Hi, Shiften here (another Contraband officer). This is borne out of having some awesome GSF and achievement focused folks in our progression raiding crew who would love more people to partake in those activities with them. To succeed in conquests, you need people, and lots of them, period. We have no intention on dictating anyone's playstyle outside of that group of folks within the guild that loves and excels at progression raiding. where we have set windows of raid time, and the expectation that is "if you're on, you're on to raid". If you want to craft, fly solo, fly with a team, or just grind achievements, you're more than welcome to do so with whatever time you spend in the guild as a member of the GSF or conquest teams. We have no expectations of you or anyone joining the guild for these teams other than: - maturity - a good attitude - have fun.

http://contraband-inc.com/ 7/7 dead HM 8 man and HM 16M SNV 1/5 dead Nightmare TFB 8 man. We raid (usually 16M) Tues-Wed 8pm -11pm CST + Thursday on most weeks of progression.

We are now 7/7 8M HM Scum and Villiany 5/7 16M HM Scum and Villiany With 2 more raids nights this week, we're hoping to lock up those final two bosses. Find one of us in game. A good, team oriented attitude and willingness to learn are more important than your gear!

bump. first official night of raiding tonight! time to beat up SNV

So why can't we RE Black Market implants? I bought one last night w/ elite comms and it showed no research available. Are the dropped versions REable but the vendored not? I understand not being able to RE underworld stuff, but this the the tier below.

bump - a - lump Come wreck some tfb 1 last time before it gets retuned to a 55 Op!

Again, the original intent is irrelevant. An armor set is released via the cartel market, whether packs or direct purchase, and it looks how it looks. People bought packs with real money hoping to get that item or bought the item off the GTN. It is unacceptable to retroactively change how it looks. If you thought it would look better another way, then that's a suggestion for a future cartel item.

Just to clarify, it's the TOP, not the skirt, that has been changed on males. Thanks for the response Nathan.

It's not a dress. It's a "dress set". I'm from texas (where bioware is from) and putting on your "dress shirt or dress clothes" doesn't mean putting on a dress, it means putting on a nice shirt - getting "dressed up". This is ornamented like a nice or formal top. This SS posted above http://i.imgur.com/3lfu3wC.jpg demonstrates what it looked like with pants pre-patch. A sleek white / gold ornamented set that colormatched well with lots of pants sets. Now it's a weird hybrid dress / chaps thing with a butt flap like you see on female slave costumes.

I'd love to know the magic method to get Eric's attention. This is on reddit and here and in game as a ticket. If you know the number for the batphone, please share.

That... didn't happen

Correct.

Those things that hang down over my legs? Those didn't exist before today.

Thanks

It wasn't "broken" because it looked different from the female piece. There are plenty of looks that appear different on male and female characters. It previewed and appeared this very specific way. I bought it based on the look of it and there was no indication anywhere that it should be something different. Yeah, it clips super horribly. That part was broken, but that shouldn't be my issue because that weird crap hanging off shouldn't exist.

Seriously guys? I'm assuming in response to this thread: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=611741 The mens Genteel dress top was changed to match the women's genteel dress top in having significant hanging ornamentation to it. In the attached screenshot, I am wearing pants, because the white/gold jumpsuit look is what I was going for. Then these half lower robe things got added. If i wanted a lower robe, I would wear the lower robe from the set. I do not. http://i.imgur.com/QzrpYxd.jpg Ignoring that the ornamentation has incredible clipping problems and physics problems (especially sitting down), you went 2 weeks without listing this as a known issue, plenty of people bought these on the GTN and matched outfits to them, and then you changed them completely. We went over this with the spymaster and other sets. You cannot simply change the appearance of an existing cartel armor when people have gone out of their way to acquire it. Please give me back the old look. I didn't buy an entire outfit to match this top (including crystal) to have the look changed.

Contraband, Inc is now 4/5 HM 16 man TFB after a beautiful kephess kill last night.

I ask this with the utmost respect, I really just am hoping for some clarity not trying to start an argument. Why does your sexual identity factor into how you play the game? Are you afraid that you'll share something from your personal life with your guildmates in another guild and they will ridicule you? The community here is great, and I would think any guild of mature adults is going to treat you like any other member - why is it imperative that you seek out a guild of people who share a minority sexual identity?

Then i'm going to encourage them to not close tickets with no response, and to make security keys possible to deal with through tickets.

As a biochem, you can PVP enough in 1 hour to afford a war hero implant, which you can RE and get about 1.5 molecular stabilizers on average, or 250k-300k on the market on my server. So yeah, the thought that 1,500 credits is appropriate for a 5 minute mission (or 30k an hour) is pretty epic math.

They have claimed to be working on character transfers for 9 months now. It is now going to be in the second half of 2013 based on that letter. Theoretically, yes, they're probably coming at some point, but the issue is priority. The list of things they've been "working on" since the guild summit is LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG. That doesn't mean we should stop asking. The squeaky wheel and all - why do you think he had to address SGRs?

Legacy / Shared bank. From neither a story / practical perspective does it make sense that I can't pass on my old armor to my descendents / family.

Paid character transfers, which were first mentioned as an active project 9 months ago, are now slated for "later in the year". I ... wow. Simply stunning Jeff.

I'm going to spend them on the next 5 logical items that they add above what currently exists in the my healing tree, because as a sage PVE healer, there's near universal consensus on the correct way to spec, with other abilities doing little to nothing to our ability to heal more effectively..

Serious: Ops or warzones depending on your playstyle? Sarcastic: The ability to hold tens of millions of credits that are essentially worthless to a fully geared 50?