Yeah, I wish I could find any posts about how to solve this problem, but no luck so far. There is no *.ini file in the root dir. The only ini file in the entire installation is the client_defaults.ini located under ...\swtor\retailclient. Tried changing some values in that file, but that didn't do anything.

Sorry, what ini-file? My "bitraider" folder only contains a "bin" folder with 3 files (2 exe and 1 dll).

I got a problem with many missing textures in the game, probably due to bad/missing files. Sadly the "Repair" option in the launcher is greyed out, so I can't use that. I read that someone suggested to remove the "bitraider" folder in the SWTOR installation, to trigger a repair. I tried that, but it didn't do anything at all. The "bitraider" folder was pretty much empty anyway. Anyone got any other advice for repairing the installation other than re-installing the game from scratch?

I haven't destroyed the star fortress yet on one of the chars, so that must be it It doesn't say anywhere, that is needed to "convert" the specific alliance chars to companions. Thanks!

I got 2 Imperial chars. Both have done the Tatooine quest for "Deadeye" Leyta. For both chars, Leyta is now in the imperial base. On one char, Leyta is listed under "Other Followers" and can be summoned and used for Crew Skills. On the other char, Leyta is listed under "Alliance Recruit" and can't be used for anything. I have no idea if this is a bug or there is something that I need to do, in order to make Leyta a "real" companion? I have this problem for some of the other alliance companions too. Any help appreciated.

I guess the title should have been: "Why are we gathering allies/companions?" Luckily the rest of the posters here understood what I meant, so thanks for the replies Basically I just wondered, if you at some point later could send companions out to do stuff for you (not thinking of crew skills here). Something that would actually benefit your character. But I see now, that companions are just like collecting other stuff like pets or mounts.

I just finished chapter 1-9 and now I'm at the base gathering allies/companions. I know that for story reasons, you recruit allies to "strengthen the alliance". But regarding game-play, you can only have one companion with you all the time and they can now all fill the same roles. And regarding crew skills, then you can only send 5 at the same time anyway. I'm obviously not that far into the expansion, so I just wonder if there at any point later is an actual use for all those allies. Does it matter at all whether I got 10, 20 or 30?

Lots of nice story, no doubt about that, but very little real game-play. It felt a bit like an amusement park ride where you are put on rails and then just go along for the ride. There's no real danger and you got no choice where to go and what to do. The fights seem irrelevant, I don't think I ever got below 90% health in any of them. And you only got one mission all the time. This is not a whine, I just wonder if that's the way the entire "expansion" works or will there be some more free traditional game-play later on with multiple quests, new worlds etc.?

Hi, I'm enjoying myself, but feeling a bit lost mainly about how to play my chars. I got multiple chars (Sith Sorcerer 55, Imperial Agent 50, Bounty hunter 38 and a Juggernaut 29.). I'm not up to speed with regards to what talents to pick and skills to use, so I'm really getting murdered while questing. I'm looking for a good source to find some advice about: 1) Talent builds and skills to use 2) Rotation 3) Stat priority 4) What companions to use I've Googled a lot, but often end up on pages no longer being maintained Any advice/hints will be greatly appreciated

You definitely get points for keeping up the positive attitude But losing 25% subscribers shortly after launch is bad for an MMO... really really bad... like Age of Conan bad.

Well, that quote shown above is not what it said in my e-mail. It said: So I should have received the 30 days by now, but I guess I'll wait one more day and see if they show up tomorrow (as according to the BW quote above).

So much work, just because BW don't add real combat logs to the game. Once again they fail hard compared to other MMO's

This is how bad it can get, when you REALLY screw up a patch/maintenance http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/114155-Server-Screw-Up-Kills-MMO

I doubt smaller patches would help anything. Just look at the very small patch 1.2.0a that completely broke the game It's the apparent lack of testing before patches are released, that make their system a failure.

The free 30 days sounds like a desperate move to keep people in the game a bit longer. All the people that have played from day 1 and bought a 3 months subscription, got their subscription running out in 5 days. Pushing 1.2 out now and giving those people (most of those will have a lvl 50 by now) a free month, is an attempt to keep them from unsubscribing.

Nope. Unsubbed, got 4 weeks left. Was fun for about a month, but then the severe lack of variety and things to do kicked in. Too many missing MMO features, too many bugs, too linear. Might check back in 6-12 months though to see if they improved the game a lot by then.

Okay, tell me how to read this from patch note 1.1.0 then: All Bonus Series missions and their required missions can now be abandoned. My english skills might not be the best, but how can this be interpreted to only apply to some of the bonus quests?

It's been "fixed" in 2 patches now, but like many of their other "fixes", it's not really fixed at all. I got the same problem as you with quests I just can't abandon. Would be nice if they actually tested that their bugfixes worked before they announced them in a patch note.

Of course SWTOR is "stealing" subscribers from other games incl. WoW. New games will always do that. However, every single WoW player I know that started playing SWTOR, have now come back to WoW again. They are either already unsubscribed to SWTOR or waiting for their 3-month subscription to run out.

I would love to do more flashpoints, but I have completely given up on all my chars. It's just no fun to: - Spend 10 min. traveling from quest area on planet to the fleet. - Spend 45 min. spamming LFG in general chat for a group that never happens - Spend 10 min. traveling back to quest area on planet If I wanted to completely waste my time, I might as well go watch TV instead.

Actually, it's the other way around. Those that have played other MMO's for years naturally expected SWTOR to at least incorporate all the nice and must-have MMO features from other successful MMO's. Sadly Bioware decided it was better to blow all the money on voice acting and cutscenes, and then only include the limited number of features you had in MMO's released 5-10 years ago.

I think this fatal game breaking text error from Bioware is actually intentional. They're just trying to make it look as if the patch contains a lot more changes than it actually does

I had never even heard about Origin before. The website for registration looked nothing like EA/Bioware registration websites. And when I created an account there, it said nothing about me already having an account on that e-mail address. It simply just overwrote my current SWTOR password with the one I set up for the iPad game. That's totally messed up

The last 3 days I've had some weird problems with not being able to log in to SWTOR. It kept saying my e-mail or password was incorrect. I kept resetting it and the next day, I had the same problem again. I now found out what the problem is. I downloaded an iPad game, "The Simpsons: Tapped Out". In that game you can create an account at Origin/EA. I did so with the same e-mail address I use for SWTOR, but with a different password. It turns out that apparently this iPad game shares the password info with SWTOR. Absolutely nowhere did it state that this Bioware/EA game was in any way related to the iPad Origin game. I just verified it. I reset my SWTOR password (again) and sure enough, I could no longer log into the iPad game with the password I had chosen there. But suddenly my SWTOR password now worked for the iPad game instead. Seriously, BW/EA *** are you doing? Passwords to MMO's are not something to be treated carelessly

I just turned 50, so I haven't visited the trainer yet. Looking forward to trying Orbital Strike though. With regards to Suppressive Fire I find it weak when comparing it to my BH's similar spells. My BH's aoe can kill mobs similar level as me in maybe 2 casts of the spell. When using Suppressive Fire, it would take me maybe 6-7 casts to kill mobs at my level.