One question. Are you making sure that you are always logging out in a rest area? You earn rested bonus during the time that you are logged out in a rest area, such as anywhere on fleet, your ship, or any planet's cantina. Build up a decent amount of rested bonus on one character while you play another. Also, there could be more to it regarding the claims of people getting to max level in a week. Perhaps they have unlocked all of the bonus xp character perks in their legacy. There are several tiers of unlocks to earn more xp from class quests, warzones, space missions, and exploration. And keep in mind that it is generally true in most MMOs that your first character takes longer to level than your second, and your second longer than your third, and so on. This is because there is a bit of learning curve involved in every game. After you've done it once, you have a better understanding of what you're doing. By the third or fourth alt, you are pretty much an expert as to what quests you need to take and what to skip because it's out of the way and not worth the time. Doing the dailies every day is a pretty good way to knock out levels. If you don't hate PvP, then grab the daily and weekly quests from the PvP terminal. Queue up while you're questing on a planet. At most, you will have to only do two a day to complete the daily. If you do them every day then the odds are good that at least three of them that week will be winners so you can turn in the weekly. As an added bonus, grab the daily Flashpoint quests as well and after completing all of your PvP quests and when you're done on a planet, queue up for a Flashpoint. When its over you can leave and choose to exit back to fleet to turn in your Flashpoint dailies and your PvP dailies. And there is always xp boosts from the CM or mission rewards if you're a subscriber.

I'm thinking he meant if he consolidated his credits from his 3 toons, not 2 mil on each. At least I hope that's what he meant. Still a bit of a stretch.

I have a Note II and how I deal with this is I kill the app after I use it. It seems to happen when you leave it running in the background and it cycles a new code. After I type in my code, I tap the home button, then from the home screen hold the home button, then swipe the app away. I prefer to use my phone in portrait so I have auto rotate turned off, but the landscape tactic works too.

Is there a sync button on the mobile app? I had both the blizzard mobile key and the one for rift stop working before. Just had to tap the sync button to get it working again.

I've had this happening since shortly after getting my naga back in February. There were other threads about it back then. Here's one that I dug up. http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=214913&highlight=razer+naga It may just be a placebo, but it seems like when I'm having this problem, I make a very minor change to the dpi settings in synapse and the problem goes away for the rest of that gaming session. Though the next time I log in the problem inevitably returns. Sometimes it's really bad and makes moving with the mouse unplayable. Other times it happens infrequently.

I'm guessing you've never heard of Auto Assault or Tabula Rasa

Actually, both times that I've used the LFG tool on my Sith Sorc, I did deselect healer and then queued, closed the window, opened it up and I was flagged for both dps and heals. Both times this happened and I had to deselect healer and click Update Roles. This is the only character that I've had this happen on but that may be because all the other characters I've played I was healing. Edit: By the way, I'm spec'd Madness

+1 for hilarious irony.

Wait for the shininess to wear off. Players have to understand that people are excited about the transfers and are making time to play outside their normal playtime.

I'm thinking that since EA is the publisher, it's probably their marketing department that is responsible for advertising. I would suggest that, since most fans of Star Wars are fans because of the movies (I know there are books and an animated series too, but lets face it, the movies are probably the most common gateway for Star Wars fans), they should partner up with Movie Cash and put a free movie ticket in the box. They could also include a code to allow buyers to download the soundtrack from iTunes for the music lovers. Also, the software can be downloaded, so there is really no need for the software to be packaged in a box. EA could sells cards that have an activation code on them and have them placed at check out lines or placed where gift cards are sold. They could also urge retailers to move the game to end caps instead of mixed in with dozens of other titles. Let it stand out from the crowd. Or package the game in a Star Wars lunchbox, replicas of the circa 1977 ones that, in mint condition, are selling the over $100 in some cases. This would be great for geeks and parents. I would buy one and take my food to work in it for sure. Of course, BW is still going to need to work on much needed improvements, but a better marketing campaign couldn't hurt.

I would like to add to this thread the problem I keep seeing with channeled abilities. I play both an IA Op and a Sith Sorc. On both toons I have channeled abilities that can be chain cast. For my IA, it's Diagnostic Scan, and on my Sorc it's talented Force Lightening. The problem that I have noticed is that if I wait until the cast bar hits 0 and drops off, then I always have to hit the button 2 or 3 times to get it to start casting again, but if I watch the cast bar as I channel and hit the button again when the cast bar hits 0.5 seconds left, it usually fires off again with a single press to the hotkey. Has anyone else noticed this?

Hate to break it to ya, but what we're all going to be doing tomorrow is waiting in a server queue, disconnects, and server restarts. Don't take it as I'm trashing the game. I'm excited about 1.2 and can't wait to experience it. But how often do games this new get a major content patch live without any hitches. Just being realistic. Wouldn't mind if I was wrong though.

6 years in the making. All that time the devs were getting paid, marketers were getting paid, CEOs CFOs, HR, mail room personnel, etc. The box price is to recover the expense of the development. You have access to the game for 30 without being charged a subscription fee, which is to cover ongoing development. I've never seen a game company not require you to set up a recurring subscription without entering billing information. Except free trials which usually means you haven't even purchased the game yet, and again, I've never seen a game company offer a free trial to such a young MMO.

What he said. It takes some getting used to, but you'll eventually get into the habit of running up to loot/interact and turning your camera to the side a bit. Pretty soon you just start doing it without thinking. At least I did.

The Atari had a joystick and a single button. The NES had 4 directions and 2 action buttons. A PS3 has a thumb-stick, 4 directions, 4 bumpers, and 4 action buttons, and it even has a button that lets you turn off the system without getting up (thats a convenient feature that only the latest iteration of console games share, does that make it a crutch?) When all we had was that controller with 4 directions and 2 buttons, did we miss the additional buttons? No, because we didn't know any better. Controls evolve just the same way that games get better, more advanced, and more engaging. It is, without a doubt, more efficient the fewer mouse clicks/button presses you have to make to get the job done. Why do so many people have a problem with this concept?

I agree with this. At least it should be tried. A WoW-like LFD tool doesn't have to, and shouldn't be the first option, but something is definitely needed. I haven't experienced too many problems finding a group for a Flashpoint in a reasonable amount of time, but finding groups for Heroic quests can take far too long and end in frustration. I tried to find a group once for Firestar for 2 hours before just dropping the quest. I must point out though that even Blizzard tried several iterations of a LFD mechanic. Including a system similar to what SW:TOR currently has in place, and even a global LFG chat channel. Problem was, no one ever used it. Players still just hung out in their respective capitals and spammed the Trade channel for groups. (anyone remember the addons that automatically replied to LFG requests with "Hey (player), use the LFG channel!"?) I would like to see BW come up with something unlike the WoW LFD and see if they can make it work, but I wouldn't be surprised in the end if they implement a WoW cloned LFD tool just because people are either too stubborn or too lazy.

That one started out at 1 hour when that game released. Then they reduced it to 30 for all, 15 for guild perks.

I had one of those as a kid! The only actual game I had for it was Q-bert. The rest of the games I played on it were in a booklet that came with the machine that you had to type in all the lines of code every time you wanted to play them, until we got a cassette tape drive to store the programs on. Maybe modern games should come like that. Then people would see how many lines of code go into something like that and maybe they would be more appreciative and not so demanding of all the features they want... or not.

Try running the controller software in administrator mode. Right-click >> properties >> compatibility >> check run as admin I don't think your software will autoload on windows startup as admin so you might have to load it up before you start your game. edit: Right, I was browsing from my phone and was quick to reply before I read the whole post.

Are you running the game with administrative permissions? Also, are you running any anti-virus software? If you are, perhaps your firewall is blocking the connection.

For those of you thinking that this name was flagged because of religious reasons, look again. I emboldened the first 4 letters and look at that, the language filter caught it. Why doesn't the character creation check these things?

First of all, its 2011. Second, they said from the beginning "UP TO 5 DAYS", meaning you could get 5, you could get 1. Turns out they decided to open the doors 2 extra days early. And they don't just do early access to sell more pre-orders. They give in game incentives to also entice people to pre-order. They do early access to ease the servers and the software into it. Have you never played a game on launch day that didn't offer early access? Server crashes, login queues, authentication and account server crashes. Anyone remember SWG? Even WoW had a few bumps in the first few days.

That seems fair to me. EA has had the use of the revenue of the people who pre-ordered sooner the longest, therefore, they get to play in the pre-launch the longest.