[Server Transfer vs Server Merges and the Great Hypocrisy]

Unfortunately I have to disagree with OP and call the WAAAAAAHMBULANCE.

 

I'd rather have the choice to transfer, if I didn't like the merge. As for guilds, your guild must be incredibly unorganized if they can't get through a merge/transfer. As for nemesis and enemies, there are a plethora of other players out there to replace them. And to be frank, what's stopping those special snowflakes from quitting out of boredom? You'd rage then about needing server merges, and transfers.

 

tl;dr QQ moar op.

[So EA are cutting SWTOR loose eh?]

I wish EA would just dip out entirely. And take their ****** customer service with them.

[Stephen Reid Departs From SW:TOR (TOR-Talk Editorial)]

Exactly. The same goes for Facebook. I come to these forums for news on this game. I should not have to go elsewhere for it.

 

For all his good intentions, Reid either forgot that, or never understood it to begn with.

 

It would have been alright if he posted it here too. That would have actually been exceptional of him to handle multiple social mediums, not just the ones that were easy to handle...

[Layoffs at Bioware What does this mean for content]

It seems the people laid off were from the QA team.

 

Tell me, how essential is a QA team for success?

[Will Bioware bring playable races that doesn't look like colored humans?]

Sad thing is everyone plays humans anyway as is.

[PvPers are killing the groove]

And yet a lot of people complaining about server merges are PVErs who are crying that they can't do content due to lack of activity.

[Will You Trust Bioware Again?]

Yes.

 

I like Bioware. I've been playing their games since Baulder's Gate. I really enjoy their games. I get excited when they announce new games, and I was hyped for SWTOR.

 

SWTOR has issues to say the least. Some of them are little, while others are huge. The sever one being the server population problems. I guess I am hoping they will come through on this, and do merges or whatever. My second biggest issue is their lack of delivery on SGRs. But I admit the later is small.

 

I just really hope they do some thing about the populations problems before they loose so many customers the game is entirely not worth playing anymore.

[When will there be a SERVER MERGE?]

This was my gaming experience this morning.

 

http://pics.livejournal.com/beyondfake_0/pic/0006k8bd

 

That is all that I am going to say.

[Only one problem....]

Any ability bound to [Quickslot 1] will be actived when Right-clicking on an Enemy.

 

There is currently no way to disable this. Thank Bioware for their "innovation."

 

Best we can do for now is bind a melee ability to [Q1]. Luckily, only the ability bound to the [Q1] in the out-of-cover bar follows this command. Abilities bound to [Q1] in the Cover bar will not activate on right click, but will attempt to activate the [Q1] ability on the out-of-cover bar, even if the Cover bar is the currently active one.

 

A bit complicated, but it has advantages and disadvantages.

 

Or you can left click. Much simpler solution.

[PvP Shield Spec]

I love playing PvP as a Shield Tech. When I have a healer on me I am absolutely hard to kill. And the versatility of a Shield Tech in PvP is addicting, and when I run a premade that's when my build really shines. But I do get frustrated during those 1 on 1 fights that I can't win because my damage absolutely sucks.

 

I was wondering if a Hybrid spec would fix that, or maybe if I swapped my gear and started stacking Aim, Crit, and Surge for pvp instead of Endurance, and mitigation.

 

Or am I doing some thing wrong? Or is this the plight of Shield spec that I need to suck up and get over?

[Temp Ban from Warzones a Player Leaves Them Early Too Many Times.]

I don't think so. I usually finish the match despite the loss, but I got very frustrated yesterday and quit to see if there was. Not only was I able to re-queue, but a match immediately popped up for me. I assume it was the one I was just in, I didn't rejoin but was pretty frustrated that there was no type of discouragement from quitting.

[Temp Ban from Warzones a Player Leaves Them Early Too Many Times.]

I really hate waiting in queue just to be put into a Warzone game that is half finished, on the loosing team because people have quit. Some times it works out, and the team I am put on is able to pull a victory but that is usually a rare occasion because people tend to quit when the score is like 0-4 in Huttball.

 

In other games I have played where they were more focused on PVP they had a system in place to discourage people from quitting. It didn't completely fix things, but it did make it better. Also those games did not throw players into a match that was half finished.

 

So if people quit a game prematurely it would be nice if they were banned/blocked from re-queuing for 10 minutes, and if they quit again the ban is reset, and increased to 20 minutes, ect. After 24 hours the count is reset. Or some thing like that.

 

This way if a person has to quit for legitimate reasons, say to attend a raid or attend to some thing in real life, the 10 minutes doesn't really affect them.

[Dying before the end of FE HM *final boss spoilers?*]

Wow this happened to me last night. The exact same thing, and I came here to post about it too.

 

So if the group looted the final boss, and one party member is holding on to the piece of gear that was an upgrade for you, can BW make the switch? Since the boss was looted and everything?

[How Blizzard became sucessful.]

Dear Bioware,

 

I am going to tell you what made Blizzard so sucessful and what many companies are failing at with mmo's. When Blizzard first came out they had a ton of issues with the game, much like you guys are having now. The difference between them and you though is they actually listened to their customers and fixed problems that were huge problems. The second thing is Blizzards customer service was awsome, they replied within 30 minutes of a ticket and resolved the issue you had.

 

This is not the case with Blizzard now of course, they have become so big that they dont really care about that stuff anymore because they arent going to lose alot if the small percentage of players quit due to bad service. I think they have set a bad example for people to follow and this is why games like Rift and Swtor are ending up so bad.

 

Except Blizzard didn't really, and the forums there were just as volatile as the forums here are with the cry babies, and the flamers, and trolls.

[I hate Hutt Ball.]

Hutball is fun. It takes a lot of tactics, and organizing. It takes more that PEW PEW PEW to win, you have to use your stuns, and your grapples ect to block the other team from scoring or to score yourself.

 

Hutball is refreshing, but I do admit some times I am not always in the mood for it. So it would be nice to pick and choose what Warzones we wanted to play.

[Sexual violence, slavery, and genocide. Just another day in the Empire?]

Don't like the way Vette is handled? Try making a Bounty Hunter and check out Mako's nervous breakdown throughout he game.

 

What? When does she have a nervous break down? I play a light sided bounty hunter who is nice to Mako, so does she eventually flip out if you're dark sided?

[Sexual violence, slavery, and genocide. Just another day in the Empire?]

Hey man, I read your whole wall of text.

 

And I agree whole heartedly. Especially the part where the homophobes are ok with kids sexually assaulting their slave companion but not participating in a same sex relationship.

 

Another thing that really irks me about that, is that it seems if you play a male character there are more in game options to flirt or have sex with story npcs than if you play a male character. That oddly strikes me as favoritism of one sex over the other, which is down right sexist.

[Guild Moral Question]

Aww thanks, unfortunately I am on Vornskr, but the sentiment means a lot.

[Guild Moral Question]

Yeah they jumped ship to do OPS and Hardmode Flash points. I'm the tank, and was level 48. We would have a full group to do Hardmodes when I hit 50. I called them up and asked them *** (after sleeping on it, and still waking up upset) and was told why they jumped ship. Our guild has two lowbies in it that won't be reaching 50 anytime soon. So I was was like what about them?

 

Later when I talked to the guild leader I found out that he talked to everyone but me, and everyone was cool with the change. And I am being told I have no reason to feel upset, since there was a message left. He was pretty rude to me. I still feel angry about things, mostly being told that me feeling upset is unwarranted.

 

Thanks for the feed back folks, it's nice to be able to check my moral compass on the forms and get agreeing feed back in return.

[Guild Moral Question]

So I have a rhetorical question for you guys. This may or may have not have recently happened to me. I may or may not be asking this to make a point.

 

Say you're in a guild that did all the prelaunch stuff. This guild has people you are friends with irl. You and your friends pretty much play every day. Then one day you log on and you are greeted with the guild message of the day that says "Guild Leader, and Guild Officer has left guild for Other guild. Hit level 50, and Guild Leader can likely get you an invite." You're not level 50 yet, but you're close.

 

No one talked to you, and you only have the message to go off of. Remember these are your irl friends, so they could have called you or texted you, and your preorder code got the guild into prelaunch.

 

How would you feel?

[Todays update... wow what a difference! :)]

Just had a really great PvP session (Vooidstar), definitely not as frustrating because of the patch! Where as before I'd have a couple of ragey moments due to ability delay.

 

Thanks for the fix Bioware!

 

Now, to play some Hutball and see if grapple is fixed.

[Solo flashpoints with companions]

I would like to be able to truly solo flashpoints with 3 of my companions

 

I have dps, tank, & healing companions but most never get used nor do I bother to gear them for that reason. Being able to solo flashpoints using them would change that, not to mention I would run flashpoints more often.

 

At first I had the knee-jerk reaction of NO FLASHPOINTS ARE SUPPOSE TO BE FOR GROUPS, but then I thought what if it was only for easy mode, because I think it would be a challenge then. CCing mobs, and giving orders to all your companions.

 

But then, is it do able?

[Do Medpacks Not Count Towards Healing Medals Anymore?]

Aww that blows, but I can see why they did it. Hopefully it encourages healers to heal others and keep their medals to their class.

[Do Medpacks Not Count Towards Healing Medals Anymore?]

Anyone?

[Do Medpacks Not Count Towards Healing Medals Anymore?]

It's been a couple of days since I have pvp'd and last time I played I could get the healing medals by using medpacks, but now I can't and on the score board I have 0 under healing even if I use my own class ability there is no credit for it.

 

I did a forum search, and couldn't find anything about it.