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In this weeks episode of the TOROcast we discuss the community Q&A held on the official forums discussing the future of Star Wars: The Old Republic. We also started a thread on the official forums to try to convince BioWare to separate the color crystals from the power crystals. I mean no that anyone wanted to use the yellow and black crystal from the collectors edition but lets face it, the green and black core crystal from the Razer gear looks damn awesome. To help us move this thread along go here and post whether or not you would like to see it in game.

This week JJ, Tom and Kyle lead off the show while Samm is on a phone call to get things rolling. The majority of the show we do a lot of speculation of what we'd like to see from a Guild leveling system or the legacy system. A new contest has been announced at the end of the show so be sure to listen in and get the down low on the contest.

Game Patch 1.1.1 we see a lot of bug fixing especially in Flashpoints and Operations.  I believe I even see a fix for one of JJ's complaints from Episode 137 in there as well with Karagaa's palace.  I have to say that seeing big patches like this as often as we are proves that BioWare is doing their best to get the game to everyone's standards already expected.

This weeks episode of the TOROcast we give Jeffery a call to see how he's doing.  And our main topics of discussion for the week are looting in operations, and discussing why people are leaving the game.

Today’s patch fixes some of the combat issues found in Star Wars: The Old Republic.  The delay when activating the player abilities during low framerate situations has been significantly improved.  I noticed this myself last night while PvP’ing where I hit some rough spots due to an insane number of bolts of lighting flying across my screen.  To view today’s full list of patch notes read on below.

With the new format being widely accepted by our listeners we continued on just openly discussing SWTOR.  This week our focus is on Game Update 1.1 and Patch 1.1.0a.  We talk about some of the problems with Ilum that arose and how much fun Samm had playing in Ilum as a republic player.

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BioWare is making a solid attempt at fixing Ilum with Patch 1.1.0a.  After yesterday's mess where players took advantage of leveling up their Valor very quickly on Ilum.  Today BioWare's patch addresses some of the issues we saw during our time in Ilum.  BioWare has reduced Ilum's population cap to a currently undisclosed number.  It also does not say if it will keep the sides balanced.  Which unfortunately means we could very well still see the problem of imbalance on the planet.  Game optimizations have also been made to help improve Ilum's performance.  For the full notes read below.

So you’ve been playing SWTOR for a month.  You love the game so much that you’ve registered for your second month of play time.  We have great news for you then.  You have earned yourself a special title of “Founder”.  If you’re a title whore as I am then this news will excite you.  If not, well, I guess it’s a reward that you don’t really care about.