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Well that’s the whole issue with Twitch type games (And remember thats what the people begged for while many of us wanted pilot skills to play a factor like on the ground game.) You are either going to haveHigh ping wins, or Low Ping wins depending on if they use cone of Fire (Ala Planetside) or Area of Fire (Most FPS games) either way someone is going to be complaining no matter what.
I'm a Dial up user and PVP for me isn't that bad, but woe be unto me if they find out I'm on dial up..all I hear is "WTFBBQ u cheatin is teh suk" (And btw where the hell did all the l337 d00ds come from all of a sudden??) SOE knew it would have a lot of complaints of this nature if they went twitch, but decided to do it anyway.
They gave the people who complained what they wanted, and now many of them are still complaining…go figure.
Well because SWG is suppose to be a MMORPG, not a shooter. The thing is.... people are treating JTLS like a separate game when it was intended to be another facet of the ground game. Here is yetanother pitfall the developers hasn't taken into account the ground game being abandoned by those who want a RPG and the FPS crowd getting bored with JTLS after a couple months….. Result ghost town servers.
SOE really should stop testing the political wind before they make big decisions. It gets them in trouble every single time. More people would have stayed around if they gave us a non-twitch Space expansion with a truly dynamic in depth mission system. (Then they could have started the major overhaul of the completely boring broken mission system on the ground.) PVP is going to be fun for most for about a month then most people won't bother with it. SWG longevity both in space and on the ground is in crafting and missions Novice to elder game.
Much Revamps in your future I see. 
Message Edited by Liquankane on 10-27-2004 11:56 AM
Aren31 wrote:
There does need to be a PVP damage reduction.
Considering you're a master and can have the best crafted components
Mark V Shield = 1800-2000 HP
Mark V Armor = 1300-1500 HP
so combined you have 3500 hp on the front and 3500 hp on the back before components and Chassist start to take damage
Experimental Blaster does 1800-3500dmg per shot at about 50% reduction to shields and armor (Ion does up to 80% to shields, and Disruptor 80% to armor)
So if an Xwing has 2 blasters, he's doing 3600-7000 damge per shot, if both are blasters its about 1800-3500 actuall damage, one max hit and your entire shield and armor are gone, second hit hits for full damage (no reduction) and you're toast.
Either Shields need to be seriously beefed up, or a PVP damage reduction needs to be implemented
Is that not what the movies was like 2-3 hits and your gone.
DarkCobra wrote:
Actually i think its quite brilliant.
A MMORPG with not only total rpg (ground) and mostly fps (space)
I think its actually a great idea.Beside it might bring fps players into MMORPG's
Other than planetside and a handful of others,most MMO are rpg anf not fps.
Having both in 1 game is like having your cake AND eating it without any remorse
Yes and people thought that putting the Major Highways in Boston underground was a good idea too...look how that worked out. The fact is most of those who were saying how wonderful it is/will be isn't around now or won't be around in the next couple months. Its like bringing D&D and MTG players together it just doesn’t work. FPS players have the attention span of a Gnat on Jolt Cola, and RPG players are not going to go play Bang, Bang your dead. So by (Once again) trying to be all things to all people SOE fails to please either, and we the long time player pays for it, just like we are paying for all of the Jedi mistakes they have made, just like we are paying for having to endure the broken/boring ground mission system. Perhaps SOE should try something like focus groups before unleashing their theories on the paying public.