For those that have been requesting player housing, I think the going to F2P might mean that could happen sooner rather then later .. or never. Player housing with its associated prices, furniture sales, expanded hook points, etc and weekly rents is the type of thing that would be a money maker in a F2P model.

Yeah, I know. I moved voluntary myself and lost 4 names when I did that. This time I was force moved and lost 1 name. I'm just saying that the millions of character names on all the servers for accounts with no active subscription should not have any priority over character names for people still here playing and paying a subscription.

For a start they should have given every account with an active subscription priority over any account with no active subscription. There were over 2 million active accounts at launch and now they say 500,000 so there are 1.5 million times whatever average number of characters of names taken that may not ever be used again. I believe most (but not all) of the people still playing took advantage of the free transfers over the past few months. Most (but not all) accounts left on the old origin servers were accounts of people not playing anymore. This last server merger brought in all of those ~1.5 million dead accounts and all their character names. But then maybe they did give priority to active accounts. I don't know all the criteria they used.

This is true. The initial money can be quite large for a new game or expansion with a couple million $40-60. I don't think too many MMO's start as F2P, but if there isn't any plan to release a new version where you can sell copies of the cient at $60, F2P makes sense. GW2 is B2P but if there wasn't going to be a GW3 then they would be F2P.

I came back today as well. My reason for leaving was mainly that winter ended. But I enjoy playing from Oct-Apr.

I don't really care that you don't care. It just as arrogant for you to say that nobody cares.

:+) Just someone like the other half million casual solo players who left. I just hung on a while longer. Peace.

Not quitting. Just taking a hiatus for a few months. As a solo player I need more "fluff" as someone put it in another thread. Leveling and story are great but I need other things to do in game besides leveling. Hopefully I will find a better economy, some additional features in the fall.

Try to stay out of the General Discussion forum.

I never played SWG. I was a solo player in WoW but never really liked the dungeon and dragon genre. I lke Star Wars and the leveling here is great. It's just that its all I feel I can do. I just wish there were other things to do. I know its stupid to many but I did like the fishing, cooking, first aid in WoW plus the special holiday events, etc. The economy was strong there and hopefully some day it will be so here. I'm not sure crafting is worth doing here.

I don't think they anything close to copy/paste.

Can someone explain how the number like Armor(20), Mod(24), etc is derived when you display your characters gear? When I look at a piece of armor it says something like Guardian 10, Guardian 11, etc. I know I can look at the mods I have installed on my character but I was wondering if I'm missing something obvious about the relationship of the gear level to the rating that show on the character display.

Yep, right after Sword in A Box for me.

I love it. I had stopped playing for a couple months but now I'm back loving the crowded servers. I'm a PVE'er too but I feel like I'm in an MMO now, not just me wondering through with nary another player in sight. Yeah, once it a while I'll have to wait for a respawn or someone will take the objective while I am fighting but I enjoy seeing many other players much more than a couple inconveniences.

Where do I find how to do a transfer? I had not been on for a couple months and now find Kaas City empty and want to transfer to Canderous Ordo but I don't see a transfer option anywhere. I may have missed some instriuctional post or something.

I do not support a Mac OS client.

"Hater" I think. That's what I guessed but I'm not sure.

I think they need to wait till April because they said that "character transfers" are not going to happen because it will be too complicated with the legacy system. But they also have to provide character transfers for the Oceania users so that has to be done before they implement 1.2. And they said that the ability to do character transfers even in our current non 1.2 game won't be ready until April. (see threads where people scream about waiting until April for that). So .. 1.2 doesn't happen until after the character transfers for Oceania. Above is my opinion.

If I don't get my Fishing Buddy add-on I may quit. Wait. There's no fishing. Never mind.

All that does it use up a character slot with a of level 1 Republic toon that people who want to play Imperial never login to but were forced to create to make their Imperial.

We don't care that you are leaving. Enjoy whatever you end up doing.

I like this game and I liked WoW. I wish it was more of a WoW clone. I play this one because I like Star Wars and don't care much dwarfs, orcs and the like. All the WoW clones to this point have been the dwarf and orc variety.

The person I quoted said this topic is not the same as a game mechanic. If it's not a game mechanic, then what is it?

As I said it is a personal decision. Stay or leave. Everyone has that option. It is just a game mechanic like chat bubbles or the UI. Implying there is some "fairness" issue seems to be making it a social issue and it can't be a social issue because BW has stated that we can't discuss social issues. As a game mechanic the UI, or GTN affect many more people.

No I meant "can't". My response was to what I quoted where that person said that "no one has the right to come into this thread and tell them there issue is not important".