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KivanSane

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  1. I watched a twitch stream that demonstrated level synching , and seeing all the outrage on the forums, I thought I'd mention a few things. 1...the guy's level 60 was level synched down to a level 18 on Drommond Kass (max level 15 planet) 2...He kept all his level 60 abilities, the damage was just scaled down. 3...He pretty much kicked butt, soloing an Area 2 (there are no area-4's any more) "friends of old" with just his companion. 4...He got level 60 xp , not sure about credits, and level 60 lock boxes with level 60 equipment . 5...He could play with other low level char's and not just run through and slaughter everything, religating them to mere spectators. They woud get to fight too . So , you guys are complaining about nothing. YOu can still solo ,you can play with friends , you get level 60 loot, it's all good no bad.
  2. It is NOT the last chance to finish any class story. The button to press to start KotFE is actually part of a quest, and you can go to the quest window and remove the dot in the radio control so it doesn't show. Plus if you do accidently click on it you can still cancel out , it doesn't start immediately. Quit panicking people.
  3. 1... you're not losing 100 purple recipies. You're losing 100 green recipies. Because they'll all be upgraded to blue. Even then the greens will be archived, but since you'll have a better blue you wont bother with them. 2.. every piece of crafted equipment is adaptive .... is just plain weird. My consular is going to be running around in storm trooper equipment ? Ew.... 3... What is it with the phrase "closed minded / open minded " and the inevitable "Open wide I'm about to dump a truck load of garbage down there. " ?
  4. PVE space combat is dead. You should basically move the art work of the player ships into the star fighter game and dump the pve game. Then you only have one space game to deal with. Adding some pve scenarios to the star fighter game would obviously be the next step, and eventually moving guild capital ships inot the star fighter game as well , perhaps one guild shiop vs many star fighters ?
  5. the Cartel Coins model seems to be a copy of the Turbine Points system in DDO (Dungeons and Dragons Online) whereby you could play the game for free , but you could buy stuff in the Turbine shop for points. And subscribers got a monthly stipend of points to spend. Champions Online uses a similar system , letting you buy access to more content , player housing , etc with coins. The only major glitch might be if you downgrade from a subscription to a free account, you might lose player slots (free accounts typically only have 2 playable slots - City of Hero's and DDO being the big examples , so all others are disabled) and you might be locked out of content you didn't buy with coins (in fact , you might not even be allowed to buy that content with coins while having a subscription , since technically you already have access to it) The exact details and loop holes , we will have to wait and see. Oh ... Lots of players dis f2p (dis = disrespect) as something dying games do. But since DDO went F2P it earns 7 x as much as before , and other games earn 3x as much ... so that is a debate unto itself.
  6. I am certain most people will try it , if the price is reasonable. How long they stay is entirely in the hands of the game. D3 , for example, was an unmitigated disaster for me. I barely put in 3 hours play time before tossing it aside as boring and uninteresting.
  7. Sub guys get ripped . Basically , you have access to the new content *UNTIL* you shift to free to play , then you lose it all. Penalty for stopping coughing up bucks. They might even refuse to let you buy access to the optional content because you already have access to it, thus you blow the cartel coins on other stuff, run into a rough patch , desubscribe ...and are suddenly locked out of a lot of things, things you weren't allowed to unlock while you were a paying customer. The only way around this is to go Free to Play immediately , and with self dicipline limit yourself to 15$ / month to unlock stuff, and then it never goes away.
  8. I suppose the biggest problem is .... When I'm 50, and my charactar is pimped out and I can do the highest tier pve stuff (and I hate pvp) ... Why would I continue to buy stuff from this game ? Lets face it. Finish up the story , and you got a stripped down game of "gather equipment" , and there's nothing special about the equipment except better and better stats. Nothing to really catch the imagination. This F2P better be selling us new content, new story and lots of it , because right now thats the only thing they shine at. And if they blow it ... nothing else they have does much more than imitate what other games have. And sometimes poorly imitate.
  9. They have said... paying customers get a monthly stipend of cartel coins (or whatever the point system is) f2p customers have to buy cartel coins. And everything is for sale in the store that takes cartel coins. so no , you don't have to "buy" HK extra , you can use your monthly alotment of cartel coins to get him.
  10. I have D3. I never play it. Just ... bleh ... I don't know what they did...but bleh .
  11. Since f2p models make between 3 and 7 times the money a subscription game does, you're just throwing mud. With numbers like that , f2p is inevitable for everyone , even wow. And I don't mind paying 30$ one month and then nothing the next yah know ? Sometimes I'm broke and I gotta seriously wonder about cutting back for a little bit.
  12. Don't actually know. But my bet would be you would suddenly magically get 4 more charactar slots (assuming you got 4 incoming chars) , but they would be inactive until you brought down your number of total charactars to the current limit. Which would really suck if you have 12 level 50's on a server with a max of 8 chars. We got robbed on charactar slots. Instead of having 50 slots spread over a number of servers we have 8 or 16 over one or two servers.
  13. Hurray for transfer gifts ! PS: I went and erased all my unwanted charactars on those locked low population servers. Do I still get my free vanity pet ?
  14. I would probably go with f2p model during financial hardships , and then back to pay to play when not. In a system where we all get points (cartel coins ? ) and I can buy stuff permanently either way , shifting back and forth during economic hard times just makes sense for me , and probably for BW as well since they are retaining a customer who may be having a streak of hard luck.
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