It does not post to the timeline. It goes to a small section called Recent Activity. It is there, just not very in your face.

Why are achievements not one of the posting options?

Skill is the ability to make luck happen on purpose...so there you have it.

Yo dawg, I heard you like marks....

To fix pvp, they really just need to award valor/xp/comms from killing the opposing players anywhere (i.e. not Ilum and warzones), have some sort of scoreboard at the fleets that shows top guilds/players by kills/valor, and then provide some sort of incentive for guilds/players being in the top 25% (or some other arbitrary percentage). Basically copy the GCW system from Galaxies. BW already nailed the slideshow pvp from Galaxies so this should not be much of a stretch for them.

Patch 1.2 seems to be used quite a bit as a catch all for when pvp issues will be resolved. Can we get some actual details on the things that will be in this patch?

It is all in the wording. Dont think of expertise as a stat. Just think of it as a way to do additional damage/healing to player characters. The pickups allow you to do an additional 15% damage or healing to a player character. It does not boost any of your stats all. If you have gear with the expertise stat on it and in total this gives you 10% expertise, all it means is that you will do an additional 10% damage or healing on a player character. If you now use a powerup or adrenal that number will jump to 25%. The flip side is that your expertise also decreases damage received from a player character by the same amount. If you have two players that both have 10% expertise it will cancel out, because your damage against that player is boosted by 10% but their expertise reduces the damage by 10%. All this is verifiable on the pvp section of your character sheet.

No need to feel silly. This whole section of the forum is for these kinds of questions.

The expertise wont change any of your damage stats and you dont need to already have expertise to benefit from it. On your character sheet there is a dropdown to show pvp stats and you will see that you do get 15% expertise when using the item.

good stuff.

Very much this. They should make neutral bases spawn randomly on planets, but have a set vulnerability time. Ideally it would take at least 8 people to capture it, and if successful, everyone that participated in capturing it splits 4K valor between them or something. If the base is not captured by either faction, it remains neutral. The side that controls the base until the next time it is vulnerable should be able to have access to some sort of PvP vendor that is inside. The vendor could possible sell the Cent/Champ pieces at a slight discount, or perhaps sell the warzone medpacks/stims for credits, or some other vanity items.

Thanks very much for the detailed reply, though it is a bit depressing as I am a commando trooper. The Assault spec is perfect for warzones to prevent objectives from being capped, but seems it falls flat for anything else as a commando. Oh well, back to gunnery for me I guess...

Is this still the accepted rotation? I was in EV last night and we were on the "boss" where everyone fights a single enemy and I was the last one to take mine down. I was using that rotation exactly, but the dps seems laughably low. I am in full champ gear, which I know is PvP gear, but the dps just seems too low.

Go ahead and post your frustrations, but dont ruin the actual game for others please.

They are trying. They dont get much love when they show up so why should they?

It is because of childish people like you that the devs cant have open dialogue with us.

The real solution to this is to allow biochem to craft the pvp medpacks and adrenals. There should not ever be a reusable version of these, but make one of the mats something that you have to buy for 1 champ comm (or some low value).

This exactly. Make them cost as much as a chest piece.

I know they will sort everything eventually. In the meanwhile the game is still enjoyable, even if we dont always get a shiny new toy for our efforts.

The armament crates were not nerfed. It was the pve crates that are not in the pvp zone.

Excel!

I assure you that having a programming background gives absolutely zero insight into what might be happening here. My best guess would be that they put something in place to try and counter cheating, because I find most of the time it's the wins where you absolutely dominate that don't count i.e. 6-0, 600-0, etc. I have also had some very close matches not count either, so who really knows that is happening under the hood. I have been in software development for almost 10 years now (yeah, just like most of the internet it seems...) and without seeing the actual code, I have no better guess for what is happening than anyone else on this forum.

Sadly, I am a software developer (not in the gaming industry). I routinely have to support applications that were written 10 years ago by different developers and I have zero issues determing why the code is behaving a certain way. Granted the things I look at do not come close to the complexity of what this game must have, but if they have trouble understanding how their own code works that is pretty sad.

I had 4 wins last night and all of them counted. Most likely a coincidence, but I havent had that happen for a few weeks now.

Same way you do now.