#swtor update

Sith Pureblood update hair colors. The first 6 swatches are the colors we started with. The rest has been added by the update.

For some reason this addition wasn't in the announcement stream or the patch notes.

I used two different hairstyles for the preview as different hairs display colors slightly differently.

Character name purge together with 7.6 update?!

[You can read full article by going to the link. I'm only posting some.]

"As part of Update 7.6, Broadsword will be purging the names of inactive characters on unsubscribed accounts. Your status as a Free to Play, Preferred, or Subscriber can determine how much you get impacted by this coming update.

The goal of this name purge is to open up more names for new characters to use. You’ll have until the release of 7.6 in early December to get your toon names sorted, so take a few minutes to preserve the names of your characters!

This specific purge is a one-off, but the devs have expressed interest in making it more of a regular thing. It will likely involve unsubscribed players only getting to hold onto their names for a year, but that bit is just speculation on our part.

Who is Affected by the 7.6 Character Name Purge

If you are a F2P or Preferred player, any characters you haven’t logged into since January 1, 2024, will have their names flagged as available when 7.6 is released. If you want to preserve your character names, simply log onto SWTOR and log into each character with names you want to keep before 7.6 launches.

Don’t forget to log into characters on multiple servers to preserve their names if the former applies to you.

If you’re an active Subscriber at 7.6’s launch (likely to be on December 10th, yet unconfirmed), you don’t need to worry about a thing. All your character names will be preserved. Yes, the devs are kind of treating this as another incentive to subscribe. To be clear, this update only affects inactive toon names, not legacy names as those are not unique, and the toons themselves aren’t getting deleted.

What happens to your character if their name is claimed by someone else

If you don’t log into your inactive characters or subscribe by the time 7.6 launches, your inactive characters may have to be renamed. Characters that have not been logged into since before 2024 will have their names made available to the general population.

This does not mean you’re guaranteed to lose the name if you haven’t logged in or subscribed, but if someone else decides to take it, you will then have to rename the toon.

We recommend you take the necessary precautions by logging into your inactive characters before 7.6 launches or subscribing for the month.

How this affects F2P and Preferred Status Players

If you’re a F2P and Preferred Status player, you will need to prioritize which characters with names you want to keep. This is due to the limited number of active characters per server you are allowed to have.

F2P players can have 4 active character slots per server

Preferred Status players can have 12 active character slots per server".

And Charles Boyd is gone

sorta saw this coming after 7.0 didn’t do much for endgame players or those invested in the ongoing story. They did a great revamp of leveling imho, but they failed to promote it as such …

…and honestly Keith sounds like he’s buying his own propaganda…

Please Bioware, give me back my angry rebel boy.

And for the love of god, make him romance-able.