...it just feels new because I haven't played in so long. I am a founder, and I left for a while and now I have returned. I re-rolled all my toons. Why? I don't know, just seemed the thing to do, wanted to start fresh, and didn't want to try and figure out all those buttons again. Some of you may remember me as Zopar (or not). I rerolled Zopar, but lately I have found joy in another character I made, a Jedi Knight called Zalchek, and a Sith Warrior named Raycarr. I got interested in playing again after messing around with KotOR again, and reading the book "Revan". I'm taking my time, not in any rush to endgame or anything. I noticed something in flashpoints I've never encountered before. I was vote-kicked from the eselles flashpoint because I didn't understand what people were saying when they were saying, "Spacebar" I found out later that meant to skip the conversations. I find the conversations and the way players can "roll" to determine the outcome is kind of a neat game mechanic. It seems a waste to just skip that. Aren't I missing out on social points by skipping the conversations? Undeterred, I put myself back in the queue and got in another group and finished the quest from start to finish, enjoying all the conversations as well. I understand the point of view of someone who has probably played these quests a hundred times just for the dailies. I've thought it would be fun to join a guild, but so far I've seemed to have gotten by on my own. I like the social aspects of guilds, just not the demands and pressures guilds tend to place on people. I like happily plugging along at my own pace and don't really want to be bothered most of the time. I don't mind being a vagabond freelancer. I think I'd rather a handful of friends to run heroics with than a full time guild. However, I may change my mind later on. Are guilds faction based? Meaning, if I am republic, can I join a sith guild and vice versa? Or do I have to stay with my own faction? I tried the galactic starfighter game. I must say, its either really really hard, or I suck balls in technicolor. I think I will be leaving that alone for a while. I can't say I've ever had this much trouble with any space sim like this one. Trying to understand the legacy system. It seems I get to make a family tree of sorts, but with allies and nemesis' and stuff. /shrug Anyway, here I am. You will probably see me hanging out in the cantina on Ebon Hawke. I like to go there to do my crafting. Hope to meet some of you. I might even be persueded to RP a bit.

I've been a space sim junkie since the old wing commander days. I have to say, this game is not anything like a good space sim. I've never encountered a space sim that was this bad before. There's no real learning curve, and I am sorry, endless pages of text is not a tutorial, its a knee-board manual. I found GSF to be the most frustrating space sim ever. Even EVE eases you into the game, as big and unforgiving as it is. I hate to keep saying it, but Star Wars Galaxies Jump to Lightspeed was miles ahead of this pile of crap.

If I get into a group of ******es like this, I usually just put them all on ignore and find a new group. Screw them! I got better things to do than be hassled by a bunch of jerks.

I tried a couple of outings with the new starfighter game. I have to be honest, either I totally suck and have no idea how to play it, or its freaking hard. Am I the only one? Flying with the mouse is not easy, but it was easier in freelancer, I gotta say. I have no idea what I am doing wrong, but I die so fast in this game. It makes me not want to keep trying. Oh, and seriously, does space need to be cluttered with structures one must fly through and up and over or under? Why can't we just have something akin to the old xwing vs. tie fighter? Let me use my joystick.

What? You don't like it???

My solution to this common problem... /ignore Sometimes when I roll greed i still wind up with the item, even if the other person rolls need, thats how it works out sometimes...the way the old cookie crumbles, know what I mean?

I'm having trouble getting 3 other people to do this quest. When I make the announcement that I am LFG for that quest, the frst person joins the group, and immediately runs into the quest area without waiting for 2 more players. So then I think, ok lets see if we can do this with companions. Nope, complete wipeout, the person who just joined me gets frustrated, quits, blames me for not playing my character right and leaves. So then I am back to square one again. So frustrating....

I totally get that. Who wants a mediocre RPG coupled with a mediocre space combat game? I'm glad they are working on something at least. I don't mind so much given that so many great space games are out there now, and some very cool ones coming very soon. I think if Bioware wants a slice of that space combat pie, I hope what they come up with is at least as good if not better than the old JTL expansion. Sorry to those who may be tired of hearing this. I guess you could say I am new here. I played at launch, but not for very long. I am a recently returning player. I'd like to see ship interior customization. Furniture, wallpapers, tech gear to dress it up, or personalize it. Various combat stations that can be manned by either your crew or by group members would be nice.

I just flew my first space combat mission with my smuggler. It left a lot to be desired. I am wondering, has there been any talk of revamping the space component of this game? Rumors? I would just like to see a game more like SWG with various fighters and freighter sized ships. I apologize if this subject has been beaten into the ground already. Has anyone played the old freelancer game? Xwing Vs. Tie Figher? I don't really mind so much that the space game we have is not all that great, its serviceable, its a quick break from ground combat. I just wish it was so much better.

I've been asking for this for years, the only game that managed it was everquest 2. Why this isn't simply a standard thing is beyond my comprehension. To me it seems like such a simple thing to do. Just make all clothing that has a hood convertible, simple.

Is there a question somewhere in this post?

I think its funny. When you group with someone, you do it because you can't complete the quest alone. So running around like a ******, ignoring your group mates is only going to cause wipes, and keep you from achieving your goals. I mean, so what if you are joe expert player, you still need people to finish your damn quest. The way I see it, you can be nice and work with people's shortcomings, complete the quest, or you can start the whole quest over again and waste even more time than it would to try and teach and work with noobs. Its true though, there are many nice people that play, the trick is to find them, get to know them, and help them when they need help, so that when you need help later on, they are more likely to be there for you. I think all these arrogant players must be lonely anti-social types who spend the majority of their lives playing mmo's. The rest of us have lives outside of the game and therefore we have developed social skills and have the ability to interact politely with other people. Side note: A lot of the players are little kids that don't know any better.

1. Go for it, if someone complains, work it out. 2. It shouldn't be, but the FP's I've been in, that's what they all do. Most of the time there's only 2 of us left by the time the FP is done. Granted, I've only ever done the esseles FP, so maybe people blow through that one like its nothing. I don't know, I am a returning player. I find it rude. 3. People who stealth past mobs aren't thinking of the group members who don't have it. They are only out for themselves. 4. No, everyone has OOC self heals. If I notice someone not healing between fights, I might let them die in a battle and res them after the fight to teach them a lesson. Otherwise, I heal myself between fights, even if my team mates run off before I heal myself. Yes the healer gets damaged. Bottom line: Some people just don't give a ****. Make a note who they are, and put them on ignore for the future. Don't worry, there's plenty of people playing so you won't miss them.

Well cool, thank you...

I'm back after a long hiatus. My question is, do I have to do the pvp missions, or can I just skip pvp altogether? I like flashpoints, and I will probably like operations, I just really not into pvp. Will I be okay if I skip that?

Whats a failed fame? Actually I copied and I deleted the old one because I mistakenly posted in the wrong forum.

I really wanted to love this game, however... SWTOR is a good game, but for people who remember star wars galaxies, it leaves a bad taste in your mouth because you remember that sandbox feeling, and the sense of community. This game is more or less The old republic 3 with other players playing their missions alongside you. Occasionally you have to have help with a heroic mission, and there are 2 and 4 man types, and then there are flashpoints which are 2 - 4 man heroic missions with an interactive story to it, and you make decisions and the conversations take place with the players and npcs based on a dice roll. Its more or less a theme park type mmo like WoW only you travel to different planets instead of land zones. The space combat is a firefox style rail shooter which to me is lame. I was enjoying it through the starter planets (different based on class), then coruscant, but then when you get to taris around level 20, it kinda sucks the life out of you. The crafting is boring because you basicly tell your companion crew mate to go make this, or go gather that, or go on this mission to get this resource, and then your companion disappears and you are left with a timer telling you when they are coming back, and then you find out if they succeeded or not. Thats crafting in a nutshell right there. Boring. I remember when I played SWG in the first day I had a list of friends in my contact list and within a week I had started my own guild and we built our own city and everything. This game, the only need to interact with anyone else is to beg for people to complete missions with you. People do the missions alongside you but rarely does anyone talk, they just run off to do their mission and hope you can keep up. Very anti-social environment. I'm kind of dissillusioned by the whole thing to be honest. In eve online, I'll get in a good corporation, I'll start running missions with other players and make money, build up my skills and my ship and make a name for myself over time. People will actually get to know you and spend time with you and need you to work together on things, whether its running missions, exploring wormholes and defending them, finding asteroid fields to mine and defend and you can even capture whole sectors and defend them and build space stations and factories now and build defenses. Much more involved than it used to be and the graphics are top notch. You do as little or as much as you want in a day. Your skills train as you add them to your skill training q, and you can stack skills up so that you can train while you are sleeping. Also, you could train continually for like ten years and still never train all your skills, so you have to be selective and think about your area of focus. There are no classes, and no levels, just certifications in the areas you have trained up to a certain level. The only reason I had stopped playing was my bank was no longer allowing atm card transactions to england due to a high number of problems, so I am gonna get a paypal account and use that. I started another 14 day trial and will probably sub after thats done. Best part is you don't ever have to pay for the client, updates and game add-ons come every 3-4 months and those are free, no shelling out $60 all at once. Plus the game will always be top notch in graphics and performance because they are constantly updating it. Plus there are over 5000 star systems in the known galaxy (not including wormhole sectors and unexplored space) so I doubt I will ever see everything or do everything there is to do in this game. I will always be improving and learning new things so there will never be a lack of stuff to do, and I can play how I want to play. I can be a pirate, I can be a defender, I can be a miner, a trader, a commodities broker, a salvager, an explorer, a hauler and any combination of all these things. Whats not to like, other that ya, there is a learning curve, it takes time, you have to learn how to make friends to protect yourself from the bad guys (other players who wait in low-sec space so they can jump hapless pilots just passing through). Takes me back the old text based space trading games I used to play way back before the internet. So anyway, I hate having to write this "Im leaving" thread, however I felt people need to understand why certain gamers need more than what most big companies are producing today. It's not just SWTOR, its WoW, its LotRO, its nearly every MMO out there that makes MMO's so blah and meaningless with little or no death penalties, no consequences for wrong behaviors, no worries about being a lousy group member, nothing that is challenging or really has any meaning or affect on the game world whatsoever. I'm writing this so other players and the developers will know there is better, more challenging and way more meaningful games out there for a lot less money and with graphics that will stand up to anything thats new today. You should give it a try, there is a 14 day trial. Anyway, I might check back in when this is f2p and see if it's improved any. Bye.

Sorry, I had meant for this to go in the general forum, my bad

Moved to General Discussion...

They do that because you know some mentally deficient person will unbind it and then complain they can't create help tickets because they accidently unbound it and can't figure out how to rebind it and then rage quit.

I have to heartily agree with the OP. SWG had a sense of community and belonging this game does not have. I've been in my share of groups only to never group with the same people again. No one ever really maintains friendships here, no one talks or hangs out or gets together just for the social aspect of MMO's. I miss the camps in SWG, heck I even miss foraging and cooking breakfast for the group I was in trying to march to some far away local to hunt some high level beasties for trophies for the house or the city. I miss prospecting for resources to make the best weapons in the galaxy. I miss the space combat and building up my ship. I miss the custom clothing I would commission my friends to craft for me. I miss all that ****, man. This game is not likely to keep me for very long. I need a sense of adventure and pioneering and comradery. There is still EVE...

Yes, in fact, I created a guild just for all my own created characters

I'm an altoholic and have all my character slots full. I always lose my love for this game around taris. Taris just sucks the life out of me.

If you were a pro you'd have good fps, like me... Wake up!

I did this and I noticed a marked improvement in performance...good fix. Then again, my system is fairly strong. It ran well before in the 40-80 fps but now its more consistently staying in the 60 - 80 range.