To be fair, his disapproval of using Force persuasion is entirely his own personal preference. There's nothing that suggests he'd likely be ok with you using it. If he was disapproving because he didn't think it worked, that would be much more akin to the issue I have with his character. Plus, to be fair, reasoning is subjective. From your Consular's point of view reason might dictate that you should all lay down arms and have a nice chat, whereas whatever desperate soul you're trying to talk down might apply very sound logical principles and come to the conclusion that their best move is to kill you and leg it. Keep in mind most people probably won't believe your promise of a "peaceful solution" when you're essentially the mouthpiece of the Republic and you've got a whacking great double bladed lightsaber in your hand. Using the Force to impose your version of a logical conclusion might not sit well with Tharan.

Yeh, this is exactly what I was getting at. No one with his scientific aptitude would remain so wilfully ignorant of something so obviously real. I think BW's desire to create a sort of Force sceptic character to go with the Consular was a good idea, it's a nice quirk. It just doesn't sit that they made him a genius too. Opposition of similar faith IRL is based on lack of evidence, Tharan has plenty of evidence. I think they could have just left that degree of scepticism out of his character. The disdain for your PC's often over the top "spirituality" when talking to or advising people who clearly don't subscribe to your way of life is good enough. His -3's whenever I tell someone that they need to be calm and trust in their emotions makes sense to me, just not his frequent "lol I don't think the Force can do that"-esque comments.

I know he considers him self as such but I was under the impression that he was right to do so. I thought he was supposed to be some sort of eccentric genius, it seems someone with his implied level of analytical and critical thinking would be perfectly ready and able to accept the Force given he's seen so much of it in action. He's got plenty of flaws aside from his slight contradictory approach to the Force. Chief among these being his very vocal pacifism...

Something doesn't make sense to me. Tharan is supposed to be a genius intellect and brilliant scientist is he not? I don't understand, then, why he's so continually sceptical of the Force and it's abilities/manifestations. It doesn't make sense. At first, fair enough, but no scientist who spends as long as he does with a Jedi like yours and witnesses what he does would possibly go against all the overwhelming evidence. For example (small spoiler): I understand his dislike of your Consular's "spiritual mumbo jumbo", it's true that sometimes you seem to speak in unnecessarily airy and philosophical language but it seems strange that he continues to doubt the power of the Force.

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120113042536/starwars/images/3/33/PreVizslaBaldy-SWE.jpg It is possible.

Playing a LS Consular is pretty good for being a "good guy". The story does make you feel like a beacon of honour or whatever amidst a sea of corruption and idiots.

This probably. People are often more vocal in their complaints than praise. If someone finds it ok or easy they're unlikely to tell everyone about it. If someone doesn't like it... Post New Thread

LotRO has this. It's a nice feature and you can get some nice surprises reading players' bios.

I see a disproportionate number of Mirialan troopers on TRE.

And are they Twi'lek?

Well this, obviously.

They probably are aware of it given that clipping is a pretty bad issue with a lot of mounts. Your robes tend to hang through the floor of a lot of speeders.

And sarcasm, too.

/signed

I get the feeling a lot of people really don't understand how difficult bugs are to squash.

Good to hear. Just need a blanket tool tip update then.

Was it a choice? I thought it snuck in by accident when they were fiddling with the back end of the mechanics?

This, unfortunately.

So, did you care less, or did you carry on caring a bit?

It could clash pretty hard with roll-playing though. If someone's got a pretty solid idea about their character and then all of a sudden he/she comes out with some one-liner that completely clashes with how they always behave in conversations etc it'd feel wrong.

This. Maybe a master-tier actor could have tweaked it slightly or made it slightly more convincing but it was always going to be awkward because of the writing.

No idea how the servers actually handle WZ but it could be that in normal play your ping is bearable since the actions of other players aren't directly linked to you. In a WZ you need to be right up to date with all the players from both teams, if all of them are in the server's home region and you're miles out maybe that could do it? Literally just guessing here to be honest.

240 is pretty bad as it is. Are you playing on a server from your region?

The Jedi Shadow (and presumably Assassin) jump is hilarious. It looks so creepy without the weapon in your hands. Like a baby T-Rex.

Is honour.. to serve... herald.