Crystal is actually for pre-order accounts

page up and down themselves are currently fine when re-bound for me... control+Page up or down however are NOT. Even resetting chat scroll up down to throwaway keys elsewhere isn't effective. Control+pageup will both perform the function I set it to AND scroll chat up a bit... and up it stays till I remember to drag it back down and read all the chat I missed... it doesn't even continue to scroll at a higher line... just freezes.

None of those are gonna happen. The devs have stated that with voiced content they don't want non-standard speaking races as players. Imagine how old Ortolan or Jawa speech would get over 50 levels of quest dialog. And the droids would either be the same thing, or a protocol droid... and how heroic would that be?

Another lefty here, and way too old and no interest in changing. I also use arrow keys as wasd and use del/ins/home/Pgup keys as my hoykeys... I even use some of the numpad like 0,1,4. All are easily bindable in this game EXCEPT.. I get a second full set of keys (for me it's my healing set) using my right thumb on control and using the del/ins etc for a second bar's worth. Problem? control pageup is irrevocably set to control chat scrolling. It's not on the list, and rebinding that exact function (chat scroll) to a different throwaway bind does NOT change it, so everytime I use my long cooldown second interrupt (bound to control Pageup) I not only get an interrupt, I also scroll my chat up... and up it stays till I remember to scroll down and re-read the conversation I missed for the last who knows how long. Undocumented keybind that can not be changed?? really? c'mon guys.... is being able to page scroll through chat all that important? End doesn't do that... I know it's bound to tab target for me. Control home doesn't affect chat, just my aoe knockback....why can't I decide to rebind ctrl-PgUp?

The Personalized story screen load you see when entering the game with a character.

Good thought and this might be part of it, but it just feels like a reading speed thing. They do the same thing in-game with non basic speakers. The sound clip plays in 4 seconds but they leave the translation up for a good 10 or so depending on the string length.

Is there a way to shorten the artificial pause in loading screen? I know it's not my computer because the cpu monitor shows no major activity, and if it's taking this long to load up assests on my ssd then I realllly pity those without. It always comes at 25% and seems to exist only to allow lowest common denominator reading speed to have a chance at reading the splash. If I can read at a decent speed and my computer is perfectly capable of blazing through it, why am I forced to spend time sitting at 25% in the loading screen?

That's a speed... not cores... this game requires at least a dual core cpu

Didn't see it in your spec list... number of cores on your CPU?