It's been a bit quiet here recently, and I think it's going to stay that way for a while longer. I'm still playing the game and having fun, but I do kind of feel like I lack things I want to talk about at the moment. I'm a firm believer in the adage that there's never nothing to talk about when it comes to MMOs, but you do need to feel sufficient motivation to sit down and create content about your game of choice, and I haven't had a lot of that recently.
Part of that has had to do with real life, but primarily I'm just a bit down on SWTOR to be honest. Not so down that I don't want to play at all, but lacking that extra level of excitement that makes me want to share my thoughts about it all the time. With the devs seemingly focusing most of their resources on building new story content that they then can't release because of the voice actors' strike and the new season being focused on a theme I don't love, I'm just finding myself a bit short on nice things to say at the moment.
I have a few half-baked posts about evergreen topics in my drafts but those require a bit more energy and work than the more rambly takes about whatever's been going on more recently. And the detailed diaries I kept about my Galactic Seasons progress in the past were something that entertained me at the time but is no longer interesting to me at this point.
Last week I was actually thinking about cutting back my investment in seasons, since I was once again starting to feel a bit stressed out trying to complete my objectives for the week on all servers. It's kind of funny how much more that's become an issue since the addition of Shae Vizla, since you'd think that six servers is only one more than five servers, but looked at differently, doing seasons on all servers now basically requires twenty percent more time, and that's not nothing. I looked back at my posts from Galactic Season 2, when I first started this whole multi-server completion project, and at how much fun I had with it back then, while barely ever feeling stressed at all. I've been wracking my brains about how to get back to that and what might be the best way to perhaps apply some more limitations to my seasonal efforts while still hitting level 100 everywhere, but that's turned out to be trickier than I thought.
The easiest way to go about it of course would be to simply cut a few servers, but that then leaves the question of which ones. Star Forge and Shae Vizla are the ones where I'm the most involved with guilds so surely those should stay no matter what, but I really love my stable of alts on Leviathan too, even if I don't know anyone there... you can't ask me to choose between my babies like that! So I just keep on trucking for now.
At least the weekly uprising is quick and easy now since the devs put story mode into the group finder, and this week has generally been very easy for earning my daily Conquest points since it was Death Mark, a Conquest event that we haven't had in many months due to Galactic Season 7 locking it out for its entire duration, and which makes it incredibly simple to rack up points due to to the repeatable Taskmaster (complete missions anywhere) and Galactic Rampage (kill any mobs, anywhere) objectives.
Sometimes you also get an unexpected windfall in terms of seasons objective completion. I hadn't planned on doing DvL bosses on any server other than Darth Malgus for example, but on Leviathan a guildie was building a pug for them just as I logged on on Tuesday this week, and on Saturday I was up and awake late enough that I managed to leech kills off my guild on Star Forge. On Sunday morning I even stumbled my way into a pug for Colossal Monolith on Shae Vizla of all places, something I definitely hadn't been counting on or actively trying for.
So I'm doing all these things and having fun with them, but that's about as much SWTOR as I can take at the moment, with not much energy or enthusiasm left over for writing about it. I can only hope that 7.7 will bring a couple of new talking points with it whenever it arrives. While I expect that we still won't see any story by then and that master mode Propagator will be out of my league, I've heard talk of the PTS showing dynamic encounters on some new planets, which would definitely be something to get excited about. And well, whenever the voice actors' strike does end, we'll hopefully get one massive story dump all in one go. I'm just not holding my breath for that one at the moment, since we really have no idea when an agreement will be reached and it could still be a while.