Hehehe I agree. Most of the emote animations are a bit... ermmm, metrosexual. Dance, Sit... could talk about a lot more of those, but it's known to most. good, fun animations might be the sith pure-blood racial (but really, Khem Val cries??) and my favorite, the /flap.

Threads like this should have a definition table of some words and expressions, as seen by the OP. I'm saying this because, i.e., Hardcore Played can mean an infinitude of different things for different people. What is Hardcore? What is Casual? Some good points were made here, and one of the best "words" used here is "Niche". It's completely understandable that a game where they spent millions will be aimed to the wider slice of the audience. It's understandable for even an "hardcore-niche" player, if that player is not completely self-centered on his view. A game like this couldn't be made for niche audience. It has to roll out for the wider audience, and maybe, just maybe, if things go right, add "hardcore" content in the future to please the niche audience. For now, the game is what the game is.

Well, I had a char over there when I joined the game. The reason I left the server had nothing to do with population tho. It's on of the first servers to hit standard pop in the day. One of the few ones that go up to Heavy. It's one of the last ones to go Standard -> Light at night. I'm playing on a Light server that only got Standard for a couple hours per day, and I don't see as much problem as you are seeing on your "high pop" server. I guess your problem is not population, but rather your schedule. Although I seem to be pushing your complain down, I'm actually understandable about your situation. My schedules now are more aimed to the normal server schedules, since my job finally took me to normal hours (I used to work in the afternoon up to late night. Awful for mmo gaming in "local" servers. My schedule was more adequate to the US schedule than EU. If that's your case, check your ping/latency on the east coast US servers. If it's good enough it might be a solution.

Class: Engineer Advanced Classes: HoloSlicer (Support / Crowd Control - DPS . Stealth A.Class) Chemist (Heal - DPS)

This. Companions are not just pets. They act as abilities with stances.

And here was I, thinking this thread was about the release date. Very informative and with a lot of drama, but still wondering what's the release date.

lol Positive Points for hope. Negative points for research.

Would True Neutral be able to play both faction quests?

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Hello Dekkau, I think you may be missing some info and "strategy" on swtor's gearing scheme for lower level / leveling. First, let me tell you that almost all classes I've played struggle a bit between some levels. Well, they aren't that hard to play and advance, but there is a noticeable difficulty increase due to disparity on gear at some points, if you miss a part or two of the content. - As you get to the fleet the first time and get your advanced Class, my advice would be that you find a friend or another player interested in doing the same, and run Black Talon/Esseles (sp?) 2man flashpoint. You can get a moddable chest piece and weapon(s) and a few nice blue armor pieces from there. It will help you a lot leveling the next few levels. - At the first planet you reach after that, don't get gear quest rewards that are very very close to your gear. Instead choose the commendation reward. Those will be handy as soon as you reach level 16. - Meanwhile while leveling, try to do all heroics you find, even twice or more (you can do it once a day each). Most of those heroics will give you good gear rewards or commendations (up to 3 on the heroics4). - At level 14 you can trade your commendations for most of the armor rewards on the commendation equipment vendor, at level 16 you'll be able to get a weapon. The "last" heroic 4 on the planet will give you a nice upgrade to your chest armor. At the end, if you have spare commendations, you can get some modifications for your moddable gear at the commendation Modification vendor. - Also, seems that you're trying to use the Modification Stations to upgrade your gear with your new mods. You don't need those. The ones found in the worlds are "leftovers" from Beta, when you needed them to upgrade the gear. Now, you can simply press "CTRL" + "right-click" on the item to be modified, and the mod. window will pop up. Also, don't forget to equip your companion. Drops are usually good for the companion, you can get nice companion gear as reward from a series of quests, extra commendations and crafting can be the origin of companion gear too. Good luck with your continuing explorations!

Well, The Sims sold over 100 million copies.

Queue in group, win, get better gear (different commendations) I think that's about it.

It doesn't matter if I can move them if I can't fit all my stuff on them. I'd really want a 5th action bar.

Nice... what about another bottom bar? Now that would be nice for every one (I guess every class have a problem fitting all abilities, medpacks, stims, addrenals, relics and other stuff on the bars).

I envy your resistance and patience... I mean, you hate the game in every aspect, yet you have two level 50's a a bunch of alts. The question "Why?" comes to mind?

A society with large number of active different languages will produce a polyglot population. Just note how many people around the world speak more than their own language. I speak 4 languages and I never really studied those and we don't have too many people with foreign language around all the time. Imagine a place where there was 10 languages being spoken since the day you were born.

Why do "we" have to pick one of those choices? Why not Transfers/Merge coming with the 1.2 patch? It would be amazing. New content won't work without population, but population wants and needs the patch. IMO, both should be active at the same time.

Did that twice, not doing it again. Transfers / Merges or burst!

Healing dummies are there to ensure that you won't get your team annihilated in a raid boss, because they are kinda tuned to be fought with healers in the attacker side, right? Why not on self? Because of self heal increases from stats. Dummy can be a perfect neutral target. Why not on companion? Well, because healers like combat logs for the same reason dps like them. An attack dummy for tanks would also be amazing to study defense/shield stats and builds

Put your companion on passive a bit before stealth, because if the companion has a DoT on the mob it will put him (and you) in combat.

Max time is 20 seconds 4 quarter-circles, 5 blinks each, 1 sec. per blink. Anyway, it's true and agree. I lost count on how many times I found myself on the respawn closed door as they open a gate, and get out as soon as they put the bomb on the next. It's crazy...

They are giving free respecs to every class due to changes. With this change, I also would like a free Trade Skill respec. I mean... it's not fun to level a skill to 400 (3 skills actually) just to find out, patch after patch, that it will be worthless and just a credit drain. No one will buy the implants (there are really easy to get and really good ones around) and I'm pretty sure that medpacks, addrenals and stims aren't selling. I picked that trade for guild/group friends support and for that extra boost as a tank. Now having a reusable start sounding as not that worth of it

The Biochem Legacy: From nearly-obligatory to useless.

What kind of mentality is that OP? So, you want a patch as it is, meaning: unbalanced and broken, so people wont leave? You realize that if this patch is released as it is, a LOT more will leave?

Oh Bioware... Warhammer Online was that long ago that you forgot how things went after launch with the servers? As TOR, they created a bunch of servers at launch just to see them empty after a couple of months. I can't really remember if there was char transfers (I think so) but they did merge servers quite frequently, until they had a very low number of servers to play. Right now I have lvl 50 chars in 3 servers. One due to the guild early-access thing, other because I hated the server given and moved, other because friends have joined on a different one. I hope for server merge before anything, but I'd love some transfers to get my chars into a single server. It's a pain to have them there on hold.