SOE!!! Revert back or start from scratch

I love Star Wars. When I heard of a MMORPG called Star Wars Galaxies I thought that the god of all games was coming. I will never forget launch and how the first day I couldn't log in because of the billing overload problem. That was no problem, it just escalated my anticipation to play the game. That second and third day I started when the servers opened and played until they shut the servers down.

Oh how wonderful it was to start out on Tattooine and roam around Mos Eisley. I had that giddy feeling inside. I was truly in another world. The variety of professions was amazing. You could be anything you wanted. Of course it wasn't perfect but it was the closest thing that I could imagine at the time.

Remember getting pwned by squills inside the squill cave trying to kite and outrun them? Remember the first time you seen a Tusken and got incapped by his rifle? Remember how running from city to city seemed like eternity because the planetary maps were so large and vehicles were not around? I can remember the mount release and thought it couldn't get any better. I can remember how massive I thought Coronet was getting lost inside the metro area. Even when Jump to Lightspeed was release I thought it was still a decent game.

Then came the nerfs and changes. I'm not going to throw 100% of the blame to SOE. I heard enough whiners during the 1st year of gameplay to shake a stick at. That is the first reason SOE started changing the game. If it wasn't for those pesky whiners.

What they need to do is start over with SWG II or do a major overhaul on the current game.

Here is a list of things that I liked about the game:

House placement freedom
32 different professions (Pre NGE)
Vehicles and mounts
Jump to Lightspeed was an amazing expansion
Massive planetary maps
Decent character creation
Faction pets and rank

Here is a list of things that I thought needed to be changed or added:

More factions, a lot more (including Hutt, Black Sun, Nym etc...)
More ships to choose from, do not restrict ships to faction
More character races to choose from
More weapons and armore, do not restrict weapons and armor to profession, only allow professions to gain a bonus on certain types of weapons (pistoleers, rifleman, etc...)
Vehicle combat and weapons

Transition from planet to space needs to be seemless. I would like to go to the starport and access a hangar from there I need to see my ship. Only me and my party should be able to enter the hangar and enter my ship. This could be done on your system and not the server. Autopilot for big ships should have been there from day 1.

I also want my vehicles to be seemless. I don't want my vehicle to appear out of the blue. When you get your vehicle you are responsible for taking care of your vehicle. If you leave a city where you have your vehicle parked and you don't have a vehicle droid module inside, then it will stay there until you come to pick it up. If it stays there for 6 hours, city maintenance will take it to a storage location and you will have to pay to get it back. If you have a vehicle droid module and you are out far away from that city, you can call your vehicle to your location. The only catch there is that you will have to wait the actual time it takes for your vechicle to come to pick you up. You should not be able to take your vehicle off planet unless you have a ship big enough to carry your vehicle or you pay the cargo fee to carry your vehicle to another planet.

I think PvP should be done differently. PvP should be always on. The only catch is when you provoke an attack inside city limits guards will appear and either break up the fight or incapp/kill the provoker. If you are incapped you will be given a choice to go to jail or resist arrest. If you go to jail you will be taken to a holding facility and have to wait 10 min or so before you are released. If you are outside city limits you are fair game for anyone. The only problem there is that it will limit low level explorers. Maybe you could temporarily gain neutral status for missions or something.

Credits and money should be limited by all means. I got tired of people charging 10K credits for buffs and such. Credits definitely need to be toned down.

Faction and rank need to be significant in certain missions and locations. I know rebels were kind of shafted because the empire got the AT-ST's and dark troopers, but think of this. I worked very very hard for my faction points and all of that hard work just to watch a Teras Kasi Master beat my AT-ST and 2 dark troopers to garbage. That is too much. I think that combat needs to be changed up but not the NGE.

I stuck it out up until a couple of months ago. I finally cancelled my 2 accounts for me and my wife to play on. We even payed the $24.99 to play all 5 online games from Sony.

Well that's all for now. Does anyone know what is going to happen to the game with the state it's in now? Thanks for listening.

-Vic