Star Wars: The Old Republic

[Lief]

This will be made of win and awesome...hopefully it won't be pay to play...

[specter]

If Naga Sadow has been out of the picture for over a thousand years, it seems that the only people who'd know of his existence would be the jedi themselves, and even then it'd be mostly myth. How do you explain the return of a man from that long ago? More importantly, how do you fight such a power? 1300 years? Who can beat that? Not some reckless novice with a strong connection to the force, that's for sure.

[the red soldier]

Just because he mastered immortality doesn't actually mean he's powerfull. He probably wasted most of his time and powers to be immortal in the first place!

[specter]

Think about it, some of the most powerful force users in the star wars universe obtained their powers in usually less than a decade. Some leaped straight up in a phenomenal time. While I'm not suggesting that Sadow was training at that extreme rate for over a millennium, surely he did something more than crank his jank year after year.
Besides, he couldn't waste too much time working on the immortality thing. He would've died if it took too long. 100 years top to perfect it is my guess.

[the red soldier]

Two theories...

theory #1: Its hard to maintain said immortality and requires lots of your time.

Theory #2: After 1000 years, your force powers begins to weaken or something because your 1000 freaking years old!

Edit, theory #3: It might not even be this super sith lord to begin with.

[Winterstorm]

The few Jedi you speak of who gain great power are few and far between, most dedicate their life and gain only basic abilities. Also, while protected from dying of old age or disese, he isnt protected from taking wounds, and it appears Naga Sadow has a few prosthetic parts, and given his life span and eagerness to fight most of his body could be prosthetic as Vader was. I mention this because the force flows through living things, and so becoming mostly non-biological limits your power somewhat. Its the main reason why Vader never attempted to overthrow the Emperor by himself. This is detailed in the book Tempest if your interested.

Also, he picked a guy up with the force and slammed him across the room. Who else has done that to a Jedi? and taking out the Jedi grand master in, what, 30 seconds? Id say hes pretty powerful. If he indeed does have the limitations I mentioned, that means without them he really would be unstoppable. He is trying to take on the entire Republic and Jedi order by force, something even Palpatine didnt dare do and no matter how powerful he is, something he cant do single handed. As the game is set, he has conquered half of the galaxy and is looking for the rest. And dont forget this is an MMO, I dont think the players are supposed to be able kill him.

[Harb]

Just because he mastered immortality doesn't actually mean he's powerfull. He probably wasted most of his time and powers to be immortal in the first place!

yeah, if you need more force to keep alive as older you get he's pretty screwed now.

[greendino]

Just because he mastered immortality doesn't actually mean he's powerfull. He probably wasted most of his time and powers to be immortal in the first place!

yeah, if you need more force to keep alive as older you get he's pretty screwed now.

Using my star wars nerdness, i would state the force users are not alloted an amount of force for their life. The force is something that exist everywhere in the universe, jedi and sith simply tap that power. The training of jedi/sith is about unlocking their potential for using the force. So, Naga Sadow is not out of power, and he is most likely more powerful in the force.

[Harb]

Just because he mastered immortality doesn't actually mean he's powerfull. He probably wasted most of his time and powers to be immortal in the first place!

yeah, if you need more force to keep alive as older you get he's pretty screwed now.

Using my star wars nerdness, i would state the force users are not alloted an amount of force for their life. The force is something that exist everywhere in the universe, jedi and sith simply tap that power. The training of jedi/sith is about unlocking their potential for using the force. So, Naga Sadow is not out of power, and he is most likely more powerful in the force.

but if he must use a large amount of the force he drained from his midichlorians to keep himself alive he has only marginal ressources at hand.

[specter]

But the force is everywhere. Pretty hard to run out.

If Star Wars is anything like the real world, the Force is always there in the same amount. Never lost, never growing. Only accumulating. He could drain the force from the area around him, and a planet like Coruscant would be flowing with the force of billions, made only easier since so very few can actually control it. Sadow could just drain it from everybody and everything

[Harb]

But the force is everywhere. Pretty hard to run out.

electricity is also everywhere in the form of electrical currents in our atoms, but you can still run out of it.

no, the midichlorians work as transducers that drain force from the universe to sustain life. if you have more midichlorians, you will get more drained force. but the amount you can drain at a specific point in time is finite, not infinite. that's the reason jedi also get exhausted after they performed to much force powers. see, if sadow needs a big chunk of the drained amount to keep himself alive, he got only little ressources for anything others left.

[Holy_458]

I think this covers what my friends and I think of the game.

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o244 ... 1246653090

[Worbak]

NEW TIMELINE!

[admon]

they have posted sign ups for the closed beta

http://www.swtor.com/user/register

you register to the site and make sure you opt in for beta testing (apparently the site is down now due to traffic)

[Sleight of Word]

I am an avid fan of KOTOR. Played both, and just started the second one again.

(have too say, liked the first's story better)

HOWEVER.
I have never really experienced an mmo. This will be a new thing for me.
I mean, I play games online so I know what communities can be like, and I have known grinding from RPGs.

tl:dr I am excited for this.