Changes

I've switched servers and started a new Spiral, a Jedi. I've turned my music back on, I'm reading/listening to all the quest dialog, and I'm going to try to enjoy the game for itself.
I will not be renewing when my three months is up. While I enjoy playing, it is not worth the money when other MMOs are FTP.

Always Time for Dancing

Dancing with my devils

Dancing to celebrate Foundry win

Low Graphics FTW

Spiral has a sexy new outfit. And it's actually even sexier than I had planned!
See, when I bought it at the Super Special Secret Shop it showed a preview picture like Spiral on the left, with a nice pink cloth "butt flap" etc. But when I put it on her, it showed up like the pictures on the right, a barely there white bikini! It didn't take long to figure out that it was my low Character Detail setting that was removing my clothes from me.  :)
So I guess having a fail computer does have perks after all!

I think she looks fabulous, btw, and also I really like being different than every other toon running around the Fleet. I turn a lot of heads, that's for sure! I tried to use it as a distraction techinique in Huttball, but they didn't fall for it. <shrug>

Sexy Spiral

Phishing Email

I got my first phishing email for SWTOR this morning, woot! It was the standard "you're trying to sell your account, give us your password and secret question" scam. I didn't fall for it, oh no no. I'm too smartsy for that. :)
So I displayed the message content, which shows the true sender behind the fake, copied that and forwarded it to support@swtor.com. I received this interesting reply within a half hour.

Greetings Spiral,
I am Protocol Droid K8-I6 of Human Cyborg Relations.
Thank you for forwarding us the suspicious mail that you received for us to investigate further.
After looking into this, we can confirm that the email you received was not legitimate. We would ask that you do not reply to it, or click on any links that it contains as doing this may compromise the security of your account.
(*lots of helpful advice here*)
Galactic Support is our Specialty…
Sincerely,
Protocol Droid K8-I6 (aka Andrei)

I had a nice little giggle at the Protocol Droid thing! I thought it was very appropriate for the whole SWTOR theme, plus it meshed with the fact that most customer service emails sound like they've been written by a robot. Well done, Human Cyborg Relations department. High fives and head butts all around!

Foundry Fun

LASERS!!

This is my and my boys in The Foundry, watching lasers and about to DIE. Yup, we got our butts handed to us on a large silver platter by a giant gooey momma-bug who spawned immediately after those lasers hit that tower.

Look how relaxed and calm we are.

We are so confident in our uber-ness.

We're just hanging out watching the stars and drawing hearts in the sand.

And we have no idea that in mere seconds we're going to be coated in noxious spittle that explodes our juicy eyeballs, burns our armor off and rots our flesh from our bones.

Yup, good times.

Ashara

Who is this suspicious-looking woman, alien...womalien? It's Ashara Zavros, whom I have not-so-affectionately nicknamed SquidHead. Honestly, doesn't it look like she has a giant blue and white squid wrapped around her noggin? Poor girl! And I'm truly not sure if her face is covered in clown makeup or if that's her natural pigments. I guess I need to read up more on her species, which is called (Googling....please stand by) Togruta.

One of my guildies last night said that they pass out if you punch them in the "tentacles". Or maybe that was for Vette, the other SquidHead species? I dunno. But honestly, why would you punch someone in the tentacles? And if your tentacles were so sensitive, wouldn't you keep them protected? Like in armor or tucked away somewhere? Hmm, maybe that's why SquidHead looks so nervous and shifty-eyed in this picture. She's watching out for random tentacles-punchers.


She's not a bad companion. She dual-wields lightsabers and jumps into the fray quite enthusiastically. However, she also has all these annoying cheerful sayings, like: "With the Force I can do anything", and "I hope I haven't displeased you.", and "The Light Side will protect me from people who want to punch me in the tentacles." Okay, that last one was made up. But you get the point! She's irritatingly nice and polite and optimistic and totally no fun for my Sithy badness. Except that I like shocking her with my Dark side choices.

I also read today somewhere, maybe Torhead, that she doesn't like any gifts at all from female characters. I thought that there was going to be same-sex relationships in this game, that's what I heard around the General chat, but maybe it hasn't been implemented yet. Or maybe she just doesn't go that way. Or maybe it's cuz I'm a bad-ass Sith. Who knows? But there should be a way for me to gain her affection, in order for her to do Diplomacy missions for me more effectively.
Hmm, perhaps she just needs a punch in the tentacles to motivate her...

P.S. Thanks to Heka for the "womalien" word! It fits perfectly!

Sith Corruption

Just for kicks, I turned on the Sith Corruption option in the Preferences Menu, under Social. This is a pic of the difference in Spiral. She is Dark IV right now. Yeah, the evil one is on the left! LOL

I love choosing the Dark side stuff in conversations, it's so hilarious! Spiral has the most evil voice and she relishes the demise of her enemies. I think the phrase I hear her say most often is: "There will be no survivors."

I keep being told that there is a point to choosing Dark or Light side, but so far I haven't found it. (Other than the intense satisfaction I get from watching those engineers get sucked out into deep space!) I have visited the Dark Side vendor on the Fleet, but I didn't see anything I really liked. Every now and then a mob drops a piece of gear that requires a certain alignment to wear it, but other than that, I haven't noticed a big advantage to choosing one way or another. Perhaps it's something that will be improved upon as the game evolves. I do like to idea of having Dark-specific gear as you level your alignment. I want to have purely evil clothes or jewelry or something. Perhaps a necklace of Ewok tails?