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Hey what happend to the collision system with real jumping and capitol ships ?
TheChronic
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Smedley said 2 years ago:
"we will add a new collision system with real jumping" and they said they were goin to introduce capitol ships...
well that was over 2 years ago, shortly after the NGE
so what happend ? lol
"You must be either retarded or a fanboi..."
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they realized too late after the NGE was installed that in order to get Collision detection and real jumping would require an entirely new graphics engine. My guess is that they couldnt figure how to do that without starting from scratch or it was just too expensive after losing 200k+ subs. As for the capitol ship that is probably just a lack of money / devs. My question is how can you commit to a massive change like the NGE and not know in advance you wouldnt be able to pull off collision detection? How retarded is that?
You could also ask what happened to the Lambda Shuttle, that was to be the "next" player ship... They only had to compete the interior...
2-3 years ago and 2-3 ships later..and that ship aint done yet... Despite thast it's more star warsy than any ship they have added since then... and the NGE was supposed to make the game more star warsy..
I could explain what happened but it would require lots of charts and graphs. Suffice to say, when Smedley is reincarnated, he'll come back as a used car salesman.
the capitol ships got nerfed to corvets lol..............................................
"toooooo haaaaaarddd"
What happened to the phantasm and capitals in Planetside?
maybe they just lied. SOE has been known to lie to keep gamers paying.
Oh, wait...
CH, Jedi, Commando, Smuggler, BH, Scout, Doctor, Chef, BE...yeah, lots of SWG time invested.
Once a denizen of Ahazi
The new collision system left at the same time the players did. The idea was that all the new income, from all the new players, would fund rebuilding the game engine for a FPS style collision system. For some reason, most of the subscribers canceled, and the new players never showed up. There has been a lot of speculation of why the vast majority of the playerbase left, and why very few new players replaced them. I think it is just that everyone decided they don't really like Star Wars. It isn't like there was a catastrophic change to the core game that the folks at SOE refuse to rectify that makes the game the absolute worst MMO currently on the market.
Capitol ships were nixed by LEC, primarily because they were extremely pissed off at the folks at SOE for some reason, around the time all those players left. I think it had something to do with the Smed's shoes.
capita ships were NEVER to be in the game ever.
There was a movie shown at a FF that was designed to show off the abilities of the new group of artists they had just hired that showed a tie landing in a SD hangar. And the guy said "how would you like to see that in the game!" meaning the detailed updated graphics not the cap ship.
Everyone who was NOT there assumed that video meant capital ships were coming anyway... but it wasnt.
SOE even clarified it days later saying that the average space area could not HOLD a capital ship , the ONLY way to put in a capital ship was to completely rework ALL of JTL and they were not going to do that ever.
the cap ship isnt a lie SOE told players its a lie the players told each other.
there is enough real reasons to be mad at SOE without making stuff up at this point.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
they will be done right after the ranger revamp and the fix of the FRS system
oh wait never mind
Hmm.. I'm no game developer/coder, but how hard is it to greate empty space
Hmm.. I'm no game developer/coder, but how hard is it to greate empty space
Not that hard....
Funny, I remember at the time them explaining that it was all done with in game systems, and that it would be done. They spoke of guild owned corvettes, etc.
But I just happened to play the game back then. That demo was one of the things they stuck out there to placate the CU riots at the time.
As for art capability... Why has it gotten worse than it was pre CU? The terrain, planets, etc... Artwork is worse today in the game than it was in 2004.
The current dev team can't even handle something as simple as making a workable user interface. What makes you think they can handle implementing a collision system?
I shudder to think at all the bugs that would be introduced if SOE were to try and add collision to SWG.
If you're highlighting graphics capabilities, use something that is or actually will be in the game. Either SOE was being deceptive and manipulative again, or they don't know how to communicate. Either way, people were misled by the demonstration. Based on the track record, it's no surprise that people think it was intentional.
It wasn't actually capitol ships they were saying they were going to add. It was missions you would get by docking with a Star Destroyer to capture a corvette and take it back to the Star Destroyer. The Smed actually posted on the OBoard, as usual to try and calm the masses who were pissed off by the NGE, and listed "How cool would it be for guilds to have their own Star Destroyer" as one of the bullet points of the fantastic new additions the game was going to receive, if the players were just patient for the six months it was going to take.
The guilds having Star Destroyers thing was nixed by LEC, due to not fitting into canon, before any effort was expended to determine if they could logistically be added to the game. The corvette hijacking missions were nixed by LEC due to being extremely pissed off that more than half the player population quit due to the NGE. They were intended to be part of the same expansion the Restuss event and Gunboats (they were mostly done, aside from the interior graphics, for about a year and a half) were supposed to be part of (it was based around the GCW).
You'd probably see blobs of mob groups all collided together jumping OVER buildings to get to you.
Yes, exactly. This is yet a second example of Star Destroyers being dangled as carrots by SOE to try to keep people playing and paying. The first was the demonstration, the second was Smed's post on the official forums. I remember reading it myself when it was first posted. The plain fact of the matter is, what they indicated would happen simply did not.
Also, someone posted that players told themselves the "star destroyer lie," SOE did not. That's just another example of twisted mind games being used to justify SOE's lying to people yet again.
Lying to people, screwing them over, then trying to make them think it never happened or that they wanted it--seems like the shared philosophy of SOE and some of their supporters. Very disturbing.
If I had anything to do with the StarWars intellectual property, I would not leave it in the hands of people that drag it through refuse like this, over and over and over again.
Yes, exactly. This is yet a second example of Star Destroyers being dangled as carrots by SOE to try to keep people playing and paying. The first was the demonstration, the second was Smed's post on the official forums. I remember reading it myself when it was first posted. The plain fact of the matter is, what they indicated would happen simply did not.
Also, someone posted that players told themselves the "star destroyer lie," SOE did not. That's just another example of twisted mind games being used to justify SOE's lying to people yet again.
Lying to people, screwing them over, then trying to make them think it never happened or that they wanted it--seems like the shared philosophy of SOE and some of their supporters. Very disturbing.
If I had anything to do with the StarWars intellectual property, I would not leave it in the hands of people that drag it through refuse like this, over and over and over again.
smed him self dangled that carrot........................................
and well anything he says cant be a lie can it ROFL lol ................................................................
John "The CU is here to stay" Smedley is a congenital liar.
What's so great about "real jumping"?
CS much?
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They lost too much money on the NGE and now they don't have the budget for a collection system.
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the new devs blew the budget on hot pockets and zima
plus you can always tell when smed is lieing because his mouth is moving