I have cursed my sub-par Mario skills a few times on Datacrons, but it pales in comparison to the words my husband uses. A few times, we've gone to get a Datacron, and I have maybe few stumbles before I get mine...but my husband? An hour later he's still cursing before finally slamming the keyboard and getting up and storming out of the room. Then I go, sit in his chair, and try to do what I just did with much less trouble on my own character. But for his character...instead of jumping, his character stumbles. Or skip-hops off an edge. Or flat-out falls. I'm doing the exact same thing that worked for my character, but it's just not WORKING for his. Eventually one of us works it out, but it's a head scratcher. We've more or less the exact same computers (home built from identical parts except for sound cards and he has an extra SSD), using the same internet connection (and we don't have lag issues). It's just weird.

They were there over a month or so ago (early January?) when my husband & I were playing our Pubs on Nar Shaddaa (we started Pub-side, but we've since moved over to the Imp side).

I have been viciously chewed out before for ninjahealing. Not in this game, no, but in this game I've had the hostiles peel off the person I was 'saving' and come attack me instead (even leading to my death), while the person I saved just stood there and watched. Now, that was no fun. As well, some people get all offended with the 'I could handle that myself!'/'I was testing my limits!'/'YOU STOLE MY XP!' ...etc...but, for the most part, it's appreciated, so I don't let a few sour grapes spoil it for me. I like helping people. I like buffing people, and I will sometimes go out of my way to toss the class buff on someone nearby. People remember these little things and they do add up. Well, unless they're the aforementioned sour grapes, but they might remember you as well... probably just as negatively as you remember them, heh.

One thing that confuses me with the whole 'Get paler as Dark Side grows' is... Pure Sith. Pure Sith, you have several options to tell Pure Sith NPCs how lovely their skin looks during quest conversations. There are frequent comments about this, about the dark red, etc. But if you're Pure Sith with Dark IV? Your skin isn't red anymore. It might not even qualify as pink any longer. So, where's this 'gorgeous red' that is so wanted? It's not there, at high Dark Side. So, in general (and outside of cutscenes, since that's the only place you get high-res textures), it looks like you were a victim of complete and very bad skin bleaching (regardless of skin tone to start), followed by taking a nap face-down in a dirty ashtray. Ick.

I'll just say this: From everything I've read, BioWare took an early, beta version of HeroEngine, because they liked what they saw and the potential it had, and built on, and modified it, from there. What this game runs on now has only a resemblance to the latest HeroEngine, from comparisons I've seen. And I also believe this game's HeroEngine version and the actual HeroEngine are no longer cross-compatible.. or something like that, that BioWare doesn't use the latest HeroEngine updates, because their version is changed so much that they're no longer compatible. So it's hard to say 'HeroEngine is a good choice!' (or 'a bad choice!'), when what this game is running on bears little resemblance to the current HeroEngine (at least in my admittedly unprofessional-level knowledge).

I would LOVE it if they switched to Wednesday, since Tuesday sucks for me... but it's probably only because of the holiday. Hey, OP: Way to jump to conclusions without bothering to research, or even discovering if this was a one-time change!

Gear is faction-locked. The exact same item will have a Imperial look and a Republic look... so what looks like one thing on a Jedi Knight looks TOTALLY different on a Sith Warrior. I was disappointed to find this out, too. I wanted a Marauder look on my Smuggler. Also, it reduces the use of the Hutt Cartel Network. Can you imagine the activity Nar Shaddaa would see, if you could sell orange item looks to the other side?

If you open your log and look at the left side, on the bottom of the panel that lists all your quests, you'll see the line: Missions: */25 with * being the number of quests you currently have. I know you've figured this out already, I'm just posting the info for anyone else who might stumble across this.

My level 50 Sorc is only Social 1, even though I always tried to group with people. Even when I did, everyone picked up quests solo, and disbanded from the group before turning in quests ... thus, zero Social. And all FPs past Esseles/BT have absolutely PATHETIC Social Points rewarded. The only way this character will ever get Social ranks is if I find someone to farm Black Talon with. I was social with her- for the entire game- but not social the way this game deems social to be. My 27 BH is Social 3. I have been grouped with the same people since this character was created. On Hutta, it was me + the IA. Once we left Hutta, we grouped with the Warrior + the Inquisitor and have done absolutely EVERYTHING together since. Even so, we're only Social 3... at 27... when the Social vendor sells a level 25 speeder that requires Social 5. SOCIAL FIVE AT LEVEL TWENTY FIVE. How is that possible, unless you farm the 1st FP over and over and over again? It's not possible. Also, how is this character, who has never been social with ANYONE aside from the exact same 3 people I know in real life... how is she 'more social' than my Sorcerer who was constantly grouping with new and different people? The social system in this game is just really weird. It rewards grouping with the exact same people (who would thus be on the same quests as you) instead of rewarding you for engaging in actual 'being social and making friends and contacts' activities. <shrug> It is what it is, but calling it 'Social' is misleading.

I was listening to my husband's Sith Warrior conversing with Vette. Vette was talking about the person who saved her from slavery (I'm being fuzzy here to not be too spoilerish) and that person's daughter, Risha, being her best friend growing up. Risha is the Smuggler's third companion. I have been pinged by a couple more, but that one I listed is the one that I noticed most recently, and it's stuck with me, since Risha is the companion my Smuggler alt most recently gained. I wonder if she'll ever talk about Vette?

One of my characters has been grouped with others her entire existence. 1-10 on Hutta with a friend, and then 11+ with the other 2 friends that were leveling on Korriban. So, I have never done *anything* outside of a group, and since 11 I have been in a group of 4. She is level 27, and Social 3, nearing in on Social 4. So...if I am level 27 with non-stop grouping, doing every quest and all FPs available when they become available, turning in all the quests together so that we never miss out on a single Social Point, EVER: why is my group of 4 not even Social 4 yet, when the level 25 social speeder requires SOCIAL 5? No one would get Social 5 naturally by 25. They would have to do nothing but grind Black Talon/Esseles! I honestly think BioWare misjudged the awarding of Social points, and thought people would be somehow getting more than they are getting, if that level 25 speeder requires Social 5.

Also... Light Side choices for Imperials aren't always 'good' choices. Example: You have to poison slaves. Slow-acting poison, or fast-acting? You can't choose NOT to poison. So, LS choices for Imperials aren't always the 'good and noble' choice. A Sith Inquisitor who regularly makes LS choices will simply be the more long-term plotter, planner, manipulator, 'what's best in the long term for me and/or the Empire' instead of 'RAH MURDER DEATH KILL' (which is what the instant DS choice is, often enough). Note: I speak from experience. I wanted my Sorcerer to be the über manipulator. Evil, but with a purpose. She wound up being only Dark II at 50 due to the massive amount of 'smart' choices that awarded LS points. But I still definitely consider her evil... even when she's making an LS choice.

They didn't say why they pushed it back to Wednesday, but I'm assuming it was due to the holiday. I personally wish they'd push it back to Wednesday permanently, as that's a better day for me. But ... that's just me.

In Real Life, I am hearts and rainbows and saccharine sweetness (sometimes too much so), but more or less follow the D&D 'Chaotic Good' alignment. I wear my heart on my sleeve, I can't bear to see anyone hurt, I do anything for my friends, yadda yadda. In many RPGs, I have my first playthrough as 'true to life', so I wind up being good... and then the second playthrough, I go for evil, to see what those choices would be like. In this game, I am joyously Dark Side, and I had planned it that way for years. Why? Because I'm not hurting actual people, and I get to stretch my imagination and do things I would NEVER actually do. I also like the 'There is no peace, only passion' line far more than the 'There is no emotion, only peace' line. Even so, there are some choices I have to seriously debate with myself as to if I'm really comfortable doing so... but I always follow what I think my character would actually do, given the beliefs/morals I have decided she has. Now, my Dark Side characters aren't pure DS. I decide 'ok my Sith is manipulative, plotting and planning and meticulous but...not murder-death-kill', which means she gets rather a lot of LS points. And my lone LS girl, my Bounty Hunter, 'follows her code' which gets her some DS points, too. However, I don't believe that playing a Dark Side character gives the the right to be a complete and utter <expletive deleted> to other players and do complete and utter <expletives deleted> actions towards them. Even if that other player is Light Side. Because in many situations, it's not character vs. character, affecting only the characters themselves, it's player vs. player, with the intent of making the other PLAYER miserable/angry/upset... which is completely different. And someone who wants to be an <expletives deleted>, or actually considers that a LIFE GOAL? I don't want to interact with one, I don't want to be friends with one, and I definitely don't want to be one.

Ok, gonna pick this apart a little bit. Note: I played WoW for a short while a few years ago. I really have no experience to stand on in comparison, so take my viewpoint as coming from someone who has played a variety of games but isn't a real typical 'ex-WoW player'. Achievements: I really would not call the Codex an 'achievement' system. Don't get me wrong: I like the Datacrons (even though I have cursed myself blue in the face at my lack of Mario skills for some), and I like finding the Lore objects... but I wouldn't call it 'achievements'. Perhaps I'm missing a part of the Codex, though? I'm only thinking about the Planetary tracker (datacron, location, lore, etc.). To me, at least, that's not exactly an 'achievement tracker'. Even though sometimes getting a particular datacron IS an achievement... hmm. Dunno why it just doesn't feel like an 'achievement system' to me. LFG Tool: SW:tOR does have a LFG tool. Unless you mean 'a tool that magically and automatically creates groups (while also possibly teleporting them to the appropriate instance!) without players having to do anything but fill in check boxes'. (Wow, are we really so lazy nowadays?) The problem with TOR's current tool is that it isn't very intuitive, and you can't search by the dungeon/instance that is being sought to run, you can only search by player class/level/planet they're on... and you actually have to form the group yourself, you can't just let the computer do all the work for you. Is that what's wanted? Something to do all the work for you? Is that why no one uses our current LFG, because they have to actually write stuff like the instance they want to do in the Notes section... or search for people to fill their groups?

Most likely this is just a one-time change. Monday is President's Day, a Federal Holiday, so perhaps that's what pushed it back from Monday night (Tuesday morning). Of course, Tuesday is also a holiday (Mardi Gras!), though it's not a Fedaral Holiday like President's Day is. I, personally, would vastly prefer Wednesday myself, so I would really be down for it switching permanently. This was probably not a permanent change, though.

Yeah, just after making my post of finding there are vastly MORE quests than needed... I don't want to sound like I'm calling those not experiencing this 'liars'. Just ... they've obviously had a different experience than me. I can understand that stealthers could have a MUCH more likely time missing xp, because they don't have to fight every single bloody thing in their path to get anywhere. People who group more will get more xp than those strictly solo, because there's a rather large group xp bonus in this game. People who don't make it a point to camp out in rest zones will lose out on xp as well. People who aren't nuts about harvesting crafting nodes and getting aggro because of that... yeah, they miss out on some random xp. Those are just off the top of my head... perhaps there's more?

With my level 50, who did no space past the first one (and stopped when I saw the xp you got from it), no PvP at all, less than half the Heroics, half the FPs (and never repeated any)... I had to completely SKIP doing some side quests, do no Bonuses at all if I could possibly avoid them, skip entire planetary Bonus Series entirely... because I was outleveling EVERYthing, come about Quesh. I spent all my time post-Quesh getting as LITTLE xp as I could, because I was 8 or so levels above level for everything and I wanted to get myself more in line with my class questline. I didn't do very well. I focused entirely only class questline, and still hit 50 before the end... and before doing any quests on Correllia and less than half of Voss. And with my current alt, (who has also done no space, no PvP) I'm severely outleveled again. I'm 27, and not even done with normal Nar Shaddaa (which is 21-24). I could entirely skip the next planet (Tattooine) and go on to the one after it (Alderaan), since Alderaan starts at 28. So, yeah. My experience: there are WAY more quests out there than needed to hit 50. Entire planets worth.

It's my go-to site for datacron info as well. I started having issues accessing some pages last night, and today I can't access the site at all. A quick Google search led me to their Facebook page, where I see this message: Hopefully it's back up and running soon.

"Why only 10?" Well....they say 10. Last week they actually answered 15. Maybe this week, they'll answer more than 10 again. Maybe not... but they'll answer at least 10. They also plan on doing this every single week. ....and you have a problem with that? <boggle> Jeez, I have a lot to complain about myself, but this doesn't even come close to being a 'problem'....

My guild is NZ based, but my husband and I and a few co-workers are American, working casino swing shift- our prime playtime is 3AM CST+. Ergo, prime time Oceanic, which is why our guild is based there. It's a group we've been gaming with for years. We are sick of the server coming down during our prime play times. We've been eagerly looking forward to the official Oceanic release. We don't care that we'll be playing long distance- we did it before, in Warhammer. We want to play on a server active in our time frame. We want to transfer WITH OUR GUILD. If we can't? I honestly don't know. I hate to be the kind to threaten to quit, but... it's going to happen to at least some of us, if our guild moves and we're left behind. No one wants to abandon the characters they've worked on. Having to do so would drive at least SOME of them away. I really don't want that to happen.

I've also never understood why I take off from the station/planet when I enter my ship... BEFORE I actually leave the station/planet. I have to launch my ship to talk to my companions on board, or to use my holoterminal, or use my cargo bay? And then I have to land again, afterwards? ...why did I even launch in the first place? Anyway, back on the OP's track... Yes. A toggle would be great.

My only regret is that I had to modify it. Many years ago (jeez, can it really be nearly 2 decades?) I played a Captain Zani Jaxx in an awesome GURPS campaign. I *had* to name my Smuggler Zani, and I just could not wait until she got high enough to claim her surname... ...only to find out by then that Jaxx was taken. Jax was, too. But I was determined, and so I shoved an apostrophe in there to get J'axx. So, I'm not as happy with the surname as I'd like to be, but it's not regret in the choice of the name, just regret that I couldn't get it exactly how I wanted it.

I got my first goldspam letter about a month ago. I don't recall if it had the 1¢ attached or not.. I reported as spam and went on my way. Didn't see another for about 3 weeks, and now I get 1-2 every other day or so. All of the ones lately have had the 1¢... I never take that, it's not worth my time, I just hit the 'report as spam' (though I wasn't sure if 'spam' or 'harassment' was more appropriate, since BioWare didn't add a 'gold seller' report button). Hopefully BioWare is on it, and doesn't let this get out of hand. Gold spam, like any form of spam except the kind in the can (which I simply find disgusting) makes figurative steam come out of my ears and drives my headache up several decibels, so I prefer to avoid it!

I have an idea in my head for each of my characters, and I follow that idea with each character, regardless of Light or Dark choices. I don't decide 'My BH is Light', I more decide that my BH has a code and will follow that code- and her code has led to her being predominantly Light, though not totally. My Sorcerer is 'smart, manipulative, long-term-planning evil', which led to her making FAR more Light choices than I ever expected, and at 50 she's only Dark II, and not even halfway to III. I like that this gets me more into sync with my characters- it makes me think about them- but I'm also slightly irritated that the game seems to want you to max your choice, and not pitter about with no plans on ever being maxed on Light or Dark. Ah well. I'll never have any of the goodies that might unlock at max, but at least I'll care about my characters more than if I mindlessly hit the appropriate conversation option every time. Doing that would have me not care about them at all.