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Why are people so nice in this game?

pingopingo Member UncommonPosts: 608
in Star Wars Galaxies

Hehe. Of course SWG has some idiots but compared to ALL the other MMORPGs I have played, they are so few.

Why is this?

 

I have my own theory;

1)Loot - In many MMORPGs people fight over loot? Instead of working as a team people get mads at each other.. this is classic raid... In SWG the economy is player run. People are forced to buy products from each other. The world goes around.. crafters need materials, someone needs to get them so the crafters can get them and someone has to buy them and use them. And so it goes around - I belive this is a hugh factor in it!

2)Player cities - Is there any other MMORPGs that allows people to forge cities like SWG? I mean.. Building a city was for me, maybe the biggest achivement I have ever done in a game! I was so proud! It was not just getting some guys together and get a fancy guild tabard.. no! We actually made an uniqe city, unlike anyone on the other servers... with our own houses and structures with functions! cantinas where dancers and musicians could entertain, medical center where people could get healed, guild hall, city halls, car park and all the houses with vendors and stuff themselfs. I just felt that this tightned my guilds community more than any ever has in another game.. we created something persistent. It was just not a stupid bunch of houses made for stupid decoration. these could actually serve a function with usefull goals for many. I cant wait to see the possibilities with this when the GCW revamps gets in. even with the GCW changes it feels like it has a more war feel to it.

3)character customization - I love the small things. the extremely detailed character creation.. abillity to have a hugh chin, small eyes and a very strange deformed nose is so neat! I love all the abillities with cloth.. i love to always walk around and get the almost endless combinations of cloth! I love writing and looking in other peoples biography, and having a title/rank - it feels like an identity to me!

 

and this might sound strange to some but I just feel comfortable(as a combat dude) that I know there is tons of people who walk around the galaxy doing totally different stuff than I! Some day I might meet a bio engineer, trying to get DNA samples so he could make his mad experiments and create a bio engineered super rancor, which he was going to sell to a Wookie friendimage then I might meet a lonely Dancer twilek, standing half naked dancing... and talking for a bit, or dedicated crafters checking their harvesters, or a creature handler trying to get a large razor cat or a ranger looking for a certain kind of hide so he could give them to a chef friend and make some great food to sell... or maybe even a lonely soul doing knight trials to walk down the path of jedi, or maybe people trying to get better faction standing with the empire or rebel, or maybe a guy doing missions in space and trying to get new good parts for his spaceship.

When all is said and done, still two years later, SWGs scope and ambition still amazes me, but more is the community.

Am im the only one who feels this way? That people in SWG just generally are so nice? Almost every time I make a new character and goes to a new server I see people within minutes coming up to me, wanting to help me, give me money and stuff because they think im a newbie!

 

Comments

  • nolfnolf Member UncommonPosts: 869

    Its funny, I would have disagreed a year ago. The horrible community (at least on my server) is one of the major reasons I left the game. So many people were so upset about the game dismally failing their expectations made them NOT want to stop playing it, but play it and make everyone as miserable with the game that they were. I wasn't happy with the game myself, and dealing with the asshat effect made it unplayable.


    Today? I can't go into a cantina to get my mind wounds and battle fatigue healed, without lingering there for a half hour just talking with the passers by. Conversation strikes up everywhere, and I've only got 1 person on my ignore list after 2 months of play.

    Today, I agree that this game has one of the best communities I've ever come across in an MMORPG, and I have played many.

    I really hope that *insert game name here* will be the first game to ever live up to all of its pre-release promises, maintain a manageable hype level and have a clean release. Just don't expect me to hold my breath.

  • ErillionErillion Member EpicPosts: 10,329

    100 % agree

    A few facts the have helped "improve" the community:

    a) The "lets try it out" people have wandered off to new games. That includes large organized multi game guilds that have been an influence on the early months of SWG. That idiots with a 10 sec attention span have wandered off to new games (which are not the same as the first 2 groups).

    b) The MANY people totally fed up with the hologrind ... either left for good or have forgiven SWG for this foolishness and are attracted back to the game after the changes.

    c) The MANY people that burned themselves out with grinding ... out of their own foolishness ... who are now more relaxed about MMORPGs, have tried other games and have realized that for all its bugs SWG is a very good game compared to others.

    d) Most professional exploiters and campers and e-bay sellers  have moved on too other (for them) more profitable games like WoW.

    e) The long term players have entered a more relaxed phase of "I known I can be anything and half of it I already mastered" as compared to the previous " MUST GRIND, MUST MASTER" fever of the early days. So they can simply enjoy the game, have fun ... and that usually also means helping newbies.

    So to sum it up ... Time and competition have done a LOT OF GOOD for the game , quite contrary to most other games out there.

    Have fun

    Erillion

  • JadiaJadia Member Posts: 62

    I agree for the most part. Of course there's always a group of folks that enjoy griefing newbies or anyone for that matter...but I think that's with any game. By now I hope they've given up and maybe went on to grief in WoW ::::18::

    When I first started playing it was very overwhelming, cause I was such a clueless newbie. I have to say I did /who helper alot...and apart from one snot (why did she bother putting her helper tag up if she was gonna be rude?!) everyone was sooo kind and helpful.

    There really is a strong community in SWG that I haven't seen elsewhere, except maybe a bit in FFXI. I think another part of it (on top of what you said) is that well, if you're a jerk...it gets around fast. Word of mouth and the forums have been powerful in destroying some of the scammers and griefers I think.

    Anywho, that's my 2 cents :)

    -Jadia

  • ErillionErillion Member EpicPosts: 10,329

    Yeah .. for instance on Naritus (my home server) the more notorious scammers and griefers soon found out that

    a) they cannot enter most player shops anymore

    b) no one wants to buy anything from them

    c) most had them on their ignore list

    d) no docs wanted to buff them  (maybe that hurt the most :-)

    e) no guilds wanted them .... or they were kicked from the guilds they had joined.

    f) they have been mass reported to the CSRs .... with screenshots and chat logs

    g) those that had been scammed got their stuff replaced by CSR and the scammers lost it from their inventories

     

    Well .... it did not take long for these people to disappear.

     

    Have fun

    Erillion

  • Veiled_lightVeiled_light Member UncommonPosts: 855
    best social game ever
  • ChaxChax Member Posts: 11

    they are ? i havent noticed

    *ph33r*

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