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Non game breaking stuff that would be cool to put at the cash shop and that will give them $$$$ and give the game a long life:
- Paid character transfers.
- Paid rename.
- Paid race change/face change.
- weapons/armos skins (no stats), vanity items, ship decorations, speeders, etc..
- vanity pets, dances, emotions, etc.
- Warzones/Flashpoint/Operation packages for F2P players.
- Character slots, creation options, bank space, etc for F2P players
- Inc exp game/drop rate for X ammount of time.
Stuff I don't want to see in the cash shop and will make me stop playing:
- Paid advanced class respect (so ppl won't switch to the FotM class every time they want....you are a commando stick with it or reroll a Vanguard)
- Better items than the ones you get in game (i.e. 250% speeder with no chance to dismount, better ship upgrades, etc)
- Vanity items/costumes with stats (Polar Bear costume +50 all stats + 500hp + 3% atk speed for 30days...have to renew it each month)
- Crafting materials
- Cash shop only companions (new R2-D2 companion tank+heals+dps, batteries sold separately)
- Cash shop only stats buffs.... +500 expertice amulet for 30days, +5k HP scroll for 2 hours. +500 power/surge/alacrity scroll for 2 hours, etc.
- Endgame PVE/P weapons/armors....grind that Rakata/War Hero set like we all did.
So if I pay a sub, I can use/save the cartel coins to buy a cool looking armor skin, or to change my human jedi to a zabrak, sutff like that......not paying USD 15 each month for full game access, but besides that having to pay USD 7 each month for a + stats costume + USD 5 each month for a expertice buff + USD 1 for each stat scroll just to be able to compite in a RWZ
^ Exactly this.
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Naaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh... I'm not going to call you a sheep. It's not necessarily a bad thing to have options, especially options that help you spend more time enjoying the great parts about the game and less time on the droll, needless stuff like all the loading screens.
But, still, for as nice a feature as a way to bypass a crapton of loading screens would be, if they implement it as cash shop only, that could be considered pay-to-win, right?
No... My ability to quick travel more than you does not affect my ability to outperform you in PVP or PVE. That is what P2W is. When the people with the most money to waste get better gear, more buffs, etc... just by spending money instead of putting the time and effort in to it. You need to rethink your idea of a good idea and cash perk vs. something that truly throws off the balance of the game, giving the advantage to the people with the most cash. Sure, they can quest faster, but when it comes down to gearing up, they still have to wait in the same load screens as the rest of us for Flashpoints, Ops, and PVP.
This would be a great investment for people with lower-end computers that have ridiculous load times, but it will not let them be better than me just because they can spend more on items that let them get from point a to point b faster.
You'd probably consider a faster speeder play to win.
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F2P is fine, buying new cloths, speeders, pets, etc.. is great....but if it goes P2W myself and the 25+ people I know will stop playing that day. Perfect World International was an awesome game, but only way you can do PVP is if you spent $3,000 on gear to compete, and more if you want to win. That's stupid, and drove most people away from the game.
Agreed. I played PWI for a little over 2 years. I spent way more money than is reasonable just so I could go on raids and compete in PvP. A buddy of mine wasn't paying attn... when he looked back, he spent over 15k in that game.
It's absolute lunacy. LOTRO has a few "buffs" and stuff you can buy from their Turbine store, but in the grand scheme of things, you don't need them to be competitive. I don't foresee TOR doing even this. They understand the necessity of keeping their subscribers.
If they go like PWI, I'm gone. If they go like LOTRO, I'll complain, but I'll probably stick around.
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Yesterday I played a character I had rolled on The Shadowlands a while ago. I leveled her to 11 and took her to fleet. There on fleet with 300+ other players the first thing I saw was that (as expected) General chat was filled with morons talking about Chuck Norris.
Yeah, I guess that's what I should expect from such overpopulated servers. That doesn't mean I have to like it.
Very Heavy != overpopulated.
If you don't like general chat, turn it off.
I for one LOVE going to the fleet and lagging like crazy. I mean, I play on average 50-80fps anywhere including warzones. I hop on the fleet I drop to 15-20fps. It means it's busy. It means I never have to wait 3 hours for a queue to pop. It means I never have to spam RDPS LF HM for 2 hours to get into a FP. It's amazing and I'm beyond happy.
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It happens to me anytime my target dissappears before the unload sequence finishes.
Doesn't matter if they die, stealth or even just get out of range.
It can be stopped by several means but that doesn't make it less annoying or even less favorable to our class. In a WZ with constant action, I have to stop and perform a silly action while other classes beat on me!!!
BIOWARE IS STUPID OR JUST DOES NOT CARE!
I can not decide which is worse?
Because this problem is such a gamebreaker that they should drop all bug-fixing tasks to fix it?
I call it my "shooting from the knees" skill and it makes me laugh. I'll miss it when it's gone.
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I do fine in the Recruit gear. I started PVP after I got to 50 on my Mercenary. I was terrible playing against other geared players, and the recruit gear gives me the ability to at least compete in a WZ.
That being said, I absolutely LOVE the gear grind. I love doing everything in my power to kick some faces to get as many comms as possible. The grind makes getting the gear that much sweeter when you have it. I only have 3 pieces of BM gear, and it only took me a couple days worth of PvP to get them.
Don't change it BW -- People just don't want to EARN anything anymore. If it's not GIVEN to them, they won' t be happy.
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This very nearly made me not buy SWTOR. I had to have a friend show me where the quest was. This is too important an opportunity to throw to fate. It needs to be tied to a bread crumb quest in your class quest.
One other thing, I know several people who leveled characters to 50 without their advanced class. They did it for the challenge of it.
It's not like you lose your talent points. If you learn it at 20, you have 10 points you can attribute. You're not missing out on anything. None of the skills do THAT much for you until later levels anyway.
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This very nearly made me not buy SWTOR. I had to have a friend show me where the quest was. This is too important an opportunity to throw to fate. It needs to be tied to a bread crumb quest in your class quest.
Are you kidding me? Not knowing where to pick up your AC made you nearly not buy the game?
Give me a break. You can throw out a quick "Hey... Where do I learn my Advanced Class?" in general chat on Drummond Kaas or the Fleet, and everyone will tell you where to go. When I first started that's how I figured it out. I left Korriban at level 8 so I was on Drommund Kaas for awhile before learning my AC.
Man... In retrospect, my own inability to properly ask a question in chat makes me regret buying this game and leveling several characters to 50.
Bioware should hand feed me every quest, come to think of it. There was a mission on Coruscant I missed the first two times around because I didn't spend much time in the senate tower and ran right by it.
I think I'm entitled to my money back.
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Even the republic dances are worst than the empire.
Republic dancing
Empire dancing
Clearly everyone should have joined the empire for a good time.
.... What did I just witness?
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Hi peepz , My fps Probs are stated, with my performance settings and my rig, If anyone cud give me som info to fix my fps problems, Ive tried all stuff based opon the forums and youtube, and still no increase, Any help wud be great Ty for your time to read....
My Graphics Settings [iN -GAME]
No Vertical Sync
Refresh Rate = 60
Resolution = 1920x1080
Character Lvl Of Detail = High
Texture Quality = High
AA = Off
Texture Anistrophy = Low
No Shadows
No Bloom
No Coversation Depth of field
Shader Low [Not Very Low]
Grass Quality = 20%
Tree Quality = 40%
MY Fps, For current activitys
Warzones = 15 - 20 FPS
Fleet = 50 - [70 Only when minor amount of peepz about]
Questing = 100 - 120 FPS [Very happy with this]
And Now my RIG details, VIA DXDIAG
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1
AMD Athlon II X4 640 Processor (4 CPUs), ~3.0GHz
8192MB RAM
DirectX 11
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Just A few notes to add, BF3 runs quite amazingly WEll!!!, Like it does on the xbox 360, no problems, and all other games, like COD MW3, Assasins Creed 1-3, Batman arkham city all work like PRO, wud say better than they do on xbox, So really dont know what my problem is with swtor, Thanks again peeps For takin the time to read!!
You're fine on Fleet (anything over 60 is invisible to the human eye, anything over 30 is acceptable visually), but Warzones and Ilum are known to have low FPS. Please go to the Customer Service forum and QQ in the "Horrid FPS" thread with everyone else.
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Shift and right-click I think it is? Or it's shift and left-click. I can't remember exactly but I do believe it is shift and click on the item. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Shift + Left click to link in chat. Right click opens the modification panel.
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This is a general suggestion to allow us to view our characters with their gear (and the upgrades in the gear) from the website.
Often times when I get a quest reward that is an enhancement or a mod, I have to go through every piece of armor/weapon I have on my toon to see whether it's better than what I currently have or if I should just take the commendations. This means, since we can only have 2 windows open at a time, it shows and hides a bunch of windows over and over and over again before I can properly make my mind up.
I resorted to creating a excel spreadsheet that I put the current upgrades in my gear in. Naturally, I forget to update this, then using it as a reference, I pick an upgrade having forgotten that I had just upgraded my equipment.
I know, it's kinda QQ, but I think it would be beneficial to many people. I have two monitors, so I always have my browser open on my secondary monitor. Being able to view all of my characters with their gear and upgrades, I'd be able to just hover over a piece of gear to know what my guy currently has. I understand it might take a couple hours for the site to be upgraded with that information.
I don't know, maybe LOTRO spoiled me with that capability. I know other MMOs do not have this functionality, but I thought it was extremely useful.
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Mouse works fine here. User error detected, please move on.
Ditto.. I have to turn my mouse DPI down on my R.A.T.7 and camera rotation speed and mouse sensitivity are set really low... Works fine for me.
Moving the mouse in Windows is painful with the lower DPI though, but luckily my mouse has a button to raise or lower DPI right on it, so I just swap it around.
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The big thing is not the processor - the processor should be enough. The big thing is the video card. The built in 6150se is a little on the low end.
The system does show that it can be upgraded with PCI express x16 cards, so you could look into getting one for cheap.
You'd be surprised how much trouble a dual-core processor will have in an MMO. My girlfriend's computer has a new Radeon 6850, but she still can't run at the highest settings because even at mid settings, her CPU is running at 98% constant.
MMOs require a lot more processing power than your standard single-player games and more often then not, you're going to run in to a CPU bottleneck. Though yes.. the Nvidia 6150se is a terrible card.
I wouldn't run this thing with anything less than a 9800gtx or Radeon 4850.
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Monitor message is stuck on screen saying to change resolution settings to 1920 x 1080 but my choices top at 1600 wth? How to fix? halp!
Try going to:
C:\Users\{yourname}\AppData\Local\SWTOR\swtor\settings
This may be different based on your install.. It's possible that the swtor above is retailclient or something like that.
Open client_settings.ini in Notepad or Wordpad
Change the following lines to:
NativeHeight = 1080
NativeWidth = 1920
This should help.
You could also change:
Fullscreen = false
This will load the game in windowed mode then you can modify your screen resolution in game after that.
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I agree the idea had merit, but what they believed it would do failed (no queues, no crashes, more even spread over servers).
If they had dumped the pre-kickoff guild idea & went for a pre-start "Pick you server early, play with your friends on a server of your choosing!" then lock the players to it (unless theres a good reason to swap ofc), they would then know the numbers on each, know what each could handle (making it faster to pump out keys), and could possibly have let all on at once if the stress test worked (it must have failed badly if the answer is let x-amount on at a time... If it's that unstable at the 20th it's gonna bang!).
Like I said in the OP, I didn't have any kind of queue at all.. I didn't have any crashes... It went super smoothly. This was an East coast PVE server.
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Dunno what servers you were playing on during the 'stress test' but I had only one servercrash the entire time. Had to queue a few times, once for 45mins, but that was the only time over the usual 5-10mins.
Bad server launch: OMG most people can't play because of the queues stopping people getting onto the servers!
Good server launch: OMG most people can't play because of the staggered access stopping people getting onto the servers!
The masterstroke is that people wanting to play but being unable to are spamming the forum, their email accounts, even the launcher instead of the server select screen. In a couple of months we'll be able to see more clearly whether the staggering has created more stable server populations. That's the primary reason behind the staggering, as opposed to simply bringing more and more servers online as required
It might be that I just picked bad servers for both of my betas lol. First beta I was in, it went down for about an hour and a half, then the stress test, it went down a couple times, but for shorter durations.
And I'm not sure if you're trying to disagree with me or agree with me, either way, I agree with your sentiments on server launches
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Is there a reason it doesn't work in windowed mode? I can only seem to get it running in full screen mode.
There are tons of issues with vertical sync when running games in windowed mode. The biggest being "tearing" issues. Vsync only works well when the game is the only thing visible on that particular monitor.
Clicking in and out of games with Vsync can also cause a lot of other undesirable effects to your gameplay. One would be, you click out of game, you get a black screen, then it stays black when you click back in so you have to force close and open back up.
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Hey there,
Will there also be an android app for the security key?
I too would like an Android app.
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You know, from the way servers were crashing left and right during the last stress-test beta run, I was seriously afraid for the launch. I'm still afraid for the 20th when people who don't preorder get in, but I'm not nearly as afraid as I was.
I got my invitation for early access yesterday morning, but couldn't do anything about it until the evening. I logged on for the first time to Sith Meditation Sphere at ~7:00pm. This is pretty much the "prime time" of MMOs from my experience. The server was at "Standard" capacity and I had NO LAG... NO QUEUE... NO PROBLEMS!
Completely shocked and very pleasantly surprised.
The people who are complaining about how you're doing this launch must not have been at the launch of any other MMOs that were just like, "Here you go everybody... start playing right now." Staggering it like this is brilliant. The complainers just need to look in the mirror and say, "If I want FREE early access... you know... early, I should preorder sooner." I ordered on the 26th and I wasn't upset that it took until Wednesday to get my invitation... A little shocked and excited that that many people preordered within the first week of preorders.
Things have been greatly refined since the last beta too.
Well played BioWare. Ignore the haters cause they're going to hate. It's not your fault they can't read good[sic]! Entitlement is a dish best served to the dog.
See you all in game!
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First off, is there a Barber-shop in the game, allowing you to change hairstyle down the road? I heard there was, but never confirmed it myself.
Secondly, is it possible to at least change your Complexion? That is, by far, the most difficult thing to try and decide up when playing a new character. I'm *pretty* happy with all my other choices, but when it comes to Complexion, the differences are so subtle that I'm afraid I won't know which version I like best until a few months after the game's been out.
Thanks in advance
I was curious about the same thing. I played beta, but never looked for one (fail).
Don't you dare go Pay2Win Bioware!
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Ha.. you better not. I'm not even caught up on Season 2. And then I read the book after I watch the entire season since the book is always much better!