Gorth

...and then there are nice woody words and awful tinny words! http://youtu.be/-gwXJsWHupg

Shadowrun Returns was already mentioned... Only other game released so far, which I backed, was Expeditions Conquistador and I quite enjoyed that one (not a perfect game, but I was happy with it). So not much data to base my experiences on. 2 backed games released so far. One I liked, the other one... was found wanting (I seriously hated the lack of a real save game feature).

Did my first complete run of the Oricon daily/weekly. Sure was a lot easier doing it as a group with 3 guild mates (compared to when I unlocked them soloing it). Nice armour, but at this point in time... a bit pointless? I would expect most people would have better gear when they make it to that point. Maybe that's just my imagination. Speaking of armours found an alternative use for my coms after gearing up a few companions. Since I got the respec button on my skill tree, I guess I could start building a second armour set, geared for DPS rather than tanking. At least it would feel less wasteful than just having them sitting in your account and hitting the limit. Decided to try this "Gree" thing. Last time it was around, I didn't have any toons of level 50 (or even close). Picked up the mission and this morning, spending 20 minutes before heading to work, made my way to Ilum. That was a bit of a surprise. Last time I was on Ilum, there was a total of 3 people on the imp side there. Me, a fellow guild member who helped me kill a certain ghost and a random stranger. This time, this instance had close to 60 people all gathered on the platform on the western shelf, throwing music probes, party bombs and massive snowball fights. It looked for all the world like a crazy party in an open air night club Picked up the various types of missions and will have a look at them when I get home from work. I need to work on my snowball skills, only got 3 parcels so far

I wouldn't mind admitting that this kind of backfiring makes me anything but unhappy. About the same warm and fuzzy feeling I get when drunk drivers hit a road tree instead of a family on the footpath. Some misery is indeed entirely of peoples own making and better themselves than innocent victims.

Social Media (one of the most asocial inventions ever) Smart Phones (no, it doesn't make you smarter, it was just some smart guy who came up with the idea and now sell it to people) Virtual Intelligence (virtually everywhere and either not very intelligent or too smart for its own good) Next Gen (sooo last year) Individual (when somebody wants to lump you together with the 7 billion other "individuals" for easier classification) Pro-active (when somebody wants to lead you around by the nose while making you think you are not being led around by the nose). That was just a handful from top of my head.

I would probably agree on the guild ship thing. I really don't see the point and would think those developer resources much better invested elsewhere. I think I mentioned once in a previous thread (or thought about mentioning it, who knows?), the game has so many "empty" areas that could be get new purposes. If they actually have spare developer capacity for creating new assets, why not populate some of those areas with something, either event or quest related. Or just silly vanity stuff where designers can add things to show off a bit, where it wouldn't make sense elsewhere in the game. Guild ships is high on the do not need list @the edit: Ok, that's lazy. If fast travel vanguard vessel doesn't cut it... Completely unrelated, finished the short Oricon story line for both my trooper and bounty hunter. Didn't do the heroics yet though. Shouldn't be a problem for my bounty hunter as his guild members do them regularly. Since commendation bought tank gear in general sucks (or rather, the enhancement mods in tank gear sucks, the rest is ok, so I ripped out the good bits and used), I started spending my basic coms on buying gear for my companions. Mako currently getting agent/operative gear (got most of the major pieces for her, jacket, pants and off hand blade, with boots, gloves and head gear coming up next) and Torian might get some DPS gear eventually. Blizz inherited most of my hand me downs when I upgraded my own equipment. Edit: Yeah, a dedicated LFG channel would be very, very nice.

Double post, yay (rather than editing the previous one with unrelated stuff). I think we managed to act like a bunch of jerks towards some poor healer over the weekend. To be fair, he started it though, but we sure rammed the message home. Together with two guild members, one being a new level 50 (other tank and me being 55), who we wanted to help level up and gain as much xp as possible, queued on GF. Being 3 tanks, we needed a healer and got one. Problem is just, he had no interest in other than rushing through Directive 7 as fast as possible skipping all combat and bonuses. Needless to say, he was upset that we kept picking fights and got snarky about it. In the end, we had enough and in the big courtyard we charged in 3 different directions pulling and insane amount of mobs and eventually wiped. Instant disconnect from healer. Healer companion filled in the open spot and everything went more or less smoothly from there. A shame you can't advertise your "intent" in GF, to avoid that kinds of mismatches of interests. Ran into a strange bug in Directive 7 too (after healer had quit). When you confront 3 droids and one of them has an "immunity" thing, after killing 2 of the bots, he didn't drop the immunity... ever. We kept bashing away for 15 minutes and he didn't lose a single HP. Time to try some tricks. First, level 50 guy and I ran to other end of map, like several 100 meters away and remaining tank (assassin) did the force cloak/invisibility thing. Guess what, robot had GPS and ran all the way across to map to pick a fight with level 50 guy and me. Only option left was to deliberately die. Find big mob, aggro, don't hit back and die. After that, repeating the fight, everything went smoothly. We sure were nervous though when remaining bot had the immunity thing up the second time around, but at least it timed out this time. Edit: Our "rookie" level 50 guy leveled up to 51 in the process of killing Mentor

Actually, the tooltip on that is confusing. It adds +3% crit chance (if you get all three tiers) to ALL crafting. So regardless if you're crafting gear that can augment slots, or things like mods, it increases your crit chance. This has been confirmed by devs a long time back. It does nothing for Mission or gathering skills though. Ah bit of googling gave some funny results. Apparently it confused the Bioware guys too on the official forums and they gave two official and contradicting answers One guy later showed up and confirmed that the above is indeed correct and he would correct the wrong colleagues post. I feel less bad about being confused I think I'll invest in that one for the remaining toons I got that has crafting skills (some of them only have gathering/mission skills, so no point really). @Raithe: Mailbox and GTN was amongst the first things I used the legacy thing for IIRC, checking out the global unlock perks. Personal perks had the 5 second companion return time as the first thing purchased for my main toons (my main guy was about level 20 something and had 40 or so inventory slots at the time, a single inventory unlock beating the above by a few days).

Yeah, got those for characters who progressed beyond simple experimenting with character concepts. Also the one that reduces wait time to 5 seconds when sending companions off to sell trash is a must. Made the mistake on my first two characters to invest in the one which adds 2% critical chance to crafting, not reading the fine print (only increases the chance slightly for an augment result for augmentable stuff). Oh, and those who made it past level 30 something also got the portable droid and mailbox, because messy inventory starts becoming a problem and I'm such a pack rat picking up everything, even if it's grey items worth 5 credits.

I have entire storage bays (as in not just one tab, but several tabs) on several companions just stacked with gifts and gift fragments, gathered while pumping up their crew skill levels (gifts often being the "rich" choice). Time to sort through them and extract the useful ones. I did indeed have my main characters droid in mind (who has the +5 cybertech critical sensor)

Just curiosity... has anyone tried to max out their ship droids affection? I don't think there are any "hidden" achievements, as they are all in plain sight on the achievements list. But it struck me the other day that the droid(s) may become more useful if their crit chance improve on gathering and mission missions. Currently cornering the market in companion gifts that they like (cultural artifact and faction memorabilia).

IIRC, the violence, such as it is, in Algeria is mostly a conflict between the state and radical islamists, mostly based in the south (which just so happens to share borders with Mali, who also has their share of very similar problems on their side of the border)?

Nice loot... I mean car My first car was an old Mitsubishi Celeste. It was already old when I bought it and it ran 6km per liter. Probably needed a complete engine overhaul, but I loved the old thing. It had nice leather seats too. Edit: Mine was silver instead of black, but otherwise a good match:

Worth mentioning that they are also free for (a very) limited time, so no excuse not click a few buttons and add them to your GOG account if you don't already have them. Even if you have the steam or boxed edition. Edit: Yeah, just repeating information from previous page in case people are too lazy to click the previous page button.

...and these people invented the Kama Sutra. How the might have fallen.

They're more work than they are worth, easier just to balance around the fact that magic is now more easily available. Btw, it's "vancian" spellcasting Yeah, Vatican spell casting is for the clerics

Let me guess, you can still "romance" somebody as a jedi and break every rule you professed to uphold on Tython? I never could find a truly consistent system in the DS/LS thing. Sometimes it looks like a choice between being passionate and logical (like Kirk and Spock), at other times it seems like a choice between "the easy way" and "the hard way" and lastly sometimes as a choice between helping little old ladies crossing the street versus drowning kittens while cackling gleefully. Yeah, showing Skadge the airlock would be high on my to-do list. At least "Gault" can be funny sometimes (even if his presence in your team felt way too contrived in its justification). Edit: Mako and Blizz sort of made up for a lot of it though

Oh, ah well, he actually never did make a LS choice (a dare for myself to see if I could/can do that all the way through the story) I'm contemplating a Jedi play through with a mirror opposite, as in no DS choice whatsoever through the story. Not sure if consular or knight is better for that experiment.

I prefer to hide my batch, was an error anyway, testing something on my own profile, it should "only" be a gold batch ($1000 pledge) if any Yeah, went with the "light" side option at the end of the Bounty Hunter story. I might have mentioned in passing in the past, that Mako was a bad (good) influence and I ended up with Light IV or some such. My sniper on the other hand is Dark V without a single light side choice to his name (0 - 10000 is the score). He's rotten to the core.

Ok, successfully linked my forum account with the eternity site and got my pledge to show in the list. Answered the question about what the extra $8 was for (the "Order") and I noticed I can now select various badges from drop downs on my forum profile. Backer, Silver backer, Gold Backer and Watcher... what is a "watcher"?

That might be because "smuggler" as a faction makes absolutely no sense. It's still a heck of a lot more coherent than the BH one though (disclaimer: hasn't finished smuggler yet, just started on Corellia, somewhere in chapter 3). At least you have an overarching story, fighting Rogan the Butcher who has been your adversary since you lost his blaster shipment and the murder of Veeto (sp?). Chapter 1 is basically an introduction and 2 and 3 is your life as a privateer after getting a Letter of Marque from the Republic government (fighting Rogan and his Imperial backers). Trooper follows a similar pattern. Chapter 1 is about the defection. Chapters 2 and 3 is about the war that has broken out and gathering and unifying forces for the fight against the Empire while doing the occasional commando type raid against them.

You try telling a Bounty Hunter that to his face That story was a complete and utter incoherent mess between chapters. I had no idea what I was doing chapter 3 (other than follow the step by step guide in the quest log to reach the end of it). Trooper and smuggler made a much better job of coherency (comparatively). At least you know in chapter 3 why you are there

I sort of like Quesh. Sure, there isn't a lot of variety there, but then it's fairly quick and you don't feel like it drags on forever. I guess we all have favourite *and* least favourite places Edit: I've put together a "datacron spreadsheet" now with corresponding galactic history entries, so I suppose one of these days, I'll start taking my oldest characters through the checklist and make sure they at least get the class relevant ones.

Mate, you need to put that in the suggestions forum (because it's a good idea) Count me in as one of those who hope they do more than PVP with the work they've done so far on the space side of things. The old missions are getting *really* boring by now. It's just such a good source for credits and xp when you are not into PVP and can't be arsed to wait an hour or three when queuing as DPS for flashpoints. From Gorth's diary... main character still stuck halfway through Makeb storyline, just can't motivate myself to finish it, one trooper almost done with Corellia (got Ilum to go to finish his class story, so I'll persevere with that one) and my smuggler girl is now level 53, so getting major gear and mods upgrade for herself and all her crew members. My Sith Warrior (DPS Juggernaut) just turned 50 (not at least thanks to the previous double XP weekend), so he'll start doing some of the late stuff too. I figured I need to play either a consular or an inquisitor next? Might try the shadow or assassin tank. Just to try a different type of tank to my Powertech.

I think I arrived at some kind of saturation threshold a few years back. Probably a side effect of having been a gamer for 30 years this December. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, my time is more precious to me than my money these days, so I'm an opportunistic shopper who grabs everything on the shelf when a sale is on and later, if given time, figures out if I got anything that I might want to play. I enjoyed Conquistadors and I pledged for Wasteland 2 and Project Eternity (and most recently 'Stasis'). Other than that, the latest Bioware and Obsidian releases (except DSIII, sorry, but the hack and slash thing just isn't "me") is what I spend my time on when in the mood for gaming.