I can hear what you are saying. A culture imbedded in our minds since a decade ago tends have that effect on people. But free your mind for a second. What if the system was designed so that any given party member can play the role of a tank? If cleverly crafted, it can work. And I am not suggesting that everyone gets the same "abilities" or threat tools, etc...

hmmmm, you might be onto something. Let me embelish a little bit more. What if we form a group and after completion you get your commendations, then if you chain run, the commendations at the end are compounded: run 1 = 1 commendation run 2 = 2 com run 3 = 5 com run 4 = 5 com + more credits something along those lines. OFcourse if you drop group, you fall back down to the 1st runge on the ladder. i think this could also promote more grouping as there would be plenty of incentive to want to group now and consecutively.

agreed and to flip it, for those who want to tank regularly, thus keeping your tank spec, severley decreases opportunities to enjoy PvP and leveling due to lack of dual spec.

I appreciate that you decided to take the plunge into tanking. I personally tank in every MMO I play. I seem to be a glutton for punishment. With that said, I am afraid this does nt solve the ultimate problem and as many other previous posters have stated, trinity base system will never solve this matter. There is a game coming out which kind of gets away from this trinity concept so I am excited to see how it translates in action. I really thought SWTOR would be a fantastic candidate to get away from trinity....I wonder if its too late to change that....

Trust me, the majority of the people know its there. A portion of people have been waiting with baited breath for this LFG tool to save the game. But alas and already stated in my previous post, LFG came too late and so tje m,ajority of us at max level across multiple toons are no longer leveling, hence, lesser pool of players in the queue. Then at max level, perhaps a better chance to form a group but then most people running operations are forming guild runs and not pug runs. Ah...too little....too late.....

At first, I thought this would be a good idea, but after thinking it through, you will only divide the community even further with some queuing as single server and some as x-server, hence depleting your pool of players which would increase the overall queue time.

drumroll please.........................DUAL SPEC.

Lol i can only shake my head. I am not at all surprised to see all of you having problems to find groups pre 50 using LFG. Bioware already missed that boat as a majority of us are at max level with a main and probably a number of alts. You may catch some groups here and there due to altoholics, but beyond that, LFG tool will not be as effective now as it will be on their next xpac, when everyone is forced to level again all at the same time.

Man i hope you are wrong....the future is in the space combat/ exploration. If this is going to be a true Star wars game

Come on guys. dont let the thread subject mislead you. The OP based his subs comment on "space". So lets elaborate on that because I really believe this is where BW needs to develop inorder to make this MMO the most unique out there.

Although I do not agree that we will ever see 10 million subs in an already saturated MMO market, I do agree that with careful planning and creativity from BW specific to "space", SWTOR can be taken to an entirely different level than any other MMO out there. Here are some of my ideas to elevate the gameplay: 1) First and foremost, completely ditch the rail space combat they have now. Open space travel with complete X,Y,Z axis movement (Like Homeworld.) 2) Make customizable ships. Not the one we use for general space travel. Real combat ships like an X-Wing fighter, Y-Wing, etc... Customize to the "T" with weapons, armor, shields (better than what they have now) and also allow augmenting or mix & match parts of your ship (example, longer wing on the X wing or perhaps a different looking engine drive) Just make it so that we can make our ships look awesome and personalized. Change colors, add detailing (flames or lightning on the side) scoring on the hull after heavy blaster fights. There is so much potential here 3) Operations (raids) : a. Battle for Endor - Create a 20 man PvE operations (40 or more if hero can handle it!) so that you can split up your team into 2. One team in space, other team on the ground. Ground troops need to advance, take over strategic areas to lower the shields so that the capital ships in space and land on Endor. In space, commendeer a fleet of 1 man x-wings (or whatever ships available) and mid size to capital ships. You assign 1 man per fighter craft, maybe 2-3 per mid range ship and 10 on the capital ship. Fight off advancing crafts. Make objectives that would give your ground troops certain advantages (example - take out cruiser that is blasting away at the ground troop drop ships in order to continue soldier / crate supplies.) Make "boss" battles in both space and air. Example, AT-AT on ground or perhaps sith lord stationed at the energy shield depot. I can go on and on!! b. Battle of Hoth - Take Empire Strikes back and bring it to like in a 20 man PvE operation. Republic would control snow speeders with 2 men per speeder. Assign a ground patrol to advance on incoming AT AT's (ala Luke Skywalker style!!!) Assign team to control ION Cannons and defend base from advancing forces !! Protect Princess XXXX underground from Darth so and so!! c. Death Star run - Need I say more ? Send a convey of ships to board the deathstar to disable its shields, then fly back out. "Red 5 standing by!", "Get set-up for your attack run !!" 4) See #3 but instead of making it an Operation, make it a battleground !! Have republic and imperials go at it with similiar objectives as above in PVP style action!!! Commandeer a massive AT AT as imperial and advance with awesome firepower on republic troops. Pilot a snow speeder and take out incoming AT AT's using your harpoon cable!!! Ride Taun Tauns into battle! 5) No Tab targeting in space combat. Enough said. It has to be like X-wing vs Tie fighter with crosshairs. Also, use a headset to give your R2 unit voice commands !! "repair shields", "power up shields", "power up torpedos", "I've lost R2!!!", "Can't Shake'em!" (which barrel rolls!). Customize your R2 unit ! Fly in formations to add tactical advantages. 6) Music - come on guys this is freakin Star Wars. Pump up the music and often! Dont give me space battles with dead air in between. I want heart pumping music the entire way. 7) NPC ships for more strategic back drop. Defend ship A from being destroyed in order to make the battle more epic (without lagging out the server with real time players) Apply same concept everywhere, like on Hoth or Endor, etc.... I have so many ideas to make the space combat epic. This is where SWTOR can become the giant MMO that we have all envisioned. Please Bioware make it happen. Or you can simply retain my services as a DEV and I will make it happen for you !!!

I must say the new transfer put me on a good server with 250+ on fleet. The issue now is that fat population is just sitting on fleet because the game design has pidgeon holed us into it. We need a reason to get off fleet at max level aside from dailies and ilum.

I must say the new transfer put me on a good server with 250+ on fleet. The issue now is that fat population is just sitting on fleet because the game design has pidgeon holed us into it. We need a reason to get off fleet at max level aside from dailies and ilum.

OP. A lot of this advice is completely bias. I am happy for the people who landed on a full destination server but the rest of us who were basically left for dead, have no idea where we are going to end up. Think about it. Why after over 100+ servers opened for free transfers are 20 servers left unopened? It means they ran out of space on the selected destination servers and now they simply do not know yet what to do with the balance. Its not a lot of money but on principle alone, unsub and wait to see how this all plays out. I for one will not subject myself to further frustration if I wind transferring to yet another underwhelming server. That would absolutely push me over the point of no return.

You know I am not one to over react but after opening up over 100+ servers to transfers and leaving a measly 20 servers stranded, the more its pissing me off. And those of you who dare flame my post while you sit on your newly fat populated server, go screw in advance. The message being sent is that they simply ran out of space on the selected destination servers and now they havd no gosh darn idea what to do with the rest of us. Dont give me that "well....lets see how the pops are over the weekend " No.....we are expendable.... /unsub /fu