You've got one important word wrong there - Marr says "dying IF not dead". That means something completely different - "dying is not dead" would mean that the emperor is alive but dying, "dying if not dead" means the Emperor is either dead or dying but, importantly, Marr doesn't know.

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It doesn't take 4 times as long to make 4 stories than to make 1. Think of every planet in the game so far - we'll use Dromund Kaas as the example. It has 4 different stories, but at least 80% of the content is shared by all 4. They all deal with the slave rebellion, grathan's estate and the dark temple. The actual differences in content are relatively small instances in each of those main areas.

The items don't go straight to your inventory, they get mailed to you.

Let's be realistic here, Bioware have designed it in such a way that

It was a joke. If you say cant in a cockney accent it sounds like a certain swear word.

I disagree with "at least 4 times as much content". Big chunks of the content would be reused, take Dromund Kaas for example - all 4 storylines use the same 80% of the Dark temple, then they split up into relatively small class specific instances. If they'd done the same thing with Makeb then it certainly wouldn't have been 4 times as much work, all of what they currently have could remain the same but with a handful of class specific areas added on where the class stories progress. Obviously I'm not claiming that it's easy to make new class quests, but saying it's 4 times harder isn't a fair or accurate figure.

Malak took the opportunity to fire on Revan's ship because he knew he wasn't strong enough to beat him in combat. I can't see any reason to think that Malak would have become significantly more powerful during the time he betrayed Revan and his eventual death, so I can't see how he'd beat Darth Revan.

How exactly is it "dishonest" ? They told you that if you paid X amount of money then you'd get access to ROTHC, you paid the money and they gave you access. Not only that but then they gave you an extra 1000 cartel coins for free. Essentially you're now better off than you would be if BW hadn't made the expansion free (1000 cartel coins better off to be precise), so how exactly have you been wronged?

Is it canon? I recall there being a consensus that Luke was more skilled than Yoda but there were no direct canon quotes to compare the two.

You seem to have misinterpreted my comment, I was saying that we're considering Luke's skills at his peak (as Grand Master) and so your previous comment about how he was relying on the force rather than skill against Vader doesn't demonstrate that he didn't become incredibly skilled. You seem to have taken my comment to mean that I thought he was at his peak against Vader.

But I assume we're ignoring all that and considering him at the peak of his lightsaber prowess. At that point, how can we accurately judge how much of his ability is down to the force? We can't, we can only speculate on it. I maintain that if we compare how each competitor would do against a neutral opponent (one who their style of fighting isn't particularly good or bad against) in a duel then we remove much of the speculation since we can reference actual feats. But it's down to Beni, I just don't see how anyone can say (for example) how good Sidious would be without his speed. We're essentially guessing how heavily people are relying on their strength in the force.

So you're allowing force powers like speed to be taken into consideration, but you're saying they're less important than lightsaber skill? I don't see how we can accurately weight swordsmanship and force abilities in any sort of meaningful way. Yes, this works with Mace since you can say he must have more skill to be comparable to someone much stronger in the force like yoda, but I don't see it working for the rest of the list. For example, how much of Luke's ability was due to his force prowess? How can we possibly know or quantify that?

Fair point, I must have overlooked it. I think removing them is going to make it very, very difficult to make an accurate list, it's easier to compare how good characters are when using the full extent of their abilities rather than trying to speculate on how good someone like Sidious would have been without his speed. Are we also excluding Grievous? If not then he'd have to be quite high up, he fought and beat 5 jedi (including 2 council members) simultaneously without the use of any force powers.

I would describe this as Windu arguable being a more skilled duelist than Luke, but we're looking for the most powerful duelist. To mean that means who would win with no use of lightning/push etc. but if you can use the force to argument your speed then that makes you a better duelist. I can't see how anyone would beat Luke in lightsaber combat, surely that makes him the most powerful?

Had a quick look at The Power of the Jedi Sourcebook, the most relevant quote I could find: "In the history of the Jedi Order, only two opponents ever overcame [Windu] in battle. One was Master Yoda, who some said was the Order's true master of lightsaber combat. The other was former Master Dooku, whose own fighting style was archaic, yet stunningly effective." No other quotes comparing the two seem to be specifically about lightsaber ability.

Based on pure skill I'd probably say Sidious then Yoda then Mace. I think Mace beat Sidious, but only because Mace's style was particularly good against him - if it hadn't been for that advantage then Sidious would have won in my opinion. I recall reading somewhere that Yoda regularly beat Mace in duels, but I could be wrong on that.

I'm assuming they designed it with explosions in mind. If it can get pierced by an arrow fired from a light bow then shrapnel is going to rip it apart. Perhaps it was just poorly represented by the films, but the size of the bows combined with the short draw length means those arrows aren't going to pierce anything - a decent piece of plastic could have stopped them.

A lethal weapon when used against someone who's unarmoured, but such small bows against fully armoured futuristic soldiers? They wouldn't penetrate modern attempts at exoskeleton body armour, logically stormtrooper armour should be much better than our current tech.

One was English, the other was a Scot. Britain covers both Scotland and England - they're both Brits.

As a neutral third party, I'd like to point out that this feels a tad hypocritical to me. You're claiming he's trying to pass off his opinions as facts, then immediately following that up by stating that "you've already gave him the numbers". These numbers are just your opinions.

I read somewhere that the ewoks were used as a reference to the Vietnam war. The poorly trained indigenous people overcoming the invaders with superior weaponry and training.

It depends on the laws in Star Wars. In real life we have international laws governing the matter, if a mercenary (the BH) is involved in a legal conflict, then you can't hunt him down afterwards and try to kill him (in the same way you can't hunt down retired enemy soldiers). If they don't have some form of galactic laws in place (to prevent torture, war crimes etc.) then it's fair game. It's probably quite un-jedilike though.

I always thought it would have been smarter for Sidious to get rid of Vader immediately after the purge. Once the jedi are scattered they pose no major threat, the only real threat to him is Vader. If he'd really wanted a particular jedi killed he could have done it himself.

Actually, I thought the opposite. Atris seemed to quite openly hate him and the book suggested that the other masters felt similarly. Given redemption and avoiding things like anger and hate are kind of what the jedi are all about, it seemed strange to me that the masters at Coruscant were so openly bitter towards him.