I'm not going to lie, I'm a bit ticked off at waiting well over an hour (and counting) to get in. I would have hoped that paying for a subscription also would mean I'd get to access the game in a timely fashion.

Since we're already talking about leveling a Warrior, may I append a question to the OP's thread? I've been running Immortal up to level 29 and rather enjoying the feeling of being an indestructible tank while letting Vette do the DPS. From these comments, I'm guessing Immortal is a bad choice for heading into my 30s and up? The play style is a lot of fun, so if the playability isn't very much slower, I'd rather stick with Immortal. However, I'm getting the impression that the difference is quite significant. Is that correct?

Hm. Oddly enough, I'm fine with that answer. 'This year' is a fair and reasonable timeline for a long-term time sink.

I really don't understand the urge to be the ombudsman for a company I don't work for. I guess it takes all kinds and a tolerance for one another's beliefs that includes not dismissing something as trivial or childish because it isn't important to me. Bbbbbuuut this is the Internet, we don't do things like that here, right?

I can't answer for anybody else, but that would have done it for me. Even in negative terms. At least, then, I wouldn't have the sense of being ignored. On the other hand, when they sent me the exit survey for cancelling my account, this is the reply I gave them: I cancelled my subscription not because I was not enjoying the game, because I absolutely was. I cancelled my subscription because of a lack of communication from Bioware about the SGRA issue. I am a gay man and I have been supportive of Bioware because Bioware has an increasingly strong track record of supporting LGBT gamers. When SGRAs were confirmed, that tipped the scale for me in terms of investing the time and money to play a new MMO. I bought the Digital Deluxe edition of the game. I bought an authentication key. I bought tie-in novels and merchandise. I was prepared to buy expansions. In short, I was holding up my end of the deal. A complete and total lack of communication as to when the promised SGRAs would be put into the game, despite it being the single most asked question of the weekly Q&A sessions, indicates to me that your company has decided not to keep your end of the bargain. Not to feature the inclusiveness that makes a MMO worth supporting to a person who has limited free time. I am not quitting because I want SGRAs in the game without delay. This is not me stomping off in a huff. This is a customer telling a service vendor that when he (and people like him) have a concern, it is absolutely not ok to have those concerns ignored. I will happily consider playing the game again, when and if this issue is addressed. But until then, I won't give Bioware my money to treat me with disdain. And I will make sure that everybody who has similar interests knows, when the subject comes up, why I am not playing what I consider to be a fun game that I could easily invest many years and dollars on. Thank you for time and I hope to return as a valued member of the SWTOR community, one day.

Yea. I've cancelled my subscription and let them know why. I'll be happy to come back when and if they ever at least acknowledge the issue, even if it ends up being resolved against us. But as it is, I don't think giving a company that refuses to even communicate with me my money sends them the right message. I do enjoy the game. But not more than I enjoy being treated like a customer, rather than an embarrassing guy who needs to be ignored while you take his cash.

Ah, yes. I agree it came from somewhere. Wargaming rules. Which didn't have anything to do with, ah, 'sociiology' or therapy. Also, the details are the point. But life is too short to argue with people on the Internet and I am not an educator today. Carry on!

Um. D&D wasn't invented until 1977 or so. So, you know, in the sixties, the Downs kids may have been playing something but it wasn't that. But carry on. Truth is so limiting in a good discussion.

Speaking as someone who was there for the first incarnation of the game, back in the late 70s, this interpretation fascinates me. Could you tell me how you came by that impression?

There is the one in the Taris cantina, that gives him a kind of 'Elvis' look, with a low pompadour and rockin' sideburns. 12.5k was a bit much for the novelty value, but pair that up with chunky googles and a white/gold Consular outfit and it's Vegas Elvis, all the way.

Personally, I'm shocked and horrified that the game is ignoring basic biological laws by not making my character seek out port-a-potties hidden in the wilderness of every world. Forget datacrons, a jumping minigame to find bathroom tissue would be far more realistic.

Well, that sort of perfectly encapsulates the anti-SGR mindset, though. (Actually, the whole anti-LGBT crowd in general.) The thought seems to be, 'I'm not interested in having this freedom and I don't want you to have it either'. Which seems a little weird to me, when a little tending of one's own knitting and not worrying about what your neighbor does goes a long way towards making the world a nicer place.

I know I'm not supposed to say this on the Internet, but thank you for correcting me! A little hope on this front is nice!

You know, I've gone back and looked at every company response I could find on this topic and it seems to me that they haven't actually committed to SSRs at all. They've broadly hinted and let us do a lot of assuming, the actual language is vague enough that it seems unlikely we'll actually get them. Which is a bit of a shame on several levels.

I think that the constant need to 'prove' to other people that they don't really like what they like, or that their tastes are objectively wrong is more interesting than the scores, to be honest. There seems to be quite an emotional investment in trying to convince people that the game is an objective failure without a lot of evidence or dispassionate reason to back that up, given that it is too early to tell one way or the other, yet.

AHA! That explains all those voice actors who suddenly have gold-plated Ferraris, hogging all the parking spaces at my local Piggly-Wiggly!

I have to admit, I skipped the Heroic (4) quests. After leveling from 20 to half-way through 24 on Taris, I was ready to go. But the planet did teach me to think about how to use the mechanics of my character's class (I was playing a Sawbones-specced Scoundrel) and how to use my companion pretty well, especially given that I soloed all the Heroic (2) quests. But oh, man, if you don't use your stuns, cool downs and relic clickies appropriately, you (or at I) will get eaten, even at the top end of that 20-24 range. I can't say I loved Taris, but I do think it went a long way towards teaching me to play my class.

OMG! RPers?!

Ah, thank you! I saw that hilts increase stats, I wasn't sure they also increased damage. It makes sense for things to work that way but I didn't want to assume.

Sorry to ask this, but I seem to have failed my search rolls, looking back through other threads. My question is pretty simple: Does slotting higher level mods/augments in an item increase the items base damage and/or armor rating? For instance, if a level 11 orange chest piece ends up slotted with level 20 mods, does the armor rating of the chest piece scale up to be equivalent to armor that is level 20? Thanks and sorry again for what is probably a pretty silly question.

As the title says, does anyone know of any reliable sites that have pictures of the various armor sets up yet? Probably a bit too early, but I thought I'd ask. (And yes, I'm shallow, I plan my purchases so my stuff looks cool.)

It's a little known fact that Hutts are enthusiastic amateur fashion designers. In fact, Jabba actually designed and constructed Leia's slave girl costume himself on an old Sith Singer. (It's like a regular sewing machine but double the chances of stabbing yourself. Evil!)

I'd like to see them build a neutral faction. It would be pretty easy too. You just port over Smugglers and Bounty Hunters and then add a couple of Force Adept classes (like the Witches of Dathomir and Jensaarai for ranged and melee, respectively).

Being fashionably late? "Oh, you showed up on the thirteenth? How ... eager. I, of course, was lounging by the pool and sipping mimosas until I could be bothered to make an entrance."

Also, I really like the word 'kerfuffle'.