well this does not look too good, but:

on the other hand, if you want a usefull solution you have to lead the ppl. Too many cooks spoil the broth. so if you bring a lot of guilds together then its only working that each guild has its representive. there will be way too much bullshit when every guild menber of every guild gets involved with the decition making. thats a thing the leaders have to take up on.

if you dont like these leaders, well one thing. but thats not the question. the question is: how are the alternative servers? how is the comunity there? what ppl are there? or are we just better off to go exactly ro that server. let them do their thing, but still have the better part of the swtor community. its not about the leadership its about the thousand players that come with them.

i would perefer a rp server. swtor is story, and rp is played story. i dont want to play on a server where all those "roxxor" or "arraaagron" named characters run around. thats not story. thats stupid bullshit... and mostly the players behind that are even more so. so the question stays the same. where to find the best community. in my opinion it will be at least a RP-PVP server. even better when there are more ppl on it that like the rp part. even if we are not part of their organised group.
so it might be not so bad to be there even if they do their own thing. think about it. dont just back of if they do not accept you and your ideas as leadership.

my 5 cent.

so i "finished" my first beta weekend.

so far i see positives and negatives.

i played a jedi sage to lvl 18 (jes just got my starship) and a jidi knight to lvl 7. a smuggler to lvl 5 and a trooper; well the trooper never reached lvl 3...

trooper: did not like the gameplay at all... not my style of playing
smuggler: was fun but the still heavy bugged cover system took that away so i stopped again.
knight: the jumping in the enemy from above is fun, but still not my prefered playstyle.
sage: well as you can see with my lvls this is the char i had most fun. well i always loves to play "mage" style characters and so here i am again.

overall this is still beta. there is still a lot of stuff that needs to be fixed.
- i had no portraits all the time, no item preview no character view in char window...
- sometime you dont have lip movement in the scences.
- taxis trail is not realy realistic and looks crapy.
and a lot more. but mostly for a beta you can live with that.

cons:
for someone who has played wow for three and a half years i have to say its a bit too close to that. i still think that is where they want to get the most players from so i can understand their reasons. but if the high end content is too similar to wow (grinding raids, grinding battlegrounds for just the next set of tier items) then i will not last for more then the storryline.

the skill trees reminds me way too much of wow. just some stupid boni here and there. i liked the system that RIFT had way better. (rift had me bored after a few months too becuse the high end content was the same as wow. but better in character progression, raids and mosty anything else.) for me its too simple. and too much of a copy/paste from wow. i hope that this will not be a too big of an slow down for the fun factor. not enough room for costumization.

space fights are the biggest bullshit i have ever seen in a mmo. well this is no more as a arcade space sim shooting game. you can not even control where you ship is flying. heaviely disapointed. (well maybe not. we knew it was like that from all the youtube vids ^^)

the quests are similar to other mmos. not that much of a diffrence. but that brings me to the pros:


pros:
the story is nice, and i enjoyed my questing as my jedi consular. jes its mostly similar to other mmos but you have at least some smaller choices what brings it a bit closer to rpg. all other mmos ar just mmos. no rpgs. well gere at last you have some rpg elements and that makes it way more intresting to listen to the story. all other mmos that i played only have take the quest or leave the quest. here you have choices. sometimes your choices have a meaning at least for your character. sometiimes they are bigger, sometimes they are smaller, somtimes they are insignificant.

besides that the voiceacting is good. i liked it mostly in all dialogs. but only in the english version. the german version (i saw at a friend of mine. i dont play german anyway) is realy bad.

the companion system is realy nice. i dont like that fucking reptile i have atm, but i like the system. after we failed in a heroic 4 group phase with 4 players and 2 stupid players with us (breaking ccs and no focus fire at all) we did go in again with 2 players and our 2 compainions. it was not easy, i nearly always ended the fight with no force left to whiled, but we did it and it worked. was hard but doable. so you can do things as group even if its ment for more players and you are a bit short on ppl, but are good enough that you can compensate with you and your companions.

the grafics are ok. it looks good. some complain about it but i think its ok. wow is way more comic than this one. besides photo realism wount work in a mmo. i like it ist good as it is (when the bugs are gone... =) ).

to my class as sage as dd: i realy liked it. of cource with lvl 18 there are still a lot of things to get and to find out, but so far it was enjoiable. i tryed to skip the healing part, but sometimes in a group you just had to do it. for now it still workes with a dd spec, but i guess later on this will not be anymore of good use, and a healer spec is required (not form me then... =) )


over all:
i think it is worth a try. i will play this game. the story and the rpg part of the game is fun. what happens after that is a question that i can only answer i can only aswer in the next year. so we will see how it will work out.

best regards...
zort

Swtor.com name: Zortarg
Ingame name: Zortarg (most likely)
Order: PRAELIUM
Eta: preorderd... so as soon as possible...

i just preordered the standart edition. still no confermation yet
i cant promise you a lot of game atendance atm but i will be there.

Consular for sure.
I always played that magic/force chars. thats what i enjoy most.
will see in game how i will play it this time.

but most likely jedi sage (dmg / support)

applied...

well, well, well... shit happens...

yea i know,
i just got back, started to play darkfall again.

then work kicks in, nearly too much (my own buissness).

then our working computer died... and i dont want to spend money for a new computer (which im trying to spend somewhere else), so i just packed my private computer and put it down to my working place.
well that means that i just have a retarted fucking old machine at home which is barly enouth for playing cards, watching some films, or surfing on the net.
well not realy important then my working time ends atm between 7pm and 9:30pm. so when i get home, have a shower, have some lunch... then its nearly time to hit the bed.

sucks, but no gaming atm...

and as it looks it will not change much before end of autum. so for now my guess is, that maybe, just maybe i will have more time in winter.

means you most likely will see as much of me as in the last past few weeks.

im sorry, especialy for you nocry. i realy enjoyed our sessions. but for now its just impossible for me.

cya around guys... whenever that may be.

zort