My Renowned Trooper boots still have blue lights around the kneepads and on the back a little stripe. Also the color match is broke. The lights look the same as the ones on the Galvanized Infantry set. Which I find weird, that I bought those boots over a year ago, and they would just suddenly grow lights on them. I see other models are affected too, but it's 2.5 and still have whacko boots.

Great Suggestions LA: -In particular-I really like #4, it would really help to make them seem more alive. If they aren't gonna talk to us, at least make them do something besides staring away for eternity. They remind me of zoo animals. -I really like Cola Windstar's suggestion above, to enable duels with companions for affection. It would be very logical for both the military and jedi, and smugglers and bounty hunters like to scrap too. If they don't want us to gain too many love points, put a cap on it or whatever. I have one to add as well: -Please allow us to chain the ship droids to our training dummies and beat them. If we must be tortured forever with their voices- let it be screams of agony we endure, instead of their constant sniveling and mewling.

Yeah thanks for the speeder guys! I like how it jiggles and shakes when it idles.

Although this is one hell of a troll post, I just want to add in some of the cannon to the argument. I know in the X-Wing series by Michael Stackpole he weighed in on the concept of romance between species, and how it was viewed at the time by the society at large, this would be shortly after Palpatine got tossed in a hole... One of his characters, a human male, was involved in a romance with a Selonian female. The society wasn't "so far behind" as the OP suggests we are, that the couple ever felt their union was looked down on in anyway for their choice in romantic partners. They loved eachother, all their parts lined up, and they were totally doing it all the time. They had to break up because he had an allergic reaction to small insects living in her fur. He got a rash, a bad one. OP-there's usually a logical reason you don't see rabbits attempting to breed with pigs. Or humans breeding with monkeys. But you don't really care about that. This whole thing is a giant troll post so you could preach about how the homosexual community is viewed in this world. Nearly every one of your responses is an attempt to further that conversation. Bioware is not Xenophobic.

They've been making us bust our collective butts to acquire recolors of so many armors now. Think about the old Columi and Rakata sets, which were simply recolors of identical gear. Most people spent a lot of time and therefore money in the past to acquire recolors. The only difference the in the vendor Triumvirate set is that you needed to buy out of pocket as opposed to spending time and in game credits. (i know they cost a few credits in game plus the certificate-but its not much) This change actually makes it harder for them to sell us simple recolors. Once we get the set- we need to pay the extra CC to unlock the gear for our legacy, but after that it's the last time they can dip into our pocket for that design. This is a good thing, IMO. TLDR: it actually saves us money because it prevents them selling us simple recolored armor designs in the way they did with the Triumvirate set as you are pointing out.

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=659665&page=16 He just confirmed it here! HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY!

THANKS SO MUCH!!!!!! That is great news!!

Just wondering if anyone knows why these armors can be dyed. They are lore sets like Jolee Bindo's and Darth Sion-characters from the story- yet they are the first lore sets to have a dye slot on the gear. At least according to dulfy and the collections page. I'm not trying to reopen the Pink Darth Vader debate which already has multiple threads devoted to it, or troll or anything like that. This is a new development and perhaps a gold post could clarify this for us. Has the policy changed? Is BW gonna do this from now on? Have they heard our requests?

Hey Billy, I think it's awesome that you have enough of an interest to go ahead and seek out the socially acceptable way of using the need/greed system. Good job, I wish more people would put the small amount of effort into critical thinking about this and THEN adapting their behavior during gameplay. It is a minor act of civility many people don't consider. However the game is full of players who CBA to put even that small amount of thought and effort into "playing well with others". I gave up long ago educating people about what is proper behavior in this capacity, and now I just "go with the flow". You will find plenty of people automatically just hit need on everything and refuse to adapt their behavior, whether due to apathy, ignorance, or they are just plain selfish people who truly don't give a damn about what is fair or nice. Usually I just wait till the first boss and see how everyone else rolls. If people are hitting need on gear that they can't use for their specific AC (consular rolling need on heavy armor etc etc etc)- then they are rolling need for companions or vendor ($$). And if they are rolling need for those reasons, then so am I. Fair is fair. -Q

Thanks again for responding Eric, Access to the site for me has been somewhat touch and go for most of the morning and early afternoon, many times i stumble into a "maintenance" window. I bet its the same for many people. I for one would have appreciated knowing, even if it had no impact on when I'd be able to play, it's nice to know you guys have at least some kind of idea how to fix it. But as evidenced by the many posts others have made about the nature of the problem, it probably wouldn't have gone over too well to know it was a CM bug. Many of the forum complaints seem to roll their dislike of the CM into more ammunition against everything you do in this neverending war against profit. It does rankle a bit to know this is why it's been down longer than anticipated, but if the CC purchase link wasn't working properly, I'd bet there would be a serious security issue for our personal info-so I am glad you took it down in lieu of just throwing a quick fix at it. I guess if you know everyone is gonna complain it's better to manage your PR time after the fix, rather than before the fix is done. I appreciate the response nonetheless-first time i ever got one! -Q P.s. now how bout some new screenies on the main page!!!

Hi Eric, Thanks for letting us know what was going on. Although I am curious why that information couldn't be shared with us earlier in the day? I saw there is a 100+ page thread where you are giving tauntaun fawns out-so obviously you had the ability to communicate with us. Why treat this as some sort of state secret??? And why is that banner thing always a mess? I recall when RothC launched you guys had troubles with it back then too, I'd say you guys should consider abandoning the banner altogether. Also, yeah, when i clicked the apparently non functional banner on the CM, it just brought me to the homepage, where I was once again reminded that the Chevin event was the only screenshot worthy thing BW has done in the last year. Over a year actually. -Q

We have always known lore outfits would not be able to be dyed, as long as dyes have been around- we know this. They have never said otherwise, and neither, a) allowing us to preview these dyes in the preview window, nor, b) allowing "unify to chest" with lore items-in anyway means that we should be able to dye lore items. It simply shows us that they cut every corner they could when they added in the dye system, and did not want to take the time to rewrite any existing gear they didn't have to. That said.. I agree that we should be able to dye lore gear. It is bought and paid for with RL money, and so are the dyes. Once I buy them I should be able to use them how I will. And more customization=more happy players. I would really like to see a gold post about this, and it would be nice to know if they would be willing to reconsider their stance on this. That dulfy interview is not that recent. And for the record, the "pink/purple" dye in the game is really not a "bright" pink...it's more of a rose color.

Last I checked, there's no Darth Vader Suit in the game. If you need to make things up to prove your point you don't have one to prove. If you're feeling nostalgic for the black suit DV-go watch the movies. BW is fully aware that players prefer more customization than less. For whatever reason they won't let us dye these items, I'd sure like a gold post to clarify their rationale. All these items are bought and paid for with CC$$, and so are the dyes...why do we need these restrictions? If it really is because they are planning to recolor and sell them all over again-that's probably not something the playerbase would appreciate. /signed

It used to upset me there was no "Grey Jedi" gear. Then I got to 50 and realized it had no impact on the game aside from relic limits and cosmetic gear. Then they added Jolee Bindo's set, a well known grey jedi from KOTOR, and I was happy with that. I just wish I could dye it, but the brown on brown looks great as is.

This is all good stuff. Only think i might add to it is that the healer companions usually get a cc of some kind which can be very handy, in certain situations.

I'm leveling my marauder through Makeb right now. I've used Broonmark since I got him, and Pierce before that. Using a tank companion is how I like to do it with melee dps characters, and in the end, they all get to 55 so there really isn't a right or wrong. I like the look of Broonmark, they made cool looking Talz in this game, and he isn;t just another recolored human. (Kinda like a male body type 3 with a papier-mache mascot helmet really) Just think of the tank companion as a spare health bar, they hold hate well enough to allow you more freedom. They give you the ability to dance around and work unencumbered. If they fall- pop your defensive cds and finish the kills. Afterwards, just rocket boots or mount/dismount and they are right back to full health and so are you. Rinse and repeat till lvl 55. (Honestly I've used every kind of companion while leveling, they all are viable, and they are all helpful for H2s-just keep their gear up as best you can)

Nice work Oddball! Love the RP background stories, and how you edited it all together. Really makes me wish our legacy family trees were capable of much more than they currently are. At the very least I wish it would allow us to do what you just did- you shared your legacy with the community-I'm a bit inspired to do something similar. Thanks for that mate! And may the force be with you on the employment hunt

Guess there's no more hypercrates in your future then

Haha, I thought the same thing, a galaxy of fine furniture at their fingertips-and we get campfire chairs. For 10 whole seconds. Brilliant!

So that's what the cubes are all about. I don't think this is a good way to pad the item count in the packs. The jawagrams were horrible, but we complained and they gave us permanent jawagrams instead :/ This seems more like they went into the cubicle of the dude who was putting together the next Macrobinocular questline-and straight up just microtransactioned his last 2 months of work.

"I'm now getting bored so ill start paraphrasing. " That was cute, I liked how you got bored of your own idea- before you even had time to finish typing it. That made me literally LOL. I also find it funny how boredom set in right as you started up on the republic classes. P.S. Double Pickard facepalm....that was brilliant..

Dear BW community team, This is solid info and it is exactly what people were screaming for during the Livestream QA session. Why could you not use this during the feed? Honestly guys..how could you NOT have prepared to address the Bolster issue in the QA? Even a casual glance at the forums over the weekend would tell you that the PvP community feels slighted and wants progress with it. Eric even addressed the PVP community LAST week saying they realize the PVPers need more love, and the following week in a QA session they get shunned? Oh they didn't shun PvPers? At the point Eric looked over and said "That's about it -unless there are any questions we could address from the community" To which Amber replied "SSSP." Now maybe there actually was someone typing something about SSSP in that live QA feed. Maybe there was. And I just missed it due to the overwhelming spam about Bolster. Regardless-at that point the whole notion that this was an actual QA session, where we could interact with you guys, as in-" ask questions get answers"- became entirely moot. You "turned it over" to the public at that point, the canned/scripted speeches about 2.2-2.4 were all read off , and you completely ignored the most prevalant topic the community was screaming about. That's what I saw. ~1400 "participants" imploring you guys to give us something about Bolster, and you deflect to SSSP instead. And at that-it was a halfhearted smug chortle of a response to which Jeff basically replied.. "Oh yeah .....SSSP...yeah...about that..." (i'm not happy about the SSSP carrot either) Then you come in later on in the forums acting shocked that people won't let this go, with an h/a response- "well if anyone would actually ask a specific question we would have been able to respond..." How hard would it have been for one of you to simply state "Yes we see you about Bolster, and rest assured we are working hard at it, we have done this and that, and we are currently doing this or that and we plan to do this or that" How hard would it have been to respond to your community during a QA session...would the crossbows have fired?? If you want specific questions that your players have asked regarding bolster, please read your own forums. There are miles of discussion regarding that. Personally I don't PvP at top level, so I can't help you there. It is obviously something the community feels is broken and wants fixed, and you could have used this moment to at the very least update us as to what you had done about it and what you plan to do. Even if it was old info it may have been new to someone, and it may have helped to remind the community how complicated the fix really is and how much you had already done about it. All in all it was another failed chance at good PR and you wasted another opportunity to retain PvP subs. -Q P.S. Really , Bolster is not my own personal "biggest gripe" about the QA session. I was really disheartened to hear you say that new playable species/races will take a long time to put in. You go on about how long it takes to implement, yet you acknowledge that people have bought the kitties, the "test" species. After making one new species, you haven't figured out how to streamline the operation so you could make more money faster? How do the people holding the crossbows not shoot you for that? TLDR; I don't even personally care about Bolster cuz I don't PvP anymore, but to not address it in a genuine manner, and to not interact with your community during your own PR livestream QA event is just not good business. Those crossbows need to step back a few more meters and let you guys fix this game.

He spent the entire video staring at Jeff.

I don't think I'll bother with one of those livestreams again. 3/4ths of the chat in the box had the word bolster in it, and your silly crossbowmen wouldn't let you touch it? You may say that you guys WANT to be more transparent and that you WANT to share info with the community. But you don't want to. You just say you do and you think that's enough. The crossbows are costing this game it's PvP community. Someone around there needs to find their balls and tell them that.