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  1. I just want my male characters to be able to wear something with short sleeves. Is that too much to ask? Once the helmet goes on, nobody can even tell what race you are anymore.
  2. My Trooper wants an XO who can be dependable, and nothing is more dependable than what is the rigid, tested, proven policy. My Trooper wants an XO who can follow orders as well as give them, knowing how to lead their squad in combat, but also knowing how to follow directives from higher up the chain of command, instead of questioning judgements and 'doing his own thing' whenever he doesn't agree with a decision. My Trooper wants an XO who is capable enough to perform their own duties to the letter, but humble enough to realize that they do not have all the skills or information nessesary to make decisions above their ranking. My Trooper's XO should never, ever disobey an order from his Commanding Officer. For all these reasons, my Trooper decided to promote Forex. However, when Forex was not presented as an option, my Trooper went with Dorne, because Jorgen is pretty much the exact opposite of what a good officer needs to be. He's a good soldier, but my Trooper didn't want to make decisions with the lives of his Squad based upon pity, and 'he got screwed' never changed the fact that Jorgen has always lacked the discipline to be good leadership material.
  3. That, I can clarify. You see, it's not a matter of 'it's never going to be in", but rather a matter of "not worth waiting for". We pay a subscription. The bill ticks off every month, whether they add the features we want or not. When we make the decision of how we spend our money, we look at what is in the game, what they state they intend to add, and the timetable it will take to get those additions we're interested in, and we compare the amount of enjoyment we will get to the amount of money we will spend. Somebody who has been waiting for Same Gender Relations, for example, might be willing to hold out for the original announcement of 'this year' because they purchased a 6 month subscription, and the next billing cycle of this 6 months should be guarunteed to contain what they wanted. When we are then told that we will have to wait until 'next year' for new story content, and developers refuse to comment on whether that includes the postponement includes Same Gender Relations, we no longer know if we are looking at the original 'this year', or this new timetable of 'next year'. And if it is 'next year', there is a big difference betwen 'early first quarter' and 'just in time for Christmas'. In short, some customers who have been patiently waiting for what was advertised may not want to pay 18 months more of subscription fees while they wait. Not when they have the option to cancel and come back later when the game offers them everything that they wanted. This of it like subscribing to Satalite Television. If you buy the Ultra Sports Package because they advertise "All Sports Channels", only to discover afterwards that they do not have 'The Golf Channel", you may not be phased at all because you had no intentions of watching Golf. But if you are an avid Golfer who is more passionate about Golf than any other sport, perhaps the large amounts of Football, Baseball, and Basketball still leave you feeling unfulfilled. If your Satalite Company promises you 'Golf Channel will be added soon", that can appease you for a while. But when your subscription runs out and you've been paying for whatever period of time for something you never recieved, and then they tell you there are additional delays with 'some channels' and won't specify if your channel is one of the delayed, nor any clue how long these additional delays will take, perhaps you might not want to pay for another year of channels you don't watch just as a show of good faith to the people who have already let you down. Just because they swear it's coming someday does not mean you want to keep paying them money for the privilege of waiting during all the weeks and months and years in between now and 'someday'.
  4. Cybertech here. Those Armor mods eat up like 7 commendations a pop. That's a whole ton when I've got to update 5 slots on me and then another 5 on my companion. With Cybertech, you make your Armoring, you make your Mod, you spend your commendations on Orange gear and Enhancements. Plus ear-peices. Having a good ear peice at every level is also pretty pimp.
  5. In my experience, Bowdaar seems more of an AOE Tank, while Corso seems more of a Single Target Tank. Bowdaar runs into the middle of everything and gets aggro on it all, then has the whole big pack beating away at him. Corso gets aggro on whatever he attacks, but his ranged attacks result in enemies that spread out at all (meaning most of them) only pulling aggro of 1 or 2 onto Corso, so you'll take a few of the attacks as well. With Corso the damage gets spread around a bit more, so he doesn't die so fast. With Bowdaar, he is going down hot and heavy, so you best be the Scoundrel prepared to heal him. In a nutshell, I found Bowdaar died far more frequently than Corso. But I died with Corso still alive far more frequently than I ever did with Bowdaar. Once I finally got Risha, I rarely gave Wookie or Hillbilly the time of day again.
  6. Judging by the models used in game, Gamorreans should be Humanoid and not Extreme Humanoid. They simply use the Body Type 4 bodies (which I don't think are fat enough, but they do it anyways), and then have a replacement and immutable head (like Rodians, Mon Calimari, etc) where it does not render facial expressions as Near-Humans. Gear actually renders better for a Gamorrean than it would a Mon Cal, because Gamorreans can use the existing glove graphics and Mon Cal gets the big-hands feature. The Extreme Humanoid catagory is for Ewok, Wookies, Jawas, etc. Races that would require the gear graphics to be completely redesigned for their race because they have abnormal bodies, instead of just replacement heads. Gamorreans can wear the exact same gear graphics as PCs, so they would fit into that Humanoid catagory of being graphically doable. Still got the language barrier, but the physical rendering will not pose any problems.
  7. P: Melee Tank C: Healer P: Ranged Tank C: Healer P: Melee DPS C; Healer P: Ranged DPS C: Healer P: Healer C: Ranged DPS That's how I've seen the most success at least.
  8. You will get Guss, your Healing Companion, last. Basically you will have to level up past 40 with your own heals being your only source of Healing. As a Gunslinger, the whole DPS-race was a lot less friendly and more obnoxious in certain fights. Especially bad is the first 30+ levels until you get Rishaa, because you're initially running with the options of Tank or Tank. Blech. With the Agent on Imperial Side, you get a DPS companion as #2 and your Healer as #3, so I think some people who only played the Agent as the Smuggler's counterpart might underestimate how painful it is to go without heals for 85% of the leveling curve. Gunslinger is fun in the end, but there are a handful of fights that are just downright painful. Though the Gunslinger does have increased customizeability over the Scoundrel given that both his main hand and off hand weapons can be customed, and with the Scoundrel I've yet to find the custom Scattergun for the offhand. As a Scoundrel however, from the beginning you will find that there is nothing you cannot do. There is plenty you have to do sloooow, but nothing is ever impossible. And then, after the leveling experience when you finally reach the endgame, hey, you're a healer so there's no shortage of groups available. If you get bored easily, play a Gunslinger. If you get frustrated easily, play a Scoundrel.
  9. I follow and thoroughly recommend to everyone the stance of: pick whatever you feel like and to heck with the consequences. You can push your light-side / dark-side later through Diplomacy or Flashpoints, but you only get these mission conversations once. Same thing with companion affection; why play the story in a manner you find less entertaining when one or two gifts will more than make up for ticking them off? That being said, my Smuggler drifts consistantly towards the middle, with about 3/5 of my decisions being light side. There are a number of times when, if you want to do what 'feels morally right' you're going to eat a dark side hit, like clear back on Ord Mantell with the brainwashed kid. Seriously.. Brainwashed Kid: Thanks for rescuing my from the Separatist Brainwashing Camp. I'm so ashamed of what I did when I was being controlled. I just wish you would give me a pile of your own money so that I can run away, leave the planet, refuse to face any of my problems, and then you can lie to my poor parents and tell them that I'm dead. LightSide Smuggler: (gives kid money and encourages him to never take responsability for anything) DarkSide Smuggler: (tells kid that his family loves him regardless and just wants to have him back) Brainwashed Kid runs away from his problems, or defies you and prefers to remain a brainwashed slave rather than return to his grieving family. Returning to parents, the destrought mother asks what has become of her son. LightSide Smuggler: (lies and tells an emotional woman that her only son is dead, crushing her hopes and dreams of being reunited with her family to cover for a punk kid). DarkSide Smuggler: (tells her the truth: that her son was brainwashed, did some things he wasn't proud of while they were entirely out of his control, and is now ashamed to come home). Probably 1 out of 5 missions plays out this way, where the Light Side and Dark Side choices just seem completely reversed. I play my Smuggler like a Space Cop, taking my Deputy commission from Meil to heart as my new job being some sort of Galactic Sheriff. If somebody needs help, I help 'em. If somebody has bad news, I don't lie to spare their feelings. If somebody's a scumbag, they surrender or get shot in the face. And I end up with about a 60/40 split between the way my Lightside/Darkside pans out.
  10. I ended up doing it by splitting them, luring the Sith away from the Scoundrel so she was out of heal range. Be very careful not to allow the Jedi to aggro onto the Scoundrel. That basically wrecks any chance you have to keeping the guy stunned.
  11. I refused to participate in the initial round of free Server Transfers in order to preserve my name in tact. Unlike many players, server population does not matter one whit to me as I chiefly am engaged by the splendid Bioware Storytelling and play primarily solo or with a single friend. I would have played this game (preferred it even) if it had been a single player game of Knights of the Old Republic III. I am definately more interested in maintaining my character concept I have imagined, rather than being swarmed with other players trying to mimic the WoW experience (which I did not enjoy or I would have stayed there). I chose to stay on the dead server in order to keep my name. Now I am being told I will be forceably evicted and moved to the destination server against my will. The way it was previously presented, those of us who made the choice to move would be treated as the second class citizens. There is no longer a choice. There is no longer a transfer, because there will no longer be two possible servers at the close of it. This is what is known as a Merger, and in a Server Merger, two servers and combined into a single server. Mine may be the inferior population server, but not no mistakes, I'm not leaving my server to go to another; my server is entirely combining with a second. Every other company I have seen run Server Mergers has handled naming collision in a much more appropriate manner than Bioware did with their initial Optional Transfers, and I would like to point out that those of us who were given the option to stay behind and keep our names are now losing that option. When SOE did Mergers with Everquest, and also with DC Universe Online, naming collision was resolved based upon Active Subscriptions being first priority. Somebody's new Free-to-15 Trial Character should not hijack my name when I am forceably ripped from my home. Neither should somebody who cancelled 5 months ago and has not returned. The customer you do have at this moment is more valuable than the customer that you could maybe have in the future. Do not gamble the subscriptions of the players who have stuck with you based on the value of 'maybe that other guy will come back later'. Reward loyalty. For cases of two active subscribers placed in naming collision, any Character Investment way of deciding will be deemed fair. Highest level? Highest gear score? Most played time? Earliest Creation Date? I will begrudgingly surrender my name to anyone who exceeds me in any of those catagories; they would be justifyably as attached to their character as I am to mine. If I lose my name to an inactive account, or to somebody's level 1 GTN mule, or their Freebie Trial character, when I was denied my option to stay behind chained to my tree and hold onto my separate server, I am quitting. It's not an issue of name, but customer service. I appreciate that you're trying to help, but when you close our servers, don't further punish us because we weren't the lucky 'destination' you drew out of the hat. If 2 or more servers are becoming 1, then it's a merger and it needs to be treatest as such.
  12. Why does your design team remain so insistant that a male character cannot have short sleeves, lower collar, or basically show any form of skin other than their face? Do you realize how hot it is on Tattooine to be wearing that many layers?
  13. I shot down Hillbilly Corso because my Smuggler is holding out for the day when she will no longer be forbidden from expressing her feelings for her true love, Guss.
  14. With the delay for new character missions, will Same-Gender Relationships also be pushed back into next year? If so, can they be made retroactively compatable as we will now have another large length of time to fill and it is unlikely we will be able to continue postponing entire Class Stories so they can be run after this feature is added. Also, any chance of adding additional Romance choices for other companions we may have grown fond of? If I can see past Bowdaar or Gus's exterior and care about the person inside, I'm sure my Smuggler can do the same.
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