bounty hunter? Sure! Furniture crafter and engineer? Sure! As long as the skillpoints were enough you could have anything!
SWG had no real quests, but SWG was a game which didn't NEED them either! SWG was a game where you guide yoursel, not by quests, raids or levels.
Everything was based around your contacts in SWG. Since no vendors accepted anything, you had to be successul in what you did to get some money. The feeling of starting a crafting profession and being invited to a completely player built and run town, to get to know that the official guild hall would be your guild store is a UNBEATABLE feeling.
NO game today is even CLOSE to what SWG was before.
$OE lies list
http://www.rlmmo.com/viewtopic.php?t=424&start=0
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And I don't want to hear anything about "I don't believe in vampires" because *I* don't believe in vampires, but I believe in my own two eyes, and what *I* saw is ******* vampires! "
What I miss most is the 32 profession skill based system.
Then again I'm not sure you can say I "Miss" it since I wouldn't come back at this point even if they put that back in. I'm saving $263 a year by not paying for my SOE All Access Pass. Even Geico can't save me that much
For now I'm playing Guild Wars and UO and not paying any monthly fees for an MMORPG right now. None are worth the money. Guild Wars woke me up and made me realize that it offers almost everything I love about "modern" MMORPG's except the skill based advancement of UO.... and since none of them out there offer that there really isn't one worth paying for.
Currently Playing: Dungeons and Dragons Online.
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