I finally decided that I'm going to do Elemer Kell, the Jedi Sentinel who looks like Darth Maul's teenaged nephew or something, at least at first. I'm going to record the entirety of Tython and the Republic Fleet with him (including the Esseles Flashpoint) and present edited versions on Youtube, as well as create a disc offline that I can have as an archive.
I actually wanted to know what my oldest son thought, because I was doing it mostly for myself, but partly for him, because he's a big fan of the older Old Republic games, but hasn't ever played this one. I thought he'd enjoy watching it. But I haven't heard, and I made an executive decision anyway. But it's not a huge deal which one I start with, because I'm only going to do the starting planet and then jump to a different character to do their starting planet. I'd kind of like to do a very different character than the Jedi Knight after doing it, so I'm leaning towards maybe the Imperial Operative or Mercenary for my second one.
In any case, here's the list of playlists on the channel that I'm using specifically for this project. Updates will appear there. Each small section will (hopefully) be fairly short; around 7-10 minutes or so long each. The total time value of each planet is going to be—again hopefully; once it's edited down—about equivalent to a full-length movie, i.e., ~2 hours.
As an aside, I've finally found a way that seems to be generating a modest, yet significant way to earn some money, and it's with the Cybertech crafting. I'd previously ignored that, mostly, because I wasn't interested in the products themselves. But I've now got speeder schematics, and they're among my favorite speeders, so I've been making them for all of my characters. But more to the point, the Advanced V-9 Seismic grenades sell for a decent amount of money. I can craft 25 of them in the background in a couple of hours, and then sell them for about 5 million credits. Mostly, these sales go through pretty quick; within a few hours. On a really productive day, I can sell three or four of these a day, although that means spending more time doing that then other things that I'd probably actually rather be doing.
Because I've made a decent amount of money (although it would have been good money a year ago; now it's fairly modest) I've bought a number of relatively cheap yet attractive cosmetic things. Not so much armors, although I have bought some of those too; mostly pets and weapons. However, to unlock these in my collections, I need cartel coins, and I'm pretty much out of those. Every month I get about 650 if I'm subscribed, because of my subscription and my security key. I need 1200, and that assumes that I don't buy anything else. I don't know how much of this I'll want to use with my current crop of characters, but the pets can be adopted at any time, just like mounts can.
UPDATE: And here's the playlist for Elemer Kell, my "Darth Maul's teenaged nephew" Jedi Sentinel. So far, I've added 8 videos of running around on Tython, and I'm about two-thirds of the way through that planet. It'll end up being twelve or so total videos, depending on how many times I cut my playthrough up. The last two videos were a bit on the longer side, because I was doing a bunch of little rinky-dink missions. I'd actually prefer to be on the shorter side, but it's kind of an issue of which missions are available and when.
And as an aside, I've really got, I hope, all of the cosmetics that I "need" and then some. I do need to unlock two more guns in Collections, which I can do when my next round of cartel coins grant shows up. But neither of those are going to be used anytime too soon.
I had had a discussion on the SWTOR boards briefly, where someone asked what combination of class story and mechanical suite we were excited to play. I said that this was just taking old content and giving it the appearance of freshness; we aren't actually getting anything new, and the ability to use sniper (or whatever) mechanics with the bounty hunter story doesn't really make it exciting per se. However, part of that is just me being crotchety. I actually think it'd be pretty cool to play a sniper or maybe better yet, a vanguard, with the bounty hunter, and use the legacy bound elite bowcaster as his signature weapon. Sure, he can't equip it until 10th level, but you'll tend to hit that about two thirds of the way through your starter planet.
One more minor update; I've been playing the rakghoul event a bit this week, which started yesterday. I think I'm about done with it, though, to be honest. I've already maxed out the reputation for T.H.O.R.N., so I don't care about doing it for reputation anymore. I've also got thirty six rakghoul cannisters right now, and nothing in particular that I'm planning on spending them on (I already bought a third lightsaber and several more rakghoul crystals) so my urgency to grind through it just to hoard rakghoul crystals for some future use is low. Maybe if I do the bowcaster bounty hunter in the future, I'd use the very expensive outer rim hunter's helmet as part of his outfit, but even that only costs 30 rakghoul cannisters (plus the Gree helixes and bounty contracts.)
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