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Lana: Don't look now, but—
Theron: What?
Lana: Our player just walked away from the computer again.
Theron: Bio, maybe. He has been hitting the coffee something fierce.
Lana: [rolls eyes] There his character goes with those new idles again!
Theron: [walks around player toon] I think they're kind of entertaining, actually.
Lana: Oh Please. This new scratching-your-backside idle is just plain bad taste.
Theron: [grins] Remember that time I swapped out his tank gear for his DPS gear while he was AFK?
Lana: [crosses her arms] Yes! He blamed ME for letting him die.
Theron: Well he did have you on heals instead of Yuun.
Lana: Don't go there.
Theron: Just saying—
Lana: Don't go there.
Theron: Oo. He's coming back. Look busy!
HIlarious.......
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good grief to some comments,
Thanks for your updates Jackie. I hope things are getting back to some sense of normalcy for you all.
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That's just it !!
The lingering snow, frigid cold and wind chilled temperatures is just so rare in that part of the country. They do get some snow ( in January .. maybe). But that is usually gone by the next day. What they have now IIRC ... they see maybe once in 10 - 12 years ??? MAYBE ???
As long as they "hunker down" and just stay warm they'll be fine !! The power outages is what is really complicating matters.
Round 2 - Geesh I am so over winter........Someone photoshopped the Night King on horseback near my house and put out on social media.....Sadly, he fits right in.
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My cotton patch is just north of ya !!
Roughly 3 - 6 inches here .. Plus ice. More coming tomorrow ! Brief power outage !! We're doing just fine other wise. Then again ... getting snow here is nothing new !
Sooo yeah .. cut those folks in the Austin area some slack in this matter !! Better for them to just simply be safe !
Stay warm, -3 when I got up at 6:30 this morning. Ugh, I really dislike the cold. I am seeing mixed signals on this next round. I wish they would just get it wrong for once. I just a little while ago was able to turn off the hot spot for internet access. Just in time to lose it again soon.....
And agree, not a normal thing going on now in Texas.
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i know its freezing up there and i understand it good that the maintenance is going to take longer then normal for that i have respect for it.
but what my point is to let then know is that most off the bugs that have been report since the launch off knights of the eternal throne and knights of the fallen empire still not have been fix and that there keep telling we share more info about when there know it.
and my question is to then why are that type bugs in this patch not been fix then also.
it has notting to do with the delay off the maintenance its about the patch note's there going to add today to the game.
why the bugs from the old expensions that have been release since 2019 still after 2 years time notting has been done with it.
thats my question i have for then why there do we see notting about that back in the patch note's.
it has notting to do with the freezing there or so its about the patch note's most people like to have a answer about that question more.
Some Context, Texas relies on wind (25%) and natural gas power. The natural gas facilities are not setup to run in the arctic temps since that so rarely happens. As a result demand is through the roof and capacity is below the need. Thus blackouts are rolling through texas for extended periods of time. My relatives in Houston are on day 2 of no power. Additionally much of texas has 5 to 10 inches of snow on ground and another round today. (tomorrow for me in Arkansas).
Nothing wrong with your questions. Might be a good idea to queue that up for next week when things get back to normal. It really is rough in texas (and Arkansas) right now.
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Do you really think the majority of players would want an outfit to be dyeable that would consume but not dye an armor. You may not have seen it, but I bet others have.
I bet those saying want it open would demand a refund if they lost an expensive dye.
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Agreed !!
Although the pandemic has been a serious matter to contend with ... IMO it has proven to help bring out some of the best of us as a community as well. Unquestionably this has been a strain on the staff of BW as well as those who do the VO acting. I personally do not take lightly their commitment to finding solutions to the situation.
I work for a global FinTech. The remote work option while viable also presents a ton of challenges particularly in areas of the world that have limited infrastructure for residential internet or live is smaller apartments with two working parents along with home school children all trying to continue their lives. Been an interesting and challenging year. There is really no way to prepare for this type of event. But Bioware like all shops are making it work as best they can.
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Agreed !
Granted this pandemic has thrown all of us a curve of sorts... but IMO this does help feel better about the game and those who are a part of it !
Absolutely. The one thing that really stood out to me is how much the actors involved really love Star Wars
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Hey everyone!
Two quick notes for y'all. While we've mentioned this in other threads, I wanted to double back and inform everyone here that we created a new code to receive four classic Korrealis mounts. The new code is CantinaLivestream2020. This new code will expire on Monday, November 30th.
Secondly, everything has now been uploaded to YouTube to view at your leisure! Keith mentioned that if the community really liked this style of a "virtual cantina", we can look into doing these in a post-pandemic world. Whether you liked the general format, meeting someone new from the team, hearing from voice actors etc. Let us know what parts you liked!
thoroughly enjoyed the virtual cantina. Meeting the Voice Actors was incredibly interesting. I would love to see more of this.
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Considering that was a day after maintenance last week since maintenance was on Wednesday last week instead of Tuesday and plus they responded on the 26th if you noticed on the page, but whatever. With everything they have done with that bug, the log on bug and other items they just don't seem to want people to play.
well you can be pretty sure that is not the case. No idea how they handle sprints (1 week, 2 weeks, etc) in my work, unless that completely broke something it would be researched then prioritized into the soonest available sprint. Sorry your having the problem. BTW not suggesting you should be happy with it. Just adding some background.
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Nope, this bug was reported last week.
well, that is highly likely not to make the close of the last sprint. So his point is probably right.
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Roll back....yea, because that would be fast right. No issue with rolling back that play time at all. Goodness. I suggest a better idea. just log in and play.
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So the question for the commmunity and such is this. In order to get the marriage cut-scene BEFORE going into OSSUS on this main character do I have to or can i :
A. Go back to KOTFE and KOTET and replay the entire thing and make all the choices again, then do the Flashpoint Naethema Conspiracy and this time around it will give me the option.
B. Replay a specific chapter that may been the cause root of the issue to fix it, Chapter 9?
C. I'm screwed, and at this point, just move forward to OSSUS and the next Alt Character and do it with that one.
If i can do it on my main character, let me know for certain if i have to spend 20 hours replaying every chapter again I'd like a little confirmation that It will work and i won't cry myself to sleep if it fails a second time.
Thanks.
Regarding A - KOTFE chapter 9 is where the romance is set. You have to pick the flirt option to spend time with Lana in cantina. That allows the conversation option to officially start the romance. There is several lana romance specific scenes or lines after that so you have missed some good scenes.
Regarding B - Unfortunately no. Replay does not change choices made on first playthrough
Regarding C - This is your only choice right now.
Sorry about that. Look on the bright side tho. You actually have a good reason to play the chapters again. I like the Lana romance. It is definately worth the replay. (maybe even with a couple of alts)
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im pointing out the obvious
Sure have. The obvious being you are not clear on the difference between opinion and fact. But carry on with your opinions. I am sure they are always appreciated.
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Yeah let's actually talk about guilds and their objectives a bit. Closer look at 3 different guild types.
- Literal one man guild.
- Really small guild of close friends. Like 5-7 people.
- Large small guilds..and almost everything beyond
This patch was great for a literal one man show vanity guild. Person whose guild is his personal empty dollhouse to decorate is very happy now. It was possible to solo a guild to low yield target in the past. Just that it was a major undertaking and took lots of time. And we clearly don't like any of that in these parts. Now, its much easier and perfectly attainable within a week. With some extremely modest amount of gameplay, too. Doing the fleet janitor-- tier of this new conquest alone takes you like halfway there. For 4 mins of work/day. Heh. However, I guess you could say it still takes some work. It is a pursuit and an objective to chase.. so it feels rewarding for the one person doing his one person thing. At least for now.
However, everything that one man show can do in a week turned, as a pursuit, utterly irrelevant for the guild that is 5 riends doing their thing. They do in a day what took a week from the one man guild. Which is fine for these 5 people - they can now do mid yield ..or even high yield, if they're a bit hardcore and just love running planetary daily missions every single day. Patch is great for this 5 friends guild, too. They likely have new goals now, too. They're busy with medium (or even high) yield. It makes an actual pursuit for them and feels rewarding to reach. At least for now. Good for them.
Here is where it is starting to fall apart though. Howbout that 30 or 50 person guild though? Or that 500 person guild? For so many of these guilds, reaching high yield target was the "victory" each week. Up until previous patch, thousands of people belonged in guilds where high yield target made an actual pursuit. Guilds where reaching it was neither easy enough to be irrelevant nor hard enough to be "too hard" or hopeless. For people in these guilds, ensuring guild made it to target was rewarding, annoying, fun, exciting, stressing, interesting. For thousdands of people, it was a THING. For all these people, this pursuit got erased. It got turened into nothing. Guilds that made something like 7-10 mil conquest pre-patch can reach high yield target in a 24-36 hours now.
So..more attainable goals for the one man vanity guild. New meaningful pursuits for a super small five close friends-guild. Less meaningful goals to reach for a 50 person guild. Or 200 person guild. Ah well, at least there is fight for winning them planets, huh? Yah no.
There are very few large guilds on each server who fight for winning planets consistently. Or inconsistently. After last big merges, there are too few planets available and quite a few very well ran conq guilds. Since mostly, you only have 3 planets, something like 6-7 actual huge conq guilds is " too many". As a result, there are loads of large guilds on each server to whom reaching high yield was the " victory". To all of these guilds,to thousands of people,reaching high yield is no longer a relevant pursuit. It is nothing now.
Gaining levels is very important for every guild who is pre-64. In this new wonderful system, every living guild dings levels super fast. a large small guild (lets say 12-15 regulars) makes something like 10 levels a week now. Guild level is turning from a long term goal into something you can soft-cap in a month or something.(Soft cap=reach 64, nothing left to unlock) A small large guild also reaches the xp cap weekly. Ie, this small guild makes as much xp/week as largest and busiest conq farmer guilds in the world.
Besides low,mid and high yield targets turning into a joke, the long term goal of leveling the guild got turned into a short term goal. It was great when game&game mechanics gave growing/living guilds some long term goals.
Depending on which character you use, doing the menial garbage- tier objectives (gifting, crafting, deco,sell trash etc) bring like 35-45k conquest in 4-5 mins. Play 5 mins every day and do nothing but this stuff. That's 50% what a GUILD needs to reach low yield target that week.
I assume since you finish your conquest qoals so fast you have time to type the same thing over and over slightly re-worded. Glad you enjoy that. You need to add a 4th bullet. Big plus for the few Forum doomsayer that tells everyone else how bad they are. (like menial tasks, current targets are a joke, etc)
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Is my playstyle welcome to amounts of conquest your playstyle earns? Or do you feel getting sick, fast conq is exclusively the privilege of you and your playstyle now? That's what this has been all about for pages now. Copy/pasting something I wrote in another thread.
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I tested things today for a bit.
Figured I'd see exactly how long it takes to go from 0 to 50k conq by planetary missions and nothing else.(well, I went from 2k to 56+k)
150% Conq.
lvl 75 Tank specced Jugg in tanking gear. 306 gear, no augments.Haven't bothered with amps.
lvl 50 companion.
So char has decent gear and max lvl companion.. But is far removed from being the optimal pick for this. Tank in tank gear.
Skipped all of the menial stuff. ( I did no crafting, gifting companion, selling garbage etc. )
-All- I did was planetary heroics. Daily 10k from doing a heroic objective dinged. No other major supplementary objectives. No kill 25/50 stuff, no pinnacle of power, no nothing. Just the stuff I get from doing the first mission on planet X.
It Took 10 mins and 6 seconds to go from 2k conq to 56k this way. Lots of mistakes in the way. I know which are the fast heroics, but I don't know which are optimal for this. I picked one in DK. - Didn't remember mobs there give no xp. If I had skipped DK, it would have been much faster... And I would have been done in 4 planets, not 5. So basically, my 10 mins 6 seconds is far from some great perfect time attack run. What i'm saying is, you can do it much faster. Easy to execute such run far better than I did.
Somebody doing a Warzone or a GSF match isn't even done with his match in 10 mins. That match is likely to give him 1500 conq. Thats four digits. 1.5k. Somebody doing FPs to reach conq target isn't even halfway done with his run in 10 mins
Also, did this!
https://i.imgur.com/LdfXdF5.png
From character creation screen to lvl 10 to fleet to conq target. You don't earn any conq til lvl 10. Total time played on the character, 31 minutes. None of this is some super optimized min maxing. Didn't even use DvsL gear. I don't know any super creative ways to speed lvl, Just did class story til 10 and went to get my conq target.
Some things (planetary missions and selling garbage etc) give conq just a tiny bit too quickly and easily now. At least if you compare to everything else. So maybe everything else gives WAY too litttle instead. This thing needs quite a bit of tuning still.
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Play how you want. What I earn or do not earn in conquest points is not your concern. Same applied before the changes as well.
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Hahah. Now -here- is some brutal honesty that def stands repeating!
Doing soloable few min lasting heroics alone or doing soloable few min lasting heroics in a grp. That's your idea of "diverse, level fun playing field for those who wanna reach conq target fast?"
It rings true tho, these are mostly the options available for people who like to earn conq fast. I mean, if you wanna settle for something less, I guess you can go do an FP too.
Do the menial daily busywork with selling garbage, companion gifts etc. Then its off to do some more of them riveting planetary missions"!! I'd take biiiiiiiiiit of a roundabout past buzzword like " diverse" or " varied" here if I were you tho.
Imagine how varied things would turn if you could add GSF, PvP, etc to that list of " stuff I can do to get conq fast"Here is some more brutal honesty. You are welcome to your playstyle. Stop trying to dictate others playstyle. Your judgement of anyone's game tastes is irrelevant and unwanted.
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I got 8 toons through the conquest goal last week. Loved it. Bioware, good job with this. Awesome changes.
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Probably, however it is easy to avoid as indicated. I only had it happen one time. I logged out to another character and then back in and it advanced the quest. Otherwise, just make sure you go far enough into the camp before all mobs are killed.
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Nice comments, enjoyed reading. Been here the entire 8 myself.....lot of good memories.
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I dont know why you playing swtor then if you like the movie.
Well that is definitely an opinion. Not sure why you think that. but hey whatever. big universe.
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Are you also going to give us back our CXP items? How about giving us back our Command Tokens. We should at least have been provided the opportunity to spend them before you willy nilly took them away. There was no mention of them being taken away. No Email to "spend them before the 22nd of October" - No notification at all. Great Job guys. You know how you are trying to improve communications? Massive Failure Eric.
well, actually there was. Numerous posts about it including a post by Eric https://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=9772619#edit9772619
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Compensation? For a whole hour or two out of a months sub? How will you manage to spend that whole quarter?
Ha, more like 2 cents, 4 if it is 2 hours. And that is assuming highest price sub.
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just as a reminder if you close the distance somewhere around 15m then jump to target they will still heal you. The bug happens when jumping from further out than that, at least from my experience. Not ideal, but is a work around.
Imagine how varied things would turn if you could add GSF, PvP, etc to that list of " stuff I can do to get conq fast"
Spirit of vengeance solo mode
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Posted · Edited by VarKoE
quickly aggro the mobs that enter the room then run engage a sniper, kill it, and the next one, then the mobs. If you need your defensive cooldowns use em. save your best attacks for the first sniper so it goes down pretty fast. Don't go all out on boss between the mob drops. That is how I did it. Good luck.