LOL....I like how some of you people pick and choose what you read out of a story.... Over time however, the number of legitimate customers using these codes has dropped, and the number of gold farmers using them has risen to a level where we can no longer ignore these illegal sales. BW is trying to be proactive with a problem that plagues every MMO. Who do you think is watching behind the scenes for this type of activity? Remember when the game went live and we had all those chest farmers on Ilum and Corellia?? Where are they now??? I know I was frustrated after posting screenshots w/names to the support folks as well as in game "reports". It didn't seem like BW cared or was going to do anything about this problem. I haven't seen a chest farmer anywhere in months. So I am going to give BW the benefit of the doubt and let them monitor this type of activity and try their best to protect the rest of "us" legitimate customers. OP, go find something else to complain about.....................

LOL....I love this line of thinking..... I can make the game better than the developers <beats on chest>!!! Whose game is it anyways?? Yours?? Cut these guys and gals some serious slack. They came up with these ideas, like them or not, so allow them to flourish or sink without pretending that you can do it better. Positive feedback and contributions go a heck of a lot farther than all the constant whining and entitlement crap most people tend to spew out.

Everyone else gets their free 30 days but you!!!! Luck of the draw and it's your unlucky day..........

To those who might sneer at something as "non-essential" as a video game company winning the Worst Company In America vote: It's that exact kind of attitude that allows people to ignore the complaints as companies like EA to nickel and dime consumers to death. And the purpose of this thread is????? You have an opinion?? Good for you.... So does everyone else.... There is only one person who cares about yours........ Guess who that is???

HAHAHA!! You made me laugh so hard with this nonsense............ Because I get tired of reading all the whine posts here, which happen to be >80%, I must be a BW fanboy or something else?? Same lame argument all of you use when someone doesn't agree with what you post. So you agree with a "whine" post and add your own "whine" to it. Are you special?? This game is not perfect, nor is any other MMO out there. Nor is 99.9% of all computer programs. There are other things in life than playing computer games, so go do something else while they are fixing this game. Is that really so hard to do??

You could easily change the title to this thread to "Whining, why so much???" Seriously, go play the game or do something else instead of posting nonsense. Their is no purpose to this thread and it should be locked away and/or deleted.

I can understand ( well, maybe a very minute amount) your frustration with this vendor going away. However, most folks didn't exploit the game to rack up credits, they just played the game. With 3 toons at level 50, I had over 7.5 mil credits, mainly from doing the daily missions to upgrade my equipment. In a nutshell, you gonna just have to get over the vendor not being there. It's not like they didn't prepare everyone for this weeks and weeks ago........

I hope you learn a lesson................. Posts like this are useless and self-serving. Go spend your time doing something constructive instead......

Some more to add: Cannot adjust the font size in all chat windows. I scaled down my UI interface from 1.0 to 0.9 and decided I wanted my font size bigger in my 3 chat windows. I can adjust the main chat window, but "other" and one I made for "combat" cannot be adjusted, even though the option appears in the same place. You have to remove, then re-install the earpiece and implant(s) on your companions to get the stats to add correctly to their total. And it seems you have to do this each time you log or swap your characters.

Enjoy your new-found free time:)

Ever play another MMO??? How many of them sent out emails every time they did a game update???? (wait for it..........) (wait for it..........) (wait some more.......................) Yeah, that's what I thought. Might be a swell idea, but not a practical one. Don't you (or anyone else) hold your (their) breath!!!

First it was Ilum, then Correllia. Now you say they are on Belsavis. The best thing you can do is report them and they will eventually get banned. I know I don't see any more of them on Ilum, so would assume they got booted. Could be wrong, but hope I am right. Maybe it will happen on Belsavis too.............

I have looked around, but have trouble finding a specific guide on the requirements to do each HM FP. What I am looking for, is which NPC you talk to first, whether you have to do any quests beforehand, etc. There is nothing worse than getting folks together to do any one of the HM FP's and one or more person(s) "Is not eligible for this mission" comes up. Thanks for your helpful responses...............

You don't need to take it off/on...just reset your UI....Ctrl+U twice............

I think it is called a civilian pilots belt. It is light armor and has armor & mod slots open. The cost is 60 fleet commendations. Space combat, while not for some, is an excellent way to make XP as you level up to 50. The key is to do each mission when it becomes available first, then do a pair of them as daily's. You will need to upgrade your ships weapons/shields, etc. if you want to do the harder missions.

Or it may say "Gunslinger only", which I have seen on some armor types. Need to read the description carefully....................

OP, what exactly is the purpose of your post. Need attention?? Need people to agree with you?? I mean, what are you looking for here??? This is just another silly whine post, to add the 100's already littered throughout these forums. Don't you have something better to do with your time??? Do you feel the need to play a game 24/7???? Get over it!!!!!

Here is how power and crit works: Power is applied, typically, to bonus damage and/or healing. It is weighted slightly higher than willpower, which is your main stat. Crit on gear or weapons raises your critical % score along with willpower, skills & buffs. Willpower is more important than power, since if affects more stats across the board. Personally, I believe that raising your crit % along with your surge % will benefit you more in the long run, regardless if you are specc'd as a healer or DPS. higher crit % = more crits higher surge % = more damage/healing per crit. While it is nice to have added power from gear/weapons, you should choose crit and surge over power when you have the choice. Also, alacrity is of lesser importance even though it helps channel times.

Thanks for your responses, Synavix and Tibbel. For those that may be following along, it is easy to identify which of your abilities (attacks) are ranged and which are tech based. Hit "P" on your keyboard and each ability specifies what type it is. As I posted before, ranged attacks will show up in a bolder white color, while tech based attacks will show up as yellow. I didn't know that tech based damage wasn't negated by any defense of the enemy, so thanks for that. Now, if the bosses do have around 8-10% defense, wouldn't accuracy over 100% bring those numbers down?? I guess that is the crux of my question in the first place. Thanks for the tip regarding Sithwarrior.com

What are you calling BS on??? Anything else to "contribute" to this discussion or just going to disagree with what anyone says they believe?? While I don't believe the previous poster answered my questions, they have a right to post their opinion. And yes, facts would go a long way towards advancing an opinion, not what the "consensus" thinks. By the way, who is the "consensus"???

Thanks for the quick reply on this. First, to answer your question on damage colors: Standard (low-res) white is your companion's damage. Bold white is your ranged damage. Yellow is your tech damage. Edit: It is easy to confirm these damage types / colors by checking on/off your flytext preferences in the UI. I haven't done it, but I am confident I am correct with the above. Now it seems that you are saying that (3 & 4) above are special attacks but they are really tech attacks. So, if you have 100% ranged accuracy, you have 110% tech accuracy since tech attacks already start out at 100% accuracy. Does that make understanding ranged attacks any clearer?? Heck no!! Now, I understand what you are saying about accuracy above 100% for the PvP check, but I have to believe that each enemy NPC (and not just boss mobs) have inherent stats. And if that logic holds, they have a "defense" score. This brings me back to my question, does it benefit you to have accuracy greater than 100% knowing that the enemy you are fighting has a set defense %??? I am not even factoring the off-hand, because that is not our main damage dealer, although it does contribute to overall DPS. This might be a question only the developers can answer............

This is a great guide and I have gone back to read over it many times as I level up my Gunslinger. However, I haven't seen much of a discussion about accuracy. The definition of accuracy in the game is: Chance that ranged attacks will successfully hit the target. Accuracy over 100% reduces the target's defense. So, at 100% accuracy, we should be hitting the enemy NPC with a ranged weapon 100% of the time, correct??? I don't think so........... The tooltip says anything over 100% lowers the enemy NPC's defense (score, %, etc.). So, wouldn't higher accuracy reduce the defense chance of the enemy NPC: defense = Chance to avoid incoming attacks, broken down by attack type. If I am correct, then the following equation would illustrate our chance to hit and how it is affected by our accuracy: Enemy NPC Defense chance = 100% + enemy NPC defense chance (%) - our accuracy (%) Given this example, if the enemy NPC's defense is 8%, and we have our accuracy at 100%, there still is an 8% chance that the enemy NPC will not be hit by our ranged attack. If that theory is true, wouldn't we want to raise our accuracy as high as we can until we negate our enemy NPC's defense chance??? Of course, without a combat log, this becomes difficult to prove, but it gives us something to chew on. Thanks for any input on this............

LOL!! Who nominated you and the mouthpieces, whiners, complainers, ragequitters, etc. to speak for the "community"???? Have an opinion ----> No problem, speak your mind. Think anyone or everyone shares your opinion ---------> move on and / or out the door......

You should have been directed to Belsavis and / or Ilum upon completion of your class quest..........

Yeah right, you have played both to 50 then??? They can wear the same gear, but need different stat values and they play completely differently, so you need to come up with a better reason than this...............