When you load your launcher it always tells you when their is maintenance that day. So if you just login and hit play without reading you will only have a 15 minute notice. But if you read the maintenance report you will see when they will be shutting down the servers.

No you can't get to Legend in 5 days. You can only get 12000 (13410 if you use items correctly) rep points a week. So if you are just starting you can't even get to Friend in the first week. It takes 6 weeks of the event to get to Legend no matter how many characters you use to get there.

You know why they said it wasn't an exploit? Because they would have had to ban over 50% of the game population for exploiting the game. And they were not willing to do that so they said it wasn't an exploit and just removed the bolster this weekend instead.

I just really wish BioWare would really tell us why they are taking out the bolster so everyone can stop whining why it went away. It sucks that I cannot level my toons on Ilum anymore but I will just get the exp from somewhere else. IMO I don't believe it was because of the whiners. People cry about this game all the time and BioWare does nothing about it. I think it was because BioWare didn't want 500 people on Ilum sitting at a pylon farming all day in groups of 24. They actually want you to experience the game and actually go from planet to planet doing missions. But for what ever reason they did change it everyone needs to stop whining about it because there is nothing we can do about it now.

The only compensation I want is for them to add the time the servers were down to the end of the double xp weekend?

Not right now. But it will eventually be an option if you are willing to pay to transfer.

If BW is smart they do 1-2 servers at a time. Cause then if even every character transfers to the same server most likely it will not be full, especially since over half of the people on your server are probably unsubbed anway and most servers dont have enough active accounts to overpopulate 1 server.

There only doing server transfers to boost population not to accommodate someone who chose to to play on a server type they no longer like. So if you want to change server types you do the same thing everyone will have to do, pay to transfer servers or start new characters on the server type you want and please suck it up since you made the bad decision to get on a server type you don't like anymore.

If you read what bio-ware stated about the free transfers in early summer it will be only to specific servers. And if you want to go to any other servers you will have to pay for it. So you will get a selection of X amount of servers to choose from and hopefully one will work out for you. In the mean time early summer is still a month and a half away. How many people does the game lose until then? The game is already pretty much dead on my server, 52 people on the fleet at 6:00 pm on a Saturday. My guild tried to get 1 healer to run an 8 man HM Op and were unsuccessful for 45 minutes to even get a response from anyone. I constantly see people spamming for 30 minutes to an hour for people they need for FP/Ops and usually come up unsuccessful. IMO this free transfer is going to just make people rage quit the game forever and they are going to end up killing the game completely (if they haven't already.) I vote for a complete restructure of the Bio-Ware staff because they have done nothing but make bad decisions since the release of the game.

Haha. You make me laugh with your real work. Cause you know what my job is and it is obviously not real work. I bet you gave yourself a pat on the back after posting this! And by the way I get 7 hours of sleep a night for my "not-real" job as you call it.

Agreed. I too think they wanted you to finish a storyline before going on to the next. And to all those who paid for a 6-month sub before knowing what the game was like just astonishes me. It's like paying for a car before test driving it.

I am home from work at 5 pm. I take care of my son until 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm when he goes to bed. and then I play afterwards. I am usually on from 9pm till midnight playing. And if you don't destroy your house in the first place it wont be a disaster. I can clean up my son's mess in about 20 minutes and if you can read you would see the part where I said if I am lucky I get 6-8 hours on Saturday or Sunday to play. So what I gather from your post is you treat your house like crap, your kids are up till midnight and you never have time away from them, and if you have more than 1 hour a day to play you dont take care of your kids.

If you don't have a level 50 by now you haven't been playing very often. I have 2 level 50s that took me 3 weeks each to get to 50 and 3-4 more alts to 30+. And dont say its because I dont have a life. I worked 40 hours a week monday through friday and have a 1 year old son I take care of too. I get about 2-3 hours monday through friday to play and if i am lucky i get 6-8 hours either saturday or sunday to play. Most likely you paid for 6 months in advance and stopped playing like everyone else and that is why you arent 50 yet. Man I cant stand leveling my alts because you end up doing the same dang quests over and over again. It is so boring. The only reason I do is because of the thought of having that character level 50 would be awesome.

All of these points are great and need to be top priority for Bio-Ware to keep subscribers, but it is not worth quitting over. 1.2 was the patch to bring the game up to where it should have been at launch. The next patches are the ones to be watching for. BW is hoping that with 1.2 being released it will populate the servers enough where they wont have to touch on any of the subjects for a while. But when people start leaving again they will have to start merging servers and set up cross server queuing for PVP.

What is eventually going to happen is the servers are going to get so unpopulated or never go up the way they plan and they will be forced to lose everyone or merge servers. And I don't think they are willing to lose everyone. So watch for server merges in the future because even with the few people 1.2 will bring back it still won't bring enough back to make much of a difference. Most people who come back are gonna find the one or two flaws with the new patch and just turn around and leave again. People expected this game to be better than WoW on release and it will never live up to their expectations until it is. They don't want to wait it out for the developers to do what they can do to bring more content and fix bugs. They want it now or they will just leave and play something else.