Badge List

Junior Wrecking Crew added for Tarn.
Created a character on Europe Infinity to seek Hero of Tansarii Point Station Badge, got it, deleted char afterwards...Useless exercise, but rewarding from a badge frustration point of view...

Poll Results

The results for the poll regarding which planet / space sector is your favorite are out: Lok comes first, with Kashyyyk second. Next time, I hope then more than 3 ppl will answer, but so far, there's a consistant voting pattern, so let's not ditch it!!

Tribute to Pex

In Tyrena's theater, the storyteller vendor's name is Pex. It is highly likely that is a tribute to the former Community Relations for Roleplay and Storytelling.

When he left SOE to brighter skies (hopefully), his departure was widely regretted and the farewell bash was well attended - even on Scylla (see post).

I was quite glad to see a tribute to his work and efforts. With luck, he'll be included in the official canon thanks to this vendor.

Spy Revamp

Chapter update 7 brought up the Spy profession Revamp. A lot has been said about it on the various threads relating to the profession or the update. It seems that the new abilities will give the spy profession a welcome DPS boost (coming out of shadows and in regular combat) and a greater useful when grouped (savagery expertise). All in all, a better spy in PvE and instances. As far as PvP is concerned, I can't really give an evaluation, I don't PvP enough. Looks promising so far.

Gearing up for transfer

January's been quite an important month as far as gaming decisions were concerned. The free CTS (/freects) started, and I am reminded of that at each log in (mind you, I could ask for a monthly reminder...).

So there's much reading going on. The SWG page, the step-by-step guide to transferring, the Frequently Asked Questions or the Notes on the Free CTS from the GM Team. Personally, transfer issues revolved around whether it was necessary to remove crates of extra storage in houses, Aurillian resources and regular resources transfer. It seems that everything is working well, so my concerns are alleviated. Apparently, third character slot isn't a problem either. So now comes the decision over timing.

Being the city mayor, I have several choices: pull the plug on the city, sell the city hall, or keep the city within traditional TMB citizens (a dedicated alt or a friend's alt). Soon, Tarn will step down in favor of Ibaoki, so that I can prepare Tarn's transfer with no hassle (he's the beneficiary of the free transfer). Until I decide of what to do with TMB, I'll create an alt on the server, let's call him U-lan Qirs, who'll take over the city from Ibaoki, so she too can transfer. By then, March 3rd and its accompanying pack up house event will have taken place, with surprisingly little effects on TMB. We'll see if sometimes before that or a little after, announcements are made regarding city caps.

At any rate, from Tarn's point of view, the January - March trimester perks should be aplenty. On January 17th, he received his 5 Years of Experience title and with the Free CTS, the "born on Scylla" title. The Free CTS will grant the named painting as well as the gift box for a friend, the house pack up structure event may grant the Sarlaac Trash Can (or the Deluxe version) and, hopefully, many of the in game rewards during the event, the 63 month veteran reward on March 17th (either the Yoda fountain or the statue of the Emperor, hard to say...), whatever comes out from the Trading Card Game's Squadron over Corellia's loot or Champion of the Force's loot (got the organizational datapad last time, thanks:) and finally, collection rewards. Badge-collecting wise, I confess quite a desire to add the Demolition badges to the collection : junior wrecking crew worker, Wrecking crew manager extraordinaire, or even Wrecking crew mogul, collection badges would also be nice.

Galactic Moon Festival a reality ?

The odd occurence of a ghost house on Lok. According to the overhead map, a small house should be standing exactly at my location.

Visibly, there is no such house and for some unexpected reason, the server still remembers its location.

This issue has been raised on the official SWG forum and to my knowledge has not received a technical answer.
While it's possible to ponder from a rp perspective that the overhead map uses both live data and registered data. It does raise eyebrows.

Nevertheless, the sheer fun of the oddity makes this incident worthwhile.