We reset the phase and went back in and it seemed to work fine after that

They already have this on all PVE servers you can flag yourself for PVP at any time and it takes 5mins in a safe area to remove the flag - this works fine - gives people the option to opt in to PVP if they want or just play PVE

I started on The Harbinger before coming over with the APAC transfers and honestly I havent really noticed any difference PVPing with my 40ms ping in Adelaide and the 200ish ping I used to have on Harbinger. Honestly I'd be happy to go back to Harbinger if they dont do a merge as having more people to play with is more of a drawcard to me than having a low ping...

There is a fairly active PVP community on Dalborra - warzones pop back to back most of the day, its only the wee hours of the morning between about 2am and 5 am AEST that it gets pretty dead but then you can still sometimes get pre-50 warzones popping. As for open world PVP there has been a lot of effort by the larger PVP guilds to get this happening lately and have seen and been involved in a bit of it recently in the black hole and on tatooine Seems to be a lot of people going around flagged all the time now days

Yeah it seems to have been moved during the night

That suxs guys - where still getting 150ish on fleet during the evenings on Dalborra and you can still get a lvl 50 Warzone pop after midnight, then most people tend to switch to lowbie warzones and they still pop through most of the night, only gets really dead in the wee hours around 3-5am

Yeah unfortnately name changes are inevitable - but when I moved my 5 characters from The Harbinger over I only had 1 conflict and that was easy to get around - so not the biggest game breaker and after all wouldnt you much rather have more people to play with?

The problem connecting to Dalborra was fixed about 3 weeks ago (for everyone as fas a I know) I no longer need to use WTFast to logon and everything seems to have gone back to normal

I have been talking to people about this for a couple of months as well and I think the best solution is to merge all 3 servers into a single PVE (Dalborra?) server with a dedicated RP chat channel. As it stands now there isnt much if any world PVP that is happening that I know of (correct me if I'm wrong) and I would say even the most dedicated PVP player would be happier to have warzones pop regularly and run around flagged for PVP in open world if they wanted to (even on Dalborra a lot of people do this already) and actually get some ranked Warzones going again, it has become almost impossible to get a ranked Warzone on Dalborra in the last month unless you are in "Cake is Real" or "MVP" I think most people think the biggest problem with the game at the moment is population not what rule set the server is, over the last 3 weeks I have noticed a large drop off in the number of people playing and I think until we get some new content this trend will only continue and a lot probably will never come back Id even be happy to go back to The Harbinger if it meant we had more people to play with

No this is a case of you trying to be a pompous *** This is the information Bioware are asking for in other threads from people that are having the issue of being stuck on the loading splash screen. I was simply trying to highlight this problem in a thread that the devs had posted in to try and get some action on the bigger problem that people are spending hours trying to log in to the aussie servers because there is some type of intimitent routing issue going on (took me 90mins and 17 attempts to log on tonight earlier today had no issue) Thank you for your excellent explanation, but I'm guessing there is something useful they are getting from this info or they wouldnt be asking for it and strangely enough when I had problems logging in 2 weeks ago the tracert was failing to complete all together so that kinda pointed that it was a network problem

It is annoying and hopefully they will fix it soon, what is more annoying is that for the last 2 weeks sometimes the game loads fine and I will be presented with the character selection screen. But most of the time though the splash screen just sits there with the spinning icon and does nothing and I have to exit out and log in 5-6 times before it finally brings up the character selection screen. would be nice if instead of the spinning icon it actually gave some feedback on what it was doing so you could diagnose what is going on I have done a tracert to the Aussie server and it appears there is a time out in the 2nd last jump and I beleive it is this that is causing the splash screen to hang (well thats what other threads seem to think) tracert is in the code tags. If someone could look into this that would be great Tracing route to 175.45.88.197 over a maximum of 30 hops 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms ***.***.***.*** 2 17 ms 18 ms 19 ms lo5000.bras10.adl1.adnap.net.au [122.49.191.33] 3 17 ms 16 ms 16 ms g3-18.cor1.adl1.adnap.net.au [219.90.143.41] 4 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms g0-0.peergw1.adl1.adnap.net.au [219.90.143.154] 5 17 ms 16 ms 16 ms as4826.adelaide.pipenetworks.com [218.100.3.33] 6 44 ms 44 ms 46 ms ge-0-0-0.bdr02.adl01.sa.VOCUS.net.au [114.31.198.33] 7 37 ms 37 ms 38 ms ge-0-1-7.cor01.syd03.nsw.VOCUS.net.au [114.31.192.212] 8 38 ms 38 ms 38 ms ten-1-3-0.cor02.syd03.nsw.VOCUS.net.au [114.31.192.87] 9 38 ms 37 ms 37 ms ip-121.72.45.175.VOCUS.net.au [175.45.72.121] 10 37 ms 37 ms 36 ms ip-203.192.31.114.VOCUS.net.au [114.31.192.203] 11 * * * Request timed out. 12 38 ms 37 ms 38 ms 175.45.88.197 Trace complete.

Do you play on them? It's not as bad as some of the US servers were, but they hardly ever get to heavy any more and after about 12am the lvl 50 WZ queue dies on Dalborra most nights, just look at the stats from here

What are you going to do about the low populations on the Asia Pacific Servers? are you planning to merge any or all of these servers or allow us to transfer back to a west coast server? We tried for an hour today to get a ranked WZ going but noone else was queuing, those that were in the past seem to have gotten sick of going up against the same couple of teams over and over again Yes I know there is one server of each type but really wouldnt it be better to merge all 3 into a PVE server and make one populated server? (I suggest PVE because if you want to PVP you can flag and if you want to roleplay you still can, but at least this way people have the options)

Love the changes in 1.2, excellent work guys and gals Things I would like to see would be Ability to save keybindings and import into other characters - being a lefty this is a big deal for me, I basically have to completely redo the keybindings for every character A timer bar that you could place just below your characters bum so you can see when things are off timer would be great - but guess this could be done with extra toolbars UI elements snapping to each other or the option to have them snap would be great so you can get the algnment spot on They would be my top 3, I'm sure there are a few other good ideas in this thread for you to work on also

They dont tell people until they take the servers down, because if it is an exploit they are fixing (as is the case tonight) they dont want to tell everyone by saying - oh btw there is an exploit in the game atm go make millions of credits over the next couple of hours until we can take the servers down and apply the patch... Every game company does it this way, so no use complaingin about it....

Hi Stephen, Quick question if your around I just logged on to the game and 2 out of 4 of my characters appear to have been transfered to Dalbora, but I can not log on to Harbinger so guessing the other 2 are still being transfered. My question is can I log onto the ones that have already been transfered or am I better waiting until all 4 have been done? am I going to screw anything up if I log on to them before the process is finished and will I get an email to tell me the process has finished? Nevermind - now cant log onto either server so going to go do soemthing else for a while

That makes sense, but just to be safe can we get some sort of assurance that if this process screws up can we get customer support to rename our characters afterwards for us? I think that would make a lot of people feel a lot happier about it

Oh one more thing, why did you double the cost of PVP medpaks? I use on average 4 medpaks per warzone thats 80 comms to replenish, at most I usually dont get much more than 100 comms from the warzone so I'm only makeing around 20-40 comms per warzone unless I give up on PVP medpaks and just use the lvl 46 medpaks from the stim vendor but they are crap in comparison It's gonna take a bloody long time at this rate to get War Hero gear

Georg, its all well and good to say that the DPS fits in with what you guys want - but the honest truth is PVP is not as much fun anymore from a lot of players perspective. I'm a valor 75 Jugg with all BM gear and expertise around 1100ish? 20+% to dmg basically and for a lot of people I talk to they just are not enjoying the changes to expertise as much as you devs think we are. I know of a lot of really good players that have quit on Dalborra since 1.2 because PVP was no longer fun for them and before you say adjust your stratagies etc. we did we are winning games (more than we lose) thats not the issue the issue is it is now a lot more frustrating dieing all the bloody time - the fights might have been slower in the past but they were certainly more fun and more challangeing as you had to use some stratagy. I understand you want to stop the PVEers crying about PVPers coming over and doing ops in PVP gear and PVPers crying about PVEers doing Warzones in PVE gear but FFS does it really matter? I thought the idea is for the game to be fun - not an endless frustration - I would suggest perhaps scaling the expertise percentage back a bit say 15% for 1100 expertise or something like that and make mitigation and damge the same %, because at the current rate people are just getting fed up with it. I had another friend quit tonight out of frustration at least if your going to keep it as it is (even if you do tweak it back a bit) allow us to form 8 man teams so we can go in with some semblance of a balanced team even if you dont implement ranked warzones for a while this would be a step in the right direction...

I did also test creating a charater and then deleting it and creating a new charater with the same name and that worked so the name isnt reserved forever once you delete it like some other games do

I am in the same boat - created placeholders for my 4 characters on US server, In the FAQ it says What happens if my character name is already taken on my desired destination Asia Pacific server? If your character name is already taken on the destination server, your character will be transferred and assigned a temporary name. You will be prompted to choose a new name for the character when you log in to the new server. Therefore I would suggest deleting the placeholder before the 24th and hope like hell your transfer happens before someone else pinches your name

/signed Its not only Asia Pacific players that want to transfer to the APAC servers I have made a lot of friends on Harbinger from the US and Canada who want to move over with the rest of us as they enjoy playing with the new mates they have made. It is also making if hard for me as I want to stil play with my friends so if they cant go I am seriously thinking about staying on Harbinger, but then I also have a heap of Aussie friends that are already playing on Dalborra, so do I stay or do I go that is the question And having charaters split between the 2 servers over the last month has been a pain so I dont want to keep going like this But I guess until you fix the transfer form I aint going anywhere lol

Same problem, no servers/characters listed and button greyed out at bottom of page US West Server = Harbinger Character Name = Davyd Character Name = Serric Character Name = Terris Character Name = Sevaryn

I will start of by saying I am not against PVP at all (I quite enjoy it actually) but the whole idea of Valor and Expertise should be removed in my opinion - why do we need stats that are PVP specific? (I'd like someone to give me a good argument for PVP gear please? Other than they have it in WOW ) Combat works the same wether you are in PVE or PVP its just that if you PVP longer you get a bonus to your damage/stats from expertise/gear - It just makes elitests out of people who have more time to spend playing... It makes it harder for people who dont PVP all the time to be competitive and most casual players give up... The only other game I have played that had a fair bit of PVP in it was SWG (DDO had PVP but it was rather limited) and there was no PVP specific gear in that game and everyone felt like they could give PVP a go and not be penalised if they only did it casually... The only reason I see for PVP gear is to make people with less skill competitive because eventually the bonuses make up for there lack of skill - oh no it dosent because the people with more skill also can get the bonuses - makes no sense to me I like the warzones in SWTOR but havent really done much PVP on Ilum it just seems as you said there is no real reason to go to Ilum other than to do dailies... I remeber the huge PVP fights that used to occur in SWG where everyone would get involved wether they were hardcore PVPers or just casual players and I miss that a lot

You notice the difference that extra 10% makes if you are travelling anywhere in a group with friends and someone hasnt got the rank 3 yet lol You keep having to stop to let them catch up