One of the issues I always had with the game was that there's no empty space. Every mob is for a quest and all mobs are spread out evenly across the entire zone, with no mob more than 5m-10m away from any other mob. That was one of the big issues for me.

You mean the River of Souls opening event? Wasn't a bug so much as 800+ people in the same zone attacking the same mob at the same time causes some issues in any game.

Rift gets tons of content updates, balance fixes (well, changes really), and bug fixes. Their major content updates, of which there have been 6 since launch, include hundreds of changes. Having said that, it's not a very good game. It's a shining example of how to design a game based on the psychology of addiction and operant conditioning. It's overflowing with repetitive, grind-based progression and endless special currencies. It is, at its core, a mind-numbing, soul-crushing, money-grubbing exercise in walking the line between "omg this is excruciating" and suicide. It's a better game than SWTOR.

The biggest issue isn't pvp imbalance--it's the fact that you're taking your already small server populations and cutting them in half. Faction A can't talk to, group with, trade with, be guilded with, etc, Faction B. That more than anything kills these damn two faction games.

Because you're high?

Anyone know of any decent unofficial forums for SWTOR? Looking for something with a good amount of activity, but not so much that 30 replies are posted within two minutes of a post being made. (Also not a fan of using my game credentials to log in to forums, posting being disables during patches, forum violations resulting in in-game bans, etc etc.)

Not that I've seen.

Looked around Ilum some more tonight. No sign of the magenta (though I did find a datacron), and all the low levels I saw were simply botting chests (or actually running form chest to chest). At 4-6k per chest (more for the big one), I can see why they do it at lower levels.

After 15 years of playing MMOs, I've found that reporting botters is a complete waste of time. Just poor design on Bioware's part to have chest spawns in safe spots. Hopefully they'll fix it

Pretty sure it was always on my map (and I assume I could fly there). The lowest level I've seen on Ilum is 12.

Players.

Ilum /10char

The white node is in the Jedi ruins, as a previous poster mentioned. I haven't gone looking for the magenta yet today, but I remember the general area I saw the crowd of low level imps: It was about mid center/north near some imp vehicles

Best way to find the nodes is to look for the low level bots who stand and harvest them nonstop. Found the white pretty easy and I'm fairly sure I know where the magenta is--the same place I saw 3 level 16-24 imps standing around the other day.

Ditto.