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Thread: Small sugestion to FS grinders ( including myself )
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Reb16
Mon Dec 06, 2004 5:56 am
#15
I took a 4 month vacation from SWG 
and recently I thought to myself, wouldn't it be great if I made my main character a Jedi? Im more than half way there and the best part about it is I love grinding /gasp. Since I havent done it in a long time, I've capped out on exp9 times and counting in the last 3 days . But some days I have that zombie look on my face after putting in a good 6 hours of play.
and recently I thought to myself, wouldn't it be great if I made my main character a Jedi? Im more than half way there and the best part about it is I love grinding /gasp. Since I havent done it in a long time, I've capped out on exp9 times and counting in the last 3 days . But some days I have that zombie look on my face after putting in a good 6 hours of play.
Asudek
Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:20 am
#16
Well, im in total agreement the FS grind is hell, its long dull and boring but NOWHERE near as bad as your jedi grind is, YOU'LL SEE. ANyway, some thougths on breaking up the monotony of the grind, some of which has already been mentioned, do some PVP, go on guild hunts(if your guild does it), try seeing how fast you can grind a new prof(I wnet from polearms 1 to master pike in 10 buffs, i hauled ass). I am involved in regular runs to the DWB each friday, that helps, you get to meet new people each time. There are alot fo thigns you can do to break up the strain, mostlyi find that just sticking to your guns and forcing yourself to do it is the fastest way to get through it.
As far as you people talking about having hoth and new planets in with JTL. You're not thinking in terms of SOE. If they put in a bunch of new planets with JTL, what would they have for a second expansion. AS much as i love this game, id hate to say thsi, but SOE is a xxxBITCHxx when it comes to finding ways to keep you coming back for more. JTL expanded upon the overall feel of the game, and what can be done in it. Im fully expecting the next expansion to be new worlds, Hoth, kashyyk, maybe Coruscant(an entire quest planet, no generic hunting) for a few thoughts. SOE learned their lesson with EQ, it was fairly popular in the beginning, but each new expansion did nothign but add more worlds to hunt and do stuff on, never really expanding on the overall feel of the game. Personally id LOVE to see and "antiquities" expansion, im busting a nut to own a set of Clone Armor. SO thats what im guessingis coming next, we'll see, id be interested in hearing what you all think.
solmasta
Mon Dec 06, 2004 12:10 pm
#17
Your advice is sound.
Speaking with regard to FS- XP: What I would like to see is a game system that rewards you with force sensitive XP for doing what you normally do. The quest system could be left as it is now.
The problemis that someone who does not dedicate their in-game existence to grinding cannot hope to fill these boxes. That is to say, ifone I have a fewhours to play everyday andif I go around with my friends taking on mobs or doing missions,themeparks, pvping, crafting, buffing healing etcwhile I am online, then I will probably reach the padawan trials around some time in 2009, assuming that SWG still exists by then.
Right now our only option is to do what you have rightly suggested, take a hiatus from this game and do other things that reward us more immediately.
I have heard the argument that Jedi is not meant for the people who cannot dedicate their in game experience to "forging" their jedi through this rigorous, and repetitiveprocess. In which case my question would be: what is there left for us to do?Speaking for myself: I am a master inmy professions and have no skill points left to spend, I can progress in no other positivedirection except Jedi.
There is clearly a dilemma here that needs solution.
DRWolfe
Mon Dec 06, 2004 12:11 pm
#18
No time... must grind...
Despite the mind-numbing grind, due to my limited play time, I really have to spend just about every moment in-game grinding if I want to see a saber in my hands sometime before 2006. Once I get there, I can relax and enjoy. So the Jedi grind is 10 or 100 times worse? Who cares, I'll be a Jedi.
Despite the mind-numbing grind, due to my limited play time, I really have to spend just about every moment in-game grinding if I want to see a saber in my hands sometime before 2006. Once I get there, I can relax and enjoy. So the Jedi grind is 10 or 100 times worse? Who cares, I'll be a Jedi.
solmasta
Mon Dec 06, 2004 12:19 pm
#19
DRWolfe, I agree with you completely and in fact I end up doing the same thing you do - spending every moment of my gameplaying in swg grinding. The thing is.....it shouldn't have to be this way. I have to keep telling myself that one day I will be able to play this game just for fun, (after I have ground out my jedi).
The reward should not be solely at the mountain's peak.
DRWolfe wrote:
No time... must grind...
Despite the mind-numbing grind, due to my limited play time, I really have to spend just about every moment in-game grinding if I want to see a saber in my hands sometime before 2006. Once I get there, I can relax and enjoy. So the Jedi grind is 10 or 100 times worse? Who cares, I'll be a Jedi.
Message Edited by solmasta on 12-06-2004 02:19 PM
DravTroele
Tue Dec 07, 2004 1:28 am
#20
Here is what I do, I spend a day (since I only get to play a few hours a day) maxing out my exp. Then I go do whatever else I want to do for a few days. Then I max out again. Wash, Rinse, Repeat. This seams to keep me fresh and not just grinding like a mad man.
DRWolfe
Tue Dec 07, 2004 1:52 am
#21
solmasta wrote:DRWolfe, I agree with you completely and in fact I end up doing the same thing you do - spending every moment of my gameplaying in swg grinding. The thing is.....it shouldn't have to be this way. I have to keep telling myself that one day I will be able to play this game just for fun, (after I have ground out my jedi).
The reward should not be solely at the mountain's peak.
DRWolfe wrote:
No time... must grind...
Despite the mind-numbing grind, due to my limited play time, I really have to spend just about every moment in-game grinding if I want to see a saber in my hands sometime before 2006. Once I get there, I can relax and enjoy. So the Jedi grind is 10 or 100 times worse? Who cares, I'll be a Jedi.Message Edited by solmasta on 12-06-2004 02:19 PM
Well, I've been through just about everything else in the game with my original character, so I'm doing pretty much nothing but the minimum effort to get into the village and grinding XP to get Jedi so I can do them all over again as a Jedi. So, I've seen the mountain's peak, I just want to see it again from a new perspective.
I think this grind could easily have been cut by about a third and it's purpose of making people not go for Jedi would still have been fulfilled. There are going to be Jedi in numbers, everyone who wants one will get one, it's inevitable. The people who would have quit but didn't because the grind was less would quit Jedi when they see that grind ahead of them (if they didn't have my point of view, that is). The Village phases set a time frame which is met by a good number of the population in terms of XP as well (grinding out the XP for a full branch in the three weeks), so why torture the player who has less time to grind? This is the result, we grind 100% of our play time instead of enjoying the game more. Sigh.
Rhadida
Tue Dec 07, 2004 6:37 am
#22
This grinding is one of the reasons that I stopped killing with my character and devoted myself to crafting. I really enjoy that atm, but I am forched to grind even more in the nearby future if I want to get rid of those moderate succes I'll need to get that Experimentation branch. I couldn't do it in the first Phase 2, so this Phase 2, I will be the first (I hope so). I need that tree so bad, and than I need 1250k FSxp to fill it up, or 6250k Weapon crafting xp OR 8504 Heavy WarHeads in Practice mode. Which will cost me the millions I am saving atm 
Ah well I will finally be able to craft more chilling
And besides I am not in a hurry to get Jedi, because all will change for the good or worse when the Combat Balance Hits.
lilceaser
Sat Dec 11, 2004 11:53 pm
#23
i will take a very nice break when i hit jedi padawan.....lol....Ceasar :::sunrunner:::
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