good idea and then when they merge servers because the inital launch population reduces you'll be screaming the game is failing and BW sucks.

the best bet would be to offer carrots not sticks, give "republic XP days" where the lesser numebered faction has XP bonuses etc (just for example) something to lure folks into trying the less popular side

many of these things you listed aren't broken, they work as designed, they're just not that great a design

the "fat" male model isn't really fat, it's more a "Wilson Fisk" body type

I complete most of the quests in a level range and I level, leveling is exactly right changeing the XP progression just creates aweful gaps that require boreing grinding, the Experiance progression right now is PERFECT in comparison to content vs leveling.

first to 50 will be the people who skipped the normal leveling process and found some cheap way to do it, and will be sitting around complaining of boredom.

they've removed a number of titles it makes me a sad panda

because ultimately they'd be wateing time designing entirely new classes etc (seriously if the only way you have fun in this game is playing what amounts to a totally differnt game it's time to quit) or you'd have to balance each class for PVP. which would inevitably lead to screams and rages for nerfs etc by the people who don't under stand a MMO is balanced for group play

^ THAT. the fact is ladies and gentlemen the idea of force neutrality is rediculas it simply doesn't fit in with starwars.

The Hutts where actually at one time an agressive warrior species (don't make the mistake of thinking Hutts are not formidable physically they';re faster then they look, fairly strong and incrediably resiliant) the Hutts eventually warred among themselves to such a degree that they all but destroyed their home planet.in the aftermath (dureing which the Hutts settled on nar shadda) they adopted a philophesy that basicly lead to the modern gangster dominated culture we see today. so two things. 1: the hutts by time they came too the society they are now already had a large empire with many servant species. 2: the Hutts are NOT a buncha softies unable to do moire then move their eyeballs to watch dancers

the books all take place before the game. fatal alliance and deceived are mostly spoiler free. revan contains some fairly major spoilers

this isn't D&D.

wait your suprised a pre-order item proves not to be terriably useful at higher levels?

honestly? most new MMOs use the instanceing set up, so clearly this is something that has been proven to be more benifical then negitive.

why not just roll on an east coast server, 3 hours time differance is pretty minor

that and economic considerations. think of it, they can use some generic canned alien speach, have the character reply with a stock phrase (I've heard my Sith warrior respond with the same phrase to a quest giver once or twice) and they basicly keep the full voice over approuch without haveing to record new stuff, I've LONG been predicting that future new content is going to include a fair bit of "alien gibberish" as a time/cost saver

keep in mind that just because it's black market doesn't mesan i't immoral. I imagine trade between the empire and republic is pretty... shakey. there's proably a lot of smuggling being done to get around blockades, excessive tarrifs and embargos

TOR seems to be well on it's way to becoming the "alt friendly MMO" hopefully TOR doesn't muddle this up by turning end game ito a rediculasly over the top grind

I don't hate Ewoks but if BW put them into the game I'd be calling foul Endor shouldn't be "on the map" as it where. of course this game has the Chiss, but little eneugh is known about the Chiss that one could suggest the eventual defeat of the Empire resulted in the Chiss withdrawing from galatic affairs and even adopting their "only when attacked" defense policy

one thing to consider is that this game appers fairly alt friendly. with 8 seperate stories if it takes BW a month or two after launch to totally bring end game up to speed there will at least be stuff to do

even as a roleplayer I'd caution against this in a STAR WARS game, when you have canon characters with names like General Grevious Whorm Loathsome, Savage Opress, Darht Sidious, Darth Bane etc ,,,, many CANON SW chars have names that would make an RPer in a MMO wince if he say a player with.

you can get the darth title on the Sith Inqusitor and I BELIVE the Sith Warrior (originally you couldn't but I've heard that the devs changed that due to mass demand, still it's possiable I've heard wrong)

right, light side users lived in harmoy with the force, dark side users threw it out of balance. like a virus in an orginism.

agreed, the population of areas seems just about right.

especially as the staggered release has been known for AGES if you only entered your pre-order code in the last month you KNEW you where going to have to wait, in fact if not for a last minute change on BW's part you almost certinly woulda been unable to play on the weekend.