Aerin

On Dantooine, if you get the quest from Saedhe to look for the atmospheric sensors, when you find them and Bao Dur is in your party, you can have him examine them for influence. For influence and ls points, you can refuse Saedhe's offer for a higher price. Bao Dur will tell you that "you did the right thing."

I think Atton is totally plausible as a jedi. His story is all about angst and redemption, so it made sense to me. Handmaiden and Disciple are pretty clearly meant for jedi training, but I found neither of their stories to be remotely interesting.

The romances for the male exile were okay -- at least you can get a somewhat complete romance with Visas. However, the romances for the female exile were pathetic! There's no resolution whatsoever with either Atton or Disciple apart from Kreia's look into the future at the end. Also, it sucks that although you can technically "choose" a potential romantic partner (I think that's only if you're lightside and talking to Mira; don't remember what happens when you're DS) it has no effect on your conversations or influence with them. I chalk a lot of it up to the rushed production.

That supposed influence gain with Atton has never worked for me either. I haven't found a way to fix it either. <_<

So did I, although I understand why a lot of people don't. The complaining and not trusting can get old after a while -- I just happen to love the angst. I thought he was a great character with a lot of depth, but the script didn't really do him justice.

What works for me is (6*2) - 8 + 9 / 1 = 13. I think it's a bug that only one of these solutions work and it's not necessarily the same every time.

Yeah, that's happened to me but I save obsessively so it was no big deal -- just annoying. Once the Red Eclipse fight never triggered at all even though I'd done all the sidequests and the Exchange was plenty mad at me -- had to do Nar Shaddaa ALL over again. That was the worst bug I came across.

I love the idea of the exile being "officially" female although it doesn't really have much impact on the story as opposed to the first game. (I do think Revan being canonically female would've added more dimension to the story <_< ). I have to agree that Mical definitely could've been more attractive. However, I do think he's a little underrated, or maybe I just find him a lot less offensive than other people do. I mean, he was a goody-goody and kind of boring, but on the annoying scale, he rates far below Brianna, who (sorry) annoyed me to no end. I can see how they tried to give the character depth, but it just didn't work for me. I LOVED Atton as a character, and his story was really interesting, but his voice actor was so bad (sorry Nicky Katt) that I played the game on mute most of the time.

I generally keep Atton around as well.

Maybe its just me but I find master vrook to be tougher than the others in the council. If I play darkside I do not go to dantooine first because I wait to level up to face vrook. I usually go to dxun first because you have to make two trips there anyway and canderous is a good shooter to have. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah, Vrook is by far the toughest, which is why I just go to Dantooine to clean out the crystal cave then leave before doing the rest of it. Although, I don't think the fight with him is that difficult, it's definitely long.

don't try and kill all the mercenaries, try to run past them into the next room, once you leave the main arena, with two doors left or right, go straight on into the central room, there will be a door on the left hand side, go through it and there will be a monitor on the wall opposite where you come in, use it to open all doors and then gameplay will switch to the Exile. Hope that helps <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Also, you might try to give Mira some stealth points when you level her up (you don't have to level her all the way, just a couple of times) and a stealth generator to help her get past the mercs. It won't work on the first two right outside the door, but if you have a lot of mines, lay them around the door before you open it.

Rakata Prime was beautiful but it really just looked like Hawaii to me. I love the view of the valley of the sith lords in K2 behind the ebon hawk. The barrenness coupled with the statues is very striking.

This is just my personal preference, but when I play dark side, I go through the cave to get the crystals, go to the enclave to get a lightsaber part from Jorran (the scavenger who's stuck there). Then I leave and do another planet or two (Onderon and Nar Shaddaa) before finishing Dantooine, because the final part of the planet is hard to do at lower levels. But the loot in the crystal cave and even the enclave is nice to have early on.

You get the first part (the vocabulator) on Peragus, the second part (the control cluster) either on the plateau on Telos or from Akkere the merchant on Dantooine, the third part (the processor) from Kodin the droid merchant on Nar Shaddaa, and the last part (the HK chassis) from one of those three HK-50s in Vogga's warehouse on Nar Shaddaa.

Akkere always has the control cluster in my games (just loaded it up to make sure). The merchant on Nar Shaddaa has the HK processor.