Tannim said:
Actually the Jedi are getting penalized. They no longer perma die, but they lose entire skills when they die.
Oh boo fucking hoo, I feel really bad for them. That's not a penalty, that's a joke. They can sit in a locked PA hall using force powers on a droid and get those skills right back, because they're little macro whores.
There was some big post on the forums about it over at SWG. The entire macro jedi thing sucks, so personally I can't wait until they change it over to the quest system.
Quests are even easier to distill and exploit than the current system. There is
no way to limit the number of force-sensitive slots without doing something totally artificial like imposing a cap. The
only way to control the Jedi numbers is through permadeath and Bounty Hunters, and now they've removed that.
Let's face it, the devs exist for no other reason than to give rim jobs to all the Jedi, and I will tell you exactly why: Because they horribly mis-managed their design and marketing of the game, Jedi, as a profession, has been painted as the ultimate goal in the game. Contrary to SWG's original concept, everyone expects to wind up at the
exact same place sooner or later, and that place is Jedi. Now, if
your entire player base, or at least the vast majority of it, pays you a monthly fee strictly for the opportunity to be Jedi, what is the last thing you want to go and do? Make Jedi a difficult or challenging profession, that's what.
So in order to maintain the bulk of their monthly revenues, they have no choice but to do everything in their power to destroy the continuity and ruin the experience for any player who isn't an exploiting, macro-whoring dick-licker.
They no longer get any jedi xp anymore in combat unless using the lightsaber, which makes them nice little targets for the bounty hunters. hehehe
Not every Hunter out there can gun down a Jedi. And even if they did, so what? Oh boo hoo, they lost some pathetically worthless XP. Guess they'll have to go macro-hunt some more on Endor, the poor sons of bitches.
I hope they get hit by trucks.
Like I said, when Publish 7 rolls around, everyone with Investigation 3 is going to become a bloodthirsty, Jedi-hunting, war machine, and I plan to join their ranks. All that's left to us is to collect every Jedi mark we can, and hopefully hunt-spam them out of the game. If we can't frustrate them enough to give up, then SWG becomes Super Jedi Wars, and I, and every other intelligent SWGer, will leave.
Btw... anyone here who plays SWG... what servers are y'all on?
Lowca.
As a matter of fact, our PA on Lowca is in some serious trouble, so if people want to start a second character, or haven't invested much on another server and would like to switch over to Lowca and start again, let me know about it. Things are pretty ugly right now and the more people on my side, the better.
