Wow that sucks.... so all his employees have to share one copy?

At absolute best that dates back to the days of beta. The sites you cited have not been updated since then.

I would rather be dipped in bees before I'll have a magenta lightsaber blade. I would rather be dipped in hornets before I grind pvp enough to have a purple lightsaber blade. I would rather be dipped in velvet ants (which are actually wingless wasps also nicknamed 'cow killers') before I have a black cored lightsaber blade.

Reverse engineering of WHAT if not something that already HAS the purple colored blade/bolt?? Have to have something to reverse engineer that has the purple. Crystal and then that gets you... What? The crystal? A schematic? Your assertion doesn't make sense.

I lol'ed so hard I peeed myself a little.

You forgot the part about how mgnta sabers are godawful ugly. We had ambulances in So Fla that color so you'd be sure to get out of their way. They were that ugly

No. Not possible for Republic. Thanks for playing though.

They could definitely have taken a few lessons from City of Heroes. NOTHING beats COH/COV for moddability. I could go back to COH and have my purple lightsaber right now http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/214/purplelightsaber.jpg/

Ok, it's not SWTOR, it's City of Heroes.... but seriously, look at it. I've got my purplish energy sword and nothing horrible happened because I was able to do this without jumping through some insane hoops. It's just about customizing appearance. Come on Bioware, just let us do it. It's not like this game really lets us do much in customization to begin with. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/214/purplelightsaber.jpg/

End gear is mod locked; it prevents their mods from being transferred to other gear. (I'm not sure if Bioware has actually stated that it was done intentionally but there is other non-orange gear that they said was supposed to be moddable that isnt and they're fixing it?)

Even if what you are saying were true about them being craftable and requiring lvl 400 artifice to craft at all, they would still only be available to high level characters unless there are schematics for crystals usable by each level.

None whatsoever. The problem isn't that Force Cloak doesn't work. The problem is IMMEDIATE reaquisition of the target. Use tactics that mitigate the causes.

A person can't use items anyway. The character is what uses the items. And the companion is part of the character. It doesn't matter what little tab I'm on when I equip it. If I can go to the companion tab and be able to equip the item then that's good enough. I'm not always in groups, sometimes I'm soloing and when I solo, the companion needs decent gear equipped. People aren't entitled to not have their feelings hurt.

QFT My companion is part of my character anyway. If I'm having to go solo a companion is there filling the void that another player should fulfill. If more people were wiling to group I might not feel the need to 'need'.

No not bugged. But you CAN be detected through cloak. And if you're already in battle then you have enemies close enough to detect you. Some situations have greater risk of cloak fail. Know them. Solution: tactics, not workarounds. Put distance between you and them (pboe knockback attacks, Force Speed, etc). Stun nearest enemy if he's more likely to break your cloak. Set your companion to passive if he's likely to damage an enemy right when you're cloaking.

You'll never amount to anything with that kind of attitude. It's not whining, it's customer feedback. The successful company pays attention to its customers or it doesn't have any. That's what separates the big boys from the Derek Smarts of the industry.

Emphasis on sooner, by the time I'm eligible for a purple crystal it'll be time for me to move on to another character. Unless SWTOR has one HELL of an endgame.

Yeah it's a damned shame we have to go through these hoops just to get a purple blade. This won't really make them RARE. Just make us do this ridiculous un-fun procedure to get to them. Instead, just put the raw harvestable crystals in the wild, want to assign some special gemstone we have to harvest as well, fine-whatever, and then just let us do it. We'll decide how rare they really are based on how many of us decide to make them. In the end that's the only deciding factor that matters.

How often of an update do you think is appropriate? 'we're working on it' should be good enough. I'd rather they keep working on it than have to come into the forums constantly to mollify people. And worse than that, even if they did, people would miss the update and come into the thread and 'I have this problem too, how do I fix it!' or complain that there's no update or status report even if there had been one 5 minutes before. And if you were to then point out to them the post that did in fact notify them they would complain that they can't be expected to read the posts that came before That's what happened during Early Access when people got confused that the launcher said they had no subscription and they would post in the thread that EXPLAINED why that message was there and why it was not a problem and they would ignore that first post that explained all this and they would complain that they had this problem too and want to know how to fix it (even though the vast majority of them didn't really have a problem other than being confused). And they would also ignore the postings by other players reiterating the first post in response to other people complaining that they had that message. So it really is better this way. Bioware is aware of the problem and they're working on it. 'nuff said.

/sign Still not fixed. Maybe an improvement; I don't find them as often but still finding them (bugged resources)

Nope. My first spam was day after launch day. Got 2 more in the week after. Nothing since. Maybe *YOU* got yours day after slicing nerf but that doesn't mean that's when it started or that nerfing was the cause. Coincidence does not equal causality. Another thing: OP stated that no slicing income means skyrocketing prices. Sorry but WRONG. Low income means no sales means glut of products on shelves means supply outstrips demand means LOWER PRICES. (translation: reasonable prices that non slicers can afford)

Because there's still server based validation happening. If there's a discrepancy between client and server, server wins no exceptions.

I agree this mission was a PITA but I did complete after 6 tries with NO (ZERO) upgrades. On my last mission I gave the most troublesome of the capital ships several full barrages of missiles to her engines and forward batteries and was rewarded with a noticeable reduction of weapons fire on the transports final approach. That and concentration on my arcade skills during that period to take out the fighters.

He's just trying to get hits on his You Tube channel.

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