Calax

The Inquisitor seems to fall more into the betrayal/treacherous nature of the Sith, and the Apprentice/Master relationship. Although it tends to slide more into the fallout of those events more then the actual elements themselves. With the Sith Warrior, it certainly turns more towards the "grand orchestration" of plans. Darth Baras' whole "super spy network" does feel like something you'd expect from an Inquisitor more, but I can see how a Warrior can turn towards that. More the working precisely and taking out vital support points rather then just thundering around wildly and causing mass destruction. See... that's the thing though, the archtypes are flipped. It should be the Inquisitor that does the surgical and intelligence strikes to wipe out the opponents (both internal and external) with their master teaching them about the ways of the force, while the warrior should be leading the fights with as much brutality and bullheaded-ness as possible. As to the trooper, he may be spec-ops but "sneaking" doesn't exactly work when his armor is built around the clone trooper/storm trooper image and is all shiny and white. Again, it's kind of a thematic thing, but the trooper strikes me as the type that never goes and hacks points to gain entry to a hotel... instead he makes his way to the roof, repells down the wall and smashes through the window guns blazing. Although IMO he does have by FAAAAR the best companion (who you get on Nar Shadda) in Fourex. It's a droid who you get on Nar Shadda Him being hilarious!

Its been strange to me that the Warrior story line feels more politicky and backstabby than the Inquisitor storyline. And I am laughing at the number of times my trooper is supposed to "sneak" around places.

You can do light/dark with either side (empire or Republic). Personally, I'm a melee kinda guy so I've been sticking to Jedi Knight/Sith Warrior as my highest characters, but a Sith Inquisitor>Sorc is a really good combo to bum rush because you get your tank minion right off the bat.

The game doesn't really open up until you're about 16 or so (end of your capital planet) as that's when they unleash you on the Galaxy. At 10 is also when your gameplay starts to adjust because you get your talents and advanced class.

Lowering the tax rate on the average american (those that make between 90 and 150k a year)? Correct. Lowering the tax rate on the top 1% of americans (those that make 250k a year)? No. That's the point that Obama and the Democrats are trying to throw out. Should the Romney crew enter the white house, the tax rate would fall for that upper percentage, while the lower rungs would either stay the same, or see their taxes increase in an effort to salvage the economy. Of course, judging by the ads in my area, Obama is also trying to point out that Romney's realistic tax rate is significantly less than what the government is taking because of tax havens like the Bahamas and Monte Carlo. And the thing that politicians continually ignore is the fact that we have military budget that far outweighs what our military actually does. The republican party is doing everything it can to keep that budget at wartime levels by chopping social services spending, which most members of the american political institution circa 1945-1975 would probably think unassailable.

Just gonna say this. Aesthetically, I'd have probably swapped Taris and Corellia. Or at least given Taris the feel of Corellia based on the fact that Taris was supposed to be a city-world that rose wayyy up into the sky before Malak said "HAI GUISE!" Corellia was sort of "Space Earth" in terms of how it's been described in the rest of the EU, but it feels like a warhammer hiveworld that's in a civil war.

I didn't see the closing because I was doing something that night and the "end of the night" coverage was basically the Who's bit and then talking to athletes for some stupid reason.

Eh, couldn't disagree more. I've made it to lvl 40 (ok, granted, just the one char - secondary parenthesis, I refuse to subscribe to wow neologisms and call them anything else ) and I haven't noticed a change in the difficulty of the game. There have been occasional difficulty bumps, in class quests of all things, but general gameplay has been pretty smooth. I keep a constant 3-4 levels over the recommended, though. Well. I was thinking more in terms of the fact that mob density and strong/elite mobs show up a lot more once you're past those first few planets. On the intro, capital and first two act 1 planets, usually you can just jump in to your opponents and throw out your one AOE attack and kill them. Later you need an attack pattern and to ensure that your underlings are geared enough to do damage (same with your own gear)

Up until about level 25-30 almost everything will be a breeze. After that point, things start to become much rougher to play. Personally, one of the funner experiances has been a Sith Sorcerer because you have your tanking companion from the get go, and have all the delight of Sith Politics (although it does start to slow down later). Consular is also good, but is a TERRIBLE story for act 1.

They went through a string of server consolidations and free transfers with Corellian Run being A destination

We've never been a pure capitalist country. Just ask Herbert Hoover (or more specifically Andrew Mellon).

At least it's somebody I've recognized from various other news reports, rather than the Palin "HOLY JEEZ! NEW PERSON!"

From the Obama squad about the guy.

I think to a degree it's because the entire act has been leading up to Jaesa's defection. While the Inquisitors seduction is just a means to an end for the overall goal of Taris. Playing my warrior, the story is PHENOMINAL. I really love that it doesn't change gears completely between acts (you still have the same supporting cast all the way through, instead of basically starting an entirely new story once the second act begins).

It seems to have mostly stabalized into the standard MMO bracket, with several members of that who are also star wars fans. In the Foundry and Boarding Party flashpoints, not many people get the KotOR references I throw out.

Makes sense given how... finnicky the DA DLC is to install with Steam.

Taris

Had the McDonalds corp officials evaluate our lunch and dinner crews. Dinner beat lunch by 2% (a 94 to 96), Breakfast is being examined tomorrow. I'm pleased because at this point it appears that our store is going to come out as the top in the state (we're fourth busiest, but have the best metrics out of the state). And I am a part of the dinner crew. Also reading a very......... strange book. It's called Darkwar, by Glenn Cook. I still like his Black Company stuff better because the protagonists are more likable, but this is strange mainly because it starts out in a sort of Native American style (no tech, everyone lives in tribes and longhouses, there are hunts... yadda yadda yadda) and then just starts building the world. Every "Book" in the thing just expands the world and increases the tech (right now we're dealing with Nukes).

More like due to. Nerds, being unable to procreate and tending to have arcane, well-compensated skills tend to have disposable income only surpassed by gays and other DINK couples. Sorry, no. If that were true then Star Wars wouldn't have its marketing targeted at the youngest age groups, and instead be trying to keep an eye on the age group that it's been stuck with (which, right now) would be 30-60).

I think that's one of the strange things about Star Wars. And Trek for that matter. They've stayed alive despite an aging age group. Although, from what I've been told the animated clone wars series(s) (from Gennady Tadakofski and the CGI one) have actually been pretty dang good at being mature enough parents can watch, but fun enough for the kids to stay interested in. Trek was all but dead before the 09 movie, but they still tried to fart out a game or two. I feel like they need to do something for Star Wars, particularly if they want the Old Republic to be re-invigorated. Maybe let an up an coming director have the reigns of the series to make a side story movie?

Gotta say, in watching the Vault last night on NBC, I really wanna slap the smug out of Mckayla Murouni (or however you spell it). Just by how she acted and moved herself seemed very... arrogant and smug about "I'm the BEST!" Even in how she was doing the introductions... it was golf clap until she was introduced then it was "oh yay!" Part of me thinks that that pommel horse (or whatever they were using) was to low given how many people were to low on their vaults.

I think Bioware has a to attached fanbase for EA to just shut it down. Hell, EA is banking on that with the fact they opened extra studios on the Bioware name.

Any planet after about 30 starts to feel a weeeee bit to long. Taris and Hoth being the main offenders. Honestly I think this mainly comes from their flawed structure of their acts and planets. Things just feel to drawn out for how much is going on. Using the Knight as an example (so far it's been the paragon of how bad this is), The first four planets are basically "show up on planet, figure out where superweapon is, fight a dark jedi guarding super weapon, depart planet". Now, this is older info (I've been playing my sith wayyy to much) but I just remember going "REALLY? I have to do it all again?" when the fourth one popped up. The only real developments there occur because of your second partner, Kira, And that only shows up twice in total during the entire act. The Murauder is better (having you have slightly different goals between planets), but it still starts to fall into "Ok, why am I doing this again" territory by Alderaan. On the subject of voice assignment, I think the sith has a pretty good one. Basically any time you ask anyones name, no matter the Mass Effect style "intent" on the wheel, the warrior points to the floor and goes "Your name.... NOW!" I think one of the triggers for that response was literally me putting in the response "And who might you be?" Kind of Jaring.

Tale, Just be happy you didn't read the comic books set before KOTOR (the Tales of the Jedi comics). Then you'd be REALLY pissed when you saw Korribon Mandalorians and their war droids (this was when they were an honest to god alien species rather than "I'm ALIEN! I SWEAR!" humans) And the entire Duxn/Onderon combo (with a Warhammer looking republic ship being shot at by Mandalorians. Now a days you look back on those books and laugh... but god damnit when KOTOR first came out I WAS PISSSSSEEED! Particularly given that the writers at bioware re-labeled all the wars (with the Exar-Kun/Ulic Qel-Droma Sith War just being "the other war" while Malak/Revans war being THE Sith War)

http://kotaku.com/5928663/gamings-biggest-problem-is-that-nobody-wants-to-talk I know what the guy is talking about... but I look at it... look where it's from... look at it... think... and can only say one thing: "Is he asking the game industry to do his job for him?"