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Figured I'd wait a day before updating and logging in to see how things are. Didn't lose a single character name and my bugged meditation chamber regen item is still bugged. I don't know if the changes to the cartel market happened with this patch or before it but HOLY poo poo they put a whole lot of stuff up in there. Finally got a cathar honor sword and a gamorrean axe so a dual wielding axes bare chested Sith Berserker's now a possibility. Snagged a set of Thana Vash's armor for the hell of it and currently debating picking up the tusken armor too for why not.
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Bilirubin posted:I seem to have all my weird names so yay weird naming gimmick works My fiance lost one of his character names, but all he added was a surname and it accepted it.
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Medullah posted:This was a bug at launch of 4.0 and was the greatest bug of all time. Especially if you had decorated your stronghold with your companions, you zoned in and suddenly they were all pantsless. "Ummm guys, what's been going on while I was away?" I came back to everyone at least pantsless or in thier underwear with one to two sets of thier clothes in my mailbox. I was torn between wondering what the hell happened while I was away and thinking I need to check my credits to see if bail money was needed. DrunkenGarbageCan posted:I find this story dubious as the whiners on the official forums who lost their names for not being subscribed have assured that there are absolutely no names available. I gotta go read this, it's got to be good.
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DrunkenGarbageCan posted:The devs are already talking about 6.0 which I imagine would be a end of this year release so they're planning at least a year out anyways. To be honest, I'm kinda wondering if it'll be possible to skip doing KotFE/ET when whatever story arc that follows gets released because I'm just not feeling it with running some of my roster through it. While I don't see why it'd be an issue to skip it, part of me keeps thinking of how pissy Bioware gets when the playerbase isn't in full adoring it mode. And if the guild bank still needs Dark Projects, I can see what I've been sitting on to donate. Granted I've not been on much lately, but I've put myself on hiatus aside from some futzing around on the auction house or buying on the cartel market because what I thought was 'time to get new glasses' ended up turning into 'surprise, you're developing cataracts' and I'm kinda stuck with not being able to see for poo poo until my first surgery next week.
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Cythereal posted:...Arcann is being made a romance option? Really? Well, I guess Kylo Ren proves that whiny baby Darth Vader wannabes with daddy issues are in... Are you really surprised considering for how long people have been whining on the forums about wanting to romance him since KotFE/ET started? There's probably still a group wanting to have a way to romance Vaylin even after what all happens with her.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Bioware.txt Oh God..don't remind me. I will never forget that the Bioware forums was where I had someone tell me in all sincerity that the Tuskegee Experiments were a necessary thing to do. By this point absolutely nothing would surprise me coming from the fanbase cesspit.
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Feb 16, 2018 14:49
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Preechr posted:All of those characters were garbage. Sera was the very embodiment of lolrandom BEEEEES! I benched her permanently the moment she was introduced. The 'LOL stole their pants' line pretty much guaranteed permanent benching with me and I was told repeatedly on the Bioware forums that I really needed to give Sera a try because she gets better later on. I watched clips on Youtube and no she doesn't, and the romance with her is pretty abusive along with a carpet munching comment more suited for a preteen boy writing a lesbian character rather than seasoned writers..
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Feb 18, 2018 02:24
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Well, looks like they're going to be regranting Shae Visla and Nico Okar to everyone subbed by April 3rd. Official forums outrage is still only at a few pages, but as expected, panties are in a twist. http://www.swtor.com/info/news/news-article/20180329
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Mar 30, 2018 04:01
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All I've found is it's for all active Premium players who are active as of April 3rd. I don't see why it wouldn't be account wide since I don't think there's much left in the game that's per character. Of course if someone knows more, please correct me.
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Mar 30, 2018 08:25
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If it helps any Medullah, my fiance had gallbladder surgery a few years ago and breezed through it fine even with the throat thing that runs in his family that makes intubation a bitch. As long as you follow your aftercare instructions you'll be fine. And for my contest entries, I bring three achievements.   
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I don't know if I qualify for anything but if I do, it's : 1) Rakghoul Tuning 2) Blue Hutt barge pet 3) Meditation Chamber Easier to mail to Ahdiia and I can take it from there.
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Since I heard they've just about finished the Zakuul stuff, figured I might as well catch up on reading the thread. Somehow I'm not surprised to see a Khem Val flirt. As much as I'm not minding being able to completely skip KotFE/FT, I'm not really fond of the Republic = Lightside choices/Empire = Darkside choices, so I guess I'm stuck with the possibility of having to do that draggy content on multiple characters. Anyone know if there's a list of all the choices to be made during KotFE/FT that's been compiled yet?
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Dec 21, 2018 02:25
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Cythereal posted:Which disappointed me, because I really wanted to kill Kaliyo as my agent but the game prevents the agent from doing so. I'm pretty sure it depends on the choices made since I remember quite a few Agent players being positively giggly they were finally able to kill her off.
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Since one of my major complaints with SWTOR (and Bioware in general, really) is excessive companion bloat, I mostly will be looking towards not recruiting/killing off companions who aren't romanced or aren't personal faves since all I need is just one to chuck heals at me when I need them. Since some of the romanced have kill off options, that pretty much has me not able to just skip the Zakuul stuff, and I've been wanting to kill off Kaliyo, Skadge and Corso since my characters first encountered them as well. Looking around, I guess Dulfy's the closest to having a list of choices with repercussions for KotFE/FT.
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I said come in! posted:But how surprised are you at how much people really like it? Considering how much I remember of the Bioware forums when they existed, nope, still not surprised at all. Though I will admit a mix of surprise and horror at how much Khem Val porn art's been posted around celebrating the flirt.
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Medullah posted:They'd have to go and re-record who knows how much dialogue in order to make it work. Hours of voice acting that would be better spent on new content. Also considering how much of the coding's held together with spit, duct tape and crossed fingers in hope, adding in new dialog would probably break things in some way.
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I encountered an annoying bug/glitch earlier. I was working on leveling my last character who's not 70 yet and when I went to click the ship's holoterminal to advance things, it sort of stuck in the cutscene. It did load Servant One, his holoimage did it's usual flicker, but nothing else and no dialog or dialog wheel. I rebooted, did a repair on the game, and even uninstall/reinstalled it to no effect. I filed a ticket and made a new Warrior in case it turns out my other one's unfixable. I do have to admit, I like the look of the Ancient Sith Warblade, swinging it around keeps making me feel like my Warrior should be diving into battle yelling "Blood and Souls for my Lord Arioch!'.
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DrunkenGarbageCan posted:If you believe the devs they’ve said repeatedly that the majority of their profit comes from subs. I can believe they probably do make some decent change from subs. From what I remember of the last time I was playing unsubbed, the various notices you get with things like the reduced quest rewards still come across more like 'this is all you're getting you unsubbed plebe compared to the subscriber elite' rather than 'having fun already, why not have more fun by subbing'. I think SWTOR still pops near the top on a search for 'worst f2p model' even after all this time. As far as buying coins, biggest incentive for me was the buy X amount-get a pet. But then, I have a bit of an unhealthy addiction collecting pets.
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Medullah posted:I really don't understand why. The pure F2P model in SWTOR allows you to have access to all of the original story, and you maintain access to all expansion story content when you drop your sub and go to Preferred. I think a fair chunk of it is when they debuted the f2p model, it really was the worst implementation and with the internet and gamers being what they are, it still has that bad taste even though they have revamped the model over the years along with the other game changes. Granted, it's been a while since I was on a f2p/preferred, but I mostly remember being a bit salty over the limited resses and gear restrictions (back when companions had thier own gear and sometimes you had to choose between upgrade for you or them). I still wouldn't consider SWTOR having one of the best f2p models but they've definitely made some very good progress improving it over the years.
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Ossipago posted:Doesn't STO have player generated quests? We'd just end up with a endless stream of TLJ rewrites. STO and Neverwinter has the Foundry for player designed quests. Quality varies dramatically as you would expect. I remember one in STO a guy made for his little daughter who wanted to play the game but still too young to manage the regular stuff so the quest was a big field where you could run around with a variety of cute animals to pet them. A good many player generateds were essentially shoot wave of ships-gather loot for vendoring/auction, and of course there's loads designed for ERP. As far as SWTOR goes, it's pretty much a given that there'd be tons of TLJ rewrites along with prequel rewrites, I think there's enough people who'd be interested in trying to branch out into something other than the usual Star Wars format.
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Medullah posted:How would you change it? How would you make the F2P more attractive without losing subscribers? Would it really be so horrible if the game lost a good amount of the 'Ewww, how dare those disgusting f2p poors just suggest the restrictions they have get reevaluated. If they were a True Fan of the game they'd've been subbing all along since beta. If they had to unsub because money got tight because their kid got sick, well, they should've thought about that before having a kid.' and 'Reeeeeee! How dare Bioware put items from retired lockboxes up on the Cartel Market for just anyone to go buy. Now I can't wave my e-peen around to look down on those filthy causals who clearly aren't devoted to the game like I am with having gone through so many lockboxes to get the item early.' types? We've seen those types of loudmouths on the forums and granted we have no idea of what the playerbase numbers are beyond that one breakdown of how many character types have been created, I'd like to think there's enough of a silent majority who would be perfectly fine with revisions to the f2p/premium model. To me, LOTRO has one of the best f2p models. https://www.lotro.com/en/Full-VIP-Chart Hell, if you're steady enough to knock out deeds, you're awarded Turbine points you can go buy what you're missing from the LOTRO store. I've pretty much bought all my expanded storage and a mount just from being a deed completing madwoman. If they revised f2p with things like allowing hide hats, increased toolbars, removed gear restrictions since even if you're not raiding, having nice gear to make the regular questing comfortable is still a major factor, that would be an excellent start. Keep the endgame and PvP stuff behind a sub. As Polyakov said, the current f2p model does come across petty. Things like restricting toolbars and gear pretty much hampers being effectively able to play your class. While hide hat is really minor on the scale of things, it's another dig since it's another steady reminder of 'not one of the Subscriber Elite' when each cutscene rolls around. But some revisions to bring things more into line with what's expected with a reasonable f2p model along with actually pumping out some commercials when a Star Wars film gets released would boost numbers. Make the f2p fun with the pitch of 'you liked the movie, so look at this game where you can be that dashing smuggler, a badass bounty hunter, or swing the ravesticks of death around.'. Throw in the option of being able to play a wookie and there you go.
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Warmachine posted:The line about LOTRO I think emphasizes what a good F2P model should strive for: to keep as many people running the treadmill as possible. MMOs don't feel like MMOs when they are hemorrhaging players and you can't find anyone to group with. To that end, the F2P model needs to be capable of keeping free players on the hook and doing whatever version of grind the MMO in question has. It needent necessarily be painful, but it should leave them wanting more such that paying for a subscription looks like a better use of their time. The Filthy Poors™ can continue to poop-sock for their prizes, but if your time in game is worth $15/hour, it probably makes more sense to subscribe and take the shortcut. For as much as people like to rip on LOTRO for being as old as it is and on maintenance mode, even with how many went over to the Legendary servers, with the winter Frostbluff event, it was so packed at times they had to cut back on loading up the distance graphics to the full just to try to minimize lag. Since I'm figuring my Warrior with the bugged holoterminal is probably a lost cause at this point especially with googling around and not hearing of anyone having the same problem getting fixed, I've started a replacement. Other than Korriban, Dromond Kaas, Fleet, and Nar Shadda, I barely saw anyone else. Alderaan I think I saw maybe two other people. Even chat was pretty dead save for Kaas, Fleet and Nar Shadda.
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Bilirubin posted:PvE or PvP instance? PvE Ossipago posted:I thought (could be wrong) that it used to be the unlocks for hiding helms etc. could drop from crates and sold on the market, so f2p could purchase them if they wanted to grind for credits. The escrow system is a bit of a gently caress you for this, but if they raised the limit (especially considering inflation) so that there was nothing out of reach for f2p, just a really long grind if you don't sub, then I don't think there'd be as many complaints. Last time I looked, I remember seeing some of those account unlocks getting posted on the GTN at prices I really couldn't see someone on f2p able to afford them with the escrow system. I'd be all for something in place where it was just a matter of really putting in the effort/work, you could earn what's covered in the account unlocks, but there is a particularly strong attitude (classism?) look down on anyone who isn't a sub. It reminds me of what happened with a local fan run convention by me some years back. They've often grumbled with making ends meet and all, but right around the time Game of Thrones was really hitting it big with the show, they managed to get GRR Martin as Master of Ceremonies, but did absolutely zero promotion about this other than some word of mouth in the nerd communities. When I mentioned to an acquaintance who's on the staff with the con about if they'd promoted it more that they had Martin, they'd have lines around the block, she gave me a look that I would've expected from some upper class type with suggesting they invite a poo poo shoveller to come to dinner. It's pretty much the same thing with SWTOR, people whine about player numbers with being able to do group stuff, but God forbid any changes get made to draw in anyone new unless they're a sub.
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Xerophyte posted:
Once I did the Yavin ghosts thing, I've stuck with Speaker for the Dead ever since. Lately I've been working on whatever achievements I've slacked on before starting the rounds of KotFE/FT. Took me long enough but I finally managed to get that Yozsuk on Kaas for the Tyrant of Dromond Kaas achievement. Still not sure about doing that droid search thing since the last part of the quest chain needs 4 people to do part of it.
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So far Dulfy's been of limited help, but is there anywhere where there's fully marked maps for doing the various beastmaster/explorer/kill named champions achievements? I've found maps for lore items but nothing for the others save for the starter planets.
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Quasipox posted:They haven't updated in awhile, but http://www.swtor-ultras.com/maps is my go to. If I can't find stuff with the map, that's when I cast a wider net online. Thanks! That's going to be a big help with the explorer stuff I'm trying to wrap up. Part of my problem is locations I thought I'd been to were on a different server and it's been so long I'm fuzzy on where stuff was. Medullah posted:When I decided to push after Beastmaster I just did it a planet at a time and googled the missing beasts. 9 time out of 10 there was a thread in the first few results that had someone looking for the same thing I did that with the Yozsuk and the neutral droids for the Nar Shaddaa disassembler achievement. The written instructions for the Yozsuk had me all over the map around Granthan's until I found a youtube which was useful. Neutral droids, while I did eventually find them, a few posts kept insisting the droids in The Glitch heroic counted. I just like having a map with areas marked off compared to sifting through posts and hoping the info's either current or clearly written.
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Times like this I wonder if I'm the odd one with only having 1 of each class on two servers.
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Ainsley McTree posted:The big thing I can’t stand storywise about Kotfe/et is that it just doesn’t make sense if you aren’t a sith or a Jedi. For as much as the 'story makes no sense if you're not a force user's' been said, was there anything like that said in the story version of the Taral V flashpoint since you end up hearing the force entity's comments without Oteg's help? Since most of my non-force users are Sith Purebloods, it still works under Purebloods all having some degree of force sensitivity, just not enough to warrant getting shipped off to Korriban/Tython.
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Mostly checking if this is legit, but the other day or so in 'fleet chat it was said back in beta there was an option for the Jedi Knight to betray the Jedi Council and work for the Empire but was pulled for some reason. Anyone know more about this?
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While I don't see anything coming from this, I wish them luck anyway. https://massivelyop.com/2019/01/22/star-wars-the-old-republic-fan-petition-asks-for-more-funding-for-the-game-to-give-it-new-life/ http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=959696
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Medullah posted:Yeah I was arguing with the guy who posted this on Reddit. No one is going to sign that petition that isn't a current or former player of the game, and for EA to really notice they'd need a billion more signatures than they're ever going to see. I'm iffy about online petitions in the first place. Smacks too much of 'I clicked a button, I'm Helping!', but then I'm probably more burnt out than most with how many 'sign this online petition' links I get on my Facebook which end up accomplishing nothing. Not only are they going to need more signatures than just people who played/play the game, they've got to do something more to bring attention like letter writing even if that's considered old fashioned or inefficient. They're going up against a company that didn't take advantage of advertising when the new movies were coming out which should've been a no-brainer. I do wish them well, but I don't really see anything coming of it beyond 'I clicked a button!' feelgood.
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I think I hit the longest it's taken for a ticket/bug report to get resolved. Around a year or two back I bought the meditation chamber regen item from the Cartel Market and bugged out with binding to the character when used but not unlocking to collections. Filed a ticket where I got the usual of they knew it was a bug going around and while they'd forward things to the tech guys, for me to file a bug report. Never heard anything back from it, kept checking to see if the item got fixed. Quit the game for a while and coming back, I checked the item and it was still bugged. Today I checked and it unlocked fine. I'm just happy to get the thing unlocked to my account at this point.
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Medullah posted:They don't reply to bug reports, unfortunately. Open another ticket. It's from the Cartel Market. At the time when I saw it was bugged, I was annoyed since I spent coins on the drat thing. Checked the forums and a lot of other people were having the same issue with the item. Pretty much with the ticket I filed way back I was asking if they could at least unlock it to my collections since it was at least reflecting bound when I used it and I know coin refunds are out of the question. I never deleted it since I spent coins on the drat thing so I left it sit in my inventory gathering dust with checking every other login if they got it fixed. Granted it did make me hesitant about buying things off the Market in case something else got bugged. When I resubbed last month, I gave it a try and nothing, been trying it off and on until it finally unlocked to collections proper today so I could account unlock it. Yeah, it took them way long to get it resolved, and for all I know when they fixed one thing, somehow it fixed my issue considering how spaghettied the code is, but I'm content that it's finally fixed more than looking for some recompense for how long it took.
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winterwerefox posted:Lessee... Arms go numb if i hold them up too long over my head. like you do when on your back under a vehicle or its on a lift above you. Vibration of powered tools cause numbness in the hands. Need to use powered tools to do the job on time. i found that out working in a lumber mill around 2000. Leg got a big infection after stepping on a nail, needed surgery, the tendons healed weird. That was right after getting my degree. Walking isnt a big issue, my speed isnt impacted there, but i feel it. spent 12 years in retail walking about on concrete pumping gas in rural Oregon before saying gently caress this, i know vehicles, im getting a degree in it. My back has been hosed from childhood. Redneck dad bought me a quadbike when he got his retirement early from the shop he worked in folded in the late 80s. He set up a jump, the bike had no suspension, just a solid frame. I took the jump entirely into my spine. its fine for day to day use, but working it by bending into an engine bay or lifting a lot causes muscle lockups. Ive been trying to get a job after moving to a cot in my brothers storage room for 20 months now. Things like 'Can lift 50lbs regularly' rule my options out. Oh God, you have my sympathies. I've managed to break my radial so I've got a big plate in my wrist, had kidney stones where I ended up septic in the hospital and still don't remember a week in September and lately got diagnosed with degenerative arthritis in my spine. Even working in a call center, they did ADA paperwork on me for when I'm having a 'pain so bad I don't know if I'm going to faint, puke, cry or all three' day. If it wasn't for posting on these sorry dead forums, streaming movies, LOTRO, Champions Online and SWTOR for something to do other than lie down and pray for Death, I just don't know. I would suggest after you throw something for a month's sub and seeing how that works for you, you might want to look into some of the account unlocks to cover when you go back to premium.
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DrunkenGarbageCan posted:It's been clear for a long time Bioware wants to simplify and homogenize gearing so why is poo poo trap gear like Fatesealer Relics still in the game? Also which dev that failed high school math and graduated college with an Anthropology degree even designed On Use Relics? I don't think I've used the On Use function on relics ever.
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I'm debating running through some planetary quests just for story/titles, which ones were the really good ones. There's the Gree one on Coruscant, the Revanites one on Kaas, the Czerka one on Tatooine, Imperial side Taris off the top of my head.
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Medullah posted:I'd hold onto your coins in case you get a cartel weapon or speeder or something that you really like, then you can pay 60-400 cartel coins to unlock that item in your collections so any character you make can use it. You can buy cartel items on the GTN (auction house), but the only way you can unlock them in collections is with coins. Treek and HK-47 were a big deal back when they came out. Only reason I bought Treek was I was so tired of Kaliyo I couldn't bring myself to log into my Agent to progress enough to get the next companion. Treek's still okay for her opening cinematic with punching a guy in the privates and her short storyline of her backstory but that's about it.
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