An update on Republic Trooper and a massive thank you to all of our readers!

Written By: Andy Muchmore

This past week, July 2nd to be exact, Republic Trooper turned 1 – happy birthday RT! Although it is our birthday week, I felt it was appropriate to update all of you with the status of RT as a whole. Obviously over the past several months things have slowed to a crawl and I would like to personally address the situation.

Three years ago a very good friend of mine, Dave, approached me with the idea of RepublicTrooper.com. At the time I was neck deep in other projects and I was unavailable to help out, even though I was eagerly following the development of Star Wars: The Old Republic. Over the years I would get phone calls, emails, texts, and the like asking if and when I would be available to “make it happen.” Around May of last year I was finally in a place where I could offer my services to Dave and help build Republic Trooper from the ground up. After several months of planning and development RT saw its first public reader and we were off to the races!

Since that time RT has seen tremendous growth and acceptance within the overall Star Wars: The Old Republic community – and I have to say, all of us cannot thank you enough for being readers, listeners, fans, and for not only playing the Trooper class in game, but being believers in BioWare and SWTOR to begin with. When RT went live we were woefully late to the game, in terms of established fan sites, but we did this for the love of the game, the love of the class, and to be honest – the love of the company that made it all happen. As long time gamers we had faith that a company like BioWare would, without a doubt, blow our minds with their new MMO.

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Command Decisions is a column where Republic Troopers can get the skinny on the ins and outs of guilds and the officers and members that keep them running like well-oiled war machines.

Written By: Lady Republic

Hello, and welcome my first article for Republic Trooper’s Command Decisions column – a place to talk about all things guild-related. As some of you may know, I used to write Council Chambers, which was the guild management and advice column over on the former Ask A Jedi. We’ve always enjoyed a close partnership with the folks at Republic Trooper, and I’m delighted to be able to continue writing about guilds and troubleshooting over here! On that note, as with my former columns – always feel free to post in the comments section below with any questions, topics for advice, suggestions, or helpful feedback.

This week, we’ll be talking about one of the new features introduced in Patch 1.2 – Guild Banks. Guild banks in TOR are very helpful – but also very expensive. In fact, to purchase all 7 tabs for your new guild bank, you will be spending a total of 59,910,000 credits. At the Guild Summit in March, the developers said that in their demographic data, the average player only has about 400,000 credits at any given time. So – saving up for nearly 60 million credits is a serious endeavor.

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When the weekend rolls around it’s time to relax, grab a cold one, sit down with your squad, and catch up on some scuttlebutt. RT is here to provide you with some things that are worthy of talking about over a good pint with a few friends.

I’m Crafty!

Crafting is considered a core component in any contemporary MMO and some of the loudest complaints centering around the launch of The Old Republic have focused around the balance and usefulness of various crafting professions. BioWare is promising a sizeable overhaul to crafting in 1.2 with continuing focus on crafting throughout the life of the game. For those of you who are eagerly awaiting what patch 1.2 will bring to crafting the folks over at duffy.net have a great rundown here, which includes some information on space combat reward changes as well.

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When the weekend rolls around it’s time to relax, grab a cold one, sit down with your squad, and catch up on some scuttlebutt. RT is here to provide you with some things that are worthy of talking about over a good pint with a few friends.

Every Friday in The Weekend Furlough we try to cover three or four topics that are active in the TOR community and send our readers out to some of the many great fan sites that cover them. After all, we’re not just fans of the game, or even Star Wars – we’re fans of the TOR community at large.

However, this week will be a little bit different. Instead of the usual variety of topics, we’re going to focus on one: Ask A Jedi.

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When the weekend rolls around it’s time to relax, grab a cold one, sit down with your squad, and catch up on some scuttlebutt. RT is here to provide you with some things that are worthy of talking about over a good pint with a few friends.

More Patch 1.2 Details Released As Press Embargo Drops

Last week the TOR community was buzzing with all of the new details from BioWare’s Guild Summit in Austin, TX. Like us, many of you tuned into the Guild Summit Day One Live Stream to get your information in real-time and then immediately took to the interwebs to opine on all of the goodness that is Patch 1.2.

Well, that was day one. What happened on day two remained a mystery. That is, until early this week when the official press embargo for day two of the Guild Summit dropped and a new wave of details flooded the tubes! Below are few of the highlights released this week.

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