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I sure hope not. That's what ruined the game in the first place, damn Jedi with every man and his dog wanting to be one!
good good think ill jump on this weekend
While i still think of this as my best MMO experience, it really does get some rose coloured nostalgia benefits.
PvP ruined by combat medics, people holo grinding, Serious lack of content, no real reason to group up.
Spending ages farming avian meat to make some super buffs, chatting on TS with friends when i had broken my knee and was off work 3 months.
And that was before they made it worse, and then worse again. I really dont know why i stuck the game as long as i did apart from the people i played with.
In the end i was paying for a IRC channel with some star wars stuff in the background.
PvP ruined by combat medics, people holo grinding, Serious lack of content, no real reason to group up.
Spending ages farming avian meat to make some super buffs, chatting on TS with friends when i had broken my knee and was off work 3 months.
And that was before they made it worse, and then worse again. I really dont know why i stuck the game as long as i did apart from the people i played with.
In the end i was paying for a IRC channel with some star wars stuff in the background.
This was exactly why I played for as long as I did. Having a PA and a city meant a lot to me, and I'd always find stuff to do but back then it was making your own fun that made the game. Everytime I logged in, I'd always greet everyone in the PA, and then my next question was to ask if there was any trouble about. If there wasn't, I'd see if I could get a group together to go out and find some! We'd mount rebel attacks on outposts or even cities, or a few of us would patrol around spaceports looking for trouble and then as soon as we found it, we'd message the rest of the PA or even the Rebel network we had going to get some large-scale war going on. And the patrols between Bestine and Anchorhead was always a laugh as well.
Resource farming was ok but eventually it became a bit of a chore, although it was nice when you were the only person on the entire server able to make buffs that round of resource spawns that were of the highest quality. I ended up keeping a huge stock of avian meat from a ridiculously good spawn on Corellian Carrion Spat's that lasted for a few days. I think I must have spent all my time over those few days harvesting as many Carrion Spat's as I possibly could. It made it even better when you'd have the best buffs and then deny buffing Imperial players as you're a Rebel player. Oh the amount of arguments we'd get outside Coronet Spaceport from Imperials who were about to go on the warpath hunting fellow Rebels, only to be absolutely appalled that you, as a Rebel player, refused to buff them!
Unfortunately combat medics (especially rifleman / medic combo) absolutely trashed the game. I was a Teras Kasi Master and Master Doc and had been throughout my entire game time (my free holocube told me to master Image Designer, and I was like "no way, get ******!"), and sometimes it would be difficult to beat the CM / Rifleman combo if you didn't get the jump right away. And then the trolling that you'd endure when you were beaten by a completely broken skill setup wasn't fun. Like the person playing CM / Rifleman was some sort of god at a completely broken build.
I can still remember the day where I was called a noob, 6 months (and countless hours ) into my playtime in the game by a player because they checked my profile and saw that I'd only ever mastered Medic, Doctor, and Teras Kasi Master. To that player, the test was how many professions you has mastered as that's what the game became with the Jedi grind. I kicked his butt (he was an overt Imp) and after I laid him out with no trouble, began explaining that I was no noob and having only mastered Medic, Doctor and Teras Kasi Master gave me the advantage of knowing my build exceptionally well. He still didn't see it my way and him and two of his friends came back after cloning to have another go at me. I leveled them all out and eventually they left me alone, but that was a moment I'll remember well because it highlighted to me just how broken the concept of grinding to be a Jedi was.
Oh man, and the bugs! I loved them all though. Especially the warp bug when you were sitting down, or when you'd dismount from a speeder and you'd end up miles away from where your speeder was! What a great game!
What server did you play on, House? I was on Chimaera to start with, but after the uber vehicle spawn bug after launch (which was about a week into EU launch I think) I created a new character on Infinity and was there ever since!
Infinity once the EU servers came up, played form launch in the US and remember getting fleeced by DHL and customs for importing the game.
I had Image designer as my holo as well and wasnt at all interested, didn't even open it for ages. I as an Imp though guild was called Black we built a city that was still there the last time i logged in before they shut it down, but we did declare war on the big imp ganking guild (memory test here but i think they were called EXEs) I remember so many tears when i burnt 3 ATSTs to the ground in Coro, just couldnt get them to go out and put them away so i just kept burning them. PvP was good when it was a stand up fight but it rarely was. guys load ganking people in the starport etc.
I did the TKM doc thing for a while but when i was doing PvP a lot i would use commando and the flamer, setting fire to rebels by the ton used to make me laugh. Tell everyone worked out CM rifleman and it got old quick.
I had Image designer as my holo as well and wasnt at all interested, didn't even open it for ages. I as an Imp though guild was called Black we built a city that was still there the last time i logged in before they shut it down, but we did declare war on the big imp ganking guild (memory test here but i think they were called EXEs) I remember so many tears when i burnt 3 ATSTs to the ground in Coro, just couldnt get them to go out and put them away so i just kept burning them. PvP was good when it was a stand up fight but it rarely was. guys load ganking people in the starport etc.
I did the TKM doc thing for a while but when i was doing PvP a lot i would use commando and the flamer, setting fire to rebels by the ton used to make me laugh. Tell everyone worked out CM rifleman and it got old quick.
I knew it! I knew you were in Black as soon as I registered House and SWG! You teamed up with me and the rest of ORR (I was Eecao Rache, leader of ORR - Outer Rim Resistance) against Maddog and Raru and their cronies from eXs, and we also had an evening of Crawl Wars where we crawled through Anchorhead, both of our PAs! Oh man I remember how butthurt eXs were, but they were a group that had no honour at all.
I was on Chimeara server and guild was Honour (rebel). I had a full temp pre CU Jedi (didn't do final trial to go permaovert, CU invisibility suited me). Also was making the finest weapons on the server (I went full geek using charts and searching the best server resources ever spawned. I gave a heads up of some epic spawns on a swg artisan website).
I got a lot from SWG, both in terms of the game itself and the people I met. Some of whom became good friends in real life. It was my first and last MMO and one the best experiences I have ever had online.I played from 2004 to mid 2007 mainly on the Euro Infinity server and then later on Chimaera. I unlocked Jedi just prior to the NGE hitting. I won the home show for my museum and also bought one of only two pairs of cybernetic legs in the entire game (before they were later added). I've never played the emulated version/s of the game and don't have any desire to. It was a great experience, albeit a rose tinted one, that I don't wish to challenge.
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I was in Ez on Chimaera, our city was pretty close to Honor's on Dantooine if I remember correctly, so we probably teamed up at some point. I remember fighting alongside Makavelli and Carnie'walker quite often!
@fergie128 https://youtu.be/Bb5bBBJ13yw?t=20s Me and Makavelli who was honour's leader. Another one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIy4G1xGjvw
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I remember the Crawl War
that was a while ago!I think what made SWG so good for me was that Infinity was a great server and a good community, it made for a enjoyable experience even if the game itself sometimes really didn't.
Watched this a while back, while i don't 100% agree with everything said it makes some good points.
For a long time after EQ2 came out I only really logged on cause i had SOE all access, but I was playing Planetside as well so All Access was a good deal at the time.
I remember the Crawl War
I think what made SWG so good for me was that Infinity was a great server and a good community, it made for a enjoyable experience even if the game itself sometimes really didn't.
Help me out here, I've been wracking my brains since yesterday afternoon trying to remember the name of the leader of [BLACK]. I remember it was a Mon Calamari class, but the name escapes me. Most of the discussions I had with Black about eXs were with them, but I'm sure I also spoke with you a few times about it as well
Infinity was a fantastic server. Unfortunately, eXs gave the Imperials a very bad name. As the leader of ORR, when there was any PvP going on, I always stayed out of fights if it was completely unbalanced in the Rebel's favour. I can remember one evening where we were in Bestine and there was a huge force of us, and people kept asking me why I wasn't joining in. I kept telling them that there is no honour in ganking, and at one point every member of ORR that was there just sat down with me whilst a huge Rebel gankforce rolled through. It was sad but fortunately that didn't happen very often on both sides. eXS however took things to a new level of trolling back then, they'd always have AT-STs out and they'd go five or six of them against a single player at the same time. It was sad.
Nice video, pretting much sums it up well. Game had many flaws. Though crafting and working with other traders in your Guild/Server was absolute brilliant.
I still don't think i played a MMO with crafting as good this one. Also server community helpfulness was pretty good.
I still don't think i played a MMO with crafting as good this one. Also server community helpfulness was pretty good.
Help me out here, I've been wracking my brains since yesterday afternoon trying to remember the name of the leader of [BLACK]. I remember it was a Mon Calamari class, but the name escapes me. Most of the discussions I had with Black about eXs were with them, but I'm sure I also spoke with you a few times about it as well
I was thinking about this as well over lunch, I took over when he left but for the life of me i cant remember what his name was! I have some screenshots on a USB drive at home somewhere I will have a look and see what i can find.
He started Black when he was crafting armour, at the time it was the best Comp armour on the server and I was a founding member with him and a few others, He made up my Night-sister parts into armour for me.
He played EQ2 with us for a month or so and then disappeared, the guild struggled on through EQ2 and WOW for a bit before becoming more of a groupchat than anything else with members spread over different games.