The Old Republic

[Steve]

I'm disappointed in my servermates on TOR. It's been two months since they turned social gear into adaptive armor and we have yet to see a guild called "Jedi Bikini Babes" pop up....

[Steve]

Oh, I love those rascally Imps, and their missions to hunt down and murder slave-labor prisoners who were Republic officers they were keeping illegally under the peace treaty.

*hits abandon mission button*

God, it makes me miss the Horde in WoW. At least the Horde weren't slavering fascists....

[frigidmagi]

You're a member of the Sith Empire, what did you expect Steve?

[Steve]

Yeah, I know. On the one hand, I wanna see the Imp class storylines. I've heard the Imperial Agent has one of the best ones of the eight and I've found the Bounty Hunter storyline to be fun. OTOH.... poisoning rebelling slaves and massacring Force-sensitive Jawas and watching Sith Lords torture captive Jedi Padawans in all of the "general" Imperial missions (non-class ones) has me tempted to hit "delete" on my BH and roll nothing but Republic.

[frigidmagi]

Dude face it, you got the soul of a white hat. Nothing wrong with that.

[Steve]

Yup, I know it.

Anyway, finished Chapter 1 of the Bounty Hunter story. I love the interaction with the final boss (a Jedi Master).

Master Jarro: *waves hand* You will drop your weapons and surrender.
Your PC, selecting the third dialogue option: *waves hand* You will realize you look like a complete idiot.

[White Haven]

Er, I'm sorry, did you miss every Forsaken quest ever and the entirety of Garrosh Hellscream's character? WoW's Horde is hardly a great counterexample.

There aren't a great number of truly black-hat quests even Sith-side; few enough that you can usually either avoid them or subvert them with light-side options. I looked at it as an interesting study on how someone who isn't fundamentally evil can work within a system of highly questionable morality to mitigate it as much as possible.

[Steve]

The Horde's problem is at least mitigated by the Tauren. But I know how nasty the other groups are, oh believe me....

[Steve]

Frankly playing Imp side gives me impulses to RevengeFics....

[Steve]

I should point out that when I say "the Sith make me miss the Horde", it's not because I thought the Horde were good. It's because the Sith are so fucking infuriating and evil and bastardly that they make the Horde look good.

[Hotfoot]

Wait, wait, wait, the side that is depicted in just about every medium as being a bunch of homicidal, racist, sexist, slaving shitheads, is EVIL?

[Stofsk]

Wait, wait, wait, the side that is depicted in just about every medium as being a bunch of homicidal, racist, sexist, slaving shitheads, is EVIL?

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*golf clap*

[Steve]

Hey, Hotfoot, I think that was the point I made? That they're like that and playing something on their side gets annoying real fast for a white hat like me?

[Steve]

So, F2P is coming up with 1.5. As for 1.4, my guild does SM TfB runs, but my luck is usually bad on catching them (plus my lead character is a DPS and our usual issue is with finding tanks).

I've also started to PvP and have found it a useful way to level my lowbies.... especially my Imperial lowbies since I can only play so many Imp missions before I get urges to commit righteous violence.

[JimmyTheCannon]

My guild has been doing TFB SM the past few weeks, too... I got my first look at TFB HM last night with another guild, knocked down 4/5 bosses.

It's quite a change.

[Steve]

Yeah, we're still making sure we have a well-geared group for HM Denova and TfB.

As for tonight, we ran SM TfB in about an hour, a bit over an hour. No wipes. Every boss was one-shot. A couple minor mistakes happened we can't let happen in a HM run, but since it was the first time one of the tanks and I had fought the Terror, and only our second time with the other bosses (actually, his first for the two last bosses), it was pretty impressive how we burned through the Op like that

[Steve]

I love how the Bounty Hunter storyline can end.

Spoiler: show

Namely, you can choose not to assassinate Supreme Chancellor Janarus, who instead goes public with the false accusations made against you - at the cost of his own political career - and who gives you a full pardon for your earlier actions against the Republic (namely, killing a respected Jedi Master and destroying the Republic ship he was on to win the Great Hunt in Chapter 1's conclusion) in exchange for killing the Sith Lord who bosses you around in Chapter 3, the monstrous Darth Tormen.

Naturally I couldn't resist getting to shoot that red-faced half-machine sonovabitch.

[JimmyTheCannon]

Yeah... I didn't do that.

Spoiler: show

I was so irritated with the Chancellor by that point that, being light-side, I froze him in carbonite and took him back to Darth Tormen.

[Steve]

I'm sorry, but irritation at Janarus is, in my view, very easily trumped by my utter hatred for Darth Tormen and his cruelty and murderous behavior.

[Steve]

Wow. I actually have someone in Imperial Alderaan general chat advocating the Sith Empire, sans Sith, as a superior alternative to the modern United States.

[JimmyTheCannon]

::shrugs:: You have your feelings on the matter, I had mine. If I level another BH I may do it differently.

As far as what people say in General chat... they'll say ANYTHING. Especially on the fleet. Dear lord.

[Stofsk]

Man shitheads running off their leashes in chats aren't anything new. It's been something I've seen in STO and you either ignore it or... well, that's it really.

[frigidmagi]

Could be worse, I keep running into people who want to turn the United States into a fucking Unitary System. How a nation that spans thousands of miles and contains hundreds of millions of people scattered unevenly across many climes and places can be ruled directly with a single government trying to do everything is beyond me. Some of them are very fanatical about it to. Like one who responded to a story about federal corruption screaming "This is an example of why we need to get rid of local and state governments, because they are worse."

[rhoenix]

Ah yes, the "vote for anarchy" types.

I usually tell them to move to Zimbabwe, since it's also a fine example of a true free-market economy.

[frigidmagi]

I don't think Unitary government is equal to anarchy. After all Great Britain is traditionally a unitary state even if that has changed haltingly and slowly.