Been a while since I've done an SWTOR update. Probably overdue.
Not for the first time, I've been wondering if I really want to keep recording. It's a bit tedious to remember to set up OBS, and it's way tedious to go through each video after I've recorded it and edit it. So, I've found that when not playing Seasons with my OG characters like Johhn, or messing around with group flashpoints, a new endeavor for me (again, with OG characters like Mat Thew and Johhn) that I'm playing the third odd group; characters that I was originally planning on recording, but then stopped and didn't, but kept them on board so I could play through with them in a more relaxed leisurely pace. Curiously, they're now advancing much faster than my actual "official" recordable younger characters. I force myself to keep at the recording, but I also find myself avoiding those characters sometimes and playing with the others instead. Sigh.
Hutran Thanatos, my Mirialan Operative, for instance, just finished Act II. He's done with Hoth, then I went back and did Boarding Action and the Foundry flashpoints, which I'd forgotten to do before Hoth, where they actually fit (that's OK; I really just did them for the XP anyway) and did the Act Epilogue on Quesh. There's a second small part of the epilogue on Dromund Kaas, and I could choose to go back for the Hoth Bonus Series before going to Belsavis—in fact, I think that I will so I can continue to rock my big winter coat for a bit longer—but still. He's pretty far along. He's also level 76, which is almost max. Granted, I've been doing all of the faction stories and even all of the exploration missions and most of the Heroics—assuming I can find the quest givers (I'm not doing Heroics out of the mission box; that's boring). He'll very shortly; maybe even today or tomorrow, pass the dubious milestone of passing Phillippion, my OG Commando who's still at level 78 because I stopped doing faction missions with him near the end of his run and never actually got him all the way to max level. Assuming I get to level 80 before getting to the Directive 7 flashpoint, I'll surely skip it. I've done that flashpoint a lot of times, it's a total side-quest that has no bearing on the storyline otherwise, and if I don't need the XP, there's no reason to play it again. I do, however, want to keep going with the faction stories. I honestly am not sure how well I remember the faction stories for the late planets, because I ended up skipping them with more characters than not.
I'm also finding something else odd... I'm running out of money. Credits, in game, I mean. Used to be that Johhn could make some Advanced V-9 Seismic grenades and sell them at 100,000 or so a pop. When I made several score every few days, my money ran up nicely; I was routinely sitting at several hundred million.
Granted, I still have well over 100 million. But the last two weeks or so, my grenades haven't sold. I looked at the market and saw that the the "discount" prices were gone; everything for sale was at a higher rate. Making the assumption that I could raise my own prices and still sell because I was the lowest on the market, I did. Didn't sell. Found that some of the usual suspect crafters had come in and undercut me on pricing. When my auction lots expired, I listed them at a lower price, but still above my standard rate.
I had a lot of stock; more than normal this time, so I was trying to sell over a 100 of these in lots of ten. I sold one or two lots, and the rest expired. I listed them again at the normal price... and they still didn't sell. I don't know what's going on now. I'm not going to go under my normal cost that I've successfully sold at for a couple of months now, but man... things are moving slowly. I wonder if the upcoming announced changes to Pvp will change the market for Advanced V-9 Seismic Grenades and I won't be able to count on selling them anymore? Not sure. If so, I'll have to stumble around until I find something else that sells. My attempts and selling armormech stuff wasn't super successful; stock moves slow and for less money than you'd want. The grenades were a good deal. But maybe the window to make big money on the grenades is closing on me. If so, I'll have start being careful with money. I spend it pretty freely, confident that I can make it up again quickly, but this last two weeks or so of not making it up again have me wondering.
Other than that, I'm thinking of making some more "Vitnir" style outfit videos, given that he's not doing them anymore. I'll forego the cheesy narration and probably just go straight to "slideshow" like presentation. I found that my own character modeling techniques in video didn't look super wonderful, and so why not just take screenshots and have them cycle through at about 15-20 seconds each or something? Each outfit has 8-10 screenshots at various locations, so you get to see what it looks like, both in action and posed, although these images are less about showing the detail of the outfit sometimes and more about just looking like as cool a shot as I can get with this system. Dramatic lighting sometimes makes the actual outfit hard to see in detail, but it also makes it look cool.
Of course, there's a weird glitch where after a few screenshots, it stops taking them and I have to restart the program, so it's a little bit tedious and time consuming to get these screenshots. Sigh. But hey, it's yet again something else to do with the system, right?
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