My 2 creds: 1.) Resolve should protect us from roots/slows. I guess since my main is a Juggernaut, this would be my opinion. I love carrying the ball, being guarded and healed, getting CCd, my defenders getting ripped up, breaking the next CC with full resolve, getting rooted, and rooted, and rooted, and rooted, and rooted, and rooted, then knocked back and dead. Meanwhile-- 2.) Our trinket/CC breaker needs to refresh on death. In the above scenario, I've eaten 1 CC and broken the 2nd with full resolve, like I'm supposed to (unless the other team is coordinated enough to know how much time needs to pass so they can throw a 2nd one and not fill resolve), I am now almost useless for 2 minutes, because I can't escape from the next CCs, even if I die.

Thanks for that. I had no idea it was so "recent" Totally forgot about swoop racing. Still, that wouldn't stop someone from trying something bigger. My own Wall of Crazy from a couple of weeks ago. http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=450516 Warning: Is an actual wall (of text)

For realz? I didn't know there was an official start time given for podracing, in lore. How many years before Ep 1 has it been mentioned it started? (not sarcasm, genuine question) How about some sort of precursor then. Any sort of planet could end up with a similar evolution like bootleggers to NASCAR. Take a transport-truck-like hover car and slap engines of a fighter on it, then hold on tight. Heck, they could even work with it in game through expansions; It starts with a couple of tracks on an outer rim world or 2. An update or 2 later, a couple more tracks on other outer rim worlds. Couple updates, the Hutts get involved. There could even be optional story missions (you need a racing rank above X)where the Republic/Empire are trying to get it away from the Hutts to sanction it officially. You are working on a treaty that makes racetracks officially neutral zones. All sorts of stuff.

Well, they don't get comms if they quit. I would like it if they added a deserter debuff if anyone leaves any WZ early, so they can't re-queue for X amount of minutes. Have it be a stacking debuff that only falls off after 24 hours of not dropping. Also, I would have it so you don't get the debuff if you are put in a WZ in progress. So if you zone in to a Huttball with 7 minutes remaining and the other team dancing with the ball, you don't have to stay for that. Sure the PvP ragers will be mad that they have to stay in with a bunch of "losers", but they are mad about everything except easy wins. Just maybe it would encourage people to talk to each other and plan out strategies. I've been in tons of matches where I saw no way to win. I've never dropped out of one.

Did you ever play the podracing game for the N64? That was the only good thing to come out of EP1, IMO.

I'm going out on a limb and guessing you are complaining about Underworld Trading. Trying for Mandolorean Iron? It is highly annoying to need tons of Underworld Metals and have nothing but cloth and gifts. There are 2 things you can do: 1. send 1 character out on a level 1 mission. When they come back, all the missions on all levels of UT refresh. I do this while out questing. 2. change zones. That refreshes all your missions. When I'm trying to get something specific, I run in and out of my ship on the Fleet. Pretty fast loading times. I do this while waiting for my guild to get the raid together. The phone app is some sort of thing that streams video of the game to your phone, but you can still interact with it. I have a dumb-phone, so I've never looked into it. Automation macros are against the TOS and will get you banned.

1-4. Most of what you want is (I hope) in the mythical "Star Ship Upgrade," which may be the first expansion. The rail shooter was hacked out really fast. I like it, even though it is highly repetitive. Good way to burn a few minutes. Also, I would like Heroic versions of current quests. Some of those early missions were really cool, but just unsatisfying running them with ship upgrades. 4. I want a carbonite frozen Gungan, like in Force Unleashed. 5 & 6. I like those ideas. 7. This needs to be done now, especially with the bot programs that are out there for space missions. 8. Ehh, IDK about this one. Keep the rewards small and have the only thing lost be time. Adding another repair bill is not cool, IMHO. 9. Thing is, the turrets would be a weaker point than the cruiser or space station surrounding them. Battleship armor is feet thick in some places. I would like to suggest the idea of using Proton Torpedoes on some parts to unlock shortcuts/bonuses by blowing through ships/asteroids. 10. Which server are you on? I'll send ya all I got if you're there. [HomerVoice]Mmmm... Felicia Day [/HomerVoice]

I use tiaras on any characters I want to see the face of. But hide helmet and color matching for companions would be cool. Or an Orange version of what you say sounds cool. I haven't gotten that far on my BH yet.

OMG YES TIHS IS THE MOAST IMPROTANT THING EVAR!!!!!! Aren't you just as, or more, selfish in wanting to distract developers to a project that 95% of the user base will probably turn off? Didn't they try chat bubbles in beta and found that it ground the FPS to less than zero? So everybody who disagrees with you is ignorant?

/signed I genuinely feel embarrassed for BW that the codex went out with so many bugs. The bad thing is that it would take very little time to check that the triggers are working. Or at lest remove the entries from the codex so we know what we have gotten is all there is.

This is a new and exciting topic that has in no way been posted dozens of times. Server transfers will be available in early summer as explained by Dallas Dickinson, Senior Producer, in our April 27th Community Q&A blog:

Deewe has done a great job of keeping up with rumors/confirmations on 1.3. http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=452846

IDK if it is still like this, but I know that, used to be, if you were still in the spawn zone and you grappled someone up there, boom. Insta-kill, no points scored. Was that changed? I'm leveling my Sorc as fast as I care to, just to try that.

Can I have your stuff? The only person stopping you from having fun is you.

From what I understand, all gear means all. It may be just armor, since you can get crafted augmented weapons fairly easily now, but that would just open the flood gates of "OMG I can't use my awesome weapon. GJ Biofail!" type of complaints. But, it supposedly applies to crafted, drops, bought, and commendation gear.

I am hoping BW is smart enough to give the players who want them free transfers off low pop servers to medium pop servers. I am currently on a pretty good medium pop server and would like to see it grow. If you want to go to Fatman or one of the other high pop servers, you may have to pay. Or, give us a "transfer all" bundle deal. WoW keeps claiming they are going to do that, but then they see people are fine paying per character, and they keep pushing it back. Unless EA bean counters get involved. The Maker knows what we'll get then.

When did this become about guilds... Is he complaining about some imagined slight 6 months ago? But, I think (I don't know personally. I am awesome And I guard nodes if needed.) a warning pops up similar to the WZ queue pop if you are vote-kicked, telling you to click if you want to stay in. So OP is AFK for 30+ seconds at a time.

I guess you never look at your map? The point of using E/W is that it is impossible to use it incorrectly, unless you failed 3rd grade Social Studies and don't understand the concept of cardinal directions. Calling E/W has become standard convention on my server. I'm just hoping for established consistency for when cross server WZs come.

Great guide. My only suggestion would be to replace L/R with E/W. I know this is a raging debate amongst people with lots of free time, but I am in the camp that believes clarity is better. A little standardization would be awesome.

While playing through the game, I have noticed a few things that could be improved. I will consider this my master list and may come back from time to time to add to it. These suggestions will be all over the place, `cause I'm typing them as I think about them. This is not an ultimatum post. I'm not threatening to quit. These are some quality of life changes I believe would help us out. 1) Put transport nodes inside all cantinas. There are few cantinas that don't have the quick travel terminals. It is highly annoying to finish leveling for the day and not be able to simply quick-travel back to the cantina. I noticed this on a couple of starter planets, but I am sure there are more. 2) Alts aren't auto-added to the mailing list. Just do it. 3) More mailboxes. I sometimes think there is someone at BW whose job is just to sit around and think up ways to annoy players. The major one (since I am currently leveling through there) is Dromund Kaas. I have to run to the outskirts of the city from the cantina to check mail. And at pre-speeder levels, not fun. 3a) Link DK's speeder routes. 4) Appearance tab. I thought the Orange gear would be enough, but it never will be. I was against the idea of an appearance tab for quite a while, but after 1.2 not allowing us to pull old mods out of gear, it seems like the easiest way to let us actually get the looks we want. 5) A dye system. Look at Hellgate: London for an great way to implement a color customization system. The rendering system is pretty good in this game. Make normal colors common, with metallic or flat or glowing colors rare or bought drops. 6) Make sure 4 & 5 work for companions. 7) Some sort of automatic gear switcher needs to be built in when multi-specs are launched. 8) Let us use quick-travel in docking-bays. We can ride speeders around in there now. Why do I have to drive outside the hanger to use my quick-transport. 8a) Let us land our ship at any of a planet's quick travel nodes. Please. If my ship can pick me up from the bottom of a mine shaft 500 M below ground, why can't that annoying droid drop me off where it is more convenient. 8b) Let us quick-travel directly to our ship. Not to the space port, directly to the loading screen for our ship. 8c) Put a check mark to let us permanently auto-skip certain movies, like landing movies and the movies that play before those war-zones. I watched my brother yesterday load into a NC that was underway, freeze for about 20 seconds, then the movie starts playing, which bogs the game down for about 5 seconds before you can skip out of it, then when the movie is skipped, he is still standing there another 5-10 seconds before he can move. A person being missed in a WZ for 40+ seconds can be deadly. 9) Companion set armor. A set of dailies where we can buy armoring with set bonuses for our companions. And make them cool, single player friendly bonuses. I would love for Vette to be able to heal. Giving her a 4-piece set bonus where her attacks throw HOTs would be cool. I hate having to use Quinn 90% of the time after he <redacted>. 9a) Companion mods. Just a bunch of mods with primary stats, endurance, and lots of presence. Heck, I am the kind of person who would collect a full set of +Presence gear/mods just so I could solo Heroic 2/4s. Especially if 7) is included. 9b) Hide companion head piece and match armor. Just a quick fix until 5) is implemented. 10) Barber shop. I now hate the hair I chose 5 months ago. And my body. 11) Make it easier to report morons who like to use General chat as 4chan. It should be Right Click Name>Report>with a choice of Spam, Name, Guild, Behavior. If enough people report a guy, he gets an auto-warning and looses General chat privileges until a Representative looks over his messages. We all know how long that could take. False reportings get nasty notes, for wasting Rep's time. 11a)An even better solution would be to not even allow the posting vulgar comments in public places (General, Trade, PvP, Say, Op chat for random PvP or random Instances). They can still be "mature" in private (Formed groups and ops, Guild chat, Private channels) 12) Rakata gear needs to be easier to get. I raid twice a week and have been running hard modes for about a month. I have 2 pieces of Rakata gear. It is truly demoralizing (like last night) to watch our super geared Operative get 5 Rakata drops in one run. I was almost in tears the 5th time he said, "Well, I got this Rakata piece, so open it up for free rolls." In our guild, we have 3 super geared players, and the rest stuck in Columi, because nothing drops but Op and BH gear. Change it to just the slot pieces, instead of class-slot pieces. Boom. Fixed. At least then (most) pieces won't be going to waste. 12a) Let me send Tionese crystals and Columi commendations to alts. Or let me buy materials with them. Something. My main has been in full Columi for months. 2 sets. Most of my companions are in full Columi. 13) Get rid of some of the movement in some of the UI panels. Sending companions out on missions is a pain. (literally, until I got rid of my trackball) I have to hit a drop-down, click which level I want, scroll through the missions, then select what I want. I know BW's story department work for years to give us the perfect flavor text on these missions, but your fluff is getting in the way of efficient (non-annoying) game play. Make the descriptions collapsed and expandable, for the 1 person who wants to read that. (some of them are kinda funny) Mock up I did: http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/2841/missionsrevised.jpg 14) 1 hour buy-back for items. I used to make fun of the people who would rage about purchasing the wrong item. Then I did it. Was a bit annoyed with myself and that it took 2 weeks to get my right pants. 15) Prune our skills back a bit. I know this won't happen til the first expansion at the soonest, but there are way too many buttons to push to be effective. And there are way too many buttons that don't actually do anything, or are so situational as to be useless. I have 35 buttons key bound. Some, like my buff and speeder, are not for combat. But most are. 16) Let us key-bind quick slots directly from the editor. I should be able to click a slot in the editor and bind that to a key. Going through and selecting "Quickbar 4, Slot 7" is not exactly intuitive. 16a) Allow us to copy key bindings between characters. I spent time and got my UI looking pretty good on my main. I spent more time trying to get the key bindings fixed (see above). Now I have to go through each character and do their key bindings. 17) No Ready-Check? Really? But make it so the Ops leader in PvP can't trigger it constantly. That was annoying in WoW. 18) Fix tab-targetting. It is just horrible. Make it so it cycles between people in a cone in front of us. 19) The Resolve system sucks. Especially for melee. 20) Heck, this whole game seems to hate melee. To much AoE damage coming from bosses. If I'm not tanking for my guild, I feel like a liability, because I cause healers to heal through all that AoE. 21) Our trinket (heck, all of our skills) should refresh on deaths. I love carrying the ball, while being guarded and healed, eating 1 CC (usually 2, because of the way some work) and popping my trinket with full resolve, walk to the line and get rooted and rooted and rooted and rooted, then knocked back and killed. Then being almost useless for the next 2 minutes because I won't be able to break a CC. 22) In Huttball, have an icon pop up in raid frames for whoever on our team has the ball. Easier on healers and tanks. 23) Allow us to choose what we see in the labels above people's heads. I don't care about your title, legacy name or your guild. I just want a nice label with your name and your life bar that I can watch as it goes down. 23a) Let me click the name tag. This is a problem because tab-targeting is so bad. Trying to click on a specific person in the middle of a furball is an exercise in futility. 24) Legacy bank to be shared among all your characters. With the ability for you companions to depost crafting mats directly in there. 25) I like the crafting system. But I really love REing a pile of greens (or better, blues) and not getting any new recipes or getting the wrong ones. Why even have recipes for tanking stats for items for classes that can't tank (cunning gear) or worthless stats for other types (alacrity on Strength gear). We need some sort of buff to recipe chance or, how about we can send a companion out for a long time and they come back with the new recipe? 26) Respec costs are way to high. And they don't reset sometimes. Just paid 25,000 credits on Tuesday, after maintenance. The even worser thing is that this is only the 3rd respec in a week. I normally wouldn't complain about credits, but I spent close to quarter a million today moving mods around and a bunch more buying stupid purple mats. 27) More benches for us to sit on. I don't see why I should have to explain this one. Just do it. 28) More companion stories that we interact with. When Pierce was putting together his attack on wherever it was, I was thinking how cool it was gonna be; infiltrating a base, sneaking around, then blowing the crap out of it. Super let down when it was all handled off-screen..

Oh look. Another "I'm to lazy to play the game correctly, so BW should give me stuff" thread. You are not "forced" to spacebar through dialog; you choose to. You can look at the dialog choices and see which one is giving you the -1, and make another choice. You only have to do that once. Open Notepad in the background or get a piece of paper and write down the choices if you can't remember.

I try to use circlets for my Twi'lek companions. Or hide the headgear on the one I play. But I agree that a few more types of helmets would be nice. Even 1 or 2 Twi'lek-specific orange helmets for each armor class would be cool.

Almost none of the orange gear you can buy can be RE'd. It has been said that in a future patch, we will be able to add aug slots to anything. Just wait.

Not me. I was talking about 50s bracket. Even today I would guess 40% of players I've played with/against are Inq/Sages

I noticed this yesterday. Most of my teams were made of Inqs.