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  1. Well? Sorry for the missing "i" of the Question within the title of the topic but it's a matter of correction. The Question is not so important, however I think that this addition would be nice...
  2. Thank you very-very much all! Well, this is an issue for BioWare to take care of ...; me thinks! Only Nar Shaddaa and Tattoine? I have to take it (in) face value since I run a lot of dailies with PH4-LNX on Ruhnuk and I got zero ( = 0, not ... 0!) modules... Well, what about Pazaak with PH4-LNX after achieving Legend Status with G.A.M.E.?!? Is that true? Not yet?
  3. Hi all again! I can't see -within the normal User Interface- the indication bars regarding the quality of the Internet Connection etc. However I used to!... Furthermore I can see these indication bars during Space PvE!... Any solution to this issue? Thank you in advance! P.S: however the "aforementioned" issue -regarding Pazaak matches with PH4-LNX- is a much more important issue!!
  4. Hi all! I still need almost 20k reputation points in order to achieve Legend Status with G.A.M.E. Is this still feasible? How? The same question regarding Reputation with Fen Zeil's Organization... However I have the ... suspicion that a Legend Status with G.A.M.E. will give me the opportunity to have a few Pazaak matches with PH4-LNX!! Is that correct? However the relevant ... promise was obvious within PH4-LNX speeches!
  5. This approach seems shallow to me. In real life some people make use of others (and, particularly, their subordinates) as pawns in a chess game, also some people make use of people who trust them as expendables and they despise them also; they consider trust and honesty as a fundamental liability! Other people take a different path of action, some prefer the opposite (Kantian!) approach etc. Anyways, both of them try to protect their assets, either their pawns or their companions and allies! If they are rational, that is: you don't sacrifice your pawns for nothing! Within an MMORPG some gamers make use of some NPC chars as exploration vessels, other gamers prefer to approach these NPCs as real human beings... It's a matter of taste and personality. Regarding Arcann, I never got rid of him and that for two reasons: his redemption seemed to be genuine, he is quite capable and I also wanted to ally with his powerful mother, another valuable asset for the Alliance and a pretty decent human being! That said, I decided to take care of Arcann: my approach obliges me to protect him, to make use of his skills also. Therefore I decided to help him with Sana-Rae, it's the only option given to me by the Force ... and BioWare! Thus I advise the initiator of this interesting thread to play 7.1 with just one more character of her and repeat the normal choice to help Arcann in his important and critical quest. All the other chars of her should wait of course!
  6. Life is one thing and it shouldn't be compared with an MMORPG which is, clearly, another thing. The real question is: is Arcann lost to us if he goes alone .. ... or ... ... both Arcann and Sana-Rae are lost to us if we send Sana as a reinfonceremnt? The other arrangement is that Arcann survives but gains nothing alone while they succeed as a team or ... a pair! A third arrangement is that Arcann succeeds alone while he also falls in love with Sana-Rae if they work as a team! The latter option is not a win-win situation for sure; they could give birth to a Valcorion's grandson ... with a lot of unpredictable repercussions! Otherwise the choice is pointless, namely a waste of time!
  7. To be honest this connection should not be taken for granted. On the contrary Darth Baras is the main enemy of The Emperor during the first part of SW:TOR, Darth Vowrawn is just Baras' highest ranking opponent. A possible explanation is that Vowrawn is afraid of Baras' ambitions, however Vowrawn doesn't care at all about the containment of The Emperor... Another point is quite intriguing and interesting. Reading Exal's declaration about I had in mind her reference to her devotion, love and His exploitation of their sexual relationship. A more cautious study of the comic reveals that it wasn't only about all that! However the storylines of all four Force Users is connected to the Children of the Emperor or the conclusion of the SW:TOR;BotE comic: Jedi Knight's Kira Carsen was a Child of the Emperor and our JK succeeds because The Emperor is weakened because of Baras' plot, the main antagonist of our Jedi Consular is The Emperor's First Son, the Sith Warrior takes care of Baras' plot, he/she kills The Emperor's trapped shell and he becomes the reason for the rise of a new but weak Emperor's shell, our Sith Inquisitor's main antagonist is Darth Thanaton himself.
  8. It was a joy to read again all the three (3) issues of the Star Wars: The Old Republic old (2010-2011) comic: Blood of the Empire (BotE), a genuine and comforting work of art, written by SW:TOR author Alexander Freed. As it is a real joy to remember another Star Wars masterpiece, namely SW:KotOR2;TSL. I'm trying not to mention all these Disney's Star Wars naiveties and nonsenses and make comparisons, I prefer to avoid negativity during this period. By the way, I do think that Star Wars should be more often about brave, skilled and powerful Force Users dealing with common human dilemmas and issues: duty vs. virtue or purpose, "right or wrong", redemption, loss, freedom and self-liberation, search for the truth vs. safety of convenience and conformism and all those important issues, these "Fanfares for the common human beings". Dealing with either all-powerful Force Users or would-be Gods of Force Users (like BioWare's Valcorion and ... Disney's Palpatine) is useful and fruitful, however its abusive (and compulsive) use may become counter-productive because it alienates the Star Wars Universe from the reality of human life: life is not only about the core of the fear of death combined with the quest for immortality and delusions of grandeur... And the vast majority of Star Wars fans care about dealing with their inner demons or realistic challenges, issues and dilemmas, they don't have the ambition to deliver a fatal blow to the Devil Himself!! For the same reason a very weak ("in the Force") and uncertain (or unimportant) Force User as the protagonist tends -as a rule!...- to be less fascinating also. Of course Valcorion, namely an undead Force User, is extremely useful for SW:TOR, an MMORPG that has the ambition to last for decades following the attempts of his charming antagonist. However, enough is enough. Let us pay a visit (at last!) to the main object of our thread. In the aforementioned SW:TOR;BotE comic the protagonist is a skilled, brave, resilient and, above all, utterly dedicated and idealistic (masterless by then) Sith Acolyte, Teneb Kel. His task (in order to make amends for being taught by a "heretic" and, in fact, "too ambitious" Sith Lord) is an immense surprise for him, particularly because he deeply admires and idealizes the doctrines and the beliefs of the Sith: to track down and destroy another Sith Acolyte, the extremely dangerous ... female Apprentice of the Emperor Exal Kressh. Well, there is a lot of dense content and quite interesting concepts and ideas within that masterpiece, however I want to stress something that seems relevant to the content of Legacy of the Sith. After their first confrontation where Exal Kressh (a blood of the Sith by all means obviously) spares -for some important reasons- her defeated would-be executioner, a failed and bleeding but brave and determined Teneb Kel has a quasi-delusional vision as he approaches death. Within this vision there are two constant figments of his imagination, Exal herself and ... Darth Thanaton. There are other presences too that are even more important imho as the knowledge of their existence will ... give birth to Darth Thanaton himself ... and death to Teneb Kel. During this extremely interesting (story-wise and artistically) vision, Exal Kressh reveals that She adds soon that [at this moment Teneb's part of his vision asks Exal's part of the vision a fundamentally important question: "Why do you care?" and Exal gives an all-important answer, an answer that hides a very humane issue and it will give Teneb a decisively important lead: "Your delusion doesn't cover that. Maybe I'm after redemption? Maybe not."] Later, during another confrontation between them, Exal repeats: Well, compare Exal Kressh's (her true self of her vision) declarations with the information, revealed at 7.1, regarding (the also female) Darth Nul! Was Exal the first child of The Emperor or the second?
  9. Gotcha!! If you hadn't noticed yet, there is a whole Eclipsed Sun around Elom!! According to Copernicus (and Galileo Galilei and Sir Isaac Newton) Elom is around the Eclipsed Sun that is ... ... but according to Albert Einstein the two points of view are equivalent! Is this the work of a certain Darth ... Nul!?! No way Jose!! This style of work and vision is obviously a Valcorion's doing and favorite, it's clearly goes with His/Her Taste and Aesthetics...
  10. A lightsaber's teleportation (Rey had already two, me thinks ... but Kylo had gotten rid of his) within the final confrontation at "The rise of Skywalker", fire (fire-beams) teleportation (it even destroyed part of a wall...) during the interaction between Kylo and the Jedi gal at "The Return of Jedi", even sand/dust teleportation in that very movie!! The scientists of the bad guys were even able to analyze the origin of the teleported dust/sand and the whereabouts of Rey... [someone could accuse me of sexism: Rey is a ... Jedi gal?!? How so?!? Nope, they introduced a girl in order to establish a love-story within a rare connection through the Force. That's ... unorthodox; why to introduce a heterosexual Force-Couple and not a special connection (through the Force...) between two Force Users which aren't heterosexual!?! Am I a sexist or are they ... Stereotypically Unorthodox?!? And they have delivered this stereotypical theme to the children of the audience! Leading them to embrace -and internalize!- concepts of the oppressive, miserable Pre-history of the ... mankind!!... Preposterous... Why not to introduce two Jedi girls, I have no objection at all about this ... or about two Jedi dudes... By the way the connection (through the Force of course) between Obi Wan and Qui Gon is -way!!- less stereotypical...] Well, it could be explained through their special Force-connection, however these teleportation effects belong much more to the X-Men Legacy, they hardly belong to any Star Wars legacy... Imho the important thing here is the absorption of X-Men archetypical concepts -which are essentially strange to Star Wars whole concept- by Star Wars movies: this is the result of an attempted opening, an attempted contact between audiences but eventually it leads to confusion, indifference, lack of identification and self-cancelling... On the contrary BioWare was able to achieve such a bridging in a magnificent, exemplary way. PS: I strongly suspect that Darth Nul of Elom is
  11. I can't even pinpoint the short story with Master Orr's diaries/report regarding his mission and his crew... Jedi and Sith are able to pinpoint like X-Men ; myself I ain't able to pinpoint a small story within SW:TOR... Damn these damn Force Users!! However I have to express my envy and point out that many Jedi Masters tend to become -in a violent way- one with the Force while they apologize and attempt to repent for their crimes... Down with Malgus or ... Viva Malgus?!? Well, I guess that ... Darth Malgus could become a valuable asset of the Alliance!! And a heroic ally to our Alliance Commander!! Unless he is about to meet -by ... accident- The Immortal Emperor, like, say, Revan....
  12. That's great news assuming that the new version will remain 100% faithful to the letter and spirit of KotOR and KotOR2;TSL!!
  13. You just made a few (rather a lot of) fine points! It occurred to me that , however I convinced myself that this has to do with a reminiscent of X-Men's CEREBRO pinpointing machine, which is not a baseless hypothesis; BioWare etc. etc. have to make a move (the first or one more?) towards these audiences... As you have noticed, this is much more obvious regarding to the Padawan! I admit that the collaboration of my way of thinking with my senses is ... limited, however now I, too, have noticed something! It seems (...) that the interesting party for the pinpointing machine was/is The Immortal Emperor, however you are right that ; you have a very strong point about this! Nevertheless that pinpoints the rejected (due to weaker connection to the Force) Force Users: It's also pretty clear that Master Orr knew one thing or two regarding the purpose etc. of that machine though it's not clear what the Sith Lord knew about this! My point: that Sith was fully dedicated to the Empire, however there is something odd about him: we have never seen any Sith Lord like ... this in SW:TOR, until now at least... Therefore you really made a few strong points! One last remark; Disney made an attempt to address the X-Men audiences via the depiction of "bizarre" (SW-wise) Force Powers in "The Force Awakens", TLJ and the unfortunate last movie too, I have in mind the teleportation powers there. However that was a weak, almost a silly attempt 'cause it alienated etc. many Star Wars fans... After all contact is one thing, confusion-and-absorption is completely another thing... This BioWare's move is not an absurd one, it's not artificial but quite natural, thoughtful and pretty convincing!! PS: Well, it now occurred to me that I even like the quality of lightsabers swordsmanship in SW:TOR cinematics, it's way above the corresponding quality in the last (and lowest)Trilogy!!
  14. I really have doubts regarding BioWare's decision -or interest- to create another SW:TOR;KotFE or KotET. I guess they will consider the production of a much shorter expansion, we'll see anyways. Why bother then? Well, I really know nothing about BioWare's plans but I do know this; BioWare has proven that it's capable enough to pave the way of the creation of worthy Star Wars Sagas!!
  15. I didn't run the new expansion yet, I have to make arrangements about the ... disordered inventory and another arrangement regarding the available abilities at level 75; I must confess that sometimes I do hate evolution... However I have watched carefully the "Disorder" cinematic ... and after doing that (a few times) I came to some conclusions and a story-wise conjecture did occur to me. Well, "Legacy of the Sith" seems to introduce the Twilek Jedi Padawan (Sa'har) to us and to the Alliance;Sa'har will cease to be a member of the Jedi Order, she will not become a Sith either, therefore we'll follow -in this or a future expansion- her introduction to the Alliance, headed by our characters. In other words we'll follow the adventure of her personal quest and the way that her quest will bring the independent, brave and skillful, trained in the ways of the Jedi Sa'har in contact with our high and mighty character, the Alliance Commander. I just hope that this will be an interesting story-line.... However this story-line (short or extended, poor or rich, spectacular or indifferent) must be, speaking story-wise, just a detail of the SW:TOR saga!! I guess that the part of the new expansion that is connected to the big picture here is the reservoir of the Force Users that have been deemed unworthy from the Jedi and became a prey for the Sith Empire, the reservoir that Sa'har has to pinpoint in order to find her brother! The Alliance will seek this reservoir also and not just because they want to do the right thing and help Sa'har, the Alliance has to discover the plan behind the creation of this reservoir, the function that this reservoir serves. Malgus will follow the same quest also for his own reasons... and the Empire too, not to mention the combined quest of the Alliance with the Jedi Order ... or the combined quest of the Alliance with the Sith Empire. An obvious question; why the Sith Empire had created that machine in order to pinpoint the Force Users who have a weak connection to the Force? Why to capture these Force Users and create such a reservoir? Another obvious question; why I do consider the creation of a reservoir of Force Users? They are Force Users, the Sith Empire had pinpointed them, therefore they had to join the Empire and become Sith or else... I don't believe that this is the case; those weak Force Users had not a chance to become Sith, they had no chance to become Jedi either. However the Sith Empire had built that machine meaning that The Immortal Emperor wanted to find them. Why bother?!? My conjecture is that He had decided to create a hidden reservoir of Force Users, not strongly connected to the Force in order to become Sith but, nevertheless connected to the Force. If my conjecture is not baseless, the Alliance Commander together with the Jedi Order and the Sith Empire are on their way to cross roads again with Valcorion.
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