If I skip KOTEF and KOTET to do Iokath and Umbara will I lose my original companions?

Exactly this point. I am playing because I haven't found anything better that matches my playstyle. If CoH had not been cancelled I would still be playing it because that was my favorite MMO ever.

Pretty sure Yavin is there, but I expect you probably have to finish the Shadow of Revan missions before it becomes available.

Trying to get the Corellia planetary mission for conquest and it took me 43 tries to get it. That is 86 mouse clicks to get the selection I wanted. And that is not even my high as I have hit 57 before. This is one of the stupidest methods of selecting missions I have ever seen. For the love of god, add a drop down menu.

Please check and see if Surrender is working on your GS. I noticed my utilities were resetting and then noticed my Surrender no longer worked.

You don't have to have all the missions in the same area, so say Alderaan has 5 missions now and the player gets the bonus for doing 4 of 5. Then the devs add 2 more missions that have the same area for both factions. Players could choose to select the 2 new missions or stick with the old ones. It only matters if the player is in the PVP mode too. This is less about open world PVP and me just oberving that when I go the older planets I rarely see others. This could be due to population, but I think population is spread across to many planets as well.

There, I said it! I think BW needs to take a break from making new zones / planets and should leverage their existing planets for new content. I was on Voss yesterday in PvP mode and was the only person on the planet, I was on Alderaan recently doing Conquest missions and there were maybe 2 to 3 people during these sessions. Even in non-PvP mode I am not seeing many people on these planets when I do Heroics. The more planets / zones that are created the more people are spread out, which limits interaction. Add missions on Conquest planets that require both factions to go to the same area of the planet to entice open world PvP. That is all...

Mission Architecture Create a tool that allows players to develop missions or story arcs. Allow players to play through them for no reward and vote on them. Have a BW employee / intern evaluate the mission or story arc to ensure they match BW criteria for XP, canon, etc. If the mission passes BW muster, add it in game with full rewards as other missions. Have contests every month and reward winners (maybe a 30 day subscription pass). Have the monthly contest focus on areas where it makes sense: Examples: Focus on a planetary mission (Tatooine one month, Alderran another month,etc.) Focus on a particular faction like Black Sun Focus on a particular class story arc with certain parameters (Smuggler story arc comprised of 5 to 6 total missions) This will add more heroic missions and content for players and will ensure that they map to BW goals and will leverage existing planets. BW keeps creating new planets and ignoring the other planets. Player content will give players more reason to revisit older planets and will aslo address the huge gap of not continuing the class story lines. BW can give high level directions to where they want the storylines to go and pick the best of the best. Rewards / Loot Get rid of the pick up your loot. Have the loot automatically go into your inventory unless the inventory is full. Have loot be assigned to the player randomly and allow player to trade it. Get rid of BoE and BoP. Fix Bugs Get rid of the new reticle for AoE that does not show up well on outdoor maps. Either make it better or go back to the old one that was fine.

Your arguments are weak. It is obvious that you don''t understand the meaning of the words "atypical" or "specious", but thanks for trying. Just yesterday people were debating various forms of compromise. I provided a form of compromise that should work for all players. There was nothing "atypical" or "specious" of me providing a compromise when the debates were around various forms of compromise. You are also the one who made the statement "It comes down to one simple principle. You either want to bring people together in an MMO or keep them a part. Pick". You have tried to make this an either or choice and made it seems as those against server merges are against bringing people together in a MMO. That is an unreasonable position to take which is why Ratajack keeps destroying the arguments of you and the other server merge supporters. The people against server merges don't want to be negatively impacted and they want the people that want to leave their server to be able to leave. There is no push from the non-server merge supporters to negatively impact the game play of anyone. It is the server merge supporters that are advocating to negatively impact other players.

People keep talking about compromise. There is already a compromise. If you don't like your server, transfer to another and be happy.

Aha, this note explains it pretty well. I went back and read the descriptions for Shield Absorption: 20% and Shield Chance: 5%. If I understand it correctly Shield Chance provides a 5% chance to mitigate Energy and Kinetic damage. If the 5% chance is met, the Shield will absorb 20% of the incoming damage. Is this right? If so, it isn't near as good as I thought. I was thinking it provided a 5% mitigation all damage and for the remaining 95% of damage 20% was absorbed. Now it seems like the Shield is weak and needs a buff.

I have an Infiltration Shadow with a Focus and am debating using a Shield over a Focus as the Shield provides Shield Absorption: 20% and Shield Chance: 5%. I have read the threads that say Shield for Tank spec, and Focus for DPS. I looked at the numbers as a level 70 Infiltration Shadow with no gear. In the core rating neither the Focus or Shield provided any adjustments to Mastery, Endurance, Power, Presence, etc. The Focus increased my Bonus Damage from 279.1 to 293.5 and increased my Bonus Healing from 196.3 to 207.0. The Shield increased my Bonus Damage from 279.1 to 288.7 and increased my Bonus Healing from 196.3 to 203.4, while also adding the Shield Absorption of 20% and Shield Chance of 5%. The difference between Bonus Damage (1.64%) and Bonus Healing (1.74%) seems minor when compared to adding the Shield Absorption of 20% and Shield Chance of 5%. I have never used the Shield, so maybe it doesn't work well with DPS characters, but if it does work the mitigation might be worth the minor DPS loss. Thoughts?

I received some 244 set bonus gear on my Gunslinger. I ripped them out and out them in Legacy gear. My Sniper got the legacy gear, but the set bonuses are not showing up. Set bonuses use to transfer with the armor. Did this change?

What is the best CXP now, noth solo and group?

Then I would say that the answer is to prevent new players from creating characters on these servers as opposed to forcing people to move and shutting them down. I can only speak for myself but if I was forced to merge and lost my names and had other issues with the transfer process I would probably just quit. I have already canceled my 6 month subscription just because of the current state of the game, but I plan to resub with the new game director change and will give him a chance. Forced merges would be a surefire way to definitely lose my subscription and the extra money I spend on CC on a regular basis.

You can disagree all you want, but it doesn't make you right. I may have a name that is one word name like Madonna. I may turn off Legacy surnames because I want to be known by that one name. How do I keep that same exact name by adding spaces or additional surnames? The answer is I can't. If I have the name Madonna and am known by that name then that is the name I want and I don't want to change it or add to it. I am now going to see if the name Madonna is available... The naming issue is just one of many and if they cannot satisfy everyone on the name issue then they aren't likely to satisfy everyone on the other issues that are just as important or more important. Finally, I will reiterate that for the merge server advocates if you are not satisfied with the server population of your server then please avail yourself of the 90CC transfers and take responsibility for yourself as opposed to trying to negatively impact me by merging servers. My server and game play experience is fine (beyond the normal complaints of GC, breaking stuff, not fixing stuff, etc.).

Fleet as a barometer of server population seems limited to me. I only pop into fleet when I absolutely have to. Otherwise I hang on my ship or stronghold if I'm not actively playing. If I could put a PVP terminal in my stronghold I doubt I would ever go back to fleet except for the BBA contracts or to get companion gifts.

Sorry, when I wrote "If you don't like your server population, just transfer to the server of your choice. Stop trying to negatively impact me" I wasn't addressing you specifically. I was really trying to address the advocates of the server merges who keep requesting mergers over and over and over and over. I understand you are against the server merges, but I tend to think Ratajack is right to call these guys out. These server merge advocates keep asking for server merges and Ratajack lays out the well reasoned case against the merges and then the merger advocates keep whining about merges. It's to bad because there are several posters in the merge server camp that I tend to respect and think generally make well reasoned arguments until it comes to this merge issue.

Well written post. I am on JC and am happy there (well, as happy as I can be given the piss poor state of how the devs manage this game by breaking things that work, not fixing broken things, and not updating content). I have no desire to move to Harbinger or wherever the @#%!. I get pops at decent intervals when I want to PVP, I can group with my guild when I want to do group activities, and I can solo when I want to solo. More importantly I can keep my names and strongholds intact...

Actually, the people that don't respect his opinion are the ones that constantly make these server merge threads. I can only speak for myself, but I am tired of the requests for server merges. If I don't like the server population on the server I am on I will take the responsibility to move to a more populated server based on my risk / reward standards. I certainly don't want BW to force server merges and force me to go somewhere I don't want to go and I don't want to deal with all the negative aspects of the merger like name loss. I have already lost names due to server merges in the past and I am still not happy that I lost those names. If you don't like your server population, just transfer to the server of your choice. Stop trying to negatively impact me.

How does this work exactly? I would love to know because it is not working for me...

Not enough mercs...

I think there is one helmet similar to what you are looking for that can be earned through space missions.

We sent 6-2 as well. I have never seen a 3 cap in Alderran or a zero score in Hypergate and I have been playing PVP off and on since launch. I will write it off as an aberration. Frankly, if I had seen this 100s of times I would have quit playing PVP a long time ago, because I like to fool myself that I will win around 50% of the time.