Yeah, you certainly brought a whole new meaning to that. Never my intention to imply anything Phallic. Phal is actually a curry. Or as in Phalaenopsis.. Orchids.

OK, I can see your point, that it's difficult to agree upon where to "draw the line", since a nickname might work. Although usually nicknames are something people close to a character would know, but not available for the public to see. To hear, yes - "did you know that Sergeant Gavon Benda goes by the name "Stickybomber"?? He's insane with all his cryobans. Goes on a grenade spree on the field!" - maybe something like that. But yes, I hear you. I would ofc. "accept" someone called Flash if that was his thing. I don't want to be an annoying-*****-RP-judge, but there's just generally a lack of seriousness when it comes to RP servers, which I hope people can change. Besides, when there's so few RP servers, wouldn't it be more fair to roll on a normal server, if you're not gonna RP at all? Just out of respect for people wanting to do so. Or for the people joining RP servers to avoid the occasional Lazerbeam DarthFamilyGuy. There's alot of those people. I'd find the character name Sarah-Palin offensive, if played on an RP server.

I don't really care about character naming on "normal" servers - PvE and PvP - but every server that has the RP tag, should really stand up to it. If this game wants to attract (and keep) the casual aswell as the hardcore RP'ers it shouldn't be possible (imho) to name yourself anything that doesn't fit in the universe of SW. And that's pretty big. Just no political figures (surnames), no leet speak, no Foxmulder, no Stickybomber, no.. and so on. on RP servers that is

Hello community, and hello Bioware. I'm playing Republic faction on Lord Calypho RP-PvP server, EU. My gaming experience so far has been good, even though there's the classic bugs and "beta" like problems in game. One thing I can't stand though, is people calling themselves faulty names, (eg. Countdooku, Dk-bladestomer (yes, misspelled even), Saberdude, Ninefingers etc. etc.) Just to clarify, are GM's checking through character names on a regular basis? It's something I find very annoying, meeting characters with such dumb names, especially when I rolled on an RP server. Please hit hard on this one. All the best.

Yes, please give us weapon preview. It is a major flaw.

Tell your friend that new mac's (since they got Intel chipsets) can use Boot Camp to run Windows, natively. He will need to partition his drive through Boot Camp and install Windows. Then he's good to go. I do the same on my MacBook Pro. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1461 Best of luck.