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  1. The three MMOs you can bet on being here in a couple of years are STO, WoW and SWToR. Why you ask? A simple reason, a backstory with cult-like following. Many newer players of WoW seem to forget the legacy that WoW was built upon. Sure, it was the first mainstream MMO breakthrough, but there were and have been others that technically were up there. WoW was created during the end of the gamer 'age', if you can call it that, where gaming was not as mainstream as today. Which one of us that comes from that time doesn't remember the Warcraft games? That's what WoW was built upon and it could count on the loyal followers of the franchise to back an MMO. I'm not sure if WoW brought out today, with somewhat up-to-date standards in terms of gaming and graphics, would enjoy the same success. Us old-timers still know the franchise, and I would be tempted to try it just for that. Warcraft (other than obviously WoW itself) isn't mainstream enough these days to guarantee that by itself, if you ask me. Star Trek doesn't even need explaining, I'm not playing it right now but I have a lifetime subscription. Why? It'll be there in a few years and I will deffo pick it up at some point, and the moment I shoot some phasers or whatever, I'll have a smile on my face. Star Wars could be considered the biggest cult-following of all imo. So AoC, Rift, Aion, Eve-Online, Guild Wars and even Warhammer, these don't have that support structure of decades old fanboys/girls. Some survive through F2P, others through niche markets (Eve-o being brutal, GW with its great PVP base and skill diversity system). Sure, I'd like to see more content *now* from BW, anyone in their sane mind would. People will get bored with it too, people got bored with WoW in droves. A lot of them came back, a lot of you quitting now will come back to this later on. Star Wars isn't going away, and nor is this MMO.
  2. Only Eve-Online from what I know has had a suspicion culture going that far amongst the 'guilds' (corporations and alliances). In PL we'd screen applicants in a multitude of ways, going from a interview to full API key exposures. API keys and the character names of all personas on that account are run through a DB of all known spies and other persona non grata. If we find evidence ANY of the characters are owned by someone with multiple accounts then this is probed, and more checks are run if needed. We also actively monitored IP addresses used by members and applicants wherever we had access to this info (mumble, irc services, website). These are again cross-checked against known offending IPs. The PL website and forums have a type of unicode watermarking built in which means any leaked information can be traced back to the account in question (including screenshots as the unicode watermark leaves a very minute visual marker). Passwords were monitored in a similar way. If a member would use a password that an unwanted person had used in the past that would be flagged up and investigated. Yes sirs, internet spaceships is, and always has been, serious bzns. Edit: so what I'm saying is, you might have accidentally joined PL in SWTOR, if they made a guild xD If so, o/ guys
  3. I thought it was a bit funny. Whilst working here I found that the Bonetrasher fight works by making players randomly cast the Taunt skill on Bonetrasher. Cheeky and clever by the devs, I like it That's all. Edit: Actually, 'Taunt' is also a base event it seems. So the Taunt skill is a wrapper around the taunt base event which I assume is simply a max-threat+1 on the threat table. Still interesting. It's basically the same thing, but they're not really forcing a skill fire, just triggering the same underlying mechanism. Good thinking ahead.
  4. Really? How old are you, and I'm not trying to patronising here :/ How does this matter at all? So there's only 4 encounters, I'd rather have 4 good ones than 12 bad ones. Honestly, if you get truly upset about these things you need to sort some stuff out. It's not healthy to get upset about these trivial matters. Enjoy the game or enjoy something else.
  5. I hope you're not just talking nonsense and are actually submitting bugs. The rest of your additions to the thread have no point? Such as comparing the design and creation of a closed system network controller to that of an MMO application, which is ludicrous and nonsensical. The point still being, if you encounter a bug report it in the proper way and that's it. There's better ways to voice frustration than making blanket generalisations. If you are a network engineer or a circuit designer, I would expect a shred more maturity.
  6. Assuming you're talking from an RP-perspective with killing, the same-faction BGs are training excercises. I.e. imagine they're using a far more advanced version of paintball/laser tag. Relevance in this matter is purely subjective, if you feel you're not killing your pixels in a sufficiently appreciable way I'm sorry for that *hands tissue*
  7. Instead of complaining about 'lazy devs' please put a post with *specific* bug details and, if possible, reproduction steps in the appropriate forum section. You can also use the /bug feature in-game to directly report a bug. Your tears alone will never fix anything, tears are sadly not valid input for a developer.
  8. I run a Teamspeak 3 server on my 512mb Linode with no effort. You can get TS only hosts for cheaper and even less set up, but my linode offers me a lot more than just TS. Bandwidth for that kind of user size is negligible. You could probably run it from a home machine, though I find that annoying with up-times in most cases. If you decide to run it off your own machine or a linode, there are freely available installers or bash scripts for the servers that automate 95% of the setup. As for non-TS, Ventrillo has worked well in the past, so has Mumble. I wouldn't recommend any beyond those personally, as I've always used those 3.
  9. It looks like that, for the near future, that +41 crystals are the top ones, barring potentially very rare crystals. There's no proof of crystals above that range. The rarity will be mainly for the white colour as 1.2 will NOT have any white colours available through other means. Whilst the means for getting white crystals is coming at a later point it's already been noted that it will, most likely, not a trivial case. So get a white because of the colour, it should stay competitive in the short-medium term. Long term I expect higher value crystals, but the ability to gain new white would come too. Crafting colour crystals could change to a 'colour component' + 'value component' so you can have white + 41 or white + 57 with the colour components being extremely rare for white. *shrug* should suggest that!
  10. Let me tell you a story! Once upon a time... I bought a piece of forum software. After some time I requested that the developers add a troll reporting button. After sufficient threadnoughts and flaming on the developer forums the request was actually accepted and implemented. BUT OH MY GOD, the developers did not apply this new feature to all older versions?!!?!?!!?!!1111111111111..... ! Thus started the threadnought wars on the developer forums about the injustice of not applying this fabulous new feature to all older versions. Sure they'd be outdated, sure everyone would upgrade soon anyway, but what about MY ATTACHMENT to these bygone relics?!?! Oh sure, they OBVIOUSLY tried to palm it off by pointing out that refactoring all the old stuff would take a lot of effort due to the fact that the mechanism was in a different place... YADDA YADDA YADDA. I don't care about techspeak!?! Who cares if they would need to waste a lot of resources for a minor benefit? I WANT MY CAKE AND I WANT IT NOW!!!!!1111 I still don't have a troll report button in my older versions, and I got banned from their forums. ps: Grow seh **** up.
  11. Pre 1.2: - T1.1 Tionese available from NM/HM FP content and normal operations - T1.2 Columi available from HM FP content and normal/HM operations - T1.3 Rakata available from HM and Nightmare mode operations 1.2 - T2.1 Campaign gear available from dailies (might as well by equal to FP) and normal/HM new operation - T2.2 not yet available, and nor is nightmare mode on the new operation So you're complaining the 'new Columi' is available in exactly the same way the old Columi is available right now? They've already noted that Normal mode becomes 'store mode' now and will not have any influence on what gear you get, it's for the story. HM becomes the new base line to getting base line raiding gear, which you currently can get WITHOUT raiding already. Nightmare mode on the new operation will introduce the next level up and will not be available from solo content just like Rakata isn't. Flashpoints are short enough and small enough to be considered PUGable and thus solo. Of course, some of you already knew this. The main point here is that there are people who feel a need to have gear that is not available to anyone not playing the game the way they are. And to be honest, I wouldn't complain if it WAS that way, but it isn't and I'm not going to complain either. You'll get your carrot, I'm sure you'll survive a while not being able to stand around in fleet with armour noone else has. No matter which side of the argument you are on, elitism in MMOs is fading out. Mainstream is the norm and to be honest, I don't mind it half as much as I used to. Then again, the times when I did mind is when I was younger and did not have the IRL obligations I have now. The old guard of raiders is dying out, raiding every single night used to be hardcore, now 3-4 days a week is the norm. Don't worry, you'll get over it too
  12. Trying to 'argue' with people who think a services provider (which BW is in this case) is not listening to it's client base (which is the anathema of any services provider) is like trying to argue with a religious zealot who will deny all science whilst reading on his iPad. You haven't clarified what they didn't listen to, or why you feel they didn't. Constructive feedback is the only way you'll ever get listened to, rightfully so. Arguments such as 'releasing combat logging and a few operation is stupid' is well... stupid?! The two features aren't necessarily linked, and from a code perspective I doubt they are entwined in any shape or form. We all lack sufficient information to decide what is good or bad in terms of packaging into a release, from a technical viewpoint. So discussions on those topics are nonsensical. Is it so hard to put your specific arguments forward in a constructive manner? The only thing this thread established so far is that you're unhappy about 'something'. Not much to listen to there. It's not how you do business in the real world son.
  13. Are you telling me everything currently out there is manually entered? :/
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