It is with a heavy heart and with deepest regret for me to announce that the Golden Rose Jedi Academy is closed indefinitely and has been disbanded due to lack of membership and students. May the Force grant us all peace in this time of sorrow

so they knew about us wanting guild capitol ships for 3 years now and still we sit and wait with baited breath

Wonder if the guild ships are still in the works or just sitting in the idea box like most ideas we try to present to the content development team

Good day friends and allies, the Golden Rose Jedi Academy is looking for new Jedi students and staff. The academy is a medium role play guild for Jedi characters, any level is welcome. Activities will be the following: 1. Flashpoints (normal and hard modes) 2. Operations (normal and hard modes, 8 man and 16 man) 3. Starfighter 4. Daily Quests 5. Player vs. Player Combat 6. Questing 7. Group Training Current rules are as follows: 1. No Drama 2. Be polite to your fellow students and the staff 3. Respect the chain of command 4. Have fun 5. Ask for help when needed 6. Offer help to fellow students 7. If someone is bothering you, report it to a trainer or the Council 8. If you have an idea, feel free to present it to someone on the staff 9. Never threaten another person, be it staff members, a fellow student or someone outside the academy Any questions or concerns, please inform the academy Grand Master Barbarola either on the forums or by in-game mail. All applicants please post your application in this thread giving your name, Jedi class, crafting and/or gathering skills and your combat specialty (tank, DPS, healer) Thank you, and may the Force be with you Barbarola

wow, attitude much? did you even think to consider I talked about it or brought it up during gameplay or did that slip your mind?

That's what I wish to know, I'm one of the players that came up with the idea so it wouldn't hurt BioWare to give us a possible date range here for when we can finally have guild ships

there you go thinking about the negatives, without faith we have nothing. that i base on everything that has happened in America's history and my own personal experiences as a player. i am a full blooded loyal Bioware player, in case you forgot it's Electronic Arts that's causing all this trouble. Bioware is just in the crossfire because of that stupid merger. Electronic Arts lost my loyalty ages ago, i only play this game for myself, for being a Star Wars fan and for Bioware.

if everyone would stop thinking about the negatives and look towards the positives a lot of good will come from this

i'm looking at the population growth in this, when it goes F2P it will skyrocket which is part of what we need. in terms of shops we could use more variety, like one specific to pets.

you guys really need to read the information closer, you judge too soon without even looking at all the facts or information. if you don't like the idea of F2P then please for the love the Force just leave the game. Andryah sees the major point in all this so i agree with her on this but if all that some of you are going to do is complain about this then don't bother playing anymore

you're missing the point, please try to understand that creating content requires time and funding. without subscribers the company won't have the extra funding to make new content so the F2P players would also get nothing unless there are a few subscribers to support the funding for new content

as far as i am aware they only have a set month in place which is November of this year

After reading a few of the comment pages i do understand why some of you feel this could be an end, but please see it from a different view and think of this as a beginning. subscriptions have dropped in the past few months, the reasons of the ones who closed their accounts I'm sure are their own but when you open a game to being free to play you bring about population growth and possible potential subscribers for those who wish full access. I myself am not big on PVP but i have done it once or twice just for fun, as for Operations it is difficult as it is to get an Ops team put together to bring down a world boss let alone an Operations Flashpoint. As far as content goes my first fuss would probably be we need more options in terms of personal travel, not just speeders we buy off the market or have made by players that have the heart for the skill. like on Hoth we could ride Tauntauns or even something similar to this -> . there are a lot of ideas to explore if Bioware would stop letting Electronic Arts run the show, i know most of you are not fond of the mini-game-style space combat that we have but for now it's all we got to be able to use our ships for more than just a safe rest zone and personal space travel. I admit it's a little fun but like most of you i wish i could fly freely throughout the field in space when on mission, during that first mine blockade mission i always miss a bonus target because they keep shooting at me but they go off screen so i can't shoot them back. this is probably a bit off topic but i feel if we're supposed to get guild capitol ships then guilds run by F2P players should still be able to get one for their guilds, me personally it would be nice if those capitol ships had living quarters, mess hall, onboard cantina, training area, library archives, mission and quest givers, hangar bays for the 4 classes of each side, onboard Galactic Trade Network terminals. those would be great but again Bioware has to stop giving EA the big piece of the cake on SWTOR, in my opinion this is Bioware's game and we are Bioware's loyal customers. finally i wish to express an idea that i feel we could have added to make roleplaying on roleplay servers more enjoyable and perhaps the other servers as well, it is called open speech. now sure most of you use mics and headsets to talk to your close friends but you speak in "say" chat it's just words at the top left of the screen, you don't hear what your character says in their own voice except in mission briefings and class cinematic vids throughout the character story. i say why not let your character's voice be heard every time you type in "say" chat, it could be a nice idea and especially for us roleplayers it could bring about new ways to have fun with our friends. well i think I've run out of steam for this post but i would love positive feedback from you fellow players and i hope to continue to enjoy the life in the Old Republic with all of you for years to come