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[a-master-procrastinator]

Darth Malgus Server Huttball Event

It’s official, guys! I’m arranging a meeting for a Huttball match in a friendly, non-judging company.

You! Yes, you, a person reading this. Looking for something fun to do with strangers from this hellsite friends? Let me offer you Huttball, but less deadly. Want to give PvP a try but don’t want to get laughed at? Great, this event exactly what you need. Never played PvP before? Me neither! Let’s mess around and find out! Couldn’t care less about the game, but is interested in seeing how it goes? You can come and enjoy the show without participating!

It’s more likely going to be messy and awkward and not perfect since it’s my first event, but it’s going to be fun for sure.

The event is going to happen on Darth Malgus server on January 6th roughly at 4 pm GMT/11 pm EST (first round) and 8 pm GMT/3 pm EST (second round, if there is enough people and I’m not entirely tired by that time). I’m still not quite sure how long is it going to be (the usual huttball matches have timer for 15 minutes, but for a match in stronghold the rules are different), up to 3 matches for now. 

Your faction or class don’t really matter - the most important thing is being patient with other players and not shame them or laugh at them for not being PvP beasts (or making any kind of mistakes, really). We are here for fun, not competition.

And a special treat - since Giradda the Hutt is not sponsoring this match, you’re allowed to kick the ball!

The details are under the cut. And don’t get afraid of all the information, it’s actually easier than it sounds. After all, it’s in my best interests to keep things easy.

1. To get acquainted with the rules and gameplay of the Huttball, I recommend reading this page (though you wouldn’t need absolutely everything from it) and watching Swtorista’s video. You can also watch videos of people playing the Huttball to have an idea of how it looks and works. Or you can just skip it all and just remember the basics (football but with blasters and lightsabers).

Important thing to note, though, since we’re doing a friendly match in Rishi stronghold, it’s won’t be a classic match and some of the things are going to be different:

- instead of 6, a team needs 10 scores to win the match;

- there won’t be any traps (fire, poisons, etc) and helpers;

- as far as I’m aware, there is no timer for stronghold matches

I will make a test match before the event to test the differences, so do not worry about that. If there is anyone who wants to help with testing, message me here, because I really could use some help since it requires more than 1 person. 

2. I’m thinking about using Discord for communication, since the only option the game offers for cross-faction chatting is /say command, which I will use to for the folks without Discord, but it’s not perfect. I’ll give the link on the day of the event. No voice chat needed (I’d only embarrass myself), just texting (though i don’t rule it out).

3. So, I said before that faction doesn’t matter. Well, not exactly.

Turns out, even if you and player of the opposite faction choose the same team (Frogdogs, for example), they still cannot form a group to help healers track their teammates’ health. I’m not even sure they can heal teammates from the opposite faction, so ideally we want to have the same amount of players from both factions, Empire and Republic. I can partially help with that since I have characters on both sides, but anyone who has the same opportunity, keep in mind that I may ask you to help with that by switching to a character of the opposite side. Hopefully, it won’t come to that.

4. About level: the stronghold offer a bolster (you’ll be upgraded to level 75 and given good stats), so it shouldn’t matter. However, it does bot give you all the abilities and passives, you’ll have to work with what you currently have. This is not a death sentence, of course, and you can be whatever level you want (but please don’t be 10 or 15. You will die a lot and it’s not fun). Plus, in PvP matches things like stuns, movement, defensives, slowing the enemies are helpful and usually are granted at level 30 and higher, so consider it.

I’ll make a post on the day of the event to specify who you need to whisper to get to the stronghold. Yes, I decided to not put it on the public listing because the purpose of the event is having a friendly company, and even though I’m sure no one is interested in coming to my SH, better safe than sorry.

5. When you arrive, you’ll be placed here:

I don’t mind you running around and enjoying the stronghold (as long as you’re not making others wait for you and you only), though there isn’t much to look at just yet. When you’re ready, you’ll need to come to the arena.

Use this panel to travel to the Patrol Carrier

It will teleport you here (and may gift you with a little mount bug)

Go to this lift and choose Sky Deck

Right next to where you load in, you’ll find a bolsterizer (on that later).

There you can go to the arena and morally prepare for the match.

Don’t forget to take screenshots with pretty trees!

6. And about the bolster - this thing will help us to make things relatively fair. Make sure you have a piece of gear with stats in every slot (tacticals don’t count) and press the button. Poof, yourhealthsgone. No, it’s normal, just regenerate your health and all is fine!

And yes, what I said about coming and jut enjoying the show - it’s not a joke. You can find a fine spot and watch as we try to get anything done.

P.S. If this event goes well, I may organize again some time later. Who knows, maybe we’ll make more friends!

#whew #well i hope i haven't driven people away with complicated intsructions #it's really simpler that it seems #if anything i'll be causing more trouble than anyone else (bc i'm a ball of anxious nerves) #swtor #swtor event #swtor huttball