re: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

Hey, I loved SWG! I was a Chef/businessman!

The thing about Galaxies was that it was like "Take everything boring about your real life... and do all of the same boring shite in a galaxy far far away!" I hate MMOs that make you do boring, repetitive shite to accumulate money.

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think Bioware is making a mistake in allowing players to become jedi without any prerequisites

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I was thinking the same thing. What is to happen in PVP? I'm guessing Everyone of the same level will be pretty much equal to each other, which is BS, I think. A jedi should just own everything else. Unless you are just a wimpy jedi (which have been written in some SW novels...) but who wants that? I would be ticked if my Sith gets ganked by a smuggler.

there is still much to learn from this game. God, I hope they do it right.

Smuggler is really more suited to my play style.

And I'm not saying each class won't have its own distinct role in combat. Just that the novelty of playing as a jedi will thin the ranks of the other classes, no matter how much demand there is for other roles to be filled. Hopefully people will eventually grow tired of always having to compete with other jedi for team spots and equipment and flock to the non-force wielding classes.

As long as they have non-instanced player housing, I'll be playing SW:TOR for a long time, I imagine.

is there gonna be a monthly fee for this?

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non-instanced player housing

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A neat concept that has been absent from MMOs, for some reason. The social aspect falls by the wayside usually. The Guild Wars guild houses are virtually worthless.

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non-instanced player housing

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Whoa, what is that?

So it's just kinda like a place to virtually hangout without others interupting chat?

Like outside a Bank in WOW without the young douchebags on Trade channel?

Well, in SWG, they went so far as to implement a player-run city government. A clan could have a guild hall and town hall that was managed by a player who went down the Government Tree, a medic center that was managed by a player who went down the Doctor tree, merchant tents for players who went down the Business trees, etc.

What was really cool, is that if you had a Town hall, you could name the player-run city and everyone in the game can see it. You could also have space ports that connected your city to the main cities on the planet, So, if you were a merchant, you could have an advertising robot that would tell people the city and coordinates of your tent and find your goods easily.

I bet if you did a search for "player cities SWG", you'd be able to see more of what I mean.

You really didn't have spammers in the player cities, unless they were really popular (generally a city with good merchants would be popular). Everyone pretty much hung out in the canteens, listening and getting buffs from the musicians and dancers.