"Space Plague Forever"

I love that the plague is still being kept alive, it's fun and hurts nothing !

SWTOR is trying to get into the CDC (Center for Disease Control) books like Blizzard did (ZG plague). I expect to see traces of the plague next year if I'm still around.

Actually I thought it would be good to add plague effects as they where in the event to some of the tougher Taris rakghouls but beef up the space port gaurds to restrict people getting to the fleet too easily - and disable the fleet pass while infected too.

Glad to see it's still a going concern though.

Don't work

I proudly infected 3 people last night. Course they didn't appreciate it because it was in the middle of a raid, but whatever

its going to last forever, unless they actually remove it. there's enough variables involved in population density and population behavior (interaction with other players) to suggest the plague will be around for a while. All it takes is one person blowing up to infect multiple people. Case in point: alts, specifically alts that aren't played for long durations of time. I have 3 50's, one of which i really only use for crafting, so i only log on in for 2-3 minutes at a time. Long story short he still has his initial infection from when the event started and hasn't exploded yet. the real kicker is the fact that he only resides by the gtn, usually by the mailbox, so he's a ticking time bomb. Granted i could just cure it but im lazy.

On top of that you throw in pvp to the mix (i've gotten 75 dna samples since the event ended and i only pvp on that character specifically). Additionally you have ops (7-15 people to be infected not counting the carrier), flashpoints (3 people to infect), and just general space station interaction.

just think about overlapping interactions and you get the picture
-all classes use the same elevator point to go to their ship
-mailboxes
-gtn
-pve/pvp vendors
-fleet pass returning people to the same point on the gtn.
-50's congregate on the station, illum, belsavis, and correllia primarily.
-ops/flashpoints
-pvp
-different level players on the same planet (ie going back to a previous planet due to class quest etc)
-people going to dk to buy legacy weapons.

progression (lets assume the infection rate is the same, ie you infect four people at a time)
round 1: 1 person infected
round 2: 4 people infected
round 3: 16 people
round 4: 64

I play on an RP-PvP server; we have contained the plague to "alts", and suspended them until further notice.

Maybe some months / years down the line if things remain stable: might try to make a player-driven outbreak happen.

Don't be a fool, wrap your 'ghoul.

It's great in pvp. An effective weapon. lol

the rate of infection is slowly diminishing. i can't see the plague lasting for that much longer.