Nice that you focus on that one issue and ignore all the rest. ITs a problem, and it always will be in a 2 faction game. Is it Biowares fault? Yes, partly it is (for designing it in the first place, and not having any form of numbers control at any point, or any form of incentive to balance those servers that are heavily imbalanced such as rewards/buffs for the underdog). It is partly the playerbases fault too, and there have been some rerolls occasionally from well-meaning guilds. Does that mean we shouldnt highlight it as a problem/issue? Of course we should, as it degrades the quality of the game experience for many. Thats not 'complaining' as you put it, thats giving feedback about an issue. Bioware could, in fact, do something about it. I could make a list of many things from the trivial to the extreme.

Im just wondering what they spent $200 million dollars on. SWTOR is basically a more linear, sub-standard WoW-in-Space. Crafting is shallow and feels like a bolt-on. Why doesnt crafting have some sort of skill tree system alongside the level one? more diverse recipes, schematics that are useful, more customisation choice (let crafters allocate stats on mods/enh with a certain amount of points to spend for example). Let players counter other peoples spec/role with clever gearing. Make crafting require mats from actual mobs rather than just nodes. Dont place nodes everywhere. PvP is shallow, and bolted on. PvE is the most linear, least satisfying ive played in a while. Ignoring the scripted quests its a big snoozefest to get to 'end-game'. which is dull and has very poor itemisation/drops for both FP and OP. There is very little customisation/individuality amongst toons (have a look at, say, commandos/vanguards stood on fleet = they all look 95% identical). No solo/small group achievements / exploration / things to 'do' (you can go pick up an egg every 4 hours!). No world PvP or any sort of PvP that has a lasting effect on the world or gives bonuses/rewards. Flawed 2 faction system, heavily dominated by Empire (generally). Why arent there 3+ factions? Hutts, Mercenaries, Pirates, Gamorrean, Space-ninja-dinosaurs? Give them the option to change allegiances via player-base driven requirement a la DAoC. Why arent there in-game minigames (excluding space 'combat'). We have Cantinas everywhere, make Pazaak playable between players/NPCs. Wheel of fortune, Poker, whatever = a better money sink than the artificial ones (look at real casinos as an example). Space combat could be improved, would have been better less linear but hey. Allow players to group for space missions (with new missions). Have some real-life, in-game support rather than just 'protocol droid' fob-offs. More random in-game events (Rakghoul plague was good for a few days), think back to UO and scripted invasions as well as non-scripted NPC invasions (with real people controllin/roleplaying the bad guys and good guy NPCs). They also dished out unique rewards for those who participated. Reward participation in PvE and PvP based off your contribution. Where are the epic quests ? where are the legendary rewards? why arent their hidden pirate treasure hoards on derelict spaceships that you can search for (like the smuggler storyline)? or forgotten tech to salvage on an old moon? or a deathstar to blow up? For $200 million dollars I would expect something better than what we have. A dev team that is inspired, and driven and cares. P.s. Save all your generic opposing 'thoughts' and please try to post something thought out, even if you disagree. I know theres feedback when you unsub (and i will give then too) I wanted to vent here first. No, all MMOs arent like this (UO had roleplay and depth, DAoC had awesome 3 faction world PvP, WoW does SWTOR but better etc etc). You cant have my stuff. etc etc . . .

Your analogy is incorrect. You still have to PvP old style. The equivalent would be getting campaign gear from EV/KP.

I'm still 49 and I have 1000 merc, 2000 normal and 2500 ranked WZ comms. Seems gearing up is easy.

There is no economy. Maybe there would be if the 2 people exploiting spent some of this money buying things. It certainly isnt worthy of 4 hours downtime to patch a couple items sale price. (They could flag the offending items as unsellable then fix it on tuesday, as an example).

I never said their opinion wasnt legit, i said they dont need to post. Theres a difference. True, there might be a US player somewhere that plays at 3:30am. The point about US players is that they (generally) have it much better and therefore your opinion on EU/Oceanic downtimes isnt needed. Its like me commenting on how much rice the average person gets to get ina a village in N.Korea on a forum for people from that village. Whilst i sit eating a 10Kg bag of rice. Stop trolling and being an overzealous/sensitive mong.

had 2 CTDs since release. Sounds like the problem is with your setup.

People are posting legitimate complaints with the downtime and how it affects them/impacts on them. I personally play between 0730 BST and 1300 BST due to my shift pattern, and there are plenty of others that have similar issues. I dont mind losing a Tuesday or the occasional other day, so long as that other day is for something critical or gamebreaking. But its not. take a look at the Patchnotes. Heck, ill even show you an example:- Took the servers down on a Thurdsay to patch that (yes it needed fixing). Then took them down again on the Tuesday to fix the same thing. Also:- Downtime is while youre asleep? Well done you, no need tp post. Youre a US player and dont notice it? Well done you, no need to post anything. noone cares what you have to say on the subject. You love this game and blindly defend it regardless of legitimate opinion? No need to post, thanks. All games need maintainance, we know that. No need to post, thanks. Youre a coder/developer/programmer,rocket scientist, played every MMO ever to endgame as a Season 1 uber-mecha legend gladiator and best player on your server? No need to post, thanks! (and no, noone believes you when you post those awful lies. Youre 25 and unemployed having never coded anything. Stop making s**t up to sound like you know what youre talking about).

Lol, way to underrepresent what actually happened. Look at your short list, now look below for the ACTUAL patch notes. Ill even highlight the obvious buffs in green for you. Its a much bigger list than you want people to realise. Not to mention the changes to Master Strike etc.

Ops/Scoundrels have 2 heals that can be interrupted. ( and hots are weak, and emergency medpac requires UH. Let's not make out its EZ mode healing).

awwww, i thought this thread was about racing Yoda's. Like Greyhound racing, but greener. and more force.

No one uses it YET, once a decent amount of folks purchase it it would be better than the same-faction one. Also, you can use it to transfer money/cash from your rep toons to your imp toons from the Ship - instead of messing around with the one in NS. Which is actually quite useful.

i particularly like :- Some nice quality improvements -assuming they are indeed fixed

From Patchnotes. Just in case folks are too lazy

You can only start doing this at Valor 40 (so the earliest is lvl 40 if you keep your valor rank up to date). It is a really good idea to start saving them early though - i have 1500 ranked WZ comms @lvl 44.

And orange items give more skill points than green items.

I got birthright boots AND helm from the same investigation crit mission. (actually got them twice since there's a double craft bug that gives the same rewards) The prices are insanely high if you purchase them, but getting them for free is a little bit handy.

Lol, good to see you bothered to come and post that comment. You didn't see the other edited post that mine was based on. I made a mistake and apologised for it, which rarely happens on these forums. I could have just edited or deleted my post. You coming to troll is far worse IMO and makes you look like a complete d!ck.

You're actually right, my bad. Apologies from me, I got home and had a look myself.

I honestly don't care either way. The point still stands. You should be spending 30 mins checking BEFORE you post drivel.

Surely Bioware shouldn't have to explain if you're right or not, I'd rather they did a whole host of other things. Poster above has already shown you to be incorrect. Next time it might be worth spending your time checking out whether you actually have a gripe BEFORE posting it.

Aye, it's back to being a fun way to level again. Top tip though, you can start saving ranked WZ comms from valor 40 (which should also be lvl40). So if you play a lot of Pvp to level you can have enough tokens for a couple WH pieces as soon as you hit 50. I currently have 1000 merc comms, 1600 wz comms and 1900 ranked WZ comms @ level 44.

Why stop at removing gear? Why not make all classes the same, with the same skills, no talent points and the same health pool. No random numbers, everyone does 1 dmg per GCD and has 5 hp. No one can heal. Remove all defensive abilities and cooldowns. Everyones latency is set to 400ms so no one has a connection advantage. No keyboards can be used so noone can have better or quicker keybinds. Mouse clicking only so no one with faster reflexes can have a faster-reflex crutch - after all someone who grinded through games for 10 years generally has faster reflexes than a 12 year old playing his first mmo. UI must revert to defaults so everyone is the same. Everyone should have the same gaming chair as it isn't fair that someone who has more money has a better chair. You guys are ridiculous whiners who wouldn't play any MMO where half your stupid, idiotic, lame, cry-baby ideas were implemented. You aren't special, you're not more 'skilled' than everyone else.

Maras don't really dominate in 1-49 pvp except against bad players in bad gear. I play a lot of 1-49 pvp with my heal spec scoundrel and can survive quite happily against one almost indefinitely. I even had a fun time kiting 2 maras and a dps spec assassin around huttball for a while until my team finally turned up and pewpewed them to death. I take a bit of time and effort making sure I don't have poop gear, and I'm pretty good at my class having taking the time to learn it also (I have 2 level 50s already, one of which is valor 68). I'm not after applause or an ego rub, however maras/sents really aren't all that amazing. Perhaps the only thing I'd have changed tho is undying rage - I reckon it should make them immune to heals for 8-10 secs so peeps can't pop it at 2k hp then insta medpac and would make it a last gasp type ability rather than an iwin button (particularly in 1v1s).

Sounds like you've been pvping at 50 for at least 2-3 weeks ( i imagine its more tho) so no reason at all why you don't have a few BM pieces by now, and if you even played a moderate amount of games you should have half to full BM. For all the parts you're missing, replace with recruit. Not really sure what your issue is ( oh, and they changed losing comms again so you get billions even if you lose AND you only need 1 medal).