Star Wars has always been about the underdog fighting against the overbearing power. Not just Imp vs Rep. Going forward, the alliance does need to be betrayed and fallen apart. Players should have never become the ruler of the universe. Would make more sense in a single player game that has an ending. But in an mmo, you're the ultimate ruler but you still go kill x number of enemies for a couple credits? It just doesn't make sense. If you're a ruler, you delegate those tasks. Ruling historically is about a lot of meetings and delegation. There's no action in meetings and delegation so naturally wouldn't make for very exciting gameplay. It's like sending your companions to do crafting missions. You hit some buttons and then you sit and wait. To make for exciting gameplay, there has to be some kind of strife. To go from here? I don't know. I don't mind if Zakuul and Iokath stay in the storyline. But right now the eternal empire is THE power in the galaxy. Something needs to happen to threaten that.

Server merges: No. Too many issues. Rebuilding guilds, stronghold locks, rp servers, different languages, etc. Cross server features: Very much yes. For example, the fleets should be cross server; the gtn should be cross server; flashpoints, warzones, operations, etc should be cross server. Making these things cross server will help players on low pop servers and new/returning players. But it will leave the rest of the server features how the players like it. Having said that, this game is dying. Will cross server features help revive it? I don't know. But I can hope because I really do enjoy this game. But if something is going to be done, it has to be done quickly. Preferably this year. Otherwise, you might as well just shut down all the servers because people are going to continue to peter away and by this time next year even the bigger servers could be ghost towns.

If you really want to unsubscribe, there is a window where you can tell why you want to unsubscribe. List your grievances there. They will pay more attention to a complaint that is attached to a loss of money. Having said that, I agree that the game has been dumbed down to the point of being ridiculous. I was playing the new content yesterday and I was literally just pushing random buttons. The game has lost all challenge. Needless to say, I am moving on to something else.

I think they could easily implement pvp into the conquest thing by making the pve stuff instanced and then the pvp stuff open world. The pvp doesn't even have to be large 16+ people things. Just small bases scattered around that only require small groups.

I swear you guys are aiming this for when I move IRL. When I thought I would be moving in June, early access was set for June. But this time I fooled you. I'm not moving in August. I'm moving in July. So ha! Having said that, I'm really excited about the strongholds and all the features that you choose to put in them. The only disadvantage will be that my husband will take days (maybe weeks) to decorate his stronghold. *facepalm* I love you hunny!

Nappy Ewe Hair!

Well, this seems to have been a temporary fix.. His character is now completely inaccessible and eternally stuck at 50%.. We are going to wait a couple of months and keep an eye on the forums in hopes that this is fixed, before we start subscribing..

Maybe the devs will see this and it will help them find a permanent solution to this particular bug.. Then we won't need work arounds..

Sounds like you've got another issue going on.. Sorry my solution didn't help.. Only thing I can suggest is do like I did and try the process of elimination like I did.. Make a change, relog, see if it works.. If not, reset what you changed and try something else.. It's a lot of work but for me personally, it was worth it..

Yeah, I should at least get some kind of finder's fee, right? lol Glad it helped..

Did you try dismissing your companion and then relogging?

No, I was not able to chat at first.. I could type things into the chat window but then it would not register when I hit enter..

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You're welcome.. Glad I could help..

Simply, make sure your companion isn't around when you log off.. Dismiss them, send them on a gathering mission, whatever.. They can be there when you get back, just not when you leave.. So, let me explain how I came to this conclusion.. My husband's character was one of those stuck at 50% on the character loading screen.. From other things I'd read and observed myself, I knew that people were able to get their UI to come up by hitting alt+Z.. Some also said they were getting sounds like they were fully loaded in.. So I loaded my husband's character (or as far as it would go) and I also loaded my character into the same area.. I hit alt+Z to bring up the UI.. Turned off some settings.. Didn't help.. He was stuck at the Republic fleet so I thought if I could at least group up with him and bring him on my ship then I could get him off the space station.. But for some reason he wouldn't follow when I selected follow.. So, no go there.. I had also read some people saying that it could be gear related.. Like a new piece of gear or such was causing the problem.. So I took all of his gear off and tried to relog.. Nope.. While doing all of this I noticed that I could bring up crew skills so I figured I'd have Corso go do some slicing.. One time I sent Corso off before I tried to relog and my husband's character loaded fine! At first I hadn't realized what I'd done so when I tried to relog my husband's naked character with no luck, I was obviously frustrated.. Corso kind of annoys me so, in my frustration, I dismissed him out of spite.. I decided to try to relog one more time and voila! I then realized that the one thing I had changed that time was the companion.. I then spent about an hour putting a piece of clothing on my husband's character, relog, put another one on, relog.. Loaded every time.. I finally got him fully dressed and relogged again.. No problem.. So I brought Corso back out and relogged.. Stuck at 50% again.. I then took off all of Corso's gear in case that was the problem.. Relogged.. Stuck at 50%.. Dismissed Corso (with his gear still in the inventory), loaded fine.. For a finale I sent Corso off on a gathering mission, went back to the character screen, waited 3 minutes (that's how long the mission was), logged back in fine with Corso there waiting for me.. Soooooooo.... As you can see, the companion himself was the problem.. Why this happens, I don't know.. That's for the developers to figure out.. But I hope this solution works for others..

Not sure where else to ask this question.. I just spent commendation points on a melee weapon that my melee companion can't use.. Is there any way I can get him trained in that weapon?

I got my code today from Origin for my DDE.. I entered it in the swtor website, it verified that it was accepted, but I still haven't gotten my items in game yet..