this has happened on many character for me, and yes it is an issue, but it is an issue on the client side. it is something that they might be able to fix, but it is client side. i've only had it happen on two machines, and usually after i was using the mouse to move my toon forward... something keeps it from realizing you have released the buttons, or to cause the system to react as if that had happened. usually by using multiple movement keys, i get it cleared.. rarely do i have to close out.

I understand your thoughts here, but for me, I do not like blind invites. talk to me, say something. I've been blind invited to a group (was looking for something and asked someone to log in with a new character, so i didn't know the name at the time and then minutes later i was booted from the group. no talking.. no nothing... it was weird... but be personable... it goes along way. you say "hey wanna do what you need to do without waiting?" i'd probably say sure... unless i'm working on something different.... I personally hate that the game is solo gamer, and I personally am glad as i do not always have someone to play with. I hate that the genre (MMO's) have devolved into something so easy i get more challenge out of a 10 year old or older game that was designed solo....

Something else to think about even if they had the right environment, they can not account for EVERY conceviable action a player may do. for the following reasons: 1) it's not an obvious idea to move and jump to that one spot or use that combination right at the spot. 2) though they are looking for issues, some bugs are minor and do not crop up till you get past a 100+ to 1 ratio of people on at the same time. 3) they can not simulate most everyone logging in at the same time to test that the log in server is still solid. 4) they can not test all items with all parts of the code, meaning that though the item works as intended in the general world, there might be that one spot that requires something else and the player forgot to switch.... lots of issues you can't find even on the PTS or in design. biggest problem i noted was the loss of all cartel coin I had. I assume it is going to return, but what happens if i were to buy more coin.... wierd. Darth Freki

Actually Legacy unlocks were server specific. as you can have different legacy names on different servers. if you play only on one server then it's account wide but that's a narrow view of the term account wide. lol. it is functioning as intended... and as was mentioned there are some legacy unlocks that are specific to that character.

SWEU has the sith being a primitive warlike people being found by renegade dark jedi. and their comingling with the sith population started to bring down the purity of the sith race but the extra force powers the offspring developed allowed some sith to become noticed. the empire was a comingling of the fact that the primitive sith worshiped the dark jedi and their own warlike lust. and thus the humans started as rulers of the sith. the humans and sith had a hatred of anything other than themselves but they recognize power and that power was the force. even alien force users are respected but dispised. if you watch the reaction of the humans, you see that the humans ever dispise the purebloods. and yes there is always a disgrace or something happened to cause a pureblood to become a slave. there was no protection as a pureblood against being a slave, just your own skill and power to keep it from happening. Darth Freki

The issue is more to the idea of what happens when the SITH are a full empire vs just the TWO in the movies. Lucas had ideas put out there and they had expression in the EU. the idea of the Light Side vs Dark Side is a personal outlook when weighed across the general measure. you do a good thing, or spare someone that is light side, if you kill or destroy indiscriminately then that is dark. for instance in the original D20 rpg if you used the force to choke someone you got a dark side point. so luke got two dark side points in return of the jedi when he used the force on the gamorrian guards. in terms of this game light side choices are the decision that makes you promote the government/side ahead of you, the dark side choices are for personal gain, glory, or gratification. and yes the sith can have light side choices, they want power for various reasons, the issue is they are at odds with the democratic or republic way because of the red tape so they lash out. for instance: anakin skywalker, jacen solo, luke skywalker (he did become dark once), jorus c. boath's clone. dooku, nomen kaar. also someone said if you are a dark jedi then you are not a jedi anymore that isn't true, and dark jedi are mentioned many times in the EU, and is a description not to say they were still part of the order but they are still trained as a jedi. for instance someone who becomes a police officer, and gets nailed taking bribes is now referred to as a corrupt police officer, even if he's no longer on the force. it's just how to describe them. Darth Freki

alright i have a few things here. hmmm you say why the drop from 2 mil purchases to a sustained 1.7 mil subs? for ONE people see a star wars title and they'll buy it thinking it's a single player non sub game like KOTOR etc. then they find out it's an MMO. what do they do? put it on the shelf or return it. my sister in law bought the game (SWTOR) for her 6 year old son thinking this way. also did some talent leave bioware/ea recently? sure? it happens. people change, people want more or less and go where they want to be. for instance drew K. is gone from bioware because he wanted to focus on his books more than video games. developers come and go. teams come and go. the recession hit even BLIZZARD! they laid off a lot of people too! can't forget that. Now another thing: no one here knows anything about actual server pops except what they read on the interwebz. ok so it seems some are down. some are up! hmmm perhaps people are leaving a server for another server for some reason.. say perhaps they DONT like the community there? lots of posibilities.MMO's have reached their peak. there will be no more new content mmo's. this is a fact. every thing that can be done in the current format has been done, just redressed in a different genre. next: ideas like LFD or LFFP or what ever it is for each game: including it at launch doesn't make an mmo successful..... giving a free month to people who have played for ages and gotten to a point in the game that was thought not easy... well that's a reward not an enticement to stay... why do people have to rush to the end content and then whine becuase they can't think of something to do. well let me tell you, there is a huge game that is ready for exploration... but no you can't give up that 50 you worked for 1 week to get. i remember when getting max level was months because there was so much you had to do to get there. there was no alternative advancement, or skill points, it was just hack at someone one to raise a sword skill, make armor to raise armoring skill. oh no double exp.... oh no it was a challenge. and finally: the GRIND... i have never seen a game that has a major grind component since the grand daddy mmo's of UO and EQ1. now eq1... needed a level and you were 20? go to the innothule swamp and kill frogloks and trolls!!! oh we don't give you a quest but we'll give you exp for each kill and maybe coin and stuff drop, that's a grind. NO I go get a quest, then I go kill X, then i return to npc and turn in quest for more rewards and exp than what was dropped on the mobs. this quest isn't a grind but wait... you MUST do it over and over again, they FORCE YOU TO DO SO! yes you MUST do this or you will not get a cookie! it's your durn choice to do the quest each time. Darth Freki

I did not know much of what was going on when the event was happening, my thoughts: do not make it allow PVP flagging just for being infected. someone that was sick exploded near me and i became pvp flagged while standing there doing nothing but looking at mail. do some unannounced, and some announced events, I'd suggest a cinematic for the opening and ending of the event or some sort of life action event at the end, something epic. over all great job, keep up the good work. Darth Freki

that is your choice. if you don't want to play with your friends who were JUST starting and you could level with them don't blame the makers of the game for your choice at the time. they didn't limit you to 8 characters total in this so you could roll and KEEP your 50. but again you chose not to roll on their server when they started. not the other way around. Darth Freki

it is hear-say because the data to prove the op's theory and ideas are not available to the public. it is a good idea and a start to think about this but you would have to get 24/7 sampling from ALL areas that are playable not when you are there. i applaud the op for trying and thinking out of the box, but the data is skewed towards the player's own experience that is unless he has enough accounts to be on all servers at all times.

people who threaten to cancel because of ONE small feature is the ones that will loose out here. but unfortunately they have said it is comming... best to just be the same that you are already and do it like you feel it should be played. that's what i'm doing.

first of all this is NOT a grind. WOW is not a grind, AION is not a grind. ORIGINAL Everquest had lots of points of GRIND! second of all i'm on the forums when i'm doing other things like waiting for my car to be serviced and i can't be at home playing. or i'm watching a movie I want to see oh lots of different things. what amazes me is the number of people who will complain endlessly and when they get what they want they continue to complain and end up paying to keep their subs yet keep threatening to leave and not pay again. i laugh when i hear the wine of people saying this game is a GRIND! Darth Freki

and nor should you tell me nor anyone else how to play and treat you. you can request it, but others will do as they please as you did here. I am not your lackey. I pay to play a game just like you, and well I have a feeling you will find those player that you just told off not asking or inviting you to groups. the idea is to stop people from just taking everything because and letting others use what they need. my suggestion though is don't limit my jedi to strength only. I may want aim instead... i may be cooky but it's how *I* play. but don't let a sith jugg, or a jedi guardian roll on medium, or light gear. Darth Freki ** EDITIED or to be nor in the first statement. **

actually it wasn't helpful, it was just a rant and one that i've read for the LAST 3 months. class mechanics that make you wait for a state or other ability to make that state happen well i like that since it makes you have to THINK! i won't say anything more but all the rants here have been the game is missing this or that from game X and the other rants are this game pulled things from game Y. I have only a few times not been able to group and that is because I was playing around 3am on an east coast server EST. I guess my experiences in this game are atypical in your experience but i have never had issues talking to people and getting groups nor had problems in many different games. Darth Freki

oh if you can program the code for your solution, do it and make a killing selling the rights to the code or program use to mmo companines...

so here is my solution to your thoughts. have a specific person that will take all major drops as they are generally bind on equip. have that person later list it all so everyone can then contact that person with the gear on them and/or their companion they want it the new item for. this loot system is the best i've seen yet. as one person said if the resources were put to track all your gear choices and compare what is to be dropped from a chest so you get something different would require in and of itself a super server per server just to take care of even 100 players let alone a 1000! Darth Freki PS: when in doubt make your own system that works for you. but really this system is the best i've seen in ALL mmo's. from evercrack's you loot it you got it policy to this one where you can say what you want it for. hmmm which is better?

I just have to respond to your first statement. WOW has bugs and they are pressent from day one, some got fixed before the first expansion, some got fixed due to the revamp in cata. but cata introduced many new bugs that have to be fixed. BUGS are there and they happen. no program can even stand against one user using it. let alone thousands. now one bug may crop up on one server but not another because the use of the servers are different. but they deal with one bug for ALL servers. your reference to a car does not stand up to scrutiny. look at it this way. when AC was a luxury and new it took YEARS before it became standard, and even then car models didn't all have it right away. it was almost 5-10 years before it became a standard and still some didn't have it. and those models still sold quite well! I can't see these whiners accepting even a wow clone from the start if it's not what is wanted by one person they will whine about if they were expecting their own personal wants to be fulfilled. even if there was a server lfg tool from day one, they'd have whined about the queues, and other things. I agree with the OP, this game is new, it has bugs, and they WILL be worked out in time. this game gave everyone warzones from the start. no other game has done this. this game gave people attack pet/companions from the start. other games gave that to only a few classes. this game has made story lines for each class and huge amounts of voice overs, no other game has this from the start or even something as in depth as it is. Darth Freki

well i play both sides but i'd rather keep them apart from each other. so i use a different server.

oh this is a terrible idea. because the voice acting they did use was done in a studio booth. thus background sounds are removed before recording. interesting idea but i dont think it'd work. plus the compensation for using a perosn's voice or likeness is pretty steep and there are guilds and other legalities to worry about Darth Freki

I lol'd hehehe nice one!

no they would not have to record new voices if you make a twilik jedi and a mirilukan jedi they have the same voice. they had a person do the voice overs for the class no matter the race. Darth Freki

here are my responses: #1) pve games are always pvp second and this has been a pve game from the beginning. #2) skip what you don't find fun and there is still lots of content. #3) bugs happen. in all games with patches and launch. takes time to fix things because one line of code can effect 1000's of other lines. #3b) customer service: called customer service TWICE: first time took a while to get to them (at the first three weeks of launch btw) but when i got there i was helped witin 10 minutes and successfully helped. i couldn't seem to remember one of my 5 questions, so they got the answer for me after verifying my identitty. second: the other night i moved and my code fob is mis placed.... they verified my identity, and they removed it from the account so i could play that night. I'd say that's damn good customer service. enjoy your rants. some things are bugs and cs can't do anything about that and some think that cs can help with something that is technical.... it isn't. Darth Freki

no game with faction setup has faction balance. AT ALL tell me a game where it is balanced and I will ask what you are smoking. Aion, GW, SWTOR, WoW, and others all have people whining about faction balance. everyone says it's because of the abilities aren't set right, or the classes aren't the same, or the races aren't the same. or there isn't a race available. the issue boils down to who wanted to play Empire or Republic. take responsibility for your own contributions to faction imbalance. is there issues relating to the other aspects? yes but NO game is ever balanced. only way you can truely balance the game is make everyone the same class, and when one person picks one side, the next has to take the other then it's open to the third then the fourth is forced to what was not picked by the third etc. so recruit new people, get more involved with the game. and make sure they get on the faction you are on or the one that is the less populated. oh sorry i forgot, trolls and complainers here don't care about logic and will complain about winning if they thought it would benefit them more. (ps: I will say if you think my last statement here is you then that is your brain saying it, not me as i used generic references. if you feel i insulted you then i'm sorry but my opinion is just that mine, if you think it's about you then that's your idea not mine) Darth Freki

when the game advances by about 3050 years will the ewoks be discovered. Darth Freki

because it is the opposite of what people expect. plus it's fun. i have a light II sith Jug. he used kindness to lure jaessa to become his apprentice. it was wild to see her say you have been benevolent and kind when i only wanted her any all that hehehe it was fun!