Star Wars: The Old Republic

[keg in kc]

Don't believe there's a dedicated thread, and since they're starting to release information now, I figure it's time for one.

[Huffmeister]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

What is this "chat" you speak of?

(I don't think I've had general chat on for more than a total of maybe 5 minutes)

I turned that off, too. Now I just see Guild Chat, loot, and system messages.

[Pants]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

What is this "chat" you speak of?

(I don't think I've had general chat on for more than a total of maybe 5 minutes)

Well, when I do an LFG for a FP, I'd like to shift click on a person's name responding to me via a tell to see their class and level instead of opening up the /who window.

As far as chat and random groups go, you'd be surprised how many awesome people you can meet. Yeah, there are the shitty ones too, but hey, I don't have to deal with them if I don't want to... that's the beauty of it all!

[Saulbadguy]

Dromund Kaas is like the Barrens Chat all over again. I love it.

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by Pants

Well, when I do an LFG for a FP, I'd like to shift click on a person's name responding to me via a tell to see their class and level instead of opening up the /who window.

As far as chat and random groups go, you'd be surprised how many awesome people you can meet. Yeah, there are the shitty ones too, but hey, I don't have to deal with them if I don't want to... that's the beauty of it all!

Yeah, you know me. I'm not big on meeting people.

Part of the problem with this game - and problem is probably the wrong word to use, but I can't think of another one - is that I don't want anything interrupting my cutscenes. So I have a tendency to close off everything at the top left corner of the screen, both the chat window and the social panel. So half the time I have no idea if any of my guild is on and half the time I miss any message that people, guild or otherwise, might send me. Which is a bigger issue now that I'm 50 and people are looking to run stuff.

[Pants]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

Yeah, you know me. I'm not big on meeting people.

Part of the problem with this game - and problem is probably the wrong word to use, but I can't think of another one - is that I don't want anything interrupting my cutscenes. So I have a tendency to close off everything at the top left corner of the screen, both the chat window and the social panel. So half the time I have no idea if any of my guild is on and half the time I miss any message that people, guild or otherwise, might send me. Which is a bigger issue now that I'm 50 and people are looking to run stuff.

Nothing interrupts the cut scenes unless you roll your mouse over the chat window. It all disappears on it's own. At least it has been for me since I started.

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by Pants

Nothing interrupts the cut scenes unless you roll your mouse over the chat window. It all disappears on it's own. At least it has been for me since I started.

That's not exactly what I meant. I don't want to see anything at the top left so I close everything that can possibly be closed. I tend to take a lot of screenshots (a first for me btw), and I don't want anything else on the screen.

Although, at least in beta, new messages would show up. The window fades over time, but new messages bring it back.

It's also annoying sometimes in combat (especially space combat) when you're trying to target something on the upper left side of the screen, and suddenly you're mousing over your chat window which is now obscuring whatever you were trying to kill.

[Pants]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

That's not exactly what I meant. I don't want to see anything at the top left so I close everything that can possibly be closed. I tend to take a lot of screenshots (a first for me btw), and I don't want anything else on the screen.

Although, at least in beta, new messages would show up. The window fades over time, but new messages bring it back.

It's also annoying sometimes in combat (especially space combat) when you're trying to target something on the upper left side of the screen, and suddenly you're mousing over your chat window which is now obscuring whatever you were trying to kill.

I don't think either one of those things are the case any longer. The cutscenes do not get interrupted by new messages (or at least haven't been for me) and I have never seen a chat window pop in during a space mission.

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by Pants

I don't think either one of those things are the case any longer. The cutscenes do not get interrupted by new messages (or at least haven't been for me) and I have never seen a chat window pop in during a space mission.

Chat windows are all messed up in space combat. They won't open at all unless you force them open (it involves hitting enter and the arrow at the top left that open/closes the chat window). I opened mine several times in order to ascertain how much xp I was getting from the various bonus objectives in underlevel missions.

Sidenote: if you don't know, there are certain daily objectives in some of the space missions that offer a large amount of xp and credits. Like blowing up the communications array underneath the Outpost in the 2nd or 3rd mission you get. Many of these can only be done at 50, with Proton Torpedoes, but some of them, like the comm array, can be done with missiles (it takes @16, and gives somewhere around 2500 xp/credits - which is nuts at the low levels that you get the mission...). You can also blow up the bridge on the main objective ship in the Makum Te Assualt (however that's spelled).

So that's why/how I had the chat window open in the space missions...

But you'll never see your chat window open otherwise.

[Pants]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

Chat windows are all messed up in space combat. They won't open at all unless you force them open (it involves hitting enter and the arrow at the top left that open/closes the chat window). I opened mine several times in order to ascertain how much xp I was getting from the various bonus objectives in underlevel missions.

Sidenote: if you don't know, there are certain daily objectives in some of the space missions that offer a large amount of xp and credits. Like blowing up the communications array underneath the Outpost in the 2nd or 3rd mission you get. Many of these can only be done at 50, with Proton Torpedoes, but some of them, like the comm array, can be done with missiles (it takes @16, and gives somewhere around 2500 xp/credits - which is nuts at the low levels that you get the mission...). You can also blow up the bridge on the main objective ship in the Makum Te Assualt (however that's spelled).

So that's why/how I had the chat window open in the space missions...

But you'll never see your chat window open otherwise.

Ahhh, I think I've killed the Communication Array because I got like 11k XP for that mission at like level 17 which was HUGE for me at the time. But yeah, sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you were saying your chat window was opening in space combat without you wanting it there.

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by Pants

Ahhh, I think I've killed the Communication Array because I got like 11k XP for that mission at like level 17 which was HUGE for me at the time. But yeah, sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you were saying your chat window was opening in space combat without you wanting it there.

Nah, the first time you do one of those missions (assuming you've talked to fleet command...) you get a huge bonus.

This is the way it goes. Say you're level 22-24 (I forget which level it is...). You get two new space missions, Makum Te Assault and Balosar Outpost (or whatever they're called, my memory's like swiss cheese). Each one has a separate mission in your log, so the first time you do it, you get a huge chunk of xp and space commendations. Then, after those initial two missions are complete, you get the daily repeatable from fleet command, during which you have to do both missions (together) for lots of xp and commendations.

That happens several times, new missions at 28 and 34 or 36, then 44, then 48. Every time you hit a new tier of space missions you can get nearly a half level's worth of xp just from doing the new space missions and their new related daily mission.

The daily bonus I mentioned is a different thing, sort of a secret objective. You don't get a notification about it post-mission or anything, it just gives you the xp and credits right when it happens, although it does tell you in big bright green letters across the screen that you did it immediately after you finish.

It's not something you're likely to accidentally do. You have to literally hit that comm tower 16 times with missiles for it to finish.

[keg in kc]

Space missions are kind of nuts. When I feel like it (and have time) I can clear over 100k credits in like an hour and 15 minutes just doing my dailies.

[Pants]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

Space missions are kind of nuts. When I feel like it (and have time) I can clear over 100k credits in like an hour and 15 minutes just doing my dailies.

I love them and I love PvP, but I can't do either right now and it's pissing me off. I'm literally like 6 levels above what I would want to be at this point in time. Just for the reference, I'm on the 3rd Alderaan area and I'm a level 37, all the quests in the first 2 areas of Alderaan were grey to me.

[keg in kc]

I'm sort of at the same point with my sentinel, although he's on tatooine. He's 27 and I haven't started the planet yet (most of the missions are 25 I think). Right now I'm playing my Sage, trying to finish the class story (I have probably a week, maybe two left, even though I hit 50 a week ago...). Normally I'd do space dailies on my knight. But if I do that for two more weeks, he'll outlevel everything on Tatooine by the time I get back to playing him.

It would definitely be worse if I had any interest in PvP.

It did happen on my Sage and is happening on my Gunslinger, too. On my sage I skipped almost all of Belsavis and my gunslinger has skipped half of everything. Basically what I've ended up doing is swapping worlds between the two of them, so I'm not doing the same stuff over and over.

[jspchief]

Everyone using the g13 over the nostromo?

[Pants]

Originally Posted by jspchief

Everyone using the g13 over the nostromo?

I checked out the Nostromo and and it felt flimsy as ****. It also doesn't have as many keys, has no LCD and the thumb directional pad is garbage from what I hear so I went with the G13. I think I am going to give the Razer Naga a spin, though. I haven't decided yet, but I'm leaning that way.