Development Cycle Archive
Thread: Desired Rewards
Very simple really. I'm sure you came up with this idea internally... make rare components and rare schematics. Easy when you get schematic trade working, but you could get the rare components droping any time you want. It happens in like every MMO on the market gather X,Y,Z components... combine and get V item. To address the make it diffrent for everyone "aspect of some requests" I would say make the Schematic with a lot of differnet optional components, so say a Musican finishes the quest add the optional component of a "flute" and the finished item has new attrib. mod's. Now I really like EQ's approuch to this, take a lesson, each school be it cleric, shadow knight, etc has a "noob armor quest" (if you don't know about it put the bug in one of your co-workers ears). I would say follow the cookie cutter and do what works. You've already reinvented the wheel with SWG now take parts of the old wheel to help the new wheel along. You've got a lot of bright people on staff, but don't let their ambitions of creating a mark on the mmo market cloud your ability to create a viable item for the market. Don't be afraid to use tools that have proven themselves in the past to work on something that is suppose to be cutting edge. In this case game design items, bugs happen, bad designs will ruin a project. The people of this comunity long for a taste of the old even though you strugle to give them something new. Don't fight us... we will win... I'm sure over the course of several years theplayers have become that squeakey gate henge and at first it bothers you then it becomes a background noise. I think its apparent to eveyone who reads the forums that SWG has farsurpassed expectations on the new side of things. Now people want something that remindes them of the old days of starting EQ from day one... of starting AC1 from day one... and becoming a hero by the end of year one. With this game I can not see that light at the end of tunel at least with current turn around times regargding content. I relize all to well the bugs that creap up and require that HOLY COW THATS BROKE aspect of programming. I also relize the WOW what am I going to tell the comunity so they don't think we lied to them aspect of project managment. Give us more content... and if you don't like it... give us more content... the game is ready to go gold at this point I'm sure you guyz had been shooting for the "90% solution" before you released. Functonally it was at 90%, content wise it was about 60% just from what I've seen. I know everyone most likely really bustted bottomes to meet an internal release date and most likely havent gotten a break in a while. Which would explain the new dev's on the forum in replace of the old dev's that posted pre release. Now that your project bring in money for SOE they have a lotted more resources to your project in regard to CSR's and Forum "Devs". I'm rambling and most likely going to sleep soon... later everyone.
I really can't spell but everyone knows that by now... hehehe
Badges. Maybe even wearable badges. Ooooh yeah!
How about this...an item that when used, leads one to a clue, and from there on a sort of trail to another quest, and so on, etc, until we do get to that unique item everyone wants.
Just make it friggin tough to get, i.e. brains and brawn needed, perhaps.
Paintings and the like would be good, but those should go to crafters.
Components, etc. How about a big 1k or so stack of a resource that's all 999's or something.
Please please PLEASE give us collectables. I have absolutely no interest in getting a commonent to make armor, or a gun part. None at all. Period. Seriously. Even the crafters I know aren't at all anxious to get their hands on it.
I want something to hang on my wall that you can only get if you complete a three month long quest. I want a chance of getting 1 out of 20 Artworks From Alderaan, and I now want to find the other 19. Sculptures. Unique or very rare clothing (and if you leave the wooks out I'm driving to the offices 
). A Commemorative Obi-Wan Kenobi Lightsaber (equipable, does one damage point, period).
Remember all the stupid, useless, but rare crap there was un UO, like ships in a bottle and singing roses and flaming head deeds and statues of the moderators and rare weapons that weren't as good as everyone thought and wristwatches and snowglobes and stuff that wasn't "better" but was just cool because it was a different color and rocks and snow and silver coins and just all the stuff? I WANT MY FRIKKIN' STUFF! GIVE ME CRAP!!! 
~~Shabhaii, Mayor of Tombra, Naboo
www.cityoftombra.com
The REAL BT
"We are ill-prepared for an airborne ass-monkey problem."
SKILL ATTACHMENTS.
This system is already in the game, and would work just fine for rewards. They're useful, they don't detract anything from the crafting professions, and everyone can use them. If you get one you can't use, sell it or trade it for one that you can. They would add a little variety between players, too. Right now, everyone at the same skill level is a pretty even match, but skill attachments could give someone just the edge they need over their competition.
Fix armor attachments, fix the skill mod enhancements, and drop more attachments for us to use in the slotted clothing. 
Skill Attachments +20 unarmed damage etc, terrain negotiation +10 etc..
Advanced components or enhancement components for crafting
Badges!
Paintings, Unique looking statues items that are in NPC areas but players can't craft.
Quality Resources ie the 1000conductivity and 100 units of it
Rare Schematics that don't use identical items just similar.
Alright I haven't read this whole thread yet but heres an idea. So far I have yet to see anything to do with holgograms/projected images yet, such as an R2-D2 unit or hand held(like Qui-Gons in Phantom Menance). You could give a crafter the ability to make a movie player of sorts, or an R2 unit that could project holograms. Quests rewards could be holographic messages, pieces of the story that give you clues or info on the next part of the quest.
You could have have cool things in there like a message from Vader, or you could find a copy of Leias message to Obi-Wan. Schematics to the Death Star. Then you could store them in an R2 unit and play them to see the movie or message.
This could make finding disks more fun too. Now I gotta go find disks 1-4 of the Star Destroyer plans so I can see a Holoprojection of it. There is a lot of potential in there. You could have cool Sith Holocrons with teachings on the Dark Side, a imperial general's last conversation with Vader, a garbled communication from a pilot trying to escape Dantooine. You could even make this something useful in the game. Someone wants a home and wants to know what it looks like, BLEEP R2 shows off the holo of it and the floorplan. CHs could have datafiles of pets and see their animations. You could drop in new disks to collect to preview new content. Wanna see the new generic large housethe architects will have in the next update, find the disk and see a holo of it in game(small size of course).
This means DE get some more R2 sales. And makes for tons more cool stuff that can be collected and shown off. You could have little get togethers to show off the holos they have found. Any little cool thing like this would help not only make quests better, but also make the game feel more Star Warsy.
Really anything... How about organics and non-organic resources.. and not one stinkin unit! As others have said, semi-useful armor.. hmm.. mandalorian armor? *giggle*
Another thing I've ALWAYS thought should happen, is when you loot someone, why can't you literally take EVERY item you see on him. That would rock! Like if you kill a Jedi, I would be interested in taking his light saber... why is a Dark Jedi Master carrying around 15 guns? I want his lightsaber and if I killed him, I see no reason why I can't have it! 
Kill a rebel with composite armor on? You should be able to loot it. Obviously, make the quality not as great, and have it beat up--but I think it would rock! Leave the NPCs laying there naked.. take their clothes, their shoes, whatever weapon they attacked you with.
Also, I forgot to mention and I know this was mentioned, but better skill tapes, make them work, and... (incoming big text)
DO NOT NERF THE MEDICAL USE SKILL TAPES/ENHANCED ITEMS!!!!!!! HAVE MERCY ON US AND LET USHEAL!
You know what I'm talking about
Re: Emperor's Retreat... Am I missing something?
Hunter-Al:
"Ok, I just finished the quests for the Emperor and Vader... However, I don't feel as though I have just served the most powerful people in the universe...
So... No badge, no field promotion, no ST armor, not even a freakin Imperial Officer's uniform? Why did I bother with this?"
Yenus:
"That is true, when vader and the emporer speak to you, they act like every other soldier there. It is pretty lame. I hope the rebel theme parks aren't as bad, but I have a feeling they are."
LorikLorik:
"Badges....items for houses....special parts that are used for crafting....a cashe of special resources.....short term faction pets under your command.....credits.....even things that you dont actually keep in the game.........how about things as simple as SOME TEXT! SOME STORY LINE! anything....anything....anything....anything...."
Kisedd:
"I"d be happy with a few thousand faction points. I'd be happy with some uniforms. Promotions. There are all kinds of things you can give out as a reward that would make me want to do these theme parks."
I play since 2 months and found only 1. I think they cant be made of tailors...
Unfortunately 99% of them (on the bazaar) are combat related.
I need weapon assembly, weapon experimentation, artisan experimentation etc.
Oh and more things like krayt tissues for experimentation. That would make the crafting community happy and it takes the crafters not out of business.