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I started playing SWG then went to WOW when it came out.
What I love:
SWG: Crafting and harvesting resources, and the economy aspect. I liked that a lot could happen if you just ground stuff. Plus harvesting and running a 'business' was fun. Also loved all the different professions and their skill pts system.
WOW: Gamestyle and gameplay. The classes were fun and I liked levelling and grinding out quests.
So what should I try out next? If I level up a char and 'maybe' find a raid guild on WOW one more time I will cry.. I am currently installing and updating EQ2 as well speak. Is that a good one?
I want the gameplay of Wow with the crafting and economy aspect of SWG.
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I am not going to pretend I know alot about MMORPGs. But I do know is that if you wait untill 2008, then you will have A LOT better choices than the ones now. Like AoC, WAR, PoTBS, etc. I'd say do your best to stick it out until one of those comes out. That is where your new addiction lies my son...
I am currently on the AoC forumns since July or so. Hoping to get in on the Beta but it doesn't look overly promising. What is WAR?
Edit: Is LOTROnline any good at all?
Warhammer Online. The new Fantasy MMORPG comming out Q2 2008. The website is www.warhammeronline.com
Edit: LoTRO is pretty good. I played it for a while. You loose the Lord of the Rings feelings at a higher level. But the graphics are amazing. The gameplay is alright. Like CoH or CoV. Where you click spell 1, spell 2 becomes usalble, and if you use that than spell 5 becomes available. It occupied my time for abou 4 weeks.
i gotta say i love eq2...
the harvesting is interesting at times... (gotta watch those mobs!) and the crafting can be kinda demanding but you can make money if your looking for work..
i actually love the killing... its similar to wow but i like it better
but im an eq2 junkie...
it's a visually beautiful game. but absolutely every other thing about it is bland.
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Tried playing EQ2. Game keeps crashing, video card failure. Not sure if that is because of DirectX or what... but don't think I will be able to sample it too indepth.
Tried out Eve... it seems very complex and not very fast paced.
Take it easy man...
SWGEmu seems to be taking off now that it is open-sourced. Be interesting to see when that server gets up and running. Pre-CU was a lot of fun in SWG.
The PVP isn't balanced at all and I feel sorry for both sides a lot of the time, but the PVE is really fun for a while, but they added reputation grinds that are WORSE than the old ones from WoW where you need to gather in the TENS of thousands of items just to reach the levels, and the rewards are generally terrible.
But if you're looking for something to do "in the meantime" while you wait for things like Age of Conan or something else, I'd recommend it. Once you hit level 10, you can dive in and play as a monster so if you ever get tired of levelling you can always go kill players to release some frustration.
Have you returned to SWG at all recently?
No I havn't. I havn't played it in about a year. I tried to get back into it after the CU and things just seemed weird so I left it. I was a huge fan of pre-JTLS xpac playing. I was a TKM/partial medic/partial harvester so I would go around checking on my ore harvesters and skinning beasts to sell materials.
Could be worth trying again, there is a vet trial going on at the moment where you get 21 days of free play on your old characters. You can check if you got it activated on your account by just logging into the SWG Launchpad.
While the profession system has changed (no more skill boxes), the crafting mechanics of the game are mostly unchanged, including resource gathering and its importance.
I was considering that. I miss being able to log in on a Saturday morning and just play all day into the night if I felt like it. THe other games always require a break it seems, was never that way with SWG.
Still remember the first time I walked between the two major cities on my starting planet (don't even remember the name now - a moon of Corellia I think it was). Was just so fun to be out exploring things.
Here is a better game. Strip down naked, paint your bod with peanutbutter and run into your local police station and scream to the top of your lungs..... Just like the bird whistle on the flinstones, when fred clocks out.
That would be Talus
I started in Moenia on Naboo and walked to Theed, well before mounts or vehicles were introduced 
There's actually more reason to go out and explore the planets now, with the recent Collections system. Some of the stuff you need for certain collections are many kilometers from the nearest Starport/Shuttleport. While it's a 4 year, nearly 5 year old game, turning the graphics up on these explorations can spur on some really great screenshot moments
Peanutbutter... genius! I tried it once with mayonaise but it didn't go over too well. Peanutbutter may be the way to go though.... thx for that tip.
Obraik.... so what is the game like now? Do you have 'x' classes to start from now, like BH, Medic, TKM,etc. or does everyone just go Jedi? Also what did they change about the crafting professions?
You have 12 professions to choose from (including the 4 crafting professions), Medic, BH, Jedi, Commando, Smuggler, Officer, Spy, Entertainer, Munitions crafter, Structures crafter, Engineer crafter and Domestics crafter. Each profession has a set of expertise trees which allows you to customise your characters profession to a way you like. Each profession has different weapon specialities available within their expertise trees. For TKM, Smuggler or Entertainer would probably be your closest bet, with Smuggler being my recommendation..
While Jedi is a starting profession now, I would say that the % of the population that is Jedi is lower now then it was pre-nge, but it's still a popular profession for obvious reasons. Unlike back then, all professions are relatively viable now.
Is there still a profession that lets you skin animals for hides/meat for crafting?
There's no profession that specialises in it, any profession can do it. You can improve it by buying food from a Chef and a harvestor droid from a Droid Engineer. Infact, the droid can automate the whole process and skin the stuff as you kill it - unless you prefer to get your hands dirty :P
Cool. I will have to look into that. Now if I can only remember my account info for SWG.....