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Oct9

My SWTOR Encylopedia came today! So exciting. The book is HUGE. Like bigger than my head and takes up our whole TV table and is an inch thick or so huge.

ANYWAY, I shall now talk about some things I find interesting 😀

Stuff about the Chancellor and the guy before her… And stuff about Nadia’s dad! So sad his wife died through childbirth 🙁 “Tobas first noticed Nadia’s bizarre use of the Force when, as a baby, she lifted his collection of Sarkhai artifacts into the air–all without moving a finger.” so cute~

Proper Address – I DON’T CARE IF IT’S BEEN SIR FOR AGES I HATE IT. …that is all. >_> “The Command officials who implemented the policy and their supporters believed it would simplify interactions between members of diverse species, whose genders (or lack of gender) might be unfamiliar to one another. Detractors believe that the policy actually increases confusion by forcing the use of imprecise language, and makes interactions awkward for anyone who isn’t male.”
*AGREES WITH DETRACTORS*

Some stuff on the Military:
-Uniform colors vary based on service and location of deployment
-Soldiers below Colonel Rank are permitted to wear field dress in all but the most formal occasions
-Commander can be used to reference anyone in Command, however, earning it as an honorific title is one of the highest achievements.

General Garza enlisted in the military at 15 (using forced identity credentials).

HAVOC SQUAD REAL NAME TIME:
Gearbox – Bex Kolos – Only Havoc Squad Member recruited from armored vehicle division. Longtime personal friend of Jace Malcom.
Wraith – Zora (well…this is awkward) – Recruited directly from Mercenary service by General Garza
Fuse – Vanto Bazren – Youngest Recruit in History. Advanced Degrees in Chemical and Structural Engineering and Music Theory.
Needles – Ryler Dorant – “Repeatedly waived from standard psychological evaluations under authority of commanding officer. Qualified expert in vital pathology.”

TROOPER COMPANION AGES:
Aric Jorgan – 30
Elara Dorne – 26
Tanno Vik – 34 (Enlisted records suspected of being false)
Yuun – 28

And M1-4X’s production cost was 15 million credits.

Jedi Knight gets a master after rushing in and saving a bunch of people.

JEDI KNIGHT COMPANION AGES:
Rusk – 40
Scourge – 300+
Kira – 20
Doc – 28
T7 – 200+ years of service

Jedi Consular – “a gifted Padawan travels to Tython to complete the final trials and become a fully fledged Jedi”

JEDI CONSULAR COMPANION AGES:
Iresso – 31
Nadia – 22
Zenith – 36
Tharan – 29
Qyzen – Unknown, but says to be middle-aged.

ONTO THE IMPERIAL MILITARY:
Many officers keep their personal weapons

Moffs have many more color options for their uniform and the designs reflect both their past and current services.

Imperial Army Ranks: General, Ensign, Colonel, Sergeant, Major, Corporal, Captain, Specialist, Lieutenant, Private
Imperial Navy Ranks: Admiral, Ensign, Commodore, Petty Officer, Group Captain, Corporal, Captain, Specialist, Lieutenant, Private

IMPERIAL AGENT STUFF:
Keeper doesn’t have much, but suspected to have been recruited from the navy.

Watcher Two (Shara–“unconfirmed”) is believed to be a product of one of their multi-generational eugenics program to produce ideal operatives.

AGETIME:
Vector – 26
SCORPIO – Programming age unknown, but Current Chassis age is estimated to be less than5.
Raina – 24
Kaliyo – 29 (unconfirmed)
Doctor Eckard – 65 (unconfirmed)

SITH STUFF:
While Thanaton is 55, Zash’s age isn’t mentioned.

Some ages mentioned of various council members…

SITH WARRIOR COMPANION AGES:
Pierce – 29
Jaesa – 21
Broonmark – Unknown
Vette – 21
Quinn – 37

Due to the war, the Sith order bothers with slaves who are force-sensitive which brings us to the Sith Inquisitor~

SITH INQUISITIOR COMPANION AGES:
Khem – 2,000+
Andronikos – 35 (unconfirmed)
Ashara – 20
Talos – 27
Xalek – 24

SMUGGLER COMPANION AGES:
Akaavi Spar – 28
Bowdaar – 197
Corso Riggs – 22
Risha – 21
Guss – 33

BOUNTY HUNTER COMPANION AGES:
Blizz – Indeterminate
Skadge – 37
Gault – 54
Torian – 18
Mako – 19

…there’s then lots of details about species and plants and stuff but I shall end it here~

Time, Random Event Rambles, and Characters

Apr18

If there’s one thing that the game manages to have me think a lot about, it’s time. If you play both the Imperial and Republic storylines, you will get to a few instances where the planet you end up visiting takes place before or after the other faction has been there.

For example, you end up seeing Balmorra much earlier in the Imperial Storyline while you see Taris much later. It is reversed in the Republic Storyline. The effects of those earlier story lines end up being part of the later ones and the connection is very neat.

We had just finished Balmorra on the Imperial side so it was interesting to see the differences. Cessik, in particular, made me feel really bad about the Colicoids. I can’t help but wonder what happened to him.

But I remember watching my boyfriend go through the Jedi Knight Storyline during when he gets his last companion, the timing was very vague. It wasn’t stated just how long he was there–it could’ve been weeks, maybe months, and that is another aspect of just how time is.

There’s also instances where you may see companions of other classes featured while doing stuff with your companions on your character, for example in Qyzen’s story, there is actually a scene with him and Mako. I do wonder if you get Mako up, if you can find out why she owed Qyzen by any chance, as it’s not really detailed how she owed him a favor.

Similarly, for Jedi Knight’s, Doc ends up having Kaliyo in his storyline. Does Kaliyo ever vanish in the Imperial Agent Story line? Just all kinds of interesting questions.

Though, one that made me sad is that Vette never interacts with Risha. If you have seen Vette’s storyline, you will understand why this is pretty depressing.

I guess I’d love to get an idea on how the timing goes. I mean, when you’re doing the consular’s storyline and if all classes end up on Ilum at the same time, where are you while the Knight is being brainwashed? It’s just a lot to think about. Especially if you’re playing with each of the classes on your journey. For example, I totally ended up finishing off the Emperor when I was helping my boyfriend in his story. It’s not ever mentioned because technically there is no consular in the story–I was an unseen presence mixed in who totally replaced Kira.

I don’t expect them to make it recognizable–that’d be far too much work, but I think seeing some mixed things would be neat. I know there were occasional mentions of Player-Player romance and remember thinking that it’d be neat if each player had a few choices to pick from in those environments to kind of show what happened rather than just going into a family tree and setting spouse or something.

Speaking of family trees, I ended up remaking my Imperial Agent and Bounty Hunter. I had yet to do anything on either of them (besides pick up my mail) and had wanted to remake them for a while. I’ll hopefully remake my Smuggler soon, but that’ll cost 1.5 million and I do not have that… (Similarly, my Trooper which I do not have yet will be 1.5 million as well)…and let’s be honest, if I had 1.5 million, it’d be going to ship stuff.

…I really want the ship stuff 🙁 Why must dailies be the only way to get a nice amount of money T__T

Going back to the topic of family trees, I did end up making my Bounty Hunter and Imperial Agent sisters. I’m not really a big RPer, but it’s sometimes fun to think of character’s backstories. (Similarly, my Sorcerer and Sage are cousins, as will my Smuggler and Trooper be). Especially intertwined with the class stories.

And heading back to the original subject of time, that brings up a good idea of the event. Just how long does it last? Was the crash really that Sunday (ignoring that the area showed up earlier than that) or did they just finally get out Sunday? If the latter, why wasn’t it inspected earlier? How long exactly was the Shaman looking for a cure? It sounded like a long time, but it didn’t happen that long ago. Was there another incident? Just how does a day in RL translate to the time going in the game? Or does the time depend on just how much you do in the game? (and yes, I know I’m probably overthinking it)

Regardless, there is a new daily today, following the format. I expect the top to be out tomorrow unless they do end up giving everything (bracers, belt, weapon, etc.), but something tells me they won’t. Also, for those who also did not get their title, you’ll be happy to know it’s “fixed” now. In order to get your title, you must re-defeat the Infected Bantha in Outlaw’s Den. While I am happy it’s fixed, I really wish it could’ve been ANY of the infected bosses and not the hardest one considering that needs the biggest group and for crying out loud, it’s the one in the PVP area 🙁

Finally, to end this off, after talking to someone with the gold minimech today *ENVY*, it hit me the other big reason why I wanted to get it before 1.2. As with any big patch of new content…that’s what everyone wants to see. Thus why so many people on Tatooine (I hadn’t seen multiple instances of it in a very long time) and on the fleet trying to do the new flashpoint and operation. Ignoring who they will probably do the new content with….the old content is, well, old, and if you didn’t finish it before, it’s going to be even harder to find a group now 🙁

Adventuring vs. Random Drops vs. Buying vs. Gifts/Codes/Quests

Apr13

Now, I’m going to say this as simple as possible: I’m quite unlucky in games when it comes to random drops. I will be the person you will be stuck waiting on for every “gather #” quest because they hate my guts. So, for this reason alone, I’m not fond of trying to farm enemies to try and get a random drop. To me, that is as bad as a grind and more often than not, you can only fight those enemies a certain amount of times a day/week.

So, I really hate that the only way to get the M0GUL-Thrall Droid is to get lucky (as it’s a rare drop) from Karagga’s even though he sends gold bomb droids to blow up in your face like every 5 seconds.

And that apparently the Mysterious Egg is dropped from a boss only on one difficulty and who knows the drop rate.

I really dislike that.

I like exploring. And adventuring. And really prefer any other method than to have to try and farm things to get lucky.

I think the way it was made to find the Unusual Egg was REALLY awesome. I was all for finding the Mysterious and Wonderous eggs the same way. And now? They might not exist like that. I’d like to hope maybe they’re available both ways, but there is no confirmation and BioWare is trying to be as vague as possible–which I don’t blame them for, afterall, you don’t want to just give everything away and ruin the adventure for the players, but just some confirmation so people aren’t all over the world or constantly killing things to let them know that way doesn’t work.

I don’t mind buying pets–in fact, that was how pretty much every single one, with the exception of the M0GUL-Thrall Droid was obtained, so I am glad they were trying to make things more interesting. To this moment, my journey to get my Magenta Lightsaber crystal was my FAVORITE thing thus far. I enjoyed it so much.

Getting them as Gifts and Codes works too. I have mixed feelings on them (as not everyone can get everywhere so thn you’re kind of stuck with Ebay for ridiculous prices), but I still prefer them to random drops.

However, if they were Quest rewards or GUARANTEED that when you killed Karagga or that boss, the droid/egg would be dropped, fine! I’m good with that. Of course, then it’d be too “common”….but is that ever really such a bad thing? There’s so many pets–it’s not like everyone will be using that one in the first place.

But most of all, this forces people who may not like to do operations or flashpoints or things like that (maybe being more of a solo player) into having to do them if they want all the pets while something like Exploration does not.