Jedi Archive

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TrogdorrtheBurninator wrote:

1) server name: Wanderhome

2) character name: Lethos

3) character gender: Male

4) player gender: Male

5) one fix you would make to the game. (1 only plz): Just stop and fix the bugs in the game, but adding more to it.

6) why you became jedi (short version): To extend on my wise old man RP

7) pre pub 9/ post pub 9: Unlocked under old system, just after pub 9, couldn't create jedi till pub 10

8) pre cu/ post cu: Explained above, very much pre-cu

9) the publish you had the most fun playing in: few months after release... but i was just a crafter back then.

10) your favorite SWG item: My perfect pearl

11) when you started in SWG: Release

12) is jedi considered your main or your alt: Main

13) pvp/pve: 25% / 75%

14) solo/group: Majority group

15) hunt for fun/ hunt for loot: Now - Fun mostly, previously both

16) how you would fix the GCW (short version): In a way remove jedi from the normality of the GCW, while still having an impact.

17) how you would fix FRS (short version): Gizmo had the right idea.

18) how many accounts did you create: 2

19) how many accounts do you have open now: 2

20) how do you feel about SWG in general the way it is right now: I'm only here because of my friends, and many of them are moving on, with that in mind, i don't forsee me staying that much longer

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TrogdorrtheBurninator wrote:

1) server name: Bria

2) character name: Iakimo

3) character gender: Guy

4) player gender: Old guy

5) one fix you would make to the game. (1 only plz): Yank SOE's license and award it to another company

6) why you became jedi (short version): I like playing a "good guy"

7) pre pub 9/ post pub 9: Post-9 glowy fool, avoided the Hologrind like the malicious prank it was

8) pre cu/ post cu: Post -- missed it by a week.

9) the publish you had the most fun playing in: Pub. 9 -- I got the "glow" and mastered BH within days of Pub. 9 going live

10) your favorite SWG item: My lightsaber -- that snap!-BZZZZmmmmmmm hum when I fire it up is one of the coolest sound effects in any science-fiction movie ever.

11) when you started in SWG: April 25, 2004

12) is jedi considered your main or your alt: My main

13) pvp/pve: Both

14) solo/group: Mostly group these days

15) hunt for fun/ hunt for loot: Both

16) how you would fix the GCW (short version): Create meaningful objectives

17) how you would fix FRS (short version): No idea. I'm not yet qualified to comment on this.

18) how many accounts did you create: 1

19) how many accounts do you have open now: 1

20) how do you feel about SWG in general the way it is right now: A buggy, unbalanced, horribly flawed game that gets progressively worse with every "publish." So much of SWG is brilliant-- vast, beautiful, diverse worlds -- but saddled with problems thatsabotage one's appreciation for the underlying brilliance of it all. Enormous potential wasted by a bunch of clueless suits who can't direct the design of a good, well-balanced game to save their first-born's lives.

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TrogdorrtheBurninator wrote:

1) server name:

BRIA

2) character name:

REDYRD

3) character gender:

MALE

4) player gender:

MALE

5) one fix you would make to the game. (1 only plz):

Fix Light Saber speed bug

6) why you became jedi (short version):

To hard won and long earned benefits of being the end-game profession

7) pre pub 9/ post pub 9:

Pre

8) pre cu/ post cu:

Pre, obviously

9) the publish you had the most fun playing in:

Can't remember. Just after the CU before they decided to 'nerf' jedi down to the pst-CU profession levels.

10) your favorite SWG item:

BARC

11) when you started in SWG:

Nov 2003

12) is jedi considered your main or your alt:

Main

13) pvp/pve:

PVE

14) solo/group:

Solo

15) hunt for fun/ hunt for loot:

Loot

16) how you would fix the GCW (short version):

1/. Restore GTEF. 2/, If Jedi use power or lightsabers within 1000m of major cities on Naboo orCorellia they spawn high level NPCs to attack them. 3/. If Jedi attack any player who has less than 150 points in a combat profession, they lose XP (except if they are attacked by said player or if that player is grouped with others with more than 150 points.

17) how you would fix FRS (short version):

Soloable quest based.

18) how many accounts did you create:

3

19) how many accounts do you have open now:

1

20) how do you feel about SWG in general the way it is right now:

Exceptionally poor communication with the players. Refusal to acknlowledge the players should direct the game. The team that made SWG is not the one the currently develops it and, as such, the game is rotting away. I am waiting for the launch of Dark and Light in November.

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TrogdorrtheBurninator wrote:

20) how do you feel about SWG in general the way it is right now:

Exceptionally poor communication with the players. Refusal to acknlowledge the players should direct the game. The team that made SWG is not the one the currently develops it and, as such, the game is rotting away. I am waiting for the launch of Dark and Light in November.

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TrogdorrtheBurninator wrote:

1) server name:Valcan

2) character nameowa

3) character gender:m

4) player gender:m

5) one fix you would make to the game. (1 only plz):Get Rid of the CU

6) why you became jedi (short version):Cus i could

7) pre pub 9/ post pub 9ost

8) pre cu/ post cure

9) the publish you had the most fun playing inatch 0

10) your favorite SWG item:dragon pearls

11) when you started in SWG:luanch

12) is jedi considered your main or your alt:no

13) pvp/pveve

14) solo/group:solo

15) hunt for fun/ hunt for loot:fun

16) how you would fix the GCW (short version):fire all the Devs

17) how you would fix FRS (short version):Same as above

18) how many accounts did you create:2

19) how many accounts do you have open now:2

20) how do you feel about SWG in general the way it is right now:a jedi dose not feel

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Iakimo wrote:

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TrogdorrtheBurninator wrote:

20) how do you feel about SWG in general the way it is right now:

Exceptionally poor communication with the players. Refusal to acknlowledge the players should direct the game. The team that made SWG is not the one the currently develops it and, as such, the game is rotting away. I am waiting for the launch of Dark and Light in November.

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I want to toss out some discussion on the point I've highlighted in red here. Personally, I don't think players should be allowed to *direct* the shape of a game. Any creative process is an art that threatens to become boiled down to an unrecognizable grey mush if subjected to majoritarian pressures. And I think player pressure is a big part of why this game has so MANY problems. The problem is it doesn't seem to have a great game designer at the helm. In fact, it feels too much like NO ONE is at the helm. As a result, the devs are in constant crisis-control mode, and make change after change that pulls one element of thebalance down while they're trying to pull another part up.

An excellent illustration of the point is the Squad Leader brouhaha. One of the devs' stated goals is eliminating one-shot kills. And yet, the Squad Leader profession has languished for most of the life of the game. So great... give SL's some luv... and give players some cool rifles as loot items... and voila! Back to one-shot kills! Where's the guiding design goalin this mess?

I just think too many of the bad things that have happened to this game are the by-product of too much player input. Or maybe it's more the product of an inability on the part of the devs to take all the constructive feedback of a passionate community and think the issues through in clear-headed fashion.

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