·:[ My MMO Life ]:·
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‘Heard SWG is supposed to suck though, and damn its a rich mans game.. like 80$ for the game and then another 20$ each month

no thanks!’

- thomas997, 06/29/03, warp2search.com

It would be a lie to say that the original SWG was a flawless pearl. But a pearl it was none the less!

The game at launch had a wooping 32 professions, 10 worlds to visit, Darth Vader, and I was ready to conquer it all!

My first character was a Rodian called Sulthon.

I don’t recall the exact reasons for why I picked a rodian, but I can only assume that it was a silly atempt to pick something that no one else did - and contrary to what normally happens this time I was right - it would seem that not a lot of people wanted to play something that looked like a mix between a lizard and a trumpet, and Sulthon never really became a hit with the ladies.

In SWG you had enough points to master two different professions (or just pick a little of many). My initial plan was to make Sulthon a Creature Handler and a Bioengineer - before I got married I had always had a lot of pets and my RL profession was Biotechnologist so a perfect mix I thought.

The problem is that none of those two professions are particular good in combat. And both needed to get very close to a alot of very angry creatures.

Trying to go against the flow I picked Rifleman as my combat profession and scrapped Bioengineer. What I didn’t know was that within a month everyone in the galaxy discovered that this combat profession with a silly name was VERY powerful so suddenly everyone changed to Rifleman - which of course was a blow to someone that wanted to be different *grins*

Soon I would myself discover what everyone else seemed to have caught on a lot quicker than I - that Rifleman was a good addition to my Creature Handler profession - as it turned out I would stick to this formula for the remainder of my SWG days and I leveled at least 3 characters to Master Creature Handler and Master Rifleman (lack of imagination, I know…)

Sulthon lived a quite life in total solitude. I was new to these types of games and the thought of actually talking to one of these other people that played on my server *shudder* Then one day I was riding through Theed on Naboo when I suddenly heard someone shouting that they needed hides and would pay whoever had some a ton of money.

Fate would that I had a lot of hides. So here we had the dillema: stay in the comfort zone of solitude or get rich - I was only human (well, rodian) so of course the greedy side won.

So I met Dillon - and without him ever knowing it he would affect how I have played MMOs ever since…