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Milander

Wed May 05, 2004 12:44 pm

Ok this might turn into a rambling rant but after reading mostly every post on this a few things need to be said..*stands on his soapbox*

1) The dev started this thread with "Welcome to sneak preview of one of this week’s Friday Feature" which means it's part of the patch not THE ENTIRE PATCH..

2) Does anyone know the context of the emotes? Is it just going to be a /holohellokitty, for the pink kitties? If so, then I guess it's up to the character to ROLE PLAY out the 'reason' for the effect...Latest 'fashion trend' from the cantina? New "Look at me I'm an entertainer' necklace? Heck even "Loot at me dood, I'm a leet holoskull dood!" while weak in RP still 'works'

3) Has anyone bothered to think there was another reason for this 'un starwarsy' (wretches) display? Testing for future code effects? New Entertainer effects? More cool droid thingys? Who knows, and apparently no one has thought beyond the "OMG that's stupid, that's un starwarsy!" when in actuallity ONE person and only ONE can make that determination (We all know who THAT is)

4) Duck (and other 'ducklings') you cannot have a mmorpg if you are putting it in the contrains of "Well it's not in the movies/books it shouldnt be in the game" heck, since when did you see a Average Joe Stormtrooper who could run circles around a rebel, dodge laser blasts, shooting (and HITTING) every shot, then kneeling to shoot, jumping up and runnin away again while shooting OVER HIS SHOULDER with 80+% hit ratio? If ANYTHING is unstarwarsy that is

(Not a personal attack against Duck, just that's the only name I remember who threw that phrase around the most)

The holo's are most like a "Oh look we've got room left to add some little things what should we do" filler

Wait for release then you can whine *edit* and moan about things after you have a clue.

*steps off the soapbox and burns on his 95% fire comp armor*

Abraxus666

Wed May 05, 2004 12:46 pm

#210

Sorry 'bout the two sweary words.

Nah, I'm looking forward to this like I look forward to almost every patch.

What I will say is that I would like to see body tatts for Zabrakks and scars but that's just me because that'd be cool!

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Cordalis

Wed May 05, 2004 1:02 pm

#211

ok, maybe it will be cooler in game....somehow...I'm still trying to think how....oh well...

Can you add more Mon Cal colors....I want to be white.

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isoner1

Wed May 05, 2004 1:07 pm

#212

Mattt wrote:

I had to check to see if it was April 1st again already when I saw these screenshots because I couldn't believe my eyes. I do hope there is an option to turn this off. I am all for Image Design but this is Star Wars, not Barney's Funhouse. I'm not one of those people who hates things because they're "kiddy"; this just doesn't fit Star Wars. I'd say the same thing if we were fighting poka-dotted giraffes and solving remedial math problems to open doors, while some happy, simple music is gleefully playing in the background. Because that's the image I get when I see these emotes. I don't understand where this idea came from...

Again, please give us the option to turn them off clientside.

It is my impression that these "Holo-emotes" are just emotes like /wave or /evilgrin... they wont be there the entire time. As things are now if I want to give you the look of death as I say you will pay for what you did to me, you may be zoomed too far out from my toon to see its facial expression, but if a skull is floating over my head when I say it, you will be sure to understand my intent.

On a lighter and less star warsy note, I kinda hope they give us chirping birds for those who get KOed and an anime sweat drop for those embarassing moments.

and Im another one of those who has yet to recieve a newsletter.

The_Shruberer

Wed May 05, 2004 1:14 pm

#213

What the....

*checks calendar*

not April 1st...

The_Shruberer has nothing to do now that there is no more floating shrub...

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Sir_Voor

Wed May 05, 2004 1:18 pm

#214

The_Shruberer wrote:

What the....

*checks calendar*

not April 1st...

The_Shruberer has nothing to do now that there is no more floating shrub....

Hehehe, I hope the "floating shrub" it one of the Holo-Emotes

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LadyLeala

Wed May 05, 2004 1:34 pm

#215

Thunderheart wrote:

LadyLeala wrote:

I actually just checked my own settings on this, since I don't ever remember receiving a newsletter. My email address is entered correctly, and I have the box checked to "receive SWG newsletter". But I have never once received a newsletter. I have had the form filled out for several months.

Can you check into this TH? I think something's broke.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news LadyLeala, but everything on this end is functioning correctly. Are you using a hotmail type of service? Some types of free email systems screen out the email as part of their anti-spam systems.

To remedy this, we'll have the newsletter archive for you.

Yeah, it's a yahoo address. I'll try a different one for a month and see if it works. Thanks!

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DuckMaestro

Wed May 05, 2004 1:43 pm

#216

Thunderheart, with all due respect, could you please get an answer for some of the non-sugarcoated questions and answer for us players who bought this game for starwars, what the starwars explenation for these magical special effects are?

I'll be frank and pithy. Ever since launch, I never thought this game was close enough to the starwars look&feel; unless these ID enhancements have some sort of starwars or even generic-tangible reason for existing, then I will cancel my subscription. This could very well be the last straw for me. I've played my fair share of star wars games and i can honestly say that SWG is the worst "star wars" game there is. To clarify, as a game SWG isn't that bad really; as a Star Wars game, SWG is terrible!

I know that the opinion of one doesn't matter when business comes to business and i understand that. It's about group opinions, usually the majority. My leaving probably will not accomplish much but i personally will have no choice. For me personally, i can only have fun playing a STAR WARS game if the game is actually based on Star Wars.

Say what you want of me, flame me. It doesn't really matter because i gotta do what i gotta do.

peace to you all.

Message Edited by DuckMaestro on 05-05-2004 01:45 PM

- Duck

I give up.

DuckMaestro

Wed May 05, 2004 1:47 pm

#217

thx to the person who one-starred me. i can see you are a very open-minded person

- Duck

I give up.

Iceek

Wed May 05, 2004 1:47 pm

#218

Feisen wrote:

I think the images look fun.

For all those complaining about it being non-star warsy, don't you realize that SW:G is part of the Star Wars franchise and that some things might first be introduced into the EU through this game? I think it would be all too funny if George Lucas saw these ideas and decided to use them in a street or cantina scene in the next movie. How alien would it seemto see people decorated by holo-projections? Pretty neat touch, actually.

As for devices, just assume it's nano-projectors or something.

They look 'fun'? Well to me a BMW motorbike looks like fun too, but hell, I surely dont want one in this game! And don't start b...ing now, this makes as much sense as the thought of this game introducing new things like this.

Sure, I never saw an Image Designer in a movie. Neither did I see swordsmen and all the other stuff thats only to be seen when reading a comic or playing this game, BUT:

What you WILL see in every movie, is that the holotechnology just plain sucks. If you compare it to the Star Trek holodeck for example, its like a C64 and a brandnew gaming machine from nowadays - the problem is, you can't just go and say 'Oh, ya know what, today I feel like changing the technological history of SW!', because this game has a certain point of time its meant to be in - right between the old movies!

Today its a point(and sense)less 'holoemote', tomorrow its warp speed.. go figure

Slothrop27

Wed May 05, 2004 1:48 pm

#219

I've never recieved an email newsletter either, I use AOL....I have two accounts
and I've tried with 2 seperate email addresses...it says everything is A-OK but
still, i've never gotten a newsletter.....

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mirah

Wed May 05, 2004 1:50 pm

#220

Well my first thing to say here ya'll is this is the image design board not where you come to talk about emails lol.

-as far as these new emotes they are going to be cool to check out and those that don't like them don't have to use them. Noone knows really what else we are getting other that what TH just explained. The dev's are working on hair for us and other things but we all understand that it takes time to do this bc it's not like our chars are stick people. There is a post that actually explains somewhat how it's done and I for one am amazed at how many things we actually have in this game. Yes there are bugs but ya know what it's a GAME! Yes this is Star Wars Game, but think about the movies if we would have been shown everything that Lucas had thought about it would have lasted for days. This all being said just sit back, wait till it goes live, and enjoy them and if you don't want to deal with it then don't. Avoid the iders and the tents and continue your game. You aren't going to have your game play ruined by a little bit of holo emotes.

Dolly

Sorry if this is *edit*y it's just this is the id forums and we are a loving bunch and you all came and moaned about the new changes when our profession really needs some attention.

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Iceek

Wed May 05, 2004 1:55 pm

#221

Feisen wrote:

I think the images look fun.

For all those complaining about it being non-star warsy, don't you realize that SW:G is part of the Star Wars franchise and that some things might first be introduced into the EU through this game? I think it would be all too funny if George Lucas saw these ideas and decided to use them in a street or cantina scene in the next movie. How alien would it seemto see people decorated by holo-projections? Pretty neat touch, actually.

As for devices, just assume it's nano-projectors or something.

This game introducing new things?

Sure, I never saw an Image Designer in a movie. Neither did I see swordsmen and all the other stuff thats only to be seen when reading a comic or playing this game, BUT:

What you WILL see in every movie, is that the holotechnology just plain sucks. If you compare it to the Star Trek holodeck for example, its like a C64 and a brandnew gaming machine from nowadays - the problem is, you can't just go and say 'Oh, ya know what, today I feel like changing the technological history of SW (because im bored to hell/cant think of an intelligent way to implement particle effects)!'

Today its a point(and sense)less 'holoemote', tomorrow its warp speed.. go figure

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