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Sorry for length I'm really excited about this stronghold and I've wanted one on Alderaan for years. I'm just really worried its going to get messed up like Manaan did. Manaan I was so excited for, and then let down for so many reasons. Please don't do the same with this! Here is my feedback from what I can tell: I'm not on the test server but I watched a video. Hooks, def need work. Killik Caves - way too big. It would be cool to have a smaller one, but that thing is the size of a building nearly, and there is absolutely nothing I want to put in there. It feels like it would be a cool concept, to have a small one. What is there to me feels like a massive waste of space. Front of the base - agree on way too big, or maybe how the layout is? So, this is my personal perspective. I'm curious to what others thing as well. One of the major failings to me with Manaan was that there were all these aspects about the planet I loved, the fountains especially. When you are outside, the fountains. When you go meet Lana and Theron, I LOVE the office with the fountain. I love the statues. They make the area what it is. I get the desire to want to allow people to be creative, but making all of the things that I had loved so much item hooks, then making things like the statues centerpiece size instead of medium and large, just killed it for me. It doesn't have the parts I absolutely love so much about it. More rooms- this is a noble house. This feels to me like it needs to be bigger, like having more luxurious rooms. You want to have the basic rooms on the floor level to use for whatever. I think if you then go up and down you could get really creative. One thing I LOVED about the new story was the senators quarters. They were absolutely gorgeous and I loved the details. I love how you guys put in room dividers and the furniture. https://i.imgur.com/mrbPt4v.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Ym68eHA.jpg https://i.imgur.com/6tvIl65.jpg https://i.imgur.com/rP37Oeu.jpg https://i.imgur.com/C8xzMIu.jpg https://i.imgur.com/jRA2p8v.jpg https://i.imgur.com/PulBjoD.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Qx2JfUr.jpg While everything is obviously based on Egyptian styles, the whole way this room has been set up just feels luxurious. I would love to see bedrooms with similar setups. You can't replicate how this looks in a normal stronghold with how things are set up, you just can't. Back to Alderaan. So things to me... I get for some reason you guys like to downsize things. But all these pillars being so tiny look really bad to me. Some are that small yes, but putting them in every corner looks awful. I'd rather have them replicate the real ones. These patterns are horizontally supposed to be long. Some areas look like they've been shortened and it makes it feel really weird. https://i.imgur.com/8OUhCSK.jpg Statues Statues IMO make or break these places. They're all over Coruscant's Senate, Alderaan, and in some Jedi temples. Yet, they're left completely out. Again, they are in game, but they're stupidly huge. I would LOVE if you just put them in where they are supposed to be. Or somehow made an option to either have the statues there, or place your own object? The current statues are stupidly large and won't fit correctly. They are also a very specific part of the art style. You take them away, you make it unconsciously feel really off. https://i.imgur.com/8OUhCSK.jpg https://i.imgur.com/3Wyx6F9.jpg https://i.imgur.com/hxMi1rg.jpg https://i.imgur.com/i8N6N5J.jpg https://i.imgur.com/iQnwGyb.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Z8FHjlL.jpg Library - I would LOVE to see a library, one already built. That has a curved walls or something like that. We can decorate the rest of it. Throne room - I agree 100% with the comment that the throne thing ruins the room. I also agree with the other comment suggesting to build a lower area (and/or a higher one like a balcony) that is essentially all windows to see the view. I think having some kind of large lower room that has a 360 view to be used as a meeting room or something would be stunning. It would be neat to have a balcony or small balconies attached to the rooms like Yavin. I would suggest a special area for both a large meeting room and bedrooms that have the huge clear windows. https://i.imgur.com/wcopOOE.jpg Bedrooms * a few designated decent sized ones * divider things * windows * small balcony w view Outside- one of my favorite things about alderaan is the scenery, gardens, and fountains. Please do NOT pull a manaan and toss them. Look at how beautiful they look, the fountain, statue, and greenery together. I think the pools in the back are cool. What I would change= Front has this, exactly this https://i.imgur.com/76J7QqB.jpg and these and either the front or the back https://i.imgur.com/3Wyx6F9.jpg Have small gardens in the front, and then in the back, expand it. Use both fountains and the natural greenery. You already have some utterly gorgeous architecture, USE IT https://i.imgur.com/76J7QqB.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Z8FHjlL.jpg https://i.imgur.com/hxMi1rg.jpg https://i.imgur.com/tZEZvMH.jpg https://i.imgur.com/HGAZxTj.jpg https://i.imgur.com/P4OZMmc.jpg https://i.imgur.com/4gBbDUt.jpg https://i.imgur.com/J2MV1bi.jpg https://i.imgur.com/AI9TXma.jpg https://i.imgur.com/J7dqopT.jpg https://i.imgur.com/S0MZFUb.jpg https://i.imgur.com/lS8QgjR.jpg https://i.imgur.com/BGY88tH.jpg https://i.imgur.com/zO7vTfW.jpg https://i.imgur.com/kEWdJ5d.jpg https://i.imgur.com/0Ni7OLa.jpg I would have these beautiful layered gardens and fountains, then have it lead off to a more natural area with the falls. Or even sort of loop them around so they are facing each other. Those are my personal current thoughts. I hope I've not been boring or too annoying and hope some of these ideas may be considered. <3

I was really excited to get back as a companion after Onslaught. His stuff randomly appeared in my inventory before the chapter we play where we run into him. I did dialogue and nothing that would have harmed him. Once the chapter was done and I relieved all the other companions, I noticed he was not among them. In fact, he wasn't in my list at all. I went to check my companion locator on Odessen and nothing. So I put in a ticket. The response made no sense- and it gives me an error every time I attempt to reply. I made no choices indicating, nor saw anything that indicated my companion dying. Please help me get him back and fix this? Thank you! Cindlehr

Also, can anyone pleas tell me if this is a glitch or ***? I have Therans stuff back, I finished Corellia, but I don't see Theran anywhere in my companions list, nor terminal. ***

I solo play as well for the same reasons, while I managed to not die, several times were just barely. None of the companions were healing properly until I pulled out Theron (one level away from max). They would glitch out even when I was trying to use them to get materials.

after finishing Corellia when the news report came out, Saresh gave a speech. I killed her because I knew she was too dangerous to allow to live, even as my consular. Yet she appeared on the news giving a speech. I thought that other woman earlier (who is amazing btw) was the new supreme chancellor?

I'm on Satele Shan and for the past few years I've never really had issues. Until about the past 2-4 months? I have not really been keeping track but it started sometime after an update happened. I can play, but there is ALWAYS lag. I can't even run or move anywhere without constant lag. None of my settings or things on my computer changed. Drivers were recently updated. I've even turned down certain settings and several other things off to still have the same problem.

I'm still curious why Doc just left... (dunno if thats the case for married knight). I hope he's coming back for good too.

Agreed <3 I was having fun so far

A lot of friends want keys for the strongholds that allow those who are given them to decorate with the owners items. That would be pretty awesome in helping out friends.

I thought that WAS what happened >.> My understanding was Lana and Theron teamed up again, using their talents to pull together people and using their abilities to get what they could done. Romanced Theron says he was sorry he couldn't be there when you woke up, because he had his part to play. Even if it meant not being right by your side. He was preparing a lot of other things, possibly even getting into the systems with T7,

This is my response to the last chapter if anyone wants to see, SPOILERS

thank you! I was taught with art criticism its easier to explain what parts you like, don't like, and how to improve. I figure by giving the devs as much actual visual feedback as possible it may be helpful for them, if they decide to listen to it. someone further down Also its not the issue of them giving us a ton of hooks, its the positioning of the hooks and how some of the decor has been created to fit certain hooks only. Dev team, I really hope you please consider what I and others have posted. This has been a long desired stronghold for many people and its like being given Alderaan but then no gardens, multi weather areas, or any of the actual architecture that make it so loved. It's very much fixable, and you'd have a lot more really happy people if you guys actually worked on it more.

Alright... here is my breakdown So a good while ago I made this post http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=873929 I have been super hyped for this stronghold for a while. But I agree that it feels very rushed. I really hope devs will at least read this post, because I try to offer solutions that really shouldn’t be very hard. This stronghold has potential, it just…. needs some improvement. What draws me to Manaan- in game the planet is just relaxing to visit. The music, fountains, plants and oceans make it a very peaceful place. Minus the flashpoint. Also rp wise its where my character got to really start to interact with Theron. So it’s a special place for her. Obviously a stronghold should be customizable, but at the same time, we want something like Manaan or Alderaan to strongly evoke the actual places, which are what we’ve fallen in love with. Manaan- Arrival http://imgur.com/gSBlx8a http://imgur.com/f6fwT2K http://imgur.com/NecKP0R http://imgur.com/00zoWDP http://imgur.com/OEHIcIA http://imgur.com/KBs6c3F What we get is pretty similar http://imgur.com/2cnWktR http://imgur.com/1ClbjjR http://imgur.com/X7LZi1o http://imgur.com/7KHoskn http://imgur.com/nbTenKr So starting off… two of the BIGGEST annoyances to me…. Statues/plants and water sculptures As said, it takes the combination of statues, water and plants. Pretty Manaan Statues http://imgur.com/00zoWDP http://imgur.com/oHGPtY6 http://imgur.com/4T0BUpx Problem with this…. *** guys http://imgur.com/2cnWktR why no statues? Okay, I guess you gave me one in the pack that came out with this…only problem… http://imgur.com/mulmXus it only fits a starship hook…. These gold statues are part of what makes Manaan so pretty….we get 1. 1 that is a STARSHIP hook when it should be a tiny green one…. Also this place has tons of pretty topiary trees, glowing ferns, other ferns etc….. we get 0. The Manaan gardens that got relabeled as Zakuul… supposed to fit in these things http://imgur.com/KBs6c3F nope huge hook only http://imgur.com/5skvLvl what? Fountains The fountains are my second favorite part of this place! Look at how pretty they are! http://imgur.com/NcWjPTf http://imgur.com/BxVj6af http://imgur.com/iDxDlpr http://imgur.com/r2KexS4 What we get http://imgur.com/EoNojia http://imgur.com/8sMGsgg and my favorite got turned into this http://imgur.com/FA0XWHV I understand you’re trying to let us build our own fountains and decorate, but it really, really ruins the point of them all together. Inside Upstairs Manaan http://imgur.com/sKHcG8X http://imgur.com/Pqrb7Y3 http://imgur.com/6fgJoet http://imgur.com/I4vt4WA **** this here is my FAVORITE http://imgur.com/DQvFMVe http://imgur.com/OK7gfWP **** and this ITS SO PRETTY http://imgur.com/lG8eEjN http://imgur.com/sKHcG8X http://imgur.com/o2q34TD Instead we get http://imgur.com/MZu0g8A http://imgur.com/HPNo4aN http://imgur.com/pMixEsC The skylight is nice, but we’re given ONE large room. There is no way to really break it up without it looking weird. We really need smaller rooms. Places so we can set up things like bedroom, library, whatever. While Manaan has big rooms, they are also well balanced by the available décor and ESPECIALLY the huge waterfall acting as a sort of window stand in. Now I LOVE the idea of the outside garden. Only problem is the hooks suck. So does the view. I can see the ocean! …. Wait…. http://imgur.com/N4lWqIq http://imgur.com/G1M11g3 Being able to see the ocean would be nice. Like, lower the wall a lot. Also… WHY does the Manaan Lounge set take up a spaceship hook?!?!!? Windows http://imgur.com/OzFwrGb Big windows we can see through http://imgur.com/B2NoINP http://imgur.com/MxapkYF Underwarter Color scheme http://imgur.com/OzFwrGb Big windows http://imgur.com/XLXKIBF http://imgur.com/xjjOeLd this was pretty awesome http://imgur.com/t0p1cot What we get No windows? http://imgur.com/vwp7Tze Okay not awful http://imgur.com/mYVQ5DG Color scheme underwater WAY off. I get wanting to make it look like a lab and all with cool colors… but not working so well http://imgur.com/aH6mqWR Hi fishy! http://imgur.com/Ql7YcTt I also noticed, WHY DO WE HAVE SPACESHIP HOOKS ON THE OCEAN FLOOR? http://imgur.com/yXyvqaJ I mean, okay we can decorate, sort of? What are you going to put there? Windows! Are blurry…. http://imgur.com/00ioL1v This is cool! I like this, just wish it was clearer http://imgur.com/v5cof7m Science http://imgur.com/DQvFMVe http://imgur.com/sKHcG8X Science? http://imgur.com/XEbWaRJ http://imgur.com/neaL1p5 http://imgur.com/8ZbrNRv Also the hooks are awful. Why can’t I put my deep sea specimens up against the wall and then a desk in front of it? I can only fit it in the middle of the floor…. And things like explorers equipment don’t fit at all Also, no library? ;_; http://imgur.com/NNzk7YO IMPROVEMENTS More smaller rooms that look like this http://imgur.com/DQvFMVe http://imgur.com/lG8eEjN Docking station would be neat http://imgur.com/g8dXEat http://imgur.com/zkqJFi2 http://imgur.com/XviSCxF More items, lots more items http://imgur.com/LdaNB18 http://imgur.com/qzjyNZ2 http://imgur.com/LKRwVWU http://imgur.com/DQvFMVe http://imgur.com/lZ4kqTt http://imgur.com/KMfxhqm http://imgur.com/eHrOrdo http://imgur.com/DHZX6wq Change hooks around, including item size hooks give us the real fountains please We need a ton more lights, plants, flags and furniture available to us please Garden idea good. Hooks and view, horrible. Way to reach starship Downstairs looks AWFUL I would really like the pretty golden statues where they are supposed to be please. More tree items like in game. I know we can get the glowy plants but other than that, really? This could be really awesome, but it need some serious work. Pretty please devs?