On the Fleet, there's a droid NPC that sells black colored Orange Pants you can grab if you have Social III.

Powertech is a good tank with many instant abilities. Also not bad as a DPS, if you so desire.

Running forward after pushing the Elevator fixes the instant death as well.

Just play it first, and your experience will answer your own question.

I got this issue myself as well. My fix was, right after you hit the elevator switch, keep running forward during the black screen. It worked for me, and I didn't suffer any falling damage after. GL

The last part, I believe. Intercepting the Jedi Knight. Instant Death upon zoning in ?

Pure Pazaak ~!!!

Flirting with scripted virtual pixel girls ?

From monster drop, I believe.

I wish it felt like an MMO, now it feels like playing singleplayer game. And just chatting with other ppl sometimes. Companion system is cool, and all that. But you're nothing without it. Mobs gonna mob the floor with you unless you have a companion. Sometimes you have to use the RIGHT companion just to level. Annoying.

Wrong... War is a real good motivation for technological advancement. Look at WW2. Especially during the end of the war. With low resources, countries tried new method or searched for new resources. Edit: Damn, beaten to it.

http://www.swtorface.com/p/swtor-companion-list.html

Glorified pets = pets. Pet systems in Rappelz Online + AIKA Online + Fairyland Online + a certain MMO where pets do the crafting for you = very close to Companion systems in SWTOR.

You are correct. There's no recipes from trainer that teach you shield generator for Assassin.

You can manually force AA by tweaking the .ini file yourself, I believe.