I'm an Imperial on a sort of balanced but still Imperial-dominant server, and I still can't get geared up because I'm always fighting the same groups of Imps who have been max level since day 1 of headstart. Imagine how much fun that is. With the current commendation reward for losses, it's going to take me 5 months to even be on any sort of level playing ground against my own side. Trust me, I'd love to fight Republic - I thought that was the point of this game, after all. But I can't, and I'm stuck with the crazy Imps who have dominated our server since release. I didn't join them for a reason then, and I don't want to join them now. But it seems like my choices are very limited if I want to progress further than the Recruit set. Ugh.

The rewards structure really is the problem for me. I mean, there are more problems than just the rewards structure, but I would be willing to stick it out if I could guarantee some kind of progression that's feasible in a reasonable amount of time. Losing sucked before, but it didn't feel like an utterly wasted 20 minutes of my life. Even if my team lost, I had medals and MVP votes to show for it. I leveled to 50 a few weeks before the patch, didn't have time to gear up prior to 1.2 due to RL complications, and while the Recruit Armor helps, it's really not enough to counter the pre-mades and utter destruction of some of the newly buffed classes. Now I'm really at the mercy of my team composition and whether or not I am lucky enough to queue with the better-geared/dominant guilds on my server. It has nothing to do with me, my efforts, or my skill. So yeah, I guess I'm just depressed and disappointed. I was hoping that 1.2 would make it better for a fresh level 50 to be competitive in PvP, but sadly, my experience has been quite the opposite. The general feeling about 1.2 in my guild has been pretty negative, and while we're decent to good to excellent players, we're definitely on the more casual side of the spectrum. It's not that we can't get a team of 4 grouped up to play together - it's that none of us really wants to bother, and that is a bad sign. And not everybody is scrubby like me - I'm talking full BM geared players who have no inclination to queue for a match. And that's seriously all we did prior to 1.2. Would a change in the rewards structure help? Sure, I guess. It still doesn't change the fact that PvP isn't really fun anymore. Some of the reasons for that distinct lack of fun are articulated well in Taugrim's post detailing the effects of 1.2 on PvP: http://taugrim.com/2012/04/13/swtor-pvp-in-1-2-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/ Hopefully Bioware can sort out this mess. I really enjoy the game, and the PvP especially. It would break my heart to see it all end on a sour note.

I'm ecstatic about the customizable UI.

I am in the US and have seen the French forums issue. It happens most when I access the forums from a Google search. It's weird but I just select English from the top left and problem solved. Sometimes I even get German. Just kind of random.

I got server dropped twice tonight - once at the end of a Huttball match (we were about to win, of course) and then once randomly in the Fleet. I played from around 7ish to 11ish. So I didn't drop a lot, but twice in a few hours is more than I drop ever.

To be honest, I haven't seen anything like this since this past weekend. And I've been playing since release. Did they tweak something server-side?

Well, I can confirm this happens while both winning AND losing. Yesterday, I disconnected while we were *almost* tying up a huttball match (my boyfriend was RIGHT on the line with the ball, but the game ended the second he was about to score) and I got disconnected at that moment. Even though we lost that one, it was still annoying that I spent 20 minutes in that game for absolutely nothing. Then when we were winning in Voidstar, I got knocked down, was kind of stuck IN the floor, and my game actually crashed (I've never crashed before.) Had to manually close SWTOR in task manager. And no credit for that win. Then tonight, we were losing (again) but my boyfriend had nine bloody medals, anyway, yet he was disconnected right before we lost. Game said he was no longer in the queue for warzones and dumped him out. He didn't crash or even end up at the character selection screen, was just suddenly in the spacedock. I noted somebody in general chat complaining about it, too. Last two games he actually won and he was disconnected from both of them. Really sucks. I don't believe either me or my boyfriend had these issues prior to 1.1. -- edit: we're on Giradda the Hutt, PvE East Coast --

My boyfriend and I took on a lot of the solo content together (sith side; bounty hunter and sith inquisitor) and I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. You get a lot of social points by grouping up for the solo missions, and you basically blow through stuff. Also, we were able to handle most of the heroic 2+ content on our own, and a lot of the heroic 4+ content, too. So it's nice to have a mission buddy. Since we were able to steamroll most everything, we leveled a bit faster together compared to our solo characters. However, I will say that I think leveling in this game is quick no matter how you approach it - solo, grouped, quests, pvp - it all seems fast to me.

Good night, sweet December darlings. I will dream of you... if i get around to it. <3 <3 <3

I'm procrastinating about going to the gym by reading a thread about procrastinating by procrastinators. But... if I get in Friday, then I definitely won't be going then. So I guess I'll man up.

Can I delegate somebody to go to the gym for me? Then can go whenever. Meh.

I say female. Definitely.

December 1st here! I'm a bit late to the party, but I'll still get in the door. Really, I'll be satisfied with some time on Sunday, if it comes to that. Just some weekend time will be awesome.