So it needs be said... The Mandelorian has established as canon that there is no one way to be Mandalorian. Each tribe has its own beliefs and rules. I rather think of them like biker clubs, but thats just me.

I would like to start an RP guild for characters who have opted out of active participation in the war. We've done our duty, had our heroic arcs, and for whatever reasons have decided that the universe can go on without us. There won't be plots or structured RP of any sort. The most we will probably do for events is an occasional party. But what we will do is socialize, tell war stories, and generally have some comradery and chance to learn about and mix with each others' characters. If there are 3 other players for whom this might fit an old and beloved character, maybe we can get it started. Cyberqat aka Cmdr. Sam Jonz, retired Edit: To be clear this is ALSO not intended to be an ERP guild. Whatever happens in private is between members, but some of us characters are too old to be bothered with that nonsense anymore

For those of us not as deeply versed in Star Wars canon could you explain a bit more about your guild? What sort of activity are you looking for out of players? What is the fiction or conceit around your guild? (Doesn't have to be extensive just trying to figure out what kinds of characters you are looking for?)

I'm a returning original player who was gone for many years. Looking for a guildees to do content with in character and riff on in rp talk. Been a pen and paper RPGer for 40+ years. A reasonably populated guild ship where I can find people when i happen to be on woudl be a great thing. I have characters in the 30s in both imp and pup. I tend to be online late evenings EST time. But I drop in and out, don't keep a regular schedule. Im a PvE story player but would love to hang out with and interact with other characters between PvE. My characters generally start with what the game gives me and embellish on background and details. I put a "dont look at the man behind the curtain" field on story and only indirectly reference it in player rp to avoid the "everyone has the same story" problem. I can conveniently forget i have done something before if we go out on a story mission together I am on the computer during most of my waking hours and can drop in and out of discord stuff. I'm not a big into raids or grinds but I enjoy flashpoints and might get involved in bigger things if i happen to be online. I'm a deep role-player, but not an "event" type person unless they are of the free form party variety. I prefer if people keep their RP to abilities and actions reasonable for their character as defined by the game and despise god-modding with a passion. To me RP is about personalities more then showing off capabilities. I'm okay with adult topics as long as they are mutually consensual and totally flexible on levels of explicitness. I'm neither looking for ****-writing nor opposed to it IF it adds to the understanding of character relationships. Oh and I don't do PvP. Just don't find it fun. and I really hate voice chat because it takes away from the immersion for me.

I'm a returning original player who was gone for many years. Looking for a guildees to do content with in character and riff on in rp talk. Been a pen and paper RPGer for 40+ years. A reasonably populated guild ship where I can find people when i happen to be on woudl be a great thing. I have characters in the 30s in both imp and pup. I tend to be online late evenings EST time. But I drop in and out, don't keep a regular schedule. Im a PvE story player but would love to hang out with and interact with other characters between PvE. My characters generally start with what the game gives me and embellish on background and details. I put a "dont look at the man behind the curtain" field on story and only indirectly reference it in player rp to avoid the "everyone has the same story" problem. I can conveniently forget i have done something before if we go out on a story mission together I am on the computer during most of my waking hours and can drop in and out of discord stuff. I'm not a big into raids or grinds but I enjoy flashpoints and might get involved in bigger things if i happen to be online. I'm a deep role-player, but not an "event" type person unless they are of the free form party variety. I prefer if people keep their RP to abilities and actions reasonable for their character as defined by the game and despise god-modding with a passion. To me RP is about personalities more then showing off capabilities. I'm okay with adult topics as long as they are mutually consensual and totally flexible on levels of explicitness. I'm neither looking for ****-writing nor opposed to it IF it adds to the understanding of character relationships. Oh and I don't do PvP. Just don't find it fun. and I really hate voice chat because it takes away from the immersion for me.

You were the one who said it was like every other MMO. Now you are saying it isn't? really, make up your mind... /plonk

Cyberqat's Slightly Sarcastic Dictionary defines the world wide web as: "The greatest medium ever developed to let those who know nothing inform those who know less."

Don't you love self-reflexive posts?

This is a good observation since it seems to be most structured for 4 players oif different classes playing together through the content. Anything beyond that gets ugly. Thats not really single player but hardly massively multiplayer. Its also why our guild organizes "parties" to play together.

To be fair, this is a rather PVP centric Pov.

Nope. There are 4 per side, with parts of the chains in common. This is argument by reducto ad absurdum. One or four, hardly makes a difference for a game with millions of players.

Play a more sandboxy game and you'll answer your own question. Historically, MMOs have controlled content access less by point in story then by level or location in the game. Level is a much wider band filter. Location is wider still.

Because the security key makes Bioware/EA's job easier and less costly. The more people who have the security key the lower Bioware's exposure to hackers and the resulting customer service problems they cause. Its five bucks, for goshsake. i bet you spend more then that in one week on the junk food you eat while playing the game.... just buy a security key. Its good for you.

To be fair, there are some issues. The heavy scripting on Bioware's part was very daring. It adds a lot to the game. However it also exacerbates the problem thats always been there of "what do you mean you just killed "The Great Dragon", I killed him yesterday... It is rather difficult to explain why every smuggler has the same nemesis, the same follower, etc. You can work your RP around it, but it is awkward. The heavily scripted nature also makes it very difficult to play with friends in any mode other then "twink". In my guild we are doing groups of characters that experience the world together but its taking a lot of coordination and the discipline to *only* play those characters when we can all get together. if you don't do this, you find that you are limited to Heroics and Flashpoints pretty much for group quests as you can't all get the other quests at the same time. Finally, the rail-shooter ship combat is very much a solo game, and a rather uninspired one at that, IMO. So the charge that this is more of an "alone together" mode game *does* have some merit. The limit of 4 characters in a party

/ignore problem solved, along with many others. /ignore is your friend.

Ocurred to me on Thrusday, as I sat at work looking at me EAG invite that I wouldnt be able to act on til 10:00pm that night... To the obvious tune.... I'll be home for christmas, Get my arse out of here. I'll go online, with a glass of wine, Maybe followed by a beer. I'm going home for Christmas, To a place we all know well. Yes, I'll be home for Christmas, Home on Ord Mantell! Happy Holidays from the Pen and Paper Roleplay Society!

Naw. Doomsday is 2 to 3 years away when subscriptions plateau and some bright guy in marketing says "Hey why dont we have an F2P option?"

P.S. My wife isn't a gamer, but she is relatively low maintenance. I knew I needed an independent partner just because of who i am, so thats what I found.

Wouldn't help you unless you have a relatively complete internet map. Internet geography and physical geography are very different. East coast serves are on the east side of the US. West coast servers are on the west side. Thats all you really care about because the MAE-East - MAE-West interchange is the worst internet bottleneck. If your concerned about ping, go to a server on your side of the country. (In reality load is likely to have as much or more effect though on latency then ping, especially in these early dats.)

Your mistake is in thinking the choices are "wrong." The world of SWTOR is not a black and white comic book. Its not "good" v. "evil". Its one kind of repressive government against another kind of repressive government On both sides there will be light and dark personalities and thats better then alright, its great! The difference between jedi and with is not truly one of love v. hate. Rather its one of passionless intellect v. passion led thinking. In short, Bioware's writers took Star Wars and made real literature out of it... so enjoy it!

How long have you been married? As a 25 yr vet, I'd say you an d the spouse have different expectations, which is not good. Clearly, you thought you had "done your duty" and she expected you to "be there" whenever she needed you. IMO you need to discuss this and set rules and expectations you both can live with. Then BOTH of you will break them ,sometimes, but at least you started from a common point.

There are many possible technical reasons for what you perceive as "lag". Thats really too inspecific a term to diagnose. Have you checked to see what your frame rate is? If your frame rate is low, then your system is underpowered in some way, try going into options and getting rid of expensive things like shadows. Try turning your texture quality down to see if its video card RAM thats your issue. If your frame rate is fine, then lag could be your network connection, or the servers themselves being overloaded. FWIW I saw no lag during beta. Im on a quad core Phenom 3.4ghz overclocked to 3.8ghz , 8Gb of system RAM, and a GTX260 with 1 GB of video ram.

This is my BEAST. Just built it, runs everything great and was quite cheap ($250.00 , resusing my old GFX card, HardDrive and power supply) Quad Core AMD Phenom 3.4ghz Overclocked to 3.8ghz 8GB DDR3 memory MSI Micro-ATX MoBo with 2 PCIE graphics card slots (hard to find in MATX) NVidia GTX260 w/ 1GB video ram (Already had it, and its doing just fine) 128GB HD (small but I already had it) 800Watt power supply (over-kill but I already had it) Very cool Mini-tower case that takes full size gfx cards and has LEDs and a handle http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811146065

One thing that is not obvious in the interface is that its actually a need/greed/pass system. If you click the close X on the need/greed box, its a "pass" which puts you at a lower priority then any need or greed.

The only real difference between RP-PvP and RP-PvE s whether PVP has to be mutually consensual in some way. (Usually with a flag)