So just for kicks because I did a /who survey on my server (Jedi Covenant) at 8:35 PM EST 134 on the Republic Fleet 776 Reps online levels 10-50 Prime Time for us fluctuates between about 130 to 180. We're often categorized as "Heavy" during thos periods. Faction balance seems to be fairly even, perhaps a slight edge towards Republic. Pessimistically, if the Imps are only 2/3 as numerous as as the Reps ...there would be somewhere around 1,300 people playing simultaneously ranging from 10-50. It isn't super impressive, but it is solid imo. The take away, I guess is that only about 1/5 of the players online at that particular time were in the fleet. An improved LFG system will go a long way to connecting those people and will help player perception of desolation in the game.

Yeah, they totally threw out the Valor System, and you don't need War Hero (Valor 70) to get the new tier. Nope. You don't. Definately not.

WAT? I didn't have to buy 2 months worth of game time. I put in my credit card infoz to get the account set up and then immediately turned off auto sub.

I thought this was obvious: C2-N2 reduced the crew's caloric intake. Some of them were growing a bit thick.

I've been saying that for a while. I re-rolled (Not because my previous server was dead but because I wanted to play with IRL friends) and was amazed to see 70 some odd people on Coruscant. The most I remember ever seeing in Westfall was like 15.

If you consider massive ammounts of /general trolling because people aren't playing the game as "active" then yeah I'll agree with you.

Haha! I got into a little kerfuffle with the guy at http://www.mmodata.net/ about his truely retarded downgrading of SWTOR to 1.2 Million subs based on pretty much nothing.

The worst thing the Devs did was include the number of players in your zone right there on the standard UI. I've heard people complain that there was only 10 People on Hoth. If you went to a similar leveling zone in WoW you'd be lucky to find 10 players during prime time. I've played on two servers so far and on both Rep Fleet have had ~140 people, vast majority of these are lvl 50 because most people that are leveling are out on the planets. Frankly I don't know how many people were in Stormwind when I was playing in Cata because the /who searches were capped at what...40? 50? The big question is how easily/quickly can I get into a group to play the game. PvP queues are pretty fast, the longest I've waited is 10 minutes (I'm sure we'll get some sob stories). I've never felt like I couldn't get a group for HMs when I wanted.

I took the poll and I take issue with the way the UI hitching issues are included in it. Opening different menus, summoning a companion while mounted, or recieving quest updates cause the game to pause for 1-3 seconds. It doesn't really have anything to do with average sustained FPS. PS: You might have wanted to include a question about Vsync. I get 60 in nearly all situations, but if I didn't have Vsync enabled I'd be closer to 90.

Talking with other Gunslingers, there is definately a wall you hit (particularly against melee elites) around level 43-45. Once you get past it though and start getting your final rank of your main abilities it evens out.

I really wish people would stop referencing these charts. Read the fracking FAQ about it. They take the server status list, assign numbers from 5-0 to the "population" status which ranges from Full to Offline. And then they add those humbers up. THAT IS ALL IT IS. It only shows relative server load. Many servers were rated as Full with queues in the first few weeks but they slowly increased the pop caps which lowered the server status.

Honestly, I think the biggest mistake Bioware made was putting the number of people in your zone right there on the base UI. It gives people a number to obsess over. I'm pretty sure if it wasn't there, we wouldn't have so many "My server is empty" threads.

I'm not entirely thrilled with any of the Smuggler companions. Akavii is probably my favorite, though.

I could stand simple macros, but please no mods. Really what I want is a /cast Sundering Strike /cast Strike for my Guardian just to clear up some keybinds.

Likely won't happen any time soon. EA/Bioware announced that they've got 1.7 million active accounts and growing. They won't be taking servers down until that growth stops. Best you can hope for is server transfers.

I don't know about you guys, but I'm anxiously awaiting Activision's financial report, which I'm fairly sure will show World of Warcraft with sub 10M subscribers. 1) WoW has had a decline in subs since just before Cata was released. 2) They already released the last major content patch for this expansion. 3) Pandaria isn't expect until Q2 or Q3 of this year. I'm not saying that SWTOR has anything to do with it, but it will likely change some of the discussion on these boards. 10 is a psychological barrier, which is why you always price something at $9.95

From MMO Junkie's FAQ on those graphs. How does it interpret the data? swtor.com server-status page marks all servers in a grade of 6 status flags; •Offline •Light •Standard •Heavy •Veary Heavy •Full We still don't know if Bioware marks flag-limits homogeneous, but it's still a good guess to assume them to be so. So we basically valuate these flags as; •Offline - 0 •Light - 1 •Standard - 2 •Heavy - 3 •Veary Heavy - 4 •Full - 5 What does the graphs & numbers mean? As our data source, server-status page basically flags servers instantaneous population, the generated graphs also represent instantaneous population changes. Can I make guesses on overall subscription count based on these graphs? No you shouldn't be relying on them to make so guesses. These graph purely relies on instantaneous server population values provided by Bioware, nothing more. Herp de derp.

Do you work for Enron?

THIS!!! I played the game in beta, was getting ~15 FPS on flight paths in the starting area. Changing settings did little or nothing to improve the situation. I upgraded my Processor from a Q9550 to an i7 2600k and moved from a consumer level HDD to a SATA III Force GT SSD. Both set ups used the same 275 GTX GPU, I jumped to 70+ in most situations. I've got it vsynched now and I have a smooth 60 FPS in all places but Illum, and even then it only drops to like 30ish. Edit: The worst part is trying to convince people that their drive has anything to do with FPS. I asked someone in General chat that was having problems what their drive speeds were and got laughed out of town. Jokes on them.

They're about the same, #43 and 45 on this list. http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

I'm not sure how you've done it, but you've managed to get all the hurr durr in the durr hurr.

Well, apparently it is....because you failed at it. It's spelled "victory". Nice try, smart guy.

Yeah but WoW gets a pass because it created the genre and it did everything first and every other game is just a copy of WoW so if a new game comes out and doesnt have exactly every other feature that WoW has plus new ones that make me nerdgasm then it is a complete failure and.... *passout*

Yup. And WoW's first incarnation of an LFG tool is exactly what we have in TOR right now, if only people would use it.

I'm not saying that it wouldn't be beneficial, but I do take umbrage at outright falsehoods. When WoW launched it's LFG tool was called General Chat, and WoW is pretty much considered the gold standard for MMOs. Stealth Edit: Also, it didn't even include a Dungeon Finder type tool until well into second expansion. So please... stop while you're not ahead.