They said before 1.2 came out that they already had plans to work on expanding the customization of the family tree to include companions and even other players. Just be patient

Agreed! If you want to give the minimum # of gifts to the ship droid, just give him cultural artifacts. (Don't ask me why)

I think chances are the Matrix Cube will end up in our Mission inventory (since that's where they were when you first make them anyways and will still go into the Mission inventory when you unequip it.).

Too bad the PTS didn't catch all the bugs/glitches that happened when 1.2 was rolled out.

There are both pros and cons to having a global chat channel. Pros being easier to communicate with people on other planets and maybe even finding a group successfully. Cons being major trolling in these global channels on par of WoW's trade channel (or Barrens chat before they connected all the cities' trade channels). That said, I will have to agree that getting notifications when someone enters or leaves the custom channel is annoying.

Yeah, and at the end of that 2 hours, it actually feels like your character has accomplished something to earn that first lightsaber. Getting a lightsaber at the very beginning would just cheapen the importance of the weapon to a Jedi/Sith.

Does leveling a character on the PTS up to 10 and then finishing chapter 1 count as doing something of note? I did get titles for my real characters for that. Besides, titles are just another way to customize our characters.

I'm assuming Drexel Sweep = Sullust Interception and I do agree that they are a bit overtuned for at level. I certainly didn't try to do it on my alt with all lvl 5 upgrades since I never bothered with space mission when I was leveling him up, so I didn't have any of the special upgrades from the fleet commendations. I have completed it on a regular basis before, key being in using the invincibility shield and EMP during the run after you first pass the capital ship. That section is the worst part of the entire mission. Without the shield and EMP, you're looking at being down to 25% hp for the rest of the mission. And I'm also assuming Zosha Advance = Cloud of Vondru. In that one, the really annoying part is targetting the goddamn shield generators when you have proton torpedoes especially when 1. your ship is moving and 2. the capital ship is also moving. There's a small window of time to use the proton torpedoes on each of the shield generators, making that space mission infinitely more stupid. That's mainly the reason why I've only done that space mission once.

On the flip-side, it can allow people to have more immersion with the game as well. Seriously, when I first when to Quesh, my Sorc was wearing a skimpy robe that she got as a drop from Cademimu, and that measly injection is supposed to keep my character unaffected by the Quesh venom this whole time? Not to mention when I wore the same gear on Hoth (just changed out the modifications), just because my character is a Sith doesn't mean that she's immune to the effects of the cold climate... And we can already have Jedis in bikinis. Which fanboy hasn't already put Kira Carsen, Nadia Grell, Ashara Zavros, or Jaesa Willsaam in a slave girl outfit? Last time I checked, they're all Jedi-related. That said, I'm fine with what they have right now. If I wanted to mess with an outfit system, I'll just go on LotRO since I don't need a subscription anymore to log on.

There is an MMO with a level cap of 200 right now. It's called MapleStory. And really, it's not so much the leveling cap that's the issue, it's the amount of content as everyone else has said. MapleStory, with its level cap of 200, is a major grindfest with proportionately little questing/grouping content and variety. There are pros and cons to having a high and a low level cap.

By the way, unless it gets fixed tomorrow, you can log out with the plague on you and it won't advance when you log back on. You can also die with the vaccine on, get infected, and it won't advance.

If your companion is not getting stats from equips, unequip and reequip. Not sure if that'll fix the loss of health.

I'm on Pot5 and I don't feel like the server's dead, at least not on the Imperial side. Then again, I do play with my guild more than I do with the general population, so that might account for my beliefs.

Too bad not everyone has access to the correct version files.

Dromund Kaas. There's a line of 4 Legacy vendors just before you hit the Market area. At least, that's where they were on PTS. I probably should have checked if you can get the item back after you buy a weapon. Though somehow I doubt it since it's only for a lvl 14 weapon and you can always get another token from another character who's finished chapter 1.

Hope you guys don't get jaded by all the miscues come patch days.

Don't kill the messenger, kill the guy who gave them the fail information!

Nope, 1.2 hasn't renewed my faith. In fact, 1.2 has only served to push me toward the crowd of people who think Bioware's in over their heads with their accidental patch deployment snafu and the additional mistake in giving us false information until maintenance was over. That said, I'm still a sucker and can't wait to get back onto the game to play with my friends.

I know right? If they had told us the correct information, I could've been downloading while I slept. Ugh. (Yes I know they probably couldn't have known until the server/patch was actually out, but seriously. This is so stupid.)

If Danish time is England time +1, then 3 PM.

Well this sucks... I have to wait until tomorrow to play.

My female Jedi Consular sounds pretty flat sometimes. And do Jedi named NPCs count?

So we'll get Gungans in SW:toR's version of Cataclsym (see Vashj'ir)

I'm waiting for a desert-based operation where the last boss is a Jawa. Yes... a FRIGGIN' JAWA.

Turbine already trademarked "Soon" for LotRO. Usually meant "Not for a long time".