People will always find reasons to complain. They complain when choice matters and complain when they don't. It's nothing unusual. And it’s always gloom and doom on this forum, so…
Before, it was only one option - locate original companions. Now we have second option - bring back companions that were lost in kotfe like it does not affect the story but helpful if you have high influence with them.
I like KotFE. I like it very much. For me it was good and worth my time and money. I enjoyed building up the Alliance. It wasn’t the end of the story and i have high hopes for new chapters, for more old and new characters. Actually I hope other companions were on those ships arriving at Odessan near the end.
And my main f/trooper have her Aric Jorgan moments, so yay and thank you Bioware))
Stronghold 'owner' is irrelevant. If you transfer your char back your stronghold will be waiting for you untouched.
Strongholds bought with credits will require paying the original fee to re-activate, but any rooms unlocked will be unlocked when you re-activate. Strongholds bought with CC can be re-activated for free.
My fully unlocked tatooine stronghold (7/7) was available to me after I transferred half of my legacy to RE (unlocked 7/7). All mine decorations also transferred. You don't need to remove decos from your original stronghold. Bt you have to manually furnish all over again.
Yes, it seems that ReShader do the trick. Find on reddit - ReShader Tutorial 1.0 : How to Install - with this screens -
http://imgur.com/anW9KW1,sJvKrCA,zrBWA4o,bA6Zz88,SOCLSXE
http://i.imgur.com/Ea1HLcQ.jpg
For me on gtx980 (with ultra settings) its look like this -
http://s32.postimg.org/dbd1hgw9x/swtor_2016_05_11_23_28_10_54.jpg
http://s32.postimg.org/xvriqt7qd/swtor_2016_05_11_23_18_05_22.jpg
But yours screens from reddit seems even sharper.
Mb SweetFX or ReShade was used. I never tried this voodoo myself but it seems working with swtor.
Haters gonna hate. Don't let it bother you. I think it's cool - its like your own personal army))
I with swtor from the start, but still have only two geared main 65 (for both side) and bunch of 50 toons (for class stories).
What you did it's quite an achievement.