Your level - 65 Roughly Average Item Rating - 216 Discipline- Vanguard Companion - Lana Companion role - Healing Companion Influence level - 28 Which Mission or Star Fortress are you playing (Solo Mode? Heroic Mode?) - SF Heroic Your personal experience while playing this content - Absolute and total frustration. I know how to play my character doing interrupts, stuns, etc.at the appropriate times. I was using a defense stim. Did OK until the Skytrooper Pratorian and it did noting but constant stuns/interrupts and calling in additional help. It was all Lana could do to heal herself let alone me. I couldn't even deal with the first group he called in before I was 2 groups behind and getting pummeled. I had beaten the other Heroic SF missions until the nerf. The last guy was bad but I could eventually pull it off if I was careful. Now I can't even get anywhere near him to try. This whole insidious alliance grind is sickening. I can't even stomach the idea of doing this on my other 7 characters. It should be legacy wide at a minimum

Ha, perfect.

This is a really bad change. It's bad enough that it is a HUGE grind getting any alliance ranks and companion influence but to slow it down anymore is terrible. I'm to the point that I can't imagine having to do this exact same grind on my other 7 characters. I'm likely to only do the story on the rest and skip all of the other stuff. I've been working only on my main character and I'm starting to become very discouraged with the mountain I'm being required to climb to gain levels with the alliance and companions. After leveling Lana to 27, I can't imagine doing this on any other character. Please reverse the changes. The grind is sickening.

It's been a year now and this is still an issue. Can we at least get an acknowledgement of the problem?

Great idea. /signed

Bioware - is there a fix incoming soon for this issue?

Well, I would have NOT even attempted to get one of the slot machines had Eric not implied (and certainly gave me the impression) that it was more or less working as intended and wasn't an exploit. It was the first, and will be the last time I purchase a hypercrate because I no longer trust them. Apparently the QA team was fired or severely reduced as this should have been easily caught as not working properly. We should have been told up front that we were beta testing it. Let the buyer beware, indeed.

It was probably the gold farmer bots macroing it that got it nerfed hard. Honestly Bioware you should just ban the gold farmers rather than punish your actual customers. Besides you can go on any starter planet and clearly see them macroing and just ban them and be done with it.

When Musco said that the slot machine wasn't bugged and was working as intended, I decided to buy a hypercrate (my first) to try and get one, which I did. If I had known that he would backtrack on what he assured us was true, I would have not bothered to try and get one. I know they reserve the right to make changes but this does feel like a bait and switch.

Agreed. This was the first time I bought a hypercrate just to try and get one of these things and they are now worthless in their current state. It would be nice if they dropped other reputation items because once you've maxed out the one that's in there, there's no point to it anymore given the current odds.

I'm on Shadowlands and from SW FL. I've been booted 3x now in less than an hour. Are the servers under a DDOS attack like the Xbox and PlayStation were on Christmas?? Anonymous declares war on Lizard Squad after DDoS attacks on game networks

I'd like to see a jukebox that plays random background planetary and fleet music. They would be like the snowglobes in Everquest 2.

Ha, hilarious posts. Well done all!!! /golfclap

Just tried standing behind the banner and was killed in the first shot. Did they make some changes? Edit - Just tried running behind it and also died. Once he slows me down I can't seem to stay out of the way. I'm trying this as a trooper.

Well knowing how patches typically go, maybe your speeder, which has been silent recently, now laughs and the Hutt is now silent. Sadly we aren't allowed to have it all at the same time.

Yep, I've been here since closed beta back in August 2011. You're the last one I expected to see cancelling. Sorry to see you go. Good luck!

In my case I was hoping the game would be better supported. They promised multiple times frequent updates (monthly at one point) which haven't happened. I'm just tired of promises with little follow through. EA hasn't helped this at all essentially putting a bullet into this game with what they've said about it during investors meetings. I've been playing this game since closed beta starting back in August 2011. There were bugs in the Smuggler storyline which I reported and are still not fixed today. That was surprising and disappointing when I ran across it. I'll still keep playing because it's fun but I don't hold out much hope that the game will improve/expand given the track record since launch. So far it's been the carrot/stick approach without the carrot.

That would be great. EQ2 has instanced housing with vendors that people can get into even when you are offline. The decoration options are fantastic and we REALLY need something like that in this game. Sadly, I don't see this ever happening because Bioware doesn't seem to be able to keep up with what they've already built. There are still bugs in the Smuggler storyline that have been in there since closed beta (well over a year now) and they've not even addressed those.

Rift (which I've never played) is doing some very cool things with housing - http://www.riftjunkies.com/2012/08/1...using-in-rift/

Yep, this is my issue as well. After attempting the 50's several times with all purple gear I just gave up and I don't even do them on my alts anymore. If there was a point to it I would be doing it as it is a nice break from the ground game.

I'm thinking no. They didn't produce much after launch with a full crew and I don't see that getting any better with a huge amount of the staff gone now. I could be wrong though.

Wow, that is VERY cool. I thought SWG and EQ2 housing was great but this looks even more spectacular. I would pay cartel coins for this in SWTOR. The ships need to be FULLY customizable because I don't really feel like I have ownership in the SWTOR world. Even as weak as housing is in LOTRO, it's far beyond this game.

I'm still having a good time playing nightly. I'm on my 3rd character now. It's taking me about 2 months to level 1 character so I'm not in a big hurry. I like the legacy because of the things gives you for alts. I was in the permanent beta (not the weekend ones) starting back in August of 2011 and I'm still playing and having fun all these months later. Please don't kill this game EA and I hope Bioware doesn't give up hope. This game has a LOT of potential.

That's the first thing I thought of when I read the announcement.

I really hope this isn't true. Since they've built the game around the story, that's like cutting the heart out of the game. I am committed to a long term stay in the game BUT with what is happening, I'm starting to wonder if I should. I was there when EA killed Earth & Beyond so I'm not interesting in committing more time to something that's going to be torpedoed.