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Bounty Hunting is a complicated profession. swToR NOR will be embarking on a Bounty Hunting expedition in Star Wars the Old Republic. The best bounty hunters know when to bring in their prey warm and when to bring them in cold. The event will take place March 5th at 1PM. All are welcome and for this event the only thing you need is a bounty hunter (suggested but not required) and have your starship unlocked (this is required to be able to chase the bounties across the galaxy.)

The most recent SWTOR news is the movement of the game to a 64 bit system. This is currently available on the Public test server. The developers are working on this for the longevity of the game as the current version is still running in 32 bit. For those of you like me who are not computer geniuses, this comes down to computing power and chip support. Each bit increase is an exponential growth. So for 32 bit that would be 2 to the 32nd power or roughly 4.2 billion, while 2 to the 64th power is approximately 18.4 quintillion (or 18,446,744,073,709,551,616.) That seems like an insane amount of bits, but computers started using that technology as early as 2003. When SWTOR came out just over 11 years ago, 32 bit systems were still in use so game developers had to design the game for use on those systems. This marks a good move for the future.

Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need roads.

Baron Gonzowill
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