From the game's perspective: There's a reason you're on Coruscant 1, it is called load balancing, sharding, whatever. If they let people freely jump from 1 shard to the other at their convenience, people would be bouncing all over the place (either to be with more people for group quests, or to be more isolated if 3 people on that shard are in the same quest areas you are working on). The 30 minute cooldown simply removes that from the equation by making sure you want to go to that shard (for whatever reason) and makes it so the server can more easily manage the load. Now what I would like to see, and I do not know if it is actually in the game or not, is a way to get pulled onto another shard if I was spamming group quests and they happened to be with groups on different shards.

I'm so confused by this. I recently had to change all but 1 of my characters' names when I migrated from a server scheduled for closing. Fortunately, I got to keep my legacy name, which would have peeved me a little more, but honestly... what gives you any right to a name on another server just because you tagged it first on a totally different server? What if that person just as eagerly reserved his name as you did on your server? Technically, you're the new guy on the server, so you get to deal with the new guy woes: not knowing a lot of the people, being restricted by the name pool being used. Perhaps if they used a naming convention more like what was used in Galaxies where both parts of your name were combined to make one unique string for your character things would be a little different... but they used the char name as a unique string divorced from the legacy name string... and thus you're screwed.

I don't mean to nit-pick, but your math is a little wrong. There are 216,000 seconds in 60 hours... only 3600 seconds in 1 hour. Which equals about 68k xp a hour, which is a much more reasonable rate than 4m xp a hour. That would surely be noticed and fixed really quick.

I think that should be reworded to: Roll another toon, and actually experience the story instead of blitzing through it. Imagine that, all those guys with triangles over their heads actually had content all this time. Skipped so much of it and now complaining that there isn't content to do.

Want to ramp up the difficulty a little? Just take off all of your gear and do those quests. I ran into a bug where my modded gear would reset it's stats every time I zone transitioned, so effectively doing everything naked. Walking around with like 33% lower hp than my companion, friends, getting slaughtered by everything. Took me some time to figure out what had happened. Still, I was able to complete my story quests, survive group missions and flashpoints. In other words: if I can unknowingly do the game naked except for a few pieces, I'm pretty sure the difficulty isn't as high as you make it out to be. Just have to figure out how you need to respond the situation: maybe a different companion, maybe some CC/stuns, maybe just taking the time to learn your class overall, it really does help in the end. This isn't a FPS where you tap your aim button to quick-target and 1-shot the world. RPGs typically require a little strategic planning, and a bit of trial-and-error!

There are also "weak" classes of mobs that look like "normal" enemies, but have considerably less health. I noticed they used them a lot on the starter planets, but they become less and less common after that. Enjoy that ease of play now, the difficulty does ramp up after the starter planet. If you don't enjoy it... well, don't worry, it won't be bothering you very long.