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a buddy of mine just gave me a few boxes full of his dad's CD-ROM games from circa 1999-2009- SWG Complete (or w/e) is in there, so I miiiight have to take it for a spin on a custom server I haven't played an MMO in twenty years aside from Pirate Poker Simulator 2003 (some people call it Puzzle Pirates), so I don't think low server population is going to bother me or anything, but is there anything I should know in order to maximize fun units per hour?
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May 30, 2017 22:38
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Just read through the thread after finding my discs again. What happened to Bloodfin? It seemed so promising. This thread doesn't say much more than a vague, "drama happened," so I'd love to hear more.
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May 30, 2017 22:52
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:Just read through the thread after finding my discs again. What happened to Bloodfin? It seemed so promising. This thread doesn't say much more than a vague, "drama happened," so I'd love to hear more. It's rather hard for a group of devs to not be weird. Each new community propagates with the promise of being less poo poo. But than is just as bad.
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May 31, 2017 04:13
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Peanut Butler posted:a buddy of mine just gave me a few boxes full of his dad's CD-ROM games from circa 1999-2009- SWG Complete (or w/e) is in there, so I miiiight have to take it for a spin on a custom server Guild up and group would be my advice. This game doesn't drive people to do that enough, you can pretty easily solo most content. Do the theme parks - they're quite good. First priority should be mastering some professions.
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May 31, 2017 07:09
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:Just read through the thread after finding my discs again. What happened to Bloodfin? It seemed so promising. This thread doesn't say much more than a vague, "drama happened," so I'd love to hear more. Bloodfin is a bit of a mess atm. PvP is dead since the main imperial pvp guild left to go to another server (swgflurry). A decent amount of population went with them (or quit). On the technical side, its running worse and worse each day. I get a half dozen desync's and have to restart in a couple hour play session. I am thinking about biting the bullet and going to either swgflurry or rogueone full time. The few times I've played on those two, the servers were rock solid. rogueone has double the population of the others so will probably end up there.
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May 31, 2017 13:28
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Looked at both of their sites. These emulation servers are really, really bad about selling you or telling you what they do. Rogueone had more info so I'm doing that one this week.
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May 31, 2017 14:28
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Yeah that's a problem with all the emus. Many of them are pretty talented coders or whatever but lousy at communicating with their players. Even just carrying a conversation is difficult for most of them. If some of the more talented devs would simply sit back and do their thing and let a couple of people who know how to run forums and talk to players, they'd probably get a pretty healthy population.
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May 31, 2017 16:28
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Goast posted:It's kinda old so I'm sure some of you have read it, but Ralph Koster wrote a thing about early SWG development. The jedi permadeath thing sounds cool as hell and seems a good way to balance it.
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Jun 1, 2017 15:26
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Been playing on SWGFlurry. Its quite good. Stable, no desyncs. PvP is really unbalanced since Jedi can spam the poo poo out of heals without any real force cost. Population is...okay...but seems to be growing. Currently relearning my way around cheat engine because why not. Can't find sith holocron or any versions.
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Jun 11, 2017 16:18
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Is this what passes for a Basilisk thread?
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Jun 15, 2017 20:11
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Pretty much, yep.
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Jun 15, 2017 20:19
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Started up on Rogue One but I've forgotten how to play and the wiki is all NGE info only.
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Jun 15, 2017 20:24
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Goast posted:It's kinda old so I'm sure some of you have read it, but Ralph Koster wrote a thing about early SWG development. Holy poo poo, I never saw this, it's amazing. And holy poo poo, the early SWG ads look/feel like the fictional WestWorld ads.
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Jun 16, 2017 16:33
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anyone playing this old rear end game should really get to flurry. lots of good changes coming this way. one rebel guild is dominating pvp, so if pvp is your thing go there and roll imperial.
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Jun 18, 2017 13:01
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Tide posted:anyone playing this old rear end game should really get to flurry. lots of good changes coming this way. one rebel guild is dominating pvp, so if pvp is your thing go there and roll imperial. Flurry is run by an imbecile, no thanks.
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Jun 19, 2017 09:55
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They all are run mb imbeciles. Cry tit, man child imbeciles. at this point, its finding the least cry tit, man child imbecile.
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Jun 20, 2017 01:57
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Alexander DeLarge posted:Like Levarris said, without the Star Wars IP, it would've just been a deeply flawed sandbox.... But I can't help but wonder did the Star Wars IP hurt the game more than it helped? I know that sounds crazy but without all the oversight, maybe people would've been okay with "playing the moisture farmer" instead of Luke Skywalker or Han Solo. Maybe they wouldn't have spread the community too thin with as many planets as they did. Maybe they could've focused on improving the sandbox instead of turning it into something it clearly was never meant to be by competing with World of Warcraft. Most importantly, maybe it'd still be running and fill the niche that goes between Ultima Online and EVE. Nah, I think that the Star Wars IP bought them a ton of time because people were so excited to play a Star Wars MMO. There's no way they ever hit their sub high without it, and the servers would have shut down long before that.
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Jun 20, 2017 02:20
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I always used to think a lack of enforceable limits on numbers of characters ($15 a month) would ruin the game and economy. Maybe it has but the economy in Bloodfin seems to be functioning. Premium resources not being 100 CPU has some upside for keeping stuff affordable. Whatever the downsides on the economy though I think Dual instancing and multiple slots per server are vital because they offset the lower populations on the emu servers. I.E. you can always find a buff when you need one.
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Jun 20, 2017 12:53
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So is the consensus Flurry or Bloodfin, goons?
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Jun 20, 2017 15:37
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Why does Basilisk seem to be the red headed stepchild around here?
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Jun 20, 2017 16:20
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Septic Tank Gulag posted:So is the consensus Flurry or Bloodfin, goons? Bloodfin about to upgrade to pub 8, which is a full two years behind everyone else. Also, going to wipe because LOL bloodfin. Flurry is run by literal man children. Pick your poison.
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Jun 20, 2017 23:22
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In my thirty minutes of trying to remember how to make the camera work like real MMOs Rogue One seemed not-bad.
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Jun 20, 2017 23:42
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:Why does Basilisk seem to be the red headed stepchild around here? I dont think it is, Basilisk is where we had our biggest goon population and probably the most hilarious stories, unfortunately that was like 2-3 years ago and it has not changed much since so theres nothing new to drag goons back there.
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Ahdinko posted:I dont think it is, Basilisk is where we had our biggest goon population and probably the most hilarious stories, unfortunately that was like 2-3 years ago and it has not changed much since so theres nothing new to drag goons back there. The invasion of Windsor is one of my more cherished gaming memories. For Quahog! :neverforget: :cryinggraul:
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Drone posted:The invasion of Windsor is one of my more cherished gaming memories. For Quahog! :neverforget: :cryinggraul: Was it twice or three times that Windsor got invaded? Can't remember.
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Tai posted:Was it twice or three times that Windsor got invaded? Can't remember. I only remember the one big one, where our man on the inside (valiant hero "Taylors Swift") granted over a hundred goon characters housing permits in Windsor, and we had a massive tide of us running over from Goontown and plopping down houses immediately within city limits, then immediately voting Taylors Swift for mayor. All the while shouting "FOR QUAHOG", effectively laying the blame on the biggest player city on the planet. And the pubbie founders of Windsor bought the ruse and posted a huge whiny thread on the SWGEmu forums about Quahog ruining their idyllic little town out in the Dantooine countryside.
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Think I might fire it up and have a look around. Heard solo grouping is dead so less of a credit influx.
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When they had a level 1 or 2 city, we would occasionally drop harvesters on the borders of their city named stuff like "gently caress windsor, quahog rules" so as their city levelled up, or harvesters would become a part of their city and they couldnt get rid of them. Also dont forget valliant not-spy goon hero, Double-Oh Seven
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Jun 22, 2017 16:00
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Logged in to find my house has gone along with a few 100 million credits of resources (would be lower now obviously. My coronet shop gone that was close to the front but the Mantina still lives.
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Jun 22, 2017 20:00
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Is that on basilisk? Whos still keeping the mantina alive?
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Jun 22, 2017 23:06
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Aye on basi. Guild hall still alive too. There's a surprising amount of houses that haven't exploded. Pondering whether to fire up my 190 harvester fleet again for the next patch which is Jedi. The server will explode with new/returning people. I'd need to remove all my characters from the guild to get a shuttle near the new crafting house I'd have to drop.
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The city buildings are mostly around cause we sunk millions into maintenance on them like jerks. I personally ensured that entertainer macro prison was gonna stay on that server forever.
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Jun 23, 2017 07:57
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The discord link in op is expired btw
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Jun 23, 2017 09:08
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Goast posted:The discord link in op is expired btw That's because the channel is gone. Something about no goons really care about SWG anymore.
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Jun 23, 2017 11:01
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SWG is dead and I guess I just have to deal with it 
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Jun 23, 2017 11:10
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Here's a discord link to MMO general https://discord.gg/pbTpkUB If there's interest, I'll make a sandbox-general
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Levarris posted:Something about no goons really care about SWG anymore. Oh, I care. Way too much. I'm waiting for Suncrusher release. I'll definitely start there for a bit and try to settle where Goontown was on Naboo when we were on Lowca. Nice place, had my own Stormtrooper spawn. I'm hoping once the server code is complete-ish, there'll be a server with just fixed specials, scrubbed drops (no non-functional tapes/seas), and maybe even beta-style JTLS. The last would probably not be a high probability, but fixed specials would be very nice.
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Unfortunately, JTL is necessary for some reason before they launch Suncrusher. Don't know why but JTL is really important to them. Probably 2-3 years away at best. http://www.swgemu.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75
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I'd guess because the game does feel pretty incomplete without JTL, plus their goal has always been Pub 14 which included JTL. Either way I still really care and can't wait for Pub 9, let alone Suncrusher.
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