Self-righteous? Try helpful, mate. Stuck in bed? Plenty of interesting things on Wookieepedia to go through. Brush up on Mandalorian. Find some good Star Wars e-books on Amazon. Maybe even give the new Star Wars Battlefront 2 a go on the Origin store. I picked it up for $5 a couple weeks ago, not sure if it's still that price, but definitely worth a fiver for the single player story alone even if you're not into the (honestly fun) PvP stuff - and I'm not, normally. But as for someone who's dealt with being bedridden myself occasionally thanks to several run-ins with angry individuals in faraway lands, I know that enforced convalescence can suck. And I imagine that wanting to do something and not being able to makes it suck all the more. But there's plenty of other things to tickle your pickle with.

I'm guessing someone's feeling really proud of their high school economics course. Seriously, man. Go spend the time you're normally be complaining about BioWare actually reading through economics reports from the various government and civic agencies. Do something useful with your time.

Maybe, but maybe not. Depending on how their system is set up, those two extra lines of code shouldn't be taking up anymore cycles than combat lasting another 2 attacks (where in range, to hit, damage, damage reduction, etc are all calculated).

Guy's probably not a moron, and 'serious economic trouble' depends on whether you consider a consistent economic growth over the last 30 years (barring '91, '08, and '09) of ~2% to be bad. But simple things like that which are easily Googled are no match for a good, red-faced hyperbolic argument, huh?

I will. Salty entitledness makes these patch day hiccups all the more amusing, probably because I would've been there myself 20 or so years ago in the early days of EQ when I was still in high school.

WoW pulled off the live start to Battle for Azeroth flawlessly. As soon as that counter ticked down, boom. You could start the entire new expansion's worth of content with no server downtime at all. ...Of course, BfA sucks, but whatever.

Maybe, although my guess isn't that it's the extra bit of figuring (which is minuscule at the rate of data processing today - or even five or ten years ago), but that there's an error in the code somewhere. I.e., the data's getting bitten off and chewed, when when the system goes to swallow it (and add it to your total), it's winding up being vomited back up a few times before winding up where it's supposed to be. Which is why if you're running around doing stuff, your CQP updates in real time (which shouldn't be happening if it was lagging the servers), but is still somehow responsible for derailing everything.

That's what I usually tend to do. Sub for a month or two, play up the next storyline content and get my fill of other stuff, then when my interest wanes, cancel for six or eight months before coming back and playing the next chunk. $15 a month doesn't seem like a lot, but that's more than enough money to take up an actual, useful hobby like woodworking or fishing. $15 is even a couple of boxes of ammo for a range day or some seeds or bulbs to get your garden going, depending on your tastes. And who doesn't love sitting outside in the sunshine with a glass of something nice and cold, listening to the birds while enjoying the fruits of a day well spent? Or you can be inside, getting hacked off about BioWare shenaniganery.

I'm just kind of curious how, like, two lines of code (one converting a percentage of earned XP into CQP and another adding that to your total) can be causing the entire server architecture to come apart at the seams. Even the creaky old system from the mid-90s that we were using at the last company I worked for wasn't that shabby.

I'm not mad at anything. I've ridden the TOR beast since launch on and off, and I know how shaky BioWare is with stuff during patch cycles. I do my usual routine: give it a couple of hours while I'm doing stuff during the day, and if it's not up and running by the time I actually get to sit down and have some fun, screw it. Off to play something else! Right now, it's Surviving Mars, a pretty darn good indie hit from the Steam store that's got some really nice DLC (like embarking on a massive program using realistic technologies to make Mars habitable). Not only is the game a gem to play if you like city building/strategy/sci-fi games, but it's all tied into real (even if sometimes theoretical) technologies. Definitely worth a try.

Nah, mate. This is patch day for a BioWare game. If you want to see how bad BioWare can get with handling games these days, go dig up some Anthem Reddit posts. If you want to see how bad TOR was in 'the good old days', go dig up the posts about the launch festivities when Rise of the Hutt Cartel went live and the servers were down sporadically for hours at a time for like 3-4 days.

Cemeteries are full of people who were wrong, too. Also cats, birds, babies, and ugly people. If you're going to say something like it's profound, maybe make sure it's actually profound, yeah?

Yeah, heaven forbid people play the game they're paying for, especially after the devs said they fixed the issues, then the issues immediately got un-fixed and haven't heard a word from BW since. Makes sense.

Checking mail wasn't working. It'd take 2-3 minutes after clicking on a mail (from the GTN) to get the contents to actually display. Clicking on a bought item or trying to get credits back from a failed sale would get a "Mail operation error" or something. Clicking the different outfit tabs for my character would just show blank spaces. Trying to travel to different areas would take 30-40 seconds for the transition to happen. Various NPCs at Fleet were not appearing. Then, when I tried to leave my stronghold, I got dumped out of the game entirely. Now I'm trying to log back in and am facing a queue. Current server is also Star Forge. EDIT: Got through the queue. Tried to log back in. Now I'm siting there at the Interlude loading screen with the spinning wheel thingy in the bottom right. No loading bar. Just sitting here. Waiting for about 3-4 minutes now.

When my Mawvorr is following me, its target box takes up about 80% of the lower half of my screen even if the Mawvorr itself isn't visible in-camera. I can't click on things to use them, click on NPCs, etc, without dismissing him. His target box seems to be about four times his size; it needs to be reduced.