Gorth

I still don't understand why they made the h2 versions of the star fortress in the first place. they would for me have been obvious candidates for tactical flashpoints and the option to used group finder to complete that one off you need to do for each planetary sf to unlock the companion (and then grind the solo versions afterwards)

Yeah, send in ye olde B52's and carpet bomb them with Playboy magazines. See if that has an effect on their structural integrity as an organisation As much as people scoff at the idea, whoever said they need real jobs was actually hitting the nail on the head. The tradition for recruiting zealots for any cause is centuries old and has always been most successful amongst those who feel like they have no future of their own, might as well give their life for somebody else's agenda.

Commercial news are fair and balanced the same way burger is considered fair and balanced diet by a burger chain.

Luckily you only need to do each of the 6 SF's once per toon, so I guess as far as I am concerned, I can survive actually teaming up with another human for that. The whinging is strong on the bioforums at the moment though. Sudden shock and horror at discovering that they may have to use the solo mode for soloing SF's didn't sit well with a lot of people (also a bit funny watching the same 3-4 people constantly spamming the threads with the same message). Personally, I'm more pissed off that the Find a Findsman quest is broken now, so my trooper can't start looking for companions. Broken the same way as Mako's All Work and No Play companion quest, you pick up the mission and only get the title No tasks and no quest triggers. They seriously need to invest more in QA "over there". I think I filed at least 30 bug reports from major nuisances to downright game stopping bugs the last 3 weeks.

I know it's no comfort, but western girls are just as much victims of fictive "ideals". The fashion industry is a real killer. If curious, try looking up anorexia and suicide rates, cyber bullying, etc. The "western world" is a lot more brutal and cruel than most people give it credit for, not just against other people, but in particular it's own people. Edit to add: It's not all bad of course, but the trick is to adopt the good parts and discard the bad parts and then determine your own way

No, not implying any ugliness. The point of the tale is that the "duckling" feels like the rest of his surroundings consider him as such, until he realises that those opinions aren't what matters, even if he has to suffer a lot in the process (and discovers his own identity and value in the process)

@Qistina: If it hasn't been banned yet, I would recommend a story written by a fellow countryman of mine a few centuries ago (I was born Danish) called "The Ugly Duckling". Sounds to me that you are suffering an identity crisis and feel betrayed by what you first wanted to be (and therefore reacting with hostility towards anything related to it).

I always wondered if oby was female...

Heh, Ashara for female inquisitors (my old assassin tank girl) springs to mind. She hates everything (or at least it felt so when levelling up). Had to buy a lot of purple junk to boost her affection pre-4.0 I'm a bit envious of your 7k+ affection. Only had time for one run, the aforementioned 4500 affection points for Mako. May need to practise a bit and see which companions reacts more strongly to certain answers (if at all). I suspect it's a better tool for some companions than others. but then, you really only need 1 or 2 maxed out companions (for the crits in crafting and gathering missions). The data miner guy claims that companion healing is due for a nerf tomorrow. If so, glad I did get my one for all achievement already (and Macroth on the harbinger now has the title 'The One and Only'... yes vanity, not a nice trait, I know)

I hope it's a bug, but none of your old love affairs seems to appreciate courting gifts anymore. Those who had courting gifts as an "alternative" still love the alternatives, but couldn't care less about courting. Still hanging on to a pile of old purple courting gifts in case it's a bug that gets fixed. Trying to play one faction side through the missions on a couple of servers (bounty hunter/trooper on Harbinger, Jedi Consular/Sith Inquititor on Jedi Covenant etc.)

Tried out the black talon run with my old main (powertech). Got 4500 influence with Mako for being all nice. Yes, she's a bad influence on my bounty hunter.

@Orogun: Mate, it sounds like you are trying to build up the courage to propose to a girl or something similarly dreadful Joking aside, based entirely on what little info a few snippets of text gives away, sounds like you lack purpose. Ever considered volunteering for a year for some kind of aid organisation? Anything happening in Cuba that could catch your interest? Just set a goal and be willing to sacrifice 6-12 months of your life to do something completely unusual from what you normally do.

I admire your persistence Gromnir, no one should ever claim you leave a stone unturned I think, I'm going to stick with Esseles/Black Talon and the Belsavis ones and then focus on one or two combat companions (the one or two favourites I got per alt) and then also use that companion(s) to try to get the purple diplomacy/slicing/underworld mates (and crafting for those alts that have crafting skills). Multiple roles is nice, but I think I miss their old skills, like Vector the Diplomat having a knack for diplomacy etc. It's just one of those things that feels like you lost something that made them special. Not my biggest gripe though, I do like that I can bring my favourites along for missions and not worry about class role. Just wish they had actually made combat fun along the way. At the moment, it feels like a third person shooter with little or no tactics involved. Combat and encounter design feels completely fubar (since Shadow of Revan).

Bon voyage V'ger

I suspect the results are going to be not representative based entirely on the (possibly wrong) assumption that it takes certain kinds of people to hang out on a video game forum.

A friend and I tried this little online personality test. Unlike most of the "fun" ones out there, this one was almost spooky in how close it got to a lot of things about us. http://www.16personalities.com/ On their website they claim: "Take our Personality Test and get a 'freakishly accurate' description of who you are and why you do things the way you do." Well, it was freakishly accurate (you do need to be honest though in your answers) It labelled me "Logician". Never heard that before, but the details fits like a hand in glove. So, who are you? (takes 15-20 minutes to complete)

Maybe you don't know yourself as well as you thought?

I was just reading Gromnirs experiments with influence. My max influence level is a Scorpio with level 16. Still some work to do Doesn't help that I have no time at the moment. Gave up trying to find pug groups for killing WB's and too lazy to kill Wampas, so started playing a consular through the story to get Qyzen. Edit: Ironically, the only character I have with valor level high enough (has valor 60+ iirc) to get Pierce is my old vengeance juggernaut, so he would get Pierce anyway if trying to recruit him.

That was my first thought too, could have done it for the 1/10th of the cost then But that isn't good enough for the UK banks anymore. You need to drag the landlord to a solicitor then and have the solicitor to co-sign and rubber stamp the agreement as genuine and then it's still questionable if they would take it (more likely if you are a UK citizen). A signed piece of paper from an accredited real estate agent they have no issues with. Edit: Just for good measure, it's not a legislation thing, it's something the members of some bankers association all agreed upon this year, so it wasn't much of a problem earlier. Now, even returning UK citizens can't open a bank account (hope they hung unto their old ones before leaving). Exemption are those working for the Crown, that is armed forces personnel etc. Also not a problem if you are wealthy enough, then they still want your money. Just deposit 25000 pounds and prove that you have an annual income of more than 150000 pounds. Then they send the business to the overseas branches and circumvent the local rules that they all agreed upon (yes, I checked all the major banks, they all have similar rules in that regard).

I think Bioware has a thing against female Twileks (I can't believe it took me 2 years to realise that was a word play on two lekkus), since two of the most dislikeable characters in the game are Asara and Saresh (sp?). Not getting much game time outside weekends at the moment. Crappy motel wifi doesn't help (1000 ms lag on Red Eclipse)

Beating the system. Sort of. Solved my banking problem by renting the cheapest place I could find through an agent, even if i'm never going to set foot on the premises. Got the tenancy agreement in the bank and all was good, got a new bank account. Now I just need a *real* address to call home (and a car). It sure was an expense I could have been without though, but whatever. Should make the revenue service happy too

Found out the hard way that German banks can take lessons from UK banks in anal retentiveness. No way can you open a bank account (even if you are a returning UK citizen, no kidding) unless you have a permanent address in the UK. So, had to go out and rent a place where I'm never going to set foot, just so I can visit the bank tomorrow with a piece of paper that says, yes Gorth lives here, even if it's just for show. Bloody paper pushers :roll: Also getting intimately familiar with the M4, M3, M25 and M5.

Not so much a spoiler, but just endless bugs. I guess they got their schedule worked out the next couple of months if they want to just fix the most obvious ones. I did laugh when Corso Riggs no longer can use "Torchy", the gun he's been moaning about since Ord Mantell. Now he doesn't have the skill to use it. It really is like they just have three characters now and a number of different "skins" you can pull over them. Already miss HK's assassination attack, Khem's life drain/heal, i'm sure those who like treek are peeved that all toons now can do everything, no story related bonuses to crafting, etc. They lost some of their individual flavour. Bought some armour sets off GTN, unlocked them and noticed they didn't show as unlocked in my collections... then harbinger crashed again (third time in a week?) and now my in game and web site accounts shows different balances of Cartel Coins. Way to go, Cartel Market is not 100% stable when the server is going down Yes, put in a ticket a couple of days ago. No answer yet and not going to try unlocked those items again. A number of the Bazaar vendor items are now unlockable in collections... presumably. Some who should aren't, some who are, I'm sure shouldn't and one item you can clone ad infinitum and sell for 1 credit. No, not going to sit the next 5 million seconds and cloning and selling. Should probably file a bug report, but that seems pointless. Got bug reports that are years old now with stuff that never got fixed. Did a level 65 HM flashpoint just for nostalgia's sake and it was a relief going up against opponents with a tank and a healer on your side. Hadn't done Assault on Tython in ages anyway. Wiped twice on last boss, but I ascribe that to the novelty of characters with no min/maxed stats, freshly bolstered. This was on a dps with now way too much accuracy. Noticed that my tank stats on my tank alts are completely fubar. Not sure i would do anything other than solo'ing the heroics 2+ missions on those for a while. For all the damage they did to the main game, the single player story in the expansion is nice. Might not appreciate it as much when the 10th or 16th alt has to do it, but for the first one and a half toon getting to the end of chapter nine, it was a nice experience. Yes, the very long cut scene in the graveyard chapter (iirc) was hilarious. Managed to spit out my coffee. Edit: Since they removed lots of stuff from companions, I should probably check if Theran Cedrax still has Holiday. If not, I'm going to be not just disappointed, but very disappointed.

Lucky you (with the Ilum fp) I was the only "high level" gunslinger in that group, with a another level 20 something slinger, a lsevel 18 sentinel and a level 30 something shadow dps. Not s single self heal between us and a couple of guys missing most of their abilities (and defensive cd's) I just checked out the gift vendors. Look like prices have been reduced a lot for the old curator gifts. I guess those years of spamming treasure hunting gift missions come in handy now as i have literally *hundreds* of purple gift fragments (and close to a thousand of the blue ones)

Best class for giving gifts is a combat sentinel popping zen and an alacrity adrenal. Watch those gifts getting force fed your companion in no time (alacrity reduces the time it takes for the gift giving to channel) Made it to chapter 5 so far. Will check out what those gift giving options are, as my old toons were "still" at affection level 10 (had maxed out all of them in the old system).