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Shaith

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  1. You aren't guaranteed play time. You aren't guaranteed the servers will be up when you want them up. You aren't guaranteed the servers will remain up, period. Does it suck? Sure. Do you deserve something special? Other than perhaps them eventually splitting maintenance into regions (don't hold your breath), no.
  2. Most female toons are guys anyway. It's all about which backside you'd rather stare at
  3. While you may have finished chapter 1, there's still a long road ahead - you're better off to start over tbh.
  4. It would really help, seriously. There are 1-2 extremely active servers both for PVP and PVE - re-rolling there will make a huge difference in your gaming experience. I'd go with Jedi Covenant for PvE, and Fatman for PvP. You'll be amazed at the difference having a zone full of people makes when you're trying to get groups and FP's going.
  5. Actually, it's completely realistic and well within expectations. It's called project management. There's even software out there to let you plug in your project goals, milestones, checkpoints, and do-or-die dates, and can even handle skewing your dates further out in the future or closer to the present based on task completion. The issue here isn't an inability to provide projected dates; it's refusal to do so.
  6. You might want to get your ForceEyes checked then... 1.3 hasn't hit PTS yet, and likely won't for "a few weeks" I'm betting it's more like August.
  7. Where's your data to support this claim? No, that isn't what she's saying at all. The act of having an active subscription does not imply that you will be constantly or even consistently logged-in utilizing said subscription. A great many players have other obligations that place demands on their time - things such as work, school, family, art, creating spreadsheets, sleeping, trolling around in their parents' basement, or even baseless whining on forums - all of these activities are typically done to the exclusion of logging in to play this game. What she's saying is that based on the data available, there is an average number of players on each given server. That average is based on estimates. So what she's saying is that there are an estimated average number of players online on each of the servers and provides you with a breakdown. Let's make this easy. *** SPOILER ALERT: HYPOTHETICAL FIGURES AHEAD *** At noon today, 1500 people will be logged into Fatman. At 11:59 PM today, 2000 OTHER people (read: completely different) people will be logged into Fatman. If you AVERAGE those two data points, you'd come up with 1750 people logged into Fatman. But were there only 1750 subscriptions? No. In fact, there were 3500 subscribers logged in. That make sense? Actually, you're entirely and utterly incorrect. Your "easy math" proves only that your calculator works but completely and utterly fails to support your conclusions. At no point was it ever stated that the numbers Paige provided were 100% accurate head counts - they're estimates based on observation, data from Torstatus, and a little guesswork regarding certain functionality used on the SWTOR status pages. It was also never stated that the numbers she quoted were the number of players who played in a single day. Had she come out and said "2005 on Fatman for 24-May-2012 for the entire 24-hour period" your math would hold up. But your interpretation doesn't align with her statement that, based on the reports from Torstatus, an AVERAGE of 2005 players was online. That's not the highest it went, it's not the lowest it went. Armed with that average and the averages across all servers, she produced a number. That's the total number of players in a given day, on average. Now, stick with me here, this gets a little tricky: Not everybody plays every single hour of every single day! OMG! Really?! Say it isn't SO! 'Fraid so, Sparky. You could have different sets of people each and every day who combined give you those totals per day, but each of those had to have their own account (in most cases...let's not drag accounts used by siblings and what-not into this as it simply overcomplicates things and I wouldn't want your head to explode...yet). In order to give an estimated number of total subscribers when you don't have access to the actual back-end data and metrics, you have to make some assumptions. One of the biggest assumptions of course is whether the base data, the total daily average, is in fact a viable figure. Then you need a reasonable ratio to factor that by. What she's offered is reasonable, though I personally believe it to be a bit high. Remember, when they were doing those subscriber numbers, they were doing it for last quarter, and "active subscribers" included the weekend trial folks - most of whom are likely NOT now actively subscribing. To her credit, she's also provided access to all of her data, given information regarding how certain elements were determined, how she came up with the ratio figures used to convert average daily players into total subscribers (not to prove number of subscribers but to further substantiate the average daily player figures themselves), and invited everyone to have a go at it if they have other ideas about how the data should be represented. I think it's a fair effort, she's done a reasonable job of supporting her theories, the basis for her calculations is sound, and it's ultimately provided folks with some useful information. For those waiting for character transfers, it gives them an idea of which servers to look for in the transfer list. For those unwilling to wait any longer for character transfers who want to re-roll and go to it, it gives them an idea of which servers have the highest average populations so they know where to go to start over. Now, if you think you can provide more accurate figures, by all means, be our guest. If all you've got is "your numbers are crap", and can't provide facts to support your statement, then you're welcome to go hang out over there in the corner.
  8. http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=what+does+mmo+stand+for
  9. think you can to an extent - isn't there already an auto-skip movies toggle?
  10. Hate this idea. The voiceovers and interactive FMV are two things that really make this game stand apart from every other MMO out there. Go big or go home
  11. Jawas. Togruta would be entertaining, but gun to my head, bring on the Jawas!
  12. Shaith

    MacBook

    you've basically got 3 options. All of them require a copy of Windows. 1) Bootcamp See the apple forums for details. This is the only option that uses the hardware natively and doesn't involve the use of virtualization - which carries a performance hit. The downside for all of these is they all require a chunk of your HDD to install not only the Windows operating system, but the game itself, so this chunk is pretty substantial. 2) VMWare Fusion You can get full setup instructions from within Fusion 3) Parallels Same story - get full setup instructions within Parallels. There may be other virtualization options available to you.
  13. http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=456264 Post there about it - but they're aware of the issue.
  14. Frankly, with all the QQ'ing going on about rated warzones and the instant slew of posts from people screaming UNSUB!! UNSUB!! , they could put rated warzones on hold in order to finish the boot polisher legacy perk that you summon once every 3 days to make your feet look spiffy and I'd be okay with it.
  15. Are there currently any plans to increase the quantity and quality of communications between development, customer service, and the userbase?
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