Star Wars Galaxies

Well I decided to come back to SWG for a month or two while waiting for Age of Conan (please no more delays!) having recently stopped playing WoW due to boredom. So my question is, what is there really to do nowadays in the game? It seems that running heroics constantly is 1 thing (which was essentially what drove me from WoW) or random world pvp which I can't seem to compete in right now because my guy's gear is nowhere up to par with some of these players.

Playing on Bria where I left I had somewhere around 40 million credits which back when I quit was a sizable amount of money and now it seems like it's barely enough for a set of armor :/, how does a casual/clueless player to the NGE overcome massive inflation if gear is only accessible to the wealthy?

I swear it feels like WoW spoiled me a bit because everything was basically handed to you on a plate, if you wanted a piece of gear, you knew exactly what you needed to do via PvP/PvE to get it, just feel super lost coming back to this game and really its a big turn off from the game.

Originally posted by Narc1

Well I decided to come back to SWG for a month or two while waiting for Age of Conan (please no more delays!) having recently stopped playing WoW due to boredom. So my question is, what is there really to do nowadays in the game? It seems that running heroics constantly is 1 thing (which was essentially what drove me from WoW) or random world pvp which I can't seem to compete in right now because my guy's gear is nowhere up to par with some of these players.

Playing on Bria where I left I had somewhere around 40 million credits which back when I quit was a sizable amount of money and now it seems like it's barely enough for a set of armor :/, how does a casual/clueless player to the NGE overcome massive inflation if gear is only accessible to the wealthy?

I swear it feels like WoW spoiled me a bit because everything was basically handed to you on a plate, if you wanted a piece of gear, you knew exactly what you needed to do via PvP/PvE to get it, just feel super lost coming back to this game and really its a big turn off from the game.

You can either do mindless collections or do the cookie-cutter "heroic" instances.

yea I was worried someone would say that... even post CU it was never this bad, feels like such a lack of things to do now :/

Yeah basically SOE tried to copy WoW to get more subscribers...they just didn't do a very good job of it.

When was the last time you played. Depending on when you left there may be some fun stuff to do to kill time while waiting for Conan by CROM!

I started a new toon on Bria several months ago. If I can help send Hawley a tell. Lol trying to be an armorsmith but being on a budget makes finding good resources a little tough !

Originally posted by Narc1

yea I was worried someone would say that... even post CU it was never this bad, feels like such a lack of things to do now :/

It's best to take an answer from someone who plays the game.

I'll try to sum it up;

Quest
Explore
Travel
Kill
Hunt
Raise a pet
Join a guild
Fly in space
Craft Structures
Build a city


My current pet is rather adorable :)

If you need any help you can message me in-game, PM me and i can send you my name :)

Originally posted by Sam123jo0123

Originally posted by Narc1

yea I was worried someone would say that... even post CU it was never this bad, feels like such a lack of things to do now :/

It's best to take an answer from someone who plays the game.

I'll try to sum it up;

Quest
Explore
Travel
Kill
Hunt
Raise a pet
Join a guild
Fly in space
Craft Structures
Build a city


My current pet is rather adorable :)

If you need any help you can message me in-game, PM me and i can send you my name :)

It just dawned on me that i missed out PVP and GCW, Rebels for-the-win.

Originally posted by Sam123jo0123

Originally posted by Sam123jo0123

Originally posted by Narc1

yea I was worried someone would say that... even post CU it was never this bad, feels like such a lack of things to do now :/

It's best to take an answer from someone who plays the game.

I'll try to sum it up;

Quest
Explore
Travel
Kill
Hunt
Raise a pet
Join a guild
Fly in space
Craft Structures
Build a city


My current pet is rather adorable :)

If you need any help you can message me in-game, PM me and i can send you my name :)

It just dawned on me that i missed out PVP and GCW, Rebels for-the-win.

As he is returning to the game and your list is everything from preCU, he's probably already done all of that and is sitting on a level 80+ character.  And speaking as someone who was playing the game until just recently I have to say that most of what is done is "same as it ever was" PvP in Restuss, Heroic Instances (which he has said is the reason why he quit WoW and if you don't think they aren't just like WoW's instances then you've obviously never played WoW), and collections (yaay, massive grinding with minimal reward, like a free Korean MMO but with more lag!).

So to better answer his question, basically nothing he hasn't already done.

Originally posted by rejad

 

 

Originally posted by Sam123jo0123

Originally posted by Sam123jo0123

Originally posted by Narc1

yea I was worried someone would say that... even post CU it was never this bad, feels like such a lack of things to do now :/

It's best to take an answer from someone who plays the game.

I'll try to sum it up;

Quest
Explore
Travel
Kill
Hunt
Raise a pet
Join a guild
Fly in space
Craft Structures
Build a city


My current pet is rather adorable :)

If you need any help you can message me in-game, PM me and i can send you my name :)

It just dawned on me that i missed out PVP and GCW, Rebels for-the-win.

As he is returning to the game and your list is everything from preCU, he's probably already done all of that and is sitting on a level 80+ character.  And speaking as someone who was playing the game until just recently I have to say that most of what is done is "same as it ever was" PvP in Restuss, Heroic Instances (which he has said is the reason why he quit WoW and if you don't think they aren't just like WoW's instances then you've obviously never played WoW), and collections (yaay, massive grinding with minimal reward, like a free Korean MMO but with more lag!).

So to better answer his question, basically nothing he hasn't already done.

Why keep living when you had already lived for 1 day?

Originally posted by rejad

 

 

Originally posted by Sam123jo0123

Originally posted by Sam123jo0123

Originally posted by Narc1

yea I was worried someone would say that... even post CU it was never this bad, feels like such a lack of things to do now :/

It's best to take an answer from someone who plays the game.

I'll try to sum it up;

Quest
Explore
Travel
Kill
Hunt
Raise a pet
Join a guild
Fly in space
Craft Structures
Build a city


My current pet is rather adorable :)

If you need any help you can message me in-game, PM me and i can send you my name :)

It just dawned on me that i missed out PVP and GCW, Rebels for-the-win.

As he is returning to the game and your list is everything from preCU, he's probably already done all of that and is sitting on a level 80+ character.  And speaking as someone who was playing the game until just recently I have to say that most of what is done is "same as it ever was" PvP in Restuss, Heroic Instances (which he has said is the reason why he quit WoW and if you don't think they aren't just like WoW's instances then you've obviously never played WoW), and collections (yaay, massive grinding with minimal reward, like a free Korean MMO but with more lag!).

So to better answer his question, basically nothing he hasn't already done.

Speaking from a crafter's point of view... I think the better way to put it is "There is no point in doing it again"

Quests are endless. At least when we had mission terminals we did things as a collective group, and the missions paid handsomely.

Exploration for a veteran is pretty much little to no value. Most vets would have seen most of the POIs, if not all of them. Exploration has to end somewhere.

Kill and hunt. Kill for what? More xp? At least when we had rangers and bio-engineers, killing actually had more of a purpose. Harvest hide, meat and bone for crafters (Crafting is dead now, more on that later)

Raise a pet? Its like WoW's buy a tabby. Creature Handlers back in the day were way better than the pets they shoved back into the game.

Crafting is dead. With those darn Anti-Decay Kits, instant travel, no wait shuttles. There used to be a sustainable demand for all things. So if you were any good a crafter, you could make a living even without fighting. Quality was a factor as well... people SOUGHT after good stuff, and those that supply usually gets a name for him/herself. Not to mention lootable stuff now outweight crafted items.

Its true SWG-NGE serves a different audience now. For those audience, you will enjoy the game, i