Wait...you find something offensive conditionally based on the life experience of the poster? The point made by that poster is valid. There are a large variety of people with differing body conditions - and the game can't reflect all of them. One of those conditions could really be a missing limb. Nothing offensive about it. Are you really so sensitive that you can only accept this fact from someone who actually has a missing arm?

You're absolutely wrong. Wanting someone to suffer pain just so you can get a redundant text message is worse than rude.

False advertising is a redundant term. If you trust advertising to bring you the truth then you have a great deal of disappointment in your future.

Obviously, that will be one of the legacy abilities!

Vader, Luke & Leia would be in the same legacy. All those characters in your list aren't in the same family. In game terms, if that's what you need to understand it, they had different players.

I have throughly enjoyed the Trooper story so far. The armor and equipment all seems to be cool looking and within idiom for the world. Maybe it's just the Jedi stories/clothing that people don't like? On the Empire side, I have found the stories for the non Sith are better than those for the force-using classes. Maybe the writers put more effort into these stories to compensate for not having a light saber and super powers?

Sounds very complicated. This would require a whole new object structure for the player code with a complex relationship to world objects. This would bloat the player database and bog down cycles by pinging the various timeouts for every chest touched by a player. That's a large cost. Much more expensive than simply extending the global respawn rate of chests.

Just one story for each base class, regardless of later specialization.

Aaaand Godwin's Law raises its ugly head. You could research how 3rd party libraries work rather than start shouting about the dangers of a 4th Reich. Software developers often use code developed by others. Libraries are what allow us to keep from re-inventing the wheel every time we start a new project. I've used AJAX code that contacts Yahoo every time I do a build. That doesn't mean Yahoo is going to kick a jackboot through your front door. Knowledge should be your first line of defense. Not a gun to the face of strangers.

You can choose to assume the worst or the best. It's all up to you. But the point is that perhaps we shouldn't make any assumptions at all. If you get an invite, say 'yes' or 'no' as you please, depending on the situation and your mood. It's just that simple. My message to the thread is that you can't know anything about someone just because they clicked a "+" button to invite you to play a game with them. Ranting about how rude or morally corrupt or evil or whatever these people are is fallacious. I generally am prone to click "yes", because maybe I could help someone who needs a hand. And I'd rather work toward a more permissive community. That's what I want in a server. Others want something else, and that's their prerogative. And now I'm rambling.

This is a new game with an IP that has drawn in many people who would not otherwise play MMOs. Rather than insulting them perhaps we should mentor them and help foster their skills. It benefits everyone to have these people stay in the game. Fresh blood is a good thing. I've been inspired by this thread to go to the station and volunteer to run 'tutorial flashpoints'. I'll find inexperienced team players and coach them on the basics of group tactics. I've done this with guild-mates before but there is no reason not to do it with the community at large. I encourage those of you out there who are bored of sitting around at the fleet to do the same. Build some community esprit de corps!

Refusing an invite is fine. No harm; no foul. My point is that the assumption that everyone who does an invite is being rude is a poor one. Nobody here knows everyone's story. Judging someone with nearly zero information seems to be far more rude than someone inviting you to play a game with them.

There is a member of my guild who has severe arthritis, particularly in her left hand. She can play the game with a gaming mouse (yay thumb buttons!) - but it is painful for her to type out messages on the keyboard. For this reason she will send out blind invites because it only requires clicking on a character and then clicking the "+". A shame that people here automatically assume a person is somehow bad or rude for simply sending an invite. We don't always have the whole story.

Go to page 1 and check it out. The OP says nothing at all about special situations. It simply says to not invite without messaging. Regardless of what may have been said in the intervening time - the OP has not been altered and makes no exceptions.

Many of the best moments of my life have started exactly like this, including meeting my fiancé! A little spontaneity can make life much more fun! I would much rather live in a world where someone felt that they could approach me and take a blind chance than to have everyone live in fear of broaching decorum.

You are confusing "fair" and "right". The system as it is can only be FAIR. All players are free to hit 'need' whenever they like. You feel it isn't RIGHT that someone else is rolling for their companions. They are different words and mean different things.

That's like saying its unfair that players who play more are higher level than you. You choose what to roll whenever the need/greed interface pops up. Everyone gets the same choice. It's as fair as anything can be. If you make a decision to abdicate your opportunity for an item - that is on you, not others.

Or, you could simply click the 'Decline' button and be on your way. No drama needed. If you are operating from the assumption that every invite to a group is a hostile act - that's on you, not the other player.

Nothing is unique in this game. Once it's available for players to do - lots of players will do it. You would just be one of thousands of people shooting blue lasers.

And yet you are demonstrating that you don't have mutual respect, because you are saying your standard is superior to another person's.

That's the only way anyone likes people.

If you want to write a letter to BioWare, perhaps you should actually write to them. You might even get a reply. Posting a "letter to BioWare" here is simply narcissism.

Which describes the majority of stories in the Star Wars universe. So they are staying true to the source.

It's true to the source material. Leia wore a bikini. Luke, Han, Lando...did not.

The invite popup in this game is tiny. There is nothing rude about just sending someone a join request. That IS asking. Like anything else, it can be pushed to an extreme. But getting pissed by the very simple act of a join request because of this possibility is like being angry at telephones because sometimes a telemarketer uses it.