That's the sound a cow makes! So there'll be putting some cheese on my franchise?

As far as I understand things, a franchise is a sliced potato that has been cooked in boiling grease and drowned in ketchup. So basically all we know about SWG2 so far is that it has a new food recipe involving Corellean tubers. Probably for buffing your action bar? It's anybody's guess, really.

Overcoming the Bad on the Outside: How I Found the Jedi Inside Me -- Han's Tauntaun

Planet? Who would ever want to be stuck on one of those? I'd live on a space ship. Though if you were to force me? Thyferra, post-cartel. I figure the jungle terrain would supply plenty of natural beauty to explore, and when I tire of that, I could enjoy the local humans, who hardly wear much in the way of clothes. Also, getting in good with the natives could mean free bacta dips if I ever got sick or injured. Edit: Bah. TOR only? Fine. Ord Mantell. It looks okay, it isn't filled with pretentious preachy prancers or toxic gasses, and it seems like everyone's weapons are set to stun.

Reference: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Bendu Basically, it's a symbol for unification. Not sure if the number of spokes symbolizes anything in particular, but let's pretend two of them stand for "peace" and "love", which would explain why the Sithier ones have six spokes instead of eight.

Slicing provides schematics and materials for crafting augments for all three augment-crafting professions: synth, arms, and armor. Edit: The materials provided by slicing are only non-greens. You'll still need to contact a slicer for the schematics.

You're never going to sell the idea that colors should be absolutely restricted and unusable by the traditionally opposing alignment. Heck, I'm kinda miffed that my consular can't pick up a blaster and use it to prove that he's a miserably poor shot. What you've got to sell instead is the idea of using the traditional alignment provides bonuses to the player, without taking away any of their current pride and happiness. Your +41 power blue crystal being +42-46 for Light I-Light V isn't so large a difference that people will get kicked out of groups for using the wrong color, but it would get min-maxers to use crystals attuned to their alignment. You could take it one step further and say black-core crystals don't attune to any alignment at all. And maybe make purple, yellow, and orange give bonuses based on how close to neutral a character is, as opposed to the more polar alignments. Or make the bonuses hinge on the distance from Light I, Neutral, and Dark I. The point is this: give people an almost meaningless incentive, and they'll gravitate towards it. Deny them an opportunity to break from the crowd, and they'll only want to tear off your privates and feed them to you.

Free!

I still would much prefer to play the story of a simple gonk droid who gained sentience, a manipulator arm, and a blaster, and is trying to make his way through the galaxy without being dismantled and sold for scrap. The story would revolve around narrow escapes from one of those stuffy bureaucrats from Imperial Inquisition's tech support division, Darth Calculus. Dialog scenes would be full of nerd-rage, bad programming advice, and force lighting, and some surprisingly articulate snarky subtitles from the gonk. Something like: DC: [stares past ignited red saber at Gonk] Whoever created your evasion subroutines was a complete and utter failure. Mostly because nobody should be programming with subroutines! Maintainable code is nothing compared to the power of one percent scalar increase across the board to all your abilities! Gonk: GONK! Gonk: [subtitle] Hey, Darth Fancypants? DC: Don't call me... what? Gonk: GONK! Gonk: [subtitle] What do you think of portable fusion reactors? DC: Useful, in the right hands. Not terribly useful, when attached to a creature that has unfortunately become self-- Gonk: [interrupts] GONK! Gonk: [subtitle] I only ask because I think they're pretty neat to provide overload power for doing certain things... [Close up of Gonk's blaster] PCHOO! PCHOO! PCHOO! [bolts knock lightsaber out of DC's hand.] Gonk: GONK! Gonk: [subtitle] Like that! [Darth Calculus whimpers and whines, close up of his eyes shedding a tear of blood to impress upon us how creepy-evil he is, before he runs away, squealing.] [Gonk plods slowly toward the ramp of his spaceship, perhaps three meters away.] Gonk: GONK! Gonk: [subtitle] Come on, hot Twi'lek companion! We have five minutes to get on this ship! So we can have more sex in the engine room!

The crits crafters would be looking for would switch to multi-augments rather than augment slots. There will be an explosion of augment purchases as people start specializing sets of armor for multiple roles, eventually hitting a somewhat steady state as people start getting their companions in augmented gear.

My guess? It wasn't Star Wars-y and Iconic enough.

Did you see the bit in the "Return" video where Vindican somehow managed to parry a lightsaber with his eye? From everything I've seen in Bioware's games, lightsabers are generally much weaker in this era than what we came to know from the films. I'd say TOR era lightsabers are more a warm spoon when compared to the Trilogy's hot knife.

The average Marvel superteam will resolve a multiverse-threatening crisis, defeat a race of world-devouring monsters, and then dethrone a god before the heroines-in-bikinis issue in June. They will then spend the remainder of the year struggling with the moral implications of what they did, and lose to a relatively modest threat due to their sudden lack of confidence. So it really depends on what time of year.

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I want to be Skroob!