If I thought any input would be valued and taken in, I would be on PTS; however, I stopped that long ago after it became painfully obvious that it didn't matter what we told them - they never listened. Like, ever. Search the forums about it, it's all over the place and hasn't changed. They are going to do what they want, when they want and the only good thing about PTS is seeing anything new coming before it hits production servers. After that, it's almost wasting your breath trying to report issues, find bugs, and basically do their job while you pay for a subscription to play.

Yes but only from one slot on the majority of those items, Emperor's Grace. That doesn't make it any better. I'm sitting on over 400 Golden certs, and 250-something Cartel certs. I managed to get the Predator mount last year. They overdid the adjustment in drop. It was rough enough last year and this year they made it more difficult. Not spending any time at the casino like I did last year. Just not worth it at this point.

As I said, Bioware heard what we said, but they didn't listen to what we said. This isn't what we asked for in the game. Although a nice idea to integrate the DS/LS aspect, it doesn't solve the core issue of weapon choice we've been asking for since beta.

This. Also, you aren't paying attention to any of the story if you are doing all of these flashpoints, operations, etc. you claim to be doing to get your companions back - because they really have nothing to do with that storyline or your companions in the KotFE/KoTET lines. Stick to the chapters, and actually pay attention to the storyline. Stop wandering off every time you see a squirrel.

And yet again this new thing with Combat Styles - Bioware/EA completely missed the mark of what players wanted to do with weapons. Yet again, what is said by the players is not what is heard by Bioware. They wanted to be able to not be limited on the same spec type (Force and Tech) weapons; i.e., Bounty Hunter tank spec being able to equip a blaster rifle if they wanted to, or an Immortal Jugg being able to equip a double-bladed saberstaff. It's something we've been asking to do since beta. 10 Years later, they heard but they didn't listen. I'd like EA and Bioware to be the pall bearers at my funeral, so they can let me down one last time.

Can we PLEASE get this guy fixed? He has become literally useless on my Agent and other characters. IF Lokin is in tank form, he will not keep the buffs provided, and any time he is summoned he will lose them and they will not return until you reapply buffs. He also drops them at random. If he is in Heal mode, he appears to be working as intended. Tank mode, he does not. He also cannot take hits in tank mode; it's like he has tissue paper even at level 40 influence.

More info: After seeing this thread, http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=983020 I tested more with Lokin. Same issue. Not centered around mounts, just when the companion is summoned. If in Tank or DPS roles, the companions Scourge and Lokin will not retain their buffs and have to be rebuffed every time. If set as Healer role, the buffs are inherited and remain, as originally intended. The increased damage intake on the companions is probably also related to this.

Lokin has the same problem, and it's gone untouched for years. After seeing your post, I went to check and he has the exact same issue as Scourge that you describe. If on tank or DPS, no buffs will stay, but role set as healer works as it should. It's got nothing to do specifically with mounts, just when he is summoned in those two specific roles. I wonder if Scourge's increased damage intake is as bad as Lokin's as well, something else to test out.

And such is the way of SWTOR.

Are you sure you trained after the crew skills were fixed a month or two ago? What skill level are you at? If you are trying to train above 600 to get to 700 and were doing so before they were fixed, they won't do that now and you have to visit the trainer to train to get to 700.

Can you tell us exactly what you are doing to login? Like, can you put in your name/password/security key information successfully but it gives an error? What's the error? Does it keep the Play button from being pushed? Can you not put your information in at all? Do you actually get into the game, but it won't populate your character screen/server screen? Need more info.

This happened to me last week with Nar Shaddaa stronghold. I was at my Alderaan SH and it wasn't in my list any longer, like I never had one. I tried from fleet and another SH to see if it would reappear and it would not. I had to exit the game competely and log back in to see it.

After collecting Dr. Lokin as a companion from Alderaan after KoTFE/KoTET expansion, he does not keep character buffs. If you summon him with your character buffed, he will not inherit the buffs you have. You have to keep buffing to have them applied, as they will also fall off at random times. You have to rebuff every time he is summoned, and this is not just for an Imperial Agent class. Using Lokin as a tank companion, is quite frankly horrible. My level 40 influence Lokin cannot mitigate and be kept up effectively when he tanks a group of mobs, compared to my level 17 Vector companion on the same player character, who does a far superior job of mitigation, or quite frankly any other companion I use. There is clearly an issue with this companion which prevents us from using him effectively and this has been an issue since this expansion mentioned above, yet hasn't been fixed.

I think this is a problem again (DDoS) this evening. I never have issues playing, but this current game-play is horrible with 25k pings that will almost disconnect you, then go back to something manageable.

LMAO what a joke. Crayola development. Look at your Kingpin slots too - You probably changed the wrong line of code in your attempt to fix the Emperor slots. Those are blinking out of existence and back in after every use to reset. I'm betting you applied your fix to the wrong slot. Keep trying Bioware. We know that you will one day stop sniffing glue.

Resistance met with resistance and all...

Just checking here - you did visit the trainers to get them to 700, right? Because I don't see this on any of my toons that I trained to 700. The ones that are still 600 is simply because I haven't trained them yet (lack of credits).

Yeah, great idea - move backwards to go forwards again. It's like history - let's be doomed to repeat it. How about no - move forward and fix the issues instead. That's how things go - by progression, not regression.

No we shouldn't.

If only... EA is too busy counting those dollar bills and hoarding that, rather than put it to use in this game. They have the new SW games to look at and attract sucke... err... customers to.

It was, but EA won't allow a redesign - that costs way too much money, time, and developers - something that is obviously not allocated to this game.

No, EA is so far off base that they won't ever accomplish what you stated. They continue to be a total screw-up company with this franchise and SWTOR. Unfortunately, they won't redo this potentially great game - if they would remake this game on an appropriate engine and release it as a new game, instead of buying a discontinued version of game engine and hack it to death to 'make it work' - that might get EA some points with their community. Unfortunately, their cash-cow methodology thinking won't ever allow that to happen.

Thanks, Owen. Edit: Not worth the argument at this point. Thanks for all the information, account still canceled.

You are correct, it was Astaro. This wasn't some post trying to throw you off or discount what you *know*, and personally, I don't really care what you want to call it. As it is now, it's Sophos, so there's no need to nitpick what it is now, or what it was in 1999 - it's still the same thing I've been using since that time, and it's been a great product - Astaro, Sophos, ToiletTurd 5000. Whatever makes you feel better about yourself. And, as I already indicated in my original post about ports (see above post with the link supplied) I already referred to it as Astaro. Your argument is nothing more than troll bait and trying to start an argument of semantics. The point of this thread isn't about what you prefer to call it - it's about the range change of ports, and the original configuration doesn't work any longer in my environment. Nothing's been changed on my end and it was working fine until the datacenter migration.

That's why I said similar. I know it was EOL. Sophos is far from that and continuing to develop their 'XG' and 'SG' versions. I've used the Sophos UTM since before Y2K, and it has continued to be a proven asset. It doesn't excuse the fact that this really isn't a UTM problem. Published articles of information from a company for that information is expected, and my environment has been set up to use it since the first beta for this game and it no longer works.