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From famine to feast when it comes to SWTOR news this week! We talk about cheap character transfers coming to an end, the latest exploit, the upcoming Chapter 13: Profit and Plunder, the new Weapon Tuning feature, Ben Irving’s open letter to the SWTOR community, and more.

1. Introduction

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Dekarch! Thanks to Dracko for entering.

Please send your tips to ootinicast@gmail.com by next Tuesday for a chance to win a Taunfawn or M8-3R droid code, courtesy of BioWare, and an OotiniCast-provided Cartel Market pack from the latest shipment.

3. Holofeed

• There was server-side maintenance on Tuesday to fix the problem with queuing as a group for PvP, and the display of transferred players on the Ranked Leaderboards.
• The offer of 500 Cartel Coins for subscribing by 11 April was a targeted campaign utilising a capability of the recently upgraded launcher.
• Odessan Proving Ground is turning up more often than the other warzones due to it having cross-faction teams, which can be filled more easily rather than having to wait for the requisite number from each faction. BioWare is investigating whether this behaviour can be adjusted to give the other warzones more opportunities to pop.
• Cheap (90 Cartel Coin) character transfers between servers will end on Tuesday 26 April. The new price will be 1000 CC, nearly half the original price (1800 CC).
• An exploit that could result in very large quantities of credits being produced was introduced in Game Update 4.3. It is no longer possible. Those taking advantage of it have been banned. If you have received a large amount of credits, hang onto them for now, and report via a PM to Eric Musco on the official forums.
• A press release and trailer have been released for Chapter 13: Profit and Plunder (early access 3 May with Game Update 4.4, full release on 5 May). It will include visiting the newly-introduced planet Vandin.
• If you subscribe by 1 May, you will receive early access and the HK-55 ship droid customization.
• Game Update 4.4 will include fixes for the Rishi Cove Arena. It also contains the Eternal Championship, available to all players (not just subscribers) who have completed Chapter 9 and started building their Alliance.
• The Weapon Tuning item modification will allow effects to be added to a subset of weapons that have the new Tuning Slot. Weapon Tuning mods can be removed (for a fee), are not added to Collections (like Dye Modules), and will initially only be available in Cartel Packs. The first Weapon Tuning will be Lightning, available in the Plunder’s Pack coming in Game Update 4.4.
• Ben Irving (Producer) has written an open letter to SWTOR’s players.

4. Community

Thanks to Yudonza (Guild Master of Sith Praxium on the Begeren Colony server) and JonathonSt for their 5 star iTunes reviews!

5. The Academy

This week, Swtorista tells us how to level a new character quickly.

6. Force Feedback

Mykre sent us this suggested HK-55 subscriber reward for GSF (originally appearing on Reddit):

Styrka asked which VPN service would reduce his ping from Qatar. He’s tried WTFast; we suggested he also try Battleping and Smoothping, though Teo personally uses IPVanish.

7. Outro

On the show this week were Chill (@BrandonLStarr, twitch.tv/chillswtor), Teo (@jasonetheridge) and Swtorista (@swtorista, swtorista.com).

Information about our guilds on The Harbinger, Ootini Knights (Republic) and Ootini Rage (Empire), can be found here.

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