1681

Looks like the Navy has gotten a couple new applicants I don’t recognize off the bat; can you guys PM me or post here that you applied? (This doesn’t apply to you, Ben, I saw your post)

Edit: Basically, if your username is different from the one you use here, post in this thread or PM me. We don’t want ne’er do-wells or hooligans in the Navy!

1682

I don’t think gameplay is where Bioware is looking to innovate.

1683

Should we maybe change the “expected server” of one of the two guilds to match the other? I know there’s only one server now, but on launch there’ll probably be East and West, and we don’t really want to be on separate servers I wouldn’t think.

1684

but everyone is gonna just solo, I don’t want have to roll to choose decision…

1685

Doesn’t matter to me: I signed up for the TRN and I’m in the east. But then, I’m known to stay up late, so it generally works out for me with West Coasters anyway. :)

1686

It’s fine during the beta, but when the game launches we don’t want one guild to “activate” on West while another does on East; if we’re on the same server and most of us roll cross-faction characters we can mostly all be in both guilds.

I don’t really care which we go on; maybe if we have a lot of Europeans it’d make more sense to go NA/E, or if we have a big west coast majority (and/or Asian/Australasian players) then NA/W

Yeah, but hubbub on various forums is that flashpoints really won’t work that way. And it’s always nice to have robust guild chat. I don’t think it makes sense to have 30/40 people split to two servers without a compelling reason.

1687

I applied to the TRN so I’m probably one of those names you don’t recognize Rasputin.

1688

I applied to threevil. My handle is zomq.

1689

Then change your preference to solo conversation mode and enjoy both grouping and narrative. Personally, I find the dialogue much more exciting when I don’t know what’s going to happen next.

1690

This is a long shot, but… is there anyone from BioWare lurking about here? I’m trying to resolve a problem with my SW:TOR account. I’d really like to get this settled before launch… or beta invitations…

How to describe it? I used to have an EA.com account at email address A. When the SW:TOR site went live, I registered there at address A also. Late last year, I changed the address of EA account from A to B. Now B is my Origin account, where I actually have games registered and such. It’s also associated with my BioWare social account for things like Dragon Age and ME2. All well and good.

The thing is, I left my SW:TOR account at address A. And EA went and upgraded it to an Origin account. So now I have two Origin accounts, one at A and one at B. Worse, although I purchased my SW:TOR preorder at A, when I registered it the web site, it effectively ended up being applied against Origin account B… which is not what I want at all. I want my SW:TOR account on A, along with everything else–but I can’t change the email address on my SW:TOR account, because their system sees an existing registration for Origin account B–which is mine, but they don’t know that. I need somebody at the EA end to associate my SW:TOR account with B, instead of A, and to move the pre-order registration to account B as well. sigh

The best place I’ve found to ask for this is the Support link on the SW:TOR site. They have some FAQs for the account merge, but they don’t quite apply to my situation. There’s also a form there that you can fill out, with a return address and a blank to type your questions. When you send it, you get no acknowledgment that anything has happened. You’re immediately dumped back to the main page without so much as a message. It’s been five days now, and I have yet to even see an email acknowledgment that my question was even received. So I’ve sent the question again… twice now. I have no idea whether anyone will get to them eventually, whether the support staff is just overloaded, or whether my requests are just getting eaten, without ever being sent at all. This silence just makes more work for their support staff in the long run, I think. If I’d received an automated “we got it, we’re awfully busy but we’ll get to it in sequence” email at the beginning, I wouldn’t have wasted my time and theirs, sending two extra requests.

Anyway, if there are any staffers about who can shed a little light on the backlog situation (or even get me some assistance), I would be a happier person. So I’ll finish with a hopeful, “Thanks in advance!”

1691

I know Derek F. posts on Qt3 once in a while but I dunno if he or anyone else gets into the BW-related threads.

On the basis of some other forum discussions I think Origin support people have been pretty good about manhandling these sorts of administrative anomalies into line, between the SWTOR pre-order rush and the general oddities that have arisen with migrating accounts.

1692

That’s encouraging to hear. Are you talking about the SW:TOR forums, or some general EA forums elsewhere?

1693

The GAF forums. There was a bunch of people buying and unbuying all the different versions of the game in a frenzied haste to get their pre-order codes locked in ASAP. This would have been the day pre-orders began and the succeeding days; I think they were dealing with Origin CS, by phone or electronically I dunno.

1694

Got in the beta!

1695

every time someone mentions this, I check my email :-D

1696

Email rechecked.

1697

Just finished a protracted and mildly disappointing online chat with an Origin Customer Service representative. It’s sounding like there’s no way to associate my SW:TOR account with my original Origin account; from the sound of things, the SW:TOR account is part of the new Origin account they created for it, and they can’t be torn apart now.

I asked whether I can at least get my pre-order registration moved to my old Origin account (meaning, I’ll have to open a new SW:TOR account associated with that one.) That matter is being referred up the support chain; God only knows if or when I’ll hear anything back about that, but we’ll see.

1698

I asked SWTOR support about this a while ago and they informed me that not only was I (or they) unable to rename my swtor account, it would be linked to my Origin account as soon as I entered my pre-order code and that any SWTOR Account information I had entered would overwrite my origin account information, including password.

Generally EA support have been quite helpful when I’ve contacted them (Strange, considering it is EA) regarding Battlefield issues or cancelling my BF2142 due to bugs. So good luck =)

Edit: And damn it, no Beta. Got an email regarding APB though, so I’m downloading that through the mess that is GamersFirst Live! (Even opensourced shareware apps would look better than this…)

1699

Yes, it’s beginning to look like I’m just going to have to live with two Origin accounts. What a pain. And annoying, too, because EA created this mess in the first place, with their half-baked account merge. I hope that having two accounts isn’t a violation of their terms of service. :P

1700

There is no justice in this world.