Star Wars: The Old Republic

[Wresh]

Zeyla and I talked about some stuff in PM's about the guild situation...

If the Republic side of Hoss doesn't have enough people to fully start up a guild (or if you'd like more people to play with), my "main" account is with a guild called Templars of Xionics (XCS) (currently, we have 23 people in the guild....all with per-ordered accounts). This is guild I was with throughout my time in SWG and we are re-forming it in this game (our allies and adversaries are from the Shadowfire server from SWG as well, so there will be a ton of people who know each other). The group is very laid back with the average age of everyone being in their mid-30's. Some want to PvP, some will want to raid and some will be playing to be with friends and do things when they have time to be online. If you look up the guild it will say hardcore, but don't worry about that. If you want a Republic side home, you'll have one....in the event enough Hoss people join XCS and want to splinter off and form Hoss on that server, please feel free to do so.

Zeyla also has some old friends he mentioned to me that will also have a guild in game, so maybe that can potentially be another home for Republic side of Hoss as well.

For the Sith side, I agree that Phank might be a good choice. Zeyla and I also talked about any XCS members that wish to play Sith side may want to look into Phank so both sides would have a home for whatever side they choose to play on, but w/o talking to the leaders of Phank....I do not want to speak to XCS about the potential for that until that discussion happens.

[Zeyla]

Update on this, Hoss does have enough people to get the guild pre-deployed. We are allied with Phank Republic and Enemies with Phank Empire. I believe that Phank Empire has enough pre-orders to get deployed. Republic Hoss is also allied with my board gaming friends from Idaho, called "Idaho Squad". I think they have enough to be pre-deployed as well. So as it sits now hopefully we will all be put on the same server, although Bioware says there are no guarantees when it comes to server pre-placement.

I would try to ally Republic Hoss with XCS as well, but the last I checked you could only have two Ally guilds. I'd say we just go with what we have at launch. If we don't have enough then we could look at possibly moving to other guilds/servers. My goal through all this is to make it to a server with as many guildmates and friends as possible.

Jalynfane, since Empire Hoss does not have enough people to deploy, would Phank be cool with letting Hoss people in who want to play Empire side?

[Zeyla]

Like Coral said, unless they drastically change something, I don't see any normal players getting to max level in 5 days, no way. From my experience in beta I see it taking 2-3 weeks for normal play of a few hours a day (my rough estimate, YMMV). For reference, in the current beta build it took me about a week to get to level 17, playing 2-3 hours on "most" weekdays and 5-6 hours on Sat/Sun. And that is going a bit faster than my first playthrough on earlier beta builds since I am skipping most of the dialogue options I heard before.

Wresh, I am on the beta server "The Leviathan", Zeyd Republic-side Trooper/Commando (I still have not decided on Tanky-Vanguard or Healy-Commando for release)

[Wresh]

Wresh, I am on the beta server "The Leviathan", Zeyd Republic-side Trooper/Commando (I still have not decided on Tanky-Vanguard or Healy-Commando for release)

Cool, I will look for you. Not sure if I want to try out a smuggler or Jedi 1st.

[Lonskils]

I remember it took me 7 months to hit max level in EQ. lol

[Peotr]

I remember it took me 7 months to hit max level in EQ. lol

Yeah, but you were a wizard. You lose a lot of time standing around on the bridges of Upper Guk saying, "Wizard, LFG"

[Jalynfane]

I am posting this on our site for 24 hour consideration and then we can do it. I don't see any glaring issues with the idea. The benefits of coordination from the get go will be better.

Any that need a home for Sith stuff just app to the guild on the SWTOR site. I will approve all of the apps after 11pm pst on the 10th.

http://www.swtor.com/guilds/108815/phank

[Lonskils]

Yeah, but you were a wizard. You lose a lot of time standing around on the bridges of Upper Guk saying, "Wizard, LFG"

I actually only went to Guk like 5 times total leveling up. I just didn't have a lot of experience with MMO's when I started and didn't know the ins and outs of leveling until reaching Hoss levels. I'm pretty sure I still have some of the highest AA Totals of anyone on Druzzil tho!

[Lonskils]

I am posting this on our site for 24 hour consideration and then we can do it. I don't see any glaring issues with the idea. The benefits of coordination from the get go will be better.

Any that need a home for Sith stuff just app to the guild on the SWTOR site. I will approve all of the apps after 11pm pst on the 10th.

http://www.swtor.com/guilds/108815/phank

Might wanta go edit that Jalyn as the " is showing

[Wresh]

I am posting this on our site for 24 hour consideration and then we can do it. I don't see any glaring issues with the idea. The benefits of coordination from the get go will be better.

Any that need a home for Sith stuff just app to the guild on the SWTOR site. I will approve all of the apps after 11pm pst on the 10th.

http://www.swtor.com/guilds/108815/phank

Cool..

I posted the same on our forums. I told them to look for any app's from people who are in Hoss or Phank and to accept them into the guild. I also posted and told them if they choose to app there to put XCS into the app so you know where we are coming from.

http://www.swtor.com/guilds/108037/templars-xionics

I think Republic side of Hoss will still try to make it a go since they do have enough people to start with the pre-orders, but this is just so you all have another place to call home on the Republic side. XCS will be recruiting more once the game goes live, so I would expect our numbers to start growing soon after that.

[Rhedd]

So ya. hi!

[Andaas]

So I got into the beta for this weekend, but the installer doesn't appear to work.

I downloaded "SWTOR_setup.exe" and run it, which extracts setup files into a temp folder; but nothing happens after that. Even manually going into the temp folder and running Setup.exe or Installer.exe does nothing.

Any of you have this issue and know of a possible fix?

[Zeyla]

Andaas, for me I have had the setup program take a while before it loaded and actually started installing, but it always worked eventually. I did a quick check on the Tester forums and this was the only thing I found: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=597287. From what I read the weekend testers should have access to the tester forum area of the SWToR site now.

[Wresh]

I had no issues with dloading the client, but I did mine Tuesday night as soon as I saw the email. They may have had too many people trying at once and it crashed something??

[Andaas]

Yeah... I'm not even getting the launcher to install that I can tell. The pre-install works (temp install files extract into temp folder); the actual launcher install never starts/completes.

Basically, what's happening to me is the same as what is happening to people in this thread - http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=596663

[Wresh]

When I get home, I will see how big the initial dload was for the installer. If it isn't too large (or if Zelya wants to check) maybe we can email the file to you.

[Andaas]

It was 25MB, so fairly small.

[Tenelen]

It was 25MB, so fairly small.

Thats the correct size the installer is small then it patches the other 19gb.

[Jalynfane]

No hiccups on the open guilding for peeps that need a dark side home. I am a bit non-democratic on kicking people that are PITA, so I just want to through out a fairly generic "dont be a douche or I boot you" caveat.

Looking forward to lauch, here's to the old folks home. /cheers

[Phaera]

So ya. hi!

Hi fuckface! Quit hiding from me! I even went dorf in WOW, just for you. And you still aren't here!