Bought it. Am not opening it. Yet. Maybe July 4th. Reading through cheatbook. You know, it sucks you have to buy the sodding manual seperately.
System should survive nicely… and yep, requires 256 megs of ram… makes sense, Anarchy Online is what prompted me to upgrade my system to 512. Running a gig of DDR333 so…
Well, I shouldn’t see a problem.
Okay, so where we all meeting on? Starsider or Bloodfin, apparently. Kay. Starsider if it’s up. Still reading the manual.
No “This game rules” yet? My opinion drops even lower…
Well I installed, and just got done playing for about 9 hours. First impressions are that it’s pretty good. I mostly ran around like a moron trying everything, so I didn’t get much into the depth. I got a Twi’Lek Marksman on intrepid. But now hes a novice everything. I crafted a wind sensor, after surveying and digging up a bunch of steel. I exterminated various dens of newbie mobs. Iyt seems pretty cool, but nobody was being social or grouping yet, everybody was figuring out the interface, which is a little wierd, and there are somethings I still can’t figure out how to do(like moving a skill to the shortcut bar) The graphics are good, just what I expected, but it gets damn slow in the cities when lots of people are around(but that may be my barely over min-spec computer) My only real complaint is that the newbie missions require a hell of a lot of running.
Mm. I thought about picking it up, but wound up getting FreeLancer instead. Don’t think I’m missing much.
It rules.
I can’t quit playing.
Will report back next time they patch.
Okay, still reading manual. Tempted to make someone who makes droids.
Shortcut bars: Can be dragged to double with, hit shift+function to activate second row. Ctrl+tab shifts to second to fifth shortcut bar.
Hit ctrl+a to open the Command Browser, go to the proper tab, drag and drop.
Don’t neglect the OTHER tab… standing, kneeling, prone.
If you just hang out in a cantina or hospital you will SLOWLY get healed without PC intervention. Check your character sheet, ctrl+c, and check your battle fatigue. Cantina lowers it. Watching dancers lowers it more.
I can’t say for myself - no games for me for a while. But my firend just loves it. And he’s seems ot be immensely happy building things, so the game is not all Kill, Camp, Kill, Camp, like EQ.
Plus, they;ve finally done the right thing and made it so that
a) You aren’t locked into a class (well, you have them, but you can change them)
and
b) The economy is all player driven
Relwam Sesae on Starsider. Artisan. Wandering around, REALLY impressed by the customization abilities.
Anyone else out there? Bueller? Bueller? Heh.
I’m torn. I’ve read mostly bad reviews, but the good ones make it sound really good.
Finally got on Starsider - look me up. Bry-lin Y’per, novice scout, soon to be creature handler.
I love this game.
I started playing it yesterday. It’s actually not bad. It’s not the game the designers were first touting, but then that was way too over-ambitious to be realistic; it sounded like an eight-year-old describing his Perfect Computer Game, “There’ll be a million planets and you can build a house and play as a Wookie and you get lasers that go PSCHOO PSCHOO and kill stormtroopers or you can be a stormtrooper with death rays and do anything you want ever!” So far to me it seems more like what I thought EverQuest was going to be when I started playing that game, before I was disappointed. There’s a fully-developed, seamless world (no zones that I could tell) with cool monsters all around and quests that actually work.
My biggest complaint so far is that it seems really difficult to get started. I started two characters; one’s a scout/artisan and the other’s a marksman. I take on missions from mission terminals and get incapacitated just trying to get to the mission start location. On one of them so far, I managed to survive long enough to get to the scene of the event, and there was actually a pretty cool story in progress as far as I could tell. I’d been asked to pick up a root sample from some herbalist to deliver back to a doctor in the city so she could make medicine. I got to the waypoint to find a shoot-out in progress between a “master thief” and an “herbalist,” so I started shooting at the thief. And he killed me.
I guess the missions I’ve tried so far are just above my level, then. But the easier delivery missions just give money, not experience as far as I can tell. And most of the delivery missions I’ve seen require you to go off-planet, which I can’t afford yet. I’m kind of stumped how to proceed, but it says a lot about the game that I’m not frustrated with that; instead I’m compelled to go back and keep trying.
So in short: it seems to have a ton of potential, and I have to somewhat begrudgingly say that they did a pretty good job with the first release.
(And I’m “Salmon Grundee” on Corbantis.)
My missions on Corellia are a long distance away, but it’s mostly swimming from place to place. I’ve got some cash, and I’m going to start crafting soon.
I agree with their decision to save Space for the first expansion pack. Would have been too much too soon. This lets you get some characters in.
Well, I’m playing Lobob Pyebringer on Starsider and I’ve been trying the musician route. I have my Novice Musician (which means I progressed through Entertainer) skills, and right now I can truthfully say that Musician/Dancer/Entertainer skills are a time/money sink.
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Players don’t tip and even if they do it goes to the dancer who is whoring in the corner. I can put in a good 5 hour session of playing in the band, socializing with the patrons and still come out with less than 1k in tips. Part of the problem is that there is no way to automatically split tips with your group, so the odds that the occasional tipper will pick you out of the group is pretty small.
I know that the entertainer classes are more for social players than power players, but something needs to be done. I hope that as characters mature/get more cash, they will tip more. Even still, I know that some characters now have lots of cash and I still get 30 credit tips (at their level, they are likely making 3-5k / mission).
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I did select some other class skills and wandered around for a bit, and the outdoors sessions were really neat. I also found a treasure map on a critter and even though I know that treasure maps never produce anything of value, I’ll give it a shot anyways for the adventure. I think I’ll get a bigger blaster first though.
Also one more rant. They announced that there is a chance that the servers could be brought down daily for patches, and that server wide messages would let us know before hand. A couple of problems though. The first is that they never start patching before 6AM PST. Umm… why not 3AM PST like every other MMORPG out there? Also, they have not yet pre-announced a shutdown. Just splat you go Link Dead. They CSR’s in the chat room are supposed to be CUSTOMER SERVICE REPS yet they can’t tell us when the servers will be back up.
Oh my. I think I’ll stop talking before I damn this thread to the pit. Just let me sum up by saying that I do enjoy the game so far, despite the (temporary?) problems. I play in the Cantina in Coronet City, come see me and /tip 1000 
Good idea! Suggest it!
You guys talked me into it. I sent morelin out to get it and she managed to score the Collector’s Edition for 13 bucks. We had a couple trade-ins, but jesus, there’s a lot of nifty stuff in here. I hope the game rocks. I’ll be on Starsider, probably under Ryujin.
Update: Methinks I’m going to be a Scout/Artisan. Mmm.
From what I hear, this has been on every entertainers wish list all through Beta. The devs certainly know that there is a problem here, and I anticipate a response once they get the big bugs fixed.
Will you guys think less of me for jumping up and down excitedly during the intro? Especially when that STAR WARS logo appeared?
Good, I thought not.
Now if I could JUST get on StarSider…
Alright, Ryujin, Scout, Starstrider. Big purple dude with red eyes.