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| It's kind of growing on me. by jeep 07/21/2003, 8:06am PDT | ||||
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Mischief Shai-hulud wrote: It really is a Star Wars mod for Animal Crossing. That being said, the complexity I was complaining about before actually works in the game's favor: there are no levels, only skill sets. I took a wide range of skills and basically switch off between building them up so I don't get bored with repetition: - Kill animals for Combat Exp and use them to make tents for Scout Exp. - Mine resources for Survey Exp and make tools for Engineering Exp. - Use tools to heal people for Medic Exp. - Take recon missions for money, which basically require to you run all over creation and try not to get killed. - Take fetch missions for Imperial Favor as I expect at some point, 12 upgrades from now, there will be speeder bikes. I can't decide if surveying or camping is the easiest. The recon and fetch missions are the worst of it, really, since recon requires you run through wilderness for like 15 minutes and (sometimes) the mission breaks as you approach the goal, which is REALLY irritating. The fetch missions require you to go to the shuttleport and sit and wait for the next shuttle (they come every 10 minutes). The difficulty with combat is that it was designed to be done in groups. Killing things solo is really slow and more akin to gathering resources than fighting. However, if you get a group of people together you can just go invade camps of whatever you want, or attack other characters. In this rebel town, Moenia, some rebel PCs periodically come into the cantina and say "Hey some imperial PCs are wandering around outside." Then they form a giant lynch mob and wipe them out, which is entertaining. Also, I noticed you can get faction points for or against certain groups, like "thugs" or "townspeople." This is a lot like Grand Theft Auto in that if you get enough negative ones, suddenly you have to shoot your way through certain parts of town. 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 can do this! So far though, I've only seen lynch mobs and random attacks by various factions I've pissed off. You get the impression the game isn't finished, that there are meant to be tiered-mission NPCs who hand you off to their boss when they're done with you, so you work your way up inside an organization (like with the Hutts), but it doesn't seem to have been implemented fully. Lots of dead ends. 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? Yeah but this way I get to watch baseball, read webpages, hang out in IRC, AIM, etc. at the same time. It's leisure time, even if parts of it are repetitive. And I haven't payed anything yet, I'm still on the free month. I did the same thing with DAOC. And why would moisture farming be a profitable job on naboo? There's a lucrative trade route from Naboo to Tatooine: shitty CGI characters and water for shitty actors and sand. /jeep/ |
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