The return of the potential:)

pingo · January 2005

Holy horse! Potential seems to be grasping up now... new radical changes are in work it seems.

They have posted their new armor overhouls system which gives more balanced pvp, more content for Armorsmiths, more role playing features and just more starwars feel.

Things are getting fixes faster than I ever recall before. Not since the very few weeks after release have I seen this many fixes. the chair lag bug(a classic ).. the mounting off speedbikes 20m away is gone too!

dramaticly increased entertainer mission payouts.. harvesting on mounts that is great! serious increase of krayt spawns:D gorax now having static spawns(and numerous others creatures) musician and dancer buff stacking, new ship, ap xp lowered to 300, xp required for politican gone, giving change for people to load when overt before being able to be attacked, new and updated voting election system and many UI tweaks.. Just in the last month.

I never thought I should say this, but wow. Things are actually happening.

I have played extensive amount of time in EQ2 and wow now but none have managed to capture me like SWG did.

I really miss the community, the people, the world, and it seems things are finally turning around.

The new staff is already giving pay offs and they now understand how little differences and fixes can make great joy.

Im SERIOUSLY thinking of coming back. Im really becoming optimistic. God knows how long they had worked on JTL in secret and not having a full team.

I really do wanna be a part of the future of this game.

Ralph Kosters original design and vision still holds true. It can still work, I think!!!!!

Erillion · January 2005

Amen to that.

Yeah, you get the feeling that things are moving again.

I have been killed on Test Center by stormtroopers for resisting arrest for carrying spice and illegal weapons. And IT FELT DARN GOOD !!!!!!!

No more faction farming off a 10 stormtrooper patrol by a lonely swordsman in composite armor. He will be cut to SHREDS now if he does not try to escape. THATS how the Imperial Crackdown has to feel - FEAR will keep the local systems in line, FEAR of this ... patch :-)

Have fun

Erillion

Scaris · January 2005

very good news for me since I finally just started playing. I came into it knowing what all was wrong with it, I have followed the game for awhile.

I am feeling rather excited about it, now if I could just quit my job and play more!

Warcriminal · January 2005

nice one. Glad to hear you are getting som e Dev Lub

can you provide me with a breakdown of things to come or a link please

Scaris · January 2005

I think your best source for whats going on is the official forum at www.starwarsgalaxies.com

admriker444 · January 2005

Hold for potential flames from my enemies....

Any changes coming for rangers ? That was always my favorite profession and really hated leaving it (great role playing prof) but it was just too borked and no fixes were coming.

Is 95% of the players still at the village trying to get jedi (or have they already mostly gotten it) ?

I still wont come back unless they reroll servers back to Oct. 2003, before doc buffs were added, before armor layers were added so good armor was 30% resists, before the jedi craze emptied towns and crafters stopped making goods, and before the credit duping flooded the market with billions and billions of credits...

It would take a lot more than fixing the chair slide bug to bring me back. Ive heard this song before from SOE, promise after promise but no follow-through

DarqueLord · January 2005

Originally posted by admriker444
Hold for potential flames from my enemies....
Any changes coming for rangers ? That was always my favorite profession and really hated leaving it (great role playing prof) but it was just too borked and no fixes were coming.
Is 95% of the players still at the village trying to get jedi (or have they already mostly gotten it) ?
I still wont come back unless they reroll servers back to Oct. 2003, before doc buffs were added, before armor layers were added so good armor was 30% resists, before the jedi craze emptied towns and crafters stopped making goods, and before the credit duping flooded the market with billions and billions of credits...
It would take a lot more than fixing the chair slide bug to bring me back. Ive heard this song before from SOE, promise after promise but no follow-through

Same here Admriker444. But the combat re-vamp has finallly entered the test centers. Doctor buffs cap out at 1500 now, instead of 3000. The armor has been nerfed down to something 50% resists at best. The faction armor will actually be worth buying again.

As for the credit dupers, and the Jedi... who knows..

Jodokai · January 2005

Doctor buffs were in at launch so they weren't added, they just weren't as extreme as they are now. I think this would be the biggest fix, to return things they way they should be.

zoey121 · January 2005

I am excited to see the upcoming changes as well.

Over the weekend some pals and i were running around Tatoonie, and ran accross a ongoing war between Jaw jaws and tuskins, We had a wonderful time seeing the unexpected "war" and fighting in the middle of it.

It was fast passed we saw an increase drop of items, loot and crystrals and had a ball during the event.

I also tried both of the other games, and neither captured me as swg did as well.

I think the ability to change skills, when bored, heal each other in groups, grouping with everyone in spite of there level, or ability, and all the things swg offers is just way above either of the other new games.

I love the fact i can do other things, besides combat craft, here and the housing is lots of fun too.

oh i saw lots of old friends return over the weekend, crowded starports minging cnet it was steeming with folks that was fun to see again as well

Johnark · January 2005

They even lowered the price on Jump to Lightspeed by 10$.

Well, at least in Canada... instead of 29.99$CAD, it's now 19.99$CAD.

Scaris · January 2005

really? same price still here for me, $29.00 at the moment.

pingo · January 2005

look at all the cool stuff in the last few days:D

Test Center

Version 0.111070

Entertainer, Dancer Musician

Increased Entertainer/Dancer/Musician wound healing

Spawns

We have added some new static spawns to Tatooine, Talus and Rori. Static means the spawn is not spawned by players or missions and the spawn area will respawn on its on. Get that hunting gear on and head out to find the new groups of NPCs that roam the galaxies.
- Added about 4 new static spawns to Tatooine
- Added about 10 new static spawns to Talus
- Added about 20 new static spawns to Rori

Space

Added about 20 new space missions in the Dathomir and Rori space zones.

Test Center

Version 0.110534

Inventory

Inventory has been increased to now hold 80 items

Structures

All Housing item limits have been changed. This will mean that small houses can now store 100 items for a Naboo small house, and 200 for the the other small and medium houses. Large houses and Guild Halls can now store 400 items each instead of being limited to 250 items each
Large houses should now take up 5 lots instead of 6.
Guild halls should now take up 5 lots instead of 7.
Fixed a problem that can cause items dropped into a structure to disappear after you leave the structure and re-enter the structure later.
You will now be able to interface with a structure from 30meters instead of 10 meters (no more having to be within touching distance of the structure factory in order to change its settings.
Fixed when you are too far from a structure to /name, /paymaint you get a message "You are too far from the terminal to purchase a ticket."

Profession Smuggler

Smugglers no longer have an artificial faction point cap when buying faction points. The cap is their actual point cap. Signing up with the faction will make a larger bribery option available, and rising in ranks will increase the cap as per normal factional progression.

Profession Combat Medic, Doctors and Medics

The total amount of time delay between Medic wound healing has been reduced to a third of the original delay.

Profession Entertainer / Dancer / Musician

The minimum time required to watch an Entertainer before having a mind buff applied has been reduced from 2 minutes to 1 minute.
It now takes half as long to apply an Entertainer mind buff.
It now takes a quarter of the time it used to take to heal Mind/Focus/Willpower wounds.

All Professions

Removed all apprentice XP requirements from all professions
Decreased Incapacitation Time by 50%

UI

Group leaders are now able to invite players from anywhere in the Galaxy.
Fixed a problem where selecting "No Title" for a character (found under Community - Character UI page) would not persist between sessions.
An option to display faction rank has been added to the Community - Character UI page. When enabled, the faction rank will be displayed above your character (just below the character name).
An option was added to turn off game object arrows on the radar
An option was added to turn off friendly NPCs from radar
All skills with three line names now appear correctly in skills window

Profession Artisan

Fixed the over brightening of the surveying effect

Space

The yacht, the yt1300, the Decimator, and the Nova Courier should not longer take up a lot space.

Combat

Wounded players can no longer migrate stats that would result in a sum total of 0 or less due to wounds causing permanent incapacitation

Server Stability

Improved client stability

Chat

Added a CNTRL + R command for replying to /tells. Reply currently has the issue of replying to the last person that sent you a message. So, if you /reply to someone and you receive a message in the middle of the response, your private message is sent to another player. This is now fixed by changing CTRL+R to send a tell the player who sent you the last message at the time you hit CTRL+R.

Japanese Localizations

/log will now save Japanese chat correctly
Chat messages can be in Japanese in macros!
IME candidate window now appears relative to the text being typed

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GREAT STUFF:D

DarqueLord · January 2005

Wow! Thats a bit scary.. all the changes they are making. Now if they only fix the professions and I will be very tempted to return to this game.

pingo · January 2005

Originally posted by DarqueLord

Wow! Thats a bit scary.. all the changes they are making. Now if they only fix the professions and I will be very tempted to return to this game.

Some have gotten great fixes:)

Does who where utterly broken and pointless before and have been fixed is;

-Droid Engineer(got tons of new useful droids for everyone, and even more when JTL came out)

-Image Designer(Got a purpose in the galaxy(to change peoples stats) and got their own salon in the worlds aswell as a hole new real time interface.

-Chef(got a hole fleshed out revamp with lots of new and useful foods).

-Jedi(while it can be discussed if the path to jedi and so on is cool, there is no denying that the skill tree has been fixed. this is of course not balance wise).

the Combat Upgrade will change all of these things. Balance everything. add new special attacks, weapons, armors, roles, content, and so on. Just look at these weapons which have laid in the game since publish 10;

RSF sword with Hack; http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=193943

Massasi sword; http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=193944

junti mace: http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=193945 / http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=193946

New carbines: http://www.kippa.org.uk/181136.jpg

Pikes; http://www.kippa.org.uk/181247.jpg

players with cyper arms and new guns; http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=105467&poll_id=0&warned=y

sawn off shot gun kind of weapon; http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=105462&poll_id=0&warned=y

and more guns;

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=105455&poll_id=0&warned=y

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=105456&poll_id=0&warned=y

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=105465&poll_id=0&warned=y

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=105463

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=105466

No MMO has ever done such a hugh rework in its systems before. SWG is writing history.. It already has. I think JTL is also the most ambitious expansion pack ever.

Scaris · January 2005

Dam, thats sweet. Is that all stuff currently in game or under development?

pingo · January 2005

Originally posted by Fadeus

Dam, thats sweet. Is that all stuff currently in game or under development?

Its in the files. You cant get them with games. These files where shown via hacks or something. When you go off line from the server, you can sort of use commands to get files of textures and models and stuff fourth.

Its almost like they made allot of stuff but never had time to include it within the game.

There are tons and tons and tons of sound files that was never been used in the game. 5 hours of music tracks at least from all the movies! aswell as sound files for all sorts of cool speeders! even an ewok glider, and droid sounds!

there is even faction sounds from an old imperial perk that makes an imperial player able to call on a lamba shuttle to get a lift to an imperial base. very cool:D

My guss is that allot of this stuff is being added to the game.

It does makes sense though. If the SWG team split in two after release, with half working on the expansion and the other half on the game, it was hard for them to create hugh updates. but now that JTL is out it seems that they got their hole team together again plus having got additional people:)

it really looks great so far! cant wait for more CU info

Scaris · January 2005

very interesting. Well I am a subscriber there now so I hope the combat balance is as good as Blackman said it was going to be.

Abemon · January 2005

but polearms sure look sweet

Scaris · January 2005

ya, especially that double blader the wookie was sporting.

radford · February 2005

I played for 2 years and stopped, abruptly, 2 months ago pretty much.

And i have to say, it is showing such promise, such possibility of return to its glory days, that i am on the verge of resubscribing. The new armors, the new Vet rewards, all the fixes, the ideas for the future, things we have ached for for so long are finally coming into fruition.

Its a great time to love this game, after going through the dark times it was experiencing lately, i can honestly say its looking like my favorite gaming experience once again.

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