Imperial Crackdown QuestionsFollow

Sliced weapons are supposed to be illegal. Think of it as the SWG version of walking around with a sawed-off shotgun, or carrying "police killer" armor piercing bullets. Anyone caught with it is clearly using it for unsavory purposes, thus they are illegal. If the stormtrooper police catch you with it, you will be treated like a criminal. That means they will attack you.

Should the developers change it? Hell no! This is one of the best things they could do. Smugglers are supposed to smuggle. Smugglers are supposed to be involved in shady businesses and live a risky life, always in danger of getting caught by the authorities. Right now, everyone has their armor and weapons sliced making non-sliced items inferior. After the patch, you will have more shades of grey--do you play a law abiding imperial citizen or do you play someone who has to avoid areas where there is law enforcement? Sliced weapons will be even more valued then before, but will also carry with them a significant increase in risk.

This does not give the edge to the rebels, it gives the edge to the imperials (that is why it is called an "Imperial Crackdown"). Law-abiding Imperial players can walk around freely and will gain additional protection when stormtroopers assist them versus any exposed rebels. Rebels, on the other hand are forced to go underground. No more open displays of rebel recruiters in the town square...now they have to go to secret hideouts and safespots to join the alliance. And once they are in the rebellion, they will always be at risk of getting caught by imperial probot scans or stormtrooper patrols to see if they are carrying anything for the rebel alliance or carrying any illegal contraband.

The harsher the imperial crackdown, the more people will realize the importance of smuggler made items, since anyone who has them will have an advantage since they are no longer the standard item. A person with illegally enhanced items will be better in combat, but will have reduced access to where he or she can go without getting attacked at an awkward moment. This is a perfect trade-off.

This patch represents the most meaningful improvement to the game so far in both "star-warsiness" and role-playing and you want them to water it down?!?

Edited, Tue Feb 3 18:13:37 2004 by Monserat

I don't know what the strength of the NPC storm troopers are going to be but I have found that I can take down decent groups of them during missions solo as a CH, TKM, medic or the other template I use which is CH, Commando, medic. I am a little concerned though are these storm troopers going to be invincible or your typical trooper? If they are typical expect stormtrooper blood to flow everytime they stop anyone!

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Just a bit of info...Stormtroopers should be relatively easy to kill, like in the movies. Even stray blaster bolts downed them with ease LOL. There strength, however, is in their numbers. Sure a lone Rebel could kill 2 or 3 troopers in order to escape capture, but when faced with 10-20+ Stormtroopers, you would have to high-tail it out of there! The Empire had little care for its fighters, giving the Stormtroopers crappy armor, and giving TIE Fighter Pilots ships w/o shields, life-support, hyperdrives, etcetera. The Empire just flung a whole mess of Stormies or TIE's at whatever was bugging them LOL.

So should it be in-game.

and another note, I give props to the SWG Devs. This probot scanner system goes well with the actual storyline. Around the time of Empire Strikes Back, Darth Vader had sent 1000s of probots across the galaxy to search for the Rebels. So it makes perfect sense that these probots in-game would act likewise.

Dont go dissin' the Empire, it was all artistic license to ensure the survival of the heroes, not much fun if Luke got shot to death on the Death Star.
Decent ranking Imperial Officers can pull rank and avoid reprimand for carrying contraband, this is one of the best things about the new patch for me.

"Um, sir, that glitterstim you're carrying is declared contraband"
"Get stuffed"
"Aye sir, sawdust or cotton wool?"

Certainly helps inflate my Imperial Officer ego.

as far as stormie strength goes, think of the game itself... i mean if they went down in one hit ... well that doesn't do well for the game... this make stormtroopers more special, more of a military feel added to them and only the big heroes can down them like a glass of milk

The news from the test centre is that if you are overt imperial and found to have illegal items, nothing happens. If you are covert imperial and found with illegal items you will be fined unless you are a high ranking officer, in which case you get a salute and a "Have a good day sir!".

If you are Rebel you get attacked..

The way i see it this could be good. The people who will go rebel are the people who have maxed out their professions and can only get better by slicing. So the rebels will have a small amount of really tough players and the imps have all the weak-medium people and a few strong people. May give you a reason to turn to the rebels, i was thinking about turning but didnt because its too much work for no change in gameplay (except loss of atst which i dont use anyway) Being attacked by stormtroopers would be quite cool and give you a chance to pvp freely, not just if you choose it. I may be rambling a bit i think