SWG Community Summit – Austin, TX



Overall Development Focus:

* Want to reinvigorate community relationship
* all want to make the game better
* Want to end up with a stable and bug-free product
* No expansion (will be focused on Pubs)
* More Communication
* Fixing Bugs
* Testing Publishes a lot
* Adding compelling and Rewarding content
* Less grind, more story-driven
* Fixing Bugs (This was clearly a main concern)
* Communication
* Will continue Stratic chats and R5 comlink
* Profession Specific content
* Work on collision (more SW-y)
* Profession Differentiation
* Raise bar on SWG GCW (all professions)
* Ranks will matter



Publish Overview:

Pub 29

* Work on Weap. DMG
* More Quests Combat
* Work on new targeting
* Character Transfer Improving (more stuff)
* Prof Differentiation Technology (no actual changes yet)



Pub 30

* Jedi/BH differentiation (mods, skills, etc.)
* Jedi/BH specific missions
* Collision system (duck, hide, real jumping, etc)
* Work on GCW
* Check theme parks
* Quests 42-44
* Improve appearances



Pub 31

* Smuggling
* PVP enhancements
* PVP rank rewards and incentives
* Quests 44-50



Pub 32

* Traders RE
* Can transfer stats from piece to piece
* Work on Nyms Theme park



Pub 33

* Medic Specialization
* Commando Specialization
* Battlegrounds
* Space PVP enhancements (control zones, etc)



Pub 34

* PVP battleground - mounted blasters
* Quests 50-56



Questions (These took a long time, there were a lot. I’ll try to sort them here)

GCW:

* Rank will matter (higher rank, more powerful)
* Some more pet (maybe troop) handling in GCW, no CH though as of yet
* Will bring community together:
* --people to build items
* --people drive/command items
* --people on the front lines



Jedi/BH

* May be light/dark differentiation within profession
* Jedi want to be god-like (the guy who was asking about it said that)
* Elder Jedi got more rewards than other Profs. since it was harder to get
* Jedi will not get an uber lava saber (somebody asked about that)
* Duel wielding sabers is not currently in the publish plan, don’t have art or animations
* BH will get missions from terminals
* There will be no reward for defeating a BH besides living



Traders

* No specifics on decay. Want to help traders without punishing combat professions
* It would be very complicated to change it so architects could customize furniture
* All types of trader will be improved with the trader revamp
* Trader weapons will be able to compete with loot
* will try to focus on method of restocking vendors, currently very tedious
* Crafters will get some skill tapes, etc. back. --Should be part of trader revamp
* Trader revamp will improve targeting for furniture, etc.



Quests

* Vets Will be able to play new system of any re-done theme parks
* Grinding isn’t fun, team will focus more on quests
* More high end content will come in future publishes
* Professions will all be different, and people within professions will be different. People will need to rely on each other. With that, there will also be story and rewards and theme parks.



PvP

* Will include more PVP issues/skills as game progresses
* May be a type of enhanced PvP system where items occasionally drop off a players corpse
* Will be more factional PvP rewards and incentives



Other Questions:

Condemning Structures and/or having them packed up

* No specifics at this time. It is very difficult to tell which structures to have removed and which to keep. Not sure at the time how to make sure they only get certain houses without also getting houses around or near it, etc.



Commando Weapon and High Damage Amounts

* These weapons have much higher damage because they fire slower. Looking to balance lava canon



Non combat ways to resolve issues? (i.e. conversing or using Jedi mind tricks)

* Combat is a main part of the game but these are a possibility



Entertainers and Combat

* Was pulled because of quality
* Not sure if they will ever have combat as a main part of profession



Jedi as a starter profession

* Jedi is a very Star Warsy profession. Elders were rewarded with buffs, crystal, robes, and blue glow.



Wookiee / Ithorian armor issues

* Due to clipping and the way armor works is it basically takes off your torso and swaps it with the model of the armor. With wookiees and ithorians, that causes really bad graphics issues. There are a lot of possibilities to work around this problem, but for now these species will be limited to their 3 types of armor.



Cloning Fatigue

* Cloning Fatigue will result after you have cloned. This will take off 75% of your health. One way to heal it is seeing an entertainer.
* Concentrated Bacta Tanks will not heal cloning fatigue



A lot of Empty areas not being used in SWG (i.e. med centers, theatres, cantinas)

* There will be more interaction between classes. People will rely on each other more.



Melee Profession?

* Right now the only melee-style profession will be jedi



Combat Log

* Are looking at bringing the combat log into the NGE



Will the other professions be brought back?

* No, with these 9 professions, it is a lot easier to maintain them and give them each what they want. Don’t need to baby-sit all 36



Will there be a Star Destroyer Quest similar to Corvette?

* There may be after Pub 29



Will there be more space content?

* No tier 5 quest plans at this time
* Will be working on more big POV ships



Different types of now useless droids?

* Will try to make all different kinds of droids useful



Level 65 Vatakryl Quest

* Will be looked at to possibly lower the level so the vatakryl can be used



Other important things to note:

* There will not be a classic server, even if paying extra.
* There will not be a rollback.
* There will not be Hoth or any other expansion this year. The team will be focusing on the publishes.
* Mustafar bunkers will continue to be able to double as guild halls
* SWG will not go to PS3, its a PC MMO game
* Harvesters/Factories will not be suddenly removed from the game

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All publishes are slated for completeion by the end of this year.. so the end of 2008 it is then