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Well I really hope it does see the light of day, in light of the developers abandoning the series would love to see the second one finished properly 
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Well I really hope it does see the light of day, in light of the developers abandoning the series would love to see the second one finished properly
Here's an example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcfoDmFw_xM
I thought you had to have permission to place a structure within a town that isn't your own?
Yep, I'm guessing they just had a collection of houses, no town hall.
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=265337
So where are the "classic" SWG servers?
Hmm, seems to me like they've learnt nothing from the feedback of the NGE?
Do they not realise a lot of people like being the moisture farmers or other beings living in the Star Wars universe, rather than running about being Jedi?
Actually from what I've read so far it should be called NGE2 rather than KotOR3.
So where are the "classic" SWG servers?
Hmm, seems to me like they've learnt nothing from the feedback of the NGE?
Do they not realise a lot of people like being the moisture farmers or other beings living in the Star Wars universe, rather than running about being Jedi?
Actually from what I've read so far it should be called NGE2 rather than KotOR3.
This was befored town halls were implemented, a collection of houses was all that could be made at the time. We basicaly had a guild hall as the main part of our little town, with houses placed in such a way to form streets.
I completely agree, i loved being a scout, loved placing harvesters and loved feeling like a small part of something big. I don't want everything handed to me and i want Jedis to be overpowered but hunted down, and while the holocube or whatever it was called system wasn't perfect, it limited things. I'm gonna take a pass on this and go host an SWGEmu server when it comes online
Yeah but the point is do *enough* people want to be moisture farmers or canteena dancers to justify the SW IP being used in a MMO.
The whole point of Star Wars is Jedi's, Sith, blasters, light sabres, storm troopers, ships - not moisture farming
Which could be a real problem for Bioware to overcome. It's easy to get immersed in a story and your character in a single player game but in an mmo where everyone and their mums are going to be jedi you lose that advantage because everyone will have very simliar characters.
I get the impression they will try to make choices meaningful, judging from what they say in the interview but by their very nature, mmo's and the paths for your character are completely stripped naked and exposed with multitudes of guides, spoilers, min/maxing etc etc, even more so than single player games.
MMO players generally read and are part of forums where information about the game they play is available in large quantites, not just on 'spoiler' sites but even just guild webpages etc.
This problem is compounded by the fact that (I assume) everyone, and no doubt the majority of players, will be some form of jedi from the start. If they approached it in the way the original star wars mmo did - giving more options to players, no archetypes and skill based, then it's much easier for players to feel like they are part of the online world.
If you're a jedi and all you see around you are other jedi, it will get boring quick, for me anyway.
Why do you think there was such an outcry about the NGE? because players loved what they had spent time creating, not only their character but also their role in the star wars universe.
If you think it will be fun being a jedi amongst the other 90% of jedi on the server then fair enough.
I get the impression they will try to make choices meaningful, judging from what they say in the interview but by their very nature, mmo's and the paths for your character are completely stripped naked and exposed with multitudes of guides, spoilers, min/maxing etc etc, even more so than single player games.
MMO players generally read and are part of forums where information about the game they play is available in large quantites, not just on 'spoiler' sites but even just guild webpages etc.
This problem is compounded by the fact that (I assume) everyone, and no doubt the majority of players, will be some form of jedi from the start. If they approached it in the way the original star wars mmo did - giving more options to players, no archetypes and skill based, then it's much easier for players to feel like they are part of the online world.
If you're a jedi and all you see around you are other jedi, it will get boring quick, for me anyway.
Why do you think there was such an outcry about the NGE? because players loved what they had spent time creating, not only their character but also their role in the star wars universe.
If you think it will be fun being a jedi amongst the other 90% of jedi on the server then fair enough.
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At the moment i'm going to trust bioware to avoid this problem, in KOTOR1 i only brought along one jedi in my quartet because i wanted some ranged damage and the wookie was a demon with two big swords...that was fun as hell.
As long as they make it fun to play other classes it'll be fine, i can imagine there will be plenty of bounty hunters and wookies, plus bear in mind you've got dozens of different jedi/sith specs so you could have a jedi healer and jedi warrior in the same team yet play totally differently.
All they need is a bit of imagination and i really think bioware are the best company for the job.
I hope so but for me, Star Wars was, and always should be, about the first 3 films; New Hope, Empire and Return - not the prequels.
It's a much more evocative story to have mystery about the Jedi and this was accentuated because there were practically none left. It was about being the underdogs, fighting against evil etc. All of that interesting, motivating stuff dissappears when there are lots of jedi about. They become mundane, normal, every day life type situation. Just not interesting or exciting after a very short period of time.
It's a much more evocative story to have mystery about the Jedi and this was accentuated because there were practically none left. It was about being the underdogs, fighting against evil etc. All of that interesting, motivating stuff dissappears when there are lots of jedi about. They become mundane, normal, every day life type situation. Just not interesting or exciting after a very short period of time.