Gorth

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).

Try "large" fortune. Didn't count, but between my alts, it's millions of credits. The archive was a good idea, but too buggy. My armourmech and synthweavers had more or less complete collections of the moddable armour from the Underworld Trading crits. 9 out of 10 are in the heavy/medium/light armour sections and the remaining straggler is now amongst a gazillion green and blue schematics in the archive. Completely hopeless to get an overview of what you got now. I hope they enhance that particular interface to either let people create their own "folders" and send schematics to or at least get the items fixed so they show up in the correct folders. A number of classes keep dropping their power converter from their star ships after each and every area transition. All pub toons have lost their ship droids. Not only is he not there for crafting, hes not even on the ship (not complaining about the latter actually). My starship grade 7 component schematics requires 12 "obsolete crafting material" (iirc the number). I only got 2 in my inventory Still not sure what I'm going to do with the Isotope 5 i got in my inventory right now. haven't seen a schematic for it in ages (the fleet vendor still sells it for 35 basic coms) But those or hopefully bugs that gets fixed within the next year. Worse are the tactical flashpoints.... You can no longer queue for "real" flashpoints when leveling up. Tried Mandalorian Raiders and False Emperor as random picks. Both were unmitigated disasters. The latter took more than 2 hours and 25 wipes. Most flashpoints are completely unsuited for the task, when you got multiple golds, several silvers and a horde of trash swarming your lowbie team with no healers/tanks. Safe to say, I'm completely cured, not going to queue again ever for a flashpoint until end game where you get the "trinity" organisation back in the hard modes. Only redeeming factor so far is... ta da!... the story in the expansion is actually nice (only just arrived in chapter 4, not going to give spoilers yet) But jeebus, combat and group content took a nosedive.

I'll one up you. I was like "Okay." when they announced the fourth movie (the first prequel movie) because Return of the Jedi was such a let down. Muppets and Ewoks... my fanboyism turned to "don't care" that night in the Cinema

Corellia is deliberately designed to be as obnoxious as possible with completely unnecessary detours and roundabout ways. Probably part of the "grind" doctrine where everything had to take as long as possible to make the game last longer. A darn shame too, because the ruined city scape is one of my favourite backgrounds for questing. Should just have had more taxis and quick travel points to get around locally on each sector. My favourite hate class is Jedi Knight. Yegads it just drags out forever and forever with pointless mob killing. Completely anti-climactic, slowing the class story to a crawling stop. As for 4.0, looks like they had second thoughts about letting powertech/vanguard being the only melee tank class with no gap closer at all during the leveling up. Really trying to understand their "logic" here. First they bloat the level range with extra, completely unneeded levels, then they mess up the combat system to accommodate those unneeded levels, then they compound the problem by adding even more levels. As the crowning achievement, they then decide to introduce level scaling, taking away any point in leveling up in the first place (if there is anything level scaling is known for, it's removing the feeling of progress in a game). So, a lot of extra pointless levels making the game harder to fine tune, all for nothing?

I hate the finding group parts, but I must admit the most fun I've had the last 4-5 weeks were lowbie heroics (4 person) on places like Balmorra, Tattooine and Taris. High level combat turned boring (no idea what they were thinking with the changes in 3.0 and 4.0 looks like a bad situation getting worse), so haven't really done much ops or HM since 12x xp started. In my completely biased and uninformed opinion, things went downhill fast with the level increases and the roller coaster is gaining momentum

And people kept moaning about everything coming with a "Made in China" label these days. When the manufacturing process then get relocated to the US, then it's apparently also a problem