Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

 AnomanderRake wrote:
Affection helps crew skills; I don't remember precisely how/if it influences combat stats.

It might be similar to a small bump in Presence but the main thing is unlocking the companion story line, (optional) romance, and crafting.

At the higher level, that time-saving on Crew Skills matters, because those missions can take an hour-plus each otherwise, and most such Skills are not things that you can do yourself.

However, I will say that 400+ Slicing pays for itself very, very quickly. I dropped 50K on unlocking Expert Slicing, and had paid it off (six times over) within 4 hours on Rishi.

Oh, also, in certain Flashpoints, there will be opportunities for people with certain Crew Skills at or above certain ranks to do stuff that can assist your group, such as using Slicing to open certain doors or access elevators that can get your party around a sea of trash-mobs and advance more-quickly through the FP, or gain some sort of tactical advantage against certain mobs.

That sounds cool.

I have underworld trading almost to 400 now, but my other 2 re in the 200's. I've been sending galt and my droid out on missions while mako fights with me.

I haven't been able to do any flashpoints at all. I que up for them, play for like 4 hours straight, and don't get a single group. I'm always queued up for DPS cuz that's all I can do, so I guess just like every other game you can't get a group if you're not a tank or a healer.

For Flashpoints (and Operations) there are tons of DPS looking for group. Healers have a better time of it and Tanks are almost instant.

THIS IS IMPORTANT: If you are not a tank or healer DO NOT queue as one. The higher you go the more you need to be spec'd for it and people will absolutely notice. If you want to end up on a bunch of ignore lists and still never finish a Flashpoint then you can ignore this warning. Just the ability to heal does not make one a healer, nor does being about to use a shield make one a tank.

My tank is something around 50%+ mitigation, 47% shield rating, and 45% absorption but if I take the same character and spec to DPS with the same rank gear but put a shield on him it still doesn't even come close to that. On my DPS I just sucked it up and dealt with it for the most part. Are you not qeueuoing for Tactical Flash Points? Those shouldn't matter what your role is. They tend to be good xp but bad for creds crafting.

oh.. I dunno what kind of flashpoint, never looked I just click the queue button and set it to DPS. I don't ever want to be a tank or healer, cuz I don't want to get yelled at when I suck. Plus it's just more fun to shoot stuff.

Most of the FPs I skipped until I could solo them, or did with a bunch of high-level friends and just farmed Social Points from them. I'm not sure how it is on your server, but on Ebon Hawk, you can often find 1 or 2 60s to run you through the FPs for the Social Points. There won't be much kill XP or drops, but you'll get to see the story and get the payout at the end, plus rack up some Social Points.

 Psienesis wrote:
Most of the FPs I skipped until I could solo them, or did with a bunch of high-level friends and just farmed Social Points from them. I'm not sure how it is on your server, but on Ebon Hawk, you can often find 1 or 2 60s to run you through the FPs for the Social Points. There won't be much kill XP or drops, but you'll get to see the story and get the payout at the end, plus rack up some Social Points.

Tier 2 Social gets you access to the Slave Leia bikini!

I got up to level 35 or so with my bounty hunter and then kinda lost interest. The whole great hunt story was getting kinda boring. Now I’m running a jedi sage who’s turning to the dark side. But I picked that race that always has to wear glasses, so I’ll never get to see my evil red eyes :( Having a lot more fun with him though. One thing I was dissapointed with is the courisant missions seem to be the same as nar shadah.. I was hoping the 2 factions would have been a little more unique with the quests and stuff, but all they did was change the name of the planet.

That's kinda the point, though, because the war is supposed to be at a stalemate. You'll sometimes encounter references to the missions of the other side, and there's a couple of the various Companions who know Companions of other classes or of the other faction.

Can anyone help me with a technical issue? Since the latest patch (3.0.2b) I have been having a few problems. When the patch first came out I was able to log in but the game was EXTREMELY laggy, which at the time i dismissed as a temporary internet problem. Ever since then I have been unable to log on, the game just freezes on the loading screen after pressing 'play'. The bar stops loading at about 1/6, the wheel stops spinning, the load screen music does not cut in and the cursor apears.
I have no idea what is causing this, I have only hat SWTOR about two weeks now but never had any difficulties before the patch.

 vodo40k wrote:
Can anyone help me with a technical issue? Since the latest patch (3.0.2b) I have been having a few problems. When the patch first came out I was able to log in but the game was EXTREMELY laggy, which at the time i dismissed as a temporary internet problem. Ever since then I have been unable to log on, the game just freezes on the loading screen after pressing 'play'. The bar stops loading at about 1/6, the wheel stops spinning, the load screen music does not cut in and the cursor apears.
I have no idea what is causing this, I have only hat SWTOR about two weeks now but never had any difficulties before the patch.

I had some issues with this patch as well. I ended up uninstalling and reinstalling the game, but hopefully you wont have to...


Search through your SWTOR folders for something called "bitraider" and delete it, and it should, hopefully help you out significantly.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 vodo40k wrote:
Can anyone help me with a technical issue? Since the latest patch (3.0.2b) I have been having a few problems. When the patch first came out I was able to log in but the game was EXTREMELY laggy, which at the time i dismissed as a temporary internet problem. Ever since then I have been unable to log on, the game just freezes on the loading screen after pressing 'play'. The bar stops loading at about 1/6, the wheel stops spinning, the load screen music does not cut in and the cursor apears.
I have no idea what is causing this, I have only hat SWTOR about two weeks now but never had any difficulties before the patch.

I had some issues with this patch as well. I ended up uninstalling and reinstalling the game, but hopefully you wont have to...


Search through your SWTOR folders for something called "bitraider" and delete it, and it should, hopefully help you out significantly.

I will probably try that. What exactly does 'bitraider' do? I am unwilling to delete/edit files incase i make something else go wrong. I tried making annother character on annother server. Same thing happens, I couldnt get past about 20% on the load screen after character creation.

 vodo40k wrote:


I will probably try that. What exactly does 'bitraider' do? I am unwilling to delete/edit files incase i make something else go wrong. I tried making annother character on annother server. Same thing happens, I couldnt get past about 20% on the load screen after character creation.

Back when I had some serious lag issues, I asked other players, and near as anyone can tell, Bitraider simply exists to eat your bandwidth.... But apparently, by deleting it, you also "trick" the game files into thinking it needs to update when you start the game, and thus its easier to "fix" the files involved and should, hopefully fix your loading issues

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 vodo40k wrote:


I will probably try that. What exactly does 'bitraider' do? I am unwilling to delete/edit files incase i make something else go wrong. I tried making annother character on annother server. Same thing happens, I couldnt get past about 20% on the load screen after character creation.

Back when I had some serious lag issues, I asked other players, and near as anyone can tell, Bitraider simply exists to eat your bandwidth.... But apparently, by deleting it, you also "trick" the game files into thinking it needs to update when you start the game, and thus its easier to "fix" the files involved and should, hopefully fix your loading issues

I tried deleting bitraider, appart from taking longer to 'verify' on the startup it made no difference. Im getting quite annoyed now, ive done a fair bit of searching for a solution but nothing seems to work.

 vodo40k wrote:


I tried deleting bitraider, appart from taking longer to 'verify' on the startup it made no difference. Im getting quite annoyed now, ive done a fair bit of searching for a solution but nothing seems to work.

IF that didn't help, and you can't really load any ingame elements, I would try, as much as it sucks to delete the game, and reinstall it from scratch?

If it will patch, try using the Repair Tool in the patcher before pressing Play.

If that doesn't work, here's a few things that might help:

1) Delete the "Bitraider" folder and "brwqc_swtor" application from your SW:TOR folder.

2) Download the "LauncherRepairUtility" from this location: http://cdn-patch.swtor.com/patch/LauncherRepairUtilityP1.78.3a.exe

... save that file in your SW:TOR install directory for easiest use.

If you are curious, that file is mentioned in this support forum post, so you may verify its security if you like:
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=419492

3) After deleting the Bitraider files and downloading that file, reboot your PC. Yes, this is required.

4) After reboot, run the Launcher Repair application. This may take awhile.

5) Play the game.

Incidentally, the above process is what I have to do every time I want to play the game, though I don't need to re-download the Repair app. For some reason, my game simply will not patch via the standard launcher. I've provided exceptions to my firewall, I've got everything in the folder whitelisted, etc. It just won't patch. I've been back and forth with EA/Bioware, and none of us can figure out what happened or why, but this works for me.

Also, as a way to avoid having to do this every time, avoid exiting the game. Just log out to character or server select and minimize the game. Unless the servers go down, you'll be able to just hop right back in the next time you want to play.

 Psienesis wrote:
If it will patch, try using the Repair Tool in the patcher before pressing Play.

If that doesn't work, here's a few things that might help:

1) Delete the "Bitraider" folder and "brwqc_swtor" application from your SW:TOR folder.

2) Download the "LauncherRepairUtility" from this location: http://cdn-patch.swtor.com/patch/LauncherRepairUtilityP1.78.3a.exe

... save that file in your SW:TOR install directory for easiest use.

If you are curious, that file is mentioned in this support forum post, so you may verify its security if you like:
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=419492

3) After deleting the Bitraider files and downloading that file, reboot your PC. Yes, this is required.

4) After reboot, run the Launcher Repair application. This may take awhile.

5) Play the game.

Incidentally, the above process is what I have to do every time I want to play the game, though I don't need to re-download the Repair app. For some reason, my game simply will not patch via the standard launcher. I've provided exceptions to my firewall, I've got everything in the folder whitelisted, etc. It just won't patch. I've been back and forth with EA/Bioware, and none of us can figure out what happened or why, but this works for me.

Also, as a way to avoid having to do this every time, avoid exiting the game. Just log out to character or server select and minimize the game. Unless the servers go down, you'll be able to just hop right back in the next time you want to play.

Tried this, got as far as installing the launcher repair and rebooting. Now i cant find the launcher repair aplication on the file and the game simply wont even start now (i get a 'cant run this file on your pc message). Looks like ill have to uninstall the whole thing and try again. The only thing im worried about is my main character, is that stored on the HD with the other SWTOR files or is that data kept on an external location?

 vodo40k wrote:
The only thing im worried about is my main character, is that stored on the HD with the other SWTOR files or is that data kept on an external location?

A copy of all your characters are stored on the server side, so you dont have to worry about that. If you have set up your UI a particular way, that will be gone, but as far as gear and level, etc. that stuff will still be there.

More problems im afraid. I knew this game was nicknamed the ToRtanic for a reason, guess I underestimated how bad it would actualy be... I uninstalled and re-installed the game. Imediately after installation is complete the login box pops up with a red bar at the top which says the launcher is updating, though after leaving it for some time it never made any progress. I was forced to force close it as it just froze up when i clicked the exit box.
I rebooted my computer and tried to start it up again, this time after a small wait I am presented with a 'Certificate Authentification Failed' box. After clicking ok I get annother error message which says 'Failed to initialize web browser'. Also I usualy get a 'windows wants to make changes yes/no' box before the login screen, now i dont get one at all.

Ive tried un and re-installing three times now with the same result each time.

Wow, the machine spirit really hates you.... Have you tried calling up the support line?

Wow. There is definitely something larger than the game itself going on here.

Make sure Bitraider and SW:TOR's components are whitelisted through your firewall. Also, make sure you're running the game as an administrator for the PC (sometimes, for whatever reason, this is required).

Other than that? As Ensis said, hit up the support section of the SW: TOR official forums. But, yes, all your character and game data is stored server-side, so you won't lose anything like that.

ETA: For future reference and anyone else following the thread, the Launcher Repair Utility should remain in whatever folder you downloaded it to, or moved it to post-download. By default, it installs its package into its current folder, which is why I recommend downloading it to your SW:TOR directory, it makes it easy to just launch it and click Next until it does its thing.

Edit #Whatever: This link takes you to the SW:TOR support forums, and provides assistance with the most-common issues:
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=419492

Truly I must have offended the machine spirit. After several more failed un and re-installings I wanted to see if my SWTOR being installed into my external F drive was the main problem. As I didnt have enough space on my main HD i was forced to transfer a few files over to my external drive and delete them from my main HD. For some reason even though the files had been deleted from my main HD they did not show up in the recycle bin and I did not get any free memory space. After getting angry, giving up on that approach and trying to transfer my files back I discover that my extrenal F drive has become EXTREMELY slow, to the point that even trying to look at any files crashes windows explorer and lags the entire computer horribly. My F drive is being recognised but does not display the ammount of memory used for some reason. Truly im at the point of lighting incence and praying to the machine god for salvation.

 vodo40k wrote:
Truly I must have offended the machine spirit. After several more failed un and re-installings I wanted to see if my SWTOR being installed into my external F drive was the main problem. As I didnt have enough space on my main HD i was forced to transfer a few files over to my external drive and delete them from my main HD. For some reason even though the files had been deleted from my main HD they did not show up in the recycle bin and I did not get any free memory space. After getting angry, giving up on that approach and trying to transfer my files back I discover that my extrenal F drive has become EXTREMELY slow, to the point that even trying to look at any files crashes windows explorer and lags the entire computer horribly. My F drive is being recognised but does not display the ammount of memory used for some reason. Truly im at the point of lighting incence and praying to the machine god for salvation.

Maybe you have a virus? Or some other kind of malware that is at the root cause of this issue?

Well, if you're on windows, and the drive is freezing up that badly, I would seriously try defragging it to see if there's ANY improvement.

I personally have noticed that a drive within a windows system has its performance greatly hindered if it is more than 50% full.

Looks like something else is going wrong here. I was playing some XCOM while i was trying to figure out what to do, when I quit the game I was confronted with a completely white screen. No problem probably just a graphical glitch, so I reboot and NOPE still a completely white screen. Seems like the computer otherwise is working ok, for some reason it just feels like all graphical data is for some reason being interpreted as 'white'. Absolutely have no idea what is going on here, had to go back to my ancient laptop to loo for more answers, none of which seem very informative.

 vodo40k wrote:
Looks like something else is going wrong here. I was playing some XCOM while i was trying to figure out what to do, when I quit the game I was confronted with a completely white screen. No problem probably just a graphical glitch, so I reboot and NOPE still a completely white screen. Seems like the computer otherwise is working ok, for some reason it just feels like all graphical data is for some reason being interpreted as 'white'. Absolutely have no idea what is going on here, had to go back to my ancient laptop to loo for more answers, none of which seem very informative.

Have you completely reset the power? I mean, unplug the whole system for a minute or more? It sounds like your system is just wanting to give out, how old is it?

Anyone doing the Gree Event? HM Xeno was surprisingly easy, but pulling good numbers on it has been difficult for me. I've done it twice so far. Also up to 7 60s, just have the Inquisitor quest line to complete.

I only have 1 60, but almost never get on that character, due to the guild I'm in is on the other faction, and theres actually people on all the time.

I do wish that the Bounty Event hadn't been so short

I'm not doing the Gree event, but then I am Legendary with the Gree and they love me.

I skipped the Gree event, I was having too much fun in GSF.