We cover what little news there is, along with the usual community talk and feedback. In our discussion, we talk through user interface fundamentals, including our own choices and why we made them.

1. Introduction

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Greg! Thanks to Dracko, Chong, Tait and Corwynn for entering.

Please send your tips to ootinicast@gmail.com by next Wednesday for a chance to win a M8-R3 code, courtesy of BioWare, and an OotiniCast-provided Cartel Market pack from the latest shipment.

3. Holofeed

4. Community

If you’re interested in writing some fanfic for SWTOR, why not try Chadrassa‘s SWTOR fanfic challenge? She has a FAQ, a place to suggest your own challenges, to introduce yourself and a starting set of challenges.

If you heal in SWTOR, you may want to visit @HealingSwtor‘s healingswtor.com, a site and nascent podcast dedicated to the art of healing.

See this forum thread for how to enter Dracko’s lottery.

Kuze is starting a casual raid group, which he’s calling the Jawa Joyride, to do ops and world bosses on Wednesday afternoons (US time).

Our guildmate Morriah, an experienced player who is very willing to teach others, is hoping to form a leveling group to do Flashpoints and heroic missions that would run on a couple of weekdays (US afternoon); see this thread in our forums if you’re interested.

If you’re in one or both of our guilds, please follow @OotiniKnights and/or @OotiniRage. Our guildmate Ferrous Terran is now able to utilise both to keep everyone informed of the latest happenings.

5. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets, emails and comments from The Malgadar, Mark (@mark_swtor), @ForceChuckle, JB (@O_JohnnyBravo_O), @fnord3125, Aaree (@AramonNoir), @swtor_miner, Brad, Kuze, Oofalong, Ilmaren, Joe, Matthew, Craig, Spikey Joe, @darksplat, Terg (@TheTurg), Greg (@GregCarter78), @DouglasMallette, and Spero.

Meet Buzé, Kuze’s alter ego!

Joe believes that fans of Sons of Anarchy may enjoy this:

Aaree reminds us that the three cinematics—Deceived (YouTube), Return (YouTube), Hope (YouTube)—are very much worth watching again!



One of Greg’s favourite datacrons:

Douglas Mallette recommends Do You Want to be a Sith Lord?, a parody of the Disney movie Frozen.

SWTOR Miner wonders why this awesome looking guy never made it into the game:

6. Sarlacc Digest

We attempt to answer GasGuy’s questions about setting up one’s user interface. Here are the UI screenshots that we reference during the discussion.

7. Outro

Thanks to Kuze (@kuze_roh, YouTube) and Redna (@R3DN4, twitch.tv/r3dn4) for joining us this week.

Information about our guilds on The Harbinger, Ootini Knights (Republic) and Ootini Rage (Empire), can be found here.

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