Welcome, TORWarriors, to the latest TORWars Dev Watch!  The TORWars Dev Watch is an easy way to keep up with what the Star Wars: The Old Republic developers have been up to on the forums.  In every Dev Watch, we also provide our unique insights to the most important dev comments each and every week!

Our Intrepid Dev Monkey Lizard is on the case!

It was a quiet week as far as developer posts go.  There were a number of bug acknowledgements and such, which I did not include here for various reasons that I won’t bore you with so on to the dev posts!

Same gender relationships clarifications? ( Link )

The discussion about Same Gender Romance continues on.  It’s at the point of discussing terminology and what someone may or may not have meant.  Joveth attempts to clear some of this up.  He specifies that there are two kinds of SGR, flirts and story arcs.

Here’s what Joveth says:

This is correct. I was using SGR as anything involved with flirting and romance options in general (however heavy or light they may be). I use SGRA to refer to same gender romance arcs, which means something more in depth than flirting. Hopefully that clears things up from my post.

Re: PTS Character Copy On Your Account Page ( Link )

Good news, everyone! Character copies are coming to the PTS for patch 1.7. Does this also mean paid server transfers are also coming up?  I hope so because I am seriously considering joining the TORWars Guild.

Here’s what Joveth says:

As many of you may notice when you log into your account page on swtor.com, there is a new section for “PTS Character Copy”. We’ll be opening up Public Test Server for play testing soon and this link is open in preparation for this. For now, although it will appear to perform all of the actions required to copy a character, the system will not be functional until the Public Test Server is opened. That is, you cannot copy your characters onto PTS until PTS is opened up. Thanks!

And that’s it.  That’s all there is.  I know it’s not much but at least it’s something, yes?  Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below and thanks again for reading.

[You can find more of Werit's insights into MMOs over at his blog, Dev Spy.  You can also keep an eye on the developer's latest comments right here.]