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SteveTheCynic started following Unable to login into SWTOR , What would you like to see in 8.0? , Make the items from dark and light vendors available with credits and 7 others
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What would you like to see in 8.0?
SteveTheCynic replied to SentinalMasterWW's topic in Suggestion Box
Do you mean an actual *purge* (unconditionally removing names from characters that meet some combination of criteria), or just "unlock the names of those characters so they can be taken by others, but if the player logs in again first, relock the name onto the character"? -
Returning Player - how to transition into doing Ops and Uprising
SteveTheCynic replied to Tigrin's topic in New Player Help
The old advice was to avoid PuGs for VM and MM Ops, because PuGs are reliably unreliable for quality of play. See e.g. https://forums.swtor.com/topic/558251-the-weird-people-you-meet-in-group-finder/ for more than 400 pages of posts on the subject of PuGs being bad. -
A new download of the installer sets up the full mode ("SSN") rather than the streaming mode, and has done since before Covid was a thing. There's only one EU/English server, Darth Malgus. I don't play there, so I can't advise you on how busy it is.
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Romance gift for those that choose to skip content.
SteveTheCynic replied to GregoriusV's topic in Suggestion Box
Unfortunately, that's not what the studio believes. (They said so explicitly one time.) I suspect that @Rohndogg meant "do the chapters unlock so [[you can play them all individually]]" rather than "[[do the chapters unlock individually]] so you can play them". That is, the "individually" referred to the ability to play each one by itself after unlocking them all by skipping. And the answer to the question is yes, once you skip them, the whole lot is unlocked for individual replay, just the same as if you play through them manually. -
Uppercase Letters In Character Names In Chat?
SteveTheCynic replied to coreymj's topic in General Discussion
Given the general reputation of technical (and other) work done on Friday afternoons, I'd prefer that they schedule it for a different day, e.g. Tuesday. -
If by "the market", you mean "the Cartel Market", there very much *is* a downside, in that the players who missed it the two times it was already available would have to pay Cartel Coins for it (i.e. in some sense, actual money), while the ones who got it before got it without having to do that. Putting it on the Galactic Seasons vendor cycle would be better.
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It *shouldn't* cause that kind of problem. Once it's been put in the mailbox, it should be linked to the mailbox by an unchangeable internal ID of the character that we players never see. Of course, "shouldn't" and "doesn't" are different things, but since character names are inherently variable, it would be incredibly unwise of the studio to use the actual character name as the mailbox ID. (And even if they had done that, nothing would stop the rename action from changing the name on the mailbox.) And in any event, having done it, I can confirm that changing your character's name does not delete the mails in your character's mailbox.
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That might or might not be true, but Ares is *definitely* the name of an important NPC (the primary antagonist, in fact) in one of the KotET chapters, and therefore it *should* say that the name is *Invalid*(1) rather than *not available*. (1) Against the naming rules enforced by the automatic censor, notably, in this case, the rule that says you're not allowed to give your character the name of a character or area in SWTOR lore, nor in general Star Wars lore. (Not all such names are enforced by the automatic censor, mind you. I once, without realising it, named a character "Tela" - there's a slightly obscure mine in the Gormak lands on Voss that's called that...)
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If you had to blow up one planet in SWTOR....
SteveTheCynic replied to JohnnyGatt's topic in General Discussion
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In CET/CEST parts of Europe (Spain, France, B*lg**m, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, possibly others, but *not* Portugal), the clocks go forward at 2am CET, not 2am GMT.
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remove the 30 day countdown of guild banks or at least reduce it
SteveTheCynic replied to fediamond's topic in Suggestion Box
I would say that even two or three days would be enough to prevent most people from doing it, but a week sounds like a reasonable value. -
Romance gift for those that choose to skip content.
SteveTheCynic replied to GregoriusV's topic in Suggestion Box
The Master's Datacron does not prevent you from starting a romance with Lana. Using it, then skipping ahead to Jedi Under Siege most definitely does, but that's because you skipped ahead past KotFE, not because you used the Master's Datacron. (If you level up manually from level 1 to level 70+ without beginning KotFE, and then jump to JUS, you end up with the same problem.) -
Above all, on the first link that @OwenBrooks gave, start with the DirectX 9 redist section. (You have a new computer, and if you haven't already installed DirectX 9 by some other route(1), Windows 10 and 11 do not install it themselves.) (1) Example: almost any DirectX 9 game that you install via Steam. Example: the redist file cited in the paged linked by @OwenBrooks.
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The SWTOR authenticator is no longer a supported option(0), so you'll have to use whatever TOTP authenticator app takes your fancy(1). I use OTP Auth, but you could use Authy, Google Authenticator, or a host of others, including WinAuth, which runs on your PC instead of your phone. I'm amused by the implication that subscribing to this game that was originally subscription only makes a person somehow abnormal. (0) Meaning that if it works, so much the better, but if not, they won't help you with it. (1) The SWTOR authenticator app is a TOTP app, although it's slightly bogus because it only allows one account.