I've had lots of good memories over these 8 years with SWTOR, but if I had to pick one that stands out for me as the most personally satisfying, I'd have to say it was during launch, on my first character (still my main, BTW). I'd made a dathomir (aka red) zabrak inquisitor and had made it to Tattooine. During my own quests, I can across a republic scum player battling it out with a few sandpeople. Being the Sith Lord that I am, I'd entered stealth, waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike, taking out the Jedi fool before he knew what was happening. There, gloating over my conquered foe, I basked in the immersion, slaying a Jedi, on tattooine, in the most insidious, underhanded way possible. This was the moment I knew I'd be here for a long, long time. xD

What'd be the point? To just have a taller version of BT2? That's pretty much what you're asking for. The point of BT3 is to be the big, muscular body type, if you want to roll BT2, then just go do it, why does the height matter?

I made pretty much the same post in gen chat. Why the most eye-catching part of the outfit is the one part you can't alter is beyond me. EA has a history of half-baking good ideas for this game. This is just another in a long list of, "How do you **** that up?' moments.

You shouldn't get banned for buying in-game gold in the first place. Ban the sellers if you must, but a player has the right to spend his/her money as they see fit. If MMO's actually wanted to stop gold spammers they could have an employee watching the chats on the servers and insta-ban anyone who's selling, but they don't. They let the sellers spam ad's in gen chat all the damned time, constantly, and yet they want to ban the players? Bass ackwards logic at it's finest.

So they just released the new festival dress outfit, which comes with a fantastic top. Unfortunately, the dev's insistence on taking any good idea they have and screwing it up has proven true once again. In this case the golden bra/chest covering can't be recolored. It's stuck that golden bronze, unaffected by dye modules. Why? The bronze chest piece is the part that draws the eye the most and its the one part we, as players, can't customize? How stupid is this? Seriously dev's, can you please come up with a good idea without shooting yourself in the foot at the same time for a change?

Just like the title suggests, I'd like to suggest the Development team consider adding tunings/slots for cosmetic effects. Much like they have for weapons now. Imagine you've made yourself a droid outfit, and wanna give it that battle-damaged look. Pop on some tunings to give it a nice spark/damaged effect. You want your lightening sorc to 'ooze' lightening? Pop on some volatile lightening tunings, etc etc. Now personally I'd like to see tuning slots for each piece of armor (that the player can see that is, head, chest, legs, best, hands, & feet). Though I know that may be asking too much, but still you get the idea, I'm sure. Cosmetic items have helped keep this game going and been a good source of revenue for the game. Adding tunings to armor would only be beneficial to them seeing as the tunings are in the game already, you'd just be adding said visual effect to armor slots (Granted, I'm no programmer/coder, and can't speak to the work entailed in such an endeavor.) Anyhoo, thank you for the time and consideration, as well as any opinions on the idea!

None of the companions are worth 'romancing,' If you want to RP a romance or IC relationship, find a fellow player who' interested in exploring that subject and do it right. That said, the idiotic 'Ashara is my equal or she walks away unharmed despite the SI openly attacking her' BS is a travesty. Who at BW thought that was a good idea? We don't get to turn her fully darkside, she just bickers and complains no matter what, and when it's all said and done when you summon her as a in-game companion, she still calls you 'master' and 'my lord' flying directly in the face of the whole 'were equals' BS that BW forced on us in the first place.

In my case, as another poster has stated, it's the novelty of playing the bad guy. Even TOR's source material, aka KoToR, while allowing you to eventually go to korriban and get (imo) minimal Sith training, was only a viable option later in the game long after you'd gotten your Jedi training. That is probably my only real gripe against KoToR, was that despite having what could easily have been a branching path to go either light or dark, instead gets pigeon-holed into playing a Jedi or dark Jedi, but Jedi nonetheless as it's impossible to actually unlock your force powers without going thru Jedi training (The Sith world korriban's storyline does nothing for the PC's force abilities whatsoever). That and I like the idea of freedom to do what I want, as opposed to the strict rules and regulations of the Jedi Order.

Another faux expansion will probably be the death knell for my subscription. We've had 2 'expansions' that were anything but, that simply recycled old, tired dailies and the like, with no actual new worlds to explore, only a few instances that in some cases you can't even explore again after the story, like Ziost? Who the hell thought that it was a good idea to replace a seemingly interesting cityscape with a crusty giant dust bowl? 3 years for one, ONE operation, seriously?! A 3rd strike of another faux expansion will be the breaking point for me. The dev's, imo, need to get back to basics and give us an actual world to explore and keep content fresh. Taking your shirt and turning it inside out, doesn't make it a new shirt, it just means you don't know how to dress yourself without looking like a fool.

To your point, lawful evil is the residence of demons in D&D. Powerful, ruthlessly evil but cunning, making dark deals with mortals and the like, effectively more advantageous in the long run. Another good comparison would be to compare the infamous DC villains Joker and Lex Luthor. While Joker is a terrifying threat, he's ultimately alone, one man, demented as he is, but still one man lashing out at anyone and everyone on a whim. Luthor on the other hand, is not alone. He has virtually unlimited resources, minions, access to advanced tech, etc etc. Now, you tell me, in the grand scheme of things, who would you consider the greater threat? While I'm a much bigger fan of Mr. J, Luthor is a potential world threat, something Joker will never be (discounting PIS or a 'power-up' of some kind).

You're right I don't know you, I can only base my opinion of you on our brief communications via this thread. Just as you don't know a damned thing about me and have no right to say I'm 'sick' for wanting to have the option, as a Sith, to kill Ashara. Also, what about anything I said about the Sith is incorrect? Are you saying they don't murder, and torture and enslave? And when exactly did I start talking about the Sith Code, I did not once bring up the Sith Code, so please refrain from putting words in my mouth. I didn't, but you seem incapable of having a calm discourse with someone you disagree with. The more you respond the more angry you sound, and the more irrational your replies come across. You prefer to disregard lore cause you find it 'sick,' and that's fine, in real life I completely agree with you, but then were not discussing real life, were a game in an established fantasy setting and it's subsequent archetypes, in this case the Sith, who are evil and do evil things all the time. BTW, I didn't tell you how to play anything, I made a suggestion. One that you're perfectly within your right to disregard. But, your opinion has no more weight than mine, and yet you seem to keep pushing this idea that your opinion is somehow more valid than mine or any others, because you don't want to see a scene of Ashara being electrocuted or killed. Who the hell are you to tell me or anyone else how they should feel about the way BW handled Ashara's reintroduction? People have the right to there own opinions and views, particularly when it comes to the treatment of beloved characters & lore in an established fantasy setting and those people have the right to be displeased when they feel that a disservice has been done to said characters/themes. Are you saying that I and those that didn't like the way things were handled shouldn't get a voice? Hell, BW could've just faded to black, had a few sound effects, like a lightsaber swining or whatever, and come to find Ashara dead on the ground or being dragged off in chains, there are numerous ways they could've handled it, but IMO just letting her walk away was a horrible decision by BW. If it wasn't then we wouldn't be having this conversation.

So, what I'm hearing from you is that you want to play Sith in name only, and in reality want to roll a jedi and call him a Sith. Hate to break it to you, my friend, but the Sith are the bad guys. They enslave. They murder. They loot and pillage according to their own whims, and do far, far worse. If those things disturb you, that's perfectly fine, I can understand that, but that's not the lore for Sith. They relish those things. Are these types of actions despicable? Ofcourse they are! That's why they're the villains, they lack a moral compass or compassion. As for the enslave/dominate stuff, that was intended as an example of a more appropriate resolution that just letting her walk for a Sith. These are the guys who obliterate entire civilizations and planets to suit their own ends. If that kind of thing is offensive to you, maybe you should roll pubside and fight the evil Sith instead of joining them then complaining about their methods, methods you were well aware of to begin with. *and just for the record. During my time in TOR, I've been on the receiving end of many in-character beatings/torture on my characters, because I'd pissed of this or that Sith during RP, and got my *** handed to me for it, which is exactly what I'd expect to happen when pressing your luck with a Sith in the first place.

and yet, they'll let you electrocute/torture/enslave vette to your heart's content? So, enslaving/dominating a twilek is ok, but not for a togruta?? But you're missing the point. The choices presented make no sense for the parties involved. An elite Sith willingly accepting a former apprentice as an equal, since when did that ever happen with the Sith? Or simply letting said apprentice walk AFTER attempting to kill said apprentice and act like nothing happened? Those results just don't make sense to the lore. If it did I, and others wouldn't have been so frustrated in the first place. Had this been a Jedi master and former apprentice, I'd be ok with it, but for a elite Sith? not so much.

We may have to agree to disagree then on the subject of BW respecting lore, cause I fail to see where additional resources would've been needed for the writers to write something that made atleast a little bit of sense when it comes to this ashara debacle. I mean, what would've been the difference, cost/resource-wise, to have the option to kill or dominate/enslave ashara over her just walking off? The result would've effectively been the same, ashara's gone, just in a way that makes sense with the lore. Seems more to me that the writers/devs just didn't care in the first place. Just the same as many of my guildmates hated the re-introduction of andronikos making him look like a pushover/wimp.

Firstly, touche, but then I wasn't making a political statement or atleast not intending to, I was accusing BW's writers/dev's of taking what appears to be a conscious/intentional PC-route, lore be damned. That's what burns me, the utter disregard for lore from BW. Something that BW, as others have already given examples of in this very thread, is notorious for doing (IE Lana defrosting a BH to lead a rebellion against Valkorian or a murderously psychotic D5 SI somehow an improvement over valkorian/arcann).

I don't deny that, hence why I said 'most likely' and not definitively male. But all's it would take is one butthurt crybaby to start ranting on social media about TOR's 'sexist treatment' of a female companion, and the SJW flunkies would roll out in droves. *And as I stated in my prior post, I could be wrong. Maybe it was just moronic/thoughtless writing, but these days you can't even have an award show w/o someone trying to make a political statement, just look at what happened during the Oscars when the presenter effectively cried sexism because of the 5 films nominated only one was for a female director. As if an achievement award should be based on 'diversity' quotas instead of merit. The same as there is a real issue with people being called racists if said person doesn't rave that black panther was the best thing since sliced bread. Whether or not you enjoy something shouldn't be based on meeting some SJW's diversity quota/agenda. **PS: not intending to derail the thread, just calling it like I see it, and again, yes I admit I could be incorrectly perceiving an agenda that isn't there, but I trust my instincts. /shrug.

Maybe I'm wrong, but the way Ashara is handled just reeks of SJW BS. Think about it: Ashara presents herself as this 'follower turned leader,' who refuses to be viewed as less than an equal to her former (*and most likely male) Master. The SJW crowd would have a hissy fit if this 'strong, independent woman' suddenly submitted to her male counterpart. The SJW trolls would be screaming sexism, despite the utter nonsense of a Sith viewing someone as an equal. As Sith, you're either the Master or the Apprentice, there are no equals, but we can't upset the SJW crowd, no matter now nonsensical it may be to the lore.../smdh. *Again, I could be wrong, but I doubt it.

.... That is not what I've found from SWTOR. I promptly got a reply and it said my ticket needed a bit more information for them the resolve it and instead of giving me the opportunity to provide those details, they close the ticket out right. Apparently this guy Joshua from customer support doesn't understand what a resolution actually is. So, then have I re-submit the same issue in another ticket. The new ticket has been sitting in the ticket que for a week now, not a peep from anyone about it's status or if it's even getting worked on. I'm sure I'm not the first person to have this problem. Still, when you're told in one ticket that all's they need is a couple of details to fix it, you provide them and here it is over week of time and it's still not taken care of?? I even looked up the EA contact us list, only to find the webpage is blank, there is no actual contact us list or numbers whatsoever. Just another drop in the bucket of reasons why people are leaving the game in droves.... If your intention was to show an utter disregard for your own customer base, BW/EA, I must say mission accomplished..... /sarcastic clap.

What's the matter gang?? Don't be scurred!! Submission time ends after this week, get them in now!!

So, before the merger and just in time for Halloween, I'm proposing a server wide Costume Contest! This will be just for the fun of it, 'tis the season after all, and I think I'd be something fun to do for the hell of it . There will be nominations for a number of categories: Best Overall Most Evil/Sith Most Jedi/Good Best Soldier/Bounty hunter Best Smuggler/Agent Most Star Wars Appropriate Most Original Funniest Sexiest Now due to the limitations of a typical forum thread, this one will be conducted in 3 phases: Phase 1: Nominations: Duration: 10/8/17 - 10/15/17. During this time, no votes are counted, this is the time to pick your favorite and make your submission. Nomination Rules: Each player will submit submissions/images for 1 character / 1 outfit only. I understand people have a lot of characters/outfits, but let's be practical. There are typically 150+ people on fleet for most of the day, even one character for a 1/3 of that many players is 50 different nominations! Be warned excess submissions/cheating will result in total dismissal of ALL nominations. *Just like Halloween, you can only wear one costume. To submit, simply make a thread post, and include your character's name with as many images as you want Phase 2: Voting. Duration: 10/16/17 - 10/23/17. During this time votes are counted, this is the time to vote for your choice submission for each category. Voting Rules: Anyone from the Ebon Hawk server may vote for the duration, but may only vote once per category/per player. Votes are posted in the thread itself, like a normal post. As before, multiple votes for same category will result to total dismissal of all votes & submissions!!. *I don't mean to be harsh, I just want everyone to act fairly and not try to inflate votes for their own submissions, so I'm enacting a zero tolerance policy. Votes should look thus in the thread post (for conformity/ease of all viewers & voters. Pleas copy/paste into your vote-post): Best Overall: (character name) Most Sith/Evil: (character name) Most Jedi/Good: (character name) Best Soldier/Bounty hunter: (character name) Best Smuggler/agent: (character name) Most Star Wars Appropriate: (character name) Most Original: (character name) Funniest: (character name) Sexiest: (character name) Phase 3: The Count. Duration: 10/24/17 - 10/27/17-ish (as soon as I can tally the votes, but they'll all be there/viewable in the thread to count for yourselves, too.) This is the time when the thread host/creator tallies the votes to proclaims the winner(s) and runners-up for each category. I will tally all votes during the Voting Phase once it ends. There will be no further votes counted for any reason (sorry). Once completed, Winner(s) and runner-ups, will be announced for all to enjoy/debate or do with as you will. Good Luck to All the Nominations in advance!!

Maybe I should've phrased the title more like a question, but regardless. We players have asked for new content/stuff to do (I know I have at any rate) and BW has come has come up with some fairly interesting things. Yet, for some reason, no one ever seems to try it. I've never once seen people doing the Iokath open-world pvp with the walkers/goodies on the server. Uprisings as well are more or less ignored, though you may occasionally get a group together, it's like pulling hair to get enough peeps for them most the time and oddly enough I find Uprisings to be the most fun PVE content in the game, yet most players show no interest. Now, I can't speak to the fun factor for Iokath due to the reasons I already mentioned, but it'd be nice to see people giving it a shot /shrug. I'd just like to get a consensus from the server as to why. Now I know we're a RP server primarily, and I greatful, still, I'd just like to get some opinions as to why this new stuff is being given the cold shoulder without so much as glance (figuratively speaking). Thank you in advance!!

1: Cost of repairs due to death are laughably small (unless you just die constantly 24/7, but that's another discussion). 2: You don't have to constantly switch out your gear/augments. Thanks to outfits, you can have whatever look you want, regardless of the gear actually being worn. Also, as CXP just keeps pumping out crates of top tier gear, having multiple gearsets is also acheiveable. Rather easily infact. 3: The GTN is an overpriced mess, agreed. But then, that's every MMO ever. Once that one segment of no-life/play mmo's 24/7 players dig in, they stay dug in, inflating and destroying the in-game economy to stupidly high levels, such as $350 mil for a damned cosmetic set of thigh-high boots.

I didn't hate the old DW animation, but I wasn't a fan either. Why a Sith would use a JEDI holocron for a hola-hoop in fights never made sense to me. Now the new animation is a bit bland as it's just 3 smokey purply orbs, but atleast it makes sense lore-wise as a aura of the darkside. Just my 2 cents.

As I stated, if you want to make the argument that sm Uprisings should be comprised of proper groups, ie tank, heals, 2 dps, go right ahead. You also have DCD's to call upon when you know a big hit is coming. Group composistion is the issue, not dmg. Uprisings are intended to hit hard and should remain as such.

So, when I first heard of these Uprisings/Ups, I thought they'd be just another FP with a new name, which is essentially true. However, the missions are much more frantic and fast-paced, filled with hordes of enemies and boss fights that require the players to constantly be on the move, avoiding AOE's and boss mechanics that hurt if you get hit. They're what FP's/Ops always should have been. Now, if BW can take it to the next level and incorporate those fun, fast mechanics into Operations going forward, we'll be kickin' *** for a good long time to come!