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Looks nice. Will we be able to grow mats for bio potions in that crop field or just stare at it?
Wouldn't that be unique -- mining and harvesting materials from our own plots -- if implemented properly it would lead the way to living in the game world rather than just fighting in it. Boring to many, I'm sure, yet a godsend to others. But of doubtful prospect, I'm sure.
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... and maybe the number of bits allocated to that field in the record for the toon, but yes, unless some idiot decided to hardcode byte-sized fields or signed byte math into the code, the comm caps could be much larger. They do not even need to exist, from a SW POV, but there they are, so BW must have a business reason for them -- encouraging people to roll alts perhaps?
To me, it's no major thing, I'd certainly like to see the cap lifted, but it's not so important that I'd ever post on it again. I grind A LOT and rack up Planetary Commendations like crazy and it's simply a matter of some minor annoyance when I can no longer pick them up. I'm a cheapskate
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Thank you, DarthTHC (tetra hydra cannabinol?) and DawnAskham for educating me. More knowledge is always appreciated.
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Is that alt from back when they had comms for each planet? I believe when they did the conversion to the new system, they (quite understandably) did not cap the number of converted comms. But just that once.
Yes, but that does not indicate the applicable database is limited by anything other than an arbitrary cap.
If you've got so many alts, cap them *all* and then come whine.Why must differing opinions always be characterized in pejorative terms? Does it make you feel superior? Do you believe doing so confers you an instant "I'm right, you're wrong" token? I'm just curious.
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For that matter, why is there a cap on Planetary Commendations?
I've now got several alts (level 24-43) with 100 Planetary Commendations each. I use those commendations to purchase mods and gear for starter alts.
I understand there is the possibility of farming for these commendations, purchasing mods, then selling them on the GTN, but so what? It's not as if lower level mods are available on the GTN in plentitude.
And I do know the game mechanic allows for more than 100 Planetary Commendations because one of my older and higher level alts currently has 124 Planetary Commendations.
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@DarthTHC ... Please do forgive me if my comment hinted at 'I'm right and you're wrong' or that I was injecting my obviously inferior knowledge into your realm of expertise; also, please understand I was not speaking of SWTOR only, as indeed EA/BW have implemented an excellent security system.
Nonetheless, bots do exist in this game, though not in proportions comparable to ESO, WoW, or other games. But do you think the bots in SWTOR are managed solely by individual players? As well, where do you think the entities advertising credits for sale get their credits; and do you really believe they can profit from creation of legitimate accounts that are paid for with honestly earned money and vulnerable to banning by BW? I think not.
I offer this as an anecdote only: not long after SWTOR launched I made the egregious mistake of joining the DarthHater fansite and using the same Email as I was then using for my SWTOR account. After I posted on the site a few times the site was hacked (the operators announced this had happened). Within a few days I received notice that someone had tried to break into my Email account, presumably for the purpose of retrieving a one-time password for SWTOR. Obviously, the latter is conjecture on my part, but the timing was most telling. Coincidentally, I never reported that occurrence on this forum, so anyone keeping track of such things, like yourself, would not have known of it.
Furthermore, just because credit card information isn't gained directly from SWTOR players does not mean it's not derived part and parcel from other sources and used to fund third-party sellers' operations here.
Again, I do not want our differing views to become a matter of contention; I'm quite willing to admit you are always right and I am always wrong -- being right on a forum inconsequential as this is of absolutely no importance to me.
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As you ponder that, please remember that the way the credit sites work now is as brokers. They hook up two players with each other and take a cut. It may not look exactly like that if you go browse their sites, but that is exactly what is happening. One legit player transfers credits to another. It's not like the credits are getting warehoused in an account whose IP can be traced back to China... or... Canada, which is where many seem to be.
Having no direct knowledge of the inner workings of third-party credit/gold sellers I cannot dispute the innocuous paradigm you've presented; notwithstanding, I posit there also exists a darker component of the industry that leverages hacked accounts and stolen credit cards and banking information which underwrite the expense of creating accounts on many online games. Furthermore, these accounts support bots and credit/gold farmers that generate the game currencies ultimately sold to their customers. Many of these third-party sites also provide power leveling services and sell crafting materials and other hard to get items. The spamming we see on our chat screens is merely the tip of a very dark iceberg that supports a multimillion dollar industry.
Again, while I cannot impugn the veracity of your statement, I highly suspect the enterprise is a bit more insidious than what you're suggesting.
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Me joining a GSF match is every other players worst nightmare. I'm dare say im the worst pilot in the entire history of flight.
LOL ... I doubt that ... trust me on this
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@LordArtemis
Positively brilliant, not only because it provides a completely feasible remedy, but because your approach furnishes a wonderful example of how recommendations, even complaints should be introduced.
Well done!
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Dear Bioware.
Stop making cartel market gear identical or similar to craftable gear. This is really wrong because who will buy my unique crafted armor shells when you keep making reclaimable and adaptive armor versions? For example, you just came out with the Revered Seer's armor set which looks exactly identical to the consular war hero amror shells. you also came out with the Ceremonial Mystic’s armor set which looks identical to the imperial version of battlemaster force-mystic's gear. The only difference is the color which doesn't mean a thing with the wide range of dye models.
What the hell were you thinking? Are you really so lazy and greedy that your willing to destroy crafting. I am now stuck with unsellable gear. Is it really much to ask for you to leave my crafted gear alone? If they are really so popular that people want an adaptive version, then make the crafted version adaptive. Don't degrade the crafted armor gear. I am really sick of you doing this. If you make add anymore war hero reskins on the cartel market or anywhere is in the game other then in the next pack, then I am quiting. This is really pathetic and needs to stop now!!!! Stay away from my gear. This really pisses me off.
please respond people. I need all the support I can get.
As a crafter you had me until your petition became an ultimatum.
Also, if you want anyone at BW to listen, consider Rules of Conduct, most especially this: Petition posts are frowned on. If you have an issue with the game, please discuss it in a civil and informed fashion.
Believe me, I do have your frustration, but abusive posts and ultimatums to the developers are less likely to garner the result you're seeking than taking a more reasoned approach.
/not signed
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Please forgive me. I defer to your superior practical experience in these matters.
Oh, come on, bud, pretty sure the humor wasn't all that obscure, what with the big toothy green smiley and self-deprecating reference.
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I do use an ignore list, but I don't publicize it as an insult to other people like LunaFox did. To me, sticking your fingers in your ears and yelling "I AM NOT LISTENING TO YOU!" just doesn't seem very ... something. Attractive? Mature? Dignified? Not sure which, maybe all of them. Just quietly not listening is better.
Have to admit I was not always like this. Nice to think I have acquired a spot of wisdom or two over the years; hopefully I have.
It is simply that I enjoy the forums more because of my ignore list. Probably no one else cares who I have on it anyway, nor should they. If someone does care, they can at least partially figure it out without me saying anything.
Please don't misinterpret my disuse of /ignore lists as an objection to their very existence. I meant to imply only that I don't use it.
That said, I do take umbrage to your classification of the fingers-in-ears while chanting la la la la la dodge as a useless tool. As I've indicated elsewhere, I've raised three daughters and what few brain cells are still synapsing in my gourd owe their very existence to that ploy.
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It's like they used to say pre-digital era, even a broken clock is right twice a day. Unless of course it was a 24 hour clock then it was only right once per day.
LOL, quite so.
I don't want to go all George Berkeley or anything, but if you don't look at the clock it matters not whether it's right or wrong. Putting that in context, if we don't enjoy a particular contributor's posts, it's not mandatory that we read them.
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Meet my ignore list troll. Bye bye.
While his post may have been contentious, you do understand he is both technically and philosophically correct, don't you? Moreover, if you're going to classify that as a troll, you may as well /ignore everyone here.
Personally, I don't recall ever having put anyone on any forum on /block or /ignore. I like learning and even idiots sometimes say smart things.
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In this or another thread about double XP I made a disparaging comment about the raging feculence that would surely ensue when an OP opined about the virtues of the event.
Since then I've had cause to reconsider. First, adding the capability to temporarily disable bonus XP, or any XP for that matter, does nothing to hurt the majority of players who can't fathom the logic of not wanting to level up. But what about the wasted resources, some of you will be inclined to wail? Fact is, BW commits resources to all kinds of things not universally appreciated or used -- do we really need more speeders or other vanity crap? Well, it's all relative, isn't it?
As for rationale, I'm a grinder; it's an aspect of the game I quite enjoy -- it provides me some direct revenue, many planetary commendations, and dependent upon my crew skill it also provides me materials that generate considerable secondary revenue. More importantly, it's an activity I can engage in and still focus on audio books or my music. Even through the course of normal XP I can out level grinding areas quickly; with double XP, well, you get the picture. And not all planets are created equal -- some are simply richer in closely proximate mob-life applicable to my interests.
I'm not a grinder only, I also enjoy doing class and side quests, but I have to measure my grinding lest I make these quests of no use through tragically gimped XP.
Fact of the matter is I won't quit the game if I don't get an XP on-off switch, I doubt I'll even post on it again, but neither would I complain if such a switch mechanism were implemented.
I know some of you are bothered when others don't play EXACTLY the way you think an MMO should be played, but I'd commend to you that it is an MMO, which by its very nature implies massive numbers of players joining in with a myriad of goals and expectations, none less credible than the other.
Now, let the post parsing and accusations of blasphemy commence.
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... every game of chance I have ever seen played by humans ...
You've really got my interest piqued because I thought I'd been around ...
Just how many games of chance have you seen that weren't being played by humans?
(Can't help thinking of Cassius Marcellus Coolidge's Dogs Playing Poker)
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It was a masterfully designed credit sink with the carrot at the end of the stick as the rancor that everyone wants
Not me
I work too hard for my credits to throw them away on the remote chance I might get a worthless piece of pixilated crap or a seat at the cool kids' table. Never have been fond of carrots, much prefer peas and radishes. -
Ah, man, this almost got past the troll radar.
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Why not purple? Everyone seem to want a purple crystal. I guess the special snowflake thinggie comes into play again.
Ooh, I like that ! And if we built on Joesixxpack's thoughts, the saber could spout purple prose ... nothing quite like a bit of gratuitous self aggrandizement as a bonus.
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Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.
~Yoda~
To me, all lightsabers look the same. If the designers didn't make them bigger, there'd be more people like me who wouldn't spend money to appear cosmetically different.
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I want, and quite frankly expect a snowflake-white color crystal that has these traits:
- 10,000 Aim
- 10,000 Cunning
- 10,000 Strength
- 10,000 Willpower
- 10,000 Accuracy
- 10,000 Alacrity
- 10,000 Critical
- 10,000 Defense
- 10,000 Expertise
- 10,000 Power
- 10,000 Presence
- 10,000 Shield
- 10,000 Surge
I could then swap the crystal amongst alts and be totally invincible.
Oh, and I should be the ONLY player in game who receives this item -- my own personal god mod.
- 10,000 Aim
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I have a family and friends in real life that I socialize with all the time. I am not anti-social. I meet and greet other people when I am out and about.
I just plain like playing ALL online games solo. If there is something wrong with that please let me know. I don't see how calling me anti-social or a troll in game relates to playing solo.
Then why play a mmorpg? Because I like the game and play it like a single player video game.
Yes, I know I am missing out on a lot of stuff, but if I can't do it by myself, I don't care to do it.
Bob.........
Good grief, I am sorry you've had this kind of experience.
I, too, prefer to go it alone, though for much different reasons than you, and no one has ever called me names for doing so. Well, they might have, but I keep chat minimized so I'd never know it. That said, only yesterday someone on this very forum saw fit to remind me this was an MMO.
I find it curious how people define those three words -- massively multiplayer online -- as though their concatenation dictates anything more than a whole bunch of people accessing a game universe simultaneously.
Here's hoping you have fewer problems in future.
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I can understand your confusion. That is my fault....I was posting the response in reply to someone speaking of how this was worse than 1.4, and others speaking to the fact that 1.4 was pretty bad. I concurred it was, in fact, brutal....and naturally disagreed that this was as bad or worse.
But perhaps snowflakes are falling
.....I have been known to be guilty of being silly from time to time myself. Perhaps this is one of those times.And I apologize if my remonstration of your post was undeserved -- I am easily confused.
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I would agree. This is far from disastrous, but that does not mean it is something to be dismissed IMO....but comparing it to other patches is a bit silly.
And, yet ...
1.4 was pretty brutal. This is not as bad as 1.4 IMO....but with the servers going down and the website sputtering out I would say it's starting to get close lol.LordArtemis, I have appreciated very many of your posts because of their fair-minded tone, but this two-post combination suggests snowflakes are falling.
Personally, I'd much prefer inocuous comparisons to threats, demands, and tantrums in other threads.
but a very wealthy one.
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Posted · Edited by scratcha
grammar
Obviously Eric misspoke because after not having played the game in almost two years I logged on and found one of my alts with 124 Planetary Commendations. Perhaps what he meant was Planetary Commendations accrued in excess of 100 would not be added.
It's a moot issue, certainly not worth impugning anyone's integrity.