Star Wars: The Old Republic

Tyjenks · 2011-12-09T10:51:42.000Z

This all sounds like crafty goodness. Very much looking forward to that.

For someone who takes for granted elf and dwarf MMOs in that I can settle right into a familiar world, how hard is it going to be for me when I have to learn, basically, a whole universe of stuff when playing? I mean, I loves me some Star Wars, but I am far from the Star Wars fans (geeks) that many of you are. :)

I would be lying if I said I was not a little nervous about being overwhelmed. Fantasy MMOs are overwhelming enough when you jump into a new one I have not followed much of the development on purpose so that I would not get anxious and now I wish I had.

MattKeil · 2011-12-09T10:58:31.000Z

The first planet serves as 3-4 hours of tutorial, basically. The game introduces all of its various concepts at a very manageable pace.

instant0 · 2011-12-09T11:21:52.000Z

walTer:

Hmm, are there no skills that everyone has by default? In WoW everyone can cook, fish and then they added archeology as secondary ones to add to your main skills.

Nope.
You can pick 3 skills, and thats it.
And you have a choice between like, 10-14 or so.

The game is pretty simple to get up and running, and since there isn’t much you are able to configure, there isn’t much that will confuse you either ;)

short-lived · 2011-12-09T11:35:25.000Z

Perhaps somebody knows, all interesting names (like as Darth Vader) will be not available for gamers?

instant0 · 2011-12-09T12:09:34.000Z

What do you mean?

A name-filter that prevents your character from calling himself “Luke” and then at level 30 you have a last name “Skywalker”.

Probably.

However, you’ll probably see

“Loukeskivalker”
“DarfPHader”
etc.

http://www.riftgame.com/en/media/videos/instant_adventure/?
SWTOR; Are you watching?

SWTOR seems like it will be released with 2006 MMO mechanisms when everyone else have moved on to 2011.
Of course, RIFT’s release was pretty shoddy back then as well, and they tried to play catch up but lost a lot of players before they managed to.

TheWombat · 2011-12-09T12:15:05.000Z

instant0:

What do you mean?

A name-filter that prevents your character from calling himself “Luke” and then at level 30 you have a last name “Skywalker”.

Probably.

However, you’ll probably see

“Loukeskivalker”
“DarfPHader”
etc.

http://www.riftgame.com/en/media/videos/instant_adventure/?
SWTOR; Are you watching?

SWTOR seems like it will be released with 2006 MMO mechanisms when everyone else have moved on to 2011.

In my brief time in beta I saw a slew of BobaFats, BobaFlexes, Boba<fill in the blanks> at least. But far fewer fanboisms than I expected, really.

Periastron · 2011-12-09T12:36:43.000Z

There is a fairly extensive naming policy in the official rules of conduct. (Emphasis mine, below)

http://www.swtor.com/legalnotices/roc

SWTOR Rules of Conduct:

D. Naming Policy

When creating a character or guild name for Star Wars: The Old Republic, it is encouraged that you select a name that reflects the theme of the game. The guidelines listed below outline the types of names that you can NOT use, and apply to both player or character names, as well as guild names.

[ul][li]You may not use any names that violate the General Rules. This includes the use of names that are hateful, defamatory, racist, ethnically offensive, obscene, vulgar, sexually explicit, or any other language that is offensive in nature.
[/li]
[li]You may not use names that are harassing or defamatory to other players or employees of EA, BioWare or LucasArts, e.g. EASUX, Timsretarded, and Biowaresux.
[/li]
[li]You may not use names of any EA, BioWare, or LucasArts employee or service related to Star Wars: The Old Republic.
[/li]
[li]You may not use names of copyrighted or trademarked characters, materials or products, e.g. Coca-Cola or Dr. Pepper.
[/li]
[li]You may not use names from popular culture or media, e.g. Lady Gaga or George Lucas.
[/li]
[li]You may not use names that are religiously or historically significant, e.g. Jesus, Winston Churchill.
[/li]
[li]You may not use proper names of areas within Star Wars for character names. Guild names, however, MAY use the proper names of specific areas to help promote role-playing and realm pride, e.g. Defenders of Tython or Protectors of Hutta.
[/li]
[li]You may not use proper names of non-player characters within Star Wars: The Old Republic, e.g. Darth Malgus, Satele Shan, Yoda, Darth Vader or Luke Skywalker.
[/li]
[li]You may not use names containing titles or ranks within them, e.g. General Supertrooper, Captain Tim, Darth Timmy, Knight Wakey.
[/li]
[li]You may not use names that refer to drugs or that are drug related.
[/li]
[li]You may not use names that contain an inappropriate phrase, sentence or any fragment of a sentence or Leet speak, e.g. uberhaxer, xxspeederxx, lolface, rofl, Noobwhacker, TimmyF**k, kock, fuk.
[/li]
[li]You may not use misspellings or alternative spellings of names that violate any of the above rules, e.g. Hamsolo, Yooda, DorthVader.
[/li]
[li]You may not use gibberish names when creating character, e.g. ajsdu, rifndsw, qweszs.[/ul]
[/li]If you violate any part of the above Naming Policy you will either be assigned a new name, or given the option of changing the name. In addition to this, your account could incur a penalty up to and including account closure.

It remains to be seen how strictly this policy will be enforced.

Dejin · 2011-12-09T12:43:22.000Z

Periastron:

There is a fairly extensive naming policy in the official rules of conduct. (Emphasis mine, below)

http://www.swtor.com/legalnotices/roc

You may not use gibberish names when creating character, e.g. ajsdu, rifndsw, qweszs.

It remains to be seen how strictly this policy will be enforced.

Presumably except for the ones which their random name generator were coming up with. I got a lot of decent names out of the Rift random name generator, the SWTOR ones just seemed awful. I suppose it’s possible I’m just not into the EU enough and if I were and I properly understood the lore, I would have thought they were great.

Tyjenks · 2011-12-09T12:44:30.000Z

Is there a random name generator that will drop me into the Star Wars world because I’ll screw it up for sure. :)

Rasputin · 2011-12-09T12:49:12.000Z

For those of you in one of the QT3 guilds, I direct you to one of those threads for a little announcement I have (no, I still don’t know what server we’re on).

Ed_Solomon · 2011-12-09T12:49:33.000Z

No gibberish? Quit oppressing my culture you ethnocentric bitch!

Neopythia · 2011-12-09T12:50:20.000Z

short-lived:

Perhaps somebody knows, all interesting names (like as Darth Vader) will be not available for gamers?

Darth is a title available in game. Name your character whatever you want, go Sith, and you’re all set.

instant0 · 2011-12-09T13:01:58.000Z

Once you reach Dark Side 5 or 6, I believe you can get the “Darth” as a prefix title. Or it is after finishing a quest at level 50.
So if you already named yourself “Darth”, then thats a internet win to you.

I’m thinking, to use the Darth prefix, you should probably name yourself something very un-agressive.
Maybe, Kevin.

Darth Kevin.

That would surely strike fear into the hearts of your enemies.

Periastron · 2011-12-09T13:05:16.000Z

instant0:

So if you already named yourself “Darth”, then thats a internet win to you.

Darth Darth Revolution!

Neopythia · 2011-12-09T13:09:37.000Z

instant0:

I’m thinking, to use the Darth prefix, you should probably name yourself something very un-agressive.
Maybe, Kevin.

Darth Kevin.

Stinking Kevin!

Sorry, made me think of Time Bandits.

Ryslin · 2011-12-09T13:37:34.000Z

I saw a few -cough- creative Darth names running around in beta, that is a rather nice naming policy I pray their ticket system survives it.

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Crafting

It was left out that after you craft things, you then tear them apart, before crafting things again. You will not get many recipes if you do not reverse engineer. Yes you can do this to stims too just not the purchased ones.

So crafting say a weapon goes something like this
You go through the world smacking up droids and scavenging them, mean wile you have sent your good buddy off to do some Underworld Trading to get (hopefully) some metal. I imagine Armstech guys are going to be putting the cloth up on the Galactic Trade, but I could be wrong. (Chance to get metal or cloth when underworld trading)
When that companion comes back you send them off to craft, and maintain your smack down on droids (gata get more metal…gata get more…)
Companion drops them in your inv as they craft them (great update to that), and you stop smacking droids up long enough to rip apart the green guns they made. Low and behold you get yerself a blue recipie. Good thing they got you a piece of some elaborately named blue metal, but darnit you need 2 to think about crafting this.

So just for the record to craft a purple item usually requires twice as much of the blue metal/cloth as the blue item does PLUS a rare purple item (usually a few … like 2 or 3) that tend to only come from certain types of missions.

Missions can come in few, moderate and abundant. If your companion is high enough they can come back from the abundant mission with the awesome purples and a smattering of the blue stuff. That is at least 2 of those missions before you can craft that item.

This is why I think Underworld trading is a must have on any character you aren’t actively crafting on. Put it all up on the Galactic market, please … I beg you. I don’t care what you list it at. This is a worse bottleneck than shards for enchanting ever was (cept maybe raid only recipes)

Matthew_Gallant · 2011-12-09T13:43:13.000Z

I wonder if the name “Dark Council Unimperial Activities Committee” is too long a name for a guild, because I bet Joseph McDarthy wouldn’t be against the naming policy.

Aeon221 · 2011-12-09T14:08:19.000Z

So I guess Darth Fookt Mai Kat is straight out?

Rasputin · 2011-12-09T14:44:44.000Z

I’m thinking about naming my Inquisitor “Eewarthy.”

ibdoomed · 2011-12-09T15:04:35.000Z

Can we rename companions? I want to rename Aric, Lassie.