Got one worse for you, hehe. I am now rank 184, and i've started getting green 174 gear.. no, i am not joking.. 80-90 percent of what i pick up is below rank 180. Its starting to get just a tad... annoying

I was solo (doing "The Black Talon" flash point).

Same thing happened to me (also a Deception Assassin). Got tank gear upon tank gear for whatever strange reason. Then it suddenly stopped (this far at least).. and i've only been getting "appropriate" DPS pieces for a day or so. I didn't change the character in any way, so i have no idea what might have caused it.

Doesn't work at all for me. Slicing works as it should, for both companion and myself, with log entries, etc. Scavenging and Bioanalysis doesn't work at all (i get the loot window, but that closes in a tenth of a second). Log remains empty. I've not tried Archeology yet.

ahh, goodie. Its not just your companion, its you as well (you get the gathering window, but that closes in a tenth of a second, and the log remains empty). Slicing shows up in the log as it should. Bioanalysis and Scavenging does not (not been able to try Archeology yet). Hoping they'll be able to fix this quickly

And that is ridiculously annoying... not where the mats go.. but the complete lack of feedback.. If you go out and need 50 Biofibers... you can no longer look at the log window, now you have to open the new panel, type in the material (or scroll around to find it), and see the amount you have. You cant even tell if you've actually picked up anything at all, unless you look at your minimap for icons disappearing, or if you get a skillup from gathering in your log. This is not 1 step backwards in game design, its turning around and running full tilt.

Thanx for the update Eric

Didn't see that coming

I believe he meant the patch notes, not the actual servers post patch

Dont think the battery is switchable, and i dont think they do physical keys anymore. They do a digital security key, for mobiles. You can read about that here.

Maintenance for : 4:00AM - 10:00AM PDT (1200 - 1800 BST) New level cap of 75 (and 700 for professions). To start the new expansion, you need to have completed the Ossus storyline.

Which is normal, its still 3 or so hours to go of maintenance

Yup, all patched and ready to go

No idea as such, but i imagine that there will be a story starting quest for the new expansion, and that you can take this quest regardless of having touched KOFTE / KOTET or not.

Thanx a lot for the explanation, very very helpful

Very handy to know, thanx for the information (only been back a couple of weeks, still trying to get to grips with everything) Edit : Just to be crystal clear : The "Superior Command Boost", a consumable that sometimes drops from the crates (you can also buy it i believe?), giving a 100 percent bonus to CxP gain for 2 hours.. that'll simply switch to "Renown boost". So definitely worth holding on to. What about the "Bonus CxP Consumable" (i think you mention it in the original post, but since there was a bit of confusion, i'd rather be safe than sorry, hehe) another item that sometimes drops from command crates (gives 1500'ish CxP i think ?). Does anyone know if that will be transformed into a Renown item as well, or will it just collapse into 200 credits ? I have about 20 of them, so i'd really not be caught making a bad decision here. Thank you

Seeing that there were such gigantic issues just launching the damn game, i've not dared to start the new chapter yet... thats probably full of bugs as well...lol

hehe, true enough that

Its not tied to a Geographic location, im European

38 ?! geeez... So the patch process never even starts for you ? In that case, i dont think you can do anything but wait for an official fix from Bioware :/

Kill the "launcher32.exe" process in the "Processes" tab under Task Manager.

oh, they know what the problem is.. someone at their programming department screwed up big time.. and points the patch location to localhost. Its not a client side issue, its nothing you have done wrong, its all on Bioware. As for why they haven't managed to fix it yet is somewhat interesting though.. maybe they only have part time programmers over there in an effort to save money....lol

What worked for me was : 1. Open Launcher, sign in, etc etc. 2. Once it gives you "error 308", then : 1. Click the X to terminate program, then click "yes, you really want to exit". 2. Then CTRL+ALT+DELETE, select "Task Manager", go to the "Processes" tab, find "launcher32.exe" (which for me always had 15'ish percent processor utilization and 40 - 50k of memory usage). Kill that process. 3. Wait about a minute to be sure that your comp has flushed the process. 4. Restart launcher, sign in, etc. 5. It should start patching now, but will stop at 99 percent of the asset installation, and eventually give "error 308". 6. Repeat steps 2 - 4. I think i did it 6 times (as in, there are 6 asset files). Then launch lit up, and i can play. Once the game had launched i multitasked out and found that it had given me a silly error, just click "ok" (it didn't affect the ability to play). That worked without a hitch for me at least..

Also the same problem as everyone else (error 308). Win 7 Subscriber Security Key NO Bitraider Did the "exit launcher and kill process" 5 or 6 times as it stopped on 99 percent of every asset.. works now. Really great job Bioware.. may i humbly suggest that the next programmer you hire has passed the Commodore 64 basic stage

Dromund Kaas is the Imperial capital planet, just like Coruscant is for the Republic. IE, it is the planet you go to after the starter planet. Most people seem to be level 14'ish upon leaving the starter planet now (and with the May 4th promotion of double XP, you'll probably be level 20), that is more than high enough to tackle anything Dromund Kaas can throw at you You mean the HK-51 part i am going to assume, which is going to be somewhere in the Temple approach (it was when i hunted it at least, though that is a very long time ago). Enemies there are in the 14 - 15 range if i recall.