Curse

PippinTook · Jul 25, 2005, 05:51 PM // 17:51

I was just wondering how many people play SWG and GW. I was wondering because I was thinking of going back to play. If you do can you tell me if its worth going back to.

Swampgirl Inez · Jul 25, 2005, 05:56 PM // 17:56

I guess it depends on what you are going back for. I don't play anymore, but some of my guildies do. The CU originally drove away tons of players, but they have fixed some of the Jedi visibility issues, however it still takes forever to grind all the xp you need. I was never interested in being a Jedi and can't afford the monthly fee, so no going back here. I haven't heard much about the CU at all lately, so I don't know if it is still borked or if the initial blood-letting has just died down. I'll ask my guildies next time I'm on TS and see if they can give some insight.

PippinTook · Jul 25, 2005, 06:03 PM // 18:03

One of the chars on my old acct was 3 blocks away from jedi. People have said you can get xp fine if your in a group. I hope so. I think the new patch is going to start splitting up group xp again tho (read it somewhere on SWG forums). That would make xp hard to get.

BrandonIT · Jul 25, 2005, 07:07 PM // 19:07

The problem with getting group XP as a Jedi, was you gained "visibility" when you were around other players, even if they were friends in your group. This caused your name to appear on the bounty hunter terminals, which meant that bounty hunters would be coming after you. Since you lost a large amount of XP every time you were killed by a bounty hunter, many Jedi avoided grouping at all costs. This led to Jedi soloing most of the time, which coupled with the large amount of XP required meant that our members who were grinding Jedi basically 'disappeared', never to be seen again.

I have heard this is a way to group without gaining 'visibility' now. Both of the SWG guilds I belong to have mentioned it. So that may be a moot point now.

Like most games, SWG is as broken as you want to make it. Are there still bugs? Absolutely. Is the combat system still unbalanced? Yes. Do some weapons still not work right? Yup. Can you still not group an entertainment bot on a multi-player starship? Uh-huh.

But the CU is in and some people are having fun with it.

It is much like Guild Wars. When most of my friends stopped playing SWG, I stopped playing SWG because it was no longer fun. Many of my friends have hit the limit in GW now and have stopped playing. Am I still having fun? Usually. For me, the game is only as much fun as the people I play it with. So if your friends are playing SWG again, then you'll probably be able to look over the flaws and really have a good time.

PippinTook · Jul 25, 2005, 10:05 PM // 22:05

They did something to change visibility in groups. They either lowered it or got rid of it or something.