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Re: Fer crying out loud, already! by E. L. Koba 07/21/2003, 1:11am PDT
Mischief Shai-hulud wrote:

Is there ever a point at which all this hunting and harvesting and moisture farming and staring at virtual fags flourishing allows you to do something FUN? At this point the whole fucking game sounds like a star wars mod for animal crossing.

Senior B's descripton of Planetside's beta sounded absolutely kickass, enough to make me consider getting into online games. This game just sounds fucking depressing.

Tell me you repeled a sneak attack by a pitiful band of rebel scum attempting to blow up your latest doomsday device before it becomes operational. Tell me a jedi started running amok through town force-tossing partially dressed stormtroopers everywhere until you managed to take him out with a volley of thermal detonators. Tell me your team of crack commandos got sick of staring at the intergalactic drag show and mounted a sudden attack on the cantina, blasting every entertainer in sight until all that was left was the sweet sound of silence until a dude with just a stormtrooper helmet on flipped a coin to the bartender and apologised about the mess. Isn't there anything to the game besides virtual menial labor?

You all realize you could get retail jobs at computer stores, play the star wars soundtrack on one of the display boomboxes, and get the same exciting experience only you GET PAID instead of pay monthly fees for the priviledge?

And why would moisture farming be a profitable job on naboo?


It really does seem like the vast majority of people really are just doing virtual menial labor. It makes me weep for mankind. I so many more craftsman and image designers and entertainers than anything else.

I wish they had just taken Planetside and slapped some Star Wars skins, sounds, and vehicles onto it.

But I am having fun exploring and hunting animals. And killing all the jawas and gungans I can find. And the way the factions work, it's cool to be around when some Rebel player accidently walks into the wrong part of town. I've see a few groups try to raid into the main Empire towns (Theed on Naboo mostly) and the whole place just errupts into a firefight.

Best moment so far: Me and Babie are stalking up to some Rebel NPC outpost. We kill one of the guards, then I see Barbie's blip on the radar all the sudden take off and start running around in circles.

Me: Hey, you all right?
SB: They are chasing me!
Me: (after looking over the cliff down to where he is without seeing anything) Who is?
SB: EVERYONE!

I assume that SB just forgot his meds for the day and is now imagining monsters in the game so I get up and run down to where he is. I see SB run up over a hill, and then suddenly some giant fucking rancor looking things chasing 20 m behind him.

Game: You have been slain by a Rabid Veermmeckeckecek thingie.

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Ok I just got this by jeep 07/18/2003, 9:46pm PDT NEW
    Re: Ok I just got this by E. L. Koba 07/19/2003, 12:56am PDT NEW
        Just got 4 wisdom teeth pulled, won't be on until tomorrow evening earliest NT by Senor Barborito 07/19/2003, 2:11pm PDT NEW
            s'ok, the server keeps kicking me off anyway. NT by jeep 07/19/2003, 7:16pm PDT NEW
                Are you on Lowca? I've had almost no connectivity issues with Lowca. NT by Senor Barborito 07/19/2003, 7:32pm PDT NEW
                    Re: Are you on Lowca? I've had almost no connectivity issues with Lowca. by E. L. Koba 07/19/2003, 8:30pm PDT NEW
                        The new netcode added 3 days ago blew everything to shit lag-wise. by Senor Barborito 07/19/2003, 9:04pm PDT NEW
                            Favorite bad netcode: Anarchy Online's TCP rebroadcast floods -nt- by Entropy Stew 07/19/2003, 9:54pm PDT NEW
                                AO Programmer 1: Hey let's DDoS the boss! AO Programmer 2: Leet! Hax0r! NT by Senor Barborito 07/19/2003, 11:18pm PDT NEW
        Fer crying out loud, already! by Mischief Shai-hulud 07/20/2003, 9:15pm PDT NEW
            Re: Fer crying out loud, already! by E. L. Koba 07/21/2003, 1:11am PDT NEW
                Re: Fer crying out loud, already! by Bitter 07/21/2003, 1:40am PDT NEW
                    The architect/droid engineer/weaponsmith/armorsmith path by Senor Barborito 07/21/2003, 2:47am PDT NEW
                        Re: The architect/droid engineer/weaponsmith/armorsmith path by jeep 07/22/2003, 2:46pm PDT NEW
                    Re: Fer crying out loud, already! by E. L. Koba 07/21/2003, 6:46pm PDT NEW
                    Probably not worth the money by jeep 07/22/2003, 2:40pm PDT NEW
            I'm about to give up on Artisanship altogether. NT by Senor Barborito 07/21/2003, 3:07am PDT NEW
            It's kind of growing on me. by jeep 07/21/2003, 8:06am PDT NEW
                Re: It's kind of growing on me. by Chairman Mao 07/21/2003, 7:20pm PDT NEW
                    Re: It's kind of growing on me. by Live Studio Audience 07/21/2003, 8:55pm PDT NEW
                    Speeder ETA supposedly 6-8 months, space combat another year at best NT by Senor Barborito 07/22/2003, 12:35am PDT NEW
                        ...and people are paying for this?!? NT by Chairman Mao 07/22/2003, 12:43am PDT NEW
                            Yes. Also, Jedi ETA 2 months out. Force slot supposedly profanity-based. by Senor Barborito 07/22/2003, 12:56am PDT NEW
                Re: It's kind of growing on me. by Bitter 07/22/2003, 12:30am PDT NEW
                    Re: It's kind of growing on me. by E. L. Koba 07/22/2003, 12:52am PDT NEW
                        Fuck SWG by Bill Dungsroman 07/22/2003, 12:43pm PDT NEW
                Re: It's kind of growing on me. by Mischief m44x0r 07/22/2003, 12:55pm PDT NEW
                    Re: It's kind of growing on me. by Mr Smoke 07/22/2003, 2:07pm PDT NEW
                    It just occured to me that this game is really a Western... by jeep 07/22/2003, 2:26pm PDT NEW
                        So its M.U.L.E. with the ability to shoot other players. by Chairman Mao 07/22/2003, 2:35pm PDT NEW
                            Re: So its M.U.L.E. with the ability to shoot other players. by E. L. Koba 07/22/2003, 5:57pm PDT NEW
                                Re: So its M.U.L.E. with the ability to shoot other players. by Entropy Stew 07/23/2003, 1:29am PDT NEW
 
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