I haven't done a SWTOR tracker post in a while, but honestly, I haven't had much advancement in the story with any characters either. I spent a fair bit of time crafting and selling and buying. I've fiddled around with some of the characters I'm not recording. Basically, I had set up my own mental block. I had a fair number of unedited raw videos built up, and I convinced myself that I couldn't record any more until I knocked the number down.
Of course... the problem is that editing videos isn't as fun as playing, so it felt like a chore, so I started avoiding it. Which meant that I was avoiding playing because I had decided that I couldn't record more video with the volume that I had. I had two solutions, both of which I implemented to varying degrees: 1) buckle down and edit some videos. Once I get going, it's not so bad, and 2) don't set arbitrary thresholds just for you. I've got plenty of hard drive space; if I want to record more raw video, I can.
So, I have posted quite a bit of new video on YouTube and saved it to my folders. It is also curious that I've mostly done so for characters where I'm not showing all of the exploration and planetary and extra missions, just the class story missions. I'll watch my raw video all the way through, but end up cutting 60-80% of it, depending on what I was doing when I recorded it. If it's heroics, or exploration missions, or whatever, it gets the boot.
And I also finally said screw it last night and recorded some more video with Anstal Tane doing the bonus series on Taris so he can get off that lousy planet. He's one of the three or four characters I have that I am recording all missions, so I'm only cutting a lot of running around and fighting trash mobs, not whole missions. I should probably note which characters I'm doing that for in the list below.
So, anyway, even though it's been a good two weeks, most of these characters are still where they were before. But that should change for the next few trackers. These will come less frequently too; I do have a fair bit of out of state travel scheduled in the next two to three months, which means that I will be leaving my personal desktop that I play this on at home, obviously.
I went ahead and re-ordered the characters, and I tried to make sure I didn't have too many of the same faction before shifting it. That made it imperative to pull my newest trooper characters up just a bit, since I otherwise have too many Imperial characters.
Anstal Tane. Level 44 Scoundrel playing the smuggler story. Sith Pureblood, male. Recording all missions. Just finished the Taris bonus series. Although he's the farthest along, I may well play more of him, so as to spread the pack out just a bit and not have everyone bunch up on just the second and third planets.
Elemer Kell. Level 36 Sentinel playing the Jedi Knight story. Imperial Zabrak, male. Just arrived on Taris and walked out of the spaceport, but otherwise have to start all of the missions. After moving to Nar Shaddaa and recording just a bit with Anstal, I'll probably do him next. In fact, I'm trying to reorder the list of characters in the order I expect to play them. Recording all missions.
Vant Galaide. Level 35 Mercenary playing the bounty hunter story. Human male. Just arrived on Balmorra. I actually skipped the phone call from Crysta so I could go shop for a Mako customization on Balmorra and make her blonde, but then I fast-traveled back to my ship. Recording all missions
Revecca Arden. Level 34 Sorceress playing the Sith Inquisitor story. Human female. Just about to go to Balmorra.
Haul Romund. Level 33 Mercenary playing the Smuggler story. Human male.
Codon Veile. Level 21 Sniper playing the trooper story. Chiss male. On the Republic fleet; needs to take the Esseles to Coruscant.
Vash Galaide. Level 35 Powertech playing the agent story. Human male. Just arrived on Dromund Kaas
Phovos Maledict. Level 28 Juggernaut playing the Sith Warrior story. Human male. Just arrived on Dromund Kaas.
Mirabeau Tane. Level 20 Gunslinger playing the trooper story. Cyborg male. Just arrived on the fleet from Ord Mantell.
Wulf Hengest. Level 30 Vanguard playing the bounty hunter story. Human male. Just arrived on Dromund Kaas.
Embric Stane. Level 19 Mercenary playing the bounty hunter story. Cyborg male. I haven't completely decided for sure if I'll record him or not, or even continue playing him or not in the meantime. So I'll leave him on until I decide, but he'll just be here at the end.
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