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Star Wars: The Old Republic |OT| EA: "Let's blow this thing and go home!"
- Thread starter Emitan
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Jbird34
Member
It's gonna stay that way if we can help it!
Jbird34
Member
Not sure about that but they have repeatedly said they want guild ships in the game
Your ship is basically your house, isn't it?
Tallshortman
Member
Yes but it's not customizable, not unique (doesn't take up space in the game), and everyone has one. Guild ships are coming at some point which should be neat if done right.
BattleMonkey
Member
Your ship is basically your house, some storylines even refer to it as "home" in the dialogue.
Crafting can be done anywhere, as it's done by your companions. I'm usually crafting at all times, in fact.
You haven't lived until you've set up crafting for three companions while in the middle of fighting five guys.
Not really. You can craft always. It does have a storage locker!
Are you still playing on KV Repub? I never see you on, unless your name is way different.
Hopefully it comes after all the crucial fixes and additions the game needs. If decorating your ship comes before customizable UI, I'll probably stop playing.
BattleMonkey
Member
But having my companion ride on my speeder with me, holding onto me lovingly is a crucial addition
DurielBlack
Member
Yeah, customization would be an awesome money sink. I'd love to be able to buy a jukebox for my ship, then go around to different cantinas to purchase tracks for it.
As it is, there's not much point to spending time on your ship. Other than companion conversations and some quest stuff it's actually just a bit of a hassle since you have to go through a bunch of loading screens to get to it, then use the bridge map to travel, then go through a bunch more loading screens to get to the planet you wanted.
As it is, there's not much point to spending time on your ship. Other than companion conversations and some quest stuff it's actually just a bit of a hassle since you have to go through a bunch of loading screens to get to it, then use the bridge map to travel, then go through a bunch more loading screens to get to the planet you wanted.
Well caved in the end. Ordered the game so I should have my copy by Saturday at the earliest and next week sometime at the latest. Managed to find a copy for a good price (wasn't going to be pay $60 no matter what) and wasn't going to download this. Did that for the beta and never again with DSL. Needed a Star Wars fix story wise and might play this casually in the end so I don't get sick of it. I'm almost done with many of the RPGs on the backlog so time will be freed up and I can just stop playing once Xenoblade gets here and come back to this later.
Edit: Nevermind. Canceled it. Need to stay strong haha. I can't forget why I have issues with MMO and end up wasting more money.
Edit: Nevermind. Canceled it. Need to stay strong haha. I can't forget why I have issues with MMO and end up wasting more money.
Is that something that is coming? Can Blizz ride on my shoulder like a parrot?
Also, I just go Blizz. He seems kind of useless. I was planning ditching Mako for him, but I can't live without her heals.
If they keep pushing it off until the game is 'fixed' then it'll be another situation like WoW where you'll never get it. Not that I disagree, UI fixes are absolutely needed, but lets be honest here -- I would be ok with the interior decorating patch, over say something like, adding a new daily quest hub. Daily quests are the scourge of modern MMO's.
BattleMonkey
Member
I wish it was.
Yea I would really like to just see more personality added to the game and world in general. Ship customization options, more character customization, Pazaak tables in game, in game events, etc.
Green Embers
Member
Yeah count me in the group that wishes for more ship customization. What I really want (for now) is just to name my ship. Queen Amidala's Revenge for my smuggler. But buying decorations and stuff would be neat. Also a mini game on the holo table would be cool too.
The ships ARE soulless. and you can't even access your mail! They should also let me Quick travel to it.
Also, I wish the NPCs played a bigger part, at least in your character story. They're just ignored after their section of the story is done, except for the character quests, which I mean other than the romance I've done with one of my characters, don't even seem that interesting. =\
Also, I wish the NPCs played a bigger part, at least in your character story. They're just ignored after their section of the story is done, except for the character quests, which I mean other than the romance I've done with one of my characters, don't even seem that interesting. =\
If nothing else, I would've liked to have seen more character quests. I have the feeling that those bits of dialogue where characters say, "I have to go and do [very important thing], but I don't need you to come," were going to be actual quests at one time but were cut for whatever reason. Because it happens with quite a few companions.
BattleMonkey
Member
Depends on the class, some companions play a part in various aspects of the story, some don't. Some companions have no real story connection at all and just stand around in the background of some cutscenes and never say a word even.
I'd like more ship customization options, but they are probably not adding mail and the like for one reason: they want you to hang out in the fleet. If everyone, just stayed in their mini-house/city; there would a storm of the always trending "Y R THERE NOT LIKE MILLIONS OF PPLZ ON MAH WORLD???"
PenguinPoacher
Member
With the champion bags giving 15 centurion and 7 champion tokens are you still able to get unassembled pieces randomly?
razgriz417
Member
Yea they just reduced the drop rates for them
I seriously hate how the class quests force you to go back and forth to low level planets for basically 5 minute conversations that could have been done on the holo-terminal. I had to go to the fleet>coruscant>tatooine>coruscant before I could get back to my class quest last night, so annoying.
PenguinPoacher
Member
Thanks, at least now you can work towards a piece and still randomly get a free piece. Although one thing I hate is not getting credit for wins still, even though it was apparently fixed in the last 3 patches.
BattleMonkey
Member
I haven't had my win not count now for the past 2 weeks, it's odd, but I must be lucky. My wins weren't counting often before that but it's worked well so far lately.
The fix from the previous patch they stated was in error as it wasn't supposed to be in those patch notes.
HarryDemeanor
Member
I'm looking forward to seeing what they have planned for their space revamp. I liked Star Wars Galaxies' space combat but grinding XP for those professions was a nightmare.
This. So much this.
Seems a little better on the Smuggler since they report back via holocoms instead of habing to go back to a planet, IIRC.
I've got my Trooper at 15, but Coruscant bored me to death and I started gearing my Juggernaut instead after a brief foray into Bounty Hunting. I'll probably get back to it at some point.
I'm also not in either of the GAF guilds so that might have something to do with it.
The Trooper story on Nar Shaddaa is 100x better, Taris is alright if you don't spend too much time on that planet (the back and forth is ridiculous)
BattleMonkey
Member
At least you get a conversation. Kept hating the class quests that would send me back to fleet to talk to a person who doesn't even give me a dialogue, just a quest reward for clicking on him and then its "go back to your ship" wtf
At least the payoff at the end of Taris for the Trooper is pretty damn nice.
what? those don't lead to companion quests??? I thought it would be like ME2 where you go do some side story from them....
pazzak or sabaac or any card game would be awesome....with leaderboards of course. It would be so easy to create monthly tournaments from it.
BattleMonkey
Member
You only get side missions from companions when you build up affection with them. Usually just short little quests that give back story to the character, but they also are often easy xp especially at higher levels and extra affection gain.
Yup i never had it happen when everyone was complaining and ever since the fix my wins havent been counting more often lol. It happened to me 5 times in the last week.
EDIT: Weird thing is when it does happen it happens to the entire team.
chickdigger802
Banned
I might be insane, but I would actually like it if they increased the length to travel between planets, but also give users some stuff to do on the ship.
Maybe add some random encounters every so often (getting hit by the oh so OP tractor lasers in the SW universe, beat up some pirates).
Cuz currently I often input planet destination, run back to exit and leave right away. Get down to the planet. Completely forget that I need to talk to holoterminal for quest. Then go back on my ship >.>"
That's pretty much all the ship action I get lol. Maybe some way to lvl up the ship so it can give you some air support skill that can activate every few min.
Maybe add some random encounters every so often (getting hit by the oh so OP tractor lasers in the SW universe, beat up some pirates).
Cuz currently I often input planet destination, run back to exit and leave right away. Get down to the planet. Completely forget that I need to talk to holoterminal for quest. Then go back on my ship >.>"
That's pretty much all the ship action I get lol. Maybe some way to lvl up the ship so it can give you some air support skill that can activate every few min.
They're the exact same class, though with different weapons and maybe no animation lag for BH.
However, having played a mercenary and knowing that it's essentially a commando...a lot of it's moves remind me of my gunslinger moves...
Also, yet another patch tomorrow morning =\
However, having played a mercenary and knowing that it's essentially a commando...a lot of it's moves remind me of my gunslinger moves...
Also, yet another patch tomorrow morning =\
I have a 41 Merc and a 33 Commando, literally the same class, just different names and icons for the abilities. I really enjoy the class though, so I knew ahead of time what I was getting into.
The BH has cooler animations, specifically Death From Above and Rocket Punch or whatever it's called. Most satisfying upper cut since Mortal Kombat.
Francois424
Neo Member
That would be awesome.
I admit ship needs a GTN acces computer, and a MailBox.
Otherwise, it's more time efficient to just sit on the fleet while crafting.
These things could be craftable as well; why not.
As for ppl not showing at the fleet counter while on the ships, just have everyone on the ship be shown as being part of the Fleet. I mean... it is called a "Fleet", makes sense players would be shown there, imho.
BattleMonkey
Member
Kinda would make the world even more bare looking with people never leaving their ships. I would rather they just put in a LFG chat channel that is global, but fleet should still be a hub where other players go.
I just hope they do stuff to create more hubs, like turning many of those giant casinos on Nar Shadda into working mini games people can compete in. Heck make them games that also grant social points.