Wrong, Bioware is lucky we are paying them to keep the servers running.

Cant abandon quest, and resetting quest when you have landed on rishi does not change the objective of the quest. We're past the problem at this point, regardless.

I found this thread as I was running into a problem with Vette on my juggernaut., prior to starting SoR. When adding Vette to the stronghold, she shows up in some default gear, like the stuff she got when you enter fleet first time. Highly perplexing as she is walking around in rakata agent gear, which looks a tad better. When starting chapter 5 from ship terminal, Vette on this character again goes default on me. I have multiple warriors, which all have Vette's with variable gear and so on, and I have no idea why this character have a bugged Vette. It just does not happen to all warriors, my marauder had no issues in SoR intro. I do notice that the Vette I see on the marauder has the custom gear she has with him and not the gear on my juggernaut, so this may be a problem with loading the equipmentinfo for the cutscene. In other words, we may have a corrupted character file. Checking the stronghold for further clues, I noticed that all companions will show up in their default initial gear on the preview window where you place and pick them up, but all my companions save Vette loaded correct. Vette is also the active companion. Changing to another companion make Vette in the stronghold load the equipment assigned to her by that character. Checking still some more, I find that the stronghold seem to follow this rule: Companions you do not have show up as holo images and in a default suit. Companions you have and which are not active companions show up in their custom gear. You active companion follow the same behaviour as companions that character doesnt have - default suit and holo'ed. Applying this info to test the rishi intro bug for solutions, I switch to quinn as active companion and start the cutscene. There is no change in outcome, Vette is dressed in default garb, Quinn in his custom gear. Vette also lose her customization 3 and show up as if no customization token has been used, further adding strength to the theory it is a character file issue. Tried multiple times to force a fix by unloading all her gear and start up cutscene and so on, but always default gear, it simply does not load the actual gear for her. Even took all her gear off and logged completely out of game and back in to perhaps force a emptying out of the Vette data and make it work. No dice. Last note: This is happening on my second warrior to get to rishi, not the first, if that has any impact.

Beside being incidental, its rather helpful on the matter at hand. thumbs up for that.

Add: Playing music in the background - the music plays as it should, while loading screen cause stutters.

This one might be helped a bit. I've seen several posts in the customer service forum detailing that some computers CTD when hyperspace cutscenes are initiated, and other triggers cause it as well. Workarounds have varied and among them playing game in windowed fullscren mode was mentioned, but most successes to circumvent the hyperspace ctd (selecing destination on BT) was byt ALT tab'ing out to windows for 30 sec after the choice on where to go was done. Hope this helps.

Many here appear to be ill informed. Permit me to show what was on test (according to dulfy) and is supposed to be on Live servers: Day_________Missions___________________________________Rewards (Commendations) Monday______Far Cradle Strike/Regnant Station Assault________2 Black Hole, 5 Daily, and 40 Fleet Tuesday______Kabal Station Defense/Ardis Outpost Fortification__2 Black Hole, 5 Daily, and 40 Fleet Wednesday___Kanz Minefield/ New Cov Asteroid Field__________2 Black Hole, 5 Daily, and 40 Fleet Thursday_____Duma Strike/Baros Ambush____________________2 Black Hole, 5 Daily, and 40 Fleet Friday________Lorta Escort/Hypori Escort_____________________2 Black Hole, 5 Daily, and 40 Fleet Saturday______Cha Raaba Assault/Thanium Disruption__________2 Black Hole, 5 Daily, and 40 Fleet Sunday_______Cha Raaba Assault/Thanium Disruption +_________4 Black Hole, 10 Daily, 80 Fleet ______________Duma Strike/Baros Ambush I unlocked everything on one char, and since that I have been recording what ops I get every day. I get the sunday operations unlocked on tuesday and sunday, and I get the monday ops unlocked on wednesday. The rest of the days are empty. Needless to say, Im disappointed. But not surprised.

That is assuming the weekly resets work. I unlocked all the missions on one of my toons the first weekend after 1.6. According to dulfy there is one operation unlocking each day of the week, but this week alone I have only seen 3 operations unlock. We're supposed to see 7 weekly ops with separate days of resets and I have consistently checked for this every day on that toon. Not happy about spending all the resources to get grade 7 equip and not seeing the 7 weeklies that was on test, but only 3 operations. Then again, the 3 operations is: Tuesday: Cha Raaba Assault/Thanium Disruption + Duma Strike/Baros Ambush Cha Raaba Assault/Thanium Disruption Wednesday: Far Cradle Strike Sunday: Same as tuesday. As you see, completing cha raaba assault on tuesday and sunday credits both the available operations too, meaning I do 3 of the 6 new space missions for the weeklies. Now what is the point of even adding 6 missions if only 3 gets reused in the weeklies, and not unlocking the space missions not used does not hinder getting the ones available? Im a bit perplexed by this bug. Anyways, the difficulty of the space missions is high, but once you get the tactic down, its a matter of doing it right. Successrate for me initially was like 1:5 missions, now im completing on first run most of the time. Granted, only on the 3 space missions listed since the other weeklies doesnt open and those missions have no reward.

You get it from the smuggler vendor in supplies section on fleet. Tionese should also have the same model and at level 50 you get a quest that instantly grant you 99 tionese coms that you use to buy it. You dont need to be smuggler to use the hat, only be able to wear medium armor btw, its not class restricted.

Been down since 10:12 pm EST. As of the time of your post it was already down about 35 minutes, as of this post its been down 1 hour. And the sticky on forum was made 20 minutes after the server booted people. Just to be factual. Just wish they could reboot the junk and be done with it.

Pft, compensation for downtime? Its really not been that much downtime from crashes since start, and Ive been playing more or less every day since early access. I much rather have the technicians at bioware work doubletime to get the hunk of junk running again. That should be priority (and probably is). Our annoyance wont speed that up one minute.

Running anything in the background? I hd the same happen during an ops while I had a video on pause in the background. screen showed lots of green symbols and random stuff for 10-15 sec during a operation bossfight.

Half my guild got kicked and chats started lagging. As a subscriber I didnt expect to be booted when server is full, seems the login queue now is very slow (im in place 8, started at 10, getting message I have highest priority for login) AFAIK subscribers shouldnt be booted at all when server gets full. In the time since I entered said queue the server population has gone from very heavy (5 min wiat time) to heavy - 15 min wait time. I suspect the server is booting players and not letting anyone log in aka crash

Sounds weird. Going off on a tangent I would assume you are capped on the progress in vette's dialogues with that high affection in chapter 2 (I assume from your post you have completed ch.1 and are on ch.2). All companions tend to cap their effective affection for conversation purposes based on where in your class story you are. That being said I had Vette on a very high affectionlevel on my juggernaut and didnt notice any odd behaviour like this. What I have noticed is if you dismount from speeder and do a quest convo you dont get affection points all the time, which is probably not intended.

I never said the missions were easy. Ive completed 4 missions so far, one being a operation so I got bh coms. And I must have failed more than 40 times. The pay2win part of this is the act of dumping money on the cartel market instead of spending your ingame resources (time you spent grinding for them). And as my point on 4 wins and 40(or so) fails illustrate: if you arent a good pilot, you only pay for the means to have a chance. If you dont, you gotta grind alot first = pay to skip grind.

Do you really think they need ideas on how to get more cash from us? I wish your post could be burned in flames so no record of it remains. Stupidity.

Its p2w when you pay rl cash to circumvent the grind required to of getting full grade 7 set. Secondly for those who didnt stock resources ahead of time, it permits them to play the new space missions with a win chance on day 1. And about what you win - obviously its the ability to even get shot at getting additional 10 bh coms, 100 daily coms and 200 fleet coms every week (multiple ops with separate reset days). It may not be much but it is what you get. Basically you pay to cut corners and get to the "juicy" stuff immediately. So calling it pay to win is valid. I think the discussion on bioware being goldsellers is more important though. Buy CC, purchase cartel packs, sell on GTN, get ingame cash back, convert to grade dreadguard mods (directly or economically by purchasing mol. stabs and get it crafted at low fee) This is the slippery slope we are on now.

Its Pay to win because it is content. We may not agree it is alot of content (2bh coms pr operation, several ops btw) and its darn hard to complete even with grade 7 components but it is definately content, its one of the major things about 1.6 along with the new cartel market stuff. The pricing in ingame resources for the grade 7 ship parts next to the comparatively "cheap" cartel pricing for the same package makes it rather apparent that there is an attempt at cash grab going on. Thing is, its so ridiculously hard to do the new missions (fail/win rate for me is abysmal but I might just be extraordinarily bad at space missions eh) that its better just to ignore the whole content. The effort in time is so significant and annoyance over the win/fail rate makes it better to spend time grinding through other avenues.

FYI there is Force Camoflague for marauders, Im sure the sentinels have the same mirror ability. Before you make a guide, eliminate holes in your education.

I rarely mess up big, which kinda make the error I did in the blackhole quest Glow that much more amusing. I didnt realize there was a protective device to use to avoid damage from the ground in the center area so I always ran in with healer companion and charged the mobs nearly dying to complete the quest, for about 2 months. Figured that yellow beam from corpses was just a mission stage item Anyhow, thats how you do Glow HM.

Bioware, its nice that you do something to fix it, but is it too much to ask that you bother to use the server broadcast function and make us aware that you are pulling the server down on a sunday night? Definately not making you look very bright.

I think its important to realize what the groupfinder tool is and is not. Its not a advanced gearscore checking utility setting up your dreamgroup. Its a limited tool designed to keep a majority of the players happy and/or busy because they get groups, loot and as further incentive for use it gives 5 blackhole coms every day. The nature of the beast is, the incentive is good and without having the data I assume a majority of people at levelcap use it to get hm fps groups for their needs on loot, bh coms and so forth. The ease of use and the accessibility ensures you get people of every level of skill and gear, and it is something we just have to deal with. Preferably with patience where necessary, and at least courtesy. Not everyone is a star on their character/role at first so its quite useful to keep in mind that its smart to be communicative, check if people have done the flashpoint in question, and if there is doubt, fill in tactics etc so the run is as smooth as possible. And as someone before pointed out, its not wasted to teach someone new to hm fps a new thing or two if you can, because that makes them better teammates later on. Things I would like the tool to do is pop up a quiz box once flashpoint is selected, asking players if they have done the fps before, and have the result popped up before start. Like, never - couple times - often. It would give a fairly good idea where people is in regards to the tactics, and promote communication where there might otherwise be little of it. Nothing annoys me more than the silent group where everyone assumes the others know what they are doing, its not always true and one wipe later you sit there, knowing its your collective fault you wiped. For the tier2 LI.. Id sort of wish there was a min equip level to enter the queue. Queuing up and get a group where the people arent geared for the fps and as a consequence fails is rather sad. Lastly, on dps pulling over the tank and other shenanigans. Realize that the tank queue is 1 second. DPS queue is 20-30 minutes. You are not unique, you are easily replacable, so mind your behaviour. Seriously

potential issue: You are on a origin server, ie abandoned by most. If not, then: You were both dps and queued up together. I dont think that realistically give a high chance of being selected for the first available group that specifically select that fps. If not, then: no healer/tank were wanting to do it. Im dps(x2) on a destintion server, in peak queue is 20-30 min for me or so. Id love to see a "you are number x in queue for role: y" in the tooltip for the groupfinder tool though. You say you are on a severely underpopulated server at first though, so Im banking on that fact. Move to a populated server, you have been given the option. Dont expect the 8 people left on your world through sheer stubborness to magically queue up for that exact fps. Realize that while BW wont acknowledge it, the free server transfers were a differently worded server close/merge action.

Fair point, remedied by requiring maxlevel and complete class story to defect. Then inherit mirror class' story in expacs.

Id be cool with defection, but no special perks should come with it beyond having a class that is rare on the new side. If anything, the fallen character should use the corresponding trainer on the new side to retrain/rename their skills to the new archetype. But yea, keep the pets and the old faction look on gear, be unique.