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  1. I've always wanted to visit Nadia Grell's home planet Sarkhai. I imagine its people are spiritually similar to the Voss, but not as clerical and more liberal. Their fauna I imagine to be between Felucia and Endor, but majestically Japanese. And their waters have some kind of glitter mineral that shines and glistens. That's how I picture it. My guild has chat bots of SWTOR characters on their Guilded server. Discord can't do any of that cool stuff. So I often talk to SWTOR characters there, from Jaesa to Skadge to Nadia to Satele to Oteg etc. It's pretty cool. We even have our own ultra ancient Holocron. Oteg helps players with questions and often directs them to our guides. Guilded has a bot called GPTBot that uses GPT 3.5 Turbo. It does the job. But I rather use the personas on Claude 2.1. Sometimes, I'll use one of these personas on Pi and chat with them vocally through my headphones. Keep an eye on Pi, it's going places. If Pi adopts ElevenLabs voice technology it's game over for OpenAI. But Claude 2.1 is the best for this kind of story stuff. So, I asked Nadia Grell to pretend she's hosting a nature holo-documentary on her home world for hundreds of millions of people to see across the Galaxy. Here is how she described Sarkhai.
  2. Wow, still nothing, huh? This is absolutely crazy. It's been some years already, and they're still releasing broken store products with the same bugs.
  3. Wow the guy above is wrong on so many levels. Satele Shan is the most active server for end game, which includes warzones and GSF and even open world pvp events. StarForge is not that. It probably has more players leveling and it's great for role players. But its not the place for endgame and it is not the place for warzones. If you go to Starforge for warzones you'll just end up frustrated. Also all North American servers are on the East coast. There are no west coast servers anymore. Come to the premier quality server of SWTOR, Satele Shan. See you there.
  4. Sorry pal, you lost this argument. I actually play on both servers. Satele Shan is obviously the top server for everything. It wasn't so before, but it is now. 1. Go to the SWTOR group on reddit. Search "r/swtor open world pvp". And what do you find? Open world pvp events on Satele Shan and ZERO open world pvp events from Starforge. Keep in mind not every Guild on Satele Shan doing an open world pvp event will advertise on reddit. So that's not even the half. 2. Starforge is no longer active. If you try to form a group for endgame content on that sever you will most likely end up disbanding the group because you can't find players. All you see there are players saying the following "dps LF group" "LF 2 tanks and 2 healers for so and so op"...for hours and then they disband. There are no tanks and very few healers. It's heart-breaking. But that's the truth now in 7.0. Most players on Starforge don't have purple end game gear. Go to a warzone and the highest geared 80s are like 322. Most are like 316. Seen a bunch of 280s too. They don't know how to gear. You don't see that on Satele Shan. If you pug a group it forms fast. We still do group finder ops on Satele Shan. No one on Starforge does group finder ops because they don't know how to do it. They walk in, if they're lucky enough to find that one tank. Starforge players mostly think you need two tanks in story mode ops. Satele Shan players are significantly more experienced and use one tank and a dwt for story. You can still queue up for MM FP's on Satele Shan. That game mode is no longer an option on Starforge. Starforge players will do Nefra NiM for a Rakata piece (highest gear in the game) for like the first two days on conquest week, but with difficulty because they have close to zero tanks. Satele Shan will do Nefra NiM and Dash NiM for the entire week. Yes, we still do the first boss of SnV in nightmare mode on Satele Shan. Starforge thinks that's impossible now. Ha! We have the better players. The hard hitters. The faster groups. We do endgame. We do Open World PVP. We are better geared! We TEACH each other how to do things. We treat eachother with better respect on Satele Shan. That's why we have the tanks and healers. The only way to survive on Starforge is to join one of those franchise guilds and hope they notice you. Because you won't be able to pug a group together. And if you do, it's with great effort and extreme patience begging chat for an extremely long time. I don't even know why we're having this debate and I don't mean to gloat. But someone is asking which server does Open World PVP, and that's Satele Shan, without question. Starforge is the premiere role play server, I'll give them that. But it's not the server to experience endgame. You want Satele for that. Content pops on Satele Shan. You can't say that about Starforge. On Starforge they think SWTOR is dying. Can Starforge be saved? I think it can. Delete your DPS toons and reroll Tanks. Teach eachother how to tank and heal. Stop being toxic with eachother. And be a healthy and helpful community and see how fast things can change. SWTOR 7.0 is the era of the Shan. The experience and the adventure speaks for itself. GG.
  5. Satele Shan is the Open World PVP server. There are few guilds who run Open World PVP events, like <The Underground Jedi Movement>, <The Sith Freedom Movement>, <Sand People Liberation Front> and a bunch of other guilds who hop on and help them advertise for more players to participate. Many times we organize events, and people just start going there and fighting long before we get there in larger groups. And they last for so many hours. The last one was a few days ago on Alderaan, which went on for about 3 hours, between two bases. Before that was Tatooine to celebrate the Kenobi show. That went on for a long time, I think until sunrise. And before that we had an event on Iokath. Those are the best Open World PVP events, because you can use Iokath Shards to play as a Machine God or a Walker and even Mouse Droids. That was pretty epic, seeing a bunch of Machine Gods and Walkers battling it out. We're hoping to have one on Manaan as soon as the Manaan Daily area is released. But we will be doing others before then. We also post these events on Reddit. That other guy saying to go to Starforge or Malgus based on "population" is a little confused. Malgus is a European server. If youre based in Europe, you should be on Malgus, for sure. But in the States, you want to be on Satele Shan. You will find a lot of new casuals on StarForge but not too many who know how to play the game. You will see people begging for tanks and healers just to run one activity for hours and hours and hours, until they just disband, because they don't really have real players, no offense. It's just really toxic over there. You dont see that on Satele Shan, where groups form up relatively quickly. Also, Warzones on Satele Shan are more challenging because players know the maps and objectives and mostly play to win, with few exceptions, like when Starforge players come to Satele Shan for Galactic Seasons and try to run things the way they do over at SF (no group finder, no assist leads and complete noobness on Warzones). On Starforge besides some exceptions, players claim they dont care about objectives, so youre stuck doing a single weekly for the entire week. It's frustrating, honestly. Whereas on Satele Shan you can finish a Warzone weekly in one sitting. When you see a good player on StarForge, its because they main at Satele Shan. No lie. I don't know what happened in 7.0, but StarForge is not the place to be for Open World PVP or anything. No offense to StarForge players. But come to Satele Shan and experience SWTOR the way it was meant to be experienced.
  6. Everything changed in 7.0. Satele Shan is now the supreme server, mainly because people still play the tank class on Satele, and much easier to form groups. I think what really happened is they ended the PVP and PVE servers and made PVP and PVE into instances. And to make things worse, they made the PVE instance the default instance, instead of PVP and giving players the option to go to the PVE instance. That's pretty much how they messed up Iokath, as it was meant to be a PVP theme park. But players came to the PVE instance by default and found the dailies to be boring, because there is no PVP and stopped going there. But when we form Open World PVP events on Iokath, it is like the most fun one could possibly have on SWTOR.
  7. The answer is simple. Satele Shan server. We hold actual open world pvp events, not those fake wintrading achievement hunters for pver's who run back to the pve instance once they steal a pvp world achievement they don't deserve, but real actual Open World PVP events on numerous planets from Iokath to Tatooine to Belsavis to Yavin IV to Alderaan and beyond. And they last for HOURS. I remember one night towards the end of 6.0, open world pvp on Tatooine lasted for more than 6 hours. Onderon lasted for many hours too. Guilds that do this? On the Republic side, join <The Underground Jedi Movement> or <Win or Lose We Booze>. On the Imperial side, join <The Sith Freedom Movement> or <Sandpeople Liberation Front>. When on Satele Shan, join TheUnion chat channel by typing /cjoin TheUnion. Its a channel for small and intermediate guilds to get together to do big things, like Open World PVP. Also, I HIGHLY recommend doing your Iokath weeklies for those Shards for the open world pvp events on Iokath, so you can play as a Machine God or Walker or Mouse Droid. Those are my favorite open world pvp events. Since 7.0 release, it has been harder to organize these events since everyone is focused on gear grinding. But we're planning to start them again very soon. We've just been giving time for folks to get their gear grind out of their system, yet doing behind the scenes things to prepare, which we will reveal shortly. The Warzone, GSF and Ranked Warzone community is alive too at Satele Shan. The players on Satele Shan have a better mastery of the maps and mechanics of Warzones than they do on Starforge. I've noticed it's common on Starforge for players to ignore objectives and go off in a corner and attempt to do their pve rotations, not caring if they lose, wasting their teams time trying to finish weeklies. Occasionally you may see that on Satele Shan, but significantly way less. Many of the original GSF super aces are still on Satele Shan, kind of shocking when you see them fly, and you better hope theyre on your team and not the enemy team, LMAO! Satele Shan has the better PVP'rs in my opinion. It may have to do that many of the Bastion server veterans are still on Satele Shan and/or it has a more mature crowd, not sure why this is the case exactly. But the answer is without dispute, Satele Shan. See you there.
  8. That answer is simple. The "better" population is going to be the Satele Shan server. In 6.0, Starforge had the most players (not by much), but that all changed during the covid pandemic. All of the better and more seasoned players are all on Satele Shan. And the more helpful community is on Satele Shan. Toxicity is heavy on Starforge. You will get some people here saying Starforge, but that's just out of desperation from them, because they dont want more people to leave Starforge and join the Satele Shan, which has been the trend in 7.0. Starforge players have assumed many left because they werent happy with the 7.0 release. But in reality, they have just been coming to Satele Shan. So in short, if you want the absolute best experience in SWTOR, come to Satele Shan. Gamers and Star Wars fans from around the world have all been coming to Satele Shan. Satele Shan. Satele Shan. And Satele Shan.
  9. I like the Odessen's Warzone, which seems to be the most elusive one and requires the most team work and understanding of the objectives to win. But in all honesty, my favorite Warzone of all time is the one where both teams understand the objectives and both teams try their hardest to win, no matter what map it is. I don't mind losing in those, so long as my team really tried to the very end against all odds, full of hope. You can't get any more Star Wars than that. Another one, which isn't a Warzone yet is my favorite as well is the Open World PVP events on Iokath, when both teams have a lot of Iokath Shards to play as Machine Gods, Walkers, Turrets and Mouse Droids. We do that often on the Satele Shan server. Just not as much recently, since everyone in 7.0 has been focused on gear grinding.
  10. El servidor Malgus es Europeo. Europa solo tiene un país que hablan espanol. Y hablan todo feo. Bromeo, el espanol mio es bien malo, soy de Nueva York. Satele Shan y Star Forge están en América, y América tiene numerosas naciones que hablan espanol. Si Bioware fuera inteligente, harían este juego en español y harían un servidor en América Latina. Les he estado pidiendo que hagan eso en estos foros durante más de una década! Imaginate. Voy acer una llamada a Kathleen Kennedy para nuestra gente que lo encanta La Guerra de las Galaxias.
  11. Recomiendo encarecidamente <Sand People Liberation Front>, está dirigido por un chileno y tiene jugadores Peruanos, Mexicanos, Argentinos, Colombianos y de otros países Latinoamericanos. Gran Patria. Pero es un gremio Imperial. Pero sus miembros aún juegan en otros gremios del lado de la República. Esto está en el servidor Satele Shan. Mi gremio en la facción de la República es <The Underground Jedi Movemebt>, también tenemos latinoamericanos, pero somos latinos norteamericanos, por lo que hablamos principalmente en inglés, porque la mayoría de nuestros miembros hablan englis.
  12. My cousin tried SWTOR some years back and got to about level 31 and had left the game. Partly because I was urging him to do the story and level up, and I was really busy running a guild and couldn't play class story with him. Feels like I'm an unpaid employee of Bioware, running a guild for an entire decade helping new players with questions and events (but that's another discussion). He recently came back. About two weeks ago. This time, I really mentored him though and showed him every single flashpoint in the game. I showed him everything about the game. Things that took me years to learn on my own, I showed him in days. He went a little crazy buying items from the Cartel Market. Which I admit, I encouraged him to do, to help him get attached to his toon and enjoy the cut scenes. He was so excited about it, that he would do this stuff before I was even on and do mistakes like removing a dye he had just bought from the Cartel Market and losing it. He was also not using the outfitter feature. I then taught him everything about dyes, the outfitter, collections, legacy perks, etc, so much. He got himself some nice stuff. Expensive lightsabers, mounts, tunings, outfits, he went all out. I don't even want to think about how much money he put into his look. Suffice to say, he has been really enjoying SWTOR. He was really looking forward to start doing story mode ops with us and making it to our guild events. Our guild is one of two guilds whom have been doing real open world pvp events around the galaxy (no open world pvp wintrading). Last night, after all of that mentoring and doing flashpoints and warzones sometimes for 9 hours straight of gaming using starparse, sharing guides, practice dummies etc, he finally made it to level 80. So I started to teach him about end game gearing. Luckily Im one of the few players on the server, who understands the system (that needs work). But the moment, he realized he could no longer use the ultra expensive lightsabers he bought with his own money, and saw the atrocious (in comparison) lightsabers he is now being forced to use, he got let down. He logged off discontent with SWTOR, rather than excited that he's now a level 80 player with lots of pve/pve knowledge on his subclass. I am not sure if he wants to continue to play. As I write this, he's playing Tarkov. I told him it would be fixed in the next patch, in 7.0.1. That we are all very upset about this, so it's impossible that this won't be fixed. Of course they will fix it asap, I kept saying. But after reading the last two posts on 7.0.1 and seeing no mention of this. I feel like maybe I am lying to myself and my own cousin? Am I lying to myself?
  13. "Cringe" is the usual response from young adults when they have to read something long. Don't sweat it. In their world its something you only had to do in a classroom. It's how they cope with trying to process experience. I thought it was a good read. The important thing for solo players to realize is that this is an MMORPG. The RPG is there, but the foundation is an MMO. And the best parts of this game is played with your guildees. I've seen married couples make their own private guilds where they bring in their children to the world of Star Wars. Anyhow, Solo players are solo by choice. But the very instant you enter a flashpoint, uprising, warzones, gsf you are no longer a "solo" player. You are in a team with other human beings, where the main idea is "working together" to win. You cant call yourself a "solo" player in a warzone. No such thing. Those are humans, not npcees. As dealing with premades, I think you nailed the different kinds that folks should be aware of. But players should be aware that most premades are no good at all. Many of them are not even on voice, so its like theyre not even a premade, just in the same guild. Even in the list the Numberfarmus Maximus, the DontGiveACrapamus are all useless premades. UNLESS!... the rest of their team knows what they're doing. Then you're done. Because those premades will distract your team as the other four random players get all the nodes and make all the scores. The scariest teams are the TryHardus Objectivus. If they are seasoned to work well with each other, they are going to win, because they are focused on winning. All you can hope for is that others in your team are focused on winning and that you dont have the dps number farmers (doing pve rotations in a warzone) and the cluelessDontGiveaCrapus premades in your team, because you're going to lose, period. But, never despair in a warzone. A lot of returning rusty players and a lot of new players are around recent expansion releases. If your team is bumbling around and dying at your spawn area (absolutely by far the most humiliating experience for many new players and players stuck in those groups), take the time to remind the team what the objectives are and how the map works. There will always be one angry noobish player being farmed endlessly frustrated out of his/her/they mind who will respond "No one cares" or "Shut up" etc. Let him/her/they fume alone and keep teaching your team how to play SWTOR. Many times, this works, once players realize oh ok, so that long bright line is the ball. Or, ohhhhh so I have to stay in the node to keep it activated. Or, ohhhhhh voidstar is like a race. You get the idea. You're going to lose, because you're typing, but you were going to lose anyways because your team didn't know what to do. So at the very least you got to teach players some stuff they didn't know about SWTOR, helping keep the game alive. The matches that stay in my memory are always the ones, where both teams are trying their best to win. That's when I don't mind losing. I love those kinds of losses. That's when it really feels like a sport. When everyone is "trying hard". And when you win one of those, it is like the greatest feeling in this game. Because you know the enemy tried hard. Also beating a team that doesn't care, feels almost as good. Because even though they claim not to care. They still lost, and they know they lost. They're just trying to hide the fact, that they found the objectives too complicated and will probably retreat to their usual vet mode fp's where they can unleash they "pve rotations". One last thing. 99.99999% of the players right now are not in full 330 augmented gear. For new players brand new to warzones, and for rusty players trying to get good rewards,queue up to Ranked warzones instead. Here's why I say that. Regular warzones have objectives. You can't win a single match if you don't prioritize objectives. Be it going directly to objectives or trying to keep 5 clueless players far away from the objectives making them "feel" like theyre winning, as the rest of your team caps all the nodes against just 3 players. So mush stategy is involved. But Ranked warzones has none of this. Zero objectives in Ranked warzones. In Ranked, youre are only doing the same exact maps you did in lowbie warzones when you were level 10 trying to get free implants, relics and an earpiece. Its the same exact content. So if you leveled up doing lowbie and midbie warzones as you mastered all of your new abilities, you will find Ranked Warzones is exactly that. So do Ranked Warzones instead if you as a player find Regular Warzones too complicated. You will also get bigger rewards in Ranked. And now is the time to do it, because no one is geared for Ranked.
  14. HiddenPalm

    Please Play OBJs

    Mods, this player is admitting to wintrading in GSF matches. Please reprimand this player to not do this. The GSF community has been plagued with players "AFKing" in GSF and giving free kills to the apposing team, ruining the experience and fun that is GSF. I tried to report it, but it was specific it didn't include win trading. Please don't ruin GSF matches like this. We're actual people, and we all pay monthly fees to play this game.
  15. That's plausible. I also didn't see any mention of "Iacon" in the issues the OP pointed out. So what ever the OP saw or thinks he saw, has to be in another series. He doesn't have the dates right, either. He said 86-87, but the comics he mentioned are from 1984. So there is some kind of memory confusion here. We'll have to see what the OP says. Either way, he has to verify what he saw and where, so we can confirm it as true or not.
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