A Trooper Looks at 50 . . .

Into the room the Jedi come and go . . . speaking of nothing.

Fleet isn’t exactly empty, but it is quiet.  The friends list is empty. The guild list is empty. The galactic market kiosks are empty.  The last three plants for the daily quests didn’t have enough folks to form a cue. I spent two hours running the Corellia Run (11 chests in 20 minutes for about 125,000 credits) Didn’t see a soul or a Sith the entire time.

Someone shows up in the guild list, but looking their location is “Space”. It is the only other active part of the guild besides me . . . they never chat and spend all day in “Space” and just add levels. Part of me is fascinated by this process and wants to ask them about it. The more dominate part of me however has no interest in a discussion with someone who can level playing the crappy rail missions over and over. Besides, anyone who could isn’t really someone I expect is into narrative.

1.2 came with a fair share of things worthy of note mostly for the fact they weren’t included in the vanilla. The interview with the developer was they were waiting to consider the population issue until after 1.2.  Everyone who had drifted out to see other games would suddenly come flooding back. Yeah . . . with a flood like this I am in imminent danger of the soles of my shoes getting moist.

However, there is something interesting about 1.2 that I can comment on . . . and shall! At legacy level 25 for five million credits you can get a neutral galactic market kiosk on your ship . . . and on any ship of any toon you ever roll. This, if the game were either alive or reanimated, could lead someplace interesting. How long in a game with higher populations that matured would it take until the majority of the committed players had on the ships of whatever toon they played a neutral galactic market? What does that mean for the faction galactic markets? Could make for some interesting evolving for the environment.

All in all, the legacy stuff is a nice piece to add to the MMO existence. Hope it survives into other iterations of 

MMOs. Of course, I’d prefer the existing sinkholes of stupidity like the current market’s interface for an example would be perfected before we add more things that need to be perfected.

Anway . . . and . . . If you give the run faster talent to level one is it still a talent?

Hopefully . . . soon . . . The Boss and The Don and maybe The Mayor might could be 50 . . . and we can at least explore some of the higher content together. Otherwise, until they address the population issues . . . it is just another ghost town . . . sans ghosts.

Well . . . here I am . . . in good faith (as opposed to bad?) . . . waiting for Godot.

(Whedon, Sartie and Beckett . . . for those of you playing at home.)