SWG Player Cities.. LOL

noel · Post by **noel** » December 10, 2003, 4:07 pm

Apparently SOE is removing the ability for players to ban others from the player cities. I wonder if this has anything to do with it.

http://www.swgrants.com/archives/000057.html

Post by **Sylvus** » December 10, 2003, 4:11 pm

Perhaps it's because I never played SWG, but what exactly is going on in that picture?

Actually, on further review, it appears that is a GM or something?

noel · Post by **noel** » December 10, 2003, 4:16 pm

Basically, there are now (recently released) player run cities in the game. Please don't ask me how exactly that works, but I'm under the impression that players can govern themselves etc.

What you're seeing in that picture is a GM standing outside a player city who is banned from the city, and cannot enter.

The GM appears to be threatening to ban whomever is responsible, but sadly he can't get in to find out who.

It would appear that the feature could have used a bit more testing.

Edit: He also appears to have just gotten his ass kicked, as he is incapacitated.

Anarchy is fun!

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » December 10, 2003, 4:23 pm

Why not just make it so you cant ban GM's?

noel · Post by **noel** » December 10, 2003, 4:25 pm

Apparently SOE is claiming that there were other exploits going on with the feature as well. As I said, I'm not certain how it works, but thought you guys might get a chuckle out of the picture.

Keverian FireCry · Post by **Keverian FireCry** » December 10, 2003, 7:07 pm

Is that the normal graphics for the game? That looks horrible.

Kithyen · Post by **Kithyen** » December 10, 2003, 7:13 pm

You incapacitate CSR-DanielG.

"Whoever banned me has 30 seconds to unban me from the city."

CSR-DanielG has been warned and will be attackable in 30 seconds.

Gold

noel · Post by **noel** » December 10, 2003, 7:20 pm

Keverian FireCry wrote:Is that the normal graphics for the game? That looks horrible.

In a manner of speaking normal. It looks like whomever took that SS has the higher res textures turned off.

I'd say it's representative, but you can get MUCH better shots than that in SWG.

Unfortunately, when I left the game, there was NO ONE on ANY gaming rig that was getting higher than 30FPS. Didn't matter if they were using ATI, Nvidia, or what their processor/RAM was, the game engine just sucks ass.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » December 10, 2003, 8:25 pm

Looks like he's running ShowSWQ in the bottom corner!

miir · Post by **miir** » December 10, 2003, 9:12 pm

That's the standard SWG GUI

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » December 10, 2003, 10:13 pm

The banning and warning abilities of the city militias were being exploited. Basically you could build your city near the "entrance" to an area in the game that everyone wants to get to. If you citywarn them and they don't leave the town within 30 seconds, they can be attacked by the militia without being able to fight back. If they are banned, they then cannot enter the city.

Some people were just killing people as they went through their city in order to keep them from getting to the places on the other side of town.

What it looks like happened in that pic is that a militia member used /citywarn on a CSR, and then killed him and /citybanned him. That may have kept him from getting up from the incapacitation since they did not deathblow him.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » December 11, 2003, 6:02 am

miir wrote:That's the standard SWG GUI

It was a joke...

But I knew some wouldn't get it. That's just the price I pay for being so damn witty.

Skogen · Post by **Skogen** » December 11, 2003, 1:58 pm

Keverian FireCry wrote:Is that the normal graphics for the game? That looks horrible.

I was just thinking the same thing.