Very much in favor of a PVE grouping system. They already have a system for PvP, why not for PvE too? So long as it's server based I don't see any issue with it. All the people that claim to NOT care about gear and progression can still hold their local server population accountable for... whatever they feel like policing that day. Perhaps they can earn a SWTOR hall monitor badge and really pretend like they're enforcing some ideal rules they came up with. The best part about it is that the system is optional. You can still spend half an hour scouring /who screens, wispers, general and trade chat on:fleet, other planets, Instant messager, e-mail, phone text, smoke signals, wall carvings, the telegraph, school room check yes or no lists, carrier pigeon, sign language, etc, etc... Personally I like the idea of a PvE queue.

you can continue on the path of acrid discourse if you like, but the fact is you misunderstood and took a militant stance.

fixed that for you. And just because that is your history with games doesn't mean it fits into the context of 'gamer' that my post implied. generalize me, baby.

I said that it wasn't, and that the fact that its not a 'hardcore' game is fine. The point of my post was that people shouldn't have to justify why they enjoy the game, so long as they were. Jesus. ppl on this forum can spin doctor like champs.

This isn't a hardcore game. sorry. Looks like you also over generalized.

'Stop picking on my daddy! (bioware). If you say too many mean things about this game then I can't live out my fantasy on a daily basis! They'll take it away! You know how long it'll be before I can dress up in costume to see a Star Wars movie in the theatre?!? I mean the light sabers in this game are the most realistic ones I own!' To be fair people have the right to enjoy this game as that kind of fantasy. Is this game a 'gamers' MMO? No, not yet at least. Is this game a product that a wide range of people can enjoy? yes. Let people have their fun. But I agree Faytte. I was hoping it would be a little...more.

Well that does it. I'm rerolling Empire. They have the Stig...er stormtroopers and they have access to better cars.... er speeders. Disclaimer Yes i know the stig is not a stormtrooper and that stormtroopers don't exist yet in this time frame. I'm also aware that the empire has the same speeders as the republic. Sad when I feel the need to put a disclaimer on something that is intended to be mildly funny. Also it is rather unfortunate that the disclaimer is longer than the intended humorous statement. Yay for the hostile forums.

Forced labor to level characters and sell the accounts. say ni hao to the ppl nabbing your quest items/objectives.

I wound up level 42 on Voss and pretty much stalled out. I decided to push through my class quests on that planet as they were lower level than the generic quests. I got to a point in the class quest chain that I was faced with a level 47 elite. I could hardly hit that enemy much less kill him. The 'encounter' apparently has a soft enrage timer as it continued to reset after a certain time had elapsed. I've been trying to do flashpoints to make up the difference in XP but it is a painfully slow process. I haven't had much luck finding a group in a few days.

Some of my favs are when I respond to the Jedi counsel with a 'dark' response, then they reply with something along the lines of "derp thats the path to the dark side, but continue on your mission anyway". They contine to do that all the way to the end. Why don't they ever get concerned about one of their Jedi knights spewing out sith rhetoric? Can't be bothered. We don't care if you fall to the darkside. We know you can't change the story anyway so....

Space monk or Batman... choose your path. I'm happy I can use modable armor that doesn't force me into one of those looks.

I hate the forced FOV ( field of view ) change once you activate the speeder. It's supposed to give a feeling of the world moving by faster, but since I can't disable the forced FOV it seems more like a cheap trick.

I love the concept of upgradable gear as I level. Does it mean all green/blue gear including crafted gear is useless? not exactly imo. I have at any given time at the very least one additional character sheet I have to fill out with gear. My companion. Usually I only have enough commendations / luck on the AH to replenish my orange gear with upgrades every couple levels. So I use item drops, quest rewards, and crafted gear from the AH to keep my companion up to speed. Also I don't like the look of the jedi/sith robes. I can get away with upgrading something that doesn't make me look like a space monk or Batman. TL;DR: Love it.

I think a lot of people are forgetting how well this game launched. It actually worked right out the gate. Most of the game functioned well enough to play, and enjoy the time spent. With that being said*cough* The game needed a few more months of polish. I don't know how many months, but it certainly needed more time in the womb. Some things just don't make sense. You mention the need for an LFD queue. Well pvp has a queue, it's server based so you play with your local community - why is there no pve/flashpoint queue to do the same thing? That seems like a basic feature that should have made it into the launch. The achievements I can live without personally. I don't think people need to be rewarded for every little thing they do in the game. It just enables rabid insecurity 'imo'. But also it shouldn't be up to me if an achievement system is put in place or not. If enough of the player base is expecting it then the developers have to acknowledge that. Even if its an option that people choose to enable or not. Bottom line - I agree that the game needs more features commonly found in today's MMOs. But we also can't forget that this game on the whole is quite good and is due the accolades it receives. With time more 'features' will come. The question is will it be too late? Me? i'm in for another month, but honestly the luster has worn off. I'm starting to focus more on game mechanics ( less on story ) - and I hope they can hammer out the wrinkles.

With zone sharding and even fewer people in the game you're one step closer to that single player game. Grats.

That's the reason I implied it may be a bug. It happened to me and at least one other person in my guild. I'm just wondering if others have run into the same issue.

Just wondering if after patch 1.1 anyone else has noticed if the 'Bloom' option in the graphics settings was on but unclickable. I'm guessing its some kind of bug, I went into the .ini and edited it so bloom is no longer forced on. A person in my guild also mentioned that bloom was enabled but he too could not 'click' the option in the graphics settings. Of course the Conspiracy Theroist might say: They forced bloom on to distract people from the fact that the textures are still not as advertised, and the graphics update didn't really do much. So anyone else have to edit a file to turn off bloom?

Sweet! So I get to sit back and audit my group instead of participating in the encounter?! YES! .....NO! They need to implement a proper combat log. Of course The Conspiracy Theorist might say: They left out a combat log, recount, the ability to mod, etc. for the soul reason that they Didn't wan't people to blaze through all of their content in the first few months. So fewer tools to make the task easier means ppl are mired down. Same reason there is a way to queue for pvp warzones, but not for flashpoints. People expect to pvp on the same maps - some illusion that it's a 'e-sport' - but flashpoint content is finite. They have to keep people in check and lower their pace. Don't worry! they will in fact add all the same things that WoW has. Because like it or not SWTOR has to compete with WoW as it is TODAY not HOW IT WAS 7 YEARS AGO

Yes. I do understand. Doesn't make it acceptable.

Title sums it up. I understand this is launch. I expect server queues in or around prime time. 8 AM is not prime time Will we be able to transfer to a new server once they open up? I hate the thought of losing my progress.

Just in, Sept 24th. 12:00 est.

Day they announced the release date, 24th Sept. /me has fingers crossed

Still going and still epic. Bets on when they take down the forums? It's going to happen, and they won't be back 'till after all the early access invites have been sent out.

Quote: Originally Posted by Byker Wow all these walls of txt posts just whizzing by without a single person reading them. I read this one, does it count? I read that one. maybe we can make this into a wall of text too.

Another epic post by me in the best thread ever. Wonder how long they can keep this up? I have a feeling the community will win unless they just shut down the forums.