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bump!

Jrea, You are right but I could have swore I saw something a while back about accounts that are not logged in in like sixty days have their names go up for grabs. It was implemented around the same time that the inactive guild rules were put into place. Those being that if nobody in a guild logs in is so long of a time that the next person to log in is instantly promoted to GM and offered a guild name change.

This ^ Possessiveness should not enter the equation. I have no beef with someone IRL that has my same first name. The best option I have seen thus far is to have neither the first or surname unique. Rather, (if possible) have the union of the two be unique and have legacy name be chosen before first character creation and be required to even access the character builder. At that point everyone will just see both your names everywhere you see the one now.

New content is extremely important. I am not taking away from that. However from my understanding that team is split off from the other dev team(s). Instead of paying people to design more new crap for the blasted Cartel Market why not divert some of that team to making a few in game systems make more sense. This thread is about the naming/labeling systems so I will retain that as the example of choice but it isn't the only game system that needs an overhaul in my opinion. Grimly, we are headed toward names like Øßì-ŵąƞ of the Kenobi legacy. Of course in that example that person will be made to change it because it is a EULA infringement but you get my point.

Excellent, keep it going. More feedback please.

I am bumping this thread. There are still Ubuntu (Hell even Mac) fans out there that want support for a native client.

I will second the bump. HK customizations PLZ!

I hate to necro a 9 month old thread but there needs to be a better name solution than what we have. Almost everyone has to use special characters in their names now because most of the people holding original spellings are sitting inactive. I thought there had been an inactivity clause in name retention but it does not seem effective. You now have to jump through hoops with special characters to invite or mail things now and its ridiculous. This has been changed. You now start out with a legacy name. I propose that they either make the unique identifier the combination of first name and legacy name, make the legacy unique again and make the first non unique (in either case they'd just display the legacy name along side the first.) or use a global identifier system with some careful controls. By careful controls I mean making friends groups options, invisibility options, advanced ignore visibility, etc. so that if a person wants to "excuse themselves" to an alt they can first go invisible before logging out or have it set to always log in invisible. There are ways to make these systems work. The devs just have to exert a bit more effort to innovate instead of falling back on antiquated systems. Come to think of it the games I have played with the option of social invisibility have always made me happier because I could just drop off the radar if I got tired of dealing with people.

I will second this motion. SW:TOR is the only thing preventing me from switching my whole system over to Linux. Native Linux client PLZ!

I would like to take the opportunity to necro this thread. I apologize if there is a current discussion on this topic and would appreciate a link to it. We need to be able to select what card to stream audio through in the game options. I wouldn't think it would be too hard to implement. My need for this is not based on everyone else's reasons. If you plan to DJ in vent you have to be able to segregate game sounds from music/vent. I can manage to play my library from Winamp or VLC by simply switching the player to a static card. However, there are no options to switch Adobe Flash audio output, and if you plan on streaming anything from youtube you must use the windows default card (the same one the game uses). My current solution is to browse and download the content but then you have to deal with deletions later and you can't just browse and play. It winds up being a big hassle. So please add this feature in. It would make my DJing experience so much more fun.

Exactly. I don't care about the goody pack that came with the box. I don't need all the extra toys. I just care about the shop and the pet mouse droid. That vendor has the coolest customizations for Jorgan and Qyzen Fess and some other niceties I wouldn't mind dropping another $10 to access them. I would also like to see this silver model. Something along the design of the Cylon Guardians from Battlestar Galactica I'm thinking.

The only objection I have to that is that if they are going to be updating the CE vendor significantly they need to make a CE or DCE(Digital Collector's Edition) upgrade available to those who couldn't afford CE in the past. I paid $80 for DDE at launch and wanted the CE so bad but I still can't afford it but maybe an upgrade that that would enable the vendor and mouse droid could be feasible. $10-$15 for DDE/upgrade pack owners and $15-$20 for SE owners(includes upgrade pack.) To continually update items on a vendor that is decreasingly available is not a smart move on their part though because the CE subs floating around out there are probably slowly dwindling and that makes their hard development work reach a smaller and smaller target audience.

Hey I have a close to capped gunslinger slicer. Risha is always bringing me those missions. Maybe I could work up a trade of a couple of level 340s that I have laying around...hmmm...

Thanx for the tip. I figured it had to be a rare schematic. I have all skill sets except for arms and armor, that means I'd have to cough up the researched compounds with creds but everything else I can obtain.