The hair in this game in general is all pretty nasty looking, but I agree the Cartel styles are even worse. Something goes wrong with the colors. Black turns into that puke green color, it's messed up. Wish I never bought them.

Hi, I have a question about how companions gain influence during conversations. I used to play, briefly, a long time ago and I see that it has changed somewhat. It used to be the companion either liked what you said (+points), had no feelings on way or another (nothing happens, no gain, no loss), or disliked what you said (-points, but usually not a lot. Usually only -1). Now, it seems if they like what you said, you gain a lot of influence, and if they don't like what you said, you gain a small amount of influence. But what about the "neutral" responses, the ones where they don't approve or disapprove of what you said? You still gain nothing? So in essence, you gain more influence by choosing an option they disapprove of, than one where they don't care one way or another? It seems... odd to me, if that's the case. I tend to pick a lot of neutral responses, so my companion (Khem at the moment) rarely approves or disapproves of what I say. (He likes it if I'm bloodthirsty, dislikes it if I'm too nicey nice, but I usually pick middle of the road choices that he has no reaction to.) I'm just trying to wrap my head around why he would be leveling faster if I picked more options he actively disliked, rather than the neutral options. This system makes me feel like he dislikes the neutral responses even more than the nicey nice options, since he gains zero influence from it. Is that the way it's supposed to be? Or am I looking at this too hard and should just forget about conversations affecting companions and feed them gifts instead of bothering with what they would like to hear me say. :/

After experiencing this headache during the last patch, I re-downloaded the game and removed bitraider as well. If today's patch was any indication, it was completely worth it. Only took a couple minutes and was in the game right away this morning. Does anyone more tech savvy want to explain what bitraider is supposed to do, or what it's good for? From my understanding, it's what lets you play the game early, on the starting planets anyway, while it continues the download in the background. But to me, that doesn't seem worth the hassle... Is that all it does?

Don't bother, people will jump all over you for this. I was confused too, and boy was I set straight, lol. I'm brand new, and this isn't some magical boon for me. I only started playing a couple days ago. By the time I left the starting planet, I had about 8-9k. On the fleet I picked up some gathering crew skills and sold on the GTN the mats I found, plus every piece of green BoE equipment that fell on my head in my travels. I use the plethora of crystals I'm given to regularly update the mods in my weapon. (Seriously, I have over 500 crystals now, and mods only cost 2 each. What else am I supposed to be spending these on?!) I don't buy anything from the GTN, why would I when quest rewards give you everything you need, green/blue armor upgrades and even more crystals, all of which gets replaced almost faster than I can appreciate it? I'm level 41 now, regularly buying more inventory slots, cargo bays, and unlocking random legacy perks (companion boosts, etc), all with credits, and I still have over 800k on me right now. I'm sure that's a paltry amount to those who have been playing "since launch", but as can be seen, making the DK and Coruscant apartments only 4 credits each when they used to be 5k credits is.... underwhelming? According to everyone here, since I'm new, I guess I should be saying thanks because it would supposedly have saved me so much money? So I guess... from a new player to the game, thanks! (Even though I already bought the apartments a couple days ago, whoops lol. Should have waited, eh?) (Disclaimer: I am not angry or asking for more free things. Stop that. I am only participating in the discussion regarding the confusion over how/why this is a "great gift for new players". Maybe it's just because I'm new to this game in general and this is normal for anniversaries. Maybe it's just supposed to be a funny gimmick, since it's 4 years = 4 credits. Either way, I'm pretty sure someone out there can not jump all over me for simply participating in the discussion.)

Teach me to make a post that only contains two words and a confused smilie. I elaborated a bit later, but I'll do so again. I'm not asking for more, nor am I upset. I am genuinely confused that there are people out there who don't already have those apartments because they are normally only 5k each. Yay for them being cheaper for a while, I guess? But seriously, it was just confusion. I like the rest of it, huzzah and all that. I just don't understand the 4 credit apartments, that's all. Not angry, just confused. Clear enough now? Ok

Ok

Yeah ok that was totally what my post was about.

Really? How much were they? I just bought both, and I can't even remember, they were so cheap. There's seriously people who couldn't afford the apartments in DK or Cours? Really?? *edit* I just looked it up, they were only 5k each. You know people who don't have 5000 credits?

...that's it?

I bought this a couple days ago as well, can confirm it's a baby rancor pet.

Confused newbie here, trying to figure this all out. I've been getting quite a few companion gifts as random drops while out questing, and I've just been sticking them in my cargo hold for now because I'm not sure what to do with them. Should I give them to my companion right away? Or save them for later, and see how high I can get them via conversations only, before using them? I've been to this dulfy site and looked at the charts but it's making my brain hurt. I don't get it.