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Little Jedi’s Lightsaber

By
Njessi
– February 21, 2012Posted in: IRL

Little Jedi: I want a lightsaber.

Me: We can get you a toy lightsaber.

LJ: I need two lightsabers.

Joun (the husband): What color?  Qui-Gonn has Green and Darth Vader has red…

LJ: I want two blue lightsabers.

Joun: This is all you.

She wants to be just like mommy. Awww.

We ended up with one purple lightsaber due to selection (no blue) and the fact that there’s no way for a 4-year-old to actually hold up two at a time.

Two Hours Later…

(Electronic WHOOSHING noise)

LJ: “PEW PEW!  I’m PEWING the BAD GUYS.”

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50 Is Overwhelming

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Njessi
– February 20, 2012Posted in: Guild, Raiding, SWTOR Generally

Yay I did it. And at the same time it’s all just beginning.  It feels a little daunting, but at least I have a plan, albeit a half-assed one.  Remember, folks, unless you’re cutting edge progression, there’s more than one way to get where you’re going.

Gear

I want to raid, so I need to gear up for that.  I have a few options (or combinations thereof):

  • Reverse engineer for purplez
  • Do dailies for purple augments etc
  • Grind cash to buy stuff off the GTN
  • Do instances with guildies

My answer to this is, of course, a little of everything, but I’m focusing on crafting. I don’t have unlimited time.  So I make sure to “send off the idiots” to gather stuff before I even start anything else, because a lot of the “heavy lifting” for crafting can happen while I’m not even paying attention or online.  So far, I have reverse engineered purple pants, hat, and bracers within the last two days (working on boots now).  Not a bad start.  I haven’t finished my story quest yet so I won’t be doing dailies until I complete that.

Datacrons

All I can say about Datacrons is fucking hell.  There are a ton of them and a lot are simply impossible to get to – particularly for someone who is jumping-impaired like I am.

So I’m doing the half-assed version as follows:

  • Only target datacrons with my primary stat (strength) AND
  • They must not be ridiculous to obtain

The one that requires a 30 minute balloon ride?  Hell no.  If I get all the easily-obtainable strength ones, I may start to get some for other stats.  If I have time.  Priorities!

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What To Do If You Get To The Fleet At Level 9

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Njessi
– February 17, 2012Posted in: Companions, Story and Missions

Ideally, you will finish your story quest and all your intro planet quests (minus maybe the heroics) and get to the fleet at level 10, pick an advanced class, and go on your merry way.

Now, say you create an alt.  And, well, now you’re a little more efficient.  You know where everything is and you don’t end up killing extraneous mobs.  Your class quest ends, and you’re level 9.5 and you have nothing left to do but group quests.  And if you’re like me, you hate other people and don’t want to group with random people from general chat.1

So what do you do?  Do you kill boars?  Hell no.  Get your butt to the fleet!

1. Do the crafting quest.  You will be able to get the “learn a crew skill then talk to your trainer” quest.  Do that.  But also talk to ALL the trainers.  You get a codex entry and xp for each.

Still at 9?

2. Exploit your companion.  I’m assuming here that this is an alt and you have some cash to burn.  Right?  Ok good, get yourself to the GTN or the companion gift vendor and start buying up the stuff your companion likes.  Start giving the gifts. It’s a 30 second cooldown.

Eventually, the companion will want to chat with you!

Important note about companion chats: Sometimes you will get the “companion wants to chat with you” icon but the companion doesn’t actually want to chat.  The way you know for sure is to click on your companion and he or she will say that they want to talk.  It’s a different phrase for each of them…

Clearly Aric Jorgan wants to chat. In private. This is not a bug or false alarm.

Get to the fleet cantina and have a nice heart-to-heart.  At the end, you will get xp.  Maybe enough to get off the fleet.  No? Rinse, repeat.

As a side note, early gifting of companions behooves you and is cheaper in the long run. If you have the cash, it’s not like you’re wasting it getting your companion affection up early.

  1. True story: grouped with a random dude for one of those instance-cave thingys… he drops and because he was the first in the cave and it was technically “his” story area, I got booted out and had to re-enter as my story area and re-kill all the crap I had just killed.  Not cool. ↩
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My Awesome New Belt

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Njessi
– February 16, 2012Posted in: Aesthetics

I got the awesomest new belt, guys!  And when I realized how “awesome” it was, I had already DE’ed RE’ed my old one.

Is that a... leaf?

A heart for (late) Valentine's day...

Actually, more than a leaf or a heart, it reminds me of Pingu’s snowboarding adventures and how his friends strapped a pillow to his butt to cushion his falls…

In case you’re wondering how this saga turned out, I narrowly escaped the clutches of the Fashion Police.  I crafted a bunch of green belts with synthweaving until I managed to RE a blue recipe out of it, and then crafted myself a normal looking belt, though with ever-so-slightly worse stat distribution.  To quote Darth Meatloaf: “I would do anything for stats, but I won’t do that.”

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Links, Blogroll, and Emailing Me

By
Njessi
– February 15, 2012Posted in: Blogging and Web

Stuff You Should Read

One of my guildmates posted about Sage healing on our guild blog.  Wait, you’re not already subscribed to it?  What’s wrong with you?

See, a lot of our guildies are bloggers – and those who don’t have their own blogs like to have a platform for when they want to make an occasional post.   It’s definitely not the kind of “guild blog” that announces what we killed when we killed it. We write about normal bloggy-things with only the occasional “guild news” post.

While I’m Learning 2 Sentinel, I’ve found this post on the official forums very VERY useful.  But I’m always looking for more things to read if you have suggestions.

And I’ve been obsessed with fashion for both my sentinel and smuggler lately, so imagine my rejoicing that there is a Smuggler Fashion Show thread on the official forums.  All the pieces are fully-moddable (orange), so most of them work for sentinels too (except smuggler quest rewards that are unobtainable by non-smugglers).

Mah Blogroll

I updated my blogroll to prune blogs that are inactive.  And I am always looking for new fun blogs to add!  So holler if I missed yours.

Email and the Contact Form

Every so often, my inbox gets the bright idea that messages submitted through the contact form are spam.  Sigh.  If I don’t answer you, it probably got caught in spam.  If that happens, or if you find contact forms annoying, you can always just email me at njessi [at] hawtpantsrepublic [dot] com.

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More Adventures in Companion Customization

By
Njessi
– February 14, 2012Posted in: Aesthetics, Companions

You know how I said I was customizing all my companions?  And how I wouldn’t ONLY IF the kits were so disgusting that I couldn’t stomach it?  That happened.

Apparently, it was too much to ask to get rid of the mustache on Doc.

(Insert inappropriate joke about "mustache rides" here)

Apparently he has to have facial hair of some disgusting sort on most of the customization kits. Unfortunately, the previews are small.  Also unfortunately, I was throwing up on my mouth for some of them.1

Doc Customization 2. Facial hair not improved

Doc Customization 3. Less hairy.

Doc Customization 4. I hated this hair on Corso. This hair + mustache + mutton chops = epic fail. Also, I have no clue why I sometimes get "black eyes" on small previews or on the character portraits. Pretend those aren't there.

Doc Customization 5. This facial hair looks like 2 leeches that got lost.

Doc Customization 6. You cannot appreciate the facial hair until you see it from the side.

Doc Customization 7. Same facial hair, from what I can tell. In gray...

I selected the least-hairy of the bunch on principle, just to have a kit.  I put it on and just… no.  Total no.

So he looks a little like House, but... no. Just no.

So I’ve got default Doc now.  I’ll live with the mustache.

Next up is Lord Scourge who looks fine to begin with.2

Yes, I know my toon is short, this is the best I could do.

However, he has these doodads on his little face-tentacles, and when he talks the doodads move around and stretch his tentacles and I cannot stop staring.

The customization kit I picked fixes this distraction and gives him awesome lip rings to boot!

Scourge Customization 2

I mean, could he look badasser? Is that even possible?

But the rest of the kits weren’t godawful. Well some were…

Scourge Customization 1. Again, my stupid computer/graphics card/whatever giving black eyes.

Scourge Customization 2 (The one I picked)

Scourge Customization 3

Scourge Customization 4. All is looking promising until you turn to the side and see.. the weird ponytail.

Scourge Customization 5. The Mohawk. I was afraid he'd be so appalled by the indignity of this haircut that he might leap out of my computer monitor and slice off my head.

  1. Note: I don’t have a picture of Kit 1, which comes from the Ilum security key vendor.  It’s a very dark-skinned guy with a blond goatee. ↩
  2. Having been badgered into reading some of the star wars novels, I did a little fangirl SQUEE when I got Scourge because I actually knew who he was. ↩
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Being Gray

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Njessi
– February 13, 2012Posted in: SWTOR Generally

I was a little bummed that being gray (i.e. not “light side” or “dark side” but rather somewhere in the middle) had no super duper gear choices like full-light or full-dark.

But then I realized that for non-min-max purposes, gray was awesome.

(1) Every choice is a choice

If my character is really goody-goody, chances are I will pick the light side option most of the time because that’s what a goody-goody character would do, end of story.  Vice versa for being totally evil.  But if my character is truly neutral, every choice, every single one, could go either way, and I get to sit there and debate with myself what to do.  I love that.

(2) Diplomacy

I took up diplomacy.  Some people use it to grind light side or dark side points, depending on their preferences.  I use it for money.  That’s right, I’m a smuggler, dammit, and light and dark make no difference to me.  I choose the mission based on the profit.

I would be so super-pissed if I saw a diplomacy mission with a rich payout but was light side and didn’t want to take the dark side hit (or vice versa).  As a gray, whatever, money is money.

Jedi are totally different. Jedi aren’t influenced by money.  However, it’s awfully easy to get dark side points just making choices that a normal person might make.  Failure to tattle to the council? Dark side. Covering for a friend? Dark side.

 

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Update: Customer Service Ticket Answered!

By
Njessi
– February 10, 2012Posted in: SWTOR Generally

Remember a few days ago, I wrote about a ticket for an item restoration that I had put in over 2 weeks ago.  Well, today I got an emailed response!  2 of them actually.

Greetings [My Real Name],

I am Protocol Droid [Redacted], and I have received your transmission your item you lost due to a issue with the game.

I would also like to thank you for sending the requested additional information.

Your report has been forwarded to the relevant department, who will investigate further. We regret we will be unable to provide you with further updates on this issue, but recommend checking future patch notes for any up to date information.

We would like to apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused, and to thank you again for the valuable feedback you have provided. Please do not hesitate to report any other issues you may encounter during your game play.

Galactic Support is our specialty…
Sincerely,

Protocol Droid [Redacted]
Star Wars: The Old Republic Customer Service

And not two hours after that, a follow-up.

Greetings Njessi,

I am Protocol Droid [Redacted] Human-Cyborg Relations.

I have received your item restoration request.

I am pleased to inform you that on this occasion I have been able to restore your item. Please check your inventory in-game mail to ensure that you have received the correct item.

Please note that our restoration policy allows you 3 item/currency restorations within a 6 month period. On this occasion you have not used one of your allotted item restorations, but future requests may use up one of your allotted restorations.

Thank you for your patience and understanding while we investigated your issue, and we apologize for any inconvenience caused. Should you require further assistance with this or any other issues, please do not hesitate to contact us again.

Galactic Support is our Specialty…

Sincerely,

Protocol Droid [Redacted]
Star Wars: The Old Republic Customer Service

Consider me pleasantly surprised.  Professional customer service that is directly responsive to the problem.  And not charging it against the allotted restorations has definitely made me a happy camper.

I still have concerns. I’m not a convert yet.

The first concern is that my initial complaint did not appear to be read and asking for additional information was unnecessary.

The second concern is the response time.  Though a customization kit is scarcely game-breaking, and I’d hope that if it were something seriously important, I wouldn’t have to cool my heels for 2 weeks.

The final concern is that this response may only be due to the blog article I posted about this issue.  True I have a blog with a small readership, but it was cited yesterday by MMO Melting Pot (and I have no idea what, if anything, went on with the twitterz).  It is entirely possible that it was read by people who can get shit done – and then, well, shit got done.  If I did not have such a platform, would I still be waiting, and would my response have been so satisfactory?

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Little Jedi on Companion Gifts

By
Njessi
– February 10, 2012Posted in: IRL

LJ: Who’s your friend mommy?

Me: His name is Sergeant Rusk.  See he has horns.

LJ: Do you want to give him a present?

Me: I’ve given him enough presents lately.

LJ: We should get him ribbons.

Me: You want to put ribbons on his horns?

LJ: Yes, and then he’ll be a girl.

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Companions: Gift Early, Gift Often

By
Njessi
– February 9, 2012Posted in: Companions

OK, here’s a chance for me to do math.  The horror.  Don’t worry, it’s fuzzy math.

If Corso loves weapons, I give him a green quality level 1 weapon, he gives me +96.  When he reaches 2000 affection, I need to give him a green quality level 2 weapon for that same +96.  Now, a level 1 gift costs (at the vendor) 200 credits, and a level 2 gift costs 600.  So I have to pay more than double for the same affection gain.

On the other hand, conversations are unchanging.  He will give me +15 for an answer he likes regardless of his affection level.

See where I’m going with this?

If I at first rely on conversations to get Corso’s affection, and then I supplement with gifts later when he’s already at 4000+, I have to pay out the nose for those gifts because rank 3+ gifts are pricey.  If I gift FIRST and then let conversations raise affection later on, it’s cheaper, because I’m buying the lower level gifts.

Companion economics FTW.

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Customer Service Fail

By
Njessi
– February 8, 2012Posted in: SWTOR Generally

What Happened

OK, as you might have heard me yabbering, while taking screenies with the UI down, I then put the UI back up, and the UI refused to come back up, my character locked up, it was generally unpleasant, and at the end of it all, Corso’s Customization #2 went POOF.

My Ticket

So I put in a ticket in-game as follows:

1/21/2012.  I had hidden my ui using alt Z to take some screenshots.  While it was hidden, my character locked up and could not move.  I tried control u twice and the UI finally came back but I was standing in front of Corso and he suddenly changed back to the default.  His customization kit was not on him or in my inventory.  It was Corso customization 2.  It’s possible that it might have been deleted by my clicking while the UI was down.

It would be great if I could have that customization kit back.

Customer Service Response

The response 3 days later was as follows:

01/24/2012 – SWTOR CSR: Greetings Njessi,

I am Protocol Droid [redacted], Human-Cyborg Relations.

I have recieved your transmission requesting an item restoration.

Unfortunately, your ticket did not contain enough information for us to process your request. Please submit a new ticket, and include the following information:

- Afflicted character name
- Server
- Item name/Currency type and amount
- How the item/currency was lost

Please use the word “[redacted]” in the subject line of your email in order to allow us to track your request.
Please note that currently our item restoration policy is that you are eligible for 3 restorations within a rolling 6 month period.  This request will use one of your allotted restorations.

Thank you for your patience and understanding, and we would like to apologize for any inconvenience this issue may have caused.  If you require further assistance with this or any other issue, please do not hesitate to contact us again.

Galactic Support is our specialty.

Sincerely,

Protocol Droid [redacted], aka [redacted]
Star Wars: The Old Republic Customer Service

My Response to Their Response

By that time I was seriously pissed off.  And I emailed them back.  I had to transcribe the previous interchange from screenshots (it wouldn’t allow copy of in-game ticket text, and I had not received an e-mail), which already had me hopping mad, but I wanted a “history” in the email.  After recounting the history of the ticket, I wrote the following:

This response is unacceptable for the following reasons:

(1) The requested information was included in the initial request.

-The initial request was sent from the character in question using the in-game ticket system, so the character name and server should be obvious.

-The original request described in detail what the item was (Corso Customization kit 2)

-The original request described in detail how the item was lost. (Issues with locking up after the UI was hidden)

Granted the information was not in the exact format above, but it was all there for anyone who bothered to read.

(2) This item was deleted due to a bug.  Not due to anything on my end.  It is beyond ridiculous to limit me to 3 restorations and count against that limit a loss that was your fault.

(3) The ticket was submitted in-game and answered in-game, yet the clarification was requested via email (with no email address provided).  This proves cumbersome to even the most dedicated player.

Nonetheless, I will answer your questions in the format you requested:

And then I did.  Mostly it was quoting the original ticket since I had already given all the information.  (And, quite honestly, if they don’t have my name and server from the ticket that I submitted in-game, there’s some serious problem with their ticket system.)

Why I’m Mad

OK, end of long tale of woe.  Can you tell I was mad?  I spent 3 days waiting for a response to what I assumed was a fairly simple problem, and when I got the response, I was told that I hadn’t given information that I most definitely had and that I would be effectively penalized for their bug (which is a dumb policy right after launch when of COURSE there are bugs).  Not to mention transcribing stuff from screenies makes me vaguely stabby.

I am totally aware that it took me more time and effort to write angry emails (and this post) than to simply earn the 12.5k, hop in my ship, and buy a new customization from the Taris or Balmorra vendor.  And I certainly do not want an easily-obtainable item to count against my 3 restorations that I might actually need for something important.  But it’s the principle.

Resolution (or Lack Thereof)

As of today, I have an open ticket in the system which was opened on 1/24.  So that’s 2 weeks ago? I went and bought a new customization kit, and I should technically close the ticket but I want to see just what happens with it.  If anything.

A Comparison

Now, let me tell you about the time I got hacked in WoW. YES I WENT THERE.  I’M COMPARING SWTOR TO WORLD OF WARCRAFT.  Ahem.  As I was saying, I got hacked.  It was a mess. I don’t know where all my characters were dragged off to.  I couldn’t even TELL you what they owned.  Yet in less than a week, the WoW CSR’s restored everything down to the last little miniscule item, to the last little level 5 alt.  There was, as I recall, one enchant missing, and that was IT.  Everything else back, and I do mean everything.

I can see that it was partially my fault for not having an authenticator, but never was I told that I was limited to X numbers of restorations and after that I was shit out of luck.  I knew a ton of people who got hacked.  They all got their stuff back.

I will admit that WoW was probably too lenient.  If you looted something and then later decided it should go to another player, often a CSR would fix it for you (this was before trading BoP’s was implemented).  People who deleted their characters ON PURPOSE and then 6 months later decided they wanted them back (true story) put in tickets and got those characters restored.  OK, that was a little ridiculous.  But giving back items without a limit or a fuss when they were deleted by an evildoer, bug, glitch, or outage is just good business policy.  Your customer is happy and life goes on.

So What Am I Going To Do About It?

Maybe they think nobody is going to unsubscribe over shitty customer service.  I know I’m not going to right now.  I truly enjoy playing the game.  But if something serious is wrong, not just an easily replaceable customization kit missing, and I get crappy customer service that doesn’t put an actually important thing right, then yes, I’d quit.  Because unlike a lot of the kids out there, I don’t have TIME to re-grind stuff.

Edit 2/10.  I received a response to the ticket.

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Outside My Comfort Zone

By
Njessi
– February 6, 2012Posted in: SWTOR Generally

I have always played healers.  The closest I got to DPSing is to play a DPS offspec of a healing class and TOTALLY SWEAR that I wasn’t going to heal with it… and then go ahead and heal with it.  I felt really exposed leveling without the safety net of a heal, even though in practicality, you can’t usually heal YOURSELF when you’re being pummeled by a mob.

I swore that this time I was going to have an alt that would DO DPS FOR REALSIES AND NOT WUSS OUT.  Remember, with a companion, I can have a healer, even if it’s not ME that is the healer.

Enter the Sentinel, one of the two advanced classes in the game (well, we’re not counting mirror classes here) where you CANNOT respec to anything other than DPS.  No tanking, no healing, I R GOING TO SMASH THINGZ.

As little jedi says, I'm "pewing the guys."

I'm totally old enough to be a Master Jedi. Just call me Doogie.

I almost wussed out immediately.  Argh, I don’t GET this stupid focus thing.  Force is a bar that starts out full and goes to empty.  Simple. Focus needs to be gathered and burned.  LOLWUT.

What the fuck is this shit?

I was a hair away from switching to a Jedi Shadow because – well first of all, that whole force/focus thing but second, Sentinels get their healing companion so dang LATE.  Not only was I going to have to L2DPS, but it would be FOREVER before I’d have a pocket healer.  My safety net was quickly getting out of reach.1

But I gave sentinel another go and… I was ok.  I continued to level with Kira and just WTFPWN everything in the face before our health gets too low.  With neither of us being a “tank” the damage should be evenly distributed between us which, without a healer, is far better than the damage focusing on one of us.  And I was having fun.  More fun than with my so-called main, the smuggler.

Now, I could have used C2N2 as a healing companion.  But he doesn’t heal well and just punches things.

Whack! Sock!

So I stuck with Kira.  And suddenly I’m in the 30′s, on Balmorra, and about to (finally) get Doc and all I can think is… wow that was easy!

Older men ftw?

Also Doc is easy.  BSOCK imminent!2

I think he's trying to draw attention to his crotch.

I couldn't find a customization kit that wasn't gross, so Doc is currently wearing the hat of shame.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m only leveling with Doc at this point and Kira is on ship duty, but I was surprised by how little I died without any heals.

I guess I shouldn’t say “easy”.  Because it’s not easy for a healer mentality to switch to DPS at all.  And I have to really concentrate like hell on what abilities to use whereas when I’m healing it seems almost automatic.  But easy as in “not a total fucking disaster where I have to QQ to my guildies every time I have to kill something with a star next to its name.”

Seriously, they card me every time I try to buy some death sticks. So unfair!

That, my friends, is how a healer 4 lyfe converted to a Jedi Sentinel pure melee dps main.  Oops.

  1. The sith warrior gets a healing companion before level 20 and I hate them.  HATE. ↩
  2. I narrowly avoided an early (and very surprising) BSOCK with judicious use of the escape key. ↩
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Companion Customization and Hats

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Njessi
– January 30, 2012Posted in: Aesthetics, Companions

Now, I don’t know about you, but I hide helm on my characters because I want to see my character’s face and hair that I worked so hard on.  Hoods are bad enough.

I rarely see both eyes on my Jedi Sentinel

For companions, I can’t see anything but a bucket head or sometimes part-of-face.  This is quite annoying.  Why spend my hard-earned money on a companion kit1 just to have the result hidden behind some hideous headgear?  Sorry, most hats ARE hideous.

Yuck. Trust me, it looks even worse on a cyborg missing her right eye.

Thinking myself smart, for one of my class quests (to go talk to some dude) I took off Corso’s hat in preparation for the cut scene, so I wouldn’t be listening to a disembodied voice echoing in a bucket if he chose to participate in the conversation with the NPCs.  Well, at the end of the cut scene I got my ASS handed to me when everyone turned hostile.  Sigh.  As the husband helpfully pointed out, there is no such thing as “just a conversation.”  I fully acknowledge that I probably would have been thoroughly beaten regardless of hat status, but still.  Gotta get every edge you can, and the hat cannot be ignored. So much for my brilliant “unequip for cut scenes” plan.

Which leads back to purchasing kits.  These days, Corso’s head is behind a bucket.

Oh your helmet is so big... (Spaceballs? Anyone?)

What the hell is the point since I can’t see their faces, except for during chats on the ship when the headgear mysteriously disappears (I would imagine that romance scenes would be quite difficult if the bucket did not disappear).

To add insult to injury, some of the aliens don’t have showing headgear.  Corso is hidden behind a bucket, but I get to see Qyzen’s gleaming lizard smile no matter what his headgear is.  Joy.

  1. And, as you might recall, I’m customizing ALL my companions ↩
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Not Now, C2-N2

By
Njessi
– January 27, 2012Posted in: Companions, Story and Missions

Ah, look, I got a new mod.  Let me see, where do I put it?  Ok, I have my backpack open and my character screen, and ok… right click on jacket, and -

“Perfection delivered on schedule, master!”

At which point, C2-N2 shoves his little crew skill quest window in my face, thereby closing all my other windows.  He does this when I’m modding items, when I’m looking at the GTN, when I’m trying to mail things, and when I’m in combat.

And because my missions are around the same length, just as I get back to what I was doing with multiple windows open, BAM, the next companion comes back with something, and closes all of THOSE windows.

We already have a doodad in the top right corner for when we get a reward that we can’t take right away (inventory full, etc).  I would KILL to have the crew skills go there and leave me the hell alone while I’m BUSY.

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Surprise BSOCK!

By
Njessi
– January 26, 2012Posted in: Companions, Story and Missions

Has this ever happened to you?

NPC: So what are you up to?

YOU: (choices)

  1. Saving the universe because I’m awesome like that.
  2. None of your business, jerk.
  3. [Flirt] Nothing much…

You pick 3 and bam!  Fade to black!

Wait, what?  All I said was…?  ESCAPE ESCAPE ESCAPE!  Oh crap, too late, the quest completion popup is up.  I guess I have space herpes now.

Congrats!  You got BSOCKed (Black Screen of Carnal Knowledge).  It can be pretty disconcerting if it’s unintentional or unexpected.

How to avoid the dreaded Surprise BSOCK.

  1. [Flirt] via holocom. If you’re on your ship and you’re talking to some dude halfway across the galaxy, you can be as suggestive as you want.  I doubt he’s going to materialize and drag you back to your bunk.
  2. Avoid [Flirt] if you don’t intend to give it up.  Be warned, that might not avoid all BSOCK, but should help avoid the surprise variety.
  3. Look at the question first!  Even without a [Flirt] before it, some answers will still lead to the BSOCK.  If the question is “do you want to come to my quarters?” and you say yes… well DUH.  ”Wait, I thought we were going there to play Scrabble?”  Not in this galaxy.
  4. Don’t send your companion away.  If your companion offers to leave, and you say “sure, I want to be alone with this guy” you might as well paint your screen black.
  5. Hover over the escape button when you [Flirt].  If things don’t go your way, ESCAPE!  Now if only there were such a do-over IRL for bad dates…

Don’t let space herpes happen to you!

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