Community Q&A – Feb 24th 2012 Blog Discussion

im sorry this isnt the galaxies 2 you wanted or expected. a ton of those things you want or find super important arent important to a large number of people. attempting to claim that the devs are dumb though for not learning from a game that not only has nothing to do with this one (other than a similer ip) but is also a completely different kind of game is ludicrous.

Georg Zoeller: Absolutely. With the upcoming Game Update 1.2, we are adding endgame crafting for all professions. This includes augment crafting, the ability to crit-craft custom (orange) gear with augment slots, new endgame schematics, new color crystals, expanded and improved research and reverse engineering and much more (we're up to 4 pages of crew skill related patch notes in 1.2. alone)

Well, this is nice that crafted custom gear can get an augment slot on a crit; but what about the sheer tons custom gear that is not crafted but gained through lockboxes/rewards/commendations/drops? People wearing these will be left out in the cold because those items would never get an Augment slot.

So I am still hoping for a means to allow people to craft Augment Slots onto existing gear (like an 'Augmentation Device'); otherwise it will simply shoe-horn everyone into only using crafted gear and looking like clones (with augment slots).

So instead of evening the playing field for everyone, you're simply shifting the problem.

First when we wanted the best performance, we all have to look like clones in our endgame pve gear. So you guys want to open up the Armoring slots and set-bonus and such for people to put in their custom gear. Awesome! Now we can look like we want to look, with the best mods and set-bonus from the endgame gear.

But now you guys apparently say that crit-crafted gear will have an augment slot. So this simply creates the exact same problem all over again.

Having an 'Augmentation Device' consumable would allow people to use them and attach Augment Slots to their favorite gear and everyone will look the way they want to look whilst also having the potential of matching their gear to endgame stats.

I know it isn't & I expected the BioWare Devs to be truthful to not lead anyone on that SWTOR will be like SWGalaxies. At that nearly 1st time BioWare has at a gaming convention promoting SWTOR, one of the Doctor's & a lady VP working at LucasArts got on a stage & announced to the gaming press & the world that "Everybody gets a playership!"

After that grandiose Playership presentation & video, they opened the floor to questions & every question about playership's was asking if we could decorate & customize them & BioWare said yes we will, not at launch but soon. Yes, you can decorate your playerships, we promise you that you can real soon!

Damion Schubert is the only Dev that stepped forward & gave a truthful technical answer that is also, annoyingly, the opposite answer given by every other BioWare dev that has ever been asked this question.

But I see the problem, you are ignorant about who is actually working at BioWare Austin, about how many MMO vets that have worked on some many different MMO titles were just looking for a new project in Austin when BioWare scooped them up to work on a brand new Star Wars MMO. Damion worked on Meridian 59 & UO, Dallas worked on SWG as did so many other of the Dev team, lots of them worked on sandbox MMORPG's.

Damion Schubert: We have an internal strike team that is fully devoted to ensuring that the game runs better and faster, especially on low end machines, and we consider this team's work to be a crucial internal initiative. You should see evidence of this work as soon as Patch 1.1.5, when we will be introducing a new 'very low' setting to shader quality, which should drastically increase the number of mid-to-low machines the game can run well on, especially in Warzones and Operations.

i would have to re watch some of that but i dont remember bioware EVER stating "real" soon to any of that. they did state that you would be getting some options, and that the final details as to what options those were hadnt been decided. i dont see anything damion said is contradictory to anything else bioware has stated in terms of what will be available eventually.

also, im kinda curious about why you seem to think that just because some of the dev team had worked on previous sandbox games that this would also be one? generally "social" options are limited in themepark games because they want you off riding the rides. personally thats the very reason why i dont overly care for most sandbox games, if i wanted to sit in a bar and sing kumbaya with people, ill head to the bar. its the same argument against a great many of the mini games people want slapped into this. if i want to play cards/chess/race/etc ill play a game thats actually optimized to do those things.

Not addressed at all.

I wouldnt expect this till they rewrite the engine. AKA never...