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Levarris
Sep 19, 2011

"To win in battle, know your enemy. To win in life, know your weakness."
- Miyamoto Musashi

Drone posted:

Nope, those are standard to pre-CU SWG. Switch to MMO Modeless under keybinds, and enable chase cam for that more modern MMO control scheme.

As far as stability, I find Bloodfin to be generally more stable than Basilisk, and with less desyncs. Your mileage may vary on that though, but I've only had one time so far with Bloodfin that a server outage actually prevented me from playing.

I kinda wish they'd come up with a better solution for patching than manually distributing .exe's though. At least when Basilisk has a new release, you don't have to download poo poo.

We have a launcher in development right now. Its undergoing internal testing and will be made available for wider testing soon.

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Tide
Mar 27, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
I've been running around on Dath and Yavin IV the last couple of days and nothing can hit me. I was trying to die so I could take the cloner express to save time. Are the mobs bugged?

Does /activateclone not work?

Levarris
Sep 19, 2011

"To win in battle, know your enemy. To win in life, know your weakness."
- Miyamoto Musashi

Tide posted:

I've been running around on Dath and Yavin IV the last couple of days and nothing can hit me. I was trying to die so I could take the cloner express to save time. Are the mobs bugged?

Does /activateclone not work?

The mobs aren't bugged to my knowledge, and activateclone works as far as I know.

Tide
Mar 27, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
Turns out my memory is even more shaky than I thought: You have to be incapped to use /activateclone

However, nothing on either planet can hit me. Tried several times. My defenses aren't anything stellar. Just Master Pistoleer, Master TK, and the dirty fighting line. Don't know what was up.

Ugato
Apr 9, 2009

We're not?

Tide posted:

Turns out my memory is even more shaky than I thought: You have to be incapped to use /activateclone

However, nothing on either planet can hit me. Tried several times. My defenses aren't anything stellar. Just Master Pistoleer, Master TK, and the dirty fighting line. Don't know what was up.

There are definitely things that can hit you. It's just that they're the exception, not the rule. Dath especially. Find a high level night sister (they are hard to find). But yeah that's what I was complaining about last night. I can be hit by ranged attacks rarely. But I did about 10 sharnaff lair missions without buffs - standard melee aoe the lair tactic - and I never got touched.

Bear in the Woods
Jun 1, 2013

Ugato posted:

There are definitely things that can hit you. It's just that they're the exception, not the rule. Dath especially. Find a high level night sister (they are hard to find). But yeah that's what I was complaining about last night. I can be hit by ranged attacks rarely. But I did about 10 sharnaff lair missions without buffs - standard melee aoe the lair tactic - and I never got touched.

I had a similar experience on Dath with the nightsisters though (elders can probably gently caress you up still). Made it to the bottom of the Forced Labor Camp PoI and never felt at risk with just Mswords and buffs/composite.

I did get dizzy/kd'd by the last person but they still did very little damage while I was on the ground. I didn't see very many force powers either(only noticed the last one shocking me at all) so there could be an issue.

Ugato
Apr 9, 2009

We're not?

Bear in the Woods posted:

I had a similar experience on Dath with the nightsisters though (elders can probably gently caress you up still). Made it to the bottom of the Forced Labor Camp PoI and never felt at risk with just Mswords and buffs/composite.

I did get dizzy/kd'd by the last person but they still did very little damage while I was on the ground. I didn't see very many force powers either(only noticed the last one shocking me at all) so there could be an issue.

I got careless and got killed by one without armor on so I'm sure that's probably the case. They don't seem to do a ton of damage, I'm just saying there that they can actually hit me. Which surprised me as nothing had for two days.

e: the one that killed me hit me 15 times in a row. That's quite a difference.

Ugato fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Oct 29, 2014

Seekhay
Sep 11, 2001


College Slice
Stasos lives again!



Well maybe not "Dark" this time...

If you played on Lowca, here are some throwbacks for you:

Repub's Souvenirs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vozt-jwoeVQ

Arene/Twain's (:unsmith:) I sell houses kid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq2YbtDYVXA

For what it's worth, SWG is still my watermark for any MMO I play, so I suppose it's fitting that I return to it.

Tide
Mar 27, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
I remember you from APB. Good times. I'll do my best to hook you up with some moolah in game. Shoot me an IM once you get started.

e: and the server is crashing every 5 minutes again.

Tide fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Oct 29, 2014

Registered Loser
Dec 29, 2006

There's a decent spawn of endorian wooly hide for making grinder composite suits. If anyone wants to collect a bunch on their ranger it would help go towards pumping out composite mini suits for everyone.
It can be harvested from the gurrecks or manitrigues, with a solo group the gurreck missions can be pulled out from the smuggler outpost for around 9-12k.

edit: buff bois

Registered Loser fucked around with this message at 09:07 on Oct 30, 2014

Ahdinko
Oct 27, 2007

WHAT A LOVELY DAY
Where the hell did you get that blood?

Registered Loser
Dec 29, 2006

It just dropped off a janta at the mining outpost while I was collecting hides for some mando armor pieces. I also just had a mando belt and leg piece get consumed by the server while crafting them, losing the schematics and resources for both. :ughh:


also I put some mando on gamer girl and sat in the cantina, people are desperate for mando and I'm getting lots of messages like this:

Registered Loser fucked around with this message at 11:51 on Oct 30, 2014

Levarris
Sep 19, 2011

"To win in battle, know your enemy. To win in life, know your weakness."
- Miyamoto Musashi

Registered Loser posted:

There's a decent spawn of endorian wooly hide for making grinder composite suits. If anyone wants to collect a bunch on their ranger it would help go towards pumping out composite mini suits for everyone.
It can be harvested from the gurrecks or manitrigues, with a solo group the gurreck missions can be pulled out from the smuggler outpost for around 9-12k.

edit: buff bois


Omfg I can't wait to see the buffs those make.

Tide
Mar 27, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
Those need to be saved for PvP. If anyone uses those for PvE, they deserve a shot in the nuts.

FYI, anyone going Jedi: Don't do the Rebel theme park. Go Imperial for a while and do the Imperial on. And especially don't do any of the theme parks if the server is having issues. I could have hurt someone on Tuesday with the 5 minute roll backs. It made a 2 hour (at most) adventure into an all day one. And let me tell you about the Rebel theme park. Hope you like hills. And escort missions. And 10-12 hours of it.

Speaking of escort missions...

Tip of the day: Don't rely on the the NPC to make it back by themselves even though the posts on the bloodfin forums by Roses says you can. Just do yourself a favor, store your bike, and bring them back on foot.

2nd Tip of the day: Get scout/terrain negotiation for any of the theme parks for the specific purpose of escort missions.

e: and speaking of Jedi..

I heard last night the Padawan robe doesn't work?

Ugato
Apr 9, 2009

We're not?

Tide posted:

Those need to be saved for PvP. If anyone uses those for PvE, they deserve a shot in the nuts.

FYI, anyone going Jedi: Don't do the Rebel theme park. Go Imperial for a while and do the Imperial on. And especially don't do any of the theme parks if the server is having issues. I could have hurt someone on Tuesday with the 5 minute roll backs. It made a 2 hour (at most) adventure into an all day one. And let me tell you about the Rebel theme park. Hope you like hills. And escort missions. And 10-12 hours of it.

Speaking of escort missions...

Tip of the day: Don't rely on the the NPC to make it back by themselves even though the posts on the bloodfin forums by Roses says you can. Just do yourself a favor, store your bike, and bring them back on foot.

2nd Tip of the day: Get scout/terrain negotiation for any of the theme parks for the specific purpose of escort missions.

e: and speaking of Jedi..

I heard last night the Padawan robe doesn't work?

Ride your bike. Shift key slows you down. Target the person that's following you. Go forward until they get about 100m away, hold shift until they get closer. It's much less maddening because the bike has a massively better terrain negotiation ability unless you can get explore 4. So save yourself the 29 skill points and harvest time and just use your bike.

If you want to just auto-run brainlessly without paying attention, just hold shift the entire time.

Tide
Mar 27, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
And with all that you may as well simply hop off your bike and go on foot. You may save a minute or two doing it your way but it's more of a pain in the rear end than it needs to be.

Considering it takes all of about 10 minutes to get skills in this game, investing in terrain negotiation would pay dividends over the course of 15 hours of theme parks. Get it, use it, drop it when done. The NPCs aren't all that affected by terrain; some, but not much.

Ugato
Apr 9, 2009

We're not?

Tide posted:

And with all that you may as well simply hop off your bike and go on foot. You may save a minute or two doing it your way but it's more of a pain in the rear end than it needs to be.

Considering it takes all of about 10 minutes to get skills in this game, investing in terrain negotiation would pay dividends over the course of 15 hours of theme parks. Get it, use it, drop it when done. The NPCs aren't all that affected by terrain; some, but not much.

Or just hold shift.

Ahdinko
Oct 27, 2007

WHAT A LOVELY DAY
I find that the landspeeder is the perfect speed for escort missions. I just hit numlock and go, works every time.

Jiimy
Mar 25, 2003

Registered Loser posted:

It just dropped off a janta at the mining outpost while I was collecting hides for some mando armor pieces. I also just had a mando belt and leg piece get consumed by the server while crafting them, losing the schematics and resources for both. :ughh:


also I put some mando on gamer girl and sat in the cantina, people are desperate for mando and I'm getting lots of messages like this:





I am a good friend of goon.

Tide
Mar 27, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
All the crashes and rollbacks of late have convinced me that if I'm crafting something high end, I'm not doing it until about 5 minutes after a server restart.

Tai
Mar 8, 2006
Are the rollback/crashes still regularly happening? Been a wee bit busy last few days.

Tide
Mar 27, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
Tuesday was bad because of the Halloween patch (see a previous post by Lev about - something about a schematic). Wednesday, much less so. You could get in a solid couple hours before it would crash and be down/restart for 20 minutes or so.

Westy543
Apr 18, 2013

GINYU FORCE RULES


Aww I can't use the old Emu launcher?

I'll try and get in on this during the weekend. I'll start an entertainer since I can afk grind while I afk grind other games. What races can be entertainers? I mean actually be them and get off a full buff cycle. Is it just humans?

randombattle
Oct 16, 2008

This hand of mine shines and roars! It's bright cry tells me to grasp victory!

Jiimy posted:

I am a good friend of goon.

Who could say no to a new friend of goon.

Tai
Mar 8, 2006
Brandy filling

http://galaxyharvester.net/resource.py/26/ameki
http://galaxyharvester.net/resource.py/26/Cegikuqua x 2

Tide
Mar 27, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
Does a droid or pet give you the 4x xp bonus as well?

Registered Loser
Dec 29, 2006

A bunch of us are going to the Geo caves at around 9pm PST. It's been beefed up and is more difficult than the death watch bunker, hop on mumble if you are a brave soul.:smugwizard:

Moo Moo Canoe
Mar 11, 2007

Drunk postin' ftw
So I've finally got Uggo to mdoc and he'll be buff botting in the med center. I'm buying buffs because :effort: so tip if you can and I'll try to keep him stocked and running. Smugly is also a master smuggler now so if you need slicing let me know. It'll be nice when I can just play my combat character instead of having to worry about xp!

Warrior Princess
Sep 29, 2014

What?
Are the creature handler and droid stuff fully functional or at least usable?

hit button
Mar 18, 2012


Tide posted:

Does a droid or pet give you the 4x xp bonus as well?

Apparently so. I've thrown a few MSE droids on my vendor in goon mall for that purpose. As far as I can tell, that's all droids are useful for at the moment. None of the droid modules seem to be working, and the latest on the swgemu forums is that all droids can do is follow you around. I haven't bothered tested extensively yet though, so hopefully Levarris will tell me I'm wrong.

Tide
Mar 27, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
That's all I want it to do (follow me around and give me 4x xp) in case I'm out in the wild grinding in the Janta Stronghold or something.

randombattle
Oct 16, 2008

This hand of mine shines and roars! It's bright cry tells me to grasp victory!

I thought the party xp bonus worked even if you're on different planets.

hit button
Mar 18, 2012


It does, the droid thing just makes it so you don't have to worry about dropping your solo group when the server shits itself.

Unctuous Cretin
Jun 20, 2007
LUrker
Woad and Zach are now running a Squad Leader sologroup with dance and music buffs in the Mantina. Tapes and what not will be coming soon.

In the meantime I will be trying to maintain as much a connection as possible.

Tide
Mar 27, 2010

by FactsAreUseless

hit button posted:

It does, the droid thing just makes it so you don't have to worry about dropping your solo group when the server shits itself.

Exactly.

Most of the time you'll want to get back in a big group for missions. But if you're out in a cave or just grinding in the wild, you can pull the droid and get the 4x XP

Drone
Aug 22, 2003

Incredible machine
:smug:


Just logged in and saw that City Graul has :siren: made a triumphant return :siren:

Moo Moo Canoe
Mar 11, 2007

Drunk postin' ftw
Does anyone know of a way to change your password for the game?

Levarris
Sep 19, 2011

"To win in battle, know your enemy. To win in life, know your weakness."
- Miyamoto Musashi

Moo Moo Canoe posted:

Does anyone know of a way to change your password for the game?

Unfortunately no.

Levarris
Sep 19, 2011

"To win in battle, know your enemy. To win in life, know your weakness."
- Miyamoto Musashi


Doing Allah's work, one infidel at a time.

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Moo Moo Canoe
Mar 11, 2007

Drunk postin' ftw

Levarris posted:



Doing Allah's work, one infidel at a time.

I hope you're not trying to give the impression that pvp is at all fun or even possible on this server without hunting unbuffed xp grinders in 3:1 groups.

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