#anyway the next round of changes they have for economy balance sound much better/more useful

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This right here is what pisses me off the most about qt costing now. This is a Sith Warrior, sitting in Marka Ragnos’ tomb and unable to fast travel back to the Academy bc I didn’t have enough money. There is NOTHING  in her inventory. I already sold everything she didn’t currently have equipped. 

Normally when I start a new toon I send them seed money, but since this one’s just a throwaway for the weekly I didn’t bother. Wound up fast traveling to the field research area and taking a speeder, which does work, BUT it’s still annoying bc you used to be able to just go all the way back. Yes, it’s a convenience thing. I get that. They don’t have to include it, you don’t have to use it. But they did include it, and it’s a convenience that’s been free for years, and some newbie who has no higher level toons to send an allowance credits to starter ones is gonna be unable to take advantage of that convenience bc BW decided to add an arbitrary and frankly overpriced cost to it. How is Jo Schmo who just started the game contributing to inflation, BioWare? What negative impact are they having on the economy when they’ve only been playing for two hours and haven’t even left the starter planet? How does this help fix the economy? Anyone selling items for fuck you money through the trade channel isn’t even going to feel less than 800 credits, but it’s more than starter toons HAVE after SELLING EVERYTHING IN THEIR INVENTORY.

In my opinion, if they absolutely insist on keeping the charge for qt in the game, it needs to either a) not kick in til at least either Coruscant/Dromund Kaas(and even then, most places on Coruscant are 5k from the Senate tower. It’s ridiculous, so I’d argue Balmorra/Taris) or b) get cut waaaaaaaaaaaaaay down for starter/home worlds. I don’t care if that means higher level players aren’t paying a lot for travel when they come back to Coruscant/DK. As another example, It cost 8 times as much to quick travel from Kalikori Village to the Jedi temple vs taking the speeder.

#queen in space #this is the first change they've made that actually made me think about quitting #i've been playing since launch day and weathered EVERYTHING ELSE they've changed but this almost did it #they're punishing the wrong people(everybody) with something that's NOT EVEN GOING TO DO ANYTHING #when they were given plenty of feedback tellign them exactly how bad an idea this was and listing about 10-15 BETTER options #i have a sneaking suspicion they'd already started working on the coding or whatever to do the paid qt and belatedly went ''oh we should #ask player opinion on this'' and then didn't wanna scrap their Grand Plan when there was a resoundin YEAH MAYBE DON'T THAT'S A TERRIBLE IDEA #anyway the next round of changes they have for economy balance sound much better/more useful #maybe once that gets into flow they can take back OUT qt charge? #bc i do love this game a lot #there's just some times they get a very emphatic opinion form the player base and do the Opposite of what ppl are saying and it's frustratin #/rant over #it just still annoys me every time that ''fast travel will cost x amount. confirm?'' box pops up

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The TechCrunch List reveals investors who founders love to work with – TechCrunch

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We’re pleased to kick off this week’s newsletter by sharing an important new project: The TechCrunch List. It’s a database of investors who have shown a commitment to first checks and leading rounds from seed through growth, based on founder recommendations we’ve received as well as learnings from our own research.

Our goal is to quickly help founders talk to the investors who are serious about writing them checks when they need it most. You can filter by industry vertical, round size and location to find the best people for you. Today you’ll see 391 investors based on more than 1,200 recommendations across 23 main verticals. Since launch on Tuesday, we’ve received another 600 recommendations and counting fast, so we’ll be providing another big update next week.

My colleague Danny Crichton, who leads the project, has written up an FAQ for people who want to know more about the methodology, or how they might submit a recommendation. For Extra Crunch subscribers, he also put together a list of the 11 investors who have had the most positive recommendations, and an explainer about why certain investors earn great ‘founder NPS’ scores.

Now stop reading this for a minute and check it out.

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Brad Feld on how to influence your odds of success

Connie Loizos caught up with long-time VC Brad Feld of Foundry Group, who has a new book out about startup ecosystems. Some of it is theoretical, as you can read about in the full interview, but Feld connects his points to more tactical advice. Here’s a great example:

TC: Your new book talks about complex systems. How do founders balance the need to manage these complex systems with the fact that controlling these complex systems is sometimes out of their hands?

BF: The first step is getting rid of the notion that you can control the systems, and instead focus on what you can influence [because] in the context of what you can influence, that starts to become a place to focus where you put your energy.

An example of this would be in the current moment. If you have existing investors, and if you have not asked your existing investors directly how much money they have reserved for you for future financings and what you need to do to get that money from them, you’re not focusing on what you can influence.

The worst thing your investor can do is say, ‘I’m not going to tell you that.’ But if your investor is really on your side and wants to see you be successful, it’s likely your investor will say, ‘All right, well, you know . . .’ There might be some wishy-washy [talk] and [dollar] ranges and non-committal language, but you’ll at least have a frame of reference whether that’s zero dollars, a little bit of money, or a lot of money. And you can start to understand, ‘Well, what do we need to do given this moment?’

Edtech goes back to school

Natasha Mascarenhas surveyed eight leading edtech investors for Extra Crunch about the latest changes happening in the space, especially as its importance has grown during the pandemic. “Investors differed on which subcategories benefitted the most,” she writes, “but it’s clear that the pandemic didn’t lift up the entirety of the edtech space. One investor noted that the pandemic made them even less interested in ISAs, while other venture capitalists noted how valuable the financing instrument is now, more than ever before.” She also took a look at a flurry of acquisitions happening globally in the vertical.

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A pledge to support international students

The Trump administration backed down from forcing international students to leave the country if their courses went online-only this week, shortly after being sued by some leading universities and 17 state attorneys general. Following the push against most worker visas and other anti-immigration measures, everyone affected expects more problems. To that end, resident TechCrunch immigration legal expert Sophie Alcorn cofounded a new effort to support international students. Here’s more detail:

We proudly announce the Community for Global Innovation (CFGI), a movement centralizing how companies and individuals around the world can stand in solidarity with international students and the belief that everybody deserves a chance to succeed. CFGI is a constellation of top startups, VCs, professionals, nonprofits, international students and grads. We pledge to support international students, create awareness and effect change.

Through the platform, companies take the CFGI Pledge to support international students: ‘If you’re international, no problem. In our team, everybody has a chance.’ We also teamed up with Welcoming America, a leading U.S. nonprofit, accepting donations to make the U.S. more inclusive toward immigrants and all residents. We’re actively seeking the support of volunteers, corporate donors and community members such as international startup founders who know it’s time to share their stories.

An immersive chat future

Podcasting, social audio and virtual reality are combining into a potentially new trend, Lucas Matney writes for Extra Crunch this week. “As audio-centric platforms garner investor interest, virtual reality founders of old are trying to push 3D audio as the next evolution, presenting the tech in a way that looks entirely different from today’s voice chat platforms. Though some of these efforts have been in the works for a while, the fledgling platforms are a lot more interesting, as social efforts like Clubhouse take flight and investors continue to eat up audio startups.” Top early examples so far include High Fidelity and Teooh. 

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Across the week

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US beat China on App Store downloads for first time since 2014, due to coronavirus impact

China Roundup: Tech giants take stance on Beijing’s data control in Hong Kong

Legal clouds gather over US cloud services, after CJEU ruling

India smartphone shipments slashed in half in Q2 2020

Equity Monday: India’s digital economy attracts ample attention, three funding rounds and earnings season

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Extension rounds help some startups play offense during COVID-19

How Thor Fridriksson’s ‘Trivia Royale’ earned 2.5M downloads in 3 weeks

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An unsurprising wave of video-focused startups is trying to make video calls better

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From Alex Wilhelm:

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.

This week was full of news of all sorts, but as we recorded, both Danny and Natasha “not Tash” Mascarenhas were still locked out of their Twitter accounts after a proletariat revolution on the social platform saw the ruling Blue Checkmark Class forced into silence. That’s not really what happened, but it sounds better than what actually went down at Big Social.

Anyway, Twitter accounts or not, the three of us gathered to parse through a wave of news:

The new TechCrunch List that Danny spent a very long time compiling has arrived! It’s live! You can find it here. It is good.

And, if you want to know which VCs were even more fêted by founders, head here. (If you are irked that you did not make either list, please email Danny, not the show!)

Moving on, Google is putting billions into Reliance Jio after every other company in the world did the same. Google is buying a bit less of the Indian telecom than the search giant, but between the two of them it’s been more than $10 billion in dealmaking. Perhaps Reliance Jio is done raising money? At last?

Udemy is hunting up more capital at a higher valuation, reports say, providing Natasha with the perfect moment to let us know what is going with edtech.

Turning to funding rounds, I was hyped about the Macro round that TechCrunch covered this week, Danny wanted to chat about The Browser Company’s similarly sized $5 million round and Natasha talked us through LiteBoxer’s combined $6 million in new capital.

Closing, we talked about IPOs for a hot second. The IPO window is open, and now that nCino and GoHealth have gone public, we want to know who is next.

It was a lovely time and there is a bit of show news. Namely that Equity is coming back to YouTube either this week or the next. So if you want to see us talk, soon you will be able to! Again!

Oh, and follow the show on Twitter. If you can, that is.

Equity drops every Monday at 7:00 a.m. PT and Friday at 6:00 a.m. PT, so subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts.

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This Too Shall Pass !

This Too Shall Pass ! A very famous saying and in today’s schooling environment, it fits well. Given, the tension that’s been doing rounds of families in this country, I thought of writing my views. Bouquets and Brickbats are welcome. Dear Children, This phrase itself makes me chuckle, realizing that Age is catching up on to me. Anyways, just read through the lines below and see if it makes sense. I am also a parent and of 2 kids who are yet to start formal schooling but have already ensured I am stretched in all directions. I am preparing myself for the times to come. Change is for the good and we all accept it, when that good happens is something we all are not aware of. The Indian economy underwent major changes 25 years back and enough and more has been written about it. But the economy is inter-twined with the society and consequently, the society underwent changes - equal if not more. The then generation was at the cusp of this change and that’s where the seeds were sown. Economically, we were all suddenly spoilt for choices – bet it Durables, Fooding habbits, Lifestyle. What was a conservative society up until then suddenly was faced with Open Society. Relationship fabrics were loosened – Divorce became a norm, single parents were slowly accepted by the larger country. As a result, we had too much of everything, in too little time. What to Do? Now, wondering why you guys need to know this. Read on… Education couldn’t have been left untouched amidst all these changes. When we were studying Senior school, we had plain simple choices Across Non-Med, Med , Commerce and Humanities. No further combinations were available. Now, this is where I feel not all the changes that happen are bad. Looking at you guys, interacting with present day Senior Kids, I am amazed by the choices and combinations you have at your disposal. The numerous career choices you have, is a privilege too. So make the most of it. But here in the lies the danger as well. Just like us parents who were suddenly spoilt for choices and couldn’t use them smartly, I feel you guys are undergoing the same confusion. And this confusion is causing all sorts of problems to you guys, consequently to us. Please remember the earlier lines, us parents didn’t know how to deal with choices and we made errors while raising you guys. However, when it comes to studies and exams, we feel that we are still stuck in our times. There is a way to rectify these problems and #releasethepressure. We need to bring about certain changes in ourselves. We need to remove this sense of entitlement, from ourselves. We are still in a society which is fiercely competitive and number, logic and sound base driven. All the ingredients for success. So we need to earn our share of success. All the accompanying benefits will be rightfully ours. As parents, we need to find right balance. Not everything has to be given to our children on a platter. They need to understand the value of relationships, value of commodities. They need to realize if these commodities are the only things needed for good life and successful life. So we need to stop bombarding them with too much of luxuries, too much of technology. Dear Parents, we worked our guts out, burnt the midnight oil to reach our current levels of success in corporate world, to ensure we get all the benefits of modern day commoditized world. But even then we check our expenses every now and then. Ever wondered why this check? Its because, as kids we were taught by our parents, the Value of Money and Value of everything money can buy. We were taught relationships are for Real and Not Virtual. So get off the Technology All around you. The world is Real. Meet your next door neighbours, engage with your parents more often. Engage with your kids, Do the simple things – Take them to park, to museums, take them boating. Get them out of malls and get them to parks. We all know the benefits of such simple and small changes. Its just we need to do all these bits to get a lot. Dear Kids, a lot also needs to be done at your end. Whatever has happened so far has happened. You need to understand that life will be competitive wherever you go. And you cannot be escapist in everything you. You need to learn to rise, everytime you fall and many a times you need to get up on your own. We as parents did the same. You need to meet your friends in Real. Get off your laptops as well. These were bought by your parents, so they don’t actually belong to you. So stop with this sense of entitlement. Next time you have free time – Go to the Park. Do some running. Meet your friends in some local low key area. Just exchange notes, how you guys are preparing for your exams. Talk to your parents. Make them sit with you over dinner. Have an Ice Cream party for your family. These are small bits too for you all to do. Both the parties – Life is Simple and It can be kept that way too. We need to embrace the change with Positive spirits. Be hopeful, but also understand that our past had something good too, which is why we are where we are. Its not that difficult to take the best of both Worlds. Will this take away all of our Ills? Is it a surety for better life. I am not sure. But No harm done in trying in anticipation of something better. So lets try and Hopefull – This Too Shall Pass and Releasethepressure from all of us.. Good Luck !