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What Gender Specific Content is Offered to a Female PC in the Upcoming Expansion?

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What Gender Specific Content is Offered to a Female PC in the Upcoming Expansion?

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Callaron
07.02.2015 , 02:12 PM | #61
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If think you go down hill at 30... LOL

Look at when famous people's careers rose, it'll enlighten you a bit.
Oh, I didn't mean thirty. Although, if you want to get technical... it is known that our metabolism and other functions take their first hit around the age of thirty. Most top athletes tend to be in their twenties as well, especially in sports that require a lot of running/moving (such as soccer and basketball).

Over here the cut-off age for army pilot training is in the early thirties, and I suspect it's similar for most nations.
And since our characters are all fighters, their prime is also going to be in their twenties.

As for famous people, actors and sculptors and other similar fields hardly count. Nor do academics, since our characters aren't geniuses, they're fighters.
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07.02.2015 , 02:15 PM | #62
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Oh, I didn't mean thirty. Although, if you want to get technical... it is known that our metabolism and other functions take their first hit around the age of thirty. Most top athletes tend to be in their twenties as well, especially in sports that require a lot of running/moving (such as soccer and basketball).

Over here the cut-off age for army pilot training is in the early thirties, and I suspect it's similar for most nations.
And since our characters are all fighters, their prime is also going to be in their twenties.

As for famous people, actors and sculptors and other similar fields hardly count. Nor do academics, since our characters aren't geniuses, they're fighters.
As a military man...

The cut-off is because of training, you train young. You're a young'n when you're in training. Got it?

Jedi age differently. This is a Sci-Fi Fantasy setting and follows what would be contemporary modern life, for a real example Chris Kyle was 30 when he became and entered into being a Navy Seal.

Again, 30 is not down hill. You'd put that more in the late 40s and 50s.

I feel like I'm surrounded by young immature 20 yr olds atm and I'm only 31.

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07.02.2015 , 02:31 PM | #63
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The Smuggler acquired a ship somehow, he/she built a small career before the story. This is probably the strongest story line to have someone much older than the rest of the story lines. Same with the IA, Quinn is 37 for a reason in his career.
Smuggler is certainly shifted towards the end of the spectrum, probably together with Hunter, but the rest is usually stated to be rookies, which means closer to the lower border of the interval.

Also, if you take into account the age of LI characters, it seems pretty much to be inteneded that our characters are "young", as they were presumably still "kids" when Sacking of Coruscant happened, given that they do not have much of recollection of the events from that time

And I do really remember I read it mentioned somewhere by BW, but probably on old forums, which are now dead and gone. Or maybe Twitter of one of the writers (could be worth tweeting one of them about it if you are really interested in knowing)
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07.02.2015 , 02:39 PM | #64
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Smuggler is certainly shifted towards the end of the spectrum, probably together with Hunter, but the rest is usually stated to be rookies, which means closer to the lower border of the interval.

Also, if you take into account the age of LI characters, it seems pretty much to be inteneded that our characters are "young", as they were presumably still "kids" when Sacking of Coruscant happened, given that they do not have much of recollection of the events from that time

And I do really remember I read it mentioned somewhere by BW, but probably on old forums, which are now dead and gone. Or maybe Twitter of one of the writers (could be worth tweeting one of them about it if you are really interested in knowing)
Oh I agree with you, I just am trying to break the idea that 25-30 is somehow "old". That's not old but I do admit when I was a young 20 something I considered it old. I would put most characters starting between 18-30, with the Jedi more than likely being younger.

It's also why I brought up Obi-Wan, if Obi-Wan was considered young and not able to be a Jedi at 25 by the council, how old really are the Jedi Characters getting to Tython ? Granted Obi-Wan's era was mostly peaceful.

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07.02.2015 , 03:03 PM | #65
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Oh I agree with you, I just am trying to break the idea that 25-30 is somehow "old". That's not old but I do admit when I was a young 20 something I considered it old. I would put most characters starting between 18-30, with the Jedi more than likely being younger.

It's also why I brought up Obi-Wan, if Obi-Wan was considered young and not able to be a Jedi at 25 by the council, how old really are the Jedi Characters getting to Tython ? Granted Obi-Wan's era was mostly peaceful.
I said it as someone who is over 30 I've ran all the storylines and they all come off as being younger than 30 to me. In TOR time, I get the feeling they put off putting any padawan into danger before they're an adult (likely the same with movie prequels timeline).

This isn't an anime of under 18 teen fighters. While the smuggler may have gotten a ship and started some business, still comes off as being very new to the business. No real rep at all, but I'm more inclined to believe the Smuggler and Bounty Hunter to be on the older side of the classes than the rest. Even Agent seems to be very recently trained allowed to really get a serious mission going.

This is also fiction, so likely that there isn't a big age requirement on achieving higher ranks.
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07.02.2015 , 03:21 PM | #66
Quote: Originally Posted by SithKoriandr View Post
I said it as someone who is over 30 I've ran all the storylines and they all come off as being younger than 30 to me. In TOR time, I get the feeling they put off putting any padawan into danger before they're an adult (likely the same with movie prequels timeline).

This isn't an anime of under 18 teen fighters. While the smuggler may have gotten a ship and started some business, still comes off as being very new to the business. No real rep at all, but I'm more inclined to believe the Smuggler and Bounty Hunter to be on the older side of the classes than the rest. Even Agent seems to be very recently trained allowed to really get a serious mission going.

This is also fiction, so likely that there isn't a big age requirement on achieving higher ranks.
^Pretty much. The bounty hunter and (possibly) the smuggler are on the higher scale of things, but the rest is pretty young. With the bounty hunter you have the added hints that they're older than Mako and Torian (who are in their late teens) by how they refer to them as "kid". Well, if you go with those dialogues anyway.

The smuggler's only hint is that they've had a ship for a while, but how they got it is very much open to interpretation. (They could've even won it in a game of Pazaak, or inherited it from someone.)
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07.02.2015 , 04:05 PM | #67
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It's also why I brought up Obi-Wan, if Obi-Wan was considered young and not able to be a Jedi at 25 by the council, how old really are the Jedi Characters getting to Tython ? Granted Obi-Wan's era was mostly peaceful.
Obi-Wan's era is the era after Ruusan Reformations, which drastically changed how the order functioned.
When Jedis were warriors, often even very young (like 16) Padawans were brought to battle alongside their masters.
After Ruusan, Jedi became advisors, and boring monks like they appear in Phantom Menace (GL took some serious dump on a lot of stuff in that one movie), so it makes sense that they would make full Jedi Knight out of someone that was mature enough.
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07.02.2015 , 06:03 PM | #68
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You're talking about companions, right? Maybe you can point me to a specific place, but I'm pretty sure the game does not establish an age for our characters. And assuming my assertion is true, that means there is no way to say that Quinn is nearly twice as old as a female Warrior (and I am not saying that that was your claim). Now if the Codex says Quinn is 40 and a player wants to say his or her female Warrior is 20-ish, then sure, in that player's "head canon," Quinn is roughly twice as old as the player character.


So there is a place with our characters' ages?

Yep, I was talking about the companions only...but...now this feels awkward, I went to recheck the codex, and I am ready to swear on my own life at one point they had Malavai Quinn listed as being 37 years old. I seem to recall Vette was listed as 19. I re-read the codex and I can't find this again, and I know it was a thing...I'm wondering did they re-do the entries at some point. My hubby remembers the ages too, so it can't be we're both crazy...I checked here, http://www.swtor.com/holonet/companions/malavai-quinn and it's not on here either, so my apologies, in a way I steered you wrong, but not intentionally...I'm utterly baffled. But anyways, player age is up to the player, but I'd always figured mine was around 22, after she was sprung from the academy...certainly not a huge difference...I wouldn't consider it creepy lol.
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07.02.2015 , 06:08 PM | #69
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.certainly not a huge difference...I wouldn't consider it creepy lol.
People get weird about age differences. There were lots of complaints that Casavir was to old for the PC in Neverwinter Nights 2. (If i remember right he was supposed to be in his 40s)

Didnt phase me any, but then again one of my favorite player made romance mods for Baldurs Gate 2 was the Keldorn mod. -shrug- (plus just imagining the indignant look on smarmy Anomens face to be passed over for Keldorn made me giggle)

Also i preferred Bishop to Casavir anyhow ^_~

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07.02.2015 , 06:18 PM | #70
Companions and many NPCs have ages listed in the SWTOR Encyclopedia. Here is Quinn's entry:

http://i.imgur.com/ZjVA0oS.jpg