I’m thinking I’ll start doing an ongoing review, like we did on my site with DAoC, but just some random stuff.
My Wookiee is amazing. I have 3 skills I need to train him in (Survey I, Musician I, Musical Healing I) with a fourth coming on strong (Rifle I) and that’s just after a couple hours of play tonight. See, I wanted to make my horn, so I went out on a hunt for metal. While I was out Surveying, I made a camp…which pumped up my Wilderness Survival. And then I found enough stuff to make my horn and some other good stuff, which pumped up some of my Crafting skills. And then I went and jammed in the Mos Eisley Cantina, which raised my 2 music skills. And I have no money to train them.
My point? It’s just amazing how SEAMLESS this game is. I played a lot of Dark Age of Camelot, and there were definite choices in what you had to do. Like if you decided to craft, you had to go to one of the cities, buy a TON of crafing stuff, and then you were stuck there for several hours. Whereas, in SWG, I can leave Mos Eisley, hunt small critters on the way out, craft as I rest, throw up a tent and survey, build stuff in between sampling, then tromp home, loaded with skill points and loot. It’s great!
It also amazes me how little combat I really do. In most MMORPGs, you HAVE to hunt at some point. And I do some. But it’s mostly potshots at the critters outside town to stock up on hides and bones before heading out into the field.
Some improvements needed:
Mishes need to give cash and experience. I think an Anarchy Online-style mission terminal would be perfect. Especially if it gave items.
There need to be a few NPC vendors selling basics. I couldn’t find a mineral surveying tool to save my life for most of the day. Wound up buying metal and making one myself.
Need more people. They need to beef up the servers. Quite a few “big” towns are empty except for NPCs.
Sorry to keep posting, but why not put together a SWG group for SDMBers at Yahoo (or something similar)? That way, we can all talk game stuff without keeping this thread alive. And a couple of us could post a link in our sig.
I’d go for a PA, too, if it’s feasible. But someone would inevitably wind up having to give up their characters, which would kinda suck.
hehehe, I was just planning on keeping this one alive until they gave us our own board here, GMRyujin.
I could throw up an SWG board on my EQ Guild’s web site. The guild is 99.99% dead, so it’s not used much at all. The message board is set up and pretty much unused at the moment. Or we could do Yahoo groups. Or we could just stay here. Doesn’t matter to me.
Oh, yea, that’s where I got the metal to make my Mineral Detector Thingie. But being an Artisan/Wookiee/Entertainer/Scout/Marksman, I want to make my own stuff as much as possible, y’see. I get experience for it and get to save my hard-earned credits.
damn. I’ve been anti-SWG for the longest time and now I read this thread…
looks out the window at the mall down a few blocks
No! Must resist…not enough time…or money…
I’m really tied up playing Shadowbane right now, but there’s a new patch coming out soon and I think if they screw this up, I’m moving to Star Wars Galaxies. Maybe I’ll see ya’ll there!
I have a 1.7 Ghz P4 with 512 Meg RAM and the game runs smooth as silk for me.
Well, it does now anyway. Originally it would not run at all; they are serious about your video card supporting Hardware Transform and Lighting; if you don’t have that you can’t get anywhere. I originally had an nVidia TNT2 card that came with my system and the game refused to load. I went out and picked up an ATI Radeon 9000 series and installed it and, believe me, it was worth it.
The game engine they are using is amazing. Check out some of these screenshots…
Undead - I have successfully avoided all MMORPGs since Island of Kesmai but this one sucked me in. To echo what others have been saying, it is truely amazing. It really does feel like being inside the Star Wars universe.
Dumb question. Anyone know how to use containers? I opened my Safe Deposit box at the bank and for the life of me can’t figure out how to put stuff in it. Clicking and dragging doesn’t seem to work, it just brings up the radial menu.
Second dumb question. Anyone know how to use those weapon powerups? I make em and sell em, but for the life of me can’t figure out how to put em on.
I’m using the FPS keymap, since I suspect that’ll make a difference.
And if you need anything made or are just bored and want to talk to a Wookiee, give Isacca on Scylla a message. Or if you understand Wookiee talk and just want to hear him sing “My Wookiee Love/Uh! Oh wee oh wee oh!” in the Cantina…
I just had another “I can’t believe I’m here” moment.
I’m in a public square in Corenet, Corellia, and there’s people walking back and forth, working on crafting, training each other, and trying to find groups to go out fighting. There’s a lavender colored Twi’lek woman there, in an off-white bikini kind of outfit, and white boots. She starts doing a slow, seductive dance, obviously working on her dancing skills. She’s near Master Dancer, so she looks good - really good. Her outfit & her moves were perfect!
In the background, there’s a bounty hunter shouting out Imperial propaganda - stuff from the movies, but in a Crazy Street Guy Prophesizing type of way. Stuff like “BEWARE THE BOUNTY HUNTERS! THE EMPIRE WILL BLESS THE BOUNTY HUNTERS AND WE WILL CRUSH THE REBELLION! REPENT! REPENT! THE EMPEROR IS FORGIVING!”
I was almost dizzy… I’ve never seen a game that felt quite so real.
You just open your inventory and drag the powerup on top of the target weapon. You can only have 1 powerup on a weapon at a time. But since they’re not very durable (at least the ones I make aren’t) they don’t last long enough for that to be a problem. I have a problem dragging inventory stuff around at times; the trigger to bring up the radial menu is too sensitive. I’m sure there’s an option on some screen somewhere that says how long you have to hold down to bring up the radial menu.
It’s funny what triggers the repressed SW gene in people. After my Bantha story, I was reading a review of the game on a gaming site. The reviewer was trying to be all objective and critical of the game, saying how there’s not much content, it’s more of a refinement of other MMORPGs instead of being a huge improvement, it’s only really appealing to SW fans, etc. But then you’d look at the screenshots with the article, and the reviewer’s chat window was full of stuff like “OMG it’s WEDGE!!!”
I’m all for grouping with fellow Dopers, fighting ignorance throughout the galaxy. (Based on some of the stuff I’ve read from players before they made it to my ignore list, it’s a losing battle.) There is no way that I found to mark yourself as an SDMB’er within the game. And I get the impression that we’re starting to get out of Cafe Society territory, so we’d need one of the boards that Athena or tanstaafl have suggested.
SolGrundy - Yeah, we’re getting a bit beyond Cafe Society. Should we move this over to MPSIMS for the time being?
E-Sabbath - The most amusing of those screenshots you linked to is the one with the guy standing directly in front of the thing shouting “Somebody get a screen shot!” From the looks of it, the last thing I would have been doing at that point is typing into my chat window! (Notice the damage to everyone’s HAM bars along the left of the screen; including those identified as “corpse”)
Athena - I know what you mean. My latest was last night. I had just started a new character on Starsider and was standing in front of the starport in Theed when one of the shuttles landed. A bunch of rebels pile out of it and start shouting anti-imperial slogans. Needless to say, a few moments later a few imperials started shouting back and after a few more blaster fire was flashing across the plaza.
I ducked behind a mission terminal until the fire stopped (and was pleased to hear someone shouting “No blasters! No blasters!”) The rebels apparently won and took off chasing the remaining imperials.
The thing is, it looked exactly like something that could have happened in the Star Wars universe. This isn’t just some random game with a Star Wars theme plastered onto it; it really feels like Star Wars.
Yea. I was hanging around some city, jamming (I find working on my Musician skill while waiting for the shuttle to be entertaining, and often get some tips!), and there were more and more rebels appearing.
And I had time to think “Uh oh, something bad’s gonna happen.”
And then these Imperials came running out of the desert. Half the people dove for cover (me included) while the Imperials and Rebels shot it out! It was beautiful. Lasers flying everywhere, people shouting…
And I’m not a huge Star Wars fan. I liked the first three movies, never read any of the books or anything…But geez, I love this game. It’s so much fun. And if it’s not, I can go do something else in the game that’s fun.