Competition for NPC Affections

Thehusband and I just started Makeb. We’re recapturing our SWTOR “honeymoon period” by running all the quests together and seeing the new content together for the first time. The rationale for this is that we’ll get to 55 no matter what, but it’s not like we’re getting any new story anytime soon, so we might as well really slow down and enjoy it instead of trying to race to the finish.

Something that has been on my mind with the introduction of SGR with the Makeb NPCS was how flirt options were going to work with non-companion non-class-storyline NPC’s in general.

When you BSOCK a random dude in the smuggler storyline, for example, it’s in the smuggler storyline and you’re the only one that gets to do the talking. Any friends you bring along are in observation mode only. They can’t win a roll and try to woo your would-be sweetie away from you.

However, we’re dealing here, on both sides, with a love interest who is part of the planet story, not class story. How is that going to work?

***MILD SPOILERS BELOW RE: MAKEB SAME GENDER ROMANCE REPUBLIC SIDE***

You have been warned.

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Ravanel Griffon on April 16, 2013 at 11:05 am said:

Haha, this is hilarious. I also did the storyline on Makeb with my boyfriend, but I let him win the flirt options. After all, I’m playing one of those asexual the-force-is-everything-for-me consulars – good for him!

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- Njessi on April 16, 2013 at 12:21 pm said:
  
  Yeah my knight is morally ambiguous, and being badder by the day as she tries to raise HK’s affection without buying him yet more presents. A few flirts won’t matter much in the Jedi Code violations department since there are so many.
  
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depizan on April 16, 2013 at 8:15 pm said:

However, we’re dealing here, on both sides, with a love interest who is part of the planet story, not class story. How is that going to work?

There are actually a few opposite gender non-class-story romance options out there already. Not a ton, but a few. I know of at least one Empire side, anyway, and I think there are a scarce few others.

The lines for the flirt-er are the same for both male and female player-toons, and they just don’t sound right from my toon. They sound like cheesy, overly-confident, pretty obnoxious, practically-aggressive pick-up lines.

Well, that’s disappointing. The class story flirt options have always seemed fairly in-character. And even the one not-in-class BSOCK I know of, the flirts didn’t seem out of character (which could mean they wrote different ones for different classes that time). Not that the flirt options don’t tend toward the cheesy anyway…

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