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Friday Feature for December 19th

7 Days Until Character Transfer Begins

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

I was doing Legacy with my new toon on Flurry, and got up to lvl 19, mostly with bonus xp terminal missions. I was going to login after 12:30 in the afternoon yesterday to do my next 10 when I realized this toon was created to make some credits and scout Flurry for city locations for our Guild.

We have the Guild started and we have 5 toons guilded so the Guild will not “expire”. We have some housing dropped in our location. So, I really don’t need to keep grinding this “throw-away” toon.

Time to concentrate on preparing for the Transfer. I sent a Guild email out giving them an overview of what is coming. I explained that our Guild was officially moving, but they were not required to move to Flurry, they could xfer to any server on the destination list they wish, or stay.

Preparation:

  • Stop stocking vendors
  • Do a /locatestructures on all toons and write down what they have on thier lots
  • Take a quick Inventory of shared storage spaces and decide what to keep and what not to keep.
  • Drop factories as storage space for the move, as needed.

Can you think of anything I missed?

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Stop Worrying About Planet Caps!

Monday, January 5th, 2009

With the impending Server Transfer in 8 days, I was obsessed with the issue of Planet Caps for Player Cities. When I realized the thing that concerned me most about having a City was having a Shuttle.

Before Player Cities were added to SWG, we had a Guild Hall and a cluster of Houses on Rori that we called our “city”. No shuttles back then, and I dealt with it. My friend Aeons has a city On Tatooine now, and he set aside a area specifically for ITV Launches. This is what we will have to do in our new home on the destination server.

That addresses leaving our new town, but not arriving. Will just have to shuttle to the closest town and use Vehicles the rest of the journey.

The Question remains: The Hospital structure that we store our Organic resources, can we drop those in a non-town?

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Finally Tagged

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

I did not realize how much I like and rely on Guild Chat until I started the new toon on our new server. We went a week or so until Rackle had the forsight to drop a Guild Hall and start the new server version of our Guild.

I feel much better now. :)

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Routine Check

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

Stop! This is a routine check! Running from an officer of the law is a crime! You have ten seconds to return!

If you run, I’d have to put out a search and detain order. Remain as you are until the scan is complete. This won’t take much longer.

I remember back on the old days this used to strike fear in me. It has been so long, I cannot remember why. Whats the worst thing that can happen now if you run? You loose Imperial or Rebel faction?

Since the mechanics for the random inspections is still in the game, it seems like this is a system that could be tweaked to add more GCW ‘flavor’

What do you think?

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First Contact!

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

I was on my future home of Flurry running Legacy quests and was up to the White Thranta section. There was a lvl 12 player and a lvl 90 Medic following him doing the same quest series. I was inside the White Thranta bunker and my next assignment was to kill an NPC named Durr. I did a /targ durr and headed to his location. As I turned a corner, I spotted him and began shooting. About halfway through killing him, the other players began shooting him also.

Durr died, and I recieved credit for the kill. The other lvl 12 player walked up to me and challenged me to a duel. Perhaps he felt I stole his kill? I got to him first, and did not know they needed him also. So, being friendly, I said “Hiya”. He replied …

“Fuck you”

Although I look forward to playing on a full server, I have no patience for spoiled, ADD children. His Mommy’s credit card may buy him a subscription, it can do nothing for his basic social skills. That’s ok, I suspect he will have a good career as a Grocery Bagger someday.

My time on Flurry was not all bad, I spoke to a good guy named Arka-Ryy. He joked that he wanted to freeze my toon in Carbonite for his Zoo because Sullusts were so rare :)

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Who Needs Badges!

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

It’s years end, or years beginning depending on how you look at it, and either way a lot of us are about to find new homes on new servers. The move itself will be a bit stressful, but ultimately those choosing to relocate to a higher population server will recapture the joy of social interaction that makes this game what it is. I say all of that to lead up to this.

A new server means a change to get those other badges you couldn’t get before! YAY!

Both Kashyyyk and Mustafar had badges that were based on which side you chose at the time, allowing only for you to pick one or the other… on your server. Server transfers can redo the quests and choose the other side to get the rewards we have long thought about, and more importantly the badges that make those rows look full.

And for you space nuts, make sure you hit the Station in Kashyyyk again for the missing ship. The regular rules still apply, as in you have to have the right faction for the mission, but being able to get the heavy X for display deed, or the other Trials of Obi-Wan crystal is more than reward for me becoming a fugitive.

Happy Badging!

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Gungan Engineering at it’s Best!

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

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Fugitive Collection Time Sink

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

I login my Bounty Hunter and work on the Fugitve Collections on certain days, and in certain situations.

In the Gotal Camp in Kashyyyk’s Shadowlands, you usually get a Fugitive after about 5 attempts, which is good. The Fugitive that spawns is random, and the timer is about 20 minutes (I think). So it is allot of standing around and waiting,

I do this on the days when I need to get some work done around the house, and shouldn’t be playing :)

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Corellia Foraging

Monday, December 29th, 2008

As a change of pace I was foraging for Treasure Maps on Corellia and I found 2 round fountains in the middle of nowhere.

Closeby was a hut with an NPC. This style of Hut always reminds me of the old Aurillia. The NPC inside was Riyan Kiner, and a quick forum search tells me this is part of the Meatlump Theme Park. Which I have not done yet.

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Shuffle the Cards

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

Time to check the new Trading Card Game packs for me.

No in-game loot this time. With 5 accounts, sometimes I can get lucky and get some cool stuff.

I play one TCG account more then any other, and I use the Rebel deck. So sometimes I take the tradeable Rebel cards from my other accounts and trade it to my main TCG account. Trying to make a uber deck.

I am not good enough to enter any tournaments yet, but it is fun.

Time to login and check my Harvesters. And Vendors. And … <checks list>

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