Beta player, founder, etc. here. Was subscribed till Shadow or Revan, came back recently to see 2 latest add-ons. Unless RNG system will be changed to something more logical and alt friendly me and my wife plan to cancel subscriptions as soon as we finish story line. Current system is terrible and it doesn't matter how many crates you can open in 30 minutes. I remember I was able to play on multiple characters and was able to gear them according to investing time and needs. Now it's all random and grind and it won't make it better if grind will be faster. I did 26 levels on my gunslinger (skipping story) and I've get bored enough with RNG. I can't imagine myself doing it till level 200 just to get theoretical change to obtain top gear and then grind more and more to actually get something useful. Repeat it on multiple alts? No, thanks but no. Dear developers, I hope opinions of your customers will matter. Otherwise you'll have less customers, right?

On my server (The Bastion) this change effectively killed low-level group finder for FPs. As a healer I used to wait like 10-15 minutes to get an invitation for daily FP, now it takes from 30 minutes to infinity. Queuing for FP as DPS? Forget it. Absolutely terrible decision from Bioware.

So just 5 minutes ago we were ripped to pieces on Hutball WZ. It's not surprising at all.... but what is surprising - Empire had 11 players. At least statistic screen proved that. But I thought this supposed to be fixed in last patch? Anyone can confirm this exploit/bug?

Best setup for 2 - tank and healer (and 2 DPS companions). You'll be ale to duo all Heroic (4) and almost all FPs. So, roll troopers and make vanguard-tank and commando-healer. Or do the same with bounty hunter if you like empire side.

Can you read the poll question please? Question is about "new changes to GLOBAL cooldown". It's not about cooldown for abilities that could be activated every 45-60-etc seconds. It's about annoying flashing you can see on all your buttons every 1.5 seconds. * * * * * I wonder who all these people voting "It's fine" - probably they all just didn't pay attention to actual question.

There are like 3 or 5 topics about this issue in "Suggestions" and guess what? Nobody cares.

So, we just learned that: a) Polls help to get constructive feedback. b) Different people like different things. Not much a surprise, huh? Hence next logical steps: 1. Make new poll like that at least once per week ("What do you think about...?", "Should we nerf... " etc.). 2. Implement some customization to the game. I.e. add-ons.

1. Personally I would love to see UI API that would allow modders to make changes to user interface. I'm not asking for automation now, only for cosmetic changes, like bar placement, size of buttons, etc. 2. If not 1, I would love to see at least 2-3 different settings for UI, in our case - for cooldowns. It's pretty simply to implement - "you want to show GCD - yes/no". 3. If not 2, I would love to see something in the middle between previous version of cooldowns and current one. No GCD flickering every 1.5 second for everything, please.

So we had a "vanilla" cooldowns, that was pretty ok. Not brilliant, but neutral. And then we had a patch with "an improvement", so it became hard to distinguish ability with 1-2-3 seconds left from ability that is ready. I've never get used to it. But I could live with it somehow. And today we've got new "improvement" - flashy, in-your-face cooldowns. So if you have all 4 toolbars on your screen, they all blink like Christmas tree every second. I want to throw in my mouth, literally. I wonder, that's next? Pop-up windows "your ability A is ready"? Can't we just get an options in the configuration for it? Like - "remove all effects" or something? Or can we get something neutral? I've seen a lot of post about new cooldown effects, but I expect the more we will tell how it's terrible, the more attention developers will pay for the issue.

After all other companions that not fit to my light-sided diplomatic consular I found Nadia pretty good. At least she don't want to hunt everyone down and not question my every decision.

I'd like to put some of my companions into escape pod and launch it.

Well, eventually we'll get new classes and new species so I expect to get new slots for characters at the same time. But anyway, I would love to be able create more characters on the same servers right now - to try another advanced classes, light/dark options, etc and still keep them in same legacy.

OP is right. First of all - If it's called "social point" and provide "social rewards", only people who do something social - like grouping for quests - should be awarded with it. Otherwise just name it "dialogue points" or something else and let them grind for it. Second, more important - people grind for it because SP system provides some really nice item sets for specific classes (or companions). All these orange socketable slave girl sets, etc. Remove sockets from it, make it pure RP item, problem solved.