His statement is true provided you think of the new OP as all there is to the expansion. So in tru SW style it's "True from a certain point of view", even if it's untrue for the rest of the world :-)

My patch slowed down to a trickle, so I did the sensible thing and checkedmy conneciton, reset my rotuer e.t.c. Since that I can log in but get the message Unable to retrieve patch data. Please check network connection (208). SInce Prime Time EU started just as my patch trickled down I'm taking a wild stab at not rechecking my connection which seems to have no other issues but to wait till things settle down a bit and try again.

You realise at least part of those loading screens are due to your character being loaded? The character select screen hasn't loaded your characters yet beyond their models. For your idea they'd have to frontload all your character's individual Inventory, bank details, mail, Companion statuses e.t.c. You'd probably not have a 10 times as long load-time for your character select, but somehwere between 5-7 times as long would not be unexpected. Personally I'd rather have a Legacy Accessed Bank myself so I'd atleast be able to cut down on mailing my alts things like Companion Gifts.

There's examples of guilds, clans, cutls, alliances, corporations, governments and syndicates in Star Wars lore, so there's no reason not to use the term guilds based on lore. Bottom line is, they could've gone with any term they liked but 99% of MMO players have an instinctive understanding of the term Guild whereas Corporation or even Clan leads to confusion to larger than 1%. Also Guilds tend to allow more individualism to its members than Corporations so from that perspective it's probably more apt a term anyway.

It kinda depends on whether they put the client update servers in maintenance too. My money is on we can download the client update while the servers are being updated during maintenance.

You might want to search around the forums and the dev tracker a bit before getting your hopes up. Togruta has been mentioned several times as being rather problematic in regards to clipping. That's also the reason Twi'Lek in TOR don't have prehensile lekku. Yes, there's Togruta NPCs in the game without these issues, they all wear handpicked armour that doesn't clip, much, with their armour. They felt it was acceptable (barely) to have Ashara Zavros with all her clipping issues in tha game, but for a player character it's too much. BW is going with the Catharr mostly because they're the easiest for them to do both in terms of animation and voice.

I'll be enjoying levelling some toons doing the interesting bits rather than making sure I get every bonus and side quest just to keep up with the levelling curve so I don't end up being 2+ levels too low for the next Planet. Double XP lets me level at leisure

If it bothers you, pretend GMT is UTC.

Ehm, you are playing as a male Jedi Knight and did give her a courting gift at some point?

He he eh, asking Bioware for parental advice, that's hilarious!!!

They're not.

Ah, I did not know that. I'd noticed the bonus stays when Affection drops below 1000 again but assumed hitting 1000 triggers the bonus after which it can't be taken from you.

Well, I got my tree set up with 4 Twi'lek sisters across both factions and a couple of allies. While it would possibly be prettier if I could put them all in a circle with crosslines from each avatar to each avatar, it really ammounts to the same thing depending on how you wish to interpret things. It's mostly a visualization aid for how you yourself imagine their relationship(s). As such it's good enough for me if not perfect. Compared to other MMO's which generally offer... nothing in this are, it's pretty neat The Legacy ssytem as a whole so far got me several benefits: + Global Presence bonuses from maxed out affection on Companions + Chapter 2 Completion buffs, essentially the same as when people remember to cast their Class buffs when in a group. + Additonal Heroic Abilities from each Chapter 3 I completed on different classes + Two Species unlocked so Far Twi'Lek & Miraluka (I wanted A Twi'Lek Sith Warrior and a Blind Trooper) + Legacy of Unity + Ship Mailbox + XP boosts and Speeder Pilotting unlocks on several individual characters. My main peev with the system's the long cooldown on Priority Transport Personal Starship and that I have to buy it on a per character basis.

You take a small Affection hit when you flirt with another where she hears it and a much bigger one if you sleep with someone and that can result in funny dialogue too. But you can always compensate for that with Companion Gifts. Apparently George Lucas & Bioware wanted us to take away from SW:TOR that affection can always be bought (back) with material goods. That or that nothing has consequences

I'm confused, do you want the guy fired for giving answers that are consistent with what Bioware employees elsewhere have said on the same topics, or do you want him fired because the answers he's given were not the answers you wanted to hear but would be lies?