My guild is just under 300 and at least 20 or so are on during peak times...shrug

As has been said it's a combination of all the things that has been mentioned. I have bought stuff on the GTN network as I have seen it and also passed down gear that I didn't want any longer. I've bought weapons and gear from the specialty goods vendors also. Granted as you get your companions in orange gear you will have to run more heroics and FPs for the comms so that you can upgrade the mods in their gear but those can also be found on the GTN or you might get lucky and find someone to make them for you.

I enjoy Big Bang Theory and find nothing funny about South Park. To each his own.

There is a migration process already in place. It's called reroll. End of discussion

I recently rolled my first sniper and have been leveling him pretty much through just PVP and I was shocked at how much I love playing this class. In a warzone I can usually find a good spot and be able to stay there for some time just killing people who make the mistake of coming within my range. I tend to move around a lot because I become the hunted. The power of a sniper was surprising to me also and it usually takes a concentrated effort to kill me.

I lag like crazy doing the turret WZ but have no other issues anywhere else with it. I can be on fleet with 100+ and no problems at all but whenever I go into that particular wz it is a slide show at times. Have talked to several others who have the same issues with it. I cringe every time I see the loading screen come up for it when I am running warzones.

It's crazy how many people don't realize that your choices really have no bearing on the development of their character. One guy got mad at me in BT for killing the Captain. LOL.

I've been in those same kind of groups before. Black Talon I'm sure I have run over 100 times on various characters but I don't rush anyone through it. I hit the spacebar til the end of the cutscenes and then wait for the rest of the group to catch up. Not that big of a deal to me if they wish to watch it. Like has been said you are a paying customer and if they don't like it then just ignore them and move on. I wouldn't give up on flashpoints because of the actions of a few douches honestly.

My computer ran hot until I relocated my tower where it was better ventilated and pulled the casing off and took a can of air to it. Haven't had any kind of issue since then.

I had a set of bracers drop off of a NPC on Voss. I can't remember if it was an Elite or not but I don't think it was. They weren't class specific.

Don't know where you play but on Keller's Void there were still 90 people on fleet when I logged off at 1 AM. There were 17 on Corellia which is where I was leveling my slicing before I came back to fleet and then logged.

Have treasure hunting on two different toons, one Republic and one Sith, with no issues on either.

You're asking the idiots to read and retain and that just isn't going to happen. Log in is much smoother than it was at launch. The only thing that really still bugs me is how long it takes to load in to any planet. Way too long.

At a base bust once on Starsider a fellow guild mate did a mistell about what her and her girlfriend like to do with each other. She immediately logged off and it was months later before anyone saw her back in game. This was before the name change stuff started so she couldn't hide that way...lol

The last thing I want is some Wookie love festival or dipping my berries with the Ewoks and seeing toons running around with cupid wings...when I played SWG I always avoided that crap like the plague.