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

[apocrypha]

Um, when I log into swtor.com and go to My Profile, I can click on Subscription, then Show Billing History, then there's an EDIT option by the credit card, and clicking it pops up a sub-window that lets me fully change everything - name, address, etc.  Alternately, under swtor.com My Profile, I can click on the left on the Contact Information Complete!!! graphic and change my address, phone number, etc.

Not sure why it's not working for you.

Interesting, there's no Billing History option for me, and I can't edit the CC address in any way - just checked again. I can edit my home address, but that doesn't change the billing address. Different implementations in different regions maybe? Doesn't really matter, I've submitted a support ticket detailing the issue, they've got 29 days to respond and rectify, that will surely be sufficient.

 

Never let it be said I don't publically acknowledge good customer support when I experience it.

This has been resolved. I got a response to my ticket 4 days after submtting saying "Thanks, we'll look into it" and then this morning I got another ticket saying "We've fixed this". I check and they have indeed fixed it and you can now edit your billing address seperately from your residential address.

This pleases me. Nobody will have to be electrocuted today. You may go about your business.

[UnSub]

If you're sitting in a pvp area with a lowbie alt of the opposite faction so that you can flip the node as fast as possible and collect loot each time you flip the node it should probably occur to you that you've probably crossed the line into exploiting game mechanics.

It's a pretty simple exploit to think of though. The advantage lies from flipping the node, so players will collude to flip the node as quickly as possible. It's the kind of thing that should have been picked up, if not at paper design level, then during beta and stopped.

The news makes me fully convinced that WAR developers were involved in SWOR's PvP.

[Wolf]

apparently if you type /getdown whatever's targeting you loses target and gets interrupted. Works on boss mobs 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vun5geNHA5M

[VainEldritch]

apparently if you type /getdown whatever's targeting you loses target and gets interrupted. Works on boss mobs 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vun5geNHA5M

Literally, it's a Safety Dance... 

[Tyrnan]

8 hour maintenance tomorrow, 4th Jan.

Very much hoping that these excessively long maintenance downtimes are just a launch/patch thing and that they'll settle down to a more sensible 1-2 hours soon, especially since they're not exactly at an ideal time if you live in Europe.

Completed in 2 and a half hours. It appears they have Scotty working out their downtime estimates.

[cironian]

apparently if you type /getdown whatever's targeting you loses target and gets interrupted. Works on boss mobs 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vun5geNHA5M

Literally, it's a Safety Dance... 

Most awesome exploit in MMO history. Now lets turn PvP into a proper dance off!

[apocrypha]

8 hour maintenance tomorrow, 4th Jan.

Very much hoping that these excessively long maintenance downtimes are just a launch/patch thing and that they'll settle down to a more sensible 1-2 hours soon, especially since they're not exactly at an ideal time if you live in Europe.

Completed in 2 and a half hours. It appears they have Scotty working out their downtime estimates.

Haha yeah, I said the same thing when I logged in. 

I've installed an Android app that tells me when the servers go up/down and I didn't believe it when it pinged at me!

[Merusk]

apparently if you type /getdown whatever's targeting you loses target and gets interrupted. Works on boss mobs 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vun5geNHA5M

Literally, it's a Safety Dance... 

Most awesome exploit in MMO history. Now lets turn PvP into a proper dance off!

I hope that wasn't patched-out today. I'm totally going to try it on my Sith Inq. and see if I can be healbot. =D

[ajax34i]

Beware the bans.

[Lantyssa]

You'll have to pry Drach's shaman from his cold, dead hands.

At least he's dead often enough that we have lots of opportunities to do so!

[DraconianOne]

I've installed an Android app that tells me when the servers go up/down and I didn't believe it when it pinged at me!

 

Link: http://www.appbrain.com/app/swtor-server-status/com.ephemeronindustries.swtorstatus

[Zetor]

You'll have to pry Drach's shaman from his cold, dead hands.

At least he's dead often enough that we have lots of opportunities to do so!

That makes his choice of self-rez-capable class sound even better. (Is this the Earth Elemental Guy I've been reading in wow threads about?  )

[Lantyssa]

Yep, that's our loveable Drach.

Random elementals, spirit wolves, and heroisms for everyone!

[01101010]

I am getting huge flashbacks to FFXI with this LFG chat channel spam, only difference being that instead of classism, it seems there are just no people interested. I went to Fleet to shop and get my trainings done and saw one guy LFG to one of the higher instances. Went to Quesh to finish some shit up (hate that fucking swamp hole) and came back about an hour later and the same dude was begging for a tank then gtg! Seriously... I should have /whispered to ask if he had been searching for a group that whole time or not but figured if he got any tells he would auto-invite and then be disappointed I wasn't a tank.

[Der Helm]

apparently if you type /getdown whatever's targeting you loses target and gets interrupted. Works on boss mobs 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vun5geNHA5M

Literally, it's a Safety Dance... 

That explains the large amounts of /dance emotes I noticed in warzones yesterday.  

[apocrypha]

I've installed an Android app that tells me when the servers go up/down and I didn't believe it when it pinged at me!

 

Link: http://www.appbrain.com/app/swtor-server-status/com.ephemeronindustries.swtorstatus

That's the one, thanks, I couldn't be arsed to find a link! 

[Threash]

I want an app that lets me queue up crew skills when im not playing :P

[Mrbloodworth]

apparently if you type /getdown whatever's targeting you loses target and gets interrupted. Works on boss mobs 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vun5geNHA5M

Not real.

[Sjofn]

You'll have to pry Drach's shaman from his cold, dead hands.

At least he's dead often enough that we have lots of opportunities to do so!

That makes his choice of self-rez-capable class sound even better. (Is this the Earth Elemental Guy I've been reading in wow threads about?  )

It's not a real boss fight unless Drachmir dies twice. 

[Ghambit]

Im still at lvl 25 and on Nar Shadaa, have only had 2 conversations with my comp.  Even with the affection bar almost halfway full.
The mechanic is broken imo.  Half the time we're in fleet and she wants to talk, then I start moving to the cantina or ship and she no longer wants to.     The other half we're in the middle of bumfuck planet in battle and she wants to talk, only for her to no longer want to talk after we zone in somewhere.

I sent in a ticket and got nothing, and it eventually closed magically as if it was solved.

Also, will healing comps focus-heal teammates if i target/attack them?  If not, well... another thing they need to fix.  Tired of my droid topping my health off whilst the MT dies.

[Ingmar]

There are a number of companions where the conversations are gated by major story points; Kira for the JK is an example. She has a number of conversations that she can't have until Chapter I ends, because they reference things that happen in the ending part of the chapter, so if you raise her affection way up before that you end up having like 12 conversations in a row after the end of the chapter as they were all bottlenecked by that.

I don't know which class/companion you mean but I'm sure there are others like that.

[cironian]

Im still at lvl 25 and on Nar Shadaa, have only had 2 conversations with my comp.  Even with the affection bar almost halfway full.

Apart from very few early ones, all conversations are gated to Chapter completion. So, until you finish Chapter 1, that sounds about right. The moment I finished Ch1, suddenly everyone on my ship wanted to talk to me 2-3 times in a row.

I found that the actual conversation progress works fine, but the indicator in the bottom left is broken. Just ignore it completely and check for quest icons when you are on your ship. Those always tell the truth. (The cantina dialogue indicator seems to have less problems than the shipboard one, but best not to rely on either)

The one method to really make available conversations "go away" again for a while is when turning in a quest drops the companion meter below the threshold value again. Outside of that, once a conversation is truly available, it stays available. (Aboard your ship, that is)

[Ghambit]

Another thing broke as a joke:  Did Cademamu with Kitiri last night and virtually EVERY drop was a sniper drop.  The loot tables seem to bork if you comedy run with lowbies (which I was only lvl 25, she was 42).  Most of the gear I got was lvl 29 even.  Damned near completed the set and the whole thing ended up being a waste o' time for her.  

[Ingmar]

Onyxia is deep breathing more this patch too.

Your sample size is way too small to be meaningful.

[Sjofn]

Im still at lvl 25 and on Nar Shadaa, have only had 2 conversations with my comp.  Even with the affection bar almost halfway full.

Apart from very few early ones, all conversations are gated to Chapter completion. So, until you finish Chapter 1, that sounds about right. The moment I finished Ch1, suddenly everyone on my ship wanted to talk to me 2-3 times in a row.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by "early ones" but aside from Qyzen (and I expected this, as we were not friends), all of my companions on the classes I've tried thus far have had several things to chat with me about before Chapter 1 closed out. Of course, aside from the trooper, I've been playing classes that don't even get their second person until Nar Fucking Shaddaa, so that probably helps the smoothness out.

Corso could stand to talk to me less, really. 


But yeah, it sounds like your companions are waiting for Plot Shit to happen before they talk to you again, Ghambit.

[kildorn]

Another thing broke as a joke:  Did Cademamu with Kitiri last night and virtually EVERY drop was a sniper drop.  The loot tables seem to bork if you comedy run with lowbies (which I was only lvl 25, she was 42).  Most of the gear I got was lvl 29 even.  Damned near completed the set and the whole thing ended up being a waste o' time for her.  

Which of you was the sniper?

That said.. there are 3 bosses in that instance? So "virtually every" would mean.. two thirds? The weapon drops are also a total toss up (not based on classes present), so.. yeah.

[sam, an eggplant]

Apart from very few early ones, all conversations are gated to Chapter completion. So, until you finish Chapter 1, that sounds about right. The moment I finished Ch1, suddenly everyone on my ship wanted to talk to me 2-3 times in a row.

As soon as I finished chapter 1, I had what must have been 9 or 10 separate conversations with Mako all in a row on my ship. Then I followed up on her quest and immediately got obliterated by two level 40 mobs. It was inside an instanced area, so I just ran past them outside to come back later at level 40 (if I ever play SWTOR again anyway). Pretty crappy QA there, though.

[Ingmar]

The quest should tell you what level it is in your journal.

[Sjofn]

Ha, that happened to me with Aric Jorgen's quest. I didn't look to see what level it was (as Corso's was level 25, so for some reason I assumed Aric's would be too). We aggro some mobs while I'm running to the spot, and we get the shit beaten out of us, when I notice "oh, these dudes are level 30." Sure enough, I look in my quest log, the quest is red. Whoops!

[sam, an eggplant]

Well sure, but level 30 is reasonable for finishing chapter 1-- or maybe not for your class, but it is for most of the others. 40 is just way, way higher. Either way, they should have gone through QA.

My level 30ish guy was literally trapped in a small instanced room with two level 40 mobs between me and the door. No way was I gonna survive that.

[Trippy]

Onyxia is deep breathing more this patch too.

They broke Feign Death (again) too!

[Ingmar]

Well sure, but level 30 is reasonable for finishing chapter 1-- or maybe not for your class, but it is for most of the others. 40 is just way, way higher. Either way, they should have gone through QA.

My level 30ish guy was literally trapped in a small instanced room with two level 40 mobs between me and the door. No way was I gonna survive that.

It seems likely you pushed your affection total with her higher than 'expected' for your level, since affection level is the other thing that gates conversations.

[Rasix]

Well sure, but level 30 is reasonable for finishing chapter 1-- or maybe not for your class, but it is for most of the others. 40 is just way, way higher. Either way, they should have gone through QA.

My level 30ish guy was literally trapped in a small instanced room with two level 40 mobs between me and the door. No way was I gonna survive that.

It seems likely you pushed your affection total with her higher than 'expected' for your level, since affection level is the other thing that gates conversations.

Yah, I got my affection level to the point where I had a lvl 30 quest at lvl 20.  Investigation leaves you with a lot of spare companion gifts if you pick those missions.

I also got a conversation indicator out in the field that went away when I logged off.  I figured it was just a bug, since I already had that lvl 30 quest in my log. Although I'm curious if a conversation been available had I made it back to my ship.   

[01101010]

Tying up their website with the game is really getting on my god damn nerves. Everytime I want to see their website I am thrown into a queue. I can't even access account info in a timely manner. Might get harry when it comes time to unsub and not being able to access your account due to a god damn queue then being auto-renewed.  

edit: bitter taste has been acquired. I flashed a new ROM on my Android phone since my last one was spamming the shit outta me. Titanium can not restore the app and you have to reenter your info. Great, too bad you can not log onto their site to get said info unless you have the fucking security key. So in other words, guard yo security key shit and hope that never fails or else you are fuxxor'd.

[Sjofn]

The little "wants to talk" icon on the character portrait is buggy, if you click your companion, they'll actually say if they really want to talk or not.