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Mysterious new "system" to be introduced with chapter 3
sickboy_ukuk
Member Posts: 26
From the weekly senator report
Finally, Shadowbrak astounds all with a draft post detailing a new system scheduled for Chapter 3 that looks amazing so far. The Senate discuss the pros and cons of such a system and provide a heads up on what the Devs might expect from the community in the way of feedback. Hopefully we can provide you more details on this very soon!!!
It's not the smuggler system. I already asked and got told no
BadgerSmaker wrote:
sickboy_ukuk wrote:
Smuggler system?
Nope.
So what could it be?
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For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
In an attempt to make SWG more iconic and starwarsy, it is probably a combat revamp of the NGE which itself was a revamp of a revamp.
To give the players what they want, SOE will probably reduce the 9 professions to 4 "Iconic" SW professions. They will be Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia , Chewbacca and R2D2.
After this, I am sure the SOE executives expect SWG to be a 8 million subscriber WoW slayer, because there are millions out there just waiting for an iconic version of SWG to be released. After all, SOE is a global leader in the online entertainment industry.
heads up on what the Devs might expect from the community in the way of
feedback.
What a joke ... all they can give them is a heads-up on the feedback of the Senate .... get out and discuss the ideas with the actual customers as a whole, SOE, the Senate provides you with a meaninglessly tiny statistical sample. Filtering their ideas through small, non-representative groups is how they painted themselves into this messy corner in the first place.
Well, sounds like the same old, same old SOE, lol
If it is a "a draft post detailing a new system scheduled for Chapter 3", then the concept and design must have been finalised already ?
So, the players can expect to have it all "revealed" soon, and then they can comment on it... but the Dev team have already decided what it will be, so as usual they might make a few minor tweaks before it is implemented.
But it should be well received by the players, because the senate says that it "looks amazing so far"
Some people thought the NGE was "amazing" as well, lol
This should be real fun...
"There's no star system Slave I can't reach, and there's no planet I can't find. There's nowhere in the Galaxy for you to run. Might as well give up now."
Boba Fett
Heads SOE wins, tails you lose.
I know people get mad at the concept of giving SOE more money around here, but it may just be worthwhile to resub for one month just to see how bad it is and come back here and report about it first hand. That way we get fair and balanced reporting as opposed to just Obraik and Pirrg (no offense guys). And I'll have a month of forum access (or at least till I get banned again) to harass SWGMOD0001.
If it's any good it will hurt saying so, but I would. Rest assured if it were bad I would blast it.
I realize I said I quit. I never said it was forever
The "vocal" senators were extremly excited. It was the best thing to happen to SWG. And they had a focus group to support the claim.
But what SOE will not understand is the following:
- The "combat queue" and "specials" and so on were not wrong
- What the game lacked for some people was not the UI
- The original design was sound, but entirely incomplete
- They have so far never ever in succesfully addressed the real issues
Star Wars Galaxies: The only MMO, where gameplay changes every 6-9 months. The only MMO, which has, in 3 years, never even attempted to address the real issues.
I realize I said I quit. I never said it was forever
See you in the dream..
The Fires from heaven, now as cold as ice. A rapid ascension tolls a heavy price.
In all honesty, it does not matter if a change is good or bad, if it changes existing gameplay in a significant manner and makes people change their daily routines. Half will like it, and half will hate it.
SOE is performing a great service to all MMORPG companies and prospective MMORPG companies. They are testing the limits of changing existing gameplay systems. How many major revamps does it take to reduce your playerbase to zero from a quarter million? We will soon know.
IMO, it's just too bad the martyr had to be Star Wars.
I realize I said I quit. I never said it was forever
Let me translate the PR:
SOMETHING NEW IN THE FUTURE! YOU MUST RESUBSCRIBE TO SEE IT!!!!!!!!!!
--When you resubscribe to SWG, an 18 yearold Stripper finds Jesus, gives up stripping, and moves with a rolex reverend to Hawaii.
--In MMORPG's l007 is the opiate of the masses.
--The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence!
--CCP could cut off an Eve player's fun bits, and that player would say that it was good CCP did that.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
No, I think preliminarliy it's actually pretty good. But what we saw needs some refinement and clarification prior to public consumption. I don't mean to play "I've got a secret" but since the cat is partially out I'll confirm this: It is a sweeping change to a key system.
Some will welcome it as an overdue fix to a significant and long-standing problem, some will begrudgingly accept it and move on, and some will invariably use it as yet one more excuse to throw a tantrum here and flame out over on the official boards.
No, I think preliminarliy it's actually pretty good. But what we saw needs some refinement and clarification prior to public consumption. I don't mean to play "I've got a secret" but since the cat is partially out I'll confirm this: It is a sweeping change to a key system.
Some will welcome it as an overdue fix to a significant and long-standing problem, some will begrudgingly accept it and move on, and some will invariably use it as yet one more excuse to throw a tantrum here and flame out over on the official boards.
So they already had a crafting change to begin with LMAO ?
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
Ahazi.Sikboy was for a long time my sidekick, until he passed me by and then became mentor. I miss the guy quite a bit. Good friend. He just disappeared one day..most likely to WoW. We were both in a very complicated situation with the same girl at the time of his disappearance, so I always worried he left because of that and that I was no longer held in high regard by him. That would have been regrettable.
Thanks for the answer
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I realize I said I quit. I never said it was forever
Some will welcome it as an overdue fix to a significant and long-standing problem, some will begrudgingly accept it and move on, and some will invariably use it as yet one more excuse to throw a tantrum here and flame out over on the official boards.
So...
Removal of levels and grind
Removal of crafter and entertainer
Removal of xp, money and skills
Linear, unlockable content
Instanced combat and quests
Oh, and, NGE was also said to need some time for refinement. So did CU. So did the collision system. So did the smuggler, ranger, squad leader and CH revamp. And the Jedi revamp. And more.
But GL and H5. I'm sure that both dozen players will be overjoyed with ANOTHER gameplay change.
"...it looks amazing so far..."
Oh god, we've heard that before.
You know what this means, don't you?
EVERYBODY RUN AWAY!!!!!
- Jode
Former SWG beta tester and player
New feature idea:
Add toilets to all buildings in SWG. Public toilets require a fee to use. When you bring up the radial menu for the toilet, you have a choice to take a simple dump, or craft. If you choose craft, then you must select 3 items from your inventory and eat them. After 1 minute, a new, shiny, iconic trinket will appear in the toilet!
Hey, at least it would be unique, instead of stealing ideas from other games, right? Then when somebody asks you where you got that new weapon, you can tell them you pulled it from your ass.
I realize I said I quit. I never said it was forever