You have the ability to toggle off general chat all together. It's in the settings. Then you simply add your frinds only and poof you have scrubbed the issues away. OR... Just ignore anyone that is offensive. the deal is you are living on a HUGE server with thousands of players and it's SUMMER so these types of things are going to happen. Report everyone of them if you want. But my personal choice would be just play my game and close the chat box.

Just thought I'd point out that you can control your morale you choose to post into these forums. The forums are less than 20% of the total player population if that high. So a minority of players tend to represent the majority??? That's the take away you must allways keep in the back of your mind when you read the stuff on these boards.

I feel bad for RockJaw, He had a thankless position. As seen by all the negative commentary here. The man was flown for place to place and had to answer countless idiotic questions both in person and on his twitter account. All the while maintaining a level of decency even when people he was talking to refuse to offer the same. I wouldn't / couldn't do his job. I know I would have at some point had an "episode" in which the "jet-lag" would have gotten the better of me and I would have unloaded on some super nerd for asking the same question I just answered 10 minutes ago. I hope he got a good severence package, The economy in Texas is pretty good but nobody is really getting a new job in a week these days. Gonna miss RockJaw... Good Luck to you man!!

Personally I think this game is suffering from the theme park model. There is a problem with Theme Park games, you grind up to max level, you now have four options... Dungeon Raid for Loot, PvP for Rank and Loot, Re-Roll..... Or the the ultimate choice QUIT the game. This is the way WoW, GW and SWTOR are built and they all have the same point where a player just gets bored doing the same old same old. The better way to make a MMO is to include Sand Box elements into the game so max level players have more to do that provides immursion for them beyond the options stated above. They could become Master Artisians that can craft meaningful items, Home Decorators, Starship builders and Customizers, Farmers, Speederbike Builders, or Material gatherers. Simular to the way SWG and Everquest did things. There are numerous other games that offer the Sandbox concept as well. I'm not saying SWTOR should be 100% Sandbox but rather a morphed blend of the two formats Doing this would provide deversity in the game, it would offer many players the option to open a whole new aspect of the game to play. Why this was overlooked by BioWare in the game devolopement is beyond me.

Demarco, I generally disagree with your analysis. 1. I agree that server transfers were announced. It's been a month now since they were mentioned in the Q&A right? It was march when this thread started. What upsets me personally, and I think many other people, is that nothing has been done outside of talking about it. What we would like to see is some initiative on the part of EA/Bioware to actually fix the problem instead of talking about it. Well here's where I do a 180 on you, I might surprise you a bit. I personally don't like the way BioWare drags the issues along however, after 20+ years in corporate America I have become accustom to it. Writing script and testing takes time to complete. It's not like painting a wall. You have to make sure you get it right or you can make a huge error and everyone loses a datacron or something and the people revolt. 2. As I recall, this was discussed with ranked warzones. That fiasco was definitely a problem, but I think it's closely tied to the population problems not addressed above and we all got a free month. I personally am willing to look past this problem and just hope they address it as soon as they can. The Cross Server Ques are going to come eventually but I am of the beleif they will in "Legacy 1.4". The recent decline in population has caused the BioWare folk to set them aside for the moment.. The ranked Warzone system was something I too was looking forward to. But frankly I don't hold BioWare to any timetables as they are notorious for their inability to follow them. (See the SGRA promise to install "soon after release") 3. This is the part where I think you're exercising willful denial. Here is a good source on why people are quitting. This is largely from the people that wanted the game to work. I think that's why they took the time to post, rather than just quit. This is the message from the players that has not been addressed. Having a PR person come out and say "yes we're listening. That idea is on the list" is very different from logging in and seeing something in the game improved. The population problems have clearly been going on since march, as noted in the first thread I linked to. It's clear the population decline started long before the release of Diablo. You can say free trials contributed, and I'm sure they did, but for those who payed for the box and didn't subscribe, it's because they didn't like the game enough to pay the subscription. If the management were to focus on producing a game people liked better, it's likely more people would have subscribed. If they addressed the problems mentioned in this thread instead of saying "soon" for several months, it's likely a lot of people that unsubbed would have kept playing. I read that thread and I have to say there are many points in there I can agree with. My biggest issue with this game is two fold. It isn't Star Wars to me, I just feel like I'm playing a space adventure game. But nothing about this game makes me feel like I am in a Star Wars environment. Second, as I said in the earlier post, the elements in the game they call "End Game Content" are far too limited. I would prefer a Sand Box / Theme Park Morph Style to make this a complete MMO. To be completely honest I may not maintain my subscription for the amount of time I was involved in SWG. I don't see the hooks that I would need to justify that. But I also think this game is better than the doomsday trolls want us to believe.

Did you give any thought to the fce school is letting out across the nation so you are going to get a younger group for a while. Also, if you que as a group, you can overcome this issue easily.

1. Server Transfers- With populations in decline it is simply no fun being on an empty server. Will EA bring about the necessary changes? The general consensus seems to be "YES" but the more important question to ask is "WHEN?" With no feed back imaginations seem to run rampant, and arguments start to break out. This is not good for any one on both sides of the fence. Ok just STOP! Server Transfers have been announced and they are going to happen on the release of "Legancy 1.3" So this arguement is no only stale and over played but, it has been asked and answered. Go watch the video that is posted ALL OVER THE NET. 2. Cross server PvP Ques- Again a decline in community has caused longer than desired PvP Ques and I hear (Because I'm not lvl 50) that the Lvl 50 club may be even worse. In fact I would expect it to be. Cross Server Queing has been discussed several times, It seems the EA develpors don't want to go down that path if they are going to condense the servers first. In therory the server transfer should negate the need to have Cross Server Ques. If it doesn't then I am most certain that they will cross that bridge when needed. 3. Lack of content at 50- Some might say you have too much time on your hands if you have X number lvl 50 toons, others might call it dedication. I call it a challenge that EA needs to address, and very soon. I've seen some comments from a particular EA employee who will go unnamed that this community and its actions are the reason for a 25% decline in re-subscriptions. I'll refute that claim by saying a lack of vision, and a lack of action on EA's part with in a reasonable time frame have caused such a mess. Since when is it ever OK to blame paying customers for declining interest in your product? THIS is where you kill me... You admit you are a sub 50 player yet you want to hop on your soap box about end game content. You are not qualified to speak on that. The fall in subs was a combination of free trials and the release of Diablo III having an effect on the game. The end game content in the game does have a need to be better but people who say ALL the drop off of the 400,000 subs was due to the game itself are nuts. This game and ALL theme park games are victims of themselves. Once you hit max level you have a choice, you can PvP loot grind, Dungeon loot grind, Re-roll or, QUIT. Thats all there is to do. Wether it's WoW, GW, SWTOR, any themepark model works this way. The contrast would be to add a sandbox element to allow players to have things to do to keep them busy. REAL crafting that means something, Home Decorating, Farming, Customizing you ship or speeder. Kind of like what SWG did.or EverQuest. there are other game that did that correctly and held player subs for YEARS. Trouble is those skill require time and the game developers can't risk content in the beegining to be slow so that the intial big bucks don't come in. SWTOR is just another one just like the other one. And it will have the same fate as those others did. It's a sign of the times...MMO's are dieing out. /RANT

ha ha!!!

If the OP had taken 5 minutes to watch the "Legacy 1.3" video being promoted, he would have answered his own question and possibly digested his breakfast better.

This has no bearing on this topic but it is a true story... In 1982 I was in basic training at Lackland AFB. My Squadleader was trying to get us to a medical center get some kind of shots and we got lost. We ran into a female Captain who just started chewing my squadleader out for not being able to read a simple street map. He got scared and kept calling her "Sir". "Yes Sir!"... "No Sir!" ... We are lost Sir!" She went totally ballistic, "Do I look like a man to you airmen??" "Have you forgotten what a female looks like??" And he says..."NO SIR!" ... What a scene. So the military at thet time anyway was definately gender specific in the way you address superiors. I don't know if it has changed recently but back then you certainly didn't call a female "Sir" The funniest thing about this was when we finally got back to our barracks that day, there was a stack of pin-up posters on his bunk with a note saying this is a female.... HA HA HA!

THAT WON'T BE TOO HARSH OF A DETERANT REALLY. i WOULD HOPE THAT IF THEY HAD A WAY TO SEE A REPEAT OFFENDER THEY WOULD MAKE THAT PERSON UNABLE TO QUE FOR A DAY OR SOMETHING FOR CHERRY-PICKING.

The scoring system is going to change with the patch so you will be getting a bunch of different types of medals that you don't get now. That will offset the concern you have OP.

Well at least in the 1.2 patch you will have selectable games to que up. So people the OP and myself can avoid the Huttball Arena as much as possible. I also think post patch some of the wide variances between the factions will be changed and the game will become more balanced so it won't be sucha pain. Right now the Empirial side is so OPed when you have Sorcerers, Agents and, Bounty Hunters all able to to heal instantly and the Republic side not able to keep up by class. It's unfair. BioWare is gonna level that hybrid out of the classes so it is not so prevalent. A good move. After that I think the PvP world is gonna change for a lot of players and there will be some QQing heard in many camps.

Well from what I read, this Legacy Patch is going to make the crafters a viable part of the game. That's a positive... Each line has it's own niche and they are all required to make things work properly to maximize your gear's potential specs. Finally, there is a reason to grind out a crafting skill and to really work it out so you understand what you are doing. That is the one key element from the Legacy Patch I know will make some people very happy. This on going discussion about server populations is troubling, it seems a bit too soon for the game to be suffering from subscriber fatigue but I must admit I have thought about cancelling myself. For the simple reason that I have made 3 level 50 toons and PvP'ed to death. My attempts to group into 4 man or 8 man groups for ops are fruitless and my guild is as dead as Jimmy Hoffa. So the shine is off the apple just a bit, the upcoming patch has my attention for now so I hang in and hope that will change things a bit. But it won't change the inability to form groups for ops. That will take players that want to take time to run them. That is apparently missing from this equation here. I truly miss some of the old days on the other Star Wars game, that community never left me hanging.

This guy has a very valid point. You'll only be able to make money on Orange schematics for about a month or two. I honestly hadn't thought about the fact I could buy a Chest piece and RE it for sale. This is an issue that I bet they nerf. Most likely by making it impossible to RE any item with a "Made by ___" on it's label.