Check the link in my sig, that is my site and has been running for over a year and a half in which we pulled over 40 guilds together from all over the globe and on a number of different servers.....communication or the desire to do so are not my issues. I can do so much, so can other people, but ultmiately there are things in this game which can be done to make them feel less sterile as well as help people to integrate and hang out together.

Really? So why is it so many other MMO's chose to impliment such features?

They may not be needed on the face of it, but the impact they can have in creating a feeling of community should not be underestimated. Yes someone chatting away in a corner may not impact you directly, yet no-one chatting in the corner? It leaves the world feeling sterile and empty. These things are all small, I mentioned them because in many other games they are simple basics! I also mentioned them because they are so unbelievably easy to impliment and add in right now!! No need for some huge development costs or intense programming, they are so simple, yet so affective. It does not always need huge earth shattering changes to make a game so much better. These could be done in one patch update, and add so much to the game as well. And yes, tools such as these do not 'Build' a community, but what they do in fact do is give people the tools to help build it!!

I hate to be here and finding myself saying this, you have no idea how much I wanted this game to be great and for this to be my new MMO home for many years to come....but... Where are the supposed community features that you yourself said was so important to you BioWare???? Things that are stopping any form of community developing. 1) No speech bubbles?? (Toggable or otherwise) Like them or not they do make the worlds feel more populated and less like solo intances, as well as encouraging interaction and meeting of new people. They don't need to be in PVP zones perhaps, or even in Raids but in general areas why the hell not?? 2) Zero social hubs?? 3) The whole levelling process is geared to play solo? Why is there no scale-able group mechanics to that people can group with lower level friends and gain XP etc? 4) No 'Instant transport' so you can go and help a friend who is struggling with something then return to where you were previously thus not penalising the person who is helping for doing so? 5) No ability to talk to the opposite faction even if said people happen to be friends of mine?? Can i not even talk to them if they are on my friendslist and agree to be communicateable to me?? 6) No ability i have found to enable a friend of mine to see me no matter which alt I am on without having to add each and every alt I have individually? again make it a toggle option even depedning on individual friends request.... I could go on, but won't for now. It is such as shame that an otherwise quite enjoyable game can be so badly let down on an aspect they stated so much support for?? This sadly does not feel like an MMO to me at the moment, it still has that 'Single Player RPG with MMO plug-ins' feel that it had in Beta as well?? WHY??? I hate to bash this game, it is far from all bad, but such small things, such easy things to fix are honestly making this game feel so much of a let down to me? I am a huge community guy and had so many hopes in this regard but I really do feel very saddened these things are missing? Come on BioWare, lets sort out some of these so simple things to impliment!! It will change the face of how this game looks and feels so much and make it such a nicer place to hang out and enjoy our spare time!! You have done so many things right, and everyone who is crying about content issues in a game which is barely out of the box have a point but its moot in my opinion such things take time, and you have released a game which after about 9 releases to my name I can say has been far better polished then all but 1 (we know which) at launch, so many good points, lets just see this 5th pillar please?? Still subbing, just not playing, I will give this game time to make itself what it should be, but please don't let me down

I have to say that kind of atmosphere is what I am talking about, chat bubbles are such a simple addition to any MMO, yet with them the worlds just seem to come alive, people stop to chat, to ask questions, social hubs begin to form….and so on. All aspects which are so incredibly lacking in SW:TOR at the moment sadly. I don’t think anyone here would ever want a game that is quite as sandbox as SWG was? It was incredibly empty as a game at times, yet the polar opposite such as SW:TOR is perhaps a step too far the other way? Such a shame that games find it so impossible to come up with a happy medium? Another nice feature which is also lacking a little is a ‘Help a friend’ type feature, say for example you are stuck on a dungeon, right at the far end of the map of the planet you are on, and I am at the far end of another planet, for me to get to you to help you………well it’s a mission and a half to say the least. Especially if you only need my help for 5 mins, it could well end up taking me 20/30 mins to get to you, 5 mins helping you, only for it to take another 30 odd mins for me to get back to where I was before? Why can I not transport to you to help you with a quest, the transport back to my last location? It would mean I could pop over and help you without seriously hindering my own playing time, it helps breed helpfulness and friendliness and a sense of community in the game? Honestly why do MMO’s fight so hard against building a community in a game? It baffles me??

A bit of both for me, but overall I would have to say No sadly. Its early days though, so will give it a chance yet. They DESPERATELY and I do mean DESPERATELY need to add in speech bubbles to this game however, the worlds feel unbelievably empty to me without them, even if the option is there to switch them off for people who dislike them, and/or remove them from BG's and PVP zones only. Without them the game feels utterly hollow and a complete solo journey at times. Its truly, truly awful, and for me such a small thing which is UTTERLY spoiling this game for me, I never realised such a small thing would irritate me to such a degree that I no longer enjoy playing? But it does, it just feels like a big solo game and not an MMO at all...PLEASE BIOWARE FIX THIS!!! Small as it may be, this could easily be fixed, and with it my enjoyment and desire to log back in may come back with it. Grouping is another major issue in this game, all too soon one of your mates is either to far behind you, or too far in front of you to help you or for it to be worth while for them to come back and help you that few seem to do so, this forces the player into a solo levelling process, something which is sadly becoming the norm in MMO’s and simply just being accepted but it need not be if you ask me? Simply scaling groups down or up to meet the content they are playing and a reflective amount of XP given would be far better. Penalising people’s time for helping others is such an appalling game mechanic. If I am running say a level 21 quest and my mate is level 28 why not let him choose to drop to level 21 to join me and gain level 21 XP whilst doing it? It won’t be huge XP for them obviously but at least it is some, it also means the content is still fun to play and not a whitewash where the higher level guy simply cleans out house. I will say that this is above all, what bothers me about SW:TOR. It is the lack of community this game portrays. The sad thing is I know how awesome many of the player base are, especially on Juyo which I play on most of the time, but I rarely see them, group with them, or speak to them whilst I level my characters, at end game sure that will change, but honestly should you have to play a game or stop start on chars which you only use when X or Y person is on for a few months before you get to hang out with them? No. That’s an appaling mechanic, especially for a game which is supposed to be an MMO. SW:TOR more so then any other MMO I have played over the passed 10 years or more is so incredibly insular and linear. This is fine in many regards, the combat etc can flow nice and quickly, and one bit leads in to another and so on, but it feels to me at least it is very much at the expense of the multiplayer aspect of the game? I like many, do not play MMO’s to play a slightly bigger online version of KOTOR, even if KOTOR is one of my all time favourite single player RPG’s it is not why I bought this game, I bought it to play with my mates, to group up and have a laugh with them, and I want to do that even when I level, or to feel like helping out other people is not stopping me from progressing my own character etc as well. Also the imbalance of some of the classes and the inability to gain a healer (so badly needed by most classes when levelling especially if you don’t opt to be a healer yourself which many don’t is awful in some classes, Inquisitor especially for me, until very late in your levelling process??) why can we not respect our companions to more fit our own playstyle and class choices? Again small things, they already have the same names, the same basic looks are we not going to be able to customise these things at all?? come on… Honestly overall I still maintain this game has arguably one of the best basic platforms at launch to progress and improve from in any MMO since the unmentionable one….lol, but it still has a TON more to do to make this a truly awesome game, again potential is the word here, but this is still not an MMO if you ask me, it is still an online RPG with MMO plug-ins. BioWare, your story is awesome, the worlds look fine, though I would have preferred more realistic worlds and characters so be it, you went for longevity and that’s fair enough, (though please do something with Tattooine, that planet is awful…just awful…enough of the darn tusken raiders already!! Lol) its pretty bug free considering it has only just launched, especially in comparison to most if not all other MMO releases I have been a part of. You have in fact done a great deal of things right, but its those things which are wrong that are really hindering this game and me loving it. I don’t dislike it as it is, I simply don’t like it either though, I kind of nothing it if anything. Oh and one last thing, allow communication between x-faction friendly guild members as well, I don’t see why I cannot talk to people who are my friends just because they play on a different faction, whats the logic behind that? Again perhaps not in PVP zones, but outside of that? Whats the issue?

Really? I managed to PVP for many years without any of those requirements and fairly successfully as well?? I honestly do not see any benefit to acting like an a-hat (not saying you do) to the opposition in PVP it does not give any benefit nor is it even needed? And yes…I have heard this so called ‘Psychological edge’ nonesense that some have spout lol, and honestly? No it doesn’t, it just irritates people until they have enough of it after a number of months and thus they stop doing it, the only looser in it, are the players who want to PVP because they end up with less and less people willing to take part in it or even try it…. yeah boxers use it before a fight…but lets be fair, they are not exactly the brightest guys on the planet…and the same goes from my perspective to those who use it in PVP. If you make an environment hostile, and no fun to take part in? People don’t. If you harass and belittle people for trying to learn? They stop. End result? You are then responsible for killing the thing you profess to love so much….and yeah, I have seen it in so many games it is unreal. Its great for the few, but it excludes soooooo many others because of it, and PVP in almost every MMO I have played in the last few years is little more than niche crowd of people, were before almost everyone at least dabbled in it from time to time, and it was fun. I used to adore PVP now I just avoid it. Honestly it is such a shame. PVP should be the pinnacle of an MMO. The challenge of beating fellow players is always a greater buzz and unknown than a more stagnant and instructed NPC opponent. Its such a shame the PVP community ruin it by and large. If you look for competitive edge, compare that to those sports which are also very competitive, motorsport, tennis, golf, cricket, rugby….and so on….they are all fiercely competitive sports, yet none of those who compete at the very highest level feel they need to use ego, anger or tears in order to be the best at it, in fact you tend to find those who truly are the best are among the most humble and friendly people in the business. So no, I don’t feel it is needed in PVP, I honestly think it is simply used as an excuse by many players.

Entirely down to the individual, and the individual guilds in all honesty mate. Me personally? Well I am a pretty patient fella, I will excuse ignorance even rudeness on occasion, but I am also obviously human, and yeah, if someone annoys the living daylights out of me, or is nothing but an problem, always rude, trying to turn people against one another simply to get their kicks? Well this carebear has teeth....lol. And trust me it can be far more scary when I show them because it is so incredibly rare that I do lol, it really does take someone to seriously try and wind me up before I will react. And well, by then they will have had plenty of warning, so when I snap back...tough really, lol. Seriously in an MMO, I can simply ignore it, or change toons. The chances of actually annoying me are pretty slim. It is rarely an individual who gets to me in a game, it is more the community as a whole..If we look at certain games from the past, I adored MMO's even bad ones such as SWG simply because of the people who played them, they were an awesome bunch. In other games..they have been decent games but because there were simply soooooo many a-hats around, or the general levels of respect and friendliness were so poor? Meh, I quit them. That is what I and the rest of RiG are trying to do here, not chastise those who do bad things on a person by person basis, but to try and bring a group of people together who try to act the right way, and are friendly, helpful and just all round decent folk to hang out with. If you have enough good people around you? The odd a-hat has so little affect its not even worth worrying about

(Ok I am sure this or something like it is posted already? But search function is broken and not gonna trawl through 500 pages..lol) Ok, though I am hoping this is posted someplace and is a work in progress? But I am really hoping that we see individual server forums here before too long? They help massively with recruitement for guilds, for new players to find guilds…and many other functions, so please can we have these ASAP, and preferably by the 20th at the latest? I have posted this here in the community section because I believe it has a huge impact on the community not having these? So really do hope we have them soon Forums I would like to see broken down in their individual servers. Guild section Republic Guilds Sith Guilds Looking for Guild (For unguilded players to post who they are and what they are after a great place for people with guilds to find people) Community section Fan Art Player Story Forum Events forum section PVE Events PVP Events RP Events Social Events Trade Forums section Auction forum Looking for forum Want to sell forum Any others people would like to see?

Well the main server is a EST PVE server (Juyo) (even I play on it and I am from the UK lol) But there are a few other servers which members from other regions and play styles have opted for. http://respectingaming.com/index.php/forum/43-riggers-open-discussion/8299-recommended-swtor-servers-to-join Is the thread in which this is being discussed and people are letting others know where they are. If you have any problems finding one to suit you, drop me a PM, and I will see what I can do to help

(Sorry just for ease, can you in future add a 'd' after the word an? it should be and, not an, not to be a pain, just makes it so much easier to read is all ). Ok, what issue are you having exactly? Sorry this is the community sections which is more to do with the player base then a technical issue you may be having? is it possible for you to give us here the community some info? We may be able to help you if you are having problems contacting BioWare themselves?

(Ok I am sure this or something like it is posted already? But search function is broken and not gonna trawl through 500 pages..lol) Ok, though I am hoping this is posted someplace and is a work in progress? But I am really hoping that we see individual server forums here before too long? They help massively with recruitement for guilds, for new players to find guilds…and many other functions, so please can we have these ASAP, and preferably by the 20th at the latest? Forums I would like to see broken down in their individual servers. Guild section Republic Guilds Sith Guilds Looking for Guild (For unguilded players to post who they are and what they are after a great place for people with guilds to find people) Community section Fan Art Events forum Player Story Forum Trade Forums section Auction forum Looking for forum Want to sell forum Any others people would like to see?

HEY!!! Ok...its true...lol. And yeah, sadly that thread has now been lost to the ether...upset by that actually and probably should have saved that some place?...hmmm....may have done actually, let me see if I can dig it up, and if so, will pop a link to it on here

Oh totally It also changes if you say.. Show respect Have respect The two are very different as well. Funny word, lol

The thing is, for me you are by the very definition if what you have just said showed at least some basic level of respect to your fellow gamer. Consideration and courtesy are simple basic respectful behaviours, and all any of us ask. If you are on about someone you look up too and respect a great deal then perhaps that’s different? But again, this is not really something that is earned? It is something that comes about due to their actions or abilities. Something they would do with or without you being around? I have never quite gotten this belief that respect should be earned? How can it be? In very simple terms, if you show no one any respect until they somehow earn yours, are you in fact not being disrespectful to them? And therefore why should they even wish to try and earn yours? Sorry, not picking on you I have seen this statement many times, hehe, and it still baffles me, surely in order for someone to even want to make the effort to earn your respect, you should at least show a little towards them? I know respect has many meanings, but I guess we are not talking about the same one I think you are on about the respect you would have for someone you looked up too? Where as we mean the respect you should simply show to every one on a day to day basis and for me, that is not something which ever needs to be earned, it is simply given, well unless they then show themselves to no longer be worthy of it perhaps?