Electric-Knight

And, to add to that fine list, possibly the Going Rogue: Complete Edition (I think). Not positive about that, but I think it'd work as a separate code... bah, been a while since I thought about that stuff.

To the moon base!!

(Sorry, just had to say it... I hope we eventually do though)

That's one of my favorite jokes ever!

(I also liked when Emo did the funny siren sound, followed with, "I shouldn't make fun of his speech impediment").

I believe that was a picture of Itchy, the wookiee, Chewbacca's father from the Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978.

Not kidding!

Well said. This deserves to be repeated!

Aww, Zwill, you are the best!

Thank you for sharing your view on this.

I can totally see how you, such an experienced and skilled lead community manager would have that perspective on such things! That makes perfect sense!

While I am not a platypus and never was involved in transmorgifying elephants and other things into girafes, I can see how some people may have suspected such things... nonetheless, I have, and always be, a firm supporter of amiability.

Hrm... I think I lost the message somewhere...

If by "hideous", you mean extraordinary and awesome, I agree!

I was going to mentionm SWG and see what Sam thought about it, based on what he's saying and where he's coming from (sorry for the "he" there, Sam... I started it that way and am leaving it, but I am actually still speaking to you, of course, haha).

Before I get into my own take, I see Slick talked a bit about SWG:
That's not entirely true. I'm sure you remember though. Still, over time, you could heal up by just sitting/resting in a campsite.
With the Scout and (advanced) Ranger skills, you could create better and better camps for yourself (and others).
Sam, these were temporary campgrounds that scouts and rangers could place (this was not limited by a class system, just skills that anyone could learn [the more advanced ones being an extreme commitment, skill-points-wise]). They would last as long as you, or teammates, would remain within the campground (which grew bigger with each advanced camp type). You created these campgrounds by obtaining the resources and crafting the camp kits yourself (or you could buy or trade them [and sell them]). The more advanced the camp, the more you could do within those camps: use crafting tables, heal, buff, entertain...
Anyway, you could actually heal away all wounds by resting yourself in your own camp. The rate of healing was a lot slower than if you sought out professional medical (and entertainer) healing (medics healed certain types of wounds and entertainers healed "battle fatigue" and mental wounds).
Beyond that, you could have medics and/or entertainers in your campsite and they could heal you there. So, technically, you could all survive together in your own commune out in the wilderness.
And (just for the record, for those not experienced with the game) anything and everything that you needed in that game could be done by players. Any and every spec of resources (whether it was gases, minerals/ores or animal parts) could be found and harvested by players.
I'm just sticking with the SWG before the NGE (which changed the game mechanics from chess to checkers... went from CoH to Wow, as far as skills and such were concerned [33+ professions, made up of 17 skill boxes each with a number of combinations equaling roughly 3-4 different professions for a character to just... One choice of 9 set-in-stone Class options) The only thing that you really needed to start with City NPCs was the training in the skills/professions. Just like Trainers here... except that once a single player trained in any skill, they could teach it to any other player that had the appropriate xp and prerequisite skills.

And, yes... there was enormous amounts of wilderness to explore in that game. Each planet had vast expanses. You could hike them on foot, ride mounts and/or drive faster vehicles. Even on vehicles, the distances were impressive. Not a chore though... it was incredible. Plus, there were shuttles in cities, if you wanted to get places quickly, so not much of a slog if you were adverse to such things.

This aspect of the game (the wilderness of the planets), you can actually still see if you check out the SWG emu, over at swgemu.com.

I'd think it is worth it, just to see (although, you need a copy of the game in order to run it, for legal purposes).

Beyond that...
As Slick mentions, player houses and villages and towns and cities sprawled out over much of the wilderness. However, given the size of the planets, there still was an incredible amount of wilderness!
Still... it was indeed a bit depressing as a wilderness explorer to have the landscapes so marred by buildings, houses and cities created by players.

Still, that aspect may also appeal to what you're saying. The game had so much wilderness that... they allowed you to corrupt that wilderness and turn it into your own community, city, society. You, eventually, could have any and every facility that you could find within an NPC city/town.
As mayor, you could place NPC trainers, shuttleports, cloning facilities (our hospitals), medical buildings, cantinas and theatres for entertainment purposes, crafting workshops, personal housing, guild halls...

Or, you could shun all of that and build a campsite out in the wild somewhere, or in the mountain tops.

And there were locations that you simply could not place buildings/structures/cities... but you could place campsites.

Anyway, just rambling about this to try and convey what it was like to you and see what you think. It was indeed my first mmorpg love. And my first mmorpg loss...

Agreed completely.

Oh man... yes.
I am missing Enraged Rancor hunts on Endor...
Good memories though.

Is this what happens when pigs dive in shark infested waters?

Again, I greatly appreciate this, Leandro!! And I think that was a fantastic call, and job, to release it on the day/night of the rally. It was a perfect cap on it for myself. I'd spent most of the afternoon and evening in Atlas Park (I showed up early to have a looksee, and found so many others and... well, we all know what happened, hehe).
Watching the video afterward, with my wife (and fellow CoH player), was a treat and really made us feel good.
Thanks again, mate!