SWTOR updates

With it clear that the Democrat party has attempted a massive coup via election fraud in multiple states involving millions of votes—and dubious confidance on my part that the known to be corrupted courts will do the right thing and address it satisfactorily, much less any other agency of the government, I've turned aside from following current events too closely and instead have doubled down on my playing of Star Wars: The Old Republic. Before Civil War 2.0 starts, if that indeed is what is going to happen, and I don't have leisure time, reliable internet, or anything else that would allow me to finish the game with all classes.

I've been tinkering around with post storyline stuff with my Jedi Knight; I'm almost finished with the Makeb storyline, and I've started a few other side quest stuff like the HK companion quest, the seeker droid quest, and I discovered that there was a Coruscant story quest (but not really; not sure why it was purple) related to Gree droids wanting to fix infrastructure in the lower city that I'd somehow missed and just did. I've also been doing the bounty hunter weekly event while I can, bumping up my reputation with that faction. Although I don't really love the symmetry, or lack thereof, of doing it this way, I'll probably continue to use Maark this way until I get to the place where I can sell my Heroic crates, at least. That means a fair bit of more stuff to work through; after I finish the Hutt Cartel stuff, I've got all of the Shadow of Revan stuff to do and then half of the next big story expansion. It does become a bit more scattershot, however, and there's not as much of a clear progression in this phase. While sure, there's plenty to do, the lack of a strong(ish) storyline to follow and the charismatic chemistry between characters makes it much less compelling in general; it feels much more like gameplay rather than a Star Warsian story. Although that will change once I hit the Fallen Empire and Eternal Throne stuff again, I believe.

My Sith Warrior I'm only playing right now to help with the bounty hunter reputation; I'm otherwise finished with his story, and I'm not sure how excited I'm going to be to repeat all of the story I just did with another character right away (although I believe that Hutt Cartel, at least, is significantly different on the Imperial faction as opposed to Republic.) What I'm really kind of emotionally ready to do is get going on the main stories for other characters already. To that end, I was messing around with getting my smuggler set up with some outfits and credits that I mailed from my Sith to him to get him started, and I went ahead and did all of the Ord Mantell stuff with him yesterday. Sure, the first planet of the prologue is only half (if that) the size of a regular planet, so it's relatively small, but the point is, that's really what I kind of want to do. But I also want to get someone to the place where I can have all my crates opened so my other classes can have access to cooler gear that I've already earned. If I wait too long to get to that point, nobody will really get to use it for anything, because I'll be done with them by the time I've opened them!

Anyway, it looks like I'll be on an assymetrical pattern for at least a little while. I'll probably leapfrog somewhat slowly between the Jedi Knight, my Sith Warrior and my Smuggler until I get to the end of Chapter 9 of Fallen Empire, at which point I'll probably add the agent in and get him caught up to the Smuggler. I'm not necessarily slow-walking the smuggler, because I have cool equipment for him right now and I'm not really waiting for anything in particular for him to get, but my Agent only has one decent outfit (and it's a cheap and easy fleet adaptive armor vendor set at that) and there are really cool agent outfits in the crates that I'm hoping to get at least some pieces of (the Remnant Resurrected Agent jacket and headgear are the two I want the most for my agent!)