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Reminiscing in the old times.
Forcan
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Ever since my friend ask me to re-install SWG onto my computer so I can help him to set up something, and seeing that post of the old skill-tree post, I have been walking down the memory lane, reminiscing the old times.
So I want to ask if anyone has good stories about the old times to share (I know I've seen posts where people shared before, but just want to see if there are more stories around.)
So I want to ask if anyone has good stories about the old times to share (I know I've seen posts where people shared before, but just want to see if there are more stories around.)
Current MMO: FFXIV:ARR
Past MMO: Way too many (P2P and F2P)
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Happiest Moment:
Obtaining my Master Bounty Hunter tag. Oy, the blisters I got fooking walking to my marks!
Memorable Moment:
My group was load-jacked coming into our city's shuttle port by a particular Jedi. Apparently, we had done some previous wrong to the fellow and this was payback. Bounty Hunters being the brighter of the species, we simply waited and sure enough said Jedi settled down for some easy macro-grinding on the city's guild hall roof top.
"Uh-oh boss, I thought this guild hall had restricted access", said the Jedi.
"Oh, was that your third death?", said the Bounty Hunters.
Ico
Oh, cruel fate, to be thusly boned. Ask not for whom the bone bones. It bones for thee.
loged on , Mos Eisley , clone troopers "move along", gun laser fight ,
-yea this is science fiction -
stumbled across a Cantina went in , woot , the theme Luke and Obi Wan heard as they walked in
-yea this is Star Wars -
At Starport
Someone searching a teacher for some skill.
Many , many folks sell and buy . Different kinds of nearly anything.
Others duelling , chatting, waiting, searching for teams.
OMG have no chance to read that many bubbles over their heads.
At Vendor :
Need a gun , saw many folks holding different kind of weapons in the hand but i love laser flashlight
CDEF the only one i can buy and wield , someone helped me with credits he showed me what what has best stats and what to fight too , well basically rats just outside city limits .
Nice finally something to start with in that big , complex world where i begun to be a small part .
Thanks for remember me that.
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$OE - eternal enemy of online gaming
-We finally WON !!!! 2011 $OE accepted that they have been fired 2005 by the playerbase and closed down ridiculous NGE !!
"There was suppression of speech and all kinds of things between disturbing and fascistic." Raph Koster (parted $OE)
I remember that at one time I was asked to join a group to trek to the Fort Tusken. It was a far and long trek, and let's just say that I died a few times before getting to Fort Tusken (and this was with a 20-man group. Very early in the game, and I was very weak still..)
I also remember that when I joined a guild that had set up the guild hall at the upper left corner of Rori, and the run there was.... let's just say that it was a ridiculous to run there a few times...
Current MMO: FFXIV:ARR
Past MMO: Way too many (P2P and F2P)
I remember back when i had no idea how to play the game,I picked scout/ranger, whatever they were called then.
I went lvled up a bit. Then i remember going in the middle of nowhere , setting up a camp and just relaxing. Soon following after that some human came and just started blasting some nearby bantha and i layed down to shoot at it and it killed me. I ended up at some hospital that i didnt know and bought a speeder( someone had given me like 12,000 credits before he cancelled his account) and i drove to a rebel camp where a IMP BH was killing people and i was like hey and hes like your not a rebel are you and i was like no. And he drove away. Then i stumbled upon the Tusken Camp and found everyone perched utop the hill it was on and i remember people hopping on swoops and riding away. It was soon after that, that a raid started to go on and i rememer standing in the middle of Fort Tusken and watching people beat the snot outta the tuskens. It was literally like being in Star Wars. I remember the day right before i logged and canceled account that my brother and i had gotten into a big fight, and before the fight i was supposed to meet a Wookie named Wubacca( name has been in my mind for such a long time) and right as i was about to trade with him( he was gonna give me a house deed) my brother switched the computer light off. I was so mad!
My most favoritest moment in all SWG time, was when my clan would planet hop. We would settle in to a small, anonymous area and settle. I remember one time in Tatooine, our ENTIRE guild had settled in the center of a crater, and i remember that one of my good friends that was a twilek(name doesnt come to mind) was talking to me about life and such. And it was that same day that i met my guildleaders who were jedi and i was in such awe that i was drawn to play the game for however long.
SWG will always be in my heart.
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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz
How i met 3 players that would become my best friends in swg.
On my first day on swg i quickly found out that i couldn't kill much without decent armor. I then got tired of dieing to birds and rats and started doing courier missions for very little credits. I then bought whatever armor pieces i could find on the bazar and went back to killing birds (trying at least). With pieces of various kind of armours and colors that did not match, i looked like a clown with a gun. Someone named Zerek noticed i was going down to those birds a lot and came by to offer a hand. Zerek was a master weaponsmith/commando and after i told him my story, he told me to follow him to his house just outside of Theed. He then hooked my up with armor,weapons and a lot of great advice, all at no cost. Zerek made my life in swg a lot easier and would go on to become a great friend and partner. He gave me my start in the swg world.
About a year later, i met 2 players that would become my very best friends in swg, Darvain and Krinee. I was a master doc/swordman back then and noticed someone asking for healing outside of the Theed cantina. Krinee was a dancer that liked to kill things, or at least try. She had some heavy wounds and since she was just starting out in swg, she didn't know how to heal them. I took care of those wounds for her and she then asked me if i could train her husband, Darvain, who was heeling in the med center to get xp. I went over there to help him out and little did i know that later on I, Darvain and Krinee would become a great team. Krinee was always up for anything and Darvain was an ambitious entrepreneur. We would go on to make A LOT of credits in swg and always had a good time no matter what we were doing. Those were my best days in swg.
So cheers to you guys, Zerek, Darvain and Krinee, will never forget you .
Rip SWG
The whole game was at a much slower pace back then. It felt like a very mature mmorpg and really heavy on the RP/social part. No need for "reflex of lightning". All you had to do was to live the greatest saga ever told...yours, and everything would be ok.
On my main character, I had my water farm. I had my house and a bunch of small water extractors on a nice spot on Tatooine. I worked hard to set up that farm, house by house over a couple of weeks time. The closest major city was a ~10 minute real time walk to. On the side of the farm I set up a little hobby workshop, were I used to build stuff. Almost everyday I went out to hunt with my Ranger friends, training on my pistol skills. That pistol come very handy when sometimes lairs poped up right in my farm.
2-3 times a week I went to the bigger citys to put up my water on the bazaar. While I was there I enjoyed the cantina(drooling at the entertainers) and healed up my wounds in the medical center, that I have got from the harsh enviroment during the last couple of days(sometimes almost my whole health bar was black).
To walk into a Cantina and find it full of people sitting and talking about Star Wars things was just awesome. Loved to stand and listing to the Droid Engineers trying to sell some droids to a customer, a Weaponsmith bragging about his/hers latest "uber" weapon(I remember when DL44 was "Uber"). Musicians gets together and plays as a big band. Dancers dancing all over the place. And all Entertainers talking to their customers and no Afk stuff. They are chatting about all between Space and ground. Some times "2 weeks in the bush" smelly Scout/Rangers or a real hard neck Bounty Hunter or a war worn Commando comes in to the cantina and tell amazing war/hunting stories. I could just sit in the Cantina for a whole day listening and consume SW feelings.
Medical Center was my next stop after the Cantina.I loved to sit in the MC get my wounds tended and listen to the Doctors talking to each other. All the people sitting there cooling down after a battle or a hunt. Always people saying stuff like "Thanks for the great group, see you tomorrow mate" or "thanks for a great night guys".
I always bought some power and food to bring with me out to my farm. There were always nice to have some food in case of a hunt. Sometimes my pistol broke and I had to buy another one. Sometime I bought some clothes or armor parts, just a simple kind of protection against the creatures that was around my farm. Talking to the merchants at the Bazaar was a lots of fun. My droids needed some repair work and I found a MDE in the crowded bazaar area and recognized him from a week earlier. He smiled back at me as he remember me. Things like that made everlasting impressions in me. It was a great community to play with. Cudos to all of you!
Those days I never forget,those were the true days of SWG. After the CU a little of this world was lost and after NGE it was all gone. A pretty weird ending to something that spelledbound thousands of players.
Rest in Peace Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided
(I got many many more memories and Impressions I could write about, but to be true, it brings back to much feelings and emotions and I dont want feel anymore sadness over the fact that this game never gonna come back.)
The Second Day Vet
rip SWG
MMO wish list:
-Changeable worlds
-Solid non level based game
-Sharks with lasers attached to their heads
some memories, i was on the server, Bria, played Nov. 2003-2005ish.
Gettng my first master - Creature handler, then going out in the "wilds' of coriella and catching a greater sludge panther. My two best animals in the world were my 2 panthers, milo and otis. RIP
opening the hologram we got as a xmas gift from SOE and having to master Dancer. then pikeman, then TKM..then silent..26 professions later and a little of the village and my Jedi was born.
The many great people I met along my journeys on bria whom I miss dearly..Alli-grrl, Valondra, (the guild VALK), Xytchei to name a few
Being able to just hang with people and talk for hours, instead of worrying about my next level, pvp fights in naboo, soloing the corvette with my tkm/doctor and getting rich doing so
I could go on and on but everytime i start a new game, I still think back to pre-cu swg (didn't even mind the CU) and feel a twinge of pain, wishing we could go back to that time and everyone I knew was still playing.
My first memories of Star Wars Galaxies,
Of rebels, imperials, wookies and (Bob)
I began in Mos Eisley with a maroj melon, a cdef pistol, and alot of excitement. I bumped into a few players here and there about town, and remembered always looking at that '6k speeder' on the bazaar thinking 'you will be mine!' (I didn't know it couldn't be purchased at the time as it was at max offer). One conversation led to another, I had attained a CDEF rifle and was tagging along with a bowcaster wookiee (Who I could now understand!) and a mysterious marksman.
Little did I know that I was now working for the empire, I had planned to become a bounty hunter, and that double mastery looked daunting) But after a good few hours of hunting, I was a recruit in his emporers army and half way up box four of rifle 3! (I was making record speed! Or so I thought)
Eventually I managed to get most of marksman done, and a bit of scout before I made it to anchorhead (In which I lagged so badly, it was always buzzing) were I befriended some people (I didn't know they were rebels at the time). I was introduced to the concept of Squill hunting, Missions S and SE closer that 1.5k. In large mobs of over 15, I'd be running squill missions and getting loads of xp for the next few days. It was only then that I found out that Anchorhead was indeed not just a small farming town, but a rebel stronghold I was shocked! And promptly stopped hanging out with them folks. I aquired a cu-pa from a friendly creature handler (One that I could use as a mount!)
Eventually I was brought into the Wookiee and marksmans guild, after many hours of convincing (pestering) them! The guild was based on Naboo, and I had saved up a little to manage to get me there, though me and my cu-pa had a huge run ahead of us (for our first time off tatoine). I was given a house and a plot of land as my own, and I was thrilled.
It was round about there I got a holo though, and found out creature handler was my 'path' I picked up a dewback and called him (Bob), he was now my friend. And off towards our adventures we went.
(Bob) was with me till 4 month ago, I reactivated my account briefly and he was a rarity. I sold him for 30 million credits. I regret abandoning him
I'll post more stories from my other characters
My funniest (2nd Day of release) moment had to be when I accidently dragged in a Mountain Squill into Mos Eisleys (hoping someone would help get this thing off me), it followed me all the way inside the cantina. There were alot of casualties that day in the Mos Eisleys Cantina, a few of us managed to get it outside where everyone unloaded on this Squill with there Cdef Weapons, we finally killed that Mountain Squill which took about 5 to 10 Minutes. (People were screaming, WHO BROUGHT THAT THING IN HERE)
There were so many casualties that day in Mos Eisleys on the Chilastra server. A few chilly vet players still remember that scenario. When we were all nooblets.
Best Battle time would have to be when we had probably about 40 Rebels raiding Theed. Us Rebels had 4 Jedi at the time plus a whole mess of Melee Stackers/Combat Medics w/ Rifleman. We went agaist about 9 Imperial Jedi plus there huge band of imp guilds. It was one crazy day in theed. We were working alongside 4 other Rebel guilds on Teamspeak. This lasted for about 1 hour. (Jedi were super uber during the Pre Pub 9 days).
Def Good times!
Beta Testing RoTW and the CU
Week 3 or so of RoTW Beta the CU is announced and it's rolled into the RoTW Beta server, we now get to test both Kash and the CU. SOE opens up testing from closed beta invite to basically an open invite, just sign up and you're in. A flood of new players hits the test server and combined with the expansion beta testers the RoTW server is running heavy Bria type load levels.
And what does everyone with Blue Frogs, a new combat system to test, with a throw away character, in a decay free invironment do?
PVP!
The factional street battles that went on were spectacular. There was hours long battles in the streets of the major cities like Theed, C-Net, Bestine, and Eisley where control of whole city or parts of it could switch hands from minute to minute. The fighting was anywhere from single players to large pick up groups and everything in between with everyone mixing it up. Everywhere you looked people were fighting in knock down drag out fights. Imps would just be finishing crushing resistance at the Starport when large groups of Rebs would be loading in at the Shuttle killing everything in the area. Scouts or those just killed would be reporting in, opposing groups would meet somewhere in the middle while spreading out trying to out flank the opposing forces. Fights would spill into the streets for blocks, Rebs wiping out the Imps on one street while the next street over the Imps were killing the last of the Rebs on their street.
The survivors of those fights or those back from the cloners would then continue the fight in a nonstop free for all. You and a few others of same faction would take off after a single opposing member only to run into more of the opp force and get wiped. Or you'd be losing a pitched battle when suddenly a group of your faction rolled in to save the day.
Sometimes survivors would try to assist their side in the nearest battle or attack the closest Red Dot, sometimes you'd just win a fight only to have a larger group of the opposite faction roll into and wipe your group out. Other times you'd form up with 1,2,3 survivors of other battles and the tactics and strategy were worked out in spatial because there wasn't time to reform and everyones group members were trying to work their way back from the cloners. Attack plans would be worked out on the spot in spatial, with the gameplan relayed back to everyones group members.
Member 2 from Imp group A: "I just got killed again come back from the cloner by a bunch of Rebs at the shuttle."
Spatial: Member 5 from Imp group A: "Rebs are forming up by the shuttle, lets take them out!"
Members from Imp groups A,B,C,D,E in group "Everyone head for the shuttle, a large group of Rebs forming up there."
Or it was the basic /shout "Lots of Imps just loaded at the starport" with a mad dash of both Imps and Rebs headed to the starport because everyone knew a larger battle was about to begin.
Because of things like that, small scale fights of 6 vs 8 or 4 vs 3 could explode into large scale warfare of 30 vs 40. Calls of a big ass battle would go out to other planets and even more people would show up bumping numbers even higher like 90 vs 75. C-Net was still the hotspot at that time so it had some of the biggest battles and there was times it would get over a 100 members on each factional side. It got so bad C-Net crashed a few times and all of Corellia would get wonky because of the server load. During peak hours it wasn't uncommon for there to be a continous 60+ members of each faction in C-Net fighting it out for hours until early morning.
It was so good that planetary battles would open up. Different factions controlling the main cities of Theed, Bestine, Eisley, and C-Net would make raids into opposing faction strongholds with cross planet raiding going on. Rebs holding cities would raid into Imperial contolled cities and vice versa. Imps would form up in Bestine to turn the tide at a fight in Theed, only to have Rebs blaze into the weakened Bestine and take over. It was a mess, you'd leave Theed because you just heard a big fight was going on in Eisley only to show up and it's over with. In the meantime you'd hear a good fight just started to break out in Theed after you left so now it's back to Theed. Other times it would be quite in Bestine so you'd fly to C-Net to see if there was any action going on only to load into a full scale riot. Ya just never knew what was going to happen in the next 5 minutes or what you'd find when you flew off to one of the 4 PVP hotspot cities.
It was total anarchy, and it was some of the most fun I've ever had in SWG.
I hope I was able to do those times the justice they deserve, I've done the real large 100 person raids and the hours long fights on the regular servers, but they couldn't hold a candle to the nonstop PVP action that was found on the RoTW/CU beta server. Everyone there came to test the new CU combat changes, and that was done through raw and unfiltered PVP for hours and weeks on end.
I remember Raif and I led a full group in search of a Krayt dragon early in the game. No one in our group had seen one before and weren't sure if we'd find one (most of us only had a couple bars in Marksmanship, I think). We started from Mos Entha at dusk, set up camp several times for impromptu bantha and dewback hunts for the scouts and artisans that needed the resources. Eventually, we stumbled upon a Krayt in some valley; I don't remember how much health it had, but I remember thinking the 20 of us didn't stand a chance. And sure enough, it walked up to each of us as we scrambled around us and handed us a quick one hit death. We didn't even scratch the thing and had a good laugh about it.
The two of us then formed a guild to patrol Bestine and Anchorhead as that was a hotspot back then. We kept our guild small, but we would own the cities with our AT-STs and Dark Troopers, hahaha.
I remember all of the hype when the first launcher pistols were used and when chitin was first coming out for 35k per suit. I could barely hold onto 10k and I remember having to save up to afford a vacation to Endor.
My favorite moment, however, was around a year and a half after the Krayt hunt. Our guild had evolved into a premier pvp guild (the best on the server, imho
Well one day, Remius, Hoob, and I were taking a stroll through Coronet when we heard that some SYN (probably the best Rebel pvp guild at the time; they killed us a lot) members just shuttled in. We headed out to the boarder of the city, and they seemed to know where we were, and the 3 of us met the 4 rebels for a showdown on the outskirts. I suppose this is more of a "you had to be there" story, but the fight went on for more than 10 minutes. Everyone's foods were wearing off, wounds were building up, and I was running on my emergency neutron pixie. The fight went back and forth, but we kept grinding on them, and eventually it got down to 3v3, 3v2, 3v1, and finally we were all standing on top of 4 dead rebels. As we were finishing their last man, a 5th SYN rode up and hopped of his swoop to help, but the poor guy took off when he realized he didn't have any backup; I got to chase him down and after a short skirmish I delivered the deathblow on the side of the river outside of Coronet. Then the three of us /sat next to his body next to the river to bask in our glory (and wait for our stomach) before we'd make our way back to the Coronet starport, expecting a bigger group to take us on.
Winning that one battle might have been my most satisfying moment in any game. I had some great times in SWG...
- Skin Rudenko (SWG, Naritus) (retired)
- Gideon Sto (GW) (retired)
- Vic (RF, Earth) (retired)
- vic.tz (BF2, CS:S)
Best thread I seen in a while.
"Hurray, finally a game where I can fulfill my lifelong dream of taking emotionally dead women and finding the most financially viable means to exploit their bodies with the ultimate goal of making them Hugh Hefner's personal furniture."
Started on Eclipse, the unofficial euro server at that time, selling Stry'kers weapons from my store just outside Anchorhead - taking part in massive pvp battles outside Anchorhead and between Bestine, which were almost daily. Having to run everywhere as there were no mounts of speeders.
I also remember Mimi....a total pain in the bum who would come into the cantina in Anchorhead and poison everyone, get killed, clone again and then wipe out everyone else in there.
Best Moment
discovering the game as it was so vast
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I wrote my memories in a Portuguese Game site back in 2003 when I had to order the game from the US.
It was published and it still remains in that site as at the time I think I was one of the first Portuguese to play the game.
Heres the link: http://pc.ptgamers.com/artigo.asp?id_artigo=18
Check the images that are part of the article as they show some stuff every older player will remember, and I belive most of you wont understand a word
Attack of the imps in Anchorhead, A massive Kimoglia Hunt in Lok, Packed cantina in Anchorhead, medical centers with activity... oh the memories
I was in Eclipse as it was the non-official Euro server.
I remember the first time I landed on Coronet, the place was just insane. People were everywhere. Talus had alot of people, but not on the scale that Corellia did. Then landing on Tatooine, Mos Espa would end up being my main stomping grounds for awhile. Teaming up with a bunch of guys infront of the star port and going to Fort Tusken. Which happened all the time! You could always find people wanting to go there. And you could always count on someone getting killed on the way there too. Walking there was a blast though, seemed like some wild adventure - and anytime we saw red on the radar we'd try to carefully avoid it, or take a vote and see if we could take them on. Or you'd always have a loose cannon in the group who would shoot at anything that moved.
It was alot of fun, alot of adventure around every corner. I remember doing missions solo just to earn some cash, and having some bloke come up to me and asking if we could team up and go hunting. Was extremely fun. I remember teaming up with a guy and doing all the Jabba missions (before any real rewards were given for doing the missions, and there was next to no pay out from Jabba for doing them!) But it was alot of fun, he and I spent one night and part of the next morning doing those missions. Going on Krayt dragon hunts was alot of fun. Made alot of great friends, some I still talk to online in some form or another.
TEFs
What can ya say, the TEF system kicked ass, it was an awesome risk/reward system. I don't know how many times I got jumped running missions out of the Imp Outpost in Bestine, killing random parties of Reb NPCs, or later when there was factional bases loaded with npcs. Like everyone, I lost some and I won some, but it was a blast not knowing if you'd get attacked or not. Watching the radar for a blue or red dot, trying to decide to run or fight, testing your skills against a player rather than mob AI.
Some of the best TEF fun was the C-Net starport. Dozens of players gathered inside waiting for shuttle, doc buffs, solo groups, forming groups or whatever and some Overt rolls in. Someone opens up on him, a couple of others attack him, and yet more still joining in after that until you had a small pitched battle going on in there sometimes.
LOL I remember more than a few occasions when I lost my fresh doc buffs after getting killed in a battle and I hadn't even had a chance to leave the starport yet. Back in line to get buffs reloaded and the Doc asking me "Hey didn't I just give you some buffs a few minutes ago?" and my embarrassed reply of "Uhhhh yeah, those were no good, I need some new ones" or fessing up I got killed in a few minutes. Those 10 minute shuttle times were a bitch for those with fresh buffs and a loyalty to your faction when you see a fellow faction member get jumped 3 to 1.
One of my favorite things to do was get a couple of friends together in case more than one Reb jumped me and I'd come into C-Net overt to see if we could get some action. If that didn't work I'd go stand by the ticket terminal like I was buying a ticket. All kinds of people just couldn't pass up the chance that I wasn't paying attention and attack me hoping to get the drop on me. It usually started out 1 vs 1 but it usually expanded as I'd get some Reb adds and my friends would jump in on them. We turned the starport into a warzone on many occasions doing that
It's still mystifying to this day why SOE took out TEFs to begin with, most players really liked it and I know that was one of the big reasons alot of players quit after the CU which is when they took out the TEF system.
Then theres a group of 20 of us all dressed in pink hotpants lined up prone across the top of a sand dune spying on a krayt (since armor was useless anyways) then kiting the thing across the sand dunes with shouts of "ticked off godzilla coming through" in case anyone else was in the area.
Laughing hysterically for hours at the group conversations while bol hunting on dant.
The first time seeing a jedi/bh one on one battle and working hard to resist the urge to jump in and help the jedi since he was my friend.
Realizing it was 4am and Id just spent the last 12 hours talking to people in the cantina.
Laughing at some of the weird and indecent proposals I would get as a cantina dancer (among them someone trying to hire me as a "private dancer" to live in his house on naboo, and another who wanted me to be a stripper for a friend of his who was having his bachelor party in game when he was getting married in RL).
And of course getting lost wandering around a player city to have one of the locals (a citizen of the city) come pull up on a rare mount (that I then proceeded to pet and hug to death it was so cute) and ask if I needed any help. Then to have them not only give me directions but clothes, armor, and weapons from their house, an introduction to some of their friends who were in town and some credits for the shuttle.
My first memories was starting out with my IRL friend on tatooine just outside mos eisley, It was absolutely amazing I had never before experienced such graphics or gameplay, starting out I was totally confused didnt know what to do or anything but just walking around the city seeing loads of other people conversing and having fun, seeing people dressed in really cool clothes or driving something really cool, I remember travelling my first time It felt like being in a actual airport, the whole placed looked massive and i was so confused I could barely stick with my friend (I got lost a few times and had to phone him to ask him where i was lol).
The first guild I joined was a crafters guild but also had some pvpers and stuff in it, was awesome the guild leader was really nice, at this point i was getting to know the game quite well. When I finally found my way round the game and became good at it the first proffesion I mastered was TK then I switched a pvp guild called GUN (grim underground network) was cool going on basebusts and stuff and having spies and just the excitement of waiting round the corner until all the patrols went pass the base so we could sneak in and blow it the hell up
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After that guild me and my IRL friend started one of our own NRA (new republic alliance) and became very succesful we had a nice city and everything I ended up becoming the politican (yeah sux, wasting my skill points :P) by this time I had mastered a few proffesions and became a carbineer and had really cool clothes lol, I had alot of friends ingame, some who i grew very close to, I was friends with people who was in guilds that my guild had wars with, was cool having to go miles away from cities just to speak to them and stuff.
The guild wars was so cool, not knowing when someone was gonna roll up into our city and start attacking it, but the best was going into there cities just me and my IRL friend, He was a CM/TKM and i was a rifleman/TKM we would take out like 10 - 15 guys before we went down jedis included lol, but yeah the game was just amazing, Just sitting in MOP dueling and chatting, going to cantina and chatting to the local entertainers who knew almost everyone lol, I even caught my self roleplaying alot of the time flirting with entertainers and stuff lol (twi'leks hawtttt lol).
What I also love was hearing that there was alot of imperials in there city having a gathering or a party or something and we would gather a few guys from our guild and go to there planet, on the way to there planet we would ride through other players cities and alot of players would stop us and ask us what the problem was, they was happy enough to tag along and we would end up picking up like 5 guys on the way, they would than tell there guild and we''de go pay suprise visits on the imperials and have a massive fight, coming out of the cloner with broken armor and still continue to fight getting as much DB's as possible lol!
That was all fun then I became a bounty hunter, threw away the rebel life and killed rebels and imps joined a bounty hunter guild and planned special operations on jedis, when and where to catch them and stuff, was so cool, but having the bad name wasnt all that lol, most of the doctors ended up refusing to buff me
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ahhh yeah the SWG life, Ah I also forgot to mention buying and designing stuff that was so cool as well, mixing and matching outfits and jewellery, designing your house so it looked just how it would at home (not everything ofc :P) going into other guilds, guild halls and cantinas and stuff and they would look amazing.
You will be missed SWG, may you forever remain in our hearts!
The hologrind was certainly...interesting. I never really got caught up in the hologrinding phase, I pretty much stuck with my master pistoleer/master commando (and I always loved some of the scout lines, harvesting and making camp kits, and terrain negotiation which was my all time favorite.) The cantina's became even more insane, with people grinding out that profession - which I didn't mind too much, because it was always easy to find entertainers to heal your BF. I could never resort to becoming an entertainer just to try and unlock Jedi though, so I just stuck to my guns and went about my own RP character experience, I was probably one of few that didn't care anything about being a Jedi (or yes..bounty hunter.)
So many fond memories... It's painful to think about. Star Wars Galaxies Pre-CU was the greatest game ever. I'm still sore when I think about it.
My fondest memory was when I was a mearly 0400 Brawler (1h) with my 4000 Marksman (Rifle) friend in some Imperial city on Corellia. We had just spent a few hours in Anchorhead becoming Rebels (barely made it to 200 points). Just hanging out in the city, trying to kill storm troopers (so cool when they would run into the cantina for you). We ran into 2 imperial kids just like us (not in any 2-nd tier proffesion) and we fought. It was so fun, afterwards we all sat in the cantina and hung out with the musicians and dancers.
God, I loved that game.
Going to the Cantia and just sit talking to people.
Im not sure what its called but there were a bunch of NPC enemies who invaded I think it was something with a C but anyways, at that time there was a lot of ppl in that city. WE all joined up and fought I want to say 100-150 NPCs
now i have never found another game like this game used to be
I really just miss the general atmosphere of the game. I played way more than I should have for the better part of two years, and it's almost sad / pathetic how attached I got to some elements of it.
Heck, Tattooine still feels like a second home.
I enjoyed my Jedi, but honestly that was just something to keep me around and talking to online friends. The majority of my memories from my pre-CU Jedi grind were of chatting with friends and guildies while I was out solo grinding on Endor.
The community was what made that game.