If you think it's quiet now, just wait till May 15th.

They have to do something more than 1.2. Cross-server FP tool *might* be enough, but unlikely. How about something like this: free game time from May 1 to July 1? Radical move, but big ideas are needed to counter big threats. And this would have the benefit of helping players avoid the temptation that could suck them away forever. I'm glad I'm not the one responsible for coming up with ideas because neither of the above would keep my wife and I. But I'm going to keep an open mind for the next couple of weeks to see how they respond to their first major threat.

Well, my wife and I have geared 85's and left after Cata, but we're not crazy about MoP and we were REALLY looking forward to SWTOR. I'm not sure what happened, it just wasn't as revolutionary an MMO as I had expected. Nice storylines and cinematiics, but now that we're doing dailies and HM's, we are spending more time with the spacebar than ever before.

Oh, and I should have added that I spent a couple of hours shouting in General for a FP group on my main before rolling on The Fatman. Finally got one, but it was a pain to put together. Met some nice friends, but the truth is, I'd have rather had a cross-server DF tool to put it together instantly. There's really not that much community left to hurt, after all.

I rolled a new toon on The Fatman, just to see what it was like to play on a "FULL" server with a queue time. I was 965 to get in, so I had dinner and came back to find myself at 9. I got in, rolled a Sith Warrior and started in on the Class quest. I was amazed at how many players were running around doing the same thing. On my main server I traveled to Coruscant to trade in my legacy gear and it was empty, empty, empty. Even the Black Hole and Fleet were empty. I remember at launch when I thought that 250 people running around Coruscant was low, and now there are less than 50 in Fleet. I'm not going to try and speculate why all the diminishing populations, and I'm not going to wait around for the server merges, either. The only question I have to decide now is, do I take the one year WoW sub and get the free Diablo3 download, or just shell out the $60?

Please tell me that English is not your first language and that you are not a product of the American school system. Please?

There's obviously some variance between the different server populations. But I'm guessing that my experience isn't unique and that more than a few of the servers are experiencing diminishing populations. I'm also guessing that with a cross-server DF tool you'd have a lot more people playing FPs who don't want to play with players they might have to see again, to be perfectly honest. Not because they suck or because they're griefers, but because they want to experience new content without having to deal with the kind of player who responded in this thread that "if you can't rustle up 4 players to do a hard mode then you don't deserve to do a hard mode".

That's the argument against it. But as I travel across the world I see less and less community to kill. I have always agreed that a DF tool has a definite impact on the community, but it's becoming apparent that diminishing subs is having a greater impact. Either that or they're all playing D3 beta (which makes me shudder to think what will happen to the community post May 15). Anyway, I think the argument against a DF tool needs to be reconsidered in light of the thinning population. I went to Coruscant to trade in some legacy rewards expecting to see it bustling with new players or at least new alts. It's a ghosttown. From a dev standpoint, which is better, consolidating servers or adding a DF tool? I don't know, maybe it won't make a difference after 5-15. I'd like to try it and find out before giving up.

I think that settles that. We are not even columni geared yet so we've got some work to do. I doubt we'll be able to pull it off at this stage, and it probably wouldn't be as much fun anyway. Thanks all

My wife and I (Tank-specced Guardian w/ Kira, and Heal-specced Sage w/ Nadia) are proficient with our classes and have duo'd a number of challenging things, but have never done a HM and want to start working on that and our dailies. Are any of the HM FP's duo'able with this set up or is this just fantasy? I can accept any answer and we're happy to start grouping up, but it's just a question so please keep it civil ;-) and on point, thanks!

Just back after a necessary month absence. What's all this talk about low population servers and server mergers, is the community shrinking?

yall?

Nice. Too bad it's only Medium armor, got me all excited there for a minute.

No, my wife and I quested all night and experienced nothing you've described.

I don't generally give much weight to wall-of-text whining (let along re-quote it in full), but this message is so truthy and well stated, it demands the most serious attention. It's reassuring to know that BW will probably read it at some point, and I just hope that they are as brilliant as their game reveals them to be, and that they see the writing on the wall and start moving in the right direction.

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Is Jedi Prisoner a 2-step FP that requires first Taral V and then Maelstrom Prison? My wife and I both have the Jedi Prisoner FP but mine says "Complete Maelstrom Prison" and hers says "Complete Taral V", even though we both finished Taral V last night together (and got the daily to prove it). Any idea what's up? Thanks!

No one else has encountered this?

There are perks, whether they are comparable or not is another question. Cybermechs can make their own speeder bikes and hover bikes, for example.

If so, I haven't been able to. It seems they are meant to be, as their icon adds the text "Right click to Reverse Engineer" after you've hit the Reverse Engineer button. So I'm assuming bug?

Yeah, I will test it, but I would consider armor ratings to be part of what is meant by "base stats". If the armor rating is significantly higher on one piece, it would clearly be better than the other and that would kind of defeat the idea that "base stats are the same". I'm hoping that in fact, the armor rating (and other base stats) are derived somehow from the mods on the item.

I've heard it said that all orange items of the same type (e.g., Lightsabers) have the "same base stats". Yet, when you compare items that require a different level you will see that the base stats for energy damage, for example, are different. Do I understand correctly that this is a function of the mods in the item, and that if you were to take out every mod in the item, all the base stats (including energy damage, for example) would be identical? From this I take it that this also means that the level requirements are really driven by the contained mods, and not the particular item? Just checking because I want a moddable LS but I can't find one available that I like and I'm considering using one I had earlier that was orange but very noobish. If I can just mod it up to be equal to level-appropriate sabers, I'm good to go. Thanks,

Sorry, guys, but I think it's the RNG at work. Lately I've RE'd a couple of blues and had my purple after 5 tries, and then my wife popped a purple on her first attempt.

I use an SSD for my Win7 OS but after my Adobe CS programs there's no room left for any double-digit GB games. A 2nd SSD dedicated to games is probably in my future. Thanks for the reminder.

Someone in this thread said that Guides are crap, and there's a lot to that. But, the official atlas for this game is handy to have around for the maps.