What's going right/wrong with launch...

[Ingmar]

It is going to be at least a couple months before the market really solidifies, IMO.

[Thrawn]

It is going to be at least a couple months before the market really solidifies, IMO.

I'm fine with that as long as it eventually stabalizes.  Making really good profits on the market currently selling stuff for way more than it will end up being worth. 

[Sand]

Sjofn there are some robes with the hood up, although I agree that a toggle would be nice.

Yeah, I had a series of the ones with the hood up, I wanted to put it DOWN. I don't mind looking like a space nun SOMETIMES, but a girl needs variety!

I haven an orange with no hood I could send you? I like the hoods.

[Rasix]

Server seems to be melting at the moment.

[01101010]

Server seems to be melting at the moment.

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[Rasix]

Getting 16000 MS pings.    Had to log.  First real lag or server problems I've encountered. 

[Viin]

Had some last night for about 20 mins, but then it straightened out. Command delays and rubber banding pretty bad while doing a heroic.

[Sjofn]

Sjofn there are some robes with the hood up, although I agree that a toggle would be nice.

Yeah, I had a series of the ones with the hood up, I wanted to put it DOWN. I don't mind looking like a space nun SOMETIMES, but a girl needs variety!

Admit it, you're like me and have all your orange outfits in your spacebank, just in case one goes with something in the future :P

Yes, I am totally stockpiling all the orange outfits I find in my spacebank. My smuggler is starting a giant pile labeled "stupidly named weapons Corso has given me," too.

I haven an orange with no hood I could send you? I like the hoods.

If you don't want it, I'll totally take it. I am currently rocking a no-hood one now, of course. I don't mind the hoods, I just sometimes want to see my pretty face and my pretty hair.  



Also I would like a way to turn off companion hats. Some of them are Unfortunate.

[Lantyssa]

Hood-up looks great on my Rattataki, and the first item I got from the Black Talon was an Orange Overseers robe.  Black with Lavender trim.  It's awesome.

[Ingmar]

Also I would like a way to turn off companion hats. Some of them are Unfortunate.

Tell me about it. Kira now looks like she's starring in an adaptation of the Canterbury Tales.

[Zetor]

My trooper is starting to be a close approximation of the "deal with it" color matching picture. An amusing minigame is trying to "match" armor to a country flag. I could replicate Italy (rotated), the Netherlands, Spain and Hungary (obv) so far with any 3 consecutive elements of the helm-chest-belt-legs-boots sequence. Germany would be doable if I hadn't trashed that black-trimmed quest reward a while ago...

[Thrawn]

I can't be the only one that spent the 15 minutes before server shut down convincing people in general chat that the maintenance was to wipe all early release characters because a large group exploited a bug to get to 50 in hours. 

[Outlawedprod]

The true launch is nearly upon us. It's time to get ready http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juYeC7O5k3A

[trias_e]

I can't be the only one that spent the 15 minutes before server shut down convincing people in general chat that the maintenance was to wipe all early release characters because a large group exploited a bug to get to 50 in hours. 

Dark Side: +50

Vette: -15

[Ghambit]

Kaliyo +50

[Tannhauser]

I played the entire pre-release and didn't hear WoW mentioned once.  Bet I can't say that tomorrow.

Just missed hitting 25 on Tatooine before the server shut down.  So hopefully I'm far away from the masses.
EA has a big hit on their hands.  I've been seeing lots of SWTOR commercials on TV.  No, it's not too groundbreaking, but it's a fun game with tons of story set in the SW universe. 

[kildorn]

I played the entire pre-release and didn't hear WoW mentioned once.  Bet I can't say that tomorrow.

Just missed hitting 25 on Tatooine before the server shut down.  So hopefully I'm far away from the masses.
EA has a big hit on their hands.  I've been seeing lots of SWTOR commercials on TV.  No, it's not too groundbreaking, but it's a fun game with tons of story set in the SW universe. 

General chat told me that you don't troll with WoW comments, you say that NGE was the best thing to ever happen to SWG.

[Fabricated]

I usually tell anyone talking about how SWG was great to get the fuck out and that they have aspergers.

"Yes, I'm sorry you can't be 'that hermit who makes the best blasters ever' in SWTOR. Go away."

[Sand]

Okay one major amateur hour problem.

You do server maintenance/update and it simultaneously brings down your website and your entire community forums? WTF?!?!
Really your website and forums are all hosted on the game world servers? 



So since I can access the website anyone know what time the game is supposed to go live again?

[luckton]

Magic 8-ball sez "midnight", since, you know, midnight release for the game and whatnot 

[Ingmar]

11 PM Central, actually.

[Ghambit]

Here's something "wrong" I've realized today as the servers go down.  Okay so, you parse out your early access folk over 3+ days so that the servers are nice and even and stable.  Fine, though kinda silly in some ways.  But, to make it more silly you shut the servers down for 5hrs tonight so that the regular launch crowd can storm in at 12:01am and essentially undue all your fancy pre-release work, since they're gonna log into a nice fresh unpopulated server swarm.  e.g. They're not gonna know which servers to choose since they've reset everything for release.  They'll all say "LOW" to everyone that tries to login.

Then in comes the pre-order folk to play late tonite or tomorrow to overpacked servers and queues.  

This is something I've always wondered with these pre-order/launches.  What truly is the point of the server maintenance just b4 launch??  I mean, typically not a damned thing changes serverwise unless they have some special starter-zone event they need to upload, yes?  Otherwise, all you're doing is risking a flood of newbs in your already established playerbase.

Would be nice to have some kind of indicator of how many players are rolled on each server, whether logged-in or not.

[Ingmar]

Why do you assume it won't recommend the new servers to new accounts?

EDIT: In a lot of ways it is actually *better* if they don't see which servers are already populated, because people tend to pick busy servers, not empty ones.

[01101010]

The true launch is nearly upon us. It's time to get ready http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juYeC7O5k3A

Looks like the kids in my neighborhood 

[tmp]

What truly is the point of the server maintenance just b4 launch??

That's when they sacrifice the goat.

[ajax34i]

I would assume they need the maintenance for:

- new servers
- the registration process
- nerfing whatever they need to nerf
- maybe bugfixes

Not sure what client version the CD has, but they'll probably increase the LIVE version number by 1 and make everyone patch.

[Evildrider]

Yep, I'd expect a "launch" patch.  Probably won't be a huge one though.

[Merusk]

Okay one major amateur hour problem.

You do server maintenance/update and it simultaneously brings down your website and your entire community forums? WTF?!?!
Really your website and forums are all hosted on the game world servers? 



So since I can access the website anyone know what time the game is supposed to go live again?

I'm convinced it's planned just so they can all go enjoy whatever launch event they have planned.  Similar to my company being mysteriously unavailable or in a meeting for 3 hours last Friday.  It had absolutely nothing to do with the party and alcohol in the lobby.

[Fraeg]

Having fun, someone asked earlier if lvling via pvp is viable and my 2cents up to lvl 21 is yes.  The issue I am running into is that my lvling via pvp is reducing the pve content into trivial easymode.  Not sure how it will scale in later levels, but from what I have seen you could pvp to 50 while doing random questing in between pvp warzones.  Huttball is a blast when you have 2 teams that have a clue and are evenly matched.   When it is bad, it remends me of Warhammer's Kill The Dude with the Thing - Lava level, or farm group Warsong Gulch.

If endgame open world pvp on the pvp planet(??) is as fun as pvp in the Moors in LOTRO is then I can see myself sticking around for awhile.  Especially if I can aquire endgame gear through pvp (and no, not the "you must be this tall to buy" cockblock arena WoW gear).

I have no clue what this really means:  But at lvl 21 I have a full set of pvp gear for myself and all but the inplants for my Green Toady companion, about 80k credits, a valor rank of 20 (I am assuming this will be the cockblock to high end pvp gear is valor?), as a Sith - Sorc healer with 2x bio and diplomacy.

Personally I hope the endgame pvp gear is gated based on valor level and not some ranking scheme, because, frankly I am not good enough to ever see the endgame pvp stuff if it is based on a rank, but I can grind Warzones with the best of them.    One thing that I really appreciate in warzones is that if you lose, you still get XP, commendations, valor, and Credits.  Enough so that even if you lose badly it will still have been worth your time.

Perhaps I am just getting too old, but anyone else find the pvp to be very fast?  I know with time I will get used to it, but I intentionally went with a Sorcerer to avoid needing the Twitch chops of other classes, and I am still finding myself going "wow this is fricking fast".

cheers.

[Threash]

Leveling up via pvp sorta completely misses the point of the game.  Although it is really good exp.

[Fraeg]

Leveling up via pvp sorta completely misses the point of the game.  Although it is really good exp.

/shrug I am having a lot of fun in pvp.  And as others have mentioned, a few months down the road and Huttball is going to be filled with NBA top picks, where I will only get to play in the first half as a Harlem Globetrotter.

[Lantyssa]

More like a Washington General.

[Sand]

Leveling up via pvp sorta completely misses the point of the game.  Although it is really good exp.

/shrug I am having a lot of fun in pvp.  And as others have mentioned, a few months down the road and Huttball is going to be filled with NBA top picks, where I will only get to play in the first half as a Harlem Globetrotter.

For those of us who werent in the Beta and havent checked out the PVP yet could someone give us me a run down on whats available and some general details?
Sounds like there is something called Huttball and some kind of capture the flag or battle royale thing? Details?

[Viin]

Thread title isn't obvious, but try here: http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=21692.0

[Ginaz]

I was finally able to subscribe tonight.  Went with the 6 month option since I plan to play at least that long.  Also was able to upgrade to the deluxe edition, which is what I wanted originally but didn't see it on Origin when I pre-ordered.