these forums are so paranoid

I got a good laugh out of this. Definitely agree, though. With the whole post, not just this part.

Almost every thread on this forum has taught me that where the Star Wars fandom meets with the MMO fandom, everyone is an empathy-free sociopath, totally distanced from the basic requirements of functioning in a social sphere. Not even the clever kind of sociopaths who know how to lie well enough to fit in.

"I'm a sociopath and you should too!"

They should make it impossible to hide your legacy name. That way, once you've totally smeared your Legacy by following the "everything that drops is mine" approach to Flashpoints, you'll be completely screwed until you reroll on a new server.

No, talking to people is not rude.

But the person I am quoting says that I am entitled to and deserving of that item just as much as anyone else in the party. If I am entitled to and deserving of the item, why should I not click 'need' every time? (Besides the knowledge that I'll get kicked out of the group for being an idiot, I mean.)

I don't think I've called anyone self-centered or greedy, in fact. So, am I correct, then, that your opinion is that everyone in every group should click 'need' on every piece of loot that drops, as they are entitled and deserving of it, and any reason to click 'greed' or 'pass' is arbitrary and '[disagrees] with the design of the game'?

Weird. Every server I ever played on had an active and involved community. Try again!

"I like how everything looks, it's more important than anything else to me!" means I can roll on every single thing that drops, according to you. Are you saying that I am equally deserving of all loot, but that I shouldn't roll need on all of it? I deserve it but shouldn't try to get it? Who's being hypocritical?

You're the guy who just said that thinking that you should be able to roll need on everything that drops isn't an entitlement issue. It's not hypocritical. Appearance isn't a stat. Your priorities do not mesh with progression priorities. Ergo, it's really on you to put it out in advance that you are going to roll need cross-class beforehand or, hopefully, learn to deal with getting kicked from groups.

"I like how it looks" is not a stat that people should be denying their groupmates progression over. I disagree so strongly with the sentiment that I can't even begin to address individual complaints beneath it. If you really must have a piece of orange gear, just grow up, take the not-a-huge-jerk option, inform everyone beforehand that you're going to snag gear from people even if it's useless to you (and, again, I can't acknowledge "I want to play dress-up!" to be a legitimate reason to deny someone an upgrade), and ideally, don't build groups where people legitimately need the stuff you want to gank. Contrarily, your opinion comes across not as "Everyone is equally deserving" because that's moronic and contrary to the way progress works; your opinion is "I am entitled to all of the loot" and it's ... contrary to the way progress works. you're saying, "I need the opportunity to take everything from this FP and leave everyone behind." The other stance is "Everyone should just take what they can use, that way everyone can come out ahead."

Then their design is awful, honestly. It should probably look more like this: Need | Companion | Greed With the 'need' box being limited to equipment that is of your highest equippable gear (so Heavy only for Guardians and Troopers, Medium only for Smugglers and Sentinels, etc, and only weapons that the class uses) that have some showing of the class' primary stat (no needing on Cunning for Troopers). Need gets primacy, then it goes to Companion rolls (which can be unhindered, I guess, but doesn't have to be), and then Greed at the end. Rolling on a piece of orange gear with the wrong mods is a lot like rolling 'need' on three blue items that you can't equip. It's a dick move. Build your group so that you won't be snagging an upgrade out from beneath someone who needs it if you absolutely must have an orange that doesn't drop geared for your class

Illogical from a business standpoint I guess is why so many people expect this to be included based on past performance. "Equal to everyone else" = should expect no representation is pretty ****ed up.

I hope that soon the approach Bioware has taken will be seen as taking a political stance in itself.

The Sith as portrayed in this game are staggeringly inefficient and often just outright stupid. I have come to expect the most moronic, ***-on-head choice from any Sith I encounter in the game.

That is an excellent post.

If you want worthless currency, check out City of Heroes for the first ... many years of its lifespan.

So not strategically unimportant, but like you said -- too far away and defended well enough that simply conquering Hutt space isn't a reasonable thing to do

Yeah it's baffling that this isn't already a thing.

It's working out so well for us right now. Selling services in a dungeon isn't unreasonable or unheard of, until you're charging but you also want to be a standard part of the party. An undergeared tank wouldn't have much luck charging for dungeon runs in WoW, for example -- if people are paying, they want their money's worth. So unless our OP is geared to the nines and doesn't need the gear from the dungeon, he's only going to hurt himself by charging; he'll alienate groups who don't want to pay, and in doing so, he'll be shorting himself on gear, which is, after all, the only thing you want credits for anyway.

So you don't get any loot, right?

Flesh Raiders are amazing.

I thought it was a range issue. Don't the Hutts control stuff in the Outer Rim, stuff that's too far away and too strategically unimportant to be worth chasing after for the Republic or Empire?

use blaster rifles and sniper rifles, not assault cannons.