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It just occured to me that this game is really a Western... by jeep 07/22/2003, 2:26pm PDT
...as there are neither Stars nor Wars in it. Plus I gave Jar Jar a blanket with smallpox on it. Space travel is: you buy a ticket, wait for the train, and there you are. It's faster than DAOC horses but not by much. The closest thing to a war is the lynch mobs in Moenia who chase down overt Imperial characters. Mostly it's drunken barfights outside the saloon, er...cantina. Camping, exploring, mining, building settlements...all western genre tropes. The hunting is very much Oregon Trail, if Oregon Trail occasionally had badgers and giant moths squaring off for no apparent reason while you shoot them each once and get all the exp. This is a Wild West RPG with blaster sound effects.

It's really not Star Wars at all. I'm not a SW fanboy, haven't been since pre-Return of the Jedi, but leaving the "I want to be an X-Wing Pilot like Wedge" BS aside, it really is a pretty good game. It has all the problems inherent in MMORPGs, what with the treadmills and all, but the treadmills here aren't just combat like in DAOC, they're complex and interconnected, frequently it takes mutliple people to accomplish things (not just kill missions either), and learning new skills costs so much money that the players quickly developed a "teach everyone" attitude...as soon as you start the game people are handing you skills and languages and items and giving directions and stuff. I still don't get why someone would make an entertainer character, but everything else about the cantinas works really well, you just walk into one in whatever town and ask for whatever you need.

For $15 a month you get a chat client, a micro-micro-micro-management system (insert Chet's "I don't want to use quicken to play a game" joke here), and a combat system not much more advanced than the C64 version of Karateka.

Mischief m44x0r wrote:

So how many bones, rocks, and pelts does it take to build a star destroyer? Are you all playing sand people?


Someday I'll build a rebel defense turret like they had on Hoth. It's not in the game yet, but if they let you build cities (coming soon), they should let you build your favorite toys from the Kenner Era.

Mischief m44x0r wrote:

I never, ever, thought I'd be asking this about video game developers, but did any of these people actually SEE the Star Wars movies?


No, but they saw Tombstone and possibly Pale Rider.

/jeep/
...still wants an Autoduel MMO
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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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