You have had a much different experience than my own. When I went to Ilum I sat on my mount and got my quests done by watching Republic and Imps flip nodes back and forth. I am horribly disappointed in the implementation of PvP in this game, but I do agree that the map looks well laid out, is good looking and has not caused me lag issues.

I started playing MMO's with DAoC, and have been constantly looking for that great RvR experience ever since. WaR came close, but there were too many other influences keeping that game from being great. I was absolutely stoked to find out that SWTOR was going to have an RvR planet. As soon as I hit 50, I rushed out to it ready to get in some action. When I arrived though, it was an odd series of events. 1. I came across a lone repub firing a missle. I attacked, she /sighed and just stood there. After killing her I moved on. 2. I ran into an entire group of repub standing next to a group of imperials. I charged in, and was instantly bombarded with tells telling me not to attack, that they were flipping. 3. I stood there and completed my daily and weekly PvP requirements without once getting off my mount. To say that I am disappointed would be an understatement. Not only was there no incentive to actually fight...there was a strong incentive to not fight. This is a huge issue. If you do not have some sort of coherent PvP system in place, you will lose subscribers. It looks like this game will just be another warfront grind.

Yeah hell, we went 5-0. Maybe it just bugged on us that particular round. If no one else seems to be having the issue, it could have just be a BW flub.

Seems to be caused when you are up against your own faction. It doesn't seem to trip the win against your own.

Yup, and you didn't have geared lvl 50's in there either. This is a very gear centric game and it makes a substantial difference.

faaast forums.

I went through the first couple pages and saw a lot of QQ about Huttball, but nothing about my particular QQ. I actually like Huttball and I think its a great way to help deal with faction imbalance. That said, it should count towards completing your PvP daily even when up against the same faction as it is extremely difficult to get into any other type of game. Thanks.

Actually it was a nice, polite and constructive thread that is already being attacked by slack-jawed fanboys before it makes it to page 2. btw, nice rude, pointless response.

Would you care to elaborate on your largely unintelligible post?

This is a valid response, although I think you are underplaying how important PvP specs will be when the RvR starts and guild groups really start rolling.

Again, reading comprehension is an important part of not looking slow. Enjoying PvE AND PvP combat in a game that contains both in abundance, but only being able to do one effectively is is not "what choices are all about", it's quite simply inane and stupid. If the respec costs are reasonable then sure, but they are not in this game. They climb to the point of absurdity and make it IMPOSSIBLE for someone to both raid and pvp effectively. One more time for the cheap seat and nervous hospitals: Do you honestly think that people are going to roll 2 of the exact same class simply so they can PvE and PvP? If so I simply do not know what to tell you except wake up.

Nope. All the way since DAoC. Nice job again not addressing the PvP/PvE comment I directed at you earlier. Only an idiot would suggest that you need 2 characters of the same class, or pay excessive respec costs to play PvE and PvP in this game. That is if they want to see the game last more than 6 months. You don't even have a reason for not wanting this, you are just argumentative and since you don't PvE and PvP you don't care and therefor just enjoy watching people "pay the consequences". Edit: After seeing your string of posts it is clear you are trolling. Almost got me.

Here is intellect. Your basic premise is that you should only be able to enjoy one aspect of the game, or pay excessive penalties. Why? Who knows, you give nothing to back up your argument, just some vague reference to Rift (which had a wonderful class system btw). You have no logic, no sound reasoning, only some odd wish for players to have to suffer the "consequences" of daring to want to PvP and PvE? I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you are not a serious raider and pvper?

Do people like you even read the threads you post in? Tell me how a DPS Warrior (sentinal/marauder) can benefit from going through the same story twice so that they can have a PvP specced and PvE specced toon. It helps to read.

When I was pointing to the lack of experience, what I meant was that you obviously have not raided endgame WHILE PvPing competitively. I should have made that more clear. For all I know you were in the top WoW guild in the world or one of the most active PvPers around, but clearly not at the same time. I was. I was on a 4 night raid schedule, and was also doing the warlord grind (yes old times lol). So I would have to pay for 2 respecs a day. With raiding and PvPing this didn't leave me any time to grind. My buddies were throwing me money to respec. The dual spec option saved me from that. Now it is a staple of the MMO genre and will continue to be. BW has already stated that it will be going into the game, but I enjoy having conversations about this sort of thing. Comments like the one a couple above just make my day, where the smart-*** says "just pay the respec it isnt hard" then the next guy talks about his logic, when both of them clearly have zero knowledge about it. Hey guys, just use the (upcoming) dual spec option. It isn't hard.