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  1. Dear everyone, I am the OP of this thread. I recently decided to revisit this charming little game to see how the story had progressed. I regret to inform you all that after five and a half long years, Vector - quite unlike cheese, wine and whiskey - has not improved with age. As I finished the romance and thus far he has had exactly nothing further to say on the topic, I took a walk down memory lane via YouTube and can only reconfirm that his flirtation dialogue and the agent's responses drop woodenly into conversations previously exclusive to the extermination aisle of your local hardware store. The only cheer his presence has caused me is amusement at his standing idly behind me as as I flirt shamelessly with both Lana and Theron; I assume because communing with the hivemind is more important than reading the NUMEROUS. SIGNS. of an actively disinterested girlfriend or wife or whatever it is I ended up being. I am looking forward to his eventual departure, hopefully via the X-70B Phantom airlock. Given the nature of my OP I am somewhat perturbed by how this thread morphed into a shrine dedicated to the very object of my displeasure. I can only say that clouds of formic acid generally do not feature in my idea of a desirable relationship and arguably they should probably not feature collectively in yours. If my agent could have traded Vector out for Saganu on Hoth I think her life would have improved immeasurably. Alas, Theron will have to do. Edit: Although actually, Theron's not that great so far either - playing on the Empire side, I've had barely any opportunities to flirt with him and then suddenly my agent is like "HO HO LIKE ME SO MUCH YOU'RE SENDING ME AWAY RIGHT" and he is like "THAT IS ABSOLUTELY THE CASE, WOMAN I BARELY KNOW." I assume it flows better when you're on the Republic side.
  2. Good grief. This thread certainly took on a life of its own after my whingy OP. I'd first like to state that I am waiting patiently for Aristocra Saganu to magically not be dead and take my Agent away to pick up where we left off on Hoth. To those that asked, yes I carried the romance through to the finale, and married him despite my misgivings because I wanted to see the ending. No, I am still not going to join the ranks of the Bug-boy fan club, and here are my observations: 1) Vector is an alright kind of dude. He's had a tough time of it (particularly when Lokin's dialogues are explored) but you know, things could be a lot worse. I thought it was pretty neat that Vector and Lokin are actually friends outside of the spaceship. That said, Vector is still not remotely romantically attractive. Sorry dude, but your weird bug issues and difficulty with understanding and comprehending the emotions of other people place you firmly in the buddy box, no hugs for you unless they're sidehugs in a platonic manner. 2) Following that point, the Agent's flirt options are still horribly contrived, especially at the beginning of the romance. He will be talking about something, anything - usually bugs - and the Agent reacts like it's simultaneously the most fascinating and arousing thing she's ever heard. "I hear the song of the universe" ->Vector lets rub forearms! "I want the Killiks to expand and get in touch with other hi...-" LETS RUB FOREARMS. "I'm planning universe wide Killik domi..-" -> VECTOR. FOREARMS. I'LL BE WAITING IN THE BEDROOM. There is nothing even faintly attractive there, nor any natural opening for flirtation, but the Agent throws herself at him with a passion that defies credibility, and he doesn't even realise for ages because he's too busy contemplating his chitinous navel. 3) That Scene. Yes I got to that scene and I did the deed. Having done two more romances since (Torian and Quinn), it's actually probably the best scene out of the three of them. He's creepy as, but it was quite nice that he tried very hard to hide the creepiness. However, his snap back to Killikhood immediately afterwards was unnerving, especially given I put a mod on him (for That Scene he shows up as his default face but once he goes Killik again he snaps back to the custom mod). 4) The marriage dialogue. Now, from reading some of your empassioned posts I can see that there's some way of making him realise that being Killiky is really creepy and he needs to cut it out, but because I was being nauseatingly nice to him I didn't find that option (that and hadn't realised escape cancelled the conversaion). There were two parts here I found stupid. Firstly - the Agent offering to be made a Joiner to be closer to him. This Agent had just been through mind-control hell and had finally wrested control back, and now I'm meant to believe she will gladly surrender herself to a controlling entity again, and an instectoid hivemind at that. Good on Vector for refusing because that's completely idiotic. It's like her IQ drops 100 points when she enters his pheromone cloud. Secondly - "oooh say something Killiky!" after being married, as if him being part of an emotionless hive of ant drones is some kind of arousing aspect she must constantly be reminded of. "Your electrons are unique" - well hot diggity dang Vector, you'd best get your thorax into the bedroom ASAP! So yeah. Willing to accept him as a friend, not impressed at the prospect of taking him into my bed. And quick notes on the other two:
  3. No, he took the offer back because he was worried that rubbing forearms would not translate from ant to human very well on account of how he is a BUGMAN. Edit: I think the only thing that'll save it is for him to somehow break away from the hivemind but so far he's gone on a pilgrimage to find MORE bugs (and found them, and took me to an ant party which apparently was a good thing) and is now trying to bring about an Imperial alliance with his buggy friends.
  4. I don't need him to fart lasers and burp rainbows, it'd just be nice if he wasn't, you know, an entity forever connected to a hivemind of ants. First time I tried to flirt with him he asked me if I would like to rub forearms with him. I rest my case.
  5. Girl gamer chiming in - there is literally nothing appealing about this guy. He is an ant. He only ever talks about ants, the hive or finding other hives, and if I leave his armor piercing combat stance on then he stands in the storeroom of my ship pumping out a nasty green pheromone cloud. Whoever wrote this particular romance - why is the only option for a female Imperial Agent a dehumanized bugman? The flirt options are so ridiculously contrived, he sits there nattering away about his ants and all of a sudden I come out with "HOW ABOUT SOME ALONE TIME WINK WINK NUDGE NUDGE" and he's all "that would be nice, also THE HIVE IS CALLING ME I HEAR THE SONG OF THE UNIVERSE!" The whole point of a good romance subplot is the object of your character's affections is meant to have some likable qualities. This dude is repellent, it's like trying to flirt with a rock. A rock covered in ants. I'm keeping up with the romance sub-plot purely because I keep thinking "There's GOT to be something that saves this from being completely awful...right?" and like a car accident, I just can't quite look away. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying romance sub-plots should be lovey-dovey cuddlefests, but this guy kind of makes me throw up in my mouth a bit.
  6. Wow, some pretty rude North Americans here. Git them dang kids off mah lawn!
  7. It'd be great to be able to play on an official Oceanic server - hope there will be some free transfers made available. I'm stuck in the Harbinger at the moment but don't want to move away from the Oceanic crowd as I'd be the loneliest New Zealander ever on a server populated entirely by North Americans.
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