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New Galactic Living Twitch Series starting tomorrow

http://www.swtor.com/info/news/news-article/20140701?sf28013239=1

 

Join us each week beginning Wednesday, July 2nd for our new Galactic Living Twitch Series! From live tours of the various strongholds like the Nar Shaddaa Sky Palace to a behind-the-scenes look at the decoration items and tools, get an inside preview of all the ways you’ll be able to customize your own stronghold in the new Digital Expansion, Galactic Stronghold.

WHERE:

www.twitch.tv/swtor

WHEN:

Wednesday, July 2nd @ 1:30PM PDT / 8:30PM GMT

WHAT:

First Look: Galactic Stronghold Decoration System

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Plus, don’t miss your opportunity to own your own Nar Shaddaa Sky Palace with three room unlocked by becoming a Subscriber by July 15th! Subscriber Early Access begins August 19th.

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  • ImpacthoundImpacthound Member UncommonPosts: 367
    Finally. I'm not normally a stream fan, but I can understand the need to run a video to display the tools, placement, and gamespace in action. The time is inconvenient though, can you watch these an hour later as a sort of re-run on twitch?
  • Po_ggPo_gg Member EpicPosts: 5,749
    Originally posted by Impacthound
    The time is inconvenient though, can you watch these an hour later as a sort of re-run on twitch?

    Yes, you can re-watch previously streamed stuff for a while, depends on how the streamer sets it.

     

    I'm with you on the "I'm not normally a stream fan", especially for twitch's case, it's laggy, loses audio frequently, and it likes to crash when too many folks are chatting at the same time. Time is not good for me either, so I hope they'll put it on youtube or swtor after the stream for easier access. Down with that lame, twitching site :)

     

    edit: "Plus, don’t miss your opportunity to own your own Nar Shaddaa Sky Palace with three room unlocked"  thx, but I already have the 5 room version unlocked :)

  • ImpacthoundImpacthound Member UncommonPosts: 367

    They put a clean looking blog post up for it now:

    http://www.swtor.com/info/news/blog/20140702?sf28048696=1&sf28048718=1

     

    Decorations can be placed by entering Edit Mode and selecting one of the many decoration hooks located throughout the Stronghold. This will open a list of all of the decorations you own that can fit into that hook, sorted by category. Once you've selected the decoration you want, you can click Place to put the decoration in the hook. This will pop up a few addition controls which allow you tonudge, rotate, and pick up the furniture.

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    Hooks are defined primarily by surface type and size – for example, a medium floor hook fits any medium-sized furniture that belongs on the floor, such as tables, beds, shelves, computers, etc. Banners, placards, and structural pieces might fit into a medium wall hook.When you first enter your Stronghold, you should find a variety of hook options laid out in such a way that you can immediately start decorating in an intuitive way.

     

    Hook system. Slightly more flexible than LOTRO, but still hooks. Interest: extinguished. 

  • Kicksave321Kicksave321 Member CommonPosts: 262
    Originally posted by Impacthound

    They put a clean looking blog post up for it now:

    http://www.swtor.com/info/news/blog/20140702?sf28048696=1&sf28048718=1

     

    Decorations can be placed by entering Edit Mode and selecting one of the many decoration hooks located throughout the Stronghold. This will open a list of all of the decorations you own that can fit into that hook, sorted by category. Once you've selected the decoration you want, you can click Place to put the decoration in the hook. This will pop up a few addition controls which allow you tonudge, rotate, and pick up the furniture.

    image

    Hooks are defined primarily by surface type and size – for example, a medium floor hook fits any medium-sized furniture that belongs on the floor, such as tables, beds, shelves, computers, etc. Banners, placards, and structural pieces might fit into a medium wall hook.When you first enter your Stronghold, you should find a variety of hook options laid out in such a way that you can immediately start decorating in an intuitive way.

     

    Hook system. Slightly more flexible than LOTRO, but still hooks. Interest: extinguished. 

    Thanks for the link...sorry you are not interested but many will be...good luck on finding something that interest you...

  • heider89heider89 Member UncommonPosts: 159
    they better give us opption to turn of hooks! :P
  • FdzzaiglFdzzaigl Member UncommonPosts: 2,433

    My biggest hope for the housing and everything is that it will finally spell the end of the damn circular space stations.

    I'm not too sure whether that will actually succeed, but it would be the best thing to happen to this game since launch. They're the most boring capitals in any MMO I've ever played and one of the things I keep hating when I come back to the game.

    Running circles there just pisses me off, especially because they've got a whole bunch of interesting SW locations that go unused.

    I usually sat on Coruscant / Dromund Kaas all the time instead, but I was still forced to go back to the station often because of the teleport functions and the instances.

     

    Feel free to use my referral link for SW:TOR if you want to test out the game. You'll get some special unlocks!

  • Po_ggPo_gg Member EpicPosts: 5,749
    Originally posted by Impacthound

    Hook system. Slightly more flexible than LOTRO, but still hooks. Interest: extinguished. 

    While I keep yapping about the housing revamp in LotRO, hooks are not an overly bad system, personally I'm goofing around with the housing since years now in LotRO. Could it be better? Sure. There's Rift for example. But still, it's a working one...

    In TOR's case it's even more easier, so far there was no housing. Hook system is obviously better than nothing :)

  • ImpacthoundImpacthound Member UncommonPosts: 367
    Originally posted by Po_gg

    While I keep yapping about the housing revamp in LotRO, hooks are not an overly bad system, personally I'm goofing around with the housing since years now in LotRO. Could it be better? Sure. There's Rift for example. But still, it's a working one...

    In TOR's case it's even more easier, so far there was no housing. Hook system is obviously better than nothing :)

    That's a good mindset to have, and I can't be mad at you liking it for what it is.

    I've seen someone compare it to Animal Crossing, which isn't a bad way to place things; your house floor is a grid and furniture takes up one, two or three squares at a time at which point you can rotate or slide things around. It's also a good system for kids, although adults obviously like it too(especially when playing with your kids). I think SWTOR's strongholds are poor in the context of comparing it to other MMOs on the market, especially when they knew what other games' housing was like. I do hope you enjoy it though, probably the best thing I saw was the public listing so you can visit others layouts and get ideas/compare to your own, similar to Wildstar's.

  • heider89heider89 Member UncommonPosts: 159
    agree but we will see in 1 hr :) then the stream starts
  • for those that missed the stream:

    http://www.twitch.tv/swtor/c/4583536

  • Sevenstar61Sevenstar61 Member UncommonPosts: 1,686

    Thanks for the link :)

    I actually like it a lot. I am not a big fan of housingm but this got me actually excited. This place is huge and it's going to take a real effort  and time to get it done. I like the fact that you can change to the different layouts it's quite different.

    This is going to be fun!


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  • observerobserver Member RarePosts: 3,685
    It looks pretty good.  Not that many newer released MMOs have housing anymore, so at least Bioware is trying.  As for the Hooks system, i thought i read somewhere, that the reasoning behind this, was because they didn't want objects clipping through other objects.  I don't agree with that though, but that's their reasoning. /shrug
  • next stream is scheduled for tomorrow July 10, at 1:30 pm pdt / 8:30gmt
  • next live stream starts in 40 mins

     

    also they will be doing another live stream tomorrow with a fansite

     

    http://www.swtor.com/info/news/news-article/20140717

    Join us this Friday, July 18th, for our next Galactic Living Twitch Stream as we show off a Dromund Kaas Skyrise Apartment with the OotiniCast Fansite!

    From live tours of the various strongholds like the Nar Shaddaa Sky Palace to a behind-the-scenes look at the decoration items and tools, get an inside preview of all the ways you’ll be able to customize your own stronghold in the new Digital Expansion, Galactic Strongholds.

    WHERE:

    www.twitch.tv/swtor

    WHEN:

    Friday, July 18th @ 2:00PM PDT / 9:00PM GMT

    WHAT:

    First Look Preview: Customizing a Dromund Kaas Skyrise Apartment with SWTOR Fansite OotiniCast

  • Sevenstar61Sevenstar61 Member UncommonPosts: 1,686
    Awesome. Dromund Kaas is my favorite planet and I will spend the most of my time working on it.


    Sith Warrior - Story of Hate and Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxKrlwXt7Ao
    Imperial Agent - Rise of Cipher Nine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBBj3eJWBvU&feature=youtu.be
    Imperial Agent - Hunt for the Eagle Part 1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQqjYYU128E

  • Azaron_NightbladeAzaron_Nightblade Member EpicPosts: 4,829
    I'll have to tune in to see the DK appartment.

    My SWTOR referral link for those wanting to give the game a try. (Newbies get a welcome package while returning players get a few account upgrades to help with their preferred status.)

    https://www.ashesofcreation.com/ref/Callaron/

  • ImpacthoundImpacthound Member UncommonPosts: 367

    http://www.reddit.com/r/WildStar/comments/2bfjvq/wildstar_housing_hoth/

     

    Evening all. To coincide with the theme that was set this week for the housing competition i am running, which was "Sci-Fi", although i am not in the competition i participated anyway. I decided to create Hoth with the AT walkers to the best of my ability without snow :( (please put this in Carbine). A link below is to the competition which will be running on a weekly basis for those who are on Hazak server, and later on this week all the entries will be going up here. Anyways apologies for the rambling. Tron


    Hoth - http://imgur.com/a/Lg3mm#0


    Housing Competition - https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/99197-hazak-housing-challenge/

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    All of my WHAT.

  • they just said in the livestream that they are planning on putting up strongholds on the pts tomorrow. just strongholds, not captial ships. those will be next week. you will need 50 million credits in the guild bank.

     

    also there will be both guild conquests and personal conquest things

     

    edit: also manaan flashpoint

     

    edit 2: they will be talking about conquests in next weeks stream

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