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piquet
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When I bought SWG, I was very keen on playing an important part in the galactic civil war, but to my surprise and disappointment, I found out that there were no actual war going on. Also, when my friends and I tried to get into our roles as rebel soldiers, we planned an attack on some imperials at the emperor's retreat (NPCs and players), so we gathered around 15 rebel friends and stormed the location and killed every overt imperial we came across. To my surprise, people responded very negatively to our little event, called us all kinds of things (incl. ****ing campers, griefers - you name it). Then we decided that it could be fun to give the battlefields a try, they didn't really work and a few weeks after, they were disabled). We were running out of options, so we decided to give the theme parks a chance, but they were a joke! It was all "run from point A to point B and kill/deliver/bring back X", and in return, we were awarded a piece of clothing, some BROKEN(!?) equipment or food. How lame is that?
This was the drop that made me quit SWG. To me, the Star Wars universe is all about rebel vs. imperial, light vs. dark, good vs. evil, but that doesn't seem to be the case with SWG. I love Star Wars, but I have never been so disappointed about a game in my life. The way I see it, SOE just keeps adding new features (new dungeons, vehicles, player cities, mounts) instead of making the game what it should be, a battle of good vs. evil. Of course I understand that not everybody is looking for the same things in a game as I am, but I think most people will agree that the civil war should play a very big part of SWG(?).
I talked to a friend about resubscribing before our characters get deleted, but first I would like to know if the civil war plays a big part in the game now? I was pleasantly surprised when I read about the "Imperial Crackdown", but has this changed the game much? To me it sounds like they have just put in a few extra stormtroopers on every planet, and not actually done anything about the GCW. Also, are battlefields up and running again?
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Piq...
PVP....what PVP??
You guessed it mate. Crackdown was little more than having stormtroopers patrol certain cities and having battles periodically with npc rebels. They do stop you and if you are recognised as a rebel attacked or face fines sometimes.
It is fun to see it for the first few times...but thats all it adds to the game. PVP in SWG just pretty much the same as you left it....but with jedi owning now
Pan
Pan
Bah... just as I thought. It's sad to see such great potential wasted. Guess the game still isn't worth my time and money then
Thanks mate...
back in may the first few jedi fights at the starports were fun to watch but then it got where you always knew the out come
in the jedis defence the lightsabers looked cool till you saw them many places you went
I quit SWG about three or four months ago because of lack of content and lack of emphasis on the civil war. Have there been any improvements since then?
JTL is supposed to be focussing on the war more - other than that there is a 'war' patch in the planning (not sure what the timescale was though)
However its probably worth asking this question:
How were you expecting the war to appear in game?
It's gotten to the point now where its just complete bull****. Before SOE begins making an expansion, they need to improve every thing else. Now, when I say this... I mean it, every time they add a damn patch it just makes 3 or 4 more glitches pop up. Sometimes what they say is fixed in an update isn't even fixed!!! I think if they add an expansion now its just gonna make the game that much worse! The fact that they DELAYED publish 10 until AFTER the JTLS expansion made me even madder(not to mention a bunch of others who finally got jedi and won't be able to play until publish 10). So, until publish 10 there is no reason to play... And it won't suprise me if its not even worth it then...
The only hope, is for them to take the game off the shelves and remake the game. And no, there is no other... Because I doubt SOE is going to tighten their asses up anytime soon! It was fun at first, but now its just ridiculous!
Yor right the game has no content and is no fun to play any more. No war, No PvP, No Fun. Its sad they keep putting all these new and cool things in the gane and they ignore the fundamental problem "Content"
Now Im leaving the game after a year of paying and 6 months in beta.
Thanks
Jim
I see what you mean.
-In memory of Laura "Taera" Genender. Passed away on Aug/13/08-
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Beta tester supreme
While I agree there isn't much emphisis on the Civil War, I totally disagree with it being boring. The player based economy and the crafting system are second to none. I challenge you to find a better system in any game.
When the game came out the Dev's wanted players to devlope their own content, and if you spend some time on the message boards a lot of people have. We have recently had a blast on the naritus server with a smuggler/bounty hunter storyline. We've also done our own battles with RP sections to go along with. Sure it might require some work and some imagination but the pay off is termendous, heck you may even be lucky and others will do the thinking for you and all you have to do is show up.
The SWG community is awesome and you're only limiting yourself if you don't use it. Try getting involved in the community and you'll see how much more "Star Warsy" the game becomes.
Publish 10 has not been delayed. It will be coming out at the end of August. Publish 11, which is the beginning of the Combat and GCW revamps, is delayed until after JtL. Um, if you hadn't noticed, the devs love this game and want it to suceed, but SOE managment is making them get things out on time. They HAVE to get JtL out by the end of October now, because management said thats when its gonna be out. So they had to drop what they're doing and make sure it gets out in time, because SOE management can't be wrong.
Oh, and about the glitches. Would you rather some new content come out a month later with no glitches, or for it to come out now with 3 or 4 glitches? because most of the people whine when they have to wait for stuff, so the devs rush to get it out, and then whine when it doesn't work completely perfect. So they devs have to spend time which could be used to make more content and fix broken things, and they have to go fix the glitches in the game, all the while people are whining about a lack of content (I doubt these people have spent any time exploring the 10 different worlds), how things aren't fixed (because the devs were made to rush things) and how stuff isn't coming out fast enough (because we all know the devs are only working 1 hour a day and making millions and don't care about this game /sarcasm off).
If the devs didn't love this game, they would have quit for sure. The community is great, but only parts of it. The most vocal parts are whiny idiots who want everything now, and thinks the game sucks if it doesn't have it. There is more content on Tatooine (a blasted wasteland) then in most other MMOs. I could spend a month just exploring it and still not find everything. I've seen krayt dragons wandering the dune sea (western section of the world), I've run across a Tusken village, I've seen a smugglers' mining camp, I've seen 3 different oasis (one with an Imperial base). What kind of content do you want?
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Games Tried:
Everquest (not a power gamer)
Earth and Beyond (kinda fun, kinda boring)
Planetside (rather play Counter-Strike)
Lineage 2 (see Everquest above, plus too many PKers and Bots)
Guild Wars [E3 trial] (Not too bad from what I saw, nothing very new though)
Eve Online (somewhat fun, somewhat repetetive)
Waiting For: something good
Games Tried: SWTOR, Star Trek Online, EQ, EQ2, Earth and Beyond, Planetside, Lineage 2, Eve Online, WoW, City of Heroes, City of Villians, Auto Assault, Fallen Earth
Star Wars: Galaxies - Ibra Olasi (Valcyn Server) [Dead, screw you SOE]
I could hardly contain my excitement when i came across ben kenobi's house...oh and the escape pod.../sarcasm off.
They in no way compare to seeing Stonehenge appear through the mist in daoc....or the famous white horse carved out off the cliff...or hunting on salisbury plains or cornwall....or seeing the sky darken as you approach lyonesse with 30 ft telamon lining the path.
Maybe its just because i'm english and have visited these places in real life (except lyonesse) and am biased.
If only we could be sure of JTL only having 3 or 4 bugs/glitches.....i doubt many of us really believe that will be the case
Pan
Pan
Piquet,
I agree PvP in SWG has a way to go. AO currently has the BEST PvP game features out of every single MMORPG out. AO has a reason for players to PvP. For example landcontrol. Players can control parts of the game world by killing other players and guilds. SWG while in developement was suppose to have PvP for landcontrol (among the many things it took from AO and built on.)
Blame LucasArts more than SONY for SWG not having a reason for players to PvP. LucasArts claimed they do not want players interferring in the big picture aka if all the rebel players took over all the planets. Or the Imperial players took over all of Corellia, Naboo, etc... non of which happened in the Star Wars movies. I plan to come out of lurk mode on the official SWG forums and address this in detail.
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Let me just say.... depending on the server you play on PvP dont exsist....
on my server(Starsider) we pvp a lot... it probably has to be one of the most hardcore pvp server in the game but thats what i hear.... theres always pvp and theres always more overt imps then rebels... so if you wanted to play a rebel it wouldn't be hard to find an victim
swg still gots a lot of its stupid little bugs, you still get hate tells for doing stuff like attacking a theme park (but just ignore them its their own fault)
so if you want pvp and want to play again starsider is a viable choice... :P
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