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Thread: a thread for all your early swg memories..
Sumus
Sun May 16, 2004 4:44 am
#119
I remember not knowing how to heal black bars on my HAM, and takeing up novice enterainer to heal my own mind. Got tipped 50 credits and thought "WOW that guy just gave me a great tip!"
Running out to the Rebel Hideout before speeders were put in, watching my radar for any red dots that showed up and traveling well out of the way of em'.
Running to Wayfar before player citys or speeders, that was a nerve racking trip.
Makeing 30k, I was rich!!
Accually particapting in a Rebel vs. Imp battle that was planed out ahead of time and fought on a (now non-existant) battlefield.
Running out to the Rebel Hideout before speeders were put in, watching my radar for any red dots that showed up and traveling well out of the way of em'.
Running to Wayfar before player citys or speeders, that was a nerve racking trip.
Makeing 30k, I was rich!!
Accually particapting in a Rebel vs. Imp battle that was planed out ahead of time and fought on a (now non-existant) battlefield.
Message Edited by Sumus on 05-16-2004 06:58 AM
Ace-Of-All-Trades
Sun May 16, 2004 10:45 am
#120
I remember Walking from coronet to Kor Vella (Didnt know about shuttles)
Then, to my surprise, some guy game up with a (Helper) tag and gave me 1000 credits and taught me all the languages and showed me where the trainers were...
When all said and done, I was a rich man - with 500 credits
So I went to the bazaar and saw an amazing 45-90heavy axe for 1000cr and spent hours getting enough money to buy it.... killing meatlump fools and bufoons... prolly my favorite day of playing
Starting out is so much more fun than finishing
BuhbuhC
Sun May 16, 2004 10:58 am
#121
I remember a Master commando and a AT-ST was the definition of hell in Anchorhead......now both of them are jokes.
Also when poeple did professions just to do them. Not because a pyramid or cube told them too.
Message Edited by BuhbuhC on 05-16-2004 11:01 AM
MaeveAlleine
Sun May 16, 2004 1:54 pm
#122
I am one of the leaders of my clan. I remember during week four after launch we found the site for our city - the northern central shores of Naboo. For months after that our little town was a ghost town because our members hated running all the way from keren to their houses. All they did was complain, complain complain. Now we're a popular level 4 city with a shuttle and speeders...haven't looked back since 
schally
Sun May 16, 2004 7:57 pm
#123
I remember the first day I played (the game had only been out about a week) I was just running around checking out thescenery outside of townand two guys ran up to me and asked, "Hey, how do we cross rivers?"
I said, "I don't know. Uh... swim?"
What do you know, it worked.
I also remember being a Novice Scout/Novice Artisan and being proud of myself for being so darn self-sufficient. I was like, "OMG, I can pitch a tent, harvest animals, survey resources AND make casual shirts! I'll never go back to town again!" I also did a lot of hiking into the wilderness (this was on Rori, so at that time it really was a wilderness) just to see what kinds of critters were out there. It didn't take me long to figure out that anything that didn't con blue was bad news for newbies.
GamerProX
Sun May 16, 2004 10:53 pm
#124
I remember starting in Narmel on Rori, and spending hours a day killing the Squalls (The bunnies) cause I could kite them, and thought it was great back then. I must admit, it was fun back in the early days.
UnyOTO
Sun May 16, 2004 11:05 pm
#125
When I first started my 4 rl friends and I started a resource business (4 guys and a Wookie)...There was nothing quite like selling VERY high quality copper for 3 cpu and feeling like we ripped the guy off.
/sigh....it's the simple pleasures that I miss....powergaming has ruined my spirit...it's like a drug, a terrible drug....
You want to stop and just sit back and enjoy...but the carrot dangling in front of you...taunting you...
I hate that dang carrot
Dookz
Sun May 30, 2004 9:14 pm
#127
I remember if you had a full suit of chitin armor, you were considered "cool" and "almighty"
Electron
Sun May 30, 2004 9:14 pm
#128
Saving money missions for a solid week to afford a ticket to Dantooine Imp City. Getting there, tanking with my GSP, yah there's an abbreviation you don't see anymore!! Greater Sludge Panther for those who care. It use to take 10 people to kill a piket, but Dantooine was WAY OVERCROWDED. I mean aggro fest!! But most of all the LUXURY of not getting decay for dying!!! /starts a chant; BRING IT BACK, BRING IT BACK!!! LOL!! j/k
Rippen208
Sun May 30, 2004 10:06 pm
#129
Ahhh, memories revisited now that someone has resurrected this thread...
Memories of my original Mon Calamari character on Corbantis:
-- I remember thinking the scenery of Corellia was so beautiful, even at night. I just could not believe the graphics. I even took screenshots and used them as desktop wallpaper. I used to walk around by myself at night out in the woods, immersed in peaceful solitude, and then admiring the beauty of the eventual sunrise.
-- I remember leaving our starting town of Doaba Guerfel on expeditions with two new-found friends (Cydian Taylor and Calybacca, both long gone) to the Crystal Swamps on Corellia. We used our cool new Probots to fight savage humbabas, which were gigantic back then. Now they are about half the size.
-- I remember my first time in the "big city" (Coronet) after spending my first 2 months in Doaba Guerfel. Coronet was HUGE compared to the town I had "grown up" in.
-- I remember falling in love with well-populated Tyrena, and finding a good spot NW of it overlooking the sea for my new house. The house was only there for about a week, because I hated having to run so far to put stuff in it.
-- I remember "The Run" to Wayfar, admiring the scenery even in the desert, seeing Jabba's Palace for the first time, and thinking, "it looks just like it did in the movie!" And were there really twin suns???
-- I remember discussing for the first time how to get to Dathomir (because we had heard of the 10k baz nitch missions), and wondering if we had to hire some special pilot or something.
--When we got to Dathomir with a small group (4-5 people), we tried to run to our mission waypoints, but only one or two of us would make it through the red dots. We were often hopelessly separated, and would try to rescue each other by making long detours, which also failed because the radar was, um, covered with red dots.
-- I remember when we finally got to our missions on Dathomir (after getting killed several times). We settled on a strategy whereby one person (usually me) would open fire on a MOB, then burst-run for the river and jump off the cliff into it, lol. While the baz nitches were chasing me ("Wow, look at Rip go!"), the rest of the group would shoot the lair. Who wants to guess whether this strategy worked or not?
-- I remember going to Dantooine's Imperial Outpost to join the big crowds of people there shooting at the pikets and bols that were right outside the Outpost. It was a perfect xp factory, since they never seemed to chase anybody. Just stood there being shot at by 20-30 people.
Rippen Tuck
(now a human on Starsider)
Memories of my original Mon Calamari character on Corbantis:
-- I remember thinking the scenery of Corellia was so beautiful, even at night. I just could not believe the graphics. I even took screenshots and used them as desktop wallpaper. I used to walk around by myself at night out in the woods, immersed in peaceful solitude, and then admiring the beauty of the eventual sunrise.
-- I remember leaving our starting town of Doaba Guerfel on expeditions with two new-found friends (Cydian Taylor and Calybacca, both long gone) to the Crystal Swamps on Corellia. We used our cool new Probots to fight savage humbabas, which were gigantic back then. Now they are about half the size.
-- I remember my first time in the "big city" (Coronet) after spending my first 2 months in Doaba Guerfel. Coronet was HUGE compared to the town I had "grown up" in.
-- I remember falling in love with well-populated Tyrena, and finding a good spot NW of it overlooking the sea for my new house. The house was only there for about a week, because I hated having to run so far to put stuff in it.
-- I remember "The Run" to Wayfar, admiring the scenery even in the desert, seeing Jabba's Palace for the first time, and thinking, "it looks just like it did in the movie!" And were there really twin suns???
-- I remember discussing for the first time how to get to Dathomir (because we had heard of the 10k baz nitch missions), and wondering if we had to hire some special pilot or something.
--When we got to Dathomir with a small group (4-5 people), we tried to run to our mission waypoints, but only one or two of us would make it through the red dots. We were often hopelessly separated, and would try to rescue each other by making long detours, which also failed because the radar was, um, covered with red dots.
-- I remember when we finally got to our missions on Dathomir (after getting killed several times). We settled on a strategy whereby one person (usually me) would open fire on a MOB, then burst-run for the river and jump off the cliff into it, lol. While the baz nitches were chasing me ("Wow, look at Rip go!"), the rest of the group would shoot the lair. Who wants to guess whether this strategy worked or not?
-- I remember going to Dantooine's Imperial Outpost to join the big crowds of people there shooting at the pikets and bols that were right outside the Outpost. It was a perfect xp factory, since they never seemed to chase anybody. Just stood there being shot at by 20-30 people.
Rippen Tuck
(now a human on Starsider)
Johethium
Sun May 30, 2004 10:20 pm
#130
I remeber that corpses actually left skeletons that stayed there for along time..that was awesome.
I also remeber when I first became an Imperial, I was declared and saw a CH talking to some neutral guy outside a medical center. So I decide to kick his arse, but he ended up incaping me with his pet, although, I begged for him not to kill me because I had just started. So the guy healed me and I ran off before he could incap me again!
I also remeber when I first became an Imperial, I was declared and saw a CH talking to some neutral guy outside a medical center. So I decide to kick his arse, but he ended up incaping me with his pet, although, I begged for him not to kill me because I had just started. So the guy healed me and I ran off before he could incap me again!