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Star Wars Galaxies Jump to Lightspeed Reviewed

Posted by Zonk on from the views-from-both-sides-of-the-x-wing dept.

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.

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  1. JTL is like atching paint dry by glowimperial · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I was in the early phases of the JTL Beta. After a few weeks of testing I found it so buggy, and more importantly, so boring and badly implemented, that I stopped testing. So did a lot of other testers. They had to send out bulk E-mails to testers, begging us to come back, because their test population, especially veteran testers like me, had dwindled so much.

    The gameplay of JTL is so mind numbingly bad that it is a major turn off. I used to lead a 120+ member guild in SWG until I started testing JTL. The total suckiness of JTL has decimated server population, and veteran players are leaving in droves for EQ2 and WoW. Luckily, I am moving over to WoW (Beta is great, game is real polished) with some mates from my SWG server.

  2. Re:A word of warning to those thinking of buying by Fbelch · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've got a good suggestion based on the information based above.

    Try out World Of Warcraft, I myself just uninstalled and removed my account from SWG because of JTL. Why? The same reasons above, and more.

    - Promises not being kept (Smuggler Revamp)
    - Crazy amount of XP needed to proceed
    - Messed up economy where ships / houses / anything important will cost you your life savings.
    - The horrible grind.

    Anyways, World Of Warcraft has solved a lot of these issues. The gameplay is 100X what I've seen in SWG. The graphics are phenomenal, and your not stuck in 1 or 2 professions.

    Here's the choices.

    1) 9 Character Races (Tauren, Human, Dark Elf, Etc)
    2) 9 Main Base Classes (Hunter, Rogue, Warrior, Etc)
    3) 8 Primary Professions (Mining, Engineering, Tailor, Etc )
    - You can choose two of these.
    4) 3 Secondary Professions (Fishing, Cooking, First Aid)
    - These are optional, but you can take them all.

    The possibilities are endless.

    For Example:
    I have a Tauren Hunter that has Engineering and Mining as his professions. I also took Fishing, First Aid and Cooking for my Secondary Professions. These Secondary profession are free and don't hurt you at all ;)

    Anyways, There is currently a open beta trial that blizzard and fileplanet have released.

    WoW
    Fileplanet

    Check it out.

  3. Re:best quote by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Well what's weird about the US armed forces is that there's no hard distinction on craft. The Air Force has planes, but then the Army has planes too... Then you have the aforementioned Navy Hornets/Super Hornets (and all kinds of other Navy aircraft).

    The Army also has boats.. the whole thing is a mess, if you really think about it. Personally, I think they either need to consolidate into one armed force, or learn to work together a little better, so you don't get idiotic crap like the Navy wasting all kinds of money on the Osprey program.

  4. Re:best quote by stoolpigeon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It doesn't make a lot of sense from the outside-- and of course like anything that large there is room for improvement-- but it's not as bad as you think. The JSF will save money by doing some standardizing in the aircraft arena.

    They are consolidated into one armed force-- the United States Department of Defense- with its various branches.

    The Osprey program may still work out. I wouldn't completely write it off yet.

    --
    It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
  5. A couple of questions for those who have played it by Taulin · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I was really into SQG for about 4 months and had a ton of fun. I quite on a temp basis waiting for this expansion. However, these questions have yet to be answered by anyone, and I think they are important.

    1) Can you fly your own ship from planet to planet and forget the reliance on other forms of transportation? I should be able to at least travel to nearby planets, especially if I have a cargo class ship.

    2) Can I fly from shuttle port, or from location to location on the same planet? If I have my own ship, I should be able to travel around REALLy fast, and for free since I have a ship.

    3) Am I only limited to just flying up into the immediate space and fighting? What else is there to do besides fighting? Can I board another ship? Walk around in ships?