I quite like this idea. If the stat bonuses, or the bonuses at all were about the same strength as holocrons, then it wouldn't be a requirement, nor feel forced. I'm not much of an RPer, but I must say that I'm part of the side who really hates what EAware has done with lightsaber colors; going so far away from canon it's not even funny. So I really like getting that first lightsaber, seeing a lovely blue lightsaber unsheathe as you're about to bash someone's face in. Not RP, but it gives a good feeling. I'd say this Mentor System idea would give the same effect, at least for me; not for RP purposes, but because it simply fits in with the Star Wars universe.

Indeed, server lag could be the cause, however this issue has been happening before at points where we were assured that the servers were functioning at peak efficiency, and that our lag is not server side - not to any extent sufficient to justify such defects as missing spells and wrongly activated GCDs. Therefore, the idea that this time around it's also caused due to poor programing, it's not unreasonable, and a very fair assumption. The only way to be sure is to wait for a month or so for the activity to dial down a bit and just see what happens, though it is quite thinkable that they botched the coding and ended up ruining more than they should have ever been able to. It is EA after all with and understaffed department and critically low funding that it supposed to be in charge of maintaining an MMO with over a million players in it.

Sadly, you are very wrong. BioWare has acknowledged the fact that due to the animations and how the server is built up in form of prioritization, there will be ability lag. This was non-existant during the server stress test right before launch, but it was very severe after launch and for several months after. They managed to make it much better after several patches, but it has never been as good as it was during the stress test beta. If you imagine how WoW's ability responsiveness is, that is how good it was during the stress test. This issue is indeed back in 2.0, and I don't see BioWares 2 monkey debug team being able to squash this within the next 6 months, and even if they do fix it, they won't make it as smooth as in WoW - simply because the game's animations and how the game engine is built up, won't allow it. If EA allowed BioWare more manpower and more funding, I'm absolutely sure they would have been able to make it perfect, but the fact of the matter is; EA is getting it's 4th Worst Company in America award by the end of May, and that is not because they post nudes on the interwebz. Rushed content, withheld necessary funding, and lack of manpower is how EA dictates it's subsidiary companies. Thanks to this, the customers suffer for it as EA is highly skilled at hyping games up and giving the players just enough candy to waste their entire allowance on buying out half the candy store.

Dude, EA allowed BioWare to keep 3 people working on the game, meaning you have 2 monkeys to do this kind of stuff and has no idea how to do anything else, and then you have the 3rd person being, pretty much, a normal person that they pulled from his usual job as a garbage man. Basically, none of them has any idea of how anything works, they were just told to shut down the servers and website for a few hours every now and then to make it look like they are doing something productive. Considering EA is putting less funds and effort into this game than I make in an hour, I doubt my assumption on SWTOR's work-force is any bit exaggerated.

OP is telling EA to stop being money whores and focus more on the Cartel Market. The irony, man. Haven't seen anything this stupid in ages. You raise some good points, but completely fail in most of what you write.

It's already getting late in the evening here, and I can't help feeling that BW will keep extending until tomorrow. I don't doubt it considering like 5 people in total are working on SWTOR nowadays - EA and their money saving ways and whatnot.

Yeah, their incompetence to fix their own incompetence, to, again, fix their own incompetence, is our fault for pointing out that they made a mistake. Makes sense. br0.

Anyone who plays games such as SWTOR, WoW, EVE etc. doesn't have any right whatsoever to dislike the addition of SGR. When you play games with so many different people, from different cultures, with different things they want out of a game, with different playstyles, different personalities, there is really no point in caring about the opinion of some idiot who has gotten lost in the internet and doesn't know how MMO communities work. For goodness sakes, I have a guy in my guild who does drugs every weekend at big party events, he's also a vegetarian, and a mormon. Does anyone care? No, they have no right. Does everyone know this? Yes. So what's the big fuss about being scared people will leave just because of SGR? Those people are fools who shouldn't be on the internet in the first place.

Nearly 50% of all companions in the game being utterly useless and have no place in logic of why they were even able to get aboard your ship.

Kaliyo is one of my top, a long with Vector, Skadge, Gault, and Broonmark.

I'm able to download at around 1 Mbps for approximately 15 minutes, then it slows down to 15-20Kbps. If I restart the launcher the download speed will go back up again, but continuing to shutting down and starting it up again is just stupid. 1 year after the game has been launched and this is the type of download speed I get? New low for BioWare and EA, terrible low.

Since when was increasing the level cap equal to being held hostage? Well, I want to stay at level 1 forever, but those bastards in the game industry wants me to level up. What type of ******** is that, I should be able to get the same content everyone else gets and see it all even though I'm level 1! I pay the same they do and I am entitled to EVERYTHING without doing **** to get it. Does my sarcasm get the point across?

Have any expansion actually regeared all current content instead of making anything new? I know WoW has been a master at doing this to several of their instances and raids, but all of them? Seems way to idiotic to be true. Though, if all you say is true, SWTOR will end up even worse than before group finder and CM.

Is the general lack of logic this prominent among people nowadays? Seriously, I can't believe you guys actually believe they will keep level 50 flashpoints and operations when the cap is 55. The failings in logic among human beings surprise me more and more every day. They mentioned adding new story missions, I don't see why that wouldn't also entail class stories.

Do you really think the lvl 50 flashpoints and operations is everything there is going to be? With a level cap of 55? Logic is a wise thing, my friend. Sure, you can use boxershorts for 5 year old kids when you're a grown up, but will they fit? No. Simple logic, man. Also, I would only assume that class stories would continue past level 50, wouldn't you? Doesn't make sense to abandon what makes the game amazing, at the very least right now. I doubt EA would like to lose more subs than they already have, so discontinuing class stories is out of the question.