Community News

Welcome to this week’s Community Round-Up! Each week, we scour the forums, fan sites, and reddit, finding some of the most interesting discussions in the community as well as player-created events happening on certain servers in The Old Republic™.

If you have nominations for next week’s Round-Up, please post them in this thread.

Let’s begin!

Server Events

Begeren Colony

• Ranked PvP: “MONDAYS: Grim Determination, Ascension Strikes Back, and Infamous are queueing (competitive) ranked Monday, March 18, 7:30PM PST. Contact Melyn (Republic, ASB), Denikus/Xerec (Republic, Infamous), or Approxy (Imperial, GD) for questions about what happens those nights. FRIDAYS: Black Sun Rising and Grim Determination (B team) are queuing ranked at 8PM PST. Contact Urdnought (BSR) or Rylorn/Approxy (GD) for what happens those nights. This night, coined "Idk yet" by Urdnought is a great opportunity for new teams to get in the ranked scene.”
• sALTurday!: “"Salturday" is a weekly event designed to get as many people from Begeren Colony hanging out, leveling together, having fun, and leveling their characters at the same time. The idea is that this will start small and, as we catch up in level to more and more people's alts, eventually grow large by the later planets. Hopefully, Salturdays will eventually include world bosses. In the meantime, however, we will attempt to complete weekly flashpoints and heroics, giving time in each section for members to complete their class quests as well.”
• The Tournament of Champions: “I'm proud to announce that ASB and BSR will be hosting the Tournament of Champions April 6th (Saturday) at 6 pacific standard time.”

Jedi Covenant

• +10 Republic Fleet datacron: A few guilds will be doing datacron runs this week.

Prophecy of the Five

• Weekly 3v3 Tournies?! GO!: “I'm going to start holding a 3v3 WEEKLY! YES EVERY WEEK! When you ask?! WEDNESDAYS! And they will start at 9pm EST! The first Tourny Will start 27/03/13! So you have a week!”
• Ranked PvP: 2 Weeks of Mayhem: “RWZ Invitation to all PoT5 Peeps: So, we all know 2.0 is around the corner, and with that comes plenty of leveling and less RWZ's for a bit. I'd like to get as many teams as possible going this Friday/Saturday night (and next week/weekend) for some last Level 50 action. I'm very close to rounding out a team/guild for myself, but for those who are in Guilds who have enough, I want to encourage you guys to get in on this.”

The Ebon Hawk

• Wednesday Night Datacron Expedition & World Boss Hunt [Imperial]: “The Third Season of the Former "Tuesday Night Datacron Expedition & World Boss Hunt" will now be on Wednesdays (had to change due to RL conflict) starting on Wednesday Jan 23rd, 2013. We will be starting out on Hutta/Korriban and working our way up through the planets getting all the datacrons and hunting the world bosses as possible (and other elite mobs and pretty much everything that gets in our way). We end the season with a run for the +10 to all stats datacrons.”

The Harbinger

• Outlaw's Den 3 vs. 3 Tournament Sunday April 7: “You must post here with your teammates name to enter. It took too long to set up the brackets last time, so anyone that doesn't post here will not be able to show up and fight. Entry closes 1 hour prior to the start of the tournament (6 PM).”
• <Solo's Cholos> +10 Datacron on Saturday, April 6th: “<Solo's Cholos> guild will be doing a free +10 Datacron this Saturday at 9PM server time.”

The Shadowlands

• +10 Datacrons and Founders Week Fun hosted by <Covenant of the Phoenix> April 1st-8th: “Founders Week is nearly upon us! Once again, we will partake in a week-long celebration of CotP, our members, our ideals and, of course, those special people who were there at the beginning to build the foundation which has kept us strong over these many years.”

SWTOR Subreddit

• My Favorite NPC/Companion Quotes: Some hilarious quotes from The Old Republic companions.

Forum Round-Up

RotHC Pre-Release 24 Hour Broadcast w/Taun Fawn Giveaways & More: Mindsting will be holding a 24 hour broadcast of The Old Republic on Rise of the Hutt Cartel Pre-Release day. Not only will they be streaming new content as soon as it goes live, but they will also be handing out tauntaun fawn codes. Be sure to check it out!

Developer Update: Legacy Achievements: We posted an update on the upcoming Legacy Achievement system coming to The Old Republic in Game Update 2.0. Senior Designer, William Wallace, answered a few of your questions in this thread.

Display Name Only Log In Now Live: Our new Display Name only change went live this week.

Whats your companion Dream Team?: A fun thread where you can assemble your favorite companion team based on their combat roles.

If you could make one of your alts a companion, who would you pick?: If you could make one of your alts into a custom companion, which would you choose and why?

Thank you for all of the fun and interesting discussions this week! There are many other great conversations happening in the forums that are not on this list so be sure to look around. Please don’t forget to nominate your favorite threads and events for next week’s Round-Up by posting here!