I'm curious why people are no longer allowed to post polls on the forums? Since the game went live they've disappeared. I assumed they'd be back along with the Search functionality...are they gone for good?

Confirmed, you CAN upgrade to the digital deluxe edition. I preordered the game, and upgraded when I signed up for a subscription. I don't really think it was worth the $20, but that's a different story. I guess now that my Sith Inquisitor has the Imperial Dancer's outfit, it was almost worth the money.

Actually, you're talking about different things. The "powercells" referred to is a buff that stacks to 30, and BHs DO have. Troopers use "ammo".

You don't see the problem...sometimes we don't see the enemy, because they jump into our AoE range while stealthed. It really bugs me when people just blow off complaints like this. "Oh, just get stronger and fight him off." Yeah, a level 30 being attacked by a 50. In a few days/weeks you'll be able to what? Track him down and pay him back somehow? As I said on another thread about this issue - WoW changed it so you could not damage a flagged enemy with an AoE attack unless you were also flagged. This is how it should be on a PvE server. And nobody should ever get flagged just for attacking the same enemy as an opposing faction player, that doesn't even make sense.

Yeah, pretty sure that assault cannons are Republic only, as are scatterguns, and sniper rifles are Imperial side only.

Riiight...so what, the last 20 years of expanded universe stuff is null and void? Oy.

It's worse when you have female body 4 characters, and the chest armor has something like a tunic bottom below the waist, it constantly clips through their behinds. Very annoying. I'd rather have a slight extra bulge to prevent clipping.

That's an interesting idea. I had a 340 slicing mission fail yesterday after letting it go overnight as well. But it was my first one, so my sample size is too small. I was pretty ticked though.

That would be a great solution. Especially with the amount of time and resources wasted on these things.

Question/comment on this. Two nights ago, I managed to get a purple mission schematic from slicing. The schematic required skill 340, and my slicing is maxed out at 400. I decided to send out a companion on it rather than sell it to see what I would get. It cost me about 2500 credits, AND took 2.5 hours...and it FAILED. The biggest mistake I made was sending one of my companions out that I have very little affection with. But other than that, it seems kind of absurd to me that a mission that costs that much time and money AND is at a skill level 60 points below my current skill level can fail. What does everyone else think?

Hey, just curious if anyone else had this happen to them. I was fighting a gold elite Jedi on Alderaan (one of the ones you summon to fight by interacting with something), and while I was in combat, a Republic player started healing him! Thankfully he either ran out of resources or got bored and left, because my bounty hunter wasn't going to be able to keep up on damage for long. Neither of us were flagged, and we didn't get flagged by the fight. Anyone else see this much? It apparently isn't a HUGE issue as I've only seen it once. But hey, if it's not against the rules, I guess I'll have to deal with it, but it seems weird to be able to assist a mob without getting flagged or something...

I've been questing on Coruscant and finding a lot of goo and fiber in planters around the city.

If I can be excused to engage in some mild hyperbole: I would like free-flying space combat as well. I would also like a Star Wars game in full 3D virtual reality where I can really swing my lightsaber at foes (or fire a blaster at them), and get paid real money for doing virtual quests. I like the current one, but would also like it to be more involved. (My biggest pet peeve about the current system is the ONE MUSIC TRACK. Getting really tired of that song.) What a lot of us don't understand is the people flinging insults instead of offering constructive criticism. "I dislike space combat, and hope it's improved in the future." No problem. Bioware has already shown that they DO listen to feedback. But "I hate space combat, and I hate this game, and anyone who does like it is stupid"? Not cool.

I also have a GTX 560 and the game runs great. I'm guessing it's some other problem with your system? I have a core i5 with Win 7 64bit and 4GB of RAM, and very rarely even get slowdown. My previous PC running XP with 3GB of RAM and a GTX 430 card could barely run SWTOR.

I agree, this mechanic needs work. To the person who said "name one MMO where this doesn't happen", uh...WoW. Several times as a mage I ran through an army of players AoEing, until I realized I did nothing because I wasn't flagged yet. In WoW, it was either built in or optional that AoEs do not flag you, only direct attacks or manual flagging. Last night, I was on my bounty hunter attacking a droid, and a Jedi ran by and hit it once. Two seconds later I went to loot the body, and I was suddenly flagged! I'm not sure if he was hit by an AoE attack by me (the only one that would have worked at that point was my thermal detonator, as the target was already dead), or if I somehow got flagged by looting the body that an opposing faction member attacked. Either way I was able to run into an instance nearby. Also from WoW, taking any regular travel path removed your flag as well...might be something to look at. Especially in a PvE realm, flagging should be totally optional.

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Not to mention that this doesn't make any sense from a practical or logical standpoint: "Hey, you over there! I see you trying to hide from me...you're right behind that other group of people there! What? No, they're just going about their business. YOU'RE the droid I'm looking for!"

Yeah, Stephen Reid referred to the lower part of the robes as "bustle" in some interview. I assume they're going to be fixing/reducing that at some point. As for the chest, meh. Lower polygon count to have the male chest one solid mass and show musculature via textures. That's typical and doesn't bother me.

EDIT - I'm a moron. Please ignore me.

There's a lot of discussion going on about SWTOR's lack of a LFD system. Some people (including the devs, if I recall correctly) are against it, stating that it ruins the sense of a server community. Others want it because they are having a hard time finding groups for the various Heroic missions or flashpoints. I tend to agree on some level with both viewpoints. From my experience with the Dungeon Finder in WoW, it seemed to be about 75% of the time there was at least one total jerk of a player. With the number of servers grouped together, the odds of seeing the same person again were miniscule, and there was no cross-server ignore to track people you disliked, so a large number of people just treated each other like garbage and got away with it. Also, keep in mind that WoW didn't have the Dungeon Finder for the first 2-3 years and people managed. Yes, it was more difficult and frustrating. I often had entire days where I couldn't get a group together. But when I finally did, there were far less instances of completely rude behavior because we all knew that we might meet these people again. Personally, I think that most of our trouble with finding groups in SWTOR would be remedied by a slightly better LFD system, and/or a server-wide LFG chat channel. But if a cross-server system ever IS implemented, here's what I would suggest: First, group the servers that use the LFD system together by server type. RP-PVP, RP-PVE, PVP and Normal. Second, keep the groups small, say 2-4 servers per group, to prevent the complete loss of courtesy found in total anonymity. Third, allow us to create "block lists" to prevent the system from grouping us again with people we didn't enjoy questing with.

It's already been covered, but I just wanted to add my experience with this issue as well. A couple of nights ago I got a new orange chest piece, and transferred my mods over to it. When I looked at it in my inventory, the Armor rating was still really low, which scared me. When I equipped it, though, the Armor rating updated to it's correct value. So yes, this appears to be a display/updating bug that fixes when you wear/equip the item.

I definitely agree that emotes should be visible to all, regardless of server type. I always hated that on WoW, where you couldn't even use custom emotes to communicate with someone. I'm okay with comm channels being separate though. Agreed that it would probably cause more trouble.

I agree wholeheartedly. Though having all base gear be Orange might be a huge overhaul, it would definitely set SWTOR apart from all other MMOs. I'm still blown away when I see someone who's achieved a particularly iconic look. And my bounty hunter is still searching for his.

What really sucks is that, assuming every one of these obstacles is overcome and someone creates a plasma blade that looks like a lightsaber and cuts like a lightsaber, it will never be possible to sword duel with them, the blades would just pass through each other.

All the complaining about this profession seemed strange to me to begin with. A gathering profession that only offers credits is overpowered because you get more credits than other professions? How in the world does that make sense to anyone? Gathering Profession A: Spend credits, get materials in return that you have to sell to get credits. Slicing: Spend credits to get more credits, which you then spend to buy materials from other professions. I don't see a problem with that. I haven't tried it out yet, but was it really that unbalanced?