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Hallo fellowers,
I'm thinking about having a go in SWG.
What is preventing me are the many critics over the game..
I consider myself more a RP rather than a PK..
I enjoy building up teams and friendships to face the different missions/tasks/duties and the everyday..
I tend to give the game 1.2 hrs x day.. maybe push it a bit more in the w.e. when I have time..
So, I'd like to have an environment where I could find a 'mature' playing and fun..
i.e. no 13yrs olders hacking+bashing+SHOUTING all the time...
Still, the big issue is that I'm in Europe, and I would need some good comunity to interact with..
I can see that the big part of the players is in US.
I wonder if from Europe I would still be able to get good gaming..
Especially, I see many fun events.. but they are often not suitable for Europe..
LET me Know!!
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I say go for it. There are Euro servers. The attitude of most people I see in-game is mostly mature. There is shouting, but most of it is someone advertising a service or selling goods. There are bad apples in any MMORPG, but SWG seems to keep most of the bloodthirsty kiddies on a couple servers. Personally, I play on Chilastra. At least give the 14 day trial a go, see if you like it, I think you'll be interested.
MMORPG -- Where's the RP?
MMORPG -- Where's the RP?
If you're looking for more RP, try Europe-Chimera (I know I spelled that wrong), they are more mature and the entire city of Mos Eisley is a roleplaying area. You should have fun there.
If you'd like to try one of the other servers, Valcyn is a great server. And its the unofficial Aussie/Kiwi server, so there are a ton of people on all the time. And the majority of players are mature and respectful (the are always bad apples of course).
Star Wars: Galaxies - Ibra Olasi (Valcyn Server)
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Star Wars: Galaxies - Ibra Olasi (Valcyn Server) [Dead, screw you SOE]
I'm from the United States and I play on that server "Europe-Chimera"... The first day I was there someone gave me 50k credits, sliced my weapon and then stayed with me for a week to help me get off the ground.
The people are very mature... no one's named "UberWookieMan" or if you duel someone and die no one runs around saying "Joo b33n owned!" or HaxoR crap...
It's a very nice server, tons of people and myself and my buddy are also on that server too. I am Skaari Ju'Jop
There's also no lag for me... and I'm across the Atlantic Ocean.
What will he do next?
Lo mukka! I'm a brit and have played on what was the "unofficial euro server" Eclipse. There are still a lot of brit's around. I did try one of the euro servers after they were launched but it seemed populated with mostly dutch and others continental types...so stuck with Eclipse. If were you create alts on all the servers and see what you make of the communities.
The SWG community i have always found a tough nut to crack. People at one time quit the game with frequent regularity and at christmas all dissapeared into a "holo" grind of afk'ing and solo playing. Most of the guilds are made of players since day 1 and its very hard to find one....but that could just be me Soloing is VERY easy in SWG...no hanging around for ages waiting for someone to go to bed so you can jump into his spot ala Daoc.
I would say try it and see and my advice is go novice brawler, then swordsman or TKA...quickest way to make money
Cyaz best of luck
Pan
Pan
The majority of European players playing SWG have no problems with connections, lag, etc. You do need a high end computer. Current recommended specs are GeForce 4 Graphics Card, or equivilant. 1 GIG memory or more. SWG is playable on a 56k connection. Though a faster connection is even better (heck better for any game, and for regular internet surfing.)
Check out Stratics.com for more in depth info on SWG:
http://swg.stratics.com/
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Im from sweden and I had the same problem when i first started playing SWG. But it didnt take long for me to convince all my MMORPG friends here in sweden to choose SWG as there no.1 MMORPG and that helpt alot i can say, and when they opened the european servers it wasnt even a problem anymore.
So today it shouldnt be any problems for u to find som real european SWG geeks out there
So go for it.
i hate star wars movies
first 3 ok)
but last 2...bs like matrix 2 and 3 if not worse
but i still play it...best sci-fi (hard to say star wars is sci-fi) mmorpg right now
not perfect at all ..but still the best
connection to US servers is ok
but not for big PvP...u lag and die
btw i think euro servers = bad servers hardware
sonny politics in any game..planetside too
My ping (from UK on 1Mb caqble) to Eclipse (US server) is 150 average, to Infinity (Europe server) its about 50
I do tend to get bigger lag spikes when playing on Eclipse but then alot of lag problems are actually client-side (you really do need a meaty machine or need to turn off lots of the options or accept the lag spikes when entering cities) - that said I've been playing on Eclipse for 12 months now on a Duron 1300 512MB WinME, Geforce 4 Ti4200 128MB so its definately playable