So with each major patch we're given new content, some of it requested and a lot of it dreamt up by the dev team but if given a choice what would be your top 5 things to add? It can be as big or small as you like, game mechanics or cosmetic. The only rule is that it can't be something already slated for release in 1.3. Mine: 1) Character re customisation (barber shop) - with added options for hair, accessories etc. 2) More credits for warzones - since 1.2 i'm constantly broke since i only really play warzones and craft. (actually playing this way i actually feel like im finally just 'playing' a MMORPG and not trying to race to max level) 3) MORE WARZONES!! - Warzones like: 'last man standing (where your team is attacked by rakghoulds and if anyone is defeated they respawn as a rakghoul until only one remains) 'Swoop bike racing...Pod Racing...Pazaak' 4) Species Change (could be a paid service i dont mind...helps keep the game afloat and stops anyone else loosing thier jobs...also helps with legacy unlocks and future races) 5) Make some of the 'green' armour sets available as oranges! Check out the jedi knight trainers and pvp vendors WHY CANT I LOOK LIKE THAT?? What's your top 5? Oh and please, these are just personal wish lists i'm in no way saying they should be implemented before major things that need addressing.

How about as a reward for getting a character to 50 a new character slot appears for each original slot taken to 50?

Actually my problem isn't reading the forums and becoming disheartened with the game, i play the game plenty (legacy 30 last time i looked) No the problem i find with the forums is usually people replying to other peoples posts with thing like 'i didn't read your post BUT here is my take on it' Or people presuming that everyone just reads the forums all day and whines about the game without actually playing it. I also enjoy the game which is why i take time to think about concerns people have with the game and post my ideas on possible solutions.

In my opinion and from reading these forums since beta (and I think a lot of others players have the same feelings) one of the main problems with TOR is it doesn’t exactly feel like an MMORPG. It’s too instanced, too many loading screens, the lack of a single area that actually feels like an online persistent world. The game can’t (and shouldn’t) be redesigned from the ground up but there are simple solutions to change the way the game feels, to turn it into a true MMORPG and an amazing one at that. Bioware, you have the basics in there already, the stories, great animations etc, we already has a good levelling system in place, fully voice acted quests – great! But that doesn’t make it an MMORPG, currently the game play is too disjointed and instanced. In other games to get to a ‘dungeon’ you have to traverse a world, you get the feeling of going on an adventure…in TOR you simply go through the purple doorway on the fleet (if by some miracle all your group are on the same mission steps) I’m all for convenience but instancing has to be balanced with creating a believable universe for your players to inhabit. Anyway, here is how I would change things To get the feeling of a single persistent world when you have multiple planets sounds impossible but it isn’t. The answer is simple … SPACE (ie the Galaxy) Use space (even if it has to be a game expansion) as your persistent world and think of each planet as a giant ‘dungeon’ (and by the way change loading screens into relevant cut scenes instead so as to make switching down to planets less of a immersion jolting experience- something like intercom chatter about landing codes…Whatever) How you actually do ‘space’ in TOR is up to you, but it has to be the thing that ties everything else together, even if you separate space into sectors as they are now on the galaxy map with hyperspace jumps needed to get from one sector to the other. It has to be the part of the game that is totally explorable by any level – No false level restrictions (oh don’t go into this sector you have to be level 50 pilot!) leave that to the planets. Let space flight be the travel time, the exploration, the discovery part of TOR and let the planets be the levelling process, the questing etc. Here are some ideas of what space could contain: Add old favourites like asteroid mining for rare crafting materials which will help solve the problem of crafters feeling like they aren’t actually crafting and the companions are doing all the work (some people enjoy crafting believe it or not) Add explorable ‘space hulks’ in random locations, capital ships, boarding parties, space pirates, asteroid belts, mini games like the Kessel Run, smuggling, bounty hunting… Make planets places you have to actually FLY to and land on, then add new areas to existing planets that aren’t based on character level or are quest related, just open, cross faction areas with things like rare spawn mobs, Pvp objectives, new operations and flashpoints – places worth returning to time and time again not just when you’re the appropriate level or because you have to grind a daily quest there. In short, make space your persistent world, a huge explorable jumping block that leads to the content you already have in place. Other ideas; PVP Warzones – Does PVP have to mean players killing each other? NO! The Starwars universe is so rich with ideas you could draw from that don’t have to just be faction vs faction killing one another over and over. Pod-racing, Swoop bike Racing and casino games could all be played with the same faction and might appeal more to those that don’t want to do ‘regular’ PVP. Speaking of regular PVP, here are some warzone ideas, Novare Coast is great but a little too much like Civil War, there so much more you could do FOR EXAMPLE: Capture the ‘flag’ but Starwars style – Rescue/capture a scientist from a space station who has key information about (X) - escort him to your factions launch hangar and protect him there until your shuttle arrives. Last man standing – Rakghoul Plague style – Your team infiltrates a secret lab and fights off wave after wave of Rakghouls. When someone on your team is infected, they change into a Rakghoul and attack your team until one remains (medals awarded for amount of healing/rakghouls killed/infected killed etc) PVE /PVP Hybrid warzones - where you fight alongside NPC’s of your faction, man vehicles like AT/ATs, gun turrets, Snow Speeders…your objective to storm the enemy back and plant explosives WHATEVER! There’s so so much that could be done in TOR with the resources at Bioware’s disposal if they’d only stop thinking inside the (WOW) box

signed! using upper hand at the moment is automatic after hearing the giggle, will be really difficult replaced with a different sound entirely. Its like learning to drive, after awhile it becomes second nature, then someone replaces the steering wheel with an intricate pulley system

No in beta the cover range was much further and didnt look at all goofy in fact made gameplay much faster

So i've thought a lot about a gap closer for smugglers (like lots of people) and suggested ideas, but none ever seemed quite fitting to the class... Runspeed, jumps, harpoon - other classes have that Shadowstep - sounds too much like another game and really only suits one tree out of one advanced class. But i think i've come up with an idea thats fitting, not over powered, suits all smuggler specs and best of all, it's pretty much already in the game! (oh and brings back those early days playstyle when you were a rolling grenade throwing machine) For the sake of making this post easier i'll call it just 'Roll' Mechanics - Activating Roll places a targeting reticule on the ground much like a Huttball pass. Once you click the area you roll to that spot into a kneeling position. 20-30m distance 30 sec - 1 min cooldown Ok sounds pretty lame but think about it. Benefits - Shouldn't be hard to impliment as the mechanics and animations are already in the game. It works as either a gap closer or an escape tool Would take lots of skill to master Fits the Smuggler theme Would make the Gunslinger ac a lot more mobile/fun and more like a dual pistol wielding gunfighter than a stationary, dug-in turret. Drawbacks - Could only be useable by line of sight Could only be useable on flat terrain (ie not to scale ramps in huttball) Would take lots of skill to master Uses - Scoundrel Scrapper - Gives the Scrapper a more defined role - as a hit and run class. Imagine, you roll towards your target into a kneeling position - backblast, dps, roll away from the target's aoe and vanish. Or possibly a talent that allows you to roll and enter a stationary stealth so you could use shoot first -I would love to roll in, shotgun to the back, knock them down, backblast and kick in the jewels! now thats a scrapper Legshot - short roll behind the target Sawbones - brings the scoundrel healer more in line with other the healers toolbox, Merc pushbacks, Sage runs, knockbacks etc. Just a nice little thing you could do when you have an unremovable target on your head in pvp >:C Dirty fighting - gives a way to apply upper hand and then get to range. Cant really add to this as i've never played DF tree. Gunslinger - as mentioned earlier it would make gunslingers more...gunslinger-y. Possibly add a talent that allows for cover screen to appear after a roll. Personally, taking the idea further i think all 'cover' should be like this instead of those freaky green men hiding behind boxes and random chance your going to end up someplace you dont want to be. Simply drop your targeting reticule over a box and you roll behind it. ON A SIDE NOTE!! Why doesnt entering stealth bring up the cover bar? you know, for stealth only attacks? Since the word Cover is linked to covert? co·vert    [adj. koh-vert, kuhv-ert; n. kuhv-ert, koh-vert] Show IPA adjective 1. concealed; secret; disguised. 2. covered; sheltered. Seems fitting to me.

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Oh crikey thats terribad!!!! whatever happened to fun

Georg, don't you think it's a little bit flippant and dismissive to attribute 'crying nerf' to simply being the fashionable thing to do? Lets face it, this is your (Biowares) game, you guys designed/developed it, you released it to the public and when you change things after months of play you put peoples complaints down to being the fashionable thing to do? People choose to pay your company to play your game in thier spare time. They spend countless hours of that same spare time playing a class that you designed and then thought to change after release. So surely thats your fault that it wasn't right to begin with not thiers. Of course people get angry when the thing they've spent thier sparetime and money doing suddenly gets changed often without any communication as to WHY? Is that complaint justified? Is the desire for reasurance and reasoning behind the change just too much to ask? Or is thier right to complain just 'the fashionable thing to do'

http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/coloredvariationssmuggler.jpg hay wound, meet salt! im still really trying to like this game

BW have shown they can listen, like changing tracer missile animation 'by popular demand' Keep this thread bumped /sign if you want giggle to stay Pleeeease!

Problem with a visual effect is lots of times you have so much else going on with your character that put massive effects on you. Lightning, DoTs, heals...might be hard to see. Abilities that RELY on a proc need to let you know when that proc happens!

I really love this little feature, rely on it quite a lot and think it adds flavour to our class. Instead of removing it maybe make it toggleable? Choice is always better! (oh and calling our giggle a grunt in the patch notes, when was the last time anyone in your office played a smuggler? Grunt is BH afaik)

Bioware PLEASE don't remove the giggle I rely on it so much!! How about making it a toggleable option??

You coould play as the opposite advanced class Marauder/Jugg, i really enjoyed the SW story. Other than that, Agent is really good. BH act 1 is kinda samey IDK about sorc sorry, must be the only person on our server without a sorc/cons

i think a solution would be instead of a system like weekly respecs make a adv class change only happen a few times in a characters life. lvl 15 lvl 30 lvl 45 Would give people ample oppertunity to decide whether they enjoy the advanced class theyve spent time leveling and the oppertunity to change it if theyre not but only at certain points so as not to trivialise the process.

For human characters reaching level 50 could it not unlock the class specific human variations to all classes instead of a presence buff? Like BH tattoos etc?

i would give us... A channeled run speed that ticks energy ; 10 energy per second / 40% speed A talented speed increase on sneak 1/20% 2/40% Get rid of stupid 3 foot long unlimited hidden knives and give us wrist blades Make distraction use a green cloud and not sand Reverse the original nerfs now everything causeing them to be originally overpowered has been nerfed too. Add a % damage reflect to shield probe Add a Droid thats able to deploy a small force field onto other players in the Medicine tree Reduce the energy or improve the healing on Kolto Infusion OR have it remove negative effects. Opperative Lethality i would add droids that work like Kolto Probe but on targeted enemies doing DoT damage instead of healing. Ban anyone on the Operative forums who uses the abbreviation OP to mean overpowered because i find it confusing and ironic.

Actually theres lots but theyre mainly WE WANT PANTS threads must be nice

I can see your point about respeccing and thats exactley what i did originally but could never decide between sawbones and scrapper so i eventually made both. I didnt really want to constantly respec based on what playstyle mood i was in that day so took the time do make both Probarbly a stupid decision in retrospect. One which i wouldnt have made if id have known duel -speccing was planned down te road. Either way i know im going to be in a small minority and realy dont expect anything to be done about it so i think ill just delete one of my scoundrels when duel spec comes into play. As for the suggestion i keep one PvP and one PvE, thankyou for it but im not sure its worth loosing a slot over as the only difference as far as i can see would be mods/slight changes on talents? I also so far have used 7 of the 8 slots (im a bit of an altoholic) Anyway, kind regards for all your suggestions guys <3

Hi i've read that Bioware are introducing dual spec which is great and all but no advanced class respec at the same time causes some problems. I leveled 2 Scoundrels up, 1 as a Scrapper and 1 as a Sawbones (both into thier 30s and i have no interest in the Dirty fighting tree) Both my characters have trade skills way above thier level which i've invested a lot of time and money into and dont really want to delete either. However with the addition of duel spec it basically makes 1 of my characters little more than a trade skill alt, taking up one of my 8 slots which i would rather use for characters i actually play Should i bite the bullet and just delete one or hold out for the possibility of advanced class respec? (i didnt ever plan to play Gunslinger but its better than 2 characters with exactley the same the skills) (edit) OOPS! forgot to add a suggestion bit... I guess my suggestion is let people have a single use class respec token? Or maybe people with 2 of the same advanced class on thier accounts?

The idea that bioware 'hates' Republic is absurd, as is the idea that BW hates Scoundrels/Ops (despite evidence to the contrary) 'because they all play sorcerers' This game cost quite a few pounds to make and is not some playground for Bioware employees but a buisness thats geared to make as much money as possible. Scoundrels / Operatives WILL be fixed/adjusted until these forums don't look like they do at the moment - 99% of posts stating how underpowered/useless we are. How does that look to new players wanting to join the game and doing a little research on these boards? I've already had people IM me in game asking if Operatives/Scoundrels really are as gimped as they've heard (i play both and like lots of others i have no interest in lightsaber classes) So, already thats the reputation we're getting, which isn't good news for Bioware. Less choice = BAD for buisness. I honestly think that BW just dont know what to do with us at the moment so keep the ideas coming - but scattered amidst the threads of dissent perhaps

Personally i always thought Opperatives should use the wrist blade that BHs get. Kind of slips down your wrist (but one on each arm) then vanishes away after use the infinate number of concealed 3 foot long swords is the only thing i find a little lame

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