I wouldn't say they have a "ton", at most they have a "few" for character creation, but most are just ugly in all honesty. Too many times I have seen female characters with the small ponytail and the one-sided bang hairstyle, and I can agree that's only 1 of the 3-4 good hairstyles females get, of the 20+ they have. Plus, there's not one single hairstyle that extends below the shoulders...I know it's not Star Warsy to have long hair, but most of us find long hair beautiful, or appealing. And notice how I'm just talking about the hairstyles alone when there's a few other features that are very limited. I really hope they add more in-depth features and options to the character creation screen real soon. I would LOVE to spend 2 hours on making a new character look real good, but instead I only spend about 5-10 minutes on this game, create the character, find it unappealing with endgame gear, and delete it.

The options simple: Auto-dismount if you interact with ANYTHING (and by anything I mean anything, vendors, mailboxes, etc.)

I agree that the character customization needs to more detailed, have more features, and definitely be more in-depth. I've never seen an online game go full out on character customization like you see in Elder Scrolls, Soul Calibur, etc. games. Not only would having those types of character customization in an MMO be a huge step forward in getting more people to play, as well as already existing players creating more characters, it would also be a huge step forward if you were to be the first MMO to do that, sort of leading by example. I somewhat agree with your suggestion about trading Bound gear to other characters, but of course some ill side-effects could come with it, e.g. having a tank in full Campaign gear just getting his gear from his dps toon and he doesn't know how to tank at all, but just has good gear. I still support the idea, but it just depends on how the public uses it.

I would argue with the logic of light = energy, such as energy from sunlight, that it only be natural that since lightsabers are weapons of pure energy, that they are energy damage.

I was wondering in addition to black-(color) crystals dropping off places such as Denova (black-orange) etc. that newer color crystals could be implemented as well, but not with a black core. I would be very much interested in seeing a mix and match of colors for a single color crystal, such as green-blue (green core) or the opposite, and the same could be said with other color combinations (yellow-green, green-yellow, blue-red, red-blue, orange-green, green-orange, etc. etc.) and just from this simple combination of colors, you can add an entirely new line of color crystals to the game, as well as several different combinations to satisfy every last person. With all honesty, it would be a whole lot better if vendors ONLY sold you the regular color crystals (red, blue, green, orange, yellow, red) and then you would have to ask an Artificer if you want a black-(color) crystal as well as said color combinations I've stated above. This would bring much demand for artificers such as myself, not to mention I would be conflicted with which color combination I want. Just as a random suggestion, the said color combinations could just be crafted by choosing the color crystals separately (i.e. taking a blue +41 endurance and a red +41 endurance crystal to make a blue-red +50 endurance crystal) so the mats would still be used to create the starter crystals. I honestly have 5 full stacks (almost 500) Corusca Gems hoarded up in my bank, not being used because players can just go off and buy gear with the same exact stats, which brings me to my next suggestion. Why can't Artificers make color crystals that have better stats than what anybody else can get from a vendor? Honestly, the last time I made color crystals and sold them were way before patch 1.1.5, when they were still +31 / 33 stats. I've talked this over with a bunch of friends and guildies, and they greatly supported the idea of having me make them their own custom bi-color combinations that would have slight stat increases over those given by vendors. P.S. Just wanted to try to get some feedback from people who aren't on my server, and possibly with enough people backing me up, I could throw this out to BioWare's suggestion box and hopefully they'll take action depending on how many people would like this feature.

Ok, so I have seen some people while on my Republic toon running around with a black-red crystal in their lightsaber, it was the pvp version (+41 expertise). I found on Torhead that there are different types of black-red (power, crit, endurance, of course from Empire's Rakata weapons, which are BoP). So my bottom-line question is: How did those guys get the black-red crystal as Republic? Am I able to get one with power or crit as Republic, or is it only limited to expertise? Any useful answers are appreciated, thank you.