How is it over taking it. The only thing they did was make raiding and crafting equally important in that to have the best of the best you have to not only raid but craft as well. I am not sure what the problem is. Gear in this game is essentially the mods that are in the gear not the gear itself. The only thing you really need to upgrade 99% of the gear in this game is a higher level mod. So you still have to raid to get the mods to put into the crafted gear which takes time and money to create. People complained gearing up was to easy. People complained crafting other then biochem was worthless. THey just killed 2 birds with one stone. Made crafting a needed endgame item and made it hard to get the best gear. Just goes to show people are never happy.

Not a deciding factor, however tera didn't look like 2005 game when it launched. The HD textures are just icing on the cake graphically speaking. Swtor character textures are just absurdly ugly and muddy you cant even see detail on some of the armor because of it. Its not a deciding factor but if swtor released looking like doom 1 or something theres only a handful of people that would play it regardless of how good the story is lol. And the bad textures was just one more thing wrong with the game in many peoples eyes.

uhh right totally out of context and a bad example to boot. The complaint is that character textures are a blast from the past. You want to use a console example? It would be like buying a PS3 game that had Playstation 1 graphics, then being like *** is this. And many many many people buy games based on looks as one of the deciding factors, otherwise bioware wouldn't have advertised in high res settings. Understand?

Just unsub till then. We have completed everything ourselves, rerolling is just.... well it sucks ill just out right say it because the game is very linear and just makes you feel like your grinding to 50 the second time.

Perhaps your not aware of why people use fleet for numbers.... IT IS THE MAIN HUB FOR EVERYTHING. There is no reason to be anywhere else unless your leveling. If your doing warzones your in fleet unless out questing in between ques which isn't very good becuase you get nothing done questing. Crafting hubs are all there. The main PVE vendors are there GTN Speeder shop, space ship upgrades Everything is in fleet.... Guess what else is in fleet? The main LFG for flashpoints, do you know why? Because the flashpoints are *gasp* IN FLEET pretty much all in the same spot lolol. The whole wow crap you put there was ignorant. People only stay in the main city becuase they can insta que is no different then everyone staying in fleet to spam chat for the same damn thing. Theres no reason to go elsewhere in this game unless you are still leveling or doing your ilum dailies..... speaking of which wont be needed after this coming patch because you can warzone them. Which means more will be in fleet.... not many people go to ilum to pvp for fun... they go because they have to. Really now pull your head out of the sand.

Ill be honest the game is good for what it is. I mean if you put aside the horrible lag in ilum and stuff the game is fun. If they can fix pvp lag and keep content rolling while updating the graphics engine to be more robust and steamlined this game will do just fine and actually be alot of fun at endgame. Its 3 months old. I think the engine is crap no doubt but I will stay to see how it pans out. I remember Aion at launch, horrible horrible lag in world pvp with large numbers took them about a year or so to finally get the upgraded systems in place and remove most of the lag out of the game after optimizations and such. After that 400 v 400 fights weren't much of a problem compared to launch which would drop your connection nonstop and cause horrible fps lag. I write code myself have for years now I know complex problems need dev time to be fixed. They need trial and error to figure out whats working and whats not working especially on a almost inifinte number of component setups ( a million plus gamers all with different components/OS setups is alot of variety to make sure your stuff works smoothly on lol). That being said the game in its current state is pretty darn good. There wont be any over night fixs to major problems otherwise we would already have the fix or never seen the problem to begin with. The most important thing they can do right now is just listen to the community and use our ideas. After all its our game.

The Swiftsure - West coast server (prime time is from 7pm to 1am due to the variety of players we have there and their time zones) Its like the harbringer but for pvp. It had a que last night as well. Looks like alot of oceanic decided the new servers weren't all they were cracked up to be? Dont know but we have a healthy pop of republic there and roll the empire 90% of the time in warzones. Ilum numbers are pretty much 1:1 but ilum doesn't count thats a lagfest anyways.

Whats funny is the guy that pushed for hero engine and set up the deal left bioware before swtor released lol. Im not one to make up theory's but draw your own conclusions from that.

Ya ilum is freaking horrible. Fine in warzones everything cranked max res everything a solid 50-60 fps. Get to ilum BAM 14-2 fps. Did some tests. removed the art_fx file from assets fps increased to 40 fps.... then suddenly it would just sputter out to like 5 again then go back up. Some major issues with this games resource management I think.

They chose a engine of a friends is what it boils down to. A engine the developer wasn't even ready to release yet. They basically took unfinished code and tried to finish it. They had other options better options. Also I so far have not seen the fruits of their rapid content release. I have seen releases but largely unstable and bugged so bad you dont even want to play the new stuff. 1.2 will be a telling tale of how this game will be handled from there on out. If the release is buggy, full of problems I suspect many will just cancel their subscriptions no matter how much they love star wars or bioware. Because it gets to a point where you just dont want to deal with it anymore.

Most maps are identical between factions.... im talking down to the letter. I started out empire.... got to balmorra on republic, went to a camp and as soon as I stepped in it I said holy sh*t and ran out..... I thought I was in the empire camp. It looked the EXACT same! Like everything was identical. But it was republic camp. Really disappointed that they took such a lazy approach to this game cutting corners everywhere. And noticable corners at that.

well see there were the two missing questions they refuse to talk about lol.

only answered 8 questions and ignored yet again.... the biggest question the community has. When are mergers coming if at all. The refuse to even acknowledge the server problems lol.

You new to mmo's brah?

Some people like to play like that. What I dont get is why you have such a problem with people that like very competive hard gameplay? It doesn't affect you, you will still have your easy content to do... why does it matter to you? And you should go look up esports. People do get paid to professionally game at a high level. My idea of fun is not rolling through content like nothin because its to easy. I like to be challenged, thats fun.

Actually there are many people that play games competitivly and make a living doing it. perhaps you should enlighten yourself. This is off topic anyways. I dont find easy content fun, you do. I find hard content fun, you dont. Why should I be denied what I like to do with my free vs what you like to do with your free time. We both pay 15 a month. We both know theres 3 different modes we both know they could put what I want in while having what you want in. Why is it even a discussion?

Well thats the difference between.... say a pro football player and a guy that goes out with his buddies and throws the ball around. The pro is doing it for his reasons, to be the best at it. Vs The guy just doing it to do it. Like I said the hardcore that do it competitively. There are things like esports guys . Not to say hardcore players dont have fun doing what they do

Hes talking about high end content that requires you to actually focus and concentrate on things that are about to happen. Not just lol herp derp we are raiding some easy mode ops herp derp I ate a chocolate bar and afk'd then came back and was talking in vent to my buddie about the FB game last night while we downed our easy mode boss's. In a challenging encounter your not sitting in chat bs'ing and chatting it up your focus'd on your job your focused on the encounter because for the past 20 attempts your team has wiped due to some mechanic. So I hope I never raid with the likes of you in any serious type of encounter because I know you wont be taking it seriously much less paying attention. Easy stuff ya joking around being stupid in chat is different. Hardcore progression guilds that do world firsts and compete for that type of thing they are all serious about it. They follow raid guidlines they made to make them more successfull. If you dont thats fine.

I have ramdisked everything that is not area data so far lol. 16 gigs here . But ya makes the game run so much better when you can ramdisk over half the assets.

Voice chat is cleared for raid leaders. If your talking in voice chat as dps or heals or something your wrong, because people start talking over each other. Comm's needs to be cleared for raid leaders to give instructions/information throughout fights. They cant do that if random raid members in say a 25 man are spoutin off. Thats why macro's are used for certain things.

Ya thats why I menchoned ajunta pall, its got a very well rounded population. Only 80 in fleet right now but almost all planets have 40+ people on them kaas had 80. So it shows people are out. and active. Which is perfect for a reroll, because theres people to level with.

Thats what I am wondering. You have all these casual players against harder stuff. Okay why do you think you should get what you want and we shouldn't? I mean isn't that what hard/NM is for? To give us what we want while you get what you want out of normal mode? I swear.

Ya the swiftsure is done I think. To bad I have a 50 there. But everyone in my guild of 500 is just gone lol there were 7 on last night, but ya dieing server is dieing. Aussies are rolling to the new servers while waiting for transfers of their mains.

No i just have 8 chars on the swiftsure and 7 on the pits because I dont play there /fail. http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/9877/screenshot2012030214282.jpg

O really because I was there since launch. The pub side is all but dead. Your flat out lieing because when I logged in last night there to check out how it was doing there wasn't no 300 imps in fleet lol. And republic side there was like 66 in fleet if I recall. Ill check again tonight. But I left that server a month ago because it sharply declined.