Heh, tomorrow I'll be up at 6:30 am PST, work till 6, coach a baseball game until 7:30, help my two boys with homework until 8:30, put my baby girl to bed around 9, watch some tv with the Mrs until 11 with hopes that we'll watch something that puts her "in the mood" and be in bed by 11:30 only to get up at 6:30 again the next day and start it all over again. Ya, I need to get a life.

Thx for posting this. I just don't get the play time I used to, and it's disappointing that one of my 3 nights is maintenance night. Having played 10 pm - 2 am almost nightly for years, this is the first game that has ever been an issue. Hopefully GW2 will figure out a better way to "spread the love" than SWTOR has done.

Considering 80% of the MMOs I've played over the past 10 years have never once been an issue, I like my chances.

I'm sure you're right on both points. Easier probably is better characterized as "cheaper". I hope they've factored in the cost of "lost subs" due to their maintenance hitting the same night at the same time in their cost analysis. As much fun as I've had with SWTOR, I'm looking forward to some of the upcoming games mostly because of this issue.

Again, why does every server have to be at 2 am central? That's wonderful for central and eastern time zones, but it blows for many around the globe. LIke I said, having played 4 MMOs over the past decade, I've never ran into this with any other game.

Sure, but why midnight? Why not the middle of the night for each timezone? It makes sense that they'd inconvenience as few people as possible. My server is still hoppin at midnight PST. By 2 am, it's slowed waaay down.

The tone of the replies was expected, as it's the norm on MMO forums. Maturity level seems to be capped at 15 regardless of the age of the poster. It's possible that in the 4 other MMOs that I played, I just got lucky with my play times not falling on the maintenance cycles. That said, I was more of a junky back in the day, so I would be surprised that I wouldn't have noticed it at some point. Truth be told, I didn't really play WOW until the Lich King, so it was an established game at that point. I did play Rift & WHO at release though, and those games did not have weekly down times for maintenance. It seems to me that they would be better served to schedule these maintenance times differently for each timezone. So all PST servers would have their maintenance at 3 am, just like the East coasters enjoy now. Seems like a reasonable solution.

What is "crit crafted" orange gear?

I really enjoy SWTOR. I've been playing since release, and I've been very patient with these weekly maintenance downtimes. Hey, it's a new game that was probably released a bit early, but it's been out a solid 4 months now with no sign that they are going to start scaling these back. I'm a West coast dad with 3 kids and a wife. I don't start playing until 10 - 10:30 pm on the 3 nights a week that I let myself play. Unfortunately, one of those nights is Monday night which falls on their schedule every damn week. And with my luck, another night is Thursday which also had maintenance last week. Very frustrating indeed. Anyone know why they require weekly maintenance times? This is my 5th MMO (DAOC, WOW, WHO, Rift), and none of the others were down like this. And why can't they start it in the wee hours of the night at say 2 - 4 am? Midnight is still relatively early. Anyway, as much fun as I'm having with SWTOR, this maintenance is close to chasing me away. Has BW given any indication that this is a temporary deal, or is this maybe not the game for my schedule?

So I hit lvl 50 and valor rank 50 in the same Hutball match last week. I'm now valor rank 55, and I'm sporting a full set of Centurion with a few champion pieces. I know I need to continue working towards BM and that gear, but other than that I'm not sure what other gear I should be working towards. So in short, where do I go from here? Thx