SWG worth coming back to?Follow

i recently got the trial to help some people try and figure it out, cant remember what time it was i logged in, early morning i think, but there was around 3 mediums, maybe 4 or 5 lights, and the rest were very light, so i can imagine theres a server pop for everyone, though the server you played on might be very light, like sunrunner was for me.

wow, just logged in, there were 2 heavys, 6 mediums, 8 lights and the rest were very light.

It is pretty good now compared to when the NGE was first released, but its probably a very good thing that you missed the first year of the NGE or you might very well have become one of the 'bunch of whining ********* i have to ask though, have you really only been playing everquest for the last like... 8 years? I probably played EQ for 3 or 4 years, but, i played quite a few other games too, particularly during the darker hours of SWG's history. but welcome to SWG, if a little belatedly... ..

I was checking out one of my old char's on Chilastra server yesterday, i was surprised to see that there were far more people around than i had anticipated, bearing in mind this is early evening UK time, the cantina was also quite full, i dont know about the rest of the servers, but, judging by the numbers i've seen on the servers i do have access to, then there really are a lot more players now than there were the few months post NGE, it finally looks like the game is reviving from the Exodus.

My only complaint of what they have done to SWG over time is that they gave the players the ability to custom make a character with the blend of skills that they would use for their character (ie. bounty hunter with a tad of riflemanm etc) and now they made it where you have to choose one profession and can only do what that profession is able to do. Now keep in mind that is ok if that is how they intended the game to be.....but they should have done that from the start. It's bad for morale if you give everyone the ability to be unique and cross-profession and then take it all away. Other than that the game has quite a bit to offer....space-type gaming, ground hunting, tradeskills, housing, guilds, cities, etc etc.

Weird I loved PvP in the early days and if I had one complaint it would have been about the ability of combat medics to simply clone and run straight back into action before you had a chance to recover.

I started playing SWG for the first time a few days ago. I have to say I'm having trouble liking this game for all the bugs I'm running into. However I really like space combat, it's fun and challenging and gives me new skills as a gamer. However I've ran into the last dam bug today to make me not want to buy this game. First bug I've ran into is with targeting a ship out in Tatooine. I was finally able to target the ship I needed to dock with by moving my ship to the other side of said ship and moving out a ways.
Then in Mos Eisley, I start having issues with the rewards for doing terminal missions. Says it gives me -80k (random) for credit reward, but i got no credits (or lost credits) and no exp, I checked 4 times to confirm this. Then I have a issue with fighting some dewbacks, where they kill me and I'm not able to get back up for several minutes even after the timer counted down to 0.
I go to the bazaar terminal (which is poorly designed, wtf no level or race specific filters? lol) and look for some armor to wear cuz right now mine kinda sux. So I find a really nice padded helmet for a decent price. So I buy it, have to travel all the way to another planet to pick it up (lame, but w/e not a issue really). So I pick it up, I double check the details. It says I can equip it. No problem with race or anything else. So I try to equip it, and can't. Instead I get a message in my chat window saying I lack the certification. WTF? Didn't say that in the details. I sent tickets on these issues. This game's quality is **** poor.

Edited, May 16th 2008 4:20am by rremnar

Armour, the combat classes (not jedi) can wear armour at level 22, but its only the armour applicable to your level, and i think profession, so before buying that piece of armour check a few things;

a, is the armour higher level than you?
b, is it the correct type of armour, ie, recon/battle/assault.
c, does it have factional requirements, ie, do you have to be not on leave, in order to wear.


dont get me wrong, swg is a simple enough game, but sometimes the details can catch you out.

What I'm complaining about is the details in said armor, not that I can't wear armor at a certain level. When the details all check out and say I can equip it, but instead get that message, tells me the designers are the ones who are stupid. And since I am new to the game I can't be expected to know every fking detail about the game. Where does it say I can't wear armor in the beginning? I don't remember reading about this, after reading a shtload of information and going to the guides. I am comming from other online games that are point blank obvious on what you can or cannot wear. Normally I wouldn't be griping about things in this forum, but with all the bugs and bad design in the game, I had to state my concerns somewhere. This problem isn't with weapons, in fact the weapons state if I can or cannot equip it (level restrictions etc). The problem is with the details in the said piece of armor. Read thoroughly before you comment.

I agree, I've been very frustrated lately with the game. However the issue again wasn't about level requirement details because there was none on that piece of armor. But w/e I have to do more research.

I got a email response from a GM about the issue I had about the mission terminal. Even after asking helpers, no one knows about this.

"The reason that it shows negative credit is that you can only get credits from mission up to 50,000 credits, after your character has 50k in credits, no matter how you got them, you will no longer receive credits from these missions as long as your account is in trial status. This was done to combat against credit farmers."

You know if this was stated in the newbie guides or as a sticky on the newbie forums on the main SOE SWG or these forums, I wouldn't be squakin so much. Since I received a somewhat decent response by the GM, I'm not so angry about all these issues now. But as for buying the game I'm still thinking about it. Hopefully I'll get a better feel of it after another week of the trial.

I'm still running into problems while playing. I deleted my smuggler and created a commando. I'm liking it so far. I joined the Empire and started an Imperial assignment to track down a NPC who was about to sell some info to the rebels. Well I found the guy, killed off his henchmen but the NPC I needed to talk to was inside a player house. Or what I thought was a player house (like all the ones all over the place). So I'm thinking, Oh great another bug or issue. But I am also thinking maybe it's by design and it's not a player house. Since the door isn't working maybe I can blow it up? I can't talk to the NPC through the wall although I can click on him.

YES!

There's still plenty to do, provided you have a good guild, and you're on the right server.