SWGEmu...

[nightprowler]

i was bored tonight and started reading swgemu.com curious to see how it was coming along
found this link

files.filefront.com/EMU_Setupexe/;5261235;;/fileinfo.html

make a copy of your swg directory and install to the copied folder

a couple people have party servers up running that you can log in to. can't do too much yet other than run around in the world

i almost had a tear when i saw the old character create screen and saw the old starter professions listed... *sniff*

[Mobus]

Did you have fun running around?

[nightprowler]

wasn't so much fun... as exciting to see

[Mobus]

I've been away from SWG long enough to miss seeing it in its current form. That's sad. Yet it really could be great. If they just added more space content, ground content, and went back to more of a CU style combat system I would be so happy. The space content alone would make me happy. If they did that along with fixing the plethora of bugs in the game, it would be amazingly good.

Those things don’t seem like much, do they? I really don’t think it is so much to ask. Keep it at only 9 professions, what’s done is done. That should just mean that they can focus more on content and bug fixing. Unfortunately that is not the case! In theory they were making the game easier to keep balanced and bug-free, yet in practice they did the opposite. With each CU they took steps backwards, not forwards. They put themselves back a year development wise with the first CU and even more with the NGE! They made the game beta again.

What’s worse and often forgotten is that it wasn’t even finished when they released it! Remember walking around everywhere on foot in a STAR WARS mmorpg? That’s just wrong. You fly ships and ride swoops, you don’t walk across the desert unless a pack of Tusken Raiders blew up your ride. Vehicles and JTL should have both came with the game. Space is not something we should ever have had to pay extra for. Neither was content in the form of expansions. All those things should have been in there already. Quests with useable rewards, not junk, should have been on all the planets. Not in new planets that cost you $30. They had it wrong from the get-go.

I thought the first CU was needed, but even fixing the original system would have been easier. Lowering the number of professions was also needed. 32 professions are impossible for a dev team to balance! What was really needed was a mix of the CU and the NGE. Not both separately, and never as dramatic of change as they introduced with the NGE. A combat system with strategy and useful moves (CU), not one most powerful move that you spam, along with less professions overall so the dev team could focus on content (NGE) is what they should have done. Instead they implemented the CU and as soon as they were starting to get it almost in throwing distance of being polished, they blew it all up with the NGE and its “revolutionary” combat system that would take more babying and modifying than Han’s Millennium Falcon.

They spend so much time overhauling the game that they never get out enough content. There’s simply not enough to do to keep people interested. There are no new goals, no new mountains to climb. There is so much unused space, yet so little to do in it. You can only kill HK so many times; you can only blow up the same Star Destroyer so many times before you get bored! How many times do they expect us to pay for content we should already have, or play through changes that should never have been made? There’s only so much a customer can take before getting fed up and investing their money elsewhere, no matter how much potential they saw at first.

Lol, I got carried away. Too bad it's unlikely that anyone will ever read all of this. Most of you are too lazy!

[eoro]

i read all of it!!....
/spank;
/strut;
/holds out hand for cookie;

[Mobus]

eoro said:

i read all of it!!....
/spank;
/strut;
/holds out hand for cookie;

/cookie
/cream
/cold shower

[Darkmatter]

/vomit in mouth
/Roll vomit around mouth
/puke again cuz of the taste of vomit
/rinse and repeat