Yesterday evening on my server there were 220 something players on the Republic fleet, I left there and went to Tatooine and there were a little over 100 on that instance and there were 2 instances. I left there an hour later and flew to Coruscant, I had a brain fart, and there were 150 something people on that instance of which there were 2. I then pulled my head out and went back to the Fleet and there were 150. I am just honestly not seeing how people can be saying the server populations are too low, it is simply people being spread out. The game is 2 weeks old, the vast majority of players are in the 20's to upper 30's level range. I have been playing since day 1 of early access and it will probably take me another 2 weeks or more before I get my first 50.

I have been playing since day one of early access, on my main which just hit level 31 last night I have 5 days of play time. That is an average of 6 hours a day playing the game. I am probably an average leveler, slower than some and faster than others. I feel it is about the same pace I was leveling in Everquest 2 if not just a tad bit faster. I am not one of those that feels like everything needs to be done efficiently though. For instance yesterday I spent a good 2 hours just crafting, not crafting while questing.

I agree with a change like that but you can search all of the planets right now, you just type "lfg" in the search and it will bring up everybody that has their tag up. I am finding though that nearly everyone doesn't even bother putting their tag up which makes the tool rather useless.

I also found a schematic for orange heavy armor in the synthweaving profession that can be equipped by Knights and Troopers. I don't know if it changes appearances on a Trooper but it was a hooded robe on a Knight. Just thought I would throw that out there.

Outstanding. That looks like a pretty good list.

I have grouped more in this game in my first 3 weeks than I did in 6 months of Everquest 2 at release. The last game I can remember grouping more was FFXI and I don't think anyone wants to go back to a system where you have to group just to kill an even level enemy. The only reason some people are saying it feels like a single player game is because it has the quality of a single player game. Go play Mass Effect and then jump on another MMO and then log into SWTOR. Which of the 2 games does SWTOR feel more like. It's not because of the lack of group content, not because it is lacking players, not because it is lacking all of the other MMO grinds we have become accustomed to, it is because of the presentation and I truly appreciate it.

One character level 11, done 1 flashpoint. Second character level 28 has participated in 5 flashpoints. There is a looking for group tool but people just refuse to use it. Even without people using the tool I have had no problem finding a group or filling my own group. I feel for you.

The reason the queue line has subsided is because Bioware has been increasing the server caps like they said they were going to do. All I know is the queue has been drastically reduced but I have seen a huge spike in players on my server.

Funniest post I have seen today. Good stuff.

If you type LFG in the who search it will search all planets for anyone with their tag on.

There is but they have stated they are doing some forum maintenance and they disabled the search function while they perform it, so yes but not right now but will be back shortly. Glad you are enjoying the game. I am as well.

Ha! Good stuff!

I am also loving the game and have run into very few bugs. I have no doubt that some people are having problems but I just have not seen any of the major ones some are having, fps issues, patching issues, companion bugs etc... Are there things than need to be fixed, of course there are but that is a blessing in every mmo. With 1 or 2 million people playing, or whatever it is, the devs will now see on a large scale what needs fixed and what the player base wants the game to be. Very exciting.

I played FFXI as well but I would not touch a game like that now. The old model was to make it take so long to level that if anyone wanted to see the endgame they would need to devote an absurd amount of time. It is simply just not fun anymore to fight a standard mob that takes a full group 5 minutes to kill, and need to fight 4 to 5 hundred to gain a level. I seriously don't know why people seem to be having problems with the social aspect of this game. I have probably grouped for 25% of my adventuring time, I have not had to wait for a group and any group I start fills up in a matter of seconds. The social rank is also awesome, group and you can acquire social items that you can customize, I have not seen another game actually reward players for socializing besides the fact that you were forced to if you wanted to advance in the game.

There are some issues but I think they are proving they are listening to concerns that some people have. I believed this to be a great launch and it looks like in the next few weeks we will see that they are in fact ready to tackle and support this beast of an mmo with the content patches they have told us will be coming this month. Very happy customer here.

It allows you to interact with said companion with more scenes, possible companion story missions and an increase in the crafting skills. I can't remember if it cuts the time down on missions or has an increased chance of a critical success mission though.

Just my observation. Started playing day one of early access and every day for about seven or eight day there was a queue to log on. Bioware said at that point they were working on reducing the queue times. Now I don't generally see a queue but I can definitely tell that there are more people on the servers, a bunch more. Simple conclusion, Bioware has steadily raised the server max population. Even though you are not seeing a server queue does not mean less people are playing the game, there are more.

I feel for you. I have not had a problem getting any group invites, average time from putting my tag on and setting my comment is less than 5 minutes. The couple of times it took longer I started my own and had a team ready in 10 minutes give or take. I hope you have better luck.

I just checked it on a vendor as well. When you click on a vendor or the gtn it opens that respective screen plus your inventory screen, close your inventory screen only once it is opened and then hit "c" and it will then open your character screen allowing you to check what you have equipped while still having either the gtn or vendor screen open as well. Hope that helps.

I don't now about vendors but this does work for GTN, just close your inventory screen and then bring up the character screen. You do not lose the GTN screen this way.

I am pretty sure no one thinks the game is perfect. I myself am having a blast but do realize and have pointed out some of the shortcomings and bugs. I do not have a problem with the "this is what I think is wrong" posts nor do I have a problem with the "don't like the game going to cancel" posts. The ones I have a problem with are the blatant misinformation posts and the posts that pop up in every thread about how the game sucks and will fail and you should not be playing. It just seems there are a lot of posts by a select few people trying to convince the rest of the world to not play the game.

I have to admit that the darkside animations do seem to be better, but I have always played the "good" side and probably always will. I will just have to live with the pebbles and glitter as another has said.

How can you gripe about end game pvp when the vast majority of people are at best in their 30's? I most definitely cannot speak for everyone but I don't even think about pvp until I get to the end game, hence the reason it is usually considered an end game feature.

In since day one of early access, have 5 days 10 hours worth of playtime on my main who is level 27 and a day of playtime on my alt who is level 12. I also have not seen many bugs. The only 2 I have seen were nodes not able to be harvested, but since the last patch I have seen a grand total of 2 which I could not interact with and they seem to be buried under something, and the ability bug on my sentinel with regards to a coupe of abilities. Going to be playing for a long while as I am absolutely loving it.

Wow, the only reason I wrote I was a long time gamer was to give context to my perception of the game champ. Apologies if you were not able to comprehend that. Now you do.