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Re: Friends, Romans, Countreymen, Idiots, Mongrels, Deadbeats, and the rest of you by Roop Dirump 07/09/2003, 5:52am PDT
Just remember what happened when you played Anarchy Online too early, didn't it reformat everybody's hard drives when they uninstalled? I gave that game a year before I played it. Wasn't too bad by then.

I'm giving SWG a few months myself, mainly because I fall under the deadbeat category. O and there might be content by then, ya that too. Reading the Star Wars Galaxies forums, right now they have some bug that deletes all your items, and although each item in the game has a unique ID (which you can actually see) their current policy is not to give you any of your shit back when you lose it to their bug. Apparently in EQ, customer service can look up the item ID via logs and then check the database to see if the item exists anymore, and actually replace an item if you even delete it yourself. But not SWG, at least for a few months--too much trouble and too widespread now. So the bug is that if you die, then loot your corpse, then everything in your inventory becomes corrupt. The next time you log in everything vanishes. I think the workaround is to not hit "loot all" but to grab each item individually. Some people report other people's items showing up in their own inventories. Also, there's some sort of feature where minerals turnover. Like people make schematics calling for some certain kind of copper, and eventually that copper's supposed run out causing old schematics to become obsolete, like after a week. Right now it takes less than 24 hours, making people lose all sorts of money on their harvesters. Place a harvester on some %90 sweet spot, pump money in it, log back in and it's sitting there empty and you lose your cash, because the mineral "ran out" without filling the harvester. I can just hear the WTFs.

I'll never forget in UO when they changed their policy on banking, putting in weight limits. O the howls of WTF at the bank, dudes standing around overloaded, eventually dropping shit and then people making mad grabs. And the Dread Lords! Ah, I remember my newb Dennis Rottman dread lord with his yellow hair and ebony skin, my bald little crossdressing horsemolesting old faggot Harriet, the good ol' days. UO sucked once they fixed it. Maybe it is worth playing this thing early, just to watch people freak out when various shit breaks.

Roop
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Friends, Romans, Countreymen, Idiots, Mongrels, Deadbeats, and the rest of you by Senor Barborito 07/08/2003, 8:09pm PDT NEW
    Next week join us as Barborito learns to speak 'cuntrymen' NT by Senor Barborito 07/08/2003, 8:11pm PDT NEW
        Speak? What the hell? I'm tired. Just fucking lemme know, OK? NT by Senor Barborito 07/08/2003, 8:12pm PDT NEW
            OMG SPAM! SPAMMER! BAN HIM QUICK!!!! NT by Senor Barborito 07/08/2003, 8:13pm PDT NEW
                It's not you, it's me NT by John Favreau 07/08/2003, 8:24pm PDT NEW
                    Jon Favreau you mean. NT by Flurgendorf J. Creexul 07/09/2003, 11:45pm PDT NEW
    Re: Friends, Romans, Countreymen, Idiots, Mongrels, Deadbeats, and the rest of y by E. L. Koba 07/08/2003, 9:10pm PDT NEW
        $15 a month! NT by E. L. Koba 07/08/2003, 9:59pm PDT NEW
            Usually first month is free for MMOs, would be surprise if that wasn't the case by Senor Barborito 07/08/2003, 10:36pm PDT NEW
                Oh yah. I usually don't play any game longer than a month anyway, by E. L. Koba 07/08/2003, 11:21pm PDT NEW
                    Re: Oh yah. I usually don't play any game longer than a month anyway, by whydirt, wookie hairdresser 07/09/2003, 12:06am PDT NEW
    Re: Friends, Romans, Countreymen, Idiots, Mongrels, Deadbeats, and the rest of you by Roop Dirump 07/09/2003, 5:52am PDT NEW
        UO is the exception that proves the rule, and gay wookie hairdressers by Senor Barborito 07/09/2003, 1:09pm PDT NEW
            Re: UO is the exception that proves the rule, and gay wookie hairdressers by whydirt, wookie hairdresser 07/09/2003, 4:44pm PDT NEW
            Re: UO is the exception that proves the rule, and gay wookie hairdressers by E. L. Koba 07/09/2003, 11:53pm PDT NEW
                If everyone will commit to making a guild full of dancing wookies, count me in. by SBDMT 07/10/2003, 1:18am PDT NEW
                    Re: If everyone will commit to making a guild full of dancing wookies, count me by E. L. Koba 07/10/2003, 1:36am PDT NEW
                        OK, serious SWG notes by Senor Barborito 07/10/2003, 12:08pm PDT NEW
    Re: Friends, Romans, Countreymen, Idiots, Mongrels, Deadbeats, and the rest of y by K. Thor Jensen 07/10/2003, 10:36am PDT NEW
        I think I'll wait a bit until they come to thier senses re: NPC merchants by jeep 07/10/2003, 3:54pm PDT NEW
 
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