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Star Wars Galaxies Jump to Lightspeed Reviewed
UGO is running a feature on Star Wars Galaxies, a week after the launch of Jump to Lightspeed. They have reviews of the expansion both from a veteran player and from a new player to the game. From the Vet: "Jump to Lightspeed is a dream come true for many loyal SWG players that have been itching for a new reason to dust off that old flight stick or buy a new one." From the Newb: "As time went on, the bloom started to come off the rose, for a number of reasons." If you've been considering getting your dogfight on, give them a look.
From what I've read, JTL sounds like a good game and it may be enough to convince me to finally buy SWG and this expansion. Also, there is a review on Gamespot as well: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/starwarsgalaxiesjum ptolightspeed/review.html
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SWG has been floundering since their release. Many players felt they were paying for beta accounts. Then EVE Online came into the picture and started absorbing their playerbase. It'll be interesting to find out if this new expansion is enough to pull SWG out of the gutter.
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1. I have a medium-sized Hutt ship. I can travel between planets as it has hyperspace. I think most ships that aren't your starter (newb) ship have hyperspace capability. When you are in your ship hit the H key to toggle the Hyperspace window.
2. You can go from the starport to space. Fly back into the space station and go to a different starport on the planet. You may not travel "overland" in your ship so to say.
3. The veteran SoroSuub ship (Lando's Lady Luck style) is a multi-player ship. There is a rumor of guilds being able to buy capital ships later on. From what I can tell 'space' for each planet is about the same size as the planet but has the x,y,z coords instead of just the 2. Supposedly you can dock with other ships, I haven't been able to pull this off, I may not be a high enough level yet.
( o ) one could say I'm rather baked
JTL does have multiplay space combat,but its such a ass backwards system where tie fighter equped players can be on the Rebel forces and vis versa that it make for some interesteing gameplay. But Im with you guys if I dont want to be doing land based missions, then its the fault of the developers to force me to to make money. I also agree with his problems with the Rebel and Imperial forces.... a much better idea might have to make it a glory thing and to have the better ships be given to you as you rise up the ranks