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Malgus indeed died after the events of The False Emperor. They have not yet revealed any proof that he didn't physically perish at the bottom of his fall. He has been resurrected because of the convenient ability of the Dark Side to pervert the living Force and can now apparently provide some equivalent of necromancy with a little bit of sufficiently advanced technology. One may expect that the nature of his present condition and servitude will play a substantial role in whatever future story content Bioware Austin gets to do.
Like bringing back Revan, I find the plot point a little cheap and worry about the direction they'll take it. For the moment, now, one of the good surprises about Ossus is that I could think of far worse ways to revive Malgus than what they ended up writing.
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NPCs will still refer to us as "Darth Commander." Herpes will be cured before we get to shed that title.
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No, make all companions capable of being killed. Waifu abuse is my fetish.
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This isn't quite as complicated in the way it's being made out. Star Wars is a universe with moral objectivity. It "has an opinion" on right and wrong through the context of the Force. The Force in Legends generally cares very little for motive or excuses versus actions and consequences and judges actions on the personal instead of the global scale. Life, harmony, and temperance are affiliated with the Light and death, passion, and impulse with the Dark. Whether or not you personally agree with it, certain actions demonstrably and physically make the Dark Side of the Force stronger. Even if you aren't sensitive to the Force, it flows through and suffuses your being nonetheless and your actions have repercussions throughout it.
You should be prepared that from time to time what you are very convinced based on your real life upbringing, cultural influence, and free agency of thought as "good" will be "bad" to the Force. Considering how often the worst things in Star Wars often start with people utterly convinced they are doing the right thing, it actually gels quite well with the franchise's traditional storytelling. The most dangerous Sith are less often wallowing in depravity than they are operating on an internally consistent system of personal oughts (morals) that are twisted into something alien to most sane people.
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I would like him as Emperor but not at the price of killing off Acina. I'm sick of the Empire losing all of its good Sith characters of political significance.
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I agree with the sentiment that it's intellectually insulting to ask me to buy something 1 credit cheaper than an earlier listed item. Every single credit does not count in such an inflated economy. I don't feel like a frugal long-term planner sagely respecting the value of a credit if it takes 5,000 GTN purchases to "earn back" the cost of an incidental repair bill. I go out of my way to spend the extra seconds of time to find something not undercut by chump change not to punish the seller but for my own sake of refusing that tactic success. Whether or not somebody else wants to snatch it up is their business and no concern to me.
I do, however, undercut as a seller by small amounts because it just plain works. Most people really will buy something that's only discounted by something 3 or 4 orders of magnitude cheaper than the initial price. I also find it worthwhile to try because it can help soften the impact of the GTN cut as I rarely have the patience to hawk my goods in the trade channel. I'm also willing to undercut by more most sellers because I neither have some personal set goal of being a Star Wars billionaire nor do I require profits in the tens of millions of credits to do Master Mode operations.
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He's a mystery box that served its limited purpose and will now be forgotten.
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Those "people" you allude to aren't players - they are the developers at Bioware Austin, who have been starved for resources for several years now. What you ask for, while not completely unreasonable, is simply not feasible with the current and limited capabilities of this studio, who's purse strings are tightly held by EA. Generally the only question in their minds when it comes to development decisions is what will engage the majority of the player base. I'm sorry to say that those who want three factions in the game so that they can stay with the Alliance are in the minority. If you disagree with that, I suggest you take it up with Eric (or Keith if he's still around) directly, as in someone who actually has any kind of influence on those decisions. Arguing about it here with other players who not only don't make those decisions but who also may disagree with your "choices", is pointless.
And if you don't like the direction that Bioware is taking the game, you can do what thousands have done before you and simply find a new game. I hear RIFTS has a three faction system....
This is what I'm prepared for in any case. Even the least resource intensive 3rd faction model would still take time and manpower away from the ideas they've already vetted and decided on for 6.0 onward, and I don't think they have enough wiggle room to take on something like that.
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I basically want the Alliance as a third rail of power phased out from the plot but I'm also hesitant to throw away everything I earned from investing time and effort into it such as reputation with contacts and companions from outside the original quintet.
I will be content for a time to have the Alliance be... in alliance to one of the major factions but I'd prefer, for example, that my Sith Inquisitor main character return to being the Dark Lord Darth Imperius in some capacity rather than Commander Outlander. His Alliance should form his new power base within the Sith Empire which would fit the idea that the everyone who remained in the Alliance did so out of loyalty to their Commander regardless of his Force alignment or political ideology. I would not be dissuaded if this meant I lost some of the companions from KotFEET as part of the continuing story (Aric Jorgan becoming a Sith Lord's personal sniper assassin would essentially transform him into a completely different character almost unrecognizable to how he was established prior).
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I honestly didn't notice regular problems until PvP became the most efficient way for some casuals to farm UC.
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Unfortunately the fan base will continue to promote their head canon above official sources from the de facto and de jure Gods of this IP no matter how many times their provably wrong opinions are corrected. I gave up ever since 2016 or so. It honestly doesn't help that Bioware Austin's writers seem to think that since Disney forked the timeline into their nu-canon and "Legends" that they can write whatever they want so long as they don't push it into self-parody territory and give Sith unicorn mounts.
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Zakuul flouncing on Commander Outlander is one thing I take as a hint that everything to do with KotFEET, including the Alliance, exists on borrowed time. "Please just kindly forget we were even part of the story. We'll be hanging out with the characters from the Ewoks cartoon and the Yuuzhan Vong if you need us."
I don't have much of a problem accepting missions from other faction leaders. For one thing despite being Commander (even after I decided specifically to become an Emperor) I was never shown or given the opportunity to do much in the way of ruling or reigning. One scene looking potent in the preamble to Iokath and a few subsequent military commitments was all. The rest of the time I could have as much been one of my followers as far as the events of an uprising were concerned.
From a roleplay perspective there's not much I can do about it even if I wanted too. Even a Force sensitive player class has not become on Valkorion's living god level of power and barely managed to surpass his children, and not without the aid of some helpful plot items. Even my Dark Lord cannot spread his arms and create a Palpatine scale Force Storm in space to scuttle any Republic or Imperial fleet that opposes his whims. His power base is (again) greatly diminished. If his goal is to claw his way back to the zenith of Galactic power, then it still makes sense for him to work his way into an existing system if only to subvert it from within. He was originally going to challenge the reigning Emperor of the Sith Empire someday if he lived long enough and survived the machinations of other Dark Councilors, so returning to the New Sith Empire under its new leadership doesn't change much except for the faces involved.
And again, even the most ludicrously overpowered Sith in lore need to some extent armies, followers, munitions, and tools. The assets of so-called Eternal Alliance just don't stack up to those of the Republic or Sith Empire anymore and that's factoring in the unprecedented crisis in basic resources putting the screws on everyone.
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Rattataki was an original option as well.
They were original in that they were present at launch but that option was introduced later in the development cycle. They're like inquisitor Sith Purebloods or Chiss bounty hunters in that they were allowed after all of the dialog had been written and recorded without their availability so you see those discrepancies even before the Legacy System was patched in.
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That ship sailed for me when people were rolling Sith Pureblood smugglers and dressing them in Trooper armor.
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They had to make a choice between appeasing the fans who wanted to get back to Red vs. Blue and the fans who wanted to keep defying setting conventions. The resources aren't there to make everyone happy, and trying to do so is going to leave both parties dissatisfied just more mildly so. At most they can drag it out and have the loyalist-saboteur dynamic stall just short of recommitting full bore to one side.
Roll alts forever, craft, and PvP if it's unacceptable to play your characters against type.
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Sadly, I don't think the Alliance is going away. Not just yet anyway. Like it or not, the Alliance was a significant investment of time and effort. A lot of people went through the trouble of recruiting maximum possible alert companions and raising specialist ranks to 20 while hitting all of the Star Fortress and Eternal Championship achievements. I believe we'll at most be allowed to commit our resources in earnest to our home factions but they won't set up a home for us in the pecking order. That might be in the cards for 6.0, but I'm afraid we'll all be Commander Outlander for a few more months yet.
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Khem Val has a gender ?
Khem Val is a distinct gender. Khem's pronouns are Yn and Chabosh.
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Ah yes.. the always popular use pejoratives to try to stop a point of view....
Ah yes... the always popular use emojis to hide one's buttmad and tears
So.. basically.. you just thumb your nose at the law, via online rhetoricOh it's more than mere rhetoric. A modicum of research and some relatively shallow networking has kept me from feeding the beast at the expense of worthy creators for years going now. Research just published by International Federation of the Phonographic Industry approximated that 38% of consumers are still file-sharing music despite streaming options. These aren't just entitled gamer kiddies but even Boomers sick of paying for the same damn song 50 times over and over again while the bands and artists that made the music get pennies or nothing.
because you don't like (or respect) that most countries have strong IP laws that favor the IP owner.I also don't like or respect the political agenda the mainstream entertainment industry is forcing down my throat celebrating degeneracy and lambasting my nation, history, and race. I have principles just not values that involve bending over and spreading my cheeks for Hollywood or Silicon Valley. Perhaps when musicians stop jerking themselves off at concerts playing at Philosopher King I'll be more willing to pay their record labels $12.00 for a $2.00 CD so they can get some bread crumbs of the net to eat.
You are basically condoning theft.Copying is not theft. Again, this is a well refuted lark of a hysterical argument. https://questioncopyright.org/about
Cute. Not very mature... but cute.That what your wife's boyfriend says about your package?
If IP theft was not such a long running and serious issue... there would not be a need for strong laws that favor the IP owner. In the internet era.. this who mess spiraled out of control through piracy of music.... and moved on from there to anything and everything. In some ways, the internet and in particular social media encourage lawlessness of behaviors.IP is a joke and needs serious reform or abolition. Its present state is anti-liberty and a tenuously justifiable restriction on trade. This is not some odd fringe bugbear of internet nerds obsessively tooling over their Linux distros. Minor political parties have rallied around the issue in Europe. Economists and ethicists have published scholarly essays on the subject. Your "maturer than thou" tone is utterly feckless.
If the parties wanting to use IP would consistently sit down and negotiate first and gain consent.. rather then take and then try to feign ignorance later on or try to stir up tribal outbursts from supporters .... there would not need to be laws that strongly favor the IP owner and courts that strongly enforce said laws in court when lititaged.Copyright has warped from making sure a creative can benefit from the brilliance of his mind to making sure Disney never had to compete with off-brand Steamboat Willy merchandise. Corporations exist that profit not from making new and worthy use of the IPs they own but by copyright trolling: Buying the rights just to sit on them and sue violators for a gain. Reptilian lawyers deliberately muddy the waters between IP concepts like copyright and trademark to intimidate non-violators into compliance with their demands. It isn't something that demands the utmost deference of critically thinking people.
I get the very tribal chant of "the establishment is always stomping on what the individual wants to do"... but when it is in the context of supporting someone or some company for their acts of IP misuse... it loses all real credibility.Only with people who don't recognize the absurd state of IP and its enforcement, and we're not interested in the approval of bootlicks.
Most nations operate under formal rule of law... but clearly on the internet echo chamber.... steal early and steal often is the meme of choice.Copying is not theft. Modification is not theft. Again, these are topics explored outside of the internet geek caricature you're relying on.
People that do not like or respect IP law should just move to one of the Asian countries where routine theft of IP is considered normal practice still at this point in time.Or we could demand sane and sensible reform where governments still have some facade of accountability.
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We aren't naive about the law. We're actually quite well informed and as a result aren't accepting the line being fed to us by IP holders and their white knights anymore. Their arguments are known and refutable. The favortism enjoyed by most IP holders has less to do with the letter and intent of the law than it does with the power of legal talent and financial resources of the plaintiffs to enforce their will. Shills need to stop wasting their time.
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Oh and it looks like Best in Slot with the armor set bonuses WILL be obtainable through crafting, so the naysayers from the last couple of of months had a point. It's just that it won't be exclusively through crafting. You will, though, be able to buy BiS off the GTN and converting CC to credits can play a role in that.
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I was more concerned that 5.10 turns us back into an intergalactic lackey in which no-one respects our power and new npcs who will be lording it over us when they should be grovelling at our feet. It's going to be exactly that
Every once in awhile between Makeb and Yavin IV I enjoyed being able to remind NPCs or be acknowledged by them as the Dark Lord of Ancient Knowledge when playing my Sith Inquisitor. Becoming a "Commander" of the Alliance and being referred to as the Emperor maybe twice after seizing the Eternal Throne was always a poor substitute for that. If I'm forced to return to the Sith Empire without a reputation just because the old Dark Council is no more, then it'll gravely wound my interest in story progression.
It was bad enough that the only choices in reuniting with Ashara Zavros are kiss her crayola orange butt or be one-upped by her in a Force duel. I don't want impertinent sass from an alien commando, although I give it would make some sense for Darth Malora to hold a grudge since I had her raked over the coals when we were both acolytes and being councilors would put us on more level ground.
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Back on topic...they did come up with a nice look for Zash in Nathema, but I just can't see her wanting to follow the SI around being how she is.
It would take some creative character development to justify Zash returning and subordinating herself to the Sith Inquisitor of her own free will for an indefinite period. If the Khem Val killed in The Nathema Conspiracy is somehow inhabiting his original body instead of a duplicate, then that would scrap the nearest reason I can imagine: To work with the SI to somehow get out of that Dashade vessel someday.
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Am I the only one here who has absolutely no interest in romances in this game?.
No, they've always been pretty bad. On the level of visual novels made for ***** virgins. One of my favorite things about Chris Avellone's writing when he was part of Obsidian was how he'd make fun of them and other RPG romances. I've had a special distaste for them ever since picking a flirt option ONCE with Kaliyo on my agent way back in 2012 flagged her as his wife for KotFE.
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The "pirate mindset" is infinitely more preferable and sympathetic to the corporate cuck mentality.
Why is Bioware so silent on major gear issues from 5.10?
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