I wish there was fishing..

I have it running in bootcamp on a 17" MBPro, NVidia GT330M w/512MB VRAM. It is quite weak, I have to drop all graphics and textures to the lowest possible levels, and run in 1366x768 on my 1920x1200 panel to get 30fps, and it _still_ dips into the mid-teens at points. It could also be a heat throttling issue, as the fan runs at max at all times and the glass table it's on does warm up a bit. I'm probably going to do a desktop build once the xmas rush is over, see if I can snag some sweet deals.

Who says Life Day isn't an ancient and revered holiday that could very well have been celebrated in TORniverse? And just cuz Wookiees aren't playable doesn't mean they don't exist, have feelings, and have ancient traditions that should be respected..

Will there be any special in-game stuff to celebrate Life Day?

In server-land, the way you do this is to have more than one lightbulb behind a single lens, so you can change them out without interrupting the light coming out of the lens. Perhaps the light dims or flickers a bit for the duration of the change, which is why you do it when as few people as possible are expected to be around. But you can mitigate quite a lot of downtime with proper redundant systems design. Heck, I ain't even asking for things to run in fault-tolerant mode with lockstep and constant reliability polling/voting! Just design a bloody backend that can cleanly and safely handle the occasional config change with a SIGHUP like everyone in the unix world has been able to do for like 30+ years..

In fact, it's worse than invalid, it's bulls**t, because what does one do when confronted by someone else's problems? You _learn from them_ and _don't make those mistakes yourself_! Unless you're an eediot, of course. The longer I wait, the madder I get. I think I'll go get some steamed hams.

Easy: figure out how many simultaneous users a server can handle by having a beta program, then divide 2,000,000 by that number. That's how many servers you launch to handle 2 million users. So, if a server can handle 1000 users, you have 2,000 servers. Bioware knows how many SWTOR installers they presold, so they have a good idea on the # of users they plan to have. Plus, they should have coded things so you can just slap in capacity and have scalability inherent in their server software design. Also, I'm thinking they need to have unlimited free toon transfers (perhaps limited to 1 transfer a day) from high-pop to low-pop servers until s**t calms down. And those transfers need to be doable _from the bloody wait queue_!!

I was going to have fun playing SWTOR tonight.. .. But Hyperspace Cannon took an arrow in the knee. I will suspend my dudgeon until the 20th, but this is really pretty poor and disappointing.

I only get 15fps on average at 1366x768 (or whatever it is) on a GT330M with 512MB VRAM on an i5 laptop, with everything at low settings. SWTOR is not really a laptop-friendly game, but that's to be expected.

Where is the search function for the forums? All the google links are broken, and I can't find a search box anywhere. Incidentally, I couldn't find the 'Title' text entry box either, except that it had 'Title:' written above it and I just clicked in the general vicinity. I'm using Chrome on Mac.