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Everyone is invited to this event. The reason it’s a pilot strike and not a pistoleer, bounty hunter, pikeman, WHATEVER strike is obvious. The fact that PILOTS refuse to fly means we DO NOT want Jump to Lightspeed before the combat balance is done! The combat balance was promised to us months ago. It’s time our voices be heard! This includes everybody! Whatever profession you are, if you play Star Wars Galaxies, log on to Sunrunner and join us in Theed for the largest symbol of dissatisfaction the developers have ever witnessed!

Background: A similar strike took place on another server. It involved the lack of armor for wookies. Even characters from other servers created wookies on one server for the event. It was a success, and the developers were forced to acknowledge the problem and fix it. Striking is the best way to send the developers a message. We don’t care about JTL, fix the game that we play right now! If you hammer out a hole in a wall, do you cover it up with wallpaper? No! You FIX IT! SOE should give us what they promised!

If it gets laggy to the point where you can’t move, so be it! As long as your character is present. Personally I’ll be stomping, flailing, chanting slogans of dissatisfaction, but as long as you’re present it is fine. Whether you want to go grab a beer, watch some TV, or do whatever, leave your character online in Theed at the strike. We have strength in numbers! It is enough to send a message.

I think you're referring to the wookiee protest on Corbantis.

JtL is ten times more important than anything in the game right now. People just don't get that because all they know is the normal game. But it is basically the second half of SWG.

Plus it's combat revamp, not balance, get straight what you're protesting about.

I glad this idea caught on.

Boycott JTL until the ground game is fixed!

This is a terrible idea. Let me get this straight: you want SOE to postpone what looks like an incredibly fun addition to SWG for an indeterminate length of time while they put in the combat balance? That would KILL SWG, kill it dead. JTL has to come out now to compete with the next generation of MMOs (WoW anyone?). Personally, I'm glad that I'll have something to keep my attention while they code in the combat balance. Granted, these issues should have been taken care of months ago, but boycotting something that the game desperately needs in order to get something else it desperately needs is just dumb.

I don't know how much something like this will help, but I just wanted to say that SOE has a proven history of pushing products out the door before their ready. I was in Beta and when the release of SWG was approaching there was a vast majority of people on the beta forums calling for the game not to be released yet. EVERYONE in beta knew the game was not ready for release. But, SOE released it anyways. I'd be willing to bet that JTL won't be much different. But, what really burns me is the fact that there are so many things from the original release that has been broken since the beginning that still isn't fixed. I think this is unacceptable. I wonder if George Lucas has ever looked at these forums and seen some of the complaints. Some how I doubt it. Don't get me wrong, I think the Dev's mean well and have created a game that had the possibility of being great. But, they've fallen short just because they don't focus on the existing problems. They continue to create new content but fail to fix anything that doesn't work properly. I can partially understand why they keep creating new content. I think they are afraid that they either won't generate enough new customers or maybe people will get bored and leave. Maybe they figure that people get mad when things don't work right, but don't necessarily leave. I don't know...

Message Edited by Skraak on 07-30-2004 01:25 PM