::Forum - Help on new character. Cannot decide on Hutt or Coruscanti

Year 11 Day 305 0:41	Help on new character. Cannot decide on Hutt or Coruscanti
Guest/Visitor	Hi All, i am new and looking at a races for my character. At this moment is as stuck on deciding between the following: Highest to lowest prefered: - Hutt - (Cannot pilot fighters or freighters, speeders) - Corsucanti - Falleen - Nimbanel They all have their pros and cons but to help there is what i have been looking at to distribute my skills at the start General - 4 Science - 2 Social - 1 Space - 3 Ground - 5 With the above i can get the following: - Hutt - Trading of 5, Comp ops of 4, Cap piloting of 4 or - Hutt - Trading of 4, Leadership of 4, Cap Piloting of 4 - Corsucanti - Trading of 4, Leadership of 3, Comp ops of 4, Fighter/ Freighter of 3 and Cap pilotinf of 3 - Falleen - Trading of 4, Leadership of 4, Comp ops of 4, Fighter/ Freighter of 3 and Cap pilotinf of 3 - Nimbanel - Trading of 4, Leadership of 3, Comp ops of 4, Fighter/ Freighter of 3 and Cap pilotinf of 3 Any help or advise on the above would be great. Force sensitivity is not a top priority. Mainly looking for advise on what more experienced players have to share

Year 11 Day 305 1:46	Help on new character. Cannot decide on Hutt or Coruscanti
Lilith Delcroix	Probably the best skill you can get is Freighter piloting as high as possible, so you are fast in freighters, you'll most likely pilot these ships most of the time. I'd go with your Coruscanti, aliens smell, be human;) ____________ Moons can't fly.

Year 11 Day 305 3:20	Help on new character. Cannot decide on Hutt or Coruscanti
Guest/Visitor	Thanks Lilith, a good idea, but you know i 'play' a human every day, perhaps a change? I can see from everything i have read that freighters are most useful, but that connot be the only reason to dismiss all other options could it?

Year 11 Day 305 4:21	Help on new character. Cannot decide on Hutt or Coruscanti
Hal Breden	Piloting is not everything. It's a very useful skill right now, but putting all your points into it is somewhat short-sighted, and may leave you unable to adapt to rules changes and features implemented later. ____________ "May the Grace of Ara go with you, and His Vengeance be wrought upon your enemies." Only fools and children dream of heroes.

Year 11 Day 305 7:44	Help on new character. Cannot decide on Hutt or Coruscanti
Jyncs Tahogah	It all depends on the direction you want to roleplay. Some races, Hutt for instance, do have limitations on what they can do, that does not mean they cannot be played with those limitations. Jiddo played as a Baragwin, who could not operate speeders, but was able to use them by using a droid. He role played it well.

Year 11 Day 305 8:35	Help on new character. Cannot decide on Hutt or Coruscanti
Lilith Delcroix	As Hal said you should think about future too, like combat skills will be useful sooner or later, at least against creatures for now. What you have listed right now are useful skills, but as the game develops more skills that are now useless might be priceless. As far as a race goes, unless you want specific skills, like I wanted to start with 5 in cap piloting so I chose Hapan, its up to what you want to play. Different races offer different RP, go with what will keep you interested. One of my reasons is I enjoy playing alien hater, so I went human. ____________ Moons can't fly.

Year 11 Day 305 8:54	Help on new character. Cannot decide on Hutt or Coruscanti
Ryan Roche	Go Hutts! They are the crime lords of the galaxy, it's a much more interesting race than us Humanoids!

Year 11 Day 305 9:03	Help on new character. Cannot decide on Hutt or Coruscanti
Ellias Aubec	To be honest, having a really high piloting skill is not as good as you may think. Yes it will decrease travel times, but not by that large an amount, and does decrease chances of being killed when aborting hyper, but not many people do that if they can help it. Unless you are trying to max it out for combat or something, 3 would be a reasonable max for piloting as much more than that uses up valuable skill points for not that much gain. Looks like you want a character that has a trading bent with usefulness for prospecting and mining/construction/production. If you are basing your skill choices due to rules effects rather than RP aspects, best to go with the trade 5 option. Used fo FI, and with the number of Trade 5 people running around to get max income, anything less is not much good. If its an RP aspect, then by all means ignore the above. And you can always spend your first 8 skill points to bump it up to 5 if you so wish at that time. Again, as above, Leadership is useful for reducing times for the linked activities, but going above 3 may not provide returns on your skill points when you could use them on a couple of other skills. Granted we say specialise rather than generalise, but personally I don't see much worth in going beyond unless you have plans to be uber - I don't believe the difference in times is that much that it would make a huge different in 99% of cases. Comp Ops is the exception to the above - you will want this as high as possible for prospecting. Due to the way it works, the higher your skill, the better chances you have at finding something, and the difference can be noticable. This would definetely be one of the skills I would suggest maxing out if you are heading in that direction, like Trade. So, going with all that, your first choice of a Hutt with Trade 5 etc would seem to be the best. Should still be able to fly a capital, use groundhogs if you end up prospecting, and do most things. I would expect most factions would have a capital handy they could let you use, more so the larger factions and govs as they would have more assets to look through. ____________

Year 11 Day 305 9:12	Help on new character. Cannot decide on Hutt or Coruscanti
Lilith Delcroix	If you want to go into prospecting I'd suggest a race that can fly freighters, as hogs with FKs are quite large and are best hauled by haulers, like BFF or Action. ____________ Moons can't fly.

Year 11 Day 305 11:50	Help on new character. Cannot decide on Hutt or Coruscanti
Guest/Visitor	Thanks all for the informative responses. The reason for my choices above are the direction i would like to take in SWC. I much prefer building, making, buying & selling side of MMO's. I have never been big into PVP perhaps a little into PVE as that is what most MMO's drive you towards to XP grinding. From what i have read these skills could be ready to go right from lvl 1, and from what Ellias has said if i want to change slightly or go that extra mile i can use the skill points from lvl'ing to increase those. With combat, is there an ETA that is realistic? What i mean is, is it going to be 1 month or is it going to be 1 month give or take a few more ( not being sarcy, just understand what is needed for this to work and it has taken a long time and might take a little longer so that it works right). I really like the idea of rolling a Hutt, from a RP point it could really fun to play a Hutt, and who knows once i get into the Combine i could 'Install' myself as a crime lord or a 'Hutt Lord'. The others i only chose as the skills really worked with what i was wanting to do. So Computer Operations and Trading, as per Ellias's reply seem to be the best to max out to 5. With a Hutt i could max out trading to 5 and get Computer Ops to 4.

Year 11 Day 305 12:43	Help on new character. Cannot decide on Hutt or Coruscanti
Weylin vi Cron	What takes so long is getting a stable economy, programming said economy, working on all the details, balancing things, etc. This is a game that people have spent 11 years building up, so it makes more sense to take time and try to get things "right" rather than releasing combat, causing a lot of grief, and decide to just "patch" combat to "fix" it later like WoW would do. But WoW isn't nearly the type of game that we are. We have parmadeath, after all.

Year 11 Day 305 14:07	Help on new character. Cannot decide on Hutt or Coruscanti
Guest/Visitor	I can totally agree Weylin, hence not rushing in and just createing any character. I have played many MMO's as i have said and this is one that is not just hack, slash and level which is great. The other game that has come close to this is Eve-Online and i really enjoyed that for many years. I also agree to get it right the first time, not just rush and fix it after.

Year 11 Day 305 17:14	Help on new character. Cannot decide on Hutt or Coruscanti
Han Yeegle	Coracanti for sure! ____________

Year 11 Day 305 20:00	Help on new character. Cannot decide on Hutt or Coruscanti
Ellias Aubec	Per combat, PvE with regards to creature combat will likely be here by the end of the year. Other forms of combat, including shooting other players will likely be another year at least. As for skills from leveling up etc, bare in mind that you only get 1 skill point per level, and upgrading skills still require the same number of points to upgrade as in creation (ie, 1, 1, 2, 4, 7), so to upgrade your lvl 4 skill to lvl 5 will require 7 skill points, and therefore for you to reach level 8. ____________

Year 11 Day 324 22:04	Help on new character. Cannot decide on Hutt or Coruscanti
Akela Galney	According to the Races Page, Hutts cannot pilot speeders nor ground vehicles, so it would be a waste to invest points into computer operations for the purpose of being a prospector. Bear that in mind. ____________

Year 11 Day 324 22:18	Help on new character. Cannot decide on Hutt or Coruscanti
Hal Breden	You realise this is 3 weeks old? ____________ "May the Grace of Ara go with you, and His Vengeance be wrought upon your enemies." Only fools and children dream of heroes.

Year 11 Day 328 16:58	Help on new character. Cannot decide on Hutt or Coruscanti
Daniel MuRome	Irrevelant of the time this was done, there are folks who DO want to play other races. I recall in Y6 or 7 where most of the races were NPCs. 11 years IS a LOT of time for not having implemented a combat system already! How would a WOW or EVE player would feel if one important aspect wasn't working? On using vehicles know your weight and the vehicle weight and space capacities. A Hutt may not really fit in the cabin of a YT-2400 for instance. A Hutt firefighter would be fun to watch! ____________ "Don't underestimate the Force." -Some Badass Dark Lord of the Sith that doesn't exist here.

Year 11 Day 328 17:42	Help on new character. Cannot decide on Hutt or Coruscanti
Ellias Aubec	Daniel, what are you going on about? CHaracters have no weight at all, and take up no cargo space either, so that is not consideration at all. ____________

Year 11 Day 328 19:51	Help on new character. Cannot decide on Hutt or Coruscanti
Hal Breden	“Irrevelant of the time this was done, there are folks who DO want to play other races. ” Time is relevant to the OP, as I think if they haven't created a character in 3 weeks, they probably aren't going to bother now. “11 years IS a LOT of time for not having implemented a combat system already! ” What does this have to do with the topic at all? “How would a WOW or EVE player would feel if one important aspect wasn't working? ” Probably pissed off that they were paying monthly for an incomplete game. But hey, SWC is free, so that has nothing to do with... anything. ____________ "May the Grace of Ara go with you, and His Vengeance be wrought upon your enemies." Only fools and children dream of heroes.

Year 11 Day 329 5:08	Help on new character. Cannot decide on Hutt or Coruscanti
Tiali Bixa-Loca	Not attempting to poke around in Daniel's head, but ah took what he said ( “Irrevelant of the time this was done, there are folks who DO want to play other races. ” ) to mean that this sort of information (helping to decide on a race) is something that anyone could find helpful, not just the OP and not just when they asked it

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