Lantyssa
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IIRCC, SWG spawned the "nest" when you got close, minimizing the the chances of someone killing it all before you got there. But then again, mission terminals were intended to be the 30 minute content system.
You also got credit for completing the mission if someone else took out the nest.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Sky
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Yeah, didn't think you guys would be playing it. But if you were, I'd send anyone interested in pvp that way, always better with a good clan/guild/murder. Maybe SC will have something going, I can see a case for pvp, as much as I hate its effect on pve development. Huttball looks like a blast, even if the open world doesn't pan out.
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Mnemon
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Overpopulation servers are bad, but being stuck on underpopulated servers is worse.
Over-populated servers are awesome. As long as you aren't running into a login queue, they are the best way to experience an MMO. The ability to participate in any aspect of the game at any hour of the day, a good economy, and a large enough amount of players that you'll probably find a guild you like. Usually the 'recommended' servers are the lowest population servers that will give you the poorest MMO experience. The first thing I do when I start an MMO is figure out what server has the highest or close-to the highest population and roll there. For the past couple of games my guild has done the following. 1 - Find the "Cool Kids" server in the forums. Some server always gets designated the "hardcore!" or "open world pvp!" or "Some other such nonsense" server. Avoid that. 2 - Find out what server is the "screw the cool kids server ... this server will be better!" And find out what server the Goons and some other large zerg guilds are flocking to. Avoid those as well. 3 - Whatever server is next in line is the pick. It will be populated enough to have all the perks of the two servers above. Except your queue times will be short in length, and disappear more quickly. And you won't have to deal with the kinds of people who think calling a server "hardcore!" before the game launches makes them better than you. Of course this is all mute with Bioware's plans to assign servers.
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01101010
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Or you can hold off till schild makes his server decree.
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Nebu
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Or you can hold off till schild makes his server decree.
... and then quits a week after playing there. Is Schild even playing this game? I have a hard enough time believing he'd play an MMO anymore.
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kildorn
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Overpopulation servers are bad, but being stuck on underpopulated servers is worse.
Over-populated servers are awesome. As long as you aren't running into a login queue, they are the best way to experience an MMO. The ability to participate in any aspect of the game at any hour of the day, a good economy, and a large enough amount of players that you'll probably find a guild you like. Usually the 'recommended' servers are the lowest population servers that will give you the poorest MMO experience. The first thing I do when I start an MMO is figure out what server has the highest or close-to the highest population and roll there. For the past couple of games my guild has done the following. 1 - Find the "Cool Kids" server in the forums. Some server always gets designated the "hardcore!" or "open world pvp!" or "Some other such nonsense" server. Avoid that. 2 - Find out what server is the "screw the cool kids server ... this server will be better!" And find out what server the Goons and some other large zerg guilds are flocking to. Avoid those as well. 3 - Whatever server is next in line is the pick. It will be populated enough to have all the perks of the two servers above. Except your queue times will be short in length, and disappear more quickly. And you won't have to deal with the kinds of people who think calling a server "hardcore!" before the game launches makes them better than you. Of course this is all mute with Bioware's plans to assign servers. I think we go by how dwarfy the server name sounds.
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Sky
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Or you can hold off till schild makes his server decree.
BWA solved this one, as long as we have enough pre-orders in BC, which I think we will. Pre-launch guild auto-select ft (hopeful) w. That's why we're adversaries with SlapForce and a couple smaller guilds; the hope is BWA plants us all on the same server so no hopping around bullshit on launch day trying to coordinate. That said, Mnemon has a good point about the goon server effect.
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Ingmar
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I think we go by how dwarfy the server name sounds.
Which is a problem why? In this case of course we'll just get plopped somewhere by the game. Which is fine, really.
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Sky
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I think we go by how dwarfy the server name sounds.
Which is a problem why? In this case of course we'll just get plopped somewhere by the game. Which is fine, really. If we get auto-plopped on the goon server or whatever, I'm cool with choosing by the dwarfiest (which is often also very vikingly!).
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Ingmar
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I suspect due to holiday issues and the general trickle-in of players I expect us to have we're going to be stuck wherever we land, for better or for worse.
Odds of goons picking an RP server seem pretty low in any case.
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Furiously
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Overpopulation servers are bad, but being stuck on underpopulated servers is worse.
Over-populated servers are awesome. As long as you aren't running into a login queue, they are the best way to experience an MMO. The ability to participate in any aspect of the game at any hour of the day, a good economy, and a large enough amount of players that you'll probably find a guild you like. Usually the 'recommended' servers are the lowest population servers that will give you the poorest MMO experience. The first thing I do when I start an MMO is figure out what server has the highest or close-to the highest population and roll there. For the past couple of games my guild has done the following. 1 - Find the "Cool Kids" server in the forums. Some server always gets designated the "hardcore!" or "open world pvp!" or "Some other such nonsense" server. Avoid that. 2 - Find out what server is the "screw the cool kids server ... this server will be better!" And find out what server the Goons and some other large zerg guilds are flocking to. Avoid those as well. 3 - Whatever server is next in line is the pick. It will be populated enough to have all the perks of the two servers above. Except your queue times will be short in length, and disappear more quickly. And you won't have to deal with the kinds of people who think calling a server "hardcore!" before the game launches makes them better than you. Of course this is all mute with Bioware's plans to assign servers. moot...
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Paelos
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CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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tazelbain
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Morfiend
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Just incase someone didn't get it.
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Ingmar
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT. Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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Paelos
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I'm sorry, the answer is Moops...
Moops.
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Kirth
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A cows opinion?
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Murgos
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Odds of goons picking an RP server seem pretty low in any case.
There are actually a lot of Goon guilds for SWTOR. The one you probably want to avoid is Star Fleet Dental, although they will bring a large amount of humor and talent to whatever server they're on, you just risk being the butt of the joke. They will be Republic PVP. RP PVP if there is such a thing. If you haven't seen their recruitment videos you should check them out. They are hilarious.
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Surlyboi
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Fuck yeah! Not many people probably remember that.
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Sky
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Ingmar plays Jackson ftw
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Der Helm
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Star Fleet Dental
Those guys are insane.
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Mnemon
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All this swearing upsets me. I'm sensitive.
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A cows opinion?
lol beat me too it.
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koro
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So IGN's reporting that the press embargo on TOR is going to be lifted soon. But the NDA is still in place for testers.
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UnSub
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What testers think isn't important. It's now up to the gaming press to show EA BioWare how much they appreciate their generosity.
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Riggswolfe
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So IGN's reporting that the press embargo on TOR is going to be lifted soon. But the NDA is still in place for testers. The NDA is in place but will be lifted soon according to some of the devs. I'd be willing to bet it'll drop in mid November. It almost has to but we'll see.
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luckton
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Like the press is going to say anything negative at this point. EA's betting the farm, the house and the beach-resort on this thing succeeding, along with a stupid amount of advertising. Any press that would say one bad word can kiss their chunk of the ad pie good bye.
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amiable
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How is server assignment going to work? i plan on playing with 7 or 8 friends, but nobody but me is planning on preordering and we certainly aren't organized enough to start a guild pre launch. I will feel the rage of a thousand blinding suns if my friends are unable to join the same server as me.
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Evildrider
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How is server assignment going to work? i plan on playing with 7 or 8 friends, but nobody but me is planning on preordering and we certainly aren't organized enough to start a guild pre launch. I will feel the rage of a thousand blinding suns if my friends are unable to join the same server as me.
Even if your guild is sent to a specific server you don't have to go there, but you won't have your guild name and junk saved. Other than that you and your buds can pick whatever server you guys want to play on when launch comes. There is no region locks or anything like that.
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Merusk
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So IGN's reporting that the press embargo on TOR is going to be lifted soon. But the NDA is still in place for testers. This sounds familiar and I can't recall what other game did the same thing pre-launch. Was it WAR, also an EA property?
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Shatter
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The NDA needs to just come down. The core game is done and any new builds wont change beta testers opinions now, good or bad. At this point they are in tweaks and fixes mode so lets just have at it.
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eldaec
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Yeah, but there is a committee, a senior manager, 3 PR bunnies, and a lawyer who need to sign off on the NDA, none of whom have any day to day connection with the game, but all of whom exercise a veto.
Such is life in a sinister global megacorporation.
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Fordel
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They might drop the NDA just to counter blizzcon
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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