[So really we don't actually have any choices at all?]

From all that I have heard neutrality was supposed to be in the game from the beginning, just like darkside and lightside, but from what they said it proved to be more complicated than anyone had imagined it would be. Consequently until whatever complications can be thought through and solved neutrality is disabled.

[Chat Is Broken]

They know about it and are working on it as a high priority, per conversations in the Customer Service forum.

[Analysis: Sneek Peek.]

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It's been said many times, but DAoC did it right. Darkness Falls was the best pvp concept any developer has put into a game, and the Star Wars universe has plenty of reasons to implement a similar construct. World pvp that gives both pvp and pve incentives benefits everybody.

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Darkness Falls was indeed fun PvP. Combination of running a graduated gauntlet of mobs and bosses and all the while watching for the other realms to break through with some overpowered whup***. Always kinda kept me alert anyway.

 

I don't think it would work quite as well with only two realms though.

 

We should consult with Mandalore.

[List of Fixes and improvements needed]

Crew skills bleeding over from alts: has nobody else noticed this?

[Please introduce dual spec ASAP]

Yeah I totally agree. To continue the paradigm the next time I play chess I'll require that my rooks should both be queens so I won't have to bother playing a new game everytime I'm beaten.

 

Dual specialization, if implemented, will entail sacrifice elsewhere. If you get what you are requesting I wager you won't much prefer the outcome.

[Please introduce dual spec ASAP]

Cute, I'll match wits and education with you anytime. As my post pointed out his arguments lacked logic as he contradicted himself the more he posted.

 

If you knew better, then choosing the rhetorical ad hominem attack rather than any effective counter to his reasoning was an intentional deceit.

 

Interesting revelation. I rather preferred to think you just didn't know better.

[Please introduce dual spec ASAP]

Yes you seem to be the final say on whether someone's argument against yours is valid. You contradict yourself more and more each post. If you can't see the valid arguments made by Niacin (or whatever his name is on the previous page) then it shows you're just blind to your own side. It's fine that you feel the way you do, but don't say that everyone's argument is valid and then continue to berrate everyone else who has an opinion that differs from yours.

 

Dual (not duel by the way) spec:

 

Reduces in game immersion. It's a ROLE playing game. Whether you choose to actual RP or not (I don't) isn't the point. When you are creating and developing a character you are choosing to fulfill a certain ROLE.

 

You have eight character slots, use them.

 

If you're a guild leader and you're having a hard time filling out the proper roles in your raid then you're obviously not doing an adequate job of recruiting the right classes.

 

Actually Western Civilization has been built in part around the principles of Logic and Rhetoric: You have been outclassed by someone actually educated.

 

Back to the subject: seems to me a simple thing to put just enough points into healing to do the job and the rest into survival/dps skill tree categories.

[Security Authenticator fail.]

The fob comes in a very small white cardboard box... you didn't already toss out the Christmas wrapping paper did you?

[Stephen Reid answers questions. Everyone should see this.]

Unbelievable how some mad/sad pandas derive wildly negative outcomes from even the most positive commentary.

[Please allow for a "New Game+" feature!]

It would be more efficient to choose wisely, but then accept the consequences of your decision.

[What needs to be fixed! With added ideas for the future]

Rather than deathstar as your highest goal, since Lightside has no equivalent I'd recommend a small planet area with defense-oriented installations (purchasable and upgradable). Guild/NPC automated defenses could be supplemented by defending guild members.

 

Guilds might choose between urban, ruin, wilderness, arctic, etc. environments.

 

The benefits might be harvestable resources.

 

Then the big guilds can invade one another organized into operation-sized units.

 

For the smaller guilds, the guild ship should be boardable by opposing guilds. In fact, this could be a scenario for a warzone.

[Change the suicide deathtrap elevators in SwTor ~NOT FUNNY~]

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Fix it so the fall dmg is reduced and we get like 20 hp when we fall from the top of an elevator, no one likes dieing in a silly way like this.

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Dying because of your choices is your fault, not the games. Instead of 'fixing' the game, fix yourself.

[Great, so no fix for /follow in this patch..?]

I suppose your all-knowing self can prove accusation you just spouted?

 

Not bloody likely.

 

But assuming for the sake of argument that this is true, it effects you how? Or are you just one of these self-designated "hardcore" types who thinks everyone else should be handicapped just to match your playstyle? Hint: If you don't like /follow, don't use it. That is all.

 

I have a wife, 2 kids and 2 grandkids. Please fix follow, my in game time is limited and subject to numerous brief interruptions.

 

Your vehemence speaks adequately, tyvm.

 

Why it isn't present, at least for now, should be easily understood. /Follow was in the beta builds. Currently companions follow just fine, except perhaps onto elevators and then only some of them, so we know it isn't a great technical challenge to code.

 

However there were performance problems as well in beta, and until those are cleared up such unnecessary, high-processor cost mechanics are probably absent from the mix to exclude them from contention as the culprit.

 

I imagine it will return, unless for some odd reason healbots are being discouraged this year.

[NEVER throw away your orange gear.]

Does orange gear have any inherent stats without mods? If it's ugly, isn't it garbage?

 

If it is medium armor made by synthweaving it will have a minimal str/end bonus and be called 'sentinal' or similar but can be modded for smuggler variants.

 

I expect this will hold for armorer-sourced orange gear as well.

 

If you find a set that looks good for you it is invaluable. It is also a boon for those who make mods.

 

Until modded it still won't say in the tooltip what the actual armor value is, apparently it keys to what level the bound character is.

[GTN is terribad: needs a complete revamp...]

I'm pretty happy with the improvement in the GTN over what it was like the last several builds of beta.

[Great, so no fix for /follow in this patch..?]

So I have to wonder why the most common use of /follow or /stick is not being mentioned, namely multiboxing with a healbot?

[3 Days from launch and 90% of servers are full.]

When I hit that queue and its over 30 minutes I hop over to another standard (even heavy now) server, build a new character, and take him to L10.

 

That way, no matter what, when the fit hits the shan Dec 20 and the floodgates open I will have options, many options, that do not include a starting planet.

[So after a 2 day long train wreck Bioware and EA might just pull it off today? Here's]

Oh no it's definitely been a pretty awfully executed launch ...

 

Not at all: the launch has been smooth as silk as far as I can see. A few people apparently losing connection (judging from their running-in-place) but very few that I have seen.

 

Haven't been through a launch smoother than this one has been.

 

Granted, those who ordered a game to be released on Dec 20th but feeling entitled to be in the game early are likely throwing a tantrum, but if you were in and your game experience was as smooth as mine has been you would be a happy camper too.