# So who's gonna play Star Wars Galaxies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 25, 2003, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267 "2003-06-25T11:31:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Obvious\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Obvious\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obvious_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/61 "2003-07-06T04:23:09Z")
I’m **still** waiting to play ☹ For some reason none of the stores around here carry it yet. So I ordered it online from [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com). But because of super saver shipping and a technical error it still hasn’t been shipped yet. _sigh_ And I’ve been following this game for a good year too waiting to play! ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/62 "2003-07-06T04:32:28Z")
Eh, I made my character when I posted that, but I haven’t been able to log in with him yet. _sighs, waits_ ---
**Author:** ![Obvious\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Obvious\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obvious_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/63 "2003-07-06T04:37:19Z")
GMRyujin, I hear that Starstrider is a popular server and hard to get on. You might have better luck elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/64 "2003-07-06T04:41:19Z")
Apparently so, I got through character creation after about an hour’s waiting, but it still won’t connect. I’ve given up for the night, will try again tomorrow. Irony, Dopers spend their time on a slow, unreliable message board, then play games on slow, unreliable servers… ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/65 "2003-07-06T06:16:01Z")
Okay. The heck with Starstrider. People, we have only one clear and logical choice. Scylla. It screams us, doesn’t it? I’m on Tatooine. The Oasis. Esme. I may also bring a engineer over. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/66 "2003-07-06T06:21:36Z")
Tell me about it! Sign from God, that is. We could even form a guild (or whatever SWG calls em) called the Tatooine Blimp Appreciation Society. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/67 "2003-07-06T06:34:33Z")
Grary Dertat, Scout, Scylla. Now I hope I can connect. Woohoo, I’m in! And it didn’t even mess up my Winamp. Doing the tutorial to Nightwish is interesting. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/68 "2003-07-06T06:45:32Z")
Hey, you like Nightwish, too? Groovy. Okay. Meet at The Oasis. Tatooine, Scylla, 1956 -5321, or thereabouts. Small city in the making. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/69 "2003-07-06T06:50:53Z")
That’s 1956, -5321. The wrap makes it look funky. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/70 "2003-07-06T07:12:14Z")
I tried **E** , but my login server went down right after I read that. And I know maybe 3 people who’ve heard of Nightwish. They rule. (Ironically, I heard em watching movies from Dark Age of Camelot). ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/71 "2003-07-06T07:13:32Z")
Oh, and I’m down (or was) in Mos Eisley. Just like every other lame-o, I’m sure. Feel like I just fell off the turnip truck. ---
**Author:** ![theendisnear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a4c791/32.png) [@theendisnear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theendisnear)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/72 "2003-07-06T07:30:35Z")
Is the character customization as good as they say? I’ve been hearing people making their chars look exactly like themselves or celebrities and from the few pics of a Humphrey Bogart clone i saw it was very believable. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/73 "2003-07-06T12:36:09Z")
I’m still having a blast playing. I ended up a Marksman/scout/Artisan. I run out, shoot things, harvest their corpse, and build crap out of it. Playing with my first harvesters right now., But I can’t be very social. My poor slow ass computer makes me limit my town runs to nighttime when nobody is around. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/74 "2003-07-06T12:56:55Z")
FYI… if you want to get on Starsider, make a character in the morning. At night, it’s always full, but first thing in the morning it’s easy to get on. From what I’ve seen, once you get a character made, logging on isn’t an issue. Not sure what your problem was, GMRyujin… maybe they were patching? ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/75 "2003-07-06T16:07:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by theendisnear \* > \*\*Is the character customization as good as they say? I’ve been hearing people making their chars look exactly like themselves or celebrities and from the few pics of a Humphrey Bogart clone i saw it was very believable. \*\* Yea, it’s pretty good. You can control everything right down to the shape, width, and “bump” of the nose, for example. I was having fun just clicking Random and seeing what came up. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/76 "2003-07-06T16:09:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Athena \* > \*\*FYI… if you want to get on Starsider, make a character in the morning. At night, it’s always full, but first thing in the morning it’s easy to get on. > > From what I’ve seen, once you get a character made, logging on isn’t an issue. Not sure what your problem was, GMRyujin… maybe they were patching? \*\* No idea. I made the character and it said “Connecting to Galaxy”, and it’d do that for about ten minutes, and then it’d say “Connection to Galaxy timed out” or something like that. Whereas with Scylla, it connected right away. Maybe I’ll make a Wookiee if I can ever get on Starsider. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/77 "2003-07-06T16:37:06Z")
Alright, my Starsider toon is Eakai, another scout, and he’ll be in Mos Eisley. ---
**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/78 "2003-07-06T17:10:27Z")
Is this game any good via a 56k or should I just keep dreaming? ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/79 "2003-07-06T19:13:12Z")
Woohoo! Entertainer/Artisan/Scout/Marksman! I spent about an hour just playing in a cantina with a band! ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/80 "2003-07-06T20:07:52Z")
Which server? Waiting for you on Scylla. I got a whole _list_ of neat places to go. Want to go hunt down the Skywalker Ranch? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267.md?page=5)