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  1. Not to mention all the Imperial deaths he caused when he took down the Ascendant Spear and Sun Razer. But those were Imperial deaths so....I guess they don't matter. I wouldn't say they were innocent, but it was after the signing of the Treaty, so technically they were outside of open war, and when asked about it, his response is something akin to "I don't care about dark or light...I only care about us and them". Either way...his hands are definitely not clean. He's not afraid to do the dirty work. I'd wager that his hit count is every bit as high as some of the player characters out there. I like Theron...he's one of my favorites actually, but I will never imagine him as being innocent or light-sided. He's one of the guys in the trenches getting his hands dirty so those in his faction can keep on living their lives with blinders on. That he eventually questions that allegiance later on...well, that makes it even easier (and miles more interesting) to ship him with a Sith or other such Imperial. I'm not saying people shouldn't ship him with Jedi or other Republic characters, but he can very easily be shipped with the former. That being said, how the game will handle his romance and the renewed war remains to be seen. I personally hate the new direction because my character has so grown beyond that idiotic squabble that is nothing more than fighting over we-dunno-but-we-fight. She knows the war was all part of Vitiate's plan. Personally, she'd love to tell both sides to take a flying leap. He openly admits to being the one to lure everybody to Iokath, so I'm pretty sure that was his machination, even though it was obviously a giant flub on his part. Nothing went as planned, and then he had to do a hail-mary and improv his way out of the hole he dug himself into (even getting his father killed if the PC sides with the Empire, which mine always do). And it may have been left open to interpretation, but I do believe he was the one to sabotage the chair...because that sabotage, by way of electrocution, was what saved the player character from total french fry-dom. There's a lot of reason behind Theron's implied alcohol abuse and sleep deprivation. I think it all goes hand in hand. I've only taken the option once, but if you choose to surveil your people, you see it kind of summed up in an email. Haha, this is exactly what I did. My main ship is my Sith Inquisitor with both Andronikos and Theron. She returned Nik via the vending machine and never did his AA, so she never saw his breakup scene, and technically his romance flag is still there. I know if Andronikos ever does get new content, which I seriously doubt he will, then I'll be forced to choose, but for now, it's my roundabout way at poly, lol.
  2. I think making such sweeping stretches would erase a lot of who the characters are, but that's just my opinion. As for Theron, I personally do ship him with a Sith, so I can easily see it...though not with a stabbity-stab-kill-kill one, of course. Theron isn't quite the squeaky clean paragon of light a lot of folks make him out to be. His hands are dirty, quite dirty...and he's not afraid of it, so I can definitely see him with someone with a darker side. But, of course...there are extremes that make sense for pretty much nobody, even in the original class stories.
  3. The only problem I have with this is that some of the original class companions make no sense with anybody else. Take Jorgan, for example. I don't ever see him itching to scratch at a Sith...except maybe in a bar fight he'd lose. On the other end, I don't see Quinn ever "lowering" himself to date anybody outside of a Sith or high-ranking Imperial officer...and I'd imagine he'd even be offended at the idea of dating a Pub. *gasp* The travesty! Even Andronikos...I dunno about seeing him with a Knight or Consular. A lot of those just don't make sense, so I can see keeping them class-gated.
  4. I think people would be a little more patient if we were getting story updates a more frequently than twice per year (I mean seriously, what am I paying for...clearly nothing about ten months out of the year, so joke's on me). So we get this tiny slice...a hors d'oeuvre...and now we'll get to wait, oh, I'll guess another six months before anything. And keep rooty-toot-tooting 6.0...we don't even know it's going to happen yet. They won't answer either way...because they're waiting for a giant albatross called Anthem to either sink or swim...which we all know it will be the latter. If Anthem tanks...it's going to take this game (and Dragon Age) with it. That's why they keep stringing us along, hoping that we'll just smile and nod like a cheap date and not just say "screw you" and go home. Honestly, I think we're the idiots, myself included, for allowing this behavior to go on. (Just to throw out some perspective, even a not-so-gracefully aging MMO, Lord of the Rings Online, which has probably even less of a player-base, and has been bought and sold, is -still- putting out regular story-based content updates.) But enough of my rant...the update. Well, people have plenty of reason to be unhappy. The biggest thing is the companion loss. Already. Can you imagine the rage people felt at losing a companion they had spent the time leveling to 50? Good lord, I haven't even done a single companion to 50 yet. Oh, but they get to keep them for rando exploration content. Yeah, that makes perfect sense. They're gone from any lick of story, but we can still summon them and pretend they didn't leave. Uh-huh. Not to mention all of the other bricked companions. Lack of romance content. Not even a cheap, resource-less letter that I could write in five minutes while sitting on the toilet. Other things I didn't like - Imperial players being told they are so unimportant as to have a droid for a contact Lack of romance content Lack of actual interactive dialogue Both Saboteur and Loyalist have the same exact quests...they're just spun to be "sabotage" instead of "gud" Lack of any explanation as to the fate of Iokath and captured droid factories, i.e. the status of the Alliance
  5. I wonder how will it play out for saboteurs...will they lose both groups of companions eventually, once the true loyalty is unveiled? This still leads me to another specific companion loss - romance. I know the devs said that faction choice alone won't cause a romance to end, but now we're seeing that it's a two-pronged choice. For example...Theron originally would romance (and marry) and Imperial character...but will he eventually leave an Imperial character who -doesn't- choose to sabotage the Empire (thereby choosing the Republic side)?
  6. Sorry, not going to completely derail the OP's thread and get drawn into a Jedi vs Sith, Republic vs Empire debate. The lines are not so clean-cut. They're both bad, and not so very different in the end. The only difference is that the Empire doesn't try to hide its corruption, xenophobia, and outright acts of genocide. But, you'll believe what you want and there's no changing it. And I'll believe what I want, and there's no changing it. So there's really no point in arguing about it. Happy Holidays.
  7. That's fine...we don't have to debate it. I get what Lucas said (and I knew you were going to say that, haha). But BioWare and other EU has kind of blurred the lines a bit...canon or not. I do want to point out, though, that I don't think of Sith as needing to be "saved". It's one of the reasons I never enjoyed playing (or rooting for) the Jedi. I also don't think of Sith as inherently bad or evil either, despite what any gospel tells me to do...I just think of them as people of all shapes and varieties...raised differently, products of their own origins. There's good ones and there's bad ones (even when from the outside looking in, they're all bad because reasons). As you said, they aren't all nutty death machines looking to burn the galaxy to the ground and rule over the ashes. And with the whole Dark Side corruption = drugs = always wins in the end...you see plenty of Sith who are able to function with a sense of practicality...even honor. We've already talked about Scourge and Cytharat. But there's Marr. Acina. Lana. Dooku. Hell, even Thanaton...even tho he wants to kill the Sith Inquisitor. Both Marr and Acina are so forward-thinking as to want to move away from the infighting and back-stabbing for power in order to push the Empire into the future. Marr especially puts the good of the Empire before his own personal gain. Not sure where you were going with this...you pretty much listed every male companion, lol. I know it's personal opinion, but it sounds to me like you just don't like men.
  8. I don't consider Light and Dark as concrete black and white...I think of them more in terms of shades of grey that can vary over time and based on the situation the force user finds themselves in. There's a big difference between Sith like Scourge and Cytharat and even Marr...when compared to Sith like Mekhis and Karrid and the Dread Masters (who are just...wow...nutters). My Sith Inquisitor is still a Darth Nox (she earned the title before the ridiculous alignment toggle system was introduced), but she makes plenty of "Light" choices. She also makes "Dark" choices, all depending on the situation she is in. She's not afraid to dial it up to 11 if she has to (such as dumping Makeb at the end despite trying to save the planet - stupid Hutts forced her hand). So, though she is a Darth Nox, I would consider her to be more grey than anything. A Dark Side practitioner doesn't always have to be fully immersed in the Dark Side all the time (which could be why some Sith look a bit healthier than others). But, that's just my take on it...which is why I enjoyed FE/ET so much...because it kind of moved away from the black/white thing. In the end, I think we're in agreement...it's just a different choice of wording (I could have just said "practical" instead of "grey"). Not all Sith are crazy whackadoos that are up on the rooftops cackling at people as they throw severed heads into the street.
  9. I think the OP was spoofing at a song, but "good" could also mean "interesting" and "engaging" rather than "positively aligned". Personally, I would love a force user who is more grey on the scale of things. Like Scourge or Cytharat or Praven. I do agree that a lot of the in-game romances are cringey, but there are a couple I think that are underrated. Andronikos would probably be the most notable one, but I always mention him because he's my favorite, lol. (He seems to work well with a SI of any alignment). And yeah, I hate that they all end in mawwiage. Like, there's no way to turn them down without that sad puppy face...as if they wouldn't already know your thoughts on mawwiage and avoid that cluster if it was an actual relationship (speaking from experience..."hubs" of 13 years knows I have no interest in having a ring on it...well, I wouldn't mind the ring part, bling bling! haha).
  10. In regards to the Smuggler, I actually really enjoyed Darmas. In fact, I ship my Smuggler with him even through the end. Too bad they saddle us with Corso. But that's just me and my personal preferences. As a hetero female, I found Darmas' suave confidence intriguing (and my Smuggler was all giggity over it). Corso, on the other hand, was tiring. Very tiring. Like every time we so much as talked to another male he would get all bent out of shape tiring. So that became my thing for that playthrough. Trot Corso out just to torture him every chance I got. And I actually really enjoyed the female Smuggler's personality and reactions to the world around her. The big problem here is that a single story can never please everybody. Because we all have different tastes and like different things. It's made even more difficult for a MMO, where a single-player game might be able to tailor romantic escapades to the person, or at least try to. That being said, I will forever be salty that we have no male force users to romance, short of Arcann, which I don't even count because he can be so very dead for a lot of people. I do ship Scourge with my female Knight in my head, and for me, it's pretty obvious there's something there in-between the lines, but it would be nice to actually have a romance for a male force user written into the game.
  11. The thing is, though, where does it stop? Just add up how much a monthly sub costs...then in a year...then over the course of several years. I've been paying for a subscription since the days when you still had to pay $60 for the app on top. Not to mention anything that may have been spent on Cartel Coins. What am I paying for? I barely touch the game and they're still getting my money...giving me practically nothing. The only reason I continue to pay is because I'm attached to the story that I'm writing for myself. If they want me to pay for additional content, then that subscription better darned well be worth it first...and it's not. (I just realized that I'm an idiot...I think my $15/mo would get more use if I just took out the cash and lit it on fire.)
  12. RoTHC originally wasn't free to anybody. I remember paying I think $10 for it, and I've always subbed.
  13. Totally true...sadly. They've put all their eggs in the Anthem basket...a game that has almost zero (literally zero for many) appeal for the core BioWare fan-base. (CDPR with CyberPunk is the only game that holds any hope in meeting my needs for story, role play, and character development in any semi-near future release. It used to be BioWare...so sad.)
  14. I've made more money taking all gathering professions and selling mats on the GTN. I've made the most money selling stuff from crates, though sadly, that profit margin has dropped off significantly with the advent of the new "everything" crate system.
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