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Fitzy Fitz posted:Do you really still have to have game discs to play this That is the legal fiction, yes.
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Make sure you delete this ROM after 24 hours!!!
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Aug 2, 2018 19:48
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cmdrk posted:how many people are playing this? I couldn't find anything on the website. kinda want to play some SWG again. Basilisk sever has always around 1000 players, even though most are bots it is a steady population. Also you can find buffers (doctors, dancers and musicians) very easily. The market is not like when the game was live of course but you can find pretty much anything you need. Give it a try, it is free after all.
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Aug 3, 2018 00:11
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Hachiman posted:Basilisk sever has always around 1000 players, even though most are bots it is a steady population. Also you can find buffers (doctors, dancers and musicians) very easily. The market is not like when the game was live of course but you can find pretty much anything you need. Give it a try, it is free after all. Basilisk is just the same tired thing again. It gets old, fast.
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Aug 3, 2018 22:06
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Yeah I levelled to MR/MCM/MM on Basilisk and got bored quick especially after someone scammed me out of my veteran items, which was my fault, but also really lame
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Aug 3, 2018 22:14
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once I can find my disks, I'm going to give Stardust a try. It seems to have a lot of the features I'd opt for if I ruled the internet and could make the game my way. I honestly thought the CU did really well with combat in the game. I know it hosed crafting/non combat and blended professions into oblivion, but I believed it was on the right track for combat. Questions for Levarris: your video hints at it, but is there the ever-elusive "third faction" here, or just more criminal themeparks? And besides adjusting HAM/SAC away from mind pools, have there been any major changes to crafting and resource collection? I'd like to do some light crafting of a sort, but SWG always scared me off from it due to the massive time input to do even the basics. Not looking for server-best anything, just bits and bobs (food, medical poo poo, etc).
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Aug 3, 2018 22:52
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Speaking as someone else that likes "light crafting" over "omgwtf crafting" that SWG can devolve into, you could try to take a stab at manufacturing vehicles at Master Artisan. They require only two semi-specific materials (ferrous and non-ferrous metals) that only care about one attribute for the outcome (shock resistance), and the outcome itself is only HP so most people don't give much of a gently caress about squeezing out the absolute best mats for it. Tailoring is another step up in complexity but also not horrific to get into.
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Aug 3, 2018 23:14
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I'd be hesitant to recommend tailoring as it generally requires both a stable population of people who really like dressing up in a constant stream of new styles and also individuals making use of tape slots. Both of which are usually pretty low demand and also easy to quickly oversaturate the market with just one producer on low pop servers. It's a really fun crafting if you like social interaction though as some people get really into getting the perfect clothes.
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Aug 3, 2018 23:28
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No third faction, and no major changes to crafting. The main changes to stardust are about combat balance.
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Aug 3, 2018 23:39
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Cool, thanks all. Wasn't going to deter me either way, just curious. Found the disks. I'll probably make a crafting character first, with combat on a side toon. I'll toodle around with it until I find a niche I like. Probably not weapon/armorsmith, since both of those require I sacrifice a goat and three children to the timelords to ever have a chance of even making something useful. But clothes, buildings, food or vehicles all might be interesting areas to explore. EDIT: So I think I hosed something up. I can get the SWGEmu version to work, but for some reason, once I have all the files for Stardust downloaded and installed, the launch stalls out when I hit "play". I'm pretty sure my mistake is with these instructions: Follow the prompts: of the Installation Wizard, be sure to point it to a valid Star Wars Galaxies Client Folder. Download the ModTheGalaxy TRE Files: from either of the following sources: Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/open?id=14fDk10PYkqCK1ZVXpnAVh1UC3ONAWfUx Mega Upload: https://mega.nz/#F!fw0EzZ4I!RfRwyqE859Ad3kGlQv7T4Q Extract the ModTheGalaxy TRE Files: to the folder you specified for the Stardust Installation. I've been pointing the Stardust launcher at the /StarWarsGalaxies folder, and same for the MTG TRE files. Is this right? SoUncool fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Aug 5, 2018 |
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Aug 4, 2018 00:11
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SoUncool posted:Cool, thanks all. Wasn't going to deter me either way, just curious. Found the disks. You can just install it to the default, c:\stardust and extract the modthegalaxy files there. It will work.
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Aug 6, 2018 09:46
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Any chance you'd be willing to auto-populate galaxyharvester or whatever instead of manually tracking down sites, Levarris? So few people makes it soulcrushing to spend hours looking for anything decent.
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Aug 10, 2018 04:19
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Currently there's a Chromium Aluminum spawn on Naboo that is only a 632 OQ. Unfortunately it is called Pedo. Should rename it Reddit.
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Aug 11, 2018 05:30
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Just made a zabrak brawler on Stardust. Where is everyone playing? Also can I still have my own house? It's been years since i've touched this game.\ edit: IGN is Book Hockey Daddar fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Aug 12, 2018 |
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Aug 11, 2018 20:23
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Contact my arch 'fish' and I can give you a small house for storing poo poo. The active pop is pretty small and there's only a few player shops up and running so far. Still pretty fun.
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Aug 11, 2018 21:37
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What planet are you on? I'm trying to grind up a MDE/MWS and it'd be helpful to actually have a place to dump resources. Char name is Repub Arnaz and my alt is Juan Velociraptor (Trandoshan brawler). Found that the xp rate is nice for quickly ramping up unarmed and pistol so far, seems about the same for crafting though. I'm enjoying the health-only damage system a lot.
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Aug 11, 2018 23:13
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Levarris posted:I did a thing. Looks fantastic so far
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Stardust's population has taken a hit because of World of Warcraft and Destiny 2, but I'm enjoying it (and I play neither of those games). I've been looking for an SWG experience that wasn't 1:1 pre-CU and wasn't NGE (although it's easy to miss the great content NGE had) Likes: * Only one pool to damage (although bleeds affect the Action pool) * You don't have to get buffed to do a lot of content (or wear armor!) * No encumbrance on armor (see above) * Composite isn't necessarily the best armor in the game (although it can be easier to make than others) * The UI is like a cross between pre-CU and NGE - more colors! * The new planets are cool lore-wise * No logouts from inactivity * 2x combat/weapon XP while grouped * 2x crafting XP when practicing * 6 characters per account, up to 3 logged in at once (if you can multi-instance, do it!) * Not sure how a feature works or wondering if something is broken? Look in GitHub! * As content-complete as stock SWGEMU gets (themeparks, DWB, Geonosian Cave, Force village, etc.) Dislikes: * All weapons of a particular type have the same speed, (e.g. pistols = 2, carbines = 3, etc.) so picking the best weapon is just a matter of the best damage range per damage type, leaving many weapons (even ones higher up the weaponsmith branches) useless * The pool-based special attacks from pre-CU are here, but most are useless unless they apply specific states - just use Overcharge Shot * With the absence of damaging different pools, Rifleman isn't very attractive now (and Conceal Shot doesn't work in SWGEMU anyway) * The new planets don't have much to do besides lore, just a lot of very tough enemies * There's hardly an economy * Lack of people means no PvP (and almost everybody in-game has gone Imperial) * Buffing of Health/Action is possible, but secondary stat buffs were removed - although food and spice can still affect them I think? * New planets and reworked themeparks (because of the timeline change), but no new significant content, and "why does it work that way?" mechanics for existing quests aren't addressed - Why do I have to drag items to Nym and his friends when other questgivers just take poo poo from me? - Themepark escort missions still suck About the economy, if you need something, just ask in the Discord and someone should be able to help you. We have the goon-run city Mos Alamos just south of Things I'd like to see added to SWGEMU in general: * Conceal Shot! * Better positioning of items in houses (i.e. pitch/roll) like NGE had - and copy doesn't even work at all * Appearance tab! Other things to know about Stardust: * Imperial Themepark - go to Lok Imperial Outpost * * Best place to profession grind: Jakku PvP zone - talk to a faction recruiter HiriseSoftware fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Sep 6, 2018 |
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Sep 6, 2018 19:17
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Basilisk was like 99% Imperial as well, I remember there being some specific reason (I think it was the summonable stormtroopers) because everyone did it over the rebel stuff despite it being like three times harder for aliens.
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Frog Act posted:Basilisk was like 99% Imperial as well, I remember there being some specific reason (I think it was the summonable stormtroopers) because everyone did it over the rebel stuff despite it being like three times harder for aliens. it's because the internet is full of nazis, sorry
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Sep 7, 2018 19:42
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Something to do with the top-end rebel pets only being good if you're a creature handler or some poo poo like that idk
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I remember getting an AT-ST back in the day and stomping tough missions. Good times. SWG lacked any kind of satisfying loot system. Without that, there really wasn't the same draw to adventure after maxing skills.
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I remember endgame loot being centered around Dathomir. The witches, rancors, and cave chests dropped skill tapes and rare ingredients. Sometimes modded weapons, I think? It's true they weren't great though.
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Oct 29, 2018 15:19
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I made so much cash with JTL on selling components, and even more selling AV21s after the NGE. You could run corvette effortlessly on lvl1 crafter because hostile mobs largely ignored them.
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Westy543 posted:I made so much cash with JTL on selling components, and even more selling AV21s after the NGE. You could run corvette effortlessly on lvl1 crafter because hostile mobs largely ignored them. I charged groups to take them on "Corvette tours" where they'd all wait at the spawn and I'd Jedi cloak and make my way through to complete the destroy mission. They'd all get AV-21 schematics, but I'd keep the loot of course. Levarris' Stardust is getting a lot of traffic now, everyone come play!
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Hows Stardust for crafters? Market for someone like me who just wants to hop on and make some droids?
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Orty posted:Hows Stardust for crafters? Market for someone like me who just wants to hop on and make some droids? I've virtually cornered the armor and weapons market, but I wouldn't mind a competitor or someone to pick up the slack if I'm not available. We have a goon DE but I don't think he's that active right now. We still have a relatively small population but there's always room for any crafting profession, even if you just want to play around and be self-sufficient (which is why I got into armor and weapons). Come on to the Discord and ask and see what others recommend.
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Orty posted:Hows Stardust for crafters? Market for someone like me who just wants to hop on and make some droids? I've found the time to play myself again too, been churning out housing and tailoring goods. Would love to see more goons hop in / back in.
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this stardust thing looks pretty great. the video has only got about 2.6k views though so i'm a bit worried about population. is there a decent amount of people playing it?
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Radio Free Kobold posted:this stardust thing looks pretty great. the video has only got about 2.6k views though so i'm a bit worried about population. is there a decent amount of people playing it? It's a video about SWG, it's not going to get many views. But then I have only promoted it on the /r/swg subreddit. The population is small, but it grows slowly every day. Currently between 50-60 are online concurrently on a daily basis, so yes. It is a small community, though it is ridiculously helpful. (something which seriously surprises me)
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I remember endgame loot being centered around Dathomir. The witches, rancors, and cave chests dropped skill tapes and rare ingredients. Sometimes modded weapons, I think? It's true they weren't great though. End game loot was pretty limited that's true, but there was some good drops besides Nightsisters in Dathomir (rancors didn't drop anything very good). Krayt Dragons in Tatooine dropped pearls and tissues for weapons and if you were very very lucky a great weapon, the DWB in Endor dropped custom weapons, armor and Jetpack parts, and there was a lab inside at the end of the bunker where an engineer could craft the Jetpack (not easy to get him there though). The Dark Jedi Master in Dath too dropped 25+ tapes, and there was the AT-AT for rebs at the prison that dropped Mando armor and other stuff I can't remember, tapes too probably. There was the Corvette mission that dropped the AV-21 and some custom weapons, and running Janta missions in Dantooine eventually, after a thousand Janta kills, would get you a poison knife. But in general loot was pretty crappy in SWG, I remember I used to destroy most of the loot, not even try to sell.
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I remember buying the game really excited when I was like 15, only to discover that a few months previous the combat update happened, essentially getting rid of all the reasons I had wanted to play in the first place. I'm a hoarder, so if I still have the discs I will so be here.
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OscarDiggs posted:I remember buying the game really excited when I was like 15, only to discover that a few months previous the combat update happened, essentially getting rid of all the reasons I had wanted to play in the first place. I'm a hoarder, so if I still have the discs I will so be here. That shouldn't stop you even if you don't still have the discs.
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Server pop may be low but people are always on the discord and everyone is super nice and helpful. It's been a lot of fun so far
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site posted:everyone is super nice and helpful This is the part that generally shocks me. Usually SWG Pubbies are the worst human trash. This community is somehow not overrun with that element.
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Found the discs amazingly! I'll have to figure out the process of installing everything, but that should be simple enough.
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Is there still a unified goon presence on Stardust, and if so is it Rebel or Imperial aligned?
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Conskill posted:Is there still a unified goon presence on Stardust, and if so is it Rebel or Imperial aligned? Population is still too low for meaningful PvP, we are all kinda being friendly neighborhood SWG players, helping each other out.
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HiriseSoftware posted:Population is still too low for meaningful PvP, we are all kinda being friendly neighborhood SWG players, helping each other out. Basically this, as the server population grows I'd wager things get a bit more partisan, but for now It's very, communal.
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