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Thread: Possible bonus content??
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JediArashi
Fri Mar 25, 2005 5:51 am
#1
Something I noticed from the Stratics chat that I haven't seen anyone mention:
Brannoc: *Groove* Will wookies have any special abilities on the new planet?
Ronda: Wookiees will not have special abilities on Kashyyyk... the content is for all species to explore
Ronda: There will be a difference in dialog with many NPCs however
Ronda: Wookiees will hear things that not everyone else will
Ronda: Wookiees will not have special abilities on Kashyyyk... the content is for all species to explore
Ronda: There will be a difference in dialog with many NPCs however
Ronda: Wookiees will hear things that not everyone else will
Now, if wookies will hear things no one else will, is this because of language?? If it is, anyone think that maybe UW 1 Smugglers will also be able to hear such things? I think that would be very neat. I mean, we all know that Han was the only one who was able to understand Chewie, so why not allow Smugglers with the language skills to converse with wookies on Kashyyyk on a level regular players can't?!
No, it wouldn't be great content, but Ithink it would assist in immersion and give us a small, little perk for our useless language abilities.
fishbrains
Fri Mar 25, 2005 5:58 am
#2
on a side note. does it seem lame to anyone else that Wookies will get no bonus on the planets that they evolved to live on. This makes the baby Darwin cry.
Jaguarrr
Fri Mar 25, 2005 6:04 am
#3
I think it is more like "You are not a wookie, so I don't talk to you" thing
Mentski
Fri Mar 25, 2005 7:34 am
#4
Yeah, i think its more along the lines of fellow Wookiees will be treated slightly differently, probably no more than the different script we got when talking to the Life Day Wookiees.
WesBelden
Fri Mar 25, 2005 8:00 am
#5
fishbrains wrote:
on a side note. does it seem lame to anyone else that Wookies will get no bonus on the planets that they evolved to live on. This makes the baby Darwin cry.
rofl 
I had hoped they might be able to climb/move betweentrees, but I guess that would have been too technically challenging... or something. It would have been nice if they'd received say a camo bonus, maybe mask scent and or terrain negociation aswell. Ah well, maybe when things are fixed and the devs can spend 90% of their resources on adding content and makingwhatever the nextexpansion is there'll be room for far more quests and abilities for everyone on their native planet, chosen profession, aligned factionand elsewhere.
Vrond
Fri Mar 25, 2005 8:22 am
#6
The problem with giving any bonus out is then other races would wnat similar treatment. Do humans now get bonus on Corellia? /shrug you cant give something to one with out all the others asking where is mine.
Lixosskzzo
Fri Mar 25, 2005 8:26 am
#7
I'm guessing the way they'll explain the lack of bonuses: The planet has been scarred and changed. I'm guessing that's also how they'll explain the fact that the screen shots not only show people on the surface but a sunny, happy surface at that...
So if the planet has changed since the wookiees left, presumably, aside from climbing, any bonuses would be smaller at the least.
JTGAlpha
Sat Mar 26, 2005 1:41 am
#8
No. I don't think our UW1 ability will see any use. Wookiees got different responses from the Life Day NPCs than the rest of us. I think they're talking about more of the same. Wookiees will get different NPC responses than the rest of us. Which is fine because, hey, it's their planet.
JediArashi
Sat Mar 26, 2005 1:58 am
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JTGAlpha wrote:
No. I don't think our UW1 ability will see any use. Wookiees got different responses from the Life Day NPCs than the rest of us. I think they're talking about more of the same. Wookiees will get different NPC responses than the rest of us. Which is fine because, hey, it's their planet.
Yeah, but it would be nice to have Smugglers be able to understand more of what they are saying. But i agree, it will probably be the same as the Life Day bit...oh well.
I too think that Wookies should get bonuses on their home planet. I think they should get bonuses similar to rangers do, but only on Kashyyyk. It would make sense that they know and understand the creatures they hunt on their own homeworld, since their culture is one of warriors and hunters. Also since all male wookies go through the "rite of passage" that involves hunting in the depths of the forest/jungle, they should have an understanding that others cannot.
They won't specifically for the reasons mentioned....others will want some too. Humans wouldn't get any on Corellia though since the worl itself isn't really any different then thousands of others, with no real unfamiliar culture. Kashyyyk is a distinct world with a race that is unique and has a unique culture. Just like a Mon Cal should have bonuses in the ocean, an ocean world is not common. Corellia, Naboo, Dantooine, etc. they are all essentially the same... you know Earth-like. (to me at least)
Here's to more expansions that finally give all the races their own homeworld with unique content! (but not before we get soem attention, of course!!)
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