I'd actually pretty much dropped the game pre CU, because I'd come, very reluctantly, to the conclusion that the devs weren't listening to their players. I was a tailor, and after close to two years of seeing the same top issues on the tailor board…
Qualifying as one of the first half dozen or so Master Tailors on Lowca, and then setting up my shop in the noman's land between Bestine and Anchorhead. I'd be fitting people and helping them with color selections while these huge PVP gun battles w…
But people do try it and do enjoy it; I'm one of them. Why can't you just live and let live? For the life of me, I can't understand this impulse to get on this board and trash something you don't like, without allowing the possibilyt that whether …
Try it and see, and give it a bit of time if you do. The game's initial look and feel (the newbie island) can be very cartoonish looking and feeling. It is NOT impressive. Get out of there asap and go exploring a little. Use the "search" feature …
It's more than likely just the effect of the light's position at full noon; it looks pretty bleh on everyone. I usually just adjust the world lighting when it's that time of day in the sim I'm visiting. If you look under "world," you'll notice a t…
Easiest way to make a few hundred would probably be to camp in camping chairs, or take a job scrubbing floors (same difference, but the animation is more amusing, I think). There's some kind of doodad you can pick up that makes it so that the game …
Second Life has a very healthy nightclub scene that you might enjoy. If all the sex bothers you, though, don't mess with it. The game is VERY adult oriented. But, a basic account is also free.
It's the ultimate in sandbox play. The game is jus…
The CU and NGE pretty much killed entertaining with the removal of mind buffing and combat fatigue. What was so amazing to us who played entertainers was the fact that the SWG devs were so clueless that they didn't see this would be the result of w…
Master Dancer/Master Tailor. I couldn't fight at all but boy did I look good in my own hand made exotic leotards up there buffing all my beloved combat babies to go out and face the galaxy, or healing their fatigue and mind wounds after a hard day'…
Sounds to me like the OP is faulting the game for not being a good action game. I have no idea whether it is or isn't, but I don't care. It is a great game for socialization, and that's its forte. What's more, it's one of the few, few online game…
Amen, brother. Testify.
I shouldn't say this, but I find it rather pathetic that people still have any faith in SOE/LA's promises after all that's happened. Don't let them fool you again, people. You deserve better.
--Chastity Nightdancer
Very eloquent and moving. I kept seeing the game as it was in it's heyday, six months or so after release, in every shot--cities full of people, cantinas packed with partyers and layabouts, player towns springing up in the wilderness. Now it reall…
People who play the "it's just a game" card are being offensively patronizing in the extreme. They're taking a "superior" position to those upset about "the game," in this case SWG. They assume those upset about the changes to SWG are investing to…
I'm starting to think that there's no hope for a SWG online game because LA will interfere too much with the game. I believe that was a major problem with SWG (I have no objective proof of this, but I look at SOE's handling of EQ and EQ2, and both …
It's too late to do anything like a rollback, I think. And even if they did, it wouldn't fix the problem with the game, which is how the developers make and implement decisions, with no input from the player base at all.
I really enjoyed the pre-…
A number of the core movers and shakers in my old entertainer guild have gone to Second Life. It's a completely different sort of game (a sim than an adventure type game), but it captures the social ambiance of early SWG very well. So if you're di…
The release is crap, but most press releases are. You can't very well expect them to come on and say "well, we screwed up big time with this one! We're doomed, so pass the cyanide capsules, will you?"
It's clear they're sticking to their guns to…
LOL. Preach on, brother.
I think it might be possible to muster at least an iota of pity for Sony/LA if they didn't keep hiring such monkeys for spokespeople. I swear, the only time any of them open their mouths is to change feet.
Reading BAD…
SOE has a very simple solution to avoid people trashing them.
Don't do things that are worthy of being trashed for.
If this latest expansion is someone's work, it's crappy work. Crappy work they're charging for. Merits of what the NGE is try…