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What to buy: Not Alienware.
Don't get me wrong, they aren't crap, but they are just shiny Dell computers with gaming video cards and bloated prices.
Where to shop: Not Best Buy.
Oh, Best Buy has some decent systems for sale, but I wouldn't actually shop there. Of all the electronics stores I've been at, Best Buy's sales staff are the most likely to outright lie to a customer about PC capabilities. Examples include telling a customer that they would need a quad core CPU to browse the internet and that gold connectors on a parallel cable (anyone remember those?) would allow them to print faster.
So, semi-reasonable biases aside: What you want to look for is some simple specs rather than brand names or stores (as I don't trust many of either).
CPU: You want a recent CPU, with a clock speed of 3GHz or so. Intel will be better than AMD (sorry AMD fans), but more expensive.
Memory: 8GB of RAM. You can get by with 4GB, but a system being sold with 4GB tends to indicate a "budget" system, and unless you plan on doing extra upgrades to it, that's not going to be your best bet for maximum detail.
Video Card: You want a modern gaming card. This is where it gets tricky:
Things that don't tell you how powerful a card is: The model number. The PCIe revision number. The amount of Video memory it has. The brand name. The coolness of the graphics on the box.
For this game, I'd suggest a card with at least 1GB of video memory. Having more isn't necessarily going to mean that a card is better. You'll want the card to be a PCIe 2.0, 2.1 or 3.0 card. PCIe 1.0 isn't horrible, but its old and you want to avoid old cards. PCIe 3.0 is new and tells you that its a new card, but there are a lot of new cards that are very weak. Beyond that, you want a card designed for gaming, not playing DVDs and not just Flash games.
In general, for video cards, you can identify gaming cards by the second number in the model number. For nVidia cards, gaming cards normally use 6, 7, and 8 (rarely 9). For AMD, gaming cards usually use 7, 8, and 9. That indicator number is more important than the first number (the generation number). For example: A GTX 580 is a gaming card. A GT-720 is a desktop card for playing DVDs and flash games. Even though 720 is a higher number, the 580 is the better card. The same holds for AMD cards: The 6850 is a gaming card. The 7570 isn't nearly as good, despite having a higher number.
Beyond that, it doesn't matter so much. Some people will say that you need an SSD. You don't. SSDs just improve planet load times, not framerates or detail settings. They are nice, but non-essential. You'll need a network card (wired or wireless) but there are no special requirements, there.
Expect that this will not be cheap. Laptops that meet these standards cost about $1400 ($1850 if its Alienware). Desktops will be more like $1200 or maybe $1000 if you're lucky and buy a system that is a year old. Maybe with sales or other discounts (and some luck) you can find something cheaper. Self-built systems can go for as low as $800.
I would add to this a Good power supply Unit, if you build your own PC 550 watts really at the lowest, the higher end gps need alot more power then a cheap 300 wat psu can deliver. too
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Base stats are based on your class, the only difference between each race is a social ability. so there is no one race that is better for a class then any other.
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my only experience with playing as preferred was on the test server, but a few question.
the gear you have that is purple you have had equipped before you when preferred yes?
if this is so what it is is that it doesn't unequip your gear when you go preferred but anything you unequip wont be able to re equip if you do not have the artifact unlock. or that was how it worked on the test server when they where first working on the CM
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Because the Term Developers when used in the context of Game design is really a bunch of different people with a bunch of different skill sets,
The guys in charge of making new art for armors, weapons, etc are not the same guys in charge of say PVP or combat teams that work on class balance.
Making new armor of the CM can easily be a lot less time consuming then make a free flight space game,
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before you order a 200 or more card upgrade, check your power supply and motherboard,
all three of those cards you linked are 500 Watts min to run and Does your mother board run PCI 2.0 or 3.0 you can use the cards in 2.0 slots but you may not get up to their full bench marks.
That and also because I knew a guy once that did this if you have a pre built system, that there is room for the card , A lot of mini towers you just can't fit a 9 to 10 inch card into them,
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how is this fair if ever few months i have to cancel my sub
they need to make it so it go from the day sub started to the day before on the next month
No, It is a 30 day, 60 day or 90 day sub, not one month , two month, three month, They are billing you as per their Sub every 30 days. It is not Bioware's job to manage your money.
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Do you have any idea the time and money it would take to do this? at least 16 new voice actors, re-do the cutscenes so that voice matches lip movements and they probably have contracts with the current voice actors that would make it a pain in the *** to add more voices.
not to nit pick really but it's not 16 Voice actors, it is 48 voice actors to just add one new voice per combo. 2 per class, 8 base classes, 3 languages ( English, French, German )
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OP could you give an in game example of something you think would need to be voted on, that would matter ?
as far as your early example of left right center, at the start of KP and right before you reach the Dead guard in TFB there really is no choice about which direction to go, and neither on of those really matter if you go up a left or a right side. Operations are very much go point A to Point B to point C
Add to that they time spent typing up the vote could just as easily be typed in OP channel or asked on Vent , Mumble, TS etc..
as a raider and as a raid leader, I am not going to request votes on ever little thing during a raid, and If I ask for input about a strategy quicker and easier to let them type or voice their opinions of those with knowledge and I will listen and take their input, If I am not leading the raid, I am just going to follow the raid leaders orders as long as they are a strategy that can work, if we fail then I may offer up input on what when wrong.
I just don't see a need to spend time making a tool, that to use would take as long if not longer to ask people in an ops and really can easily count out 16 vote to see what won if I was to ask, and as for a break down on the vote honestly I would not care about that,
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It doesn't support PayPal? Seriously? I pay my monthly subscription and my Cartel Coin purchases via PayPal, yet this won't accept it? What the hell, guys?
I am getting the same request, I have purchased Cartel coins before, and now to enable ingame purchases of coins I have to buy more coins first.
Is this intended or is this a bug ? if it is intended then this is really bad on your part Bioware.
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same as above Barrels now and have been for awhile are listed as Ranged/melee Mainhand OH
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I can see a reason not to allow F2Per the ability to make bug report, because a few out there would use it to try and flood the bug report team with fake reports, wasting time and effort tracking these faked reports down would only slow down the repair real bugs in game.
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But there is not a lock out on them where you can't join them in flashpoints, or questing. except for Operations,
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launch the Client Patch, lick the cog button on the lower left side of the client log in and run the repair
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One thing you can do to help this is to create a secondary guild with same name add a 2 or something after it for allot of you guild members alts, then create a custom chat channel that everyone can log on too from either guild to replace the normal guild speak channel and that will double you current guild size with just a little work.
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I would try running the repair tool from the launcher
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Agreed,
I would add to not only a show only your buffs/debuffs, but an option to consolidate long duration buffs into a single icon on the buff bar. and Buff to be arranged by their starting duration, to make it easier to track proc buffs when they are not jumping around as to where they show up on a players buff bar
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144 VA you forgot that there are English, French and German Voice actors
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You're making points from a developer's standpoint not as a player and players are the only thing that really matter. Without players they have nothing its that simple and if they do it correctly it would be be 100 times more profit than loss. voice acting costs are the biggest part of the cost the rest is just paying the developers to do the work because they already have the software to make everything i'm trying to explain and then some i'm not asking for anything new just new quests and quest lines the would make this game truly feel like star wars not like wow with lightsabers.
I got to disagree you have to also look at it from a Developer view, Say they do a quick CC coin faction change that just resets your whole class story and changes you to the mirrored class, if only 1 player out of 10,000 use it because at that point you may as well reroll a new toon it is a complete waste of development resources. Then you have to look at every stage of a more involved Faction change system and it's added cost has to be justified by the amount of players that will make use of it.
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While yes faction switching could make for a cool class story it honestly is not something we will see anytime soon. For Bioware to do it you would have to do a huge amount of work that may have very little people even use it.
Class stories: How do you handle these, They are all ready written and coded, so unless you go back and rewrite them to have key point in them you where you can change factions, the only other ways to handle it is limit faction change to post class story, or reset your class story to start too the mirror classed,
Voice Over: Big expense to have all 48 class voice actors record all the VO work for their mirrored class, or when you faction change you suddenly sound different. plus with class stories the fact that no one once ever comments that your a former Sith now Jedi/ Fallen Jedi now Sith etc ?
Companions: More then half of your Companions would not defect to the other side so how do you handle them with a faction swap or is this another fact you just ignore? if you do the Class story reset then Companions are tied into your class story you would have redo the new class story to regain all you companions back grind their affection back up, Even Hk-51 is tagged as either republic or Empire when you get him from the way the unlock works.
Those are just a few things they have to answer when thinking of a faction swap, and while yes it is doable, but is the time and resources needed from the developers working on it worth it, are enough players going to use it to justify the cost. Personally I see it as a waste of Development time and resources that could go to any number of other projects that a large percentage of players are wishing for.
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Or atlease give us a cheaper costing pack that houses NO grade 6 crafting mats, NO random exp booster, no Companion gifts, and Yes NO NO NO single use Jawagrams ( if you going to make those things rare they should have been at least a stack of 10
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love to see some cheaper pack with less of the worthless packs one use Jawagram as a rare is just pissing me off, grade 6 craftng modes are worth more vendored have the time then to post of the GTN and level 55 and EXP boosters are worth a slot either.
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Unlikely to ever happen just because of the work involved story wise yes they could write up a quest chain to do it, but you have all the issues with non force based classes changes in Main hand off hands, voice actors actors. companions, etc.. if changing your toon from male to female isn't doable for tech reasons do you really think Bioware is going to do all the work to do faction change, with out being able to see a profit from it.
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And please let us exit zoom mode by right clicking one extra time when maxed zoomed out.
this yes please
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F2P and even preffered players can't really post an answer to this question so best to ask on your server frind a F2P player and make a channel ask him to join to test it .
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