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We discuss the latest news, including Alex Modny’s blog post about warzone arenas in Game Update 2.4. In our discussion, Ham presents his guide for making the most credits from your monthly stipend of Cartel Coins.

1. Introduction

2. Trivia question

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Christopher P!

3. Holofeed

• On Thursday, Game Update 2.3.0a was deployed to fix an issue where credit towards the CZ-198 weekly was not being given for the two new CZ-198 Flashpoints.
• Game Update 2.3.0b, a client-side only patch that required no server downtime, was deployed on Friday.
• A marathon 12-hour maintenance was scheduled for Tuesday as part of merging the APAC servers with those on the US west coast, though the servers were back up after only 5 hours! According to Amber Green, the “merges were super smooth”, due to “folks who took great care and everything went really well. Better than planned, you might say.”
• Bounty Contract Week started sometime early Wednesday morning (US time). Please see Hru’s guide for all you could possibly want to know about the event!
• You can now connect your SWTOR account to Facebook using the new Facebook Connect service. This appears to allow you to (a) send referral invitations to your Facebook friends and (b) spam your friends with notifications of your various achievements while playing the game:
  • start to play
  • create a character
  • level up (though it’s only every 5 levels)
  • create a guild
  • join a guild
  • guild rank promotion
• Ben Cloward, a Senior Technical Artist working on SWTOR, authored a blog post with some details about the palette upgrade introduced in Game Update 2.3.
• The class representative initiative has borne its first fruit, with answers being provided for the three questions posed on behalf of Snipers and Sentinels.
• Alex Modny’s much anticipated blog post describing how warzone arenas would work in Game Update 2.4 has finally been published. He then answered many, many player questions in the associated forum thread.

4. Community

Kuze intends to have his Nar Shaddaa datacron guide available this week! You can find his existing guides in Kuze’s Korner. He also provided the following screenshots for us to ponder:

 

For those interested in joining Ootini Fight Club for some endgame PvP, please contact Chong by email (empiredivider@gmail.com).

5. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets from @Swtorfamily (be sure to follow him back to join the #swtorfamily!), @K0h4ku (Amber Green), @DsanOB, @Casmas_, @Jacerish, @ForceChuckle, @ThePummeler, @ben_b55, @FerrousTerran, @JediKrackr, @terencemyers, @GregCarter78, @AckaanTalgala (Akaan Darasuum), @traviscread, @nicknightmoves, @BillLentz, @weihanthekidsun and @Jayconnell, emails from AmonRe, Green Armadillo (of the Player Versus Developer blog) and Eric, and comments from Tim and Dan.

Madmar’s proof that day/night cycles could work in SWTOR:

Ham provided the following links to help Eric with his Seeker Droid woes:

• Amber Green commenting on the Seeker Droid changes
• Dulfy’s SWTOR Dreadseed and Star Forager armor locations guide

@ThePummeler provided the following proof of the tank with 50K health:

AmonRe provided the video of their all-trooper run on Karagga’s Palace.

6. Sarlacc Digest

Ham’s guide to making a million out of 600 CCs

After spending loads of real life money (and I mean loads!), I decided to take a more tactical approach to how I spend my monthly stipend. Before we begin it’s worth noting that when you’re buying and selling on the GTN, time is of the essence. This is why I will be writing in to the podcast once bi-weekly to let all our listeners and guildmates know what the hot item is to sell with your monthly stipend.

The chart below is based on a 600 CC value: everything you see on it will cost 600 CC or less. Items on sale will not be listed, as they will be changing without notice. If you see something is not mentioned, it is because it was either more than 600 CC, or I could not find an accurate price for the item.

Key

• + Profit Made
• * Massive Money Maker
• – Negative/Equal Value Unless Time Permits
• ? Not Found

Value	Title	Cartel Market Cost	GTN Cost
–	Supreme Mogul’s Pack	320CC	195-210K
–	Archon’s Contraband Pack	320CC	190-210K
–	Vice Commandant’s Pack	320CC	190-210K
–	Enforcer’s Contraband Pack	320CC	289-300K
+	Regulator’s Contraband Pack	160CC	212-230K
+	Appearance Options: Human Hairstyle’s 1	240CC	350-380K
+	Appearance Options: Human Hair Colors 1	180CC	270-300K
*	Appearance Options: White Eyes	100CC	150-175K
–	Treek Customization Bundle	300CC	245-270K
*	Appearance Options: Mirialan tattoos 1	90CC	220-240K
+	Appearance Options: Chiss Customization 1	240CC	450K
–	Dye Module Kit	200CC	175-200K
?	Ivory Horranth Pet	240CC	?
+	Carbonite Chamber	480CC	700K
–	Rancor Holo Replica	120CC	80K
–	Unlock Inventory Module	175CC	50K
–	Access Authorization: Section X	375CC	300K
–	Authorization Crew Member Appearance	325CC	79K
–	Additional Character Slot	600CC	107K
–	Authorization Event Equip Requisition	175CC	180K
?	Additional Quick bar	200CC	?
–	Unlock: Guild Bank Access	600CC	333-350K
–	Unlock: Cargo Hold Access	475CC	210K
–	Unlock: Additional Cargo Bay	475CC	90K
–	Unlock: 10 GTN Sale Slots	100CC	54K
–	Unlock: Crew Skill Slot	420CC	63K
–	Improved Speeder 1	475CC	53K
–	Improved Speeder 2	225CC	138-150K
–	Improved Speeder 3	225CC	138-150K
–	Species Unlock: Cathar	600CC	450K
–	Species Unlock: Chiss	600CC	250K
?	Species Unlock: Miraluka	600CC	?
–	Species Unlock: Mirialan	600CC	145K
–	Species Unlock: Rattataki	600CC	120K
?	Species Unlock: Sith Pureblood	600CC	?
–	Species Unlock: Twi’lek	600CC	250K
–	Species Unlock: Zabrak	600CC	85K
–	Unlock: Unify Colors	210CC	69K
–	Customization Control: Legacy Name and Titles	50CC	31-50K
–	Display Character Titles	90CC	33-50K
–	Hide Head Slot	280CC	69K
–	Gamorrean Axe	225CC	168K
–	Credits Escrow: 600K	240CC	200K
–	Credits Escrow: 150K	80CC	110K
–	Credits Escrow: 50K	40CC	75K
–	5 Major Experience Boosts	360CC	70K per lot
–	1 Major Experience Boost	90CC	20K
–	1 Minor Experience Boost	60CC	45K
–	Fleet Pass	60CC	4.5K
–	Major Valor Boost	40CC	33k
?	Medical Probes	400CC	?
–	Weekly Pass: Wz’s	240CC	90K
–	Weekly Pass: Flashpoints	240CC	90K
–	Weekly Pass: Space Missions	240CC	90K
–	Weekly Pass: Operation’s	240CC	194K
?	Minor Valor Boost	30CC	?

If you haven’t figured out by looking at this list, you should notice that for any new SWTOR player there is a lot of good info in here as to what you should spend your beginning CCs on, or just save your credits for. The important thing to remember is that these numbers are in a constant flux, and it is worth taking a minute to do a quick search on the GTN to be sure what you plan on selling through the GTN is actually profitable.

7. Outro

Thanks to Redna (@R3DN4), Ham (@HamSammich509) and Hyp (@Hypknotoad) for joining us this week.

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

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