Today's Random comic is by Isriana on DA
A Slight Exaggeration by Isriana
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So, if you've logged into SWTOR this past week, you'll notice a change in the guild-master and name. I have handed Guild Leadership off to Silversword and changed the guild name to "Runs with Blasters" to more closely match the Emp-side guild, "Runs with Lightsabers".
Why the sudden change? It's not so sudden, actually. I have canceled my subscription and gone to Free-To-Play. As such, I can no longer serve as guild master. The game simply won't let me. I have been debating this for some time now. But the real nail in the coffin was discovering a Q&A on Darth Hater with the Bruce Maclean, the then Lead on Rise of the Hutt Cartel this past weekend.
In it - he goes to say that they have stopped all story development for the classes and will only concentrate on the larger world stories.
Q: Where does the development team stand with regards to individual class stories? Are these still a priority for upcoming content?
Great question. The way you choose to overcome your own personal villains is a crucial part of what defines your character, and once you’ve gotten closure on your personal story, you’re ready to be a key player in the larger conflicts that threaten the Empire and the Republic. Moving forward, we’re focusing on those stories – conflicts that decide the fate of the entire Galaxy and demand the attention of other living legends like yourself. You can still put your personal touch on these stories, and you’ll develop relationships just like before, but now the stakes are higher, and the experience can be shared with your friends.
Read the whole interview HERE.
This might sound okay at first, until you realize that EA had laid off all story development personal when they did that purge right before going Free-To-Play. Makeb made it through by being already in production when they decided to shift focus.
Don't get me wrong - I loved Makeb, the Planet of Bacon. And if we continued to see more content like that, I would be more than willing to keep my subscription. But at this point, with the whole new expansion *purely* being the ship to ship battle in a PvP setting...
Oh and a new flashpoint that you can run at any level because folks don't want to level through the story, that's boring...
Yeah, not holding my breath.
If they, perchance, do something like Mekab again, I'll happily resubscribe. Until then, I will continue to log on Fridays to be social, and occasionally run around and lob mortars and things on Mekab.
I just don't see a reason why I should pay to chat with my friends.
So grats to Silver, our new guild-master. May the Force be with you.
Yup! It's that time for Random Comic fun! This week we have Not Again! by saurien on Deviant Art.
Not Again! by saurien
So - I got an email from EA/BioWear yesterday asking to fill out a survey on how I liked the resolution of the HK debacle. I have not, as yet of this posting, filled it out. But I have logged in to see the actual ticket. Instead of refunding the parts, they did one better, they bumped everyone who had parts up to a complete on that step in the chain. This means Moe is now on Lord of Agony and last step in the chain. Everyone who filled out a trouble ticket should be on the same step now too.
I know there was talk about ditching SW:TOR over this if the resolution wasn't sound. I for one am please with the resolution on my end, but I am still looking at EA/BioWear with a leery eye. While I know going FTP has helped their bottom line immensely and really brought new players in the fact that the seem more concerned with filling up the cash store than working out the engine-rot that the FTP version introduced leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.
Oh - and I still haven't gotten the title for pre-ordering/subscribing to the expansion Hutt Rartel. ~.~
Found this on DA - thought Silver would enjoy it.
Taking Doc for a walk by Juanxer
Meet Albidus Nike!
**this is a work in progress - and mostly for fun. ^.^
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- Dispite the 5 O’clock shadow, he really has a “sweet” face.
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- His DPS gear – all the better to rifle-butt you with
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- Titan’s meat-sheild, er, I mean tanking gear.
BASIC INFORMATION
Full name: Albidus Nike
Pronunciation:
Nickname(s) or Alias: Titan/Titanium, Buckethead
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Age: 32
Sexuality: Straight (but not Narrow)
Nationality: Corellia
Religion: None (but has started to lean towards Vossian ways as of late)
City or town of birth: Coronet City
Currently lives: Aboard his ship, moored at the Republic Fleet.
Languages spoken: Basic, Huttese, Gand, Selonian, and (slowly) learning Gree
Native language: Basic
Relationship Status: Single/Open, but he's still reeling from his last love, whom he got killed.
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art by Artyewok
(Amy Pronovost)
So - as most of you have heard already, SWTOR is adding in a new companion to the game in the near future, an Ewok.
Now, while I have nothing either for nor against Ewoks, this suddenly brought an earlier conversation to mind I had with a friend of mine who is a SERIOUS Star Wars head and Ewok lover, Amy Pronovost*. In that talk I had asked if Ewoks were possible and she replied no, it was too early for the Moon of Endor's discovery by the public at large.
When Bioware announced the new companion my immediate reaction was to poke her via my LiveJournal and asked her "Amy, doesn't that break the time line?"
Her reply -
:O It does, majorly.
BUT BUT BUT. There are Duloks in the galaxy at large in the Prequel era. And the 'Castaways of Endor' article Dan Wallace and I wrote kind of opens the door to Ewoks being found earlier.
The forest moon was a destination for slave and circus ships. That's how the duloks got out (They negotiated with the slavers), and that's how a smattering of Ewoks would have made it out, too, I suppose.
So, yeah, while a little jarring in that it pushes back the timeline quite a bit, it is plausible.
Do I get nerd points?
*Just for the record - Amy has worked officially on some of the Star Wars world books and even has a semi-cannon race, the Amarans. Hence why she's my go-to girl for all things Star Wars. ^.^
So as most of you know - Poor Titanium is stuck on Tatooine, trying to get the 2 datacrons on the Sandcraler in the Dune Sea. This is a long, boring process, that is made even more painful by the balloon occasionally bugging. While they have fixed it in the past it keeps cropping up like a Chuthulu spawn.
However I really liked the proposed suggestion of one person, Valethar, on the SWTOR forums -
What we need to do is send a fleet to Azeroth.
Once there, we send down an invasion force, and enslave as many Gnomes and Goblins as possible, then import them to Tatooine.
While that fleet is gone, we mobilize another fleet, exterminate the Jawas, and prepare the planet for it's new inhabitants.
Within days we'll see construction beginning on a new fleet of airships that not only do not vanish mere yards from their destination, but will move faster and be steerable by more than a Womp Rat passing gas 100 kilometers away.
Or we could just leave the Jawas on Tatooine, and import the Gnomes and Goblins to Austin, TX instead.
One way or the other, the balloon would get fixed.
Well said!
EDIT: with all that said - I think I've figured out a way to have just ONE person go though the ride, and can pull up the rest of the party to get the others without pain. I will set Moe up for this soon, if folks are interested.
I suppose I called it the other night, although not quite like I was thinking. The first digital expansion is coming out raising the level cap to 55. Also some new story content and a new planet. Hmmm....
