20 days of SWTOR, day 12

[virtualvoyages]

A typical TOR gaming session?  Well, that rather depends on if I'm playing by myself or with friends.

If I'm playing by myself, I'll log on whoever I'm in the mood to play and probably play for a couple of hours, at least taking care of a grouped batch of missions.  I might muck around with crafting for a little, too, or at least try to remember to log everyone on to send crewmembers off to get stuff before I sign off.  Sometimes, I run through several characters, doing batches of missions here and there.  (This is one reason why I try not to have characters in the exact same place on the same side.)
Of course, if I'm playing one of the characters I'm meant to be keeping journals of, I'll take some notes from their point of view.  (And I have got to get that short story finished.  As well as work out how I'm organizing game verse/fic verse stuff.  Well, okay, I know how I plan to do that, I just need to note it somewhere.  Unless I already did and forgot. But I digress.)

If I'm playing with friends, I usually spend some time crafting/sending crewmembers off while we work out what we're going to do (play one of our teams, and, if so, which one, or run flashpoints to get someone gear).  Then we do whatever it is we've decided to do for the evening.

I should add that in any event, I nom your typical gaming munchies (and sometimes veggies as well) and often have to play around a cat, who figures if a human is sitting, it must be to give him a lap.

20 Days of TOR (Redux)
Day 01 – Introduce yourself
Day 02 – Why did you decided to start a blog?
Day 03 – Your best SW:TOR playing experience Your first day playing SW:TOR
Day 04 – Your favorite SW:TOR quest or quest chain
Day 05 – Favorite item(s) in game
Day 06 – How many active characters do you have? Do you suffer from "altitis"?
Day 07 – The reason behind your blog’s name
Day 08 – Your favorite class so far, and why
Day 09 – Favorite attack or special move
Day 10 – Crafting: yay or nay? What professions, if any, do you seriously pursue?
Day 11 – Bad in-game habits and flaws
Day 12 – What's a typical TOR gaming session look like for you?
Day 13 – What do you hope Bioware will add to the game?
Day 14 – What aspect of the game upsets you the most?
Day 15 – Have you created a unique headcanon for your characters? If so, what is it?
Day 16 – Your favorite character companion
Day 17 – Your favorite in-game location
Day 18 – Your favorite outfit
Day 19 – What strange things do you keep in your bags or bank?
Day 20 – Conclude with a free day! Write about a SW:TOR topic that the previous 19 days failed to address

Comments

[loquat.myid.net]

For me it largely depends on the guild I'm in. For the last few months, I was in a semi-serious raiding guild and spent 2-4 nights a week working on the endgame raid bosses. And then at the end of March the guild leadership all quit over some drama explosion that was never really explained to those of us not involved in it, so now I'm in a light-RP guild that plans to also raid but at a less serious level.

Anyway, when I'm not raiding, I'm generally either doing daily quests for crafting currency or faction reputation (Rift is big on those), running the continuous adventures that are pretty much the fastest way to gain XP for Rift's Alternate Advancement system, or messing around on an alt. When my more casual-minded friends used to play, we'd sometimes get together for dungeons and group quests.

Back in Aion and Warhammer, I used to spend lots of time on the organized open-world PVP where we'd fight for control of forts and things. Aion was much more regimented, since you could only conquer forts during certain evening hours, and even then only some forts would be vulnerable - Warhammer let you conquer keeps anytime you could muster the necessary force, but only the ones in whichever zones were considered "contested" at the time. Rift doesn't really have anything like that yet - they had objectives you could take over for your own side, but said objectives offered such paltry rewards that nobody much cared about them, and they were eventually taken out.

I also have a cat who sits on my lap while I game. He particularly likes to show up during raids and bat at my headset mic.

[virtualvoyages]

The guild of friends I play with has much cat agro, also some amount of child agro. We're all used to gaming being interrupted by "No, don't eat that!" or "Gah! get down from there!"

[loquat.myid.net]

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a sitting human in possession of a good lap must be in want of a cat.

[virtualvoyages]

Indeed.