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  1. Thanks for offering some insight into the decision to make these changes. As I understand what you've written, the problem is that on your list of dps targets all tanks regardless of gear are overperforming in both PVE and PVP. This is why you will be decreasing damage across the board. To compensate the loss of threat you will increase tanks' threat generation. Then there is the problem of skank tanks equipping dps gear when they shouldn't and thus per your words are 'greatly overperforming' in PVP. I don't see any specific change that addresses tanks equipping the wrong gear or stats and thus overperforming in PVP. I understand that big changes like changes to the overall meta are not done in any .x update but are reserved for a big game update. As such there will not be any changes to how the classes or stats fundamentally perform and for now little more will be done than tweaking the numbers to come to the targets that you had set out for the last big game update. Taking the above into account I do have some questions: - Are you decreasing the dps output of tanks more than would be proportionate to meet your dps targets in order to address skanks overperforming in PVP? - Are the changes to address the tanks equipping dps gear in PVP still coming? As there seems to not be any specific action taken against those, current actions tweak dps numbers for tanks in both PVE and PVP. - Are operation bosses scaled to the targets you have set before the previous large game update or to how classes are currently performing? - Is the above going to lead to you tweaking the operations? (After all the damage is being significantly altered, and tanks have functions in operations beyond holding aggro, sometimes they are required to take on a group of adds by themselves, which may now no longer be possible). Personally, I would ask you to reconsider these changes. They do not make dps gear any less attractive for tanks in PVP, they may make it more attractive as you are decreasing tank dps output while not changing the advantage of defensive stats. Those changes to stats may be reserved for the big game update, but as these coming changes do not deter tanks from equipping dps gear in PVP and greatly affect the damage and roles tanks can play in PVE, I would argue you will be breaking more than fixing. The decrease in dps output of tanks is going to affect PVE in operations, flashpoints and uprisings, story chapters, levelling and others.
  2. My old AMD HD4670 doesn't display any of the problems that the newer cards display. The problem is also definitely in the swtor AA engine, and specifically in the way it handles the UI. Because when overriding these settings the card is perfectly capable of supporting proper AA in the UI elements. But somehow whatever they programmed in Austin is causing problems with the newer cards. They may be relying on old DirectX 7 or 9 APIs that aren't properly handled through the swtor engine. The problem isn't just in flickering bars, when you change your UI elements in the UI editor you'll see that when you move some elements around they seem to be leaving parts of the textures on places where they aren't supposed to be. Random blue blocks and lines, and then those blocks and lines missing from where the rest of the UI elements are located. Overriding the swtor AA engine corrects all these issues. As for the original topic. There are certainly outlandish stories going around in the game, the game's community and the gaming community in general. Yesterday I saw a someone say you cannot play the game on anything less than a GTX 1070. This is complete and utter nonsense. I am running the game on a Ryzen 5 1600 with an AMD rx470 graphics card and I can max out all settings, override AA to Super Sampling, and get good framerates. The CPU isn't even close to half utilisation, the game is written in x86 and cannot use large amounts of memory or multicore CPU functions. You will not see a difference between a midrange quadcore cpu + a midrange videocard and the very high-end cpus and gpus. The game simply cannot use that power, it is limited because of old programming. If you happen to have a few thousand dollars lying around and are really into playing the latest games, knock yourself out, buy whatever you can afford. But especially if you only or primarily play swtor then you do not need to spend that kind of money. Especially right now when graphics cards and ram are so incredibly expensive.
  3. The work around for the flickering and corrupted UI issues for SWTOR on AMD video cards of Rx series is to disable the Anti-Aliasing in swtor and override it in Crimson Settings. You need to manually add the swtor.exe file as it loads the launcher.exe by default in which case your settings won't do anything. So add swtor.exe and then in the AA mode select override application settings. Pick a setting that you're comfortable with, personally I use Super Sampling at 8x on my rx470. There are still drawbacks to this work around, if you play windowed then the cutscenes will have a white glow around the border. Otherwise the game will no longer have UI problems and look better overall as the AA of the swtor engine isn't great to begin with even on highest settings. Also, be sure to turn morphological filtering off, it makes snow textures on Hoth, Ilum and Belsavis at distance look off. BW doesn't seem to be bothered to change this, it's been like this for over a year already. And it's a swtor problem, no other games I play display these problems.
  4. My TRE legacy storage is also missing. File a ticket, message EricMusco. Wait for a fix. And please, if this happened to you, do file a ticket, it's the only way they'll see there's a problem.
  5. Yea I cannot find mine either. I've read several people from TRE lost their legacy bay contents. @EricMusco: I've filed a ticket under items/loot. If you want to look into it this is where you can find my ticket.
  6. Eric, I've now logged into almost all of my toons, and I cannot find my legacy stored items from TRE. There is no red button in any of those inventories. What is going on?
  7. I'm quite disappointed by this really. To the devs: Can you at least announce these price changes in patch notes or in a developer blog? There are expected prices based on item type and rarity. I was expecting a much lower price for the silver items as well, so I sent them to an alt, bound them, so I could unlock on main and save another login, only to be faced by a much higher account unlock than previous items of the same type and rarity. And tbh, I wouldn't have bothered in getting the entire set, and account unlocking it if I'd known before what the price for that would be. I think it's too steep. I feel cheated, I'll get over it, and I've learned my lesson. Won't be doing those unlocks anymore, and won't bother with a full set anymore either. On another note, why can we not see the prices of an unlock until we've unlocked the set? It's really untransparent and can cause very akward surprises. Nobody likes stores that do not have price tags.
  8. Ah, you must've gotten everything you've learned from the PVP Forums then, that explains it.
  9. Cisgender is used as a tool of oppression. Ethnicity is also a social construct. In fact, even Wikipedia calls it: "Ethnicity or ethnic group is a social group of people who identify with each other based on common ancestral, cultural, social, or national experience. (Membership of an ethnic group tends to be associated with shared cultural heritage, ancestry, history, homeland, language (dialect), or ideology, and with symbolic systems such as religion, mythology and ritual, cuisine, dressing style, physical appearance, etc.)" To rephrase: Ethnicity is a social construct with mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion using a framework of criteria determined by those most privileged. Now ethnicity is in itself a laden term. That is because whiteness is an ethnicity, though it does not describe itself as such, instead it labels everything else as "ethnic" with which it excludes everything non-white from whiteness and marginalises it. Ethnicity is more often than not only used as a nicer word than race. Ethnic is used in similar ways as words like tribal, as a means to other and exotify people, it has to many non-white people a negative connotation because white people use words like ethnic to put other people lower on the social scale than them. Whiteness is the standard, it doesn't need a name, it is the normal, everything else is ethnic, different, not the norm, a bit strange, or exotic, or less civilised. It is important to pay attention to Intersectionality. An ethnic group can be both oppressed and or marginalised by another group, and yet use the same mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion to oppress and or marginalise others.
  10. The problem with it is that women have to at all times be men's sexual object. The default in this game is male, therefor a few men may be available to men, men are the default after all, and all women need to be available to men, men need to be pleased. It didn't come to the minds of the men that perhaps women playing the game might also like to romance men, so the male NPC are therefor not bisexual. But since they had to put in SGR flirts, a lesbian was made, but hey! *** why can't men romance the *****, men need to romance the *****, what about men?! So Lesbians don't exist, all girls are bisexual. It's sexism. On every level. Men are the default, everything female needs to please men, female exists for males.
  11. Ehm what? Being the beneficiary of a system is an inherent quality you poses, you have to do nothing to receive it. Are you trying to say that cis-het whiteness is in your DNA? That's very offensive. Whiteness has nothing to do with DNA, race is a social construct and colour is too. In fact in America a lot of people with light skins, are white in Europe, but Hispanic in America and treated accordingly (i.e. with racism, less than other white people). Also in America not even a century ago Irish people, Italian people, Russian people, Polish people, were not considered white people. White people, in the colonies, are traditionally only people from English, Scottish, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Belgian, German and French decent. All other "caucasian" people are people of colour, i.e. not white people. In Europe not every person with a light skin is a white person. Eastern European people, Turkish people, any people from countries before the EU Enlargement are considered non-white people. Whiteness is a system of oppression that has nothing to do with DNA. Cisness is a system of oppression that has nothing to do with gender-identity or DNA. And gender is not in your DNA! Gender is an identity, it is different from sex. And sex is only biological, it is not gender, it has nothing to do with gender-expression or gender-identity and it does not reflect how people feel. You can be male and have a cl*toris, or any other combination, or one may be intersex. It has nothing to with DNA. It has everything to do with society and systems of oppression. As a person of privilege you can decide to be offended by being called out on your privilege, that's a choice, a choice people whom are marginalised do not have. And an FYI to everybody, you are on the internet! It is one of the most liberating and educating advancements ever made. Use it! Google is very easy to navigate to, you may use it daily! It can help you find a wealth of information.
  12. They've been promising SGR(A) stuff since launch, but it hasn't really happened the way most of us would have like to see it, i.e. with companions. There's an NPC flirt with Makeb, a flirt on the Bounty Event and a bisexual flirt with the female quest giver of Czerka. I don't know what the future will hold really, Oricon didn't see any flirts, BW's said there'll be another Makeb sized expansion this year, and we'll have to see what will happen there, there might be one flirt there too. Or maybe not. But I very much doubt there'll be an SGRA companion with it.
  13. Wow cishet white men thinking they are marginalised when their privileged position is being named, nothing new, get over it. (In the week of Piers Morgan gate, this is not surprising especially) Oh and while we're at it. These forums are a discussion place for anything that is cishet white male. Every other topic gets deleted or referred to this thread. But do continue to tell marginalised people that they need to take your privilege into account and give you the privilege you deserve in the single place they can post! They much appreciate it.
  14. Actually, I recently got it on an alt and I had to spend 3 days searching on Tarris. I'd never had this much difficulty with getting these parts before, I already have HK on my other 55s. Changes have been made last year to the HK quest and I think they broke something. And I also agree with the time it takes, it takes about 30 mins per planet, except Tarris which is unfindable on some days, and I think that's a tad bit long.
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