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• • So I went back -again-.

  • Honestly I couldn't tell you. When I played before Starsider was home to eastern/central US time zone players, role players, and pilots. I only saw english speaking players there, but I have only been there 4 days. There maybe European players that playing in my off times since I am in the United States.

     -Dailus

  • Posted: 11/20/08 8:53 AM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • So I went back -again-.

  • So I logged back into SWG again under the latest vet trial. I haven't been a subscriber in 3 years and this is only the second vet trial I've used with any real playing time since my cancelation. My first vet trial after the NGE was played only a few hours before I left dejected and angry. I come to these forums often. I see the anger over the NGE still plain to see.

    Well thanks to bioware I am -really-  wanting to play in the Star Wars universe again so logging on with as open of a mind as I could must this is what I found...

     - Starsider is not dead. Infact the last three days it has seemed rather busy. The community was helpful and welcoming. They awnsered my noobish questions without sarcasim and to the best of their ability.

    - SWG still has so many more options for a role player than most any game out there. You that do not role play may not understand, but it means a lot to offer a wide varity of emotes, sitable chairs, character biographys, and most importantly a cantina full (yes I said full) of people to role play with.  I haven't left Mos Eisley yet, but the cantina there was full of characters ranging from level 6-90.

    - Jedi, yeah I don't like to see them all over the place, but in truth I see no more of them than I did after they introduced the village. I played for 6 hours last night and probably came across 3 or 4 of them. I know their practically extict in this time line, but to me that was exceptable as the other profession really out numbered the Jedi hands down.

    - Combat still is a bit flakey. After fiddling with my interface I have it almost like I had it before the NGE hit. While its not perfect by any means I consider it slighty more interesting than the standard wow/lotro combat. I wish they had taken a page from ddo or AoC when they changed it, but hey the games five years old and their is only so much they can do with an outdated engine. I consider it slightly fustrating, but completely playable.

    - Space combat seems unchanged to me. This was always a strong point of SWG for me. I cannot think of another game that offers both flight sim game and a ground game. This goes along way in alleviating the ground game grind. I had forgotten how much fun it was.

    In closing I have to say that this trial finally made me want to resub. After playing quite a few more recently released games I know most games are far from perfect and I have just as many gripes with them as I do with SWG in its current state. Despite the loss of professions during NGE SWG still offers more than most MMO's out there. What other game can offer a ground game, flight sim, so many RP options, mounts, vehicles, housing, character customization and pvp all in one game? If you haven't played in years, if you have not seen NGE in its current state I recommend you atleast give it a try. You may be, as I was, pleasantly suprised at how much the game has improved and how much it still has to offer.

     -Dailus

  • Posted: 11/20/08 8:36 AM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • Permanately smoking speeder?

  • Ok so apparently I left the game with a damaged barc speeder. This has been years ago. Since there is no decay theres no "repair" option as far as I can see. So am I stuck with a permanately smoking speeder?

     -Dailus

  • Posted: 11/17/08 6:36 PM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • New game

  • I read this thread and couldn't stop laughing (inside atleast). Why don't you all just mail me a dollar so I can start that beach front resort in Arizona?

  • Posted: 11/10/08 7:22 AM
    Developers Corner
• • So...how's it going now??

  • Now I didn't start until August, but I was there for patch 2 and I can tell you performance has increased dramatically since that patch. They also added half the pvp system, which should be completed with todays patch (3.0).

    As far as population goes I can only comment on Cimmeria and to me the population seems pretty good. I see many lowbies in Tortage and Tesso and Conall (sp?) Valley are always pretty busy.

    Also with todays patch if I remember correctly they have overhauled both the crafting system and the combo system. 

    I heard all the hate at release and put off buying it. I might have been as upset as some of the day-one folks if I hadn't come in right before the performance issues were fixed, but the fact of the matter is I didn't put up with months of memory leaks so that short unpleasantness is barely something I remember. AoC is a beautiful game and while not perfect issues are being adressed. Its well worth my 50 cents a day to play. Just my opinion.

     -Dailus

  • Posted: 10/29/08 7:46 AM
    Age of Conan