Like you I'm also returning after being gone for a long time but found a lot of great information on the "SWTOR Escape pad cast". The latest episode "#315:Gears of war" had some great information helping me understand the current game and new gear system. I would definitely recommend it to anyone needing the help.

We've all seen thread after thread, of players asking for the option to change their advanced class. Now I don't think anyone really expects the development team to add this (I'm sure they have many reasons why) but I think I have an idea that could work. It's not a PAINLESS idea... but it's at least "an idea". I'll use my assassin to demonstrate... The "Restart token".. Purchased from the Cartel Market. When used,the player is prompted to choose (in this case) Assassin if I wanted to play through the story again with that character OR Sorcerer if I wanted to change my advance class.I make my choice and find myself flying to Korriban to start Harkun's verbal abuse all over again.(Maybe I'll let him live this time?) What do I loose??.. All items on my person are removed and sent to my restarted character via email. I don't have the level to use them, so I'll just leave them there for now. The emails sent to my new characters are re sent because I'm starting over. All cargo hold items are unavailable because I don't have a ship anymore, but WILL be in cargo when I do get my ship back.Most companions are lost but all relationships reset to zero. Dark side/Light side point of course are also reset. My story companions are all lost but thats because I need to meet them again in the story. Why would I do this? What do I keep?... Special companions (in my case Shae Viizla) are available by email like any other new character I may create. Special companions earned like HK-51 for example, or purchased like Treek are NOT lost, but still reset to zero like you just met and reset to default gear so be sure to place any items you want to keep in your cargo hold (Remember, I'm restarting so they don't have the level to use that gear anymore).Now I get the restart or advanced class change I wanted, and don't need to worry about name availability like a new character or after any possible server merger type issues because this character is restarted.. not new. I still have my high level gear in cargo, I just can't use it until I level up. So there it is.. like I said, it's not painless, but it's an idea.

Ithorian Rodian Trandoshan Aqualish And have them speak their native tongue instead of common. It would add to the immersion and save money by not needing to hire professional voice actors.

Wait...you want Collector Edition awards to be available to all players?? Ummmm… NO

We need a body type between styles 2 and 3. I gave my assassin body type 3 because he's tall, but wish he wasn't so "buff". I would love to have the mass of body 2, but as tall as body 3.

I have a feeling the characters will all be original creations. No disrespect to Bioware, but why would a film studio spend millions on a film just to use someone else's story? They may use the SWTOR or KOTOR timeline, but not the characters. Im not a Revan fan so Im ok with this.

Haha!!! I was thinking the same thing!!

Exactly what is it you want? They are making NPC's romance-able now by male AND female characters, available hair colors run the spectrum, and anyone can wear a dress. Seriously?!?....what are you asking them to do??

Before this game came out, I created a story that followed a young Sith and his rise to power. His story is a very sad one, and actually very "human". I wanted to create something that showed a Sith before and after his soul was lost, and not just some "cool bad guy" for the hero to beat on. The rise to power of the SI was the one class that had the closest feel to the story I had created all those years ago, and It's the one that always pulls me back. I've been gone since 2017 and just came back last week.... cause I needed THAT feeling again.

With news that there is going to be an Old Republic era movie, there is a possibility (however unlikely) that we could see some existing characters show up. This game definitely has a TON to choose from. Are there any characters from this game you'd like to see show up in an Old Republic film? (even if just a cameo).. and who would you like to see play that character? For me it would be Darth Baras played by Conleth Hill. Every time I saw him on GOT I thought to myself "someone REALLY needs to make this guy Darth Baras.

Not a bad name,but isnt that vodoo?? 6/10 Im doing a repost of mine,because tha last time my grade was because of the band?? Because the bans would be good in the Empire?? ***?!? My character and the band are not the same,and not spelled the same. My Jugg got her name because of the way she would use the Dark side to seduce her rivals, starting way back in the Sith academy. Her name is Darth Paramour. par·amour noun \ˈpa-rə-ˌmu̇r\ : a person with whom someone is having a romantic or sexual relationship and especially a secret or improper relationship

As a warrior,how can you not LOVE Tremel....some of the best voice acting in the game. On the light side,I would love to see more of him... maybe as a Lord or a Darth. With a new hand of course

Not a bad name,just too Greco/Roman for Star Wars. 5/10 My Jugg got her name because of the way she would use the Dark side to seduce her rivals, starting way back in the Sith academy. Her name is Darth Paramour.

A) I feel the same way with my PT.. and (B) From "cover" most of the time Im sure.

Mine is a female, and at the academy she used the force to seduce her rivals in order to get close to them, to kill them. She is the Star Wars version of a Black Widow and at the academy she became known as "Paramour" or in time "Darth Paramour". The other RP server has one (Im on Ebon Hawk), but mine is the original. the word Paramour= http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Paramour?s=t Also.. A trick she learned from her master Darth Anomalous, she is able to hide the corruption from the force so she is more pleasing to the eye.. but for some she must still use the force, because she is a pureblood.

Good points Lurker.. I think first the choice should be made when you create the caracter (otherwise you have 2 weapons) but also this would cover the RP aspect you talked about I feel.

I dont think it would be hard as you think, but then I could be very wrong.

Even if it was a lot of coding, Ill bet the community would all go nuts if they did this. Maybe you and a friend have a Jango and Boba fantasy.. Your friend could just play a Merc with 2 pistols, and you could play a Merc with a blaster rifle. The community would go nuts for this change.Not to mention as I said before, some people (me included) would go as far as to re roll a 50 just so I could play the character I really would like to play.

Just as you said it.. to be honest I would reroll my Sorcerer (LVL 50) to an Assasin in a heartbeat if I was able to use single saber. As for the rifle,really the only thing not the same between a sniper and blaster rifle is the look. I think the easy way is to simply let us choose weapon style after we pick our AC. So for me, I would pick Assasin.. then pick between single,double bladed,or duel wield (no gun option for force toons).. and off I go. This should have always been in the game imo.

So before the last update, I can see why things are set the way they are. But now with the change to armor and being able to look how you the player would like to look, why are we still stuck with our choice of weapon? Some people (myself included) have picked a class because of the weapon. I picked a Sith Sorcerer because Im not big on the double bladed saber, and I picked Sith Juggernaught because I dont want to duel wield. Im sure I'm not alone on this, but since armor doesn't set us apart and we now have an icon to show what class we are.. why not let us choose our own style of weapon? The dps is in the class,not in the weapon,and all the animations are already in game. Im not trying to say I want my Jedi to use a pistol.. but instead just imagine.. The Trooper with duel pistols... The Bounty Hunter with a blaster rifle... The Assasin with a single saber... The Sage with a double bladed (still with very little melee attacks of course)... Or the Operative with a single pistol... I think you get the idea. It just seems to me that the weapon is cosmetic and the true ability of course comes in the AC and the abilities that come with it. Maybe you would like to play a Juggernaught with a double bladed saber or a Marauder with a single saber? Well why not... that Marauder is still going to be all dps, but it would be with animation for a single saber instead of duel. What do you think of this? I cant imagine it would be all that hard to add. Cheers, and thanks for any feedback

Maybe we can get a warning this time.. "Servers will be up in 15 minutes"

Yeah I never really understood all this Revan fan boy garbage. How many times did you die before you finished the game? You can't add Revan to a list of other SW characters when you are the one playing Revan in a video game. If you can.. then why not just add every single character in SWTOR... you just cant. The guy that has no girlfriend, lives in his mom's basement, and eats pizza and sucks down mountain dew every day just wants to be someone special for once in his life..and Revan was the key,it's sad really. The Revan craze is nothing more than people with low self self-esteem,living vicariously through through a video game character. Sad indeed.

I don't think you get my meaning.. We all know it's sci-fi.. but you watch the movies, then read the books. After that if you think they are both on the same level then you are crazy,the EU is a tad over the top. Maybe thats why GL doesnt think about the EU,maybe because he doesnt think they really "get it". In Ep. 3 when Yoda faces Sidious and Sidious says "Now you will experience the full power of the dark side".. what did he do next? open some vortex to happy town?? no.. he shot Yoda with lightning. GL gave them an inch so they can write these stories,and they took a mile. It's really just that simple,and to be honest, anyone who thinks otherwise is just fooling themselves. Do I like any of the EU? Yes I do. I like Sadow,Kun,Bane,Quinlen Voss and some others, but that doesnt mean they sometimes don't do things that are just wrong and have no place. Star Wars is sci-fi, but I feel some guid lines had been set and the EU writers just ignor them.

Very good points, but I would like to add to it. 1) About the black holes? I agree with you 100%.. PLUS even though Star Wars is sci-fi, sometimes a writer should do his homework in real life. For those that dont know, a black hole has such a great amount of pull.. that a black hole small enough to fit in the palm of your hand would absorb the planet Earth in less than a second. Now think about that. Yes this power is overkill. 2) I could maybe see him do it 1 time...MAYBE. In a movie you could have some actor that looks like a young Ian McDiarmid. Like the way the make up department tried to make Ewan McGregor look like Alec Guiness. 1 time max! 3) I like Boba Fett, but I never understood why people though he was so BA.. he didn't do anything in the movies. Total screen time in the OT is under 2 minutes.. Yes.. 2 minutes. Jango was cool cause at least we get to see him fight. It's only after watching Jango in Ep. 2 that I started to think Boba could be BA. Jango's ability against a Jedi was good.And the Bounty Hunter video game where you play as Jango was great and really made me like him even more and it had a good tie in with the movie. As for supermandos.. not so much.. I agree that is a bit much. 4) The Vong.. I was thinking about the very thing you brought up.. When Obi-Wan says "The Force surrounds us, It penetrates us, it binds the galaxy together.".. but to add to that.. Qui Gon says "Midi-Chlorians are a microscopic life form that resides in all living cells" and even says "Without the Midi-Chlorians,life could not excist". It's like the writer never even watched the movies.

Thanks for the comments proffessor, I think Ill pass on any responce to that guy wolf above you because after his comments, its obvious he just doesn't get it, and only wants to argue. But back to my point.... Starkiller, yes I would agree except people seem to take what he does in game as cannon way too often. I remember before the game came out, the devs talked about what he does and said yes its over the top, but that is what they are going for.. over the top and not cannon. Of course the fan boyz came out of the wood work and now they always go back to that when Starkiller is talked about in a poll. I think it just makes sence to use the movies as a model for obvious reasons. Example.. Yoda pulls an X-Wing out of a swamp and it looks like it took so much , but its no big deal to move a moon? I just shook my head when that happend. Now I dont fell all Jedi or Sith are OP.. but I do feel the ones that are, come way too often. Again I think this is just a bad writer trying to out do another writer. Quick add.. The X-Wing scene took a lot of concentration, and the scene when Yoda blocks Dookus lightning seemed to really take something out of him. These are things that take alot... but some EU stuff goes way beyond what you see in a movie. Make new powers and all.. that fine.. my problem again is with the over the top aspect of these powers.