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Vets, Your best SWG memories
chinesewaterboy
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My best memories from SWG are, just about a month after the game came out, sitting in a camp outside the cave entrance to the tusken fortress waiting for people to regroup after my whole group got it's ass whipped trying to rush in. Also getting my first AT-ST yeah thats right puny rebels i was an imp, "that's Colonel Iawodai to you". Also getting my first set of 90% composite armor, and, and, damn too many good memories. Unlocking FS was awesome too, but then seeing how much of a grind it was to get any good as a jedi it wasn't so fun anymore haha.
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When I met my now wedded wife! We met in SWG and we're livin' together and happy now.
She was a human and I was a twi'lek, SWG means a lot to us still.
I am:
Aserhe - Twi'lek - Scylla Galaxy (swg) [canceled]
Exar - Dark Elf - Lucan D'lere (eq2) [canceled]
Narlash - Night Elf - Emerald Dream (wow) [Active]
This was the first game for me and my know wife played. Just the fun we had i wish i could get that back all other games we play just does not have that open free fun feel to it.
As mundane as it might seem, that relationship made the game fun and when the CU came along, we both parted ways and canceled our subs. I am playing again now. Whenever I log in and look at the various things that still remain in the house, I reminded of the fun times we had and the little stories that are attached to each.
Overly sentimental? Sure. But, I think that sort of sentiment/memory is where a lot of resentment over the changes has come from. For me, the changes took away a purely SWG friendship and took a lot of fun out of the game for me. I suppose that is a whole different thread to be had though.
-mklinic
"Do something right, no one remembers.
Do something wrong, no one forgets"
-from No One Remembers by In Strict Confidence
Over 12 hrs grind at Dragon Graveyard for pearls with my friends.Was fun day.
Kill a krayt with about 5 minutes to go before server down and ripped a set of exceptional tissues from it.
3 days later myself and Jer'Bin killed a elder and got a exceptional T-21 unfortunately a action fire dot but that made 700+ and long tick made strafe shot a killer.
Saw my bank account rocket from 5mil to 100+ that week.
But strangeley enough my absolute favourite memory is one day logging in with couple of guildies set up a camp while guildie logged alt dr dancer to come heal and buff us. Got buffed up but we where having such a laugh just sitting there and chatting that 12 hrs later we where still there.
"Camps are not fun" if thats the case why is that one of my favourite memories along with sitting in coronet cantina all day talking with Selandria and the other live ents
I started on Naboo, randomly selecting Moenia, and began at Moenia starport, which was right near the cantina. In those days Moenia was a PVP hotbed, a Rebel HQ that the Imperials often invaded. For whatever reason, fights often broke out on and around that bridge right across from the cantina.
So I got into the game, and tried learning the controls, and started walking around. It was a dark night. I saw shouts and people running around and then, blazing across my field of view, a few bright red threads of laser beams. And I heard that "cheooo cheooo" sound of the Star Wars lasers. And some guy in Imperial garb ran by chasing a rebel, shouting something about "Rebel scum." I did not know I could not be hit by the lasers so I said, "Oh crap!" and ducked into the nearest door I could find -- which was Moenia cantina. And in there I saw smugglers sitting at the table talking, and a wookiee with a big axe, and a group of twi'leks and rodians playing music and dancing. I used /listen and heard the strains of the old cantina song from the original SW movie. In the background, I heard the "cheooo cheooo" sounds still going on as the firefight continued.
I just sat back in my chair and said, "Wow... I feel like I am *inside* a Star Wars movie. This is so cool!"
I kept Moenia as my home base for about 2 months after that, eventually moving on to the less crowded Keren when I realized the less attended cantinas needed dancers... and then out to a player city when those came about. And I loved many of my hours in SWG. But for some reason that first few minutes sticks out as my fondest memory.
C
The pre-CU version of SWG was a true MMORPG -- you were encouraged, expected, to meet and socialize with lots of other gamers. Remember, back then, group size was twenty. That's right, two-zero, 20.
Very few MMOs today are like that. Most have group sizes of 6-8 max (including SWG). There is nothing "massively" multiplayer about any of them... they're all playable with a very small group of people, and you can ignore everyone else. SWG was not like that. Even in a huge guild you had to deal with other people on a daily basis.... which made the game much more social, much more "massively multiplayer" in its execution.
People used to ENJOY going to the cantina shooting the bull. That's what the post-Koster devs never got. No, not everyone enjoyed it, but lots of people did, and not only the dancers.
C
Valcyn server. Saturday Nights in Anchorhead was always a blast with my Rebel friends as we waited in the cantina for the inevitable Imperial attacks to begin. Maybe a short mission or two before they started, but for the most part just hanging in the cantina with 50 or more people was a great way to spend the night.
Upon the call "Here they come!!!" we would all rush out and gather near the shuttle-port, or on-top of the hill to get first crack at the enemy. All told, some nights there were at least 200 people there, all declared, battling it out. Sometimes we would go and raid Bestine after they attacked us, and was more the fun for it.
I really do miss the old SWG, and look fondly back on the days pre-cu/nge, and SWG will always have a place in my heart, even if I no longer play it.
When I discovered Luke's old Homestead. It was the first day of release and I ran straight there. This was before way points, speeders, anything.
Going to the site and looking at the tombstones as the suns set and the sad music started....that was truly increadible. Such a sad day when they butchered the game.
People who have to create conspiracy and hate threads to further a cause lacks in intellectual comprehension of diversity.
It's not the best, but it is one of the best memories I had: I was lucky enough to join a very large group of Rebels in raiding Theed(I met a random Wookie doctor in Moenia, and we became somewhat good friend until he left the game, and I lost contact with him. Anyway, his friend was gathering group of people to go on a city raid to Theed, and this Wookie doctor asked me if I want to join, and since I had never did any pvp, I said yes and joined the group. I remember that I was on my way to become a commando, I wasn't Master Commando yet, so I don't have enough skills, but it was still one of the most memorable time I had in SWG. 20 man group, killing imperials (and also getting kill). The battle went for like one hour, and it was just so much fun. It feels like I'm actually in Star Wars universe and I was doing my part for the Rebel Alliance.
Current MMO: FFXIV:ARR
Past MMO: Way too many (P2P and F2P)
Posting this here with the hopes that it doesn't get reported by some NGE fanboy.
Has anyone tried the SWGemu? I just went after god know how long to check up on their site and they seem to be up and running with a descent amount of stuff done.
I am using the installer now, hopefully I can try it out soon.
SWG RIP
moctodumegws
Can't WAIT!
One? No way...five yes! (all pre-nge)
This is going to sound funny to most of you but one of my favorties memories was getting thunder lizard spanked by a Jedi in a huge player made Bestine war. This Jedi came over the hill, I had only seen one Jedi before, and utterly slaughtered 20 of us in no time. We rezzed came back out reformed, got a strategy and hurt him once. Then he killed us 10 more times. Ya it was horrible but I started holo grinding right after. I loved having a Jedi, a real JEDI wiping the desert with us.
I loved walking around for weeks getting enough funds to get a swoop and some armor. When I got it...I earned it. It was satisfying.
I loved being on a multipassenger ship in battle and having the pilot freak and then scream OMG our ship is running fine, after I fixed it. After the battle he wigged out saying damn my wookie fixed my plasma leak mid battle and then got back in a turret! Ya that was sweet.
I remember Tuskens, a dev event, raiding Mos Eis and a skank bunch of us defending it with our blood.
I loved when Black Suns attacked the plaace in Theed. Another dev event. I had never nor have never had more fun in a game. Now it is gone.
Maybe someday I can have an experience half as good...BRING BACK PRE NGE!
How I miss this game
. I have a lot of good memories of this game but i have to say figuring out the 2 spawn points for the Gurk King was a great day. I became a millionaire from that! Also the day my buddies Barc got destroyed, i couldn't stop laughing at him lol. Damn, now i really want to play again.
Best SWG memory was probally when i started playing SWG , the funny feeling of being a total rookie and all the storyline that was in the game with doing all the quests for Jabba, Nym etc. ofc that was back in 2003-04.
And most of my buddies was playing it also and the people i met at that time in SWG, the community was better than any game till this day still.
Simply to hard to describe your best SWG memory since the game gave me so much back then.
List of SOE lies
My best moments were in the first few months when the enconomy wasnt ruined and interdependancy was still vibrant!
I was actually able to Role-Play my Smuggler!! I had a weaponsmith friend and would sell his wares. The best part I would make the deal in a cantina and then send the buyer some crazy remote co-ordinates to 'make the deal'!
Those early days were the only time my Smuggler actual felt like a Smuggler, it rocked!!
Hola on Ahazi
aka VolatileMan
i just remembered player made towns. Owning your own house and being able to setup and almost totally customize it, make it a shop, a warehouse a club or whatever. That was a great aspect of SWG, i spent alot of time searching for stuff to hang on the walls when i ran out of things to do in the game haha.
Well I got thousands of great memories, but I remember 3-4 weeks after launch, I was exploring Mos Eisley. I found the Lucky Despot cantina for the first time and walked in. The place was crowded with people talking to each other, must have been 20-30 people.
On Stage a huge black and white Wookiee with a grey hood sat and played a Omni box. He looked so lonley so I sent a /tell asking if I could join him and play some. I only had the novice skillbox in entertainer and could only play the slitherhorn. "Sure it would be great" he answered. So we started to play as a group.
At first it sounded horrible, we played diffrent flourishes all the time, but after little while we started to get used to each other and started to have a real jam session. After a half hour we were 5 members playing in the band and after a hour we got a full 10 member band playing and many dancers started to join to.
We played for at least 2 hours and at the end we were 20 members in the group, both musicians and dancers. It really sounded good and synchronized when we played and the Cantina was crowded with people dancing,cheering and clapping hands. At the very end of the show we all in the band and the dancers lined up and /bow to the audience and we recived standing ovations.
After I turned of the game I felt such happiness flowing through my body and I was shaking in my whole body. I never felt that moved by a game before. It all happened so spontaneous and if I just had strolled by the cantina I would have missed it. I love how this game and community used to be.
I got about 999 other memories to tell about, but the only thing they do is make me sad that its all gone, so I let it be.
The Second Day Vet
1. The night of the mount publish. I was an MCH, and put a saddle on my dewback, and rode through the streets of Doaba Guerfel. Man, that was great. Then going to Coronet and mass hysteria as people were bidding absurd sums for mounts. Then meeting up with the guildies and getting them set with carrion spats I had stored in one of my droids. Then we went baby hunting, looking for lesser dews. That was such a great night.
2. Crossing the Jundland Wastes with a guildie in August of 2003, we were heading to Wayfar from Anchorhead. I knew where the Lars Homestead was, he had no idea it was there. His reaction upon seeing it is burned into my mind...a great day.
3. Stumbling upon Jabba's palace in beta3, before there were POI waypoints in the datapad. Talking to Reelo Baruk for the first time, and getting the first quest in the old Jabba themepark. Looting a Tusken rifle off of one of the Tusken Cheif's flunkies.
CH, Jedi, Commando, Smuggler, BH, Scout, Doctor, Chef, BE...yeah, lots of SWG time invested.
Once a denizen of Ahazi
Later being doc was heaven
also being a jerk of Doc really improved my experiance, as i was the person who dedicated most of his ingame time at crafting and harvesting always making sure i got one of hte best resourse spawns and always been patient to collect lots of the resources and making sure i stiock buff prices well below the norm of the market, as i hate to make such provite where it isn't needed, would i see a doc buffing others for 10k you could count on it i be nearby with better stats for 8k, and if my stats where lower i mostly sold them at 50% of normal prices, yes some felt i was a jerk alright, but all i did and want out of a gmae is other to enjoy it aswell so i saw no reason why i should have brought up my prices as i never felt the need to become filthy rich in SWG but made that anyway cause i played it not to be greedy unlike some, which gave me lots of pleasure and yes i enjoyed seeing people come together waiting for hte buf docs on star ports. Or just login to a starport hookup with some people to basicly use SWG as a extension of msn, hell we even sometimes just met in cantina's and never set foot outside we just talked about stuff and looked at hte dancers and listen to the music. Always some entertainer who would grant you some nice buffs (back then you didn't need to pay 10k/20k for some nice buffs, no they where given to you when socializing.
Those day's never will come back again. Its like we see a junkie getting his first fix and he will never ever feel that same kick he felt the first time he shotup, same with out game, but we can play game in a different way, never forget the past but remember it as that can make a whole lot of a difference when aprouching a game from the past to try and play it differently and knowing its different then it use to be.
my best memories are huge wars!
if images are worth 1000 words
here is my 4000 word essay
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/136390
"..... the NGE isn't a joke?"
nah... probably setting up my buff-line in coronet.
1. Anchorhead being filled with people...entertainers playing as PvPers challenged each other, someone standing on the bridge spamming for a hunting group (many times that someone was me
), getting in a group to kill Mountain Squill, running into other groups out hunting and having lair so close you couldn't tell who the spawns belonged to, having people hand a better pistol to the "noob" who leveled, being trained by people in the group or training others, someone in the group saying "if a baby spawns don't kill it, I want it" then having the group waiting and watching to see if the CH would be successful, finding humor in some of the pets that would be sent to attack the spawns (some people used a level 1 animal to attack the spawns)
2. Some of the conversations that I was part of as an entertainer.
3. Leveling entertainers in Coro-lag cantina...many times the 1st group of 20 ents would be full unless you hit it at just the right moment, sometimes there'd be two full groups plus a third one starting, of course getting that 3rd one started would be a pain because as soon as people realized how small the group was they would drop out since more xp came from being in the maxed out groups. The master dance/music bots would be off to the side with their buff groups, other people would be sitting around getting healed or taking advantage of a place to afk for a few minutes, a few might also be hanging around roleplaying (ahhh....yes...reminds me of my first "ignore" wasn't in Coro-lag but it was in a cantina and the person had gotten annoying in his rping of a sloppy drunk)
4. Leveling CH, keeping an eye on the horizon for baby animals as one walked around, hoping a baby would pop from the lair, learning how to hit lairs so that if they baby was the first pop it wouldn't come out aggro, that moment of wondering whether or not the animal would tame, looking for a certain animal you wanted for a pet (whether in the wild or on vendors--such as my search for a woolamander)..it was odd going around Tat after CH was removed, seeing a cluster of cu pa, finding myself looking for a baby, and reminding myself they no longer existed
5. Needing 3 people to kill a Tusken outside the squill cave (don't remember what type...captain?), at least 1 person in the group had a completed template, we had to rotate taking heal breaks, finally the 3rd person gave up on it because it was taking so long, if I remember correctly we did finally kill the thing and I don't think any terrific loot came from it
6. Watching the original trio of Star Wars movies after I'd started playing SWG and noticing things in the movies I'd not paid as much attention to before or being able to think "I've been there, I know about that place" and having things in the game make more sense too (ex.: Luke Skywalkers comment about womp rats--I'd seen them, I knew what they looked like, I'd killed quite a few myself but I had not even made a connection between them and the movie because the statement had held no importance to me when I'd watched the movies before)
My first visit to Anchor head! That place used to be a hotbed of activity with some massive fights developing between Imperials and Rebels. I can remember going into the fight and although I died many times, I did manage to land the killing blow on a few!
The other memory was on first log in the sounds of the game. Hearing all the spacecraft traffic flying overhead and seeing all the real people. Very star warsy.
Also remember being caught in my first sandstorm! Although there were no game effects, I proceeded to pitch camp and ride the storm out. Its quite weird there I was sat in my camp in the middle of nowhere watching a storm go by and actually enjoying the whole ambience of it! Lol
On good ole Bugfin...
A) The Battle of Mos Exigo (aka The Battle of Tatooine). Complete and total spontaneous insanity the whole way through and it lasted well into the AM. I do believe -- to this day -- every player on the server was on Tatooine that night, turning it into one hell of a bloodbath. GOOD TIMES.
C) The First Server War. The first few days of the war marked some utterly insane battles, particularly at Nym's on Lok, Moenia Starport on Naboo. I was one of the first in the rush on Nym's, which was being blockaded by something like 40+ rebels. Best hour in the cloner EVER. Absolute chaos. I was black barred for a week IRL.
Also D) Having a pet CL13 Wryx for looks as a Smuggler, well before the CL10 nerf that made him uncallable because he was "too powerful." A CH friend caught, named, and gave him to me... and I really liked that thing. What a novelty item.
-- xpaladin
[MMOz]
AC1/2, AO, DAoC, EQ1/2, SoR, SWG, UO, WAR, WoW
Ahh the good ol' days. I have soooo many good memories of playing with friends, and people I met online, that I could probably write a book about all of it. But one does stick out in my mind, because it was damned hilarious.
My friends and I were playing on Sunrunner at the time. I was a Master Ranger/Master CH (I LOVED it), and I made a camp out in the middle of no where for all of us to rest. Our minds were very tired, and fatigued, so we had our talented musician play some tunes while we watched, and healed our wounds. Finally we were healed, and ready to go back out hunting. We noticed that there were many red dots that popped up on our minimaps, but figured we were safe enough inside my camp, since the ranger camps had the "laser" shield around it, right? Hah!
As we were sitting down around the fire inside the camp waiting for people to come back from a drink break and such, a gurreck (I believe it was, one of the best creatures to get, can't exactly remember the name, been soooo long) walks into the camp, not runs like he is going to attack or anything, just non-chalantly walks in, and walks up to my bothan smuggler friend who is sitting on a chair (without armor mind you at this point). The gurreck starts attacking, knocks my friend out, THEN deathblows him, took all of 2 seconds. He finally comes back to his computer, and just swears, "WTF!" on ventrilo. We couldn't even speak because all of us were laughing like crazy at watching this happen.
Ahh the good times, how we all miss them, and STILL talk about them, even after all these years. /sigh
EDIT: I also wanted to added something else. I loved how people would slide off of chairs randomly as they were sitting down, and be sitting in midair. One of my doctor friends slid all the way down a hill once, like 200m away from us ... we watched it happen to, she just slid out of the camp, down the hill, and all the way to bottom.