# 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:** 5
**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, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/81 "2003-07-06T21:10:28Z")
Yo. Guys, any help? Please. I’d like to know. (see last post) ---
**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, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/82 "2003-07-06T21:15:27Z")
I’m playing on Starsider til it stops working again, then I’ll switch over to Scylla. ---
**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, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/83 "2003-07-06T21:23:04Z")
\*\*WOULD ANYONE BE AS KIND AS TO LET ME KNOW IF THIS THING WORKS WELL ON 56K? \*\* thank you. ---
**Author:** ![joshmaker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@joshmaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joshmaker)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/84 "2003-07-06T21:36:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mercutio \ ***WOULD ANYONE BE AS KIND AS TO LET ME KNOW IF THIS THING WORKS WELL ON 56K?** Whooa. Take a deep breath and calm done buddy. Now I have never even played the game but a 30 second search on the official star wars galaxy webpage turned this up > [@](#): > > Do I need a broadband connection, or is my modem OK? > A 56k modem will allow you to play Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided just fine. Broadband connections are also supported, but not required. See? No big deal. Next time try a google search instead of freaking out. 🆒 ---
**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, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/85 "2003-07-06T21:41:56Z")
Josh, thank you very much. I only busted a seam because I asked twice and got the cold shoulder. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/86 "2003-07-07T00:09:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GMRyujin \* > **Will you guys think less of me for jumping up and down excitedly during the intro? Especially when that STAR WARS logo appeared?** Yeah, and not just for the obvious reasons. It seems to be a better MMORPG than a Star Wars game. It just feels like an RPG with a bunch of well-designed game systems (the skill system, the class system, the waypoint UI, etc.) that just happens to have a lot of familiar stuff from _Star Wars_. But when I was 9 and watching _The Empire Strikes Back_, I never pointed at the guy who told Han Solo that he couldn’t take a tauntaun out because it was too cold and he’d freeze to death and thought, “Someday I want to be _him_!” I wanted to be Han Solo. That’s not a criticism of _Galaxies_, either; it’s the nature of the game. To their credit, they realized that if everybody could be a Jedi or that everybody could be The Best Smuggler Pilot In the Galaxy, it’d get boring. So they found a way to make “Tauntaun Wrangler” fairly interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Spudo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Spudo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spudo)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/87 "2003-07-07T00:41:16Z")
I started playing it a few days ago and I’m really unimpressed. It’s got just about the least intuitive interface I’ve ever seen. The tradeskills and skill trees are cool, but it seems a lot like Anarchy Online, which I quit playing because it was so boring. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/88 "2003-07-07T03:35:00Z")
Suits me. I’d like a more AO-ish mission system, especially if it gave items and experience like AO, but it’s only been out a few days. Now, if Starsider would just stay up more than a minute… ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/89 "2003-07-07T03:43:29Z")
So you’ve all decided to hang out at my place? Just leave my beer alone and clean up after your wookies. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/90 "2003-07-07T04:12:11Z")
Alright, The Man himself has shown up. Nubians out of the pool! ---
**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 7, 2003, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/91 "2003-07-07T04:22:46Z")
Do Womp Rats count as Gophers? … Well, that’s it, isn’t it? The … Can’t use the word Nazi, can we? The Gopher Hunters! ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/92 "2003-07-07T04:38:41Z")
Well, I just started an Entertainer on Scylla… seeing as Starsider is, once again, down. As is Bloodfin. So far, I have: Br’la on Bloodfin Bry-lin on Starsider Tess on Scylla Feel free to say hi. ---
**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 7, 2003, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/93 "2003-07-07T05:32:14Z")
Woo! Esme just got out of a two hour jam session in the Cantina. And I got to sing Bill Murray’s Star Wars song! It was a good night. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/94 "2003-07-07T05:45:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Athena \* > \*\*Well, I just started an Entertainer on Scylla… seeing as Starsider is, once again, down. As is Bloodfin. So far, I have: > > Br’la on Bloodfin > Bry-lin on Starsider > Tess on Scylla > > Feel free to say hi. \*\* Is it just me, or are their East Coast servers having some serious issues? I’d make more characters, but I love my Starsider one and would hate to start over. ---
**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 7, 2003, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/95 "2003-07-07T05:46:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SolGrundy \* > \*\*But when I was 9 and watching _The Empire Strikes Back_, I never pointed at the guy who told Han Solo that he couldn’t take a tauntaun out because it was too cold and he’d freeze to death and thought, “Someday I want to be _him_!” I wanted to be Han Solo. > \*\* What does it say about me that I wanted to be a mechanic on the starfighters? Mmm. Y-Wings. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/96 "2003-07-07T06:26:39Z")
You know what impressed me most? I was cruising around Mos Eisley, doing some missions, and I heard this horrendous noise from my speakers. Like a wooshing sound. I checked my speakers. I checked Windows…nothing. And then the viewing distance got pretty small and I realized… It was a frickin’ SANDSTORM! I was blown away. Easily impressed, I know. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/97 "2003-07-07T07:22:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GMRyujin \* > **You know what impressed me most? I was cruising around Mos Eisley, doing some missions,** Sorry, but I can’t read this without thinking [“Cruisin’ Mos Espa, in my Delorean…”](http://www.mcchris.com/mp3s.html) from “Fett’s Vette.” And to further the hijack, “clean up after your wookies” is about the funniest damn thing I’ve read in a while… > [@](#): > > **Is it just me, or are their East Coast servers having some serious issues? I’d make more characters, but I love my Starsider one and would hate to start over.** …next to “I’m afraid the servers will be fully unoperational when your friends arrive.” ---
**Author:** ![Daoloth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Daoloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daoloth)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/98 "2003-07-07T07:34:44Z")
Well, since the majority of Doper reviews tend to say, “The game is good enough to keep playing,” and my friend that has it basically says, “It’s alright, has some system issues, but is very addictive,” I may just have to purchase this sucker. Now I just need a job… Anyway, I’ll update here if I do get it, in which case I’ll promptly take myself to Scylla to help form whatever Doper habitat is being construed. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/99 "2003-07-07T13:30:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SolGrundy \* > \*\*Sorry, but I can’t read this without thinking [“Cruisin’ Mos Espa, in my Delorean…”](http://www.mcchris.com/mp3s.html) from “Fett’s Vette.” > > And to further the hijack, “clean up after your wookies” is about the funniest damn thing I’ve read in a while… > …next to “I’m afraid the servers will be fully unoperational when your friends arrive.” \*\* _gains 2 points in Message Board Smartass_ I knew I took Entertainer for a reason… ---
**Author:** ![DuhMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@DuhMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DuhMan)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-gonna-play-star-wars-galaxies/184267/100 "2003-07-08T14:09:55Z")
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