Darth Hater

I'm with you on this.

I'm hoping for a system where crafters (or anyone really. But crafters more so) are able to give material to a "supply officer" on whatever given planet. Depending on what you give would effect one aspect:

IE:- If you give shield components, then the energy shield of a particular objective is just that little bit closer to upgrading to the next level.

- if you give power transfer components, then the base guns are progressed that little bit more to the next level of eith damage, power, or both.

This is my hope anyway.

This makes me very exited. I'd love a more complex crafting system as swg had, rather then the
boring system say what wow have now. Nice update :-)

This article greatly improves my morale.

Stupid Mike Myers haircut for that JK, omg you gotta hate the way they make hair for Swtor :(

Actually, I think that hair comes from Han Solo (Go ahead, look up the pictures. Sure, HS usually had a little 'scruffier' hair, but the general shape is always that even part down the middle with short hair, and plenty of times it looks just like that ) ... and I like plenty of the very little of hair we have seen in TOR.

No comments about the reference to MUDs? :o
MUDs were one of my first experiences of online games. Back in 1995, with an avg/below avg computer and 56k, I couldn't really play online games like Jedi Knight without immense amounts of lag. I discovered MUDs one day and started playing them. Played a few fantasy-based ones and a few Star Wars ones. The one thing about MUDs that I truly enjoyed was exploration and puzzles. Exploration in MUDs consisted of actually reading descriptions of rooms, noting references to certain objects, examining items, and eventually stumbling upon secret areas. With exploring new areas comes the risk of not knowing what is in those areas. There were quite a few memorable times where I would solve a puzzle on some wall and then enter a room with one of the most dangerous mobs in the game. In one of the MUDs I played, one could earn exploration points by reaching a certain point in an area or getting past a puzzle. In addition to exploration, MUDs had some fun events which really didn't take a lot of effort to implement. Starting an Easter egg hunt or an invasion of high level mobs in a city were just a few examples of some of the events.

Now that I've experienced 3D games quite a bit and have a decent computer, I think it would be hard to return to MUDs; however, I'm glad that people like Damion at Bioware still remember where MMOs truly started, and I believe there can be a few positive aspects such as exploration to take out of MUDs and place into TOR.

Bioware can't keep this up forever, the star wars community is by far the most patient I have seen and glad it is or this one page updates would have blown in their faces by now.

aside from what we've heard, this update kind of opens room for more speculation ( as if we needed more :)
but the particular references about community brings a certain joy feeling i have since lost.

no worries friends, E3 is just around the corner and it promises to be epic.

I disagree about the patience. People miss the part about the game being over a year away. We are approaching 600,000 people...that is more than everquest ever had, more than WoW had at launch....more than most MMORPGs have had...and it's still a year away from even launching 0.o

PS: No I don't think Bioware started talking about it too early. They started right about the usual time. The people are hyping themselves up, and gathering their friends, and TOR has just exploded. People are ready for a new big MMO ( Over due actually. )

hey granados i posted something about this somewhere. I mean I really like how Bioware is only giving us solid game information. If you played SWG ...... I remeber how much stuff was cut out before lauch..ALOT( well like ground transportation for instance). Those cuts from SWG launch really tarnished the game IMO. So would you not rather have some great speculations out there, which there alot, and be excited for the next solid update(stuff that is working and will def be in the game) ie.... crafting, ships, whatever floats your boat..and be pleased/disapointed to what is gonna be ingame instead of false promises???

BTW that screenshot is not new lol. They took same backdrop from another screenshot then they took 4 classes and put them there wow.

...that makes it new. If I went to the eiffel tower, and took a picture of me standing in front of it...it would be a new picture. It may or may not be very original or provide any insights, but it is still new.

They are casting realistic shadows. If it's faked then I'm impressed.

There is something disturbing in the Republic screenshot: 3 out of the 4 people represented wear skintight pants.
For someone like me which give a lot of importance to the clothing , it might be one of the decisive factors I will take in account while choosing my class.. and my side. For now I'll still stick to my Consular and the republic, the dress we've been showed so far looked nice enough. But is it on purpose that the developers made the Republic crew look like more fat then the Empire's?

Ha ha. It seems like your April's Fools joke worked Darth Haters, they suddenly bring up the 'third element' (third pillar?).

cough

Actually they started back in GDC atleast. GDC was all about changing pace away from story because they might have put too much emphasis on it. So, GDC was about starting to show big open worlds, and their combat ( Third Pillar. Not sure what they meant by Third Element, the pillars they mentioned before are: exploration, progression, combat and storytelling. )