Wow. If you guys think SWTOR has high damage output you would probably have a stroke playing high-end WOW arena. Damage output is fine. It takes a long time to kill someone who is equally geared, especially if both sides are playing properly.

I wonder how much this problem would be helped if the PVP part of Ilum was separated from the daily quest part of Ilum.

Can the servers and/or engine seriously not handle a 20v20?

You can't do /random in this game.

Republic is noticeably dwindling down and giving up on my server, and my server is the biggest PVP server.

Kind of weird the OP doesn't include introducing faction population caps to Ilum, considering that's the most sensible solution.

And what is the point of Mercenary Commendations if they don't drop off Ilum like originally intended?

Some of my abilities are ground targeted and I also have to change targets while running, so moving with the mouse and strafing doesn't solve everything.

WAR also had ways of incentivizing rolling the underpopulated faction. For how bad that game is Bioware could learn a thing or two from it.

You don't know how resolve works and/or you're not paying enough attention. It works fine.

Where did they post they're aware of Ilum performance issues or faction imbalance? I don't see it.

When a feature of the game is essentially broken for an entire faction, yes.

Their post has nothing to do with what I asked about.

It's now been four days of this giant failure. Is anything going to be done?

We tried it your way, Bioware, and it's not working. You said you had a plan if it got out of control. It is out of control. A lot of servers are literally dead on Republic side, making it impossible to find a guild or do a flashpoint, operation or warzone. Ilum is completely unplayable for Republic players. What is going to be done? This is a huge issue.

They really need to add a scaling faction population cap of some sort. Maybe just flat-out instance Ilum and make people queue for it.

Why should anyone play this game after getting a character to lv. 50?

What's apparent: 1. Faction imbalance is still a massive problem on most servers. 2. The problem of people only caring about objectives has been reversed into people only caring about kills, so the dominant faction just camps outside of the other faction's base all day. This is honestly a disaster.

This idea is horrible beyond belief. Every single serious PVPer would quit in a week, and then everyone else follow as the servers rapidly decline. I mean, seriously, you just suggested adding a massive RNG element to crowd control. What the hell? Beyond that, buffs like this completely destroy the fun and balance behind PVP. Balance will suffer as some classes benefit from the buff more than others, PVP gameplay will suffer as one faction gibs another, and the game will become completely unenjoyable for a lot of people in common scenarios like one side trying to do a 5V5 and ending up getting one-shotted by the faction with the buff. It's just an awful idea. What Bioware needs to do is add faction population caps to Ilum. Let's say after today's patch the general population cap for one instance of Ilum will be 80. Why not break down that cap and make it 40 Empire and 40 Republic instead? That will encourage even numbers without damaging gameplay. Also, every single person — outside of Bioware, apparently— predicted the faction imbalance for months before launch. You don't build credibility for guessing the sky will be blue tomorrow.

Why no fix in 1.1?

Rift did this and it worked pretty well. It encourages some less structured world PVP.

That's actually not impressive at all. Those ranks could be farmed in like three hours of warzones.

If you guys are okay with general population caps, why aren't you okay with faction-based population caps? For example, let's say the cap for each instant of Ilum will be 80 tomorrow. Why can't Bioware make it so the cap is instead 40 Empire and 40 Republic and not just 80 overall? It would lead to some Empire occasionally being stuck in an instance with no Republic, but surely that's better than the current situation where one faction mindlessly zergs another faction down and no one has any real, competitive fun.

So nothing is being done in regard to faction imbalance? If I hadn't applied two gifted 60-day game cards yesterday I would be unsubscribing right now.

Yup. /10char