I reached level 50 with 2 characters - imperial side. With my first I did almost all of the quests on all the planets. The story was great. With my second i did only half the quests and my class quest.
Both times I was questing I met very few rebel players on all the planets. I remember 2-3 from tatooine and 2-3 on Hoth and 1 on Nar shadaa bonus quests. I attacked them, happy to do PvP on a PvP server. But that was it. So in my 2 months of playing i managed to find around 15-20 rebel players on all the planets I visited with my 2 characters.
Now THAT is whats wrong with PvP in SWTOR.
It is made like a single player game. It is a superb story and lots of fun to play but there is no world PvP - even after you get a warning choosing a server to be PvP.
Developers just decided each side should have a totally separated quest hubs so you can enjoy the story? WRONG
There should be killing and quest items/monsters stealing from the second planet onward. That is the base of world PvP.
Warzones are not real PvP. You can join and know nothing bad will happen. Maybe you will waste some time and get less valor/cash/expirience but thats it. You cannot lose anything in warzones. Warzones should be only for training so you can kill players for real in the world.
Also PvP gear is just stupid. Let me explain.
Lets say I play 2-3 hours per day average. I like to do flashpoints and quests. I will not go to warzones since I do not have time. So I get "PvE" gear. With that gear I have 0 chance to kill an average guy geared with basic PvP gear.
So what should I do ? Spend all my time in warzones to get PVP gear? So I cant do FP and quests that I like?
Warzones should not give you gear it should only give credits and titles. Generaly there should be no "PvP" gear.
If there are 2 types of gear then that is like having 2 games. 1 is PvE game with PvE gear. And the other is PvP game with PvP gear. With PvE gear u cant defeat PvP players. And players with PvP gear have hard time in PvE content. You just cannot do both at the same time. Especially since there is no WORLD PvP to do so!!!!!!
Oh and in SWTOR you do not get anything if u kill a player outside of Illum or warzones. 0 valor 0 credits 0 anything.
I hope people will understand what I am trying to say here about WORLD PVP and how it affects the whole game.