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Star Wars: The Old Republic [Early Access: December 13th] Thread 2

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Morn

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WoW doesn't do this. WoW has 4 data centers (NY, Chicago, Phoenix, LA) and all four of them host servers across all US time zones.

Huh? In WoW West Coast servers are tied to Pacific time, Mountain to Mountain, Central to Central, and Eastern to Eastern. Did you ever even play the game?
 

JWong

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for sure, I'll prolly have a few different characters anyway.

apart from the obvious time difference is latency really a problem for MMOs when playing across NA? I've only played on PST wow servers so im not sure what to expect playing on an east cost server.

edit: wow, beaten by wedge. lol

Well, I don't want to raid on an East coast server since it will most likely end up starting when I'm still work. And if I'm not raiding, I'd rather go out and blast some scrub republic GAFs.

An East Coast PVE server is just the worst of either options unless I'm guaranteed there will be plenty of West Coast there.
 

Wallach

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Huh? In WoW West Coast servers are tied to Pacific time, Mountain to Mountain, Central to Central, and Eastern to Eastern. Did you ever even play the game?

The server is tagged PST in WoW which dictates what the server time displays, but that has no bearing on the actual physical location of the server. Choosing a server that is PST does not mean you will have better latency if you are in that time zone because the server may be on the East Coast, which is what I said - they do not sync the server time to the actual local time zone of the server.
 

Morn

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The server is tagged PST in WoW which dictates what the server time displays, but that has no bearing on the actual physical location of the server. Choosing a server that is PST does not mean you will have better latency if you are in that time zone because the server may be on the East Coast, which is what I said - they do not sync the server time to the actual local time zone of the server.

The Oceanic and Pacific timezone WoW servers are hosted in a datacenter in Torrance, CA.

Mountain and Central are in Austin, TX.

East Coast servers are hosted in Virginia.

European servers are hosted in Amsterdam.
 

CzarTim

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:-O
 

Wallach

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Darth Vader couldn't stop Han Solo, he could only hope to contain him.

Darth Vader literally threw that raggedy ass dude out like a bag of trash.
 

Sigfodr

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Smugglers are the best class? Smugglers are the best class.

I've watched Star Wars since the day I was born, so the value of some moments was lost on me until I was older and could reflect on them better. For instance, I always knew
Luke was Vader's son
, I never didn't know that, so I never understood Luke's shock until my teenage years.

But Han shooting at Vader was always badass. And posts like that are why I always look for Billy's avatar.

I swear, Jaina has nothing to do with it.

I totally used spoiler tags on that
 

Emitan

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When I first watched Empire I turned the tape off and left the room when Vader cut off Luke's hand and said he was his dad. I didnt finish that movie until years later. I was horrified. I still remember how I felt.
 

CzarTim

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I entered my code within 5 minutes of pre-orders going up. I can't wait to find out how BW is going to screw me over this time.
 

Sigfodr

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Seeing all the trouble people have had as a result of their security questions, I got scared. I didn't want an issue to come up on the first day of launch and I type my first school's name five wrong ways. So, I tried to change all my security question answers to "batman". Didn't work.
 

Miletius

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Seeing all the trouble people have had as a result of their security questions, I got scared. I didn't want an issue to come up on the first day of launch and I type my first school's name five wrong ways. So, I tried to change all my security question answers to "batman". Didn't work.

Hopefully authenticators are rolling out sometime soon so we don't have to go through this "secure question" stuff for much longer. Phone app plz, thx.
 

Sigfodr

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Hopefully authenticators are rolling out sometime soon so we don't have to go through this "secure question" stuff for much longer. Phone app plz, thx.

Obviously, the physical CE has one, but I heard somewhere there will be an app as well at or just after launch. Looking for source.

Edit: Source
 

Wallach

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Obviously, the physical CE has one, but I heard somewhere there will be an app as well at or just after launch. Looking for source.

I believe that function of the account management was up (erroneously) for a brief time, and it had options for both key fob authenticators and an app authenticator. We will have to wait and see.
 

Miletius

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I might be buying more than 1 copy and since I'm a casual fan I'm not getting a C.E. for either. Honestly I'd rather not buy physical authenticators at all. Phone app works just fine and my phone is always with me, so problem solved.
 
Solo is obviously the best character in Star Wars, let's be real.

I'm still convinced you can make a decent argument, that SW 4, 5, 6 are about more about Solo's life and exploits than Luke's.

Anyway, can't wait to see people raging tmr about pre-ordering in July and not getting in, as will no doubt happen. Most likely it will be a spread of all the preorders, or you guys who pre-ordered early will get shafted - you would buy the game anyway.
 

Trouble

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Taking Thur/Fri off of work since I need to burn some personal days before the end of the year. If I get in earlier the following may play out.

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