Star Wars Galaxies

Munro Burton · Post by **Munro Burton** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:03 am

Sounds like you were a spacebum.

ALT Sklib · Post by **ALT Sklib** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:04 am

It's only laggy because of your video card.

Marcus Darkstar · Post by **Marcus Darkstar** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:36 am

Sklid how would u know. Its lag free on the Trail then once u get into any planetary holding its laggy and at times while walking the game teleports u back a few meteres behind yourself it was horrible for me ..

I was a spacebum because of the planetary lag and my ill wasted use of credits on the aggressor cassis made me broke.
iIl fit to serve in the Imperial Navy because of it.

So i quite the game alltoger because of those compound reasons

. besdies some disssapointing features, Lagg lagg lagg, and other things i froget SWG wasnt all bad but thats like saying Jabba is a fit all round guy without 300 pounds of fat in his sluggy bottom.

Munro Burton · Post by **Munro Burton** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:56 am

Sklib's probably right. Space's mostly empty, with the occasional ships to generate. On a planet? There are dozens, possibly hundreds, of things to generate.

That's why, on EaW, it starts to lag if you have a big battle(especially with lots of fighters), while it hardly lags for small battles.

And... please do me a favour and never use that Jabba analogy again. It's disgusting.

AD Polanski · Post by **AD Polanski** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:46 pm

SWG had (and obviously still has) a terrible graphics engine. In cities the framerate dropped to like unplayable but in the countryside it was fine. This is due as said to be having to draw too much.

I could play loads of other games fine, but SWG was a graphics card killer... I guess it still is...

ALT Sklib · Post by **ALT Sklib** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:00 pm

It told me card wasn't good enough, and that the game would most likely crash (which it has yet to do), and the countryside works fine. I really don't have a problem with waiting the extra 10 seconds for everything to buffer, I'm still having a fun time with the game.

Hadrian · Post by **Hadrian** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:15 pm

i used to play SWG i was in a guild called CO(Crimson order) we were an imperial guild we have structure, medals every thing i miss that game and many of my imperial bretheran

Post by **Vortagh** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:29 pm

Interesting. I never had problems with my card (GeForce Ti4600 Ultra). I couldn't turn on stuff like the beetles that flew around, but the view-range, textures, etc were all turned up to the max. Unless I ran into 50 people all on one spot with a band doing a routine (in other words: Coronet Cantina

), I never had a single problem.

However, thinking about it - I can understand why someone might like SWG with the "New Game Enhancments" patch. It's basically very similar to World of Warcraft now. That is, they took away all what the old population loved (the complicated artisan system, the huge profession system, etc) and replaced it with a WoW-wannabee in hopes of going from ~300k subscribers to a few more. Looks like they botched the job pretty damned good.

LC La Forge · Post by **LC La Forge** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:09 am

This is modern LA, Vort. I wouldn't expect anything less... besides, I think this is their first massive multiplayer online game, right? So they have no experience to boot.

Post by **Fel** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:36 am

There have been numerous hate threads on the "New Game Enhancements" etc. and it's perhaps best not to rehash it here.

LF: They partnered with Sony Online Entertainment, the makers of a game called EverQuest, which is how SOE earned my neverending disrespect by making the game no fun to play. Nothing like walking through your home area at level 8 and getting killed ten times in a row by someone seven times your level. And you lost XP when you died. Etc. Fun? I'd rather slam my fingers in the car door. Anyway - this wasn't a first run.

ALT Sklib · Post by **ALT Sklib** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:36 pm

Yeah, but you do have the option to turn PvP on and off. I myself haven't joined a faction yet, I'm just doing jobs for one.

LC La Forge · Post by **LC La Forge** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:38 pm

Fel: Ah, so a second attempt, and they still botched it (and didn't learn from the first time!). So basically instead of LA being inexperienced, you're telling me they're incompetent losers?

Post by **Vortagh** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 5:34 pm

Sklib: Unless they changed that too, as soon as you attack a Rebel NPC (even for a mission) you are flagged as killable for 10 minutes or so.

ALT Sklib · Post by **ALT Sklib** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 6:07 pm

Yeah, I haven't tried that yet so I wouldn't know. I haven't officially joined the Imperials yet.

Korv · Post by **Korv** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 8:20 pm

Davin Felth wrote:Well I've learned to avoid cities now so I'm quite happy with the game

Certain cities are worse than others. Being the Only starting city Mos Eisley is just terrible. At times other cities like Coronet and Corellia are not that great either. I stick to the unpopular ones unless a quest takes me somewhere.

Personally i love the game. ANyone who plays can shoot me a PM. I'm looking for a good PA as it is on Both Chilastra and Bria.