Haha, yeah....it freakin better be photoshopped! I was joking about how BW would pull their "metrics" and state that "everyone loves the new wz, just look at how often they are playing it!" Maybe it was James Ohlen that was acting support? "We have some of the most experienced PvP developers in the world on this team"

Sadly i think BW is more likely to give us that, then anything remotely realted to open world pvp. In fact, i hears thats the next cool ability sorcs will get. Just use "The Onboard Refueling Vapor Recovery" and reset all your CD's and heal to full! Don't worry though, it's only usable in Ranked!

Obviously it shouldn't be any rewards that gives players any advantage in PvP. I've asked for this since launch, one idea is to have each playerkill generate a small/medium chance for a drop of a new "currency", which you then could use to buy stuff from a vendor at "fleet". Vanity items, just like reputation vendors etc. Why this wasn't done to begin with remains a mystery to me...well not really, it's quite clear that bad decisions is the rule rather then the exception around here.

That sounds like the "AVG problem". If it happens again, disable AVG before you start your launcher, or go into AVG and disable "Link Scanner". That caused the exact same problem for me earlier.

Every big update, when they unavoidably break pvp in one way or another, i can't help but to think of this blogpost lol...

Yes, this stupid map needs to get removed, or rather needed to be removed the same day it went live. I was in a ranked game 2 days ago, where the opposing teams Scoundrel decided to win the match and went "offmap" with that exploit we all love. This gave me some time to just walk around and explore the map a little. I was walking next to one of the "stonewalls" when i suddenly died instantly. I was on my Sin, just walking around. Didn't get stuck or anything, no forcerun - nothing. I just died. So, it's not just the poles that can instakill you in there, appearntly running too close to a stonewall does too, and who knows what else. Fantastic job on this one Devs, the only thing you could have done better is the music. It would totally fit the theme to have the Trollolol song being hymned in the background! BW should really have a serious talk with their QA team! LOL, i said QA team! As if..

I agree completly. This bugged freakin map should be taken out of the rotation. Why is it that BW fail to deliver evertime... Internal testing my *ss

Are you using AVG for antivirus? -If so, that's probably the reason. They released an update some days ago which prevents the gameclient to contact the servers properly, Try disabling AVG, then start the game client. That worked for me. //Twin EDIT: I'll also mention that it didnt help adding swtor to the exceptions list. I had to completly disable AVG temporarily until i was actually ingame.

While I understand where ppl are coming from when requesting stuff like this, i don't understand why anyone would endure something they don't like? There is an option to leave the wz and doing so won't anger most ppl if it's done as soon as you enter.

I don't understand wt f ppl are on about? Teams were filled randomly, and either side could have ppl declining the "pop" or having more ppl join. Not enough ppl for a game? -Most numbers win. A lottery for the win in case of too few, was already drawn by random and unknown numbers entering the warzone. No need for an additional "lottery" for the win, when one team already was lucky enough to get more numbers. And if they were a premade? -Well, congrats on organising a bigger chance for a win in case of too few participants. kthxbai =) PS. And yes, this is an oppinion. No need to wave around the Dr. Wiki title =)

Yeah, that could make for some interesting play tbh.

Im not talking about healer Mercs, im talking about most attacks being channeled, and those that are not are instead depending on channeled ability procs. I play all classes (Except Oper, for some reason i just dont like Oper) and i know them pretty well. And in my experience Merc is by far the easiest to render helpless, if you know what you're doing on another class in an Arena.

Not sure i agree that Merc/Mando is "generally fine" tbh. Specially in Arenas. Far too easy to shut down which makes them easy targets. There's a reason why merc is a popular focus target in Arenas.

I got called out for losing a node in Civil War once. The guy was very angry, calling me all sorts of stuff, hinting that i might be the worst player and certinatly the worst guard ever. He also wanted me to uninstall the game and go play some childs game instead, i mean how could i just stand there and let them cap!? -He asked. The thing was though...I was never guarding, HE was. He just took all the things he did wrong at that node and blamed them on me! And when i tried to defend myself, he just kept calling me bad and telling me to stop blaming others =D That was probably the most hilarious baddie rant i've gotten so far lol. Kudos to him for mastering the art of trolling

I'd much rather wear Jakarro's head as a helmet tbh.

Yes. Everyone can make a mistake, that's life. I have missed ppl calling a few times during the years too and said "Call next time ffs" or simular to the guard. Each time though, i have also appologized for it. Like i said, everyone makes mistakes. But that is not what im talking about here, because i always scroll and make sure no call was made these days, just to avoid exactly that. In your example you might both "be in the right" in your own perspectives, but fact was that you were right. Now, i your accuser didn't appologize for calling you out like he did - he suddenly became that exact type of person that in my eyes deserves a "**** and read the chat next time" back. He brought that upon himself. And look at what you're saying btw, you: 1. Called once 2. Called twice 3. Called Thrice 4. You then took measures to maximize the chance of someone seeing the chat by making a few copy/paste calls One could think that anyone guarding a node could at least make the effort to type "1s", when you went out of your way to do the same. But the fact is that some ppl simply doesnt care - and those are the ones i can't really sympathize with when the team calls them out in anger.

Sure, in some examples that is true - but not when it comes to: * Not calling incs * Leaving a node unguarded Those 2 things ARE being done deliberatly OR by stupidity. And these are the 2 things that generates most flaming in the OPS chat, by far. Simply being bad or mediocre doesn't. Some people bring flames upon themselves. If you have pvp armor - you dam well know not to leave a pylon unguarded. If you have time to fight a stealther attacking your node for 30sec, you have time to type out "1s" too (And if you didn't know that you should call for help, then wth are you doing guarding a node?)

Like an earlier reply pointed out; You make this sound much harsher then it actually is. I have seen some really bad things said in Warzones, but thats very rare. Most often its a one word insult in the style of "Noob/Moron/Idiot/Etc". -And while it's somewhat common seeing someone write "Nubs" in the OPS, it's not that common that a specific person gets pointed out. However, your comparisons are quite weird imo. This is not simular to getting "Expelled" from school, but rather being yelled at ,and being called out as a moron by your Classmates when: * You stand in front of your classmates locker, refusing to move in utter silence. The classmate cant move either, because it's his dam locker and he doesn't exactly trust you to bring his books to class. * You see a big chunk of snow falling down from the roof ontop of your classmates. You stand 20m away watching it happen, giving zero f***s about the outcome. * Your classmates ask you to pass the milk during lunch. You however, have other plans. You sit there eating your lunch with one hand firmly wrapped around the milkbox, refusing to let go. Then, once your plate is empty, you walk over to another table and hand them the milkbox. Yeah, i wonder why that guy would get yelled at

That "sports honor" is a lie. No serious team said that and meant it, ever. Even kids gets discarded from sportsteams sometimes, due to them simply not being able to keep up with the rest of the team. Ofc, that sparks an outrage of angry parents when it happens, but it does happen - and it happens for a reason. People want to win, they dont "just wanna play", they want that feeling of acomplishment when beating the crap out of another team. Personally, im not a supporter of throwing out kids from schoolteams. Im not a fan of flaming ppl in warzones either. But there ARE limits on how stupid one person can be without having to accept getting negative remarks. Such as leaving a node unguarded, for example. That's not "being bad", thats deliberatly taking action against your own team. Same with not calling incs. And i bet you those 2 are the most flamed scenarios in warzones. Sometimes people are simply so dam stupid that it would in fact benefit the team if they left the match and let the rest of the team do a 7vs8 or even 6vs8. And yes, the "backfiller" might be the new "worst player in the team", sure - but chances are he's still not as bad as the guy before him. So yeah, people who are simply being bad because they refuse to play as a team, completly uninterested in contributing - those ppl have to accept getting angry remarks. (Though it's never Ok to say some stuff i've heard thrown around...like "Hope you die in cancer" for example) When it comes to ranked imo: No. Ranked isn't for "everyone" and Yes. We do need cross-server queuing. Ranked isn't a place you go to learn how to pvp, it's the eldergame of pvp. You don't queue up there unless you know what you're doing, and we need X-server queues so more ppl that DO know their struff can get matched with eachother.

What does that have to do with stack sizes for materials? Few experienced gamers would argue that SWTOR beats SWG when it comes to Crafting, Trading and Resource management...and it's not bad to get inspired by good concepts imo.

Yes...well out in the open you can't be killed by another player unless you: 1. Are on a pvp server, in which case you might wanna consider moving to a pve server if you can't stand that type of "Griefing". or 2. You are flagged for pvp, in which case you should unflag =) //Twin

I can't even begin to imagine in what ways they will break the game when they implement this system... Personally im hoping for old classics like the return of naked bolster, Broken augment bolster or spaceship armor boosting wz stats!

While im not personally upset due to the game getting updates/patches, i do think it's pathetic to manage to break major game mechanics almost ever larger update. If it had been an exception rather then the rule, it's one thing - but it really isn't considering their trackrecord. And downtime that comes from that, deserve raised voices imo. Thats what happens in the "real world" too, when service providers keep failing to deliver the service customers expect. I understand that downtime will upset some ppl for various reasons due to that fact. What i don't understand and see very often in the "real world", is a customer argue on a service providers behalf - against another customer speaking his piece of mind due to feeling mistreated. I would find that a bit weird =)

Im glad to hear you're deploying the fixes sooner rather then later as you initially were going to do. But...lol Oh they have, have they? I feel so confident now that QA has signed off on it! I wish they would have signed off on all previous updates and patches as well!

That you people were even considering to wait a week with a fix like this is slightly offensive. That you keep releasing patches that continiously break critical game mechanics makes me question if BW really don't have any form of relevant QA. I don't belive that you do, for one second. Go ahead and prove me wrong.