Development Cycle Archive
Thread: In-Concept Open Discussion (Week Ending 4-19-04)
Jedi Revamp:
I think the quest-based concept is a good one. Of course, allowing both systems (holo-grinding and quests) to exist side by side is only fair to those who have invested a lot of effort towards holo-grinding.
I think The quests should require the following before a player can undertake:
1.) 235+ skill points spent.
2.) Mastery of at at least 2 professions
3.) Possession of a holocron
In exchange for the holocron, the Quest NPC sends the player on a quest. This quest will should be chosen by the player, and should be clearly a Combat, Craft, Perform, Retrieve, etc. type quest. Players should be required to undergo a variety of quests, say a total of four, no more than 2 can be identical. Thus Combat, Perfom, Craft, Combat would be acceptable but Combat, Combat, Craft, Craft would not. This allows for the spirit of the current system to be retained (giving a driving force for players to learn professions other than combat...) while allowing for a choice. A friend of mine got his first Holocron at christmas and it said "Master Dancer"...he has no interest in non-combat professions and is now waiting for the quest system. It would be a shame to turn such players away from the game by forcing what they consider "NOT-FUN" professions...
These quests may require a player to "clear" and instanced dungeon (something the Devs have stated they are moving towards), retreive a rare loot drop, create an object of exceptional quality (such as the RIS armor quest), Perform a "concert" with at least 20 Master Dancers/Muscian-types and to an audiance (grouped)of at least 20 (all watching/listening), etc.
Thus, the holocron remains as a viable holocron as it is currently and allows for the quest-based system to remove holocrons from the game as well (a balance issue), gives players greater choice (always a good thing), and makes the prospect of becoming a Jedi no easy task while increasing options.
(give us a taste of space, maybe the fliers you control with the arrows, and for now they cant shoot)
), and then all you have to do is give it to an architect and they can build it for you. Yeah, so when will we be expecting more of these unique paintings, plants, sculptures, and misc items to be available to us?
Another evening ruined and I am getting sick of this.
I was trying to prepare for our guild hunt to the Corvette and was in Kor Vella to talk to the NPC who gives the quest when I was scanned and made overt, this despite the fact that I have removed all spice from my person and have no spliced armor or weapons on me. Since I have zero interest in PvP, this meant I had to log for the evening. The guild hunt preparations will not get done. Tomorrow's guild hunt may not take place unless someone else can do the preliminaries without being made overt. The evening I had hoped to spend enjoying SWG was ruined.
Monday evening we had a guild hunt to the Tusken fort. This meant going through Mos Espa. One of our members was scanned in Mos Espa and made overt. He had to log for the evening to avoid being involved in PvP harrasment, instead of enjoying a guild hunt with the rest of his guild. Where is the fun in this? I thought PvP was supposed to be consensual in this game.
Some people enjoy PvP, but many do not. People who choose to PvP are prepared and practiced in the art. People like me are not. Making players overt who have not chosen that role, exposes them to harassment and ruins their game play.
To be neutral in this game is to be barred from participating in half of the content, so that is not a viable option. Many are philosophically opposed to joining the Imperial faction. I know I am. How many evenings have to be ruined before folks begin to wonder why they are paying to be harrassed or forced to log off from the game to avoid being involved in non-consensual PvP? Take non-consenual PvP out of the Imperial crackdown. This is not the game I was promised.
- Gungans are being threatened by a creature of the deep that is poisoning the gungans of the city. All available personal are requested to help save the gungan population and salvage the city before it is too late.
Objectives:
Bio Engineers must extract DNA samples to aide to devise a poison syrum
Medics of all kind are requested to applythe newly devised syrum to the gungan population
Creature Handlers must sooth the infected local creatures for medications to be appplied
The giant underwater creature is waiting and its"friends" in the depths of the underwater city are in place to ward off intruders.
- Imperials have relocated a group of wookies from the Kassaykk sysytem and set them to work in enslavement. The wookies are under heavy pressure from their imperial masters to finish the facilty. To increase productivity the wookies have been induced with chemicals to raise their stats for quicker results. Word of the facility has leaked onto the holonet through the spy network.
Objectives:
REBEL:A wookie revolt leader is being held in solitary, but his information about the facilty and imperials would be a great advantage to the rebellion, extract him before imperial reinforcements can arrive.
IMPERIAL: Wookies have seized control of the new facility and taken imperial soldiers hostage, kill off the wookies and regain control of the facility for the Emperor demands the station intact.
NEUTRAL: A pregnant wookie female has been caught in the cross fire between automated droids and and crazed wookies, save her and discover her treasure.
- A wealthyex-senator from the old republic is conducting a search for a new designs and inspirations for her loft on coruscant. She has setup a large tower to draw in talent from all over the galaxy. A highly competitive opponent seeks to obtain the reward befor you can reach her, Race through disgruntal artisans, musicans and underlings to reach her tower office.
Objectives:
Artisans and Entertianers required, the best team (made up of all entertainers and artisans) with the most skill will be able to get better reward and finish before time runs out.
Artisans will need to craft a wide variety of items to give to please the needs of elevator and room controllers.
Entertainers will need to sooth the tensions of tensed crafters and put to sleep angry guards
Be mindful to have a droid with you, access codes may need to be overided
Search the tower rooms for proper resources needed to craft, play music, and learn a new dance step.
Quicker you can get your team up the tower to the former senator, the greater the reward.
Dear SWG,
I am a Politician on Starsider and plan on one day becomming a Master Politician. Currently there are no skills associated with the master slot and no perks. I propose that Master Politicians be able to build Capitol Buildings in their cities. These capitol buildings would allow Master Politicians to include Mayors from other cities in an alliance that would result in lower city maintenance costs based on the number of cities that are aligned within a single capitol building. The capitol buildings have always looked nice and this would allow a way for various cities to band together.
Sincerely,
Aurelius Valorum
Starsider
Enough of this moaning about "Will my main become a Jedi..." and "Revamp this..."
You want a concept? I'll give you a concept...
In the Space Expansion release a "throw-away" planet. Don't tell anyone which one it is.
Allow it to populate over 3-4 months.
During those months use the story arcs to have the Empire complete a second Death Star (of varying degrees dependant on the actions of each arc).
Set in on course to the "Throw-Away" planet with a deadline date for the event to happen.
Stage numerous dog fights as the Death Star nears the planet-(the journey to the planet should take 5-7 real time days) and depending on the outcome of the dog fights- i.e. whether someone can get to the Death Stars core and stop it- Have the Death Star destroy the planet.
CRAZY, RIGHT!?
Does everyone who inhabited that planet suffer a permanent death? NO! Of course not.
But they do lose what is left on the planet if they can't move it within the 5-7 days.
If you were on the planet at the time of it's demise then you would choose another planet to be shuttled to after you were miraculously "rescued".
Now THAT is a concept.
Probably couldn't do it 'cause someone would freak or something- or the whine factor might get to be too great. But I say GO FOR IT. That would be the coolest, most talked about event EVER! And damn close to the movies.
Oh well, time to take my pill.
When I started playing SWG I thought that would be possible, since SWG is a RPG I thought many people would like the opportunity to live in the citys from the movies like Mos Eisley,Mos Espa and Theed. It could be done in many different ways, personally I like the idea to have instanced appartments in the city because this would make it possible to almost have an unlimited number of appartments, and if players left the game and hadalot ofmaintenance paid they would nottake up any "space". Also I think that adding shoppingmalls to the big citys where players can have vendors would be nice.
DarkaGolloum wrote:
Housing:
There a heaps of empty houses in Cities, and im not talking about Player cities, i mean the NPC cities, the game cities, anyways, why dont you opening them up for rent?
Kinda like penthouses for the servers rich and famous?
Id like to live in a city, it would help bring back the people to the cities