So, they've said they're working on a blog post on the leveling changes for next week. I wonder if that means we'll get any news on whether or not they'll be adding SGR to the 1-50 leveling experience.

Oh, dude, do not get me started on the lack of SGR prior to level 50. Even the stuff on Makeb is weak sauce. My female smuggler did get her heart broken by Lana, because I keep hoping, since they are revising the class stories anyway, to streamline leveling, we'll get SGR's during 1-50, but I'm pretty sure I'm just fooling myself.

Darn it. I was really hoping they tweaked the flirts to fit the class. They worked really well for my smuggler. My Knight... Yeah, not gonna flirt with a Sith, so I wasn't sure.

I'm doing Rise of the Hutt Carter on my Trooper, and I'm a bit annoyed that the flirts are identical to the ones on my smuggler. Is this the case for the flirts with Lana in Shadow of Revan as well?

Actually, the presence of fully built orbital stations over a "recently discovered" planet, as well as fully built orbital stations over hostile planets is explained in the Smuggler story line. The "stations" are actually capable of making hyperspace jumps. That being the case, they're probably mass produced at some ship yard somewhere, and the Empire and the Republic buy them by the gross, and just deploy them as needed.

Once you keep flirting despite being told to stop, it's harassment. And my Jedi has told him to stop several times. The annoying thing about this game is, the male characters I'd actually be inclined to do a romance storyline with are not romance options. Gault, for example. Or Theran if Holiday didn't end up getting hurt, and it was more than a one night stand. Heck, on my agent, I liked Lokin far, far better than Vector. And Talos would have been a more interesting choice than Andronikus any day.

Agreed. I will admit that considering how much I hate Tanno Vic and Aric Jorgon, I'm pretty sure I'd rather recruit a loaf of bread and a can of spinach to fill their slots on the team, but damn, Jaxo was fantastic. Tanno reminds me of Skadge. Hell, I'd rather had Fuse back that Tanno. Doc... Don't even get me started on Doc. He's a sexual harassment lawsuit waiting to happen. So many good characters we could have had as companions.

There are 40 companions. Of that 40, 11 are female. 3 are droids. So, that means that there are 26 males to 11 females. If we're generous and include HK-51 and Treek, those numbers change to 4 droids, 26 males, 12 females. The numbers are definitely skewed. Even if we remove the really exotic aliens like Khem Val, Yuum, Bowdaar, Qyzen Fess, Xalex, Treek and Broonmark, that still leaves 20 males and 11 females. Nearly 2 to 1. The ratio is kinda pathetic. It didn't have to be this way, either. I'd much rather have had Ava Jaxo than Tano Vic on my trooper, and Tala-Reh is a thousand times more compelling than Fideltin Rusk (or Doc for that matter) as a companion for the Jedi Knight. I don't know anyone who plays a BH who actually likes Skadge, so replacing him with a female character, preferably another Madalorian would have been easy, and probably a popular choice. Xalex arrives in the Inquisitor Story line so late he could be easily replaced by a female character introduced at the end of act one. As for the Consular, Zenith would actually have been a more interesting character as a female. There. That would bring the numbers a lot closer. 16 females, 16 near human males. 3 droids, 5 really alien aliens. Plus Treek and HK.

Oh, I'd love this.

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Except Jorgan is not nearly as good a candidate for the job as Elara. Jorgan is conceited, petty, and lets his emotions cloud his judgement. It's clear from the get go that he resents you on Ord Mantell, and he has no problem letting you know it. He spends most of his companion conversations telling you you're too incompetent/unqualified to lead Havoc squad. No way in hell I'm going to make someone like that my second in command. In fact, if I had the option, I would have pulled Garza aside and had him removed from Havoc Squad the moment we hit Coruscant. He is a huge liability.

Yeah, you're missing some context. First, the Trooper starts as a Sergeant, which is already a leadership position. Second, the Trooper was being assigned to Havoc squad, which means they'd already been deemed worthy of being among the "best of the best". The only real problem I have with that is the promotion from Sergeant to Lieutenant without a side trip to OCS, but then, it's possible that the Republic doesn't separate its officers from it's NCO's and it's just a single progression, so *shrug*. As for Jorgan, I honestly don't think him getting busted was entirely unjustified. Jorgan's an ***, from the moment you meet him. He does nothing but belittle you and treat you like dirt, and it's entirely possible that an officer who was less pre-occupied with patting himself on the back and resenting you for the assignment he so obviously thought he deserved would have actually noticed that something fishy was up with Havoc squad. First time I played the Trooper story way back in Beta, even with no spoilers, I knew something was fishy with the Squad well before they defected. Jorgan dropped the ball, and my major issue with his story is that he was assigned to Havoc, because if I'd had any say it it, he'd be scrubbing latrines on Ord Mantell until he retired. I bench him the moment I get Elara, and never use him again except for his companion quests. Actually, it does. Havoc doesn't just defect. They take a large part of the spec forces community with them. There are hundreds of defectors. Maybe more. The former Havoc squad members are acting as Captains or Lieutenant Colonels, running short battalions of defectors. This is actually realistic. You have really talented people, you don't leave them on a tiny little team, you promote them, and break them up so they can share their expertise and train others up to their level. That's one of the reasons shows like Star Trek or Babylon 5 are so unrealistic. Kirk would never have been able to hold on to Spock or Sulu for five years. Spock would have had his own ship after a year or two, and Sulu would have had a slot as someone's XO in the same time, then his own ship. Even holding on to Chekov would have been an issue. Scotty, Uhura and Bones are a different story, because their tech specialists (though engineering it technically a line officer, so Scotty could probably have had his own ship if he wanted it). Same with Sheridan on Babylon 5. Ivanova should have had her own ship by the end of season 2. Don't even get me started on Riker and TNG. After the second time he refused his own command, they would have washed Riker out of Star Fleet.

Don't. Most fun I've had all day.

I'm not stopping until my Shepard has her little blue babies!!! Um... wait, wrong forum.

My friend's gonna get you!