A bald human female, body type one, circular symbol branded onto her forehead. Goes around in all black, fairly early orange gear, hood up. Simple but really quite intimidating when put with the voice.

You except griefers/campers as a fact of life, report them for harassment if needed and then simply plough through. The best promotion for roleplay is, funnily enough, roleplay. BE VISIBLE. Actually use /say for rp, I know on the proginator eu (can never spell the blasted name), the use of /party for rp is a killer. How the hell are other roleplayers supposed to take part and thus generate a stream of roleplay if everythings so damned isolated. When collecting from the mailbox, actually emote your character collecting the mail etc, little things snowball. Not quickly, but they do have an impact. So yeah. The best way to promote rp is to be seen actively roleplaying.

You don't have to spend anything, simply level a character of that race and you unlock it for all classes. No credits involved.

Because we already have access to all the classes. Or do you mean a free level 50 of our choice? Either way, don't see it happening. The whining would break the forums. Even WoW never made that move, though they pushed into it with the death knights.

Having actually read that I agree with some of it, even if it did make me dizzy. That said: paragraphs. Can't stress that enough.

Hello fellow Uk'er! I only know about the progenitor, which seems to have a fairly active Jedi rp community with sermons on Typhon and such. As for the other servers, I've heard good things about Trask Ulgo, the third I've not heard anything about to be honest but I'm sure it's all good there also. Roll on each, get a character up to ten, ask about in chat would be the best way to find out about each server and what it has to offer. Also http://swtor-rp.com/ is an excellent resource for rp. Good luck, hope you enjoy whichever one you pick.

The only solution I personally know of is the one you don't want: shadows off. They have caused issues possibly since beta, not sure on that though but it's been an issue brought up again and again.

Can make heavy armour with it, according to http://www.torhead.com/schematics/catg/6/page/2

Way to be helpful. OP - try to be a few levels above the class quest if it's giving you trouble, do other quests, space missions, flashpoints etc. A few levels can make all the difference, along with the potential gear those levels give. You may, if you have one, want to switch to a healer companion as well, they can and do really help. And what I think the previous poster was trying to point out, really should've put this post in help, general at a push.

Even taking that into account though, it shouldn't be taking op as long as described, especially in a dps spec which op says they're in. I know my guardians killing speed went into overdrive when I ditched tank spec in favour of dps. That said, all true.

Far as I know presence has to on you to be effective.

Know how you feel about the game being daunting, but that's MMO's. They throw you in the grinder and poke you till you break down in a little ball and cry. That said, swtor has a decent introduction to it's features, new features are introduced with a pop-up explaning them at a steady pace. As kurgan said, the parts for T-7 are found through quest rewards and drops,mostly aim and endurance based I believe. If you wanted to and could afford it you could buy his gear from the Galactic Trade Network as well. The map... you said city so I'm assuming Coruscant confuses you, which is understandable but it's not really that bad. It's broken up into sections, each labelled and self contained and you should really only be focusing on one section at a time, the quests even send you to each in turn. The map itself DOES have tracking, not brilliant tracking true, but it is there. Little circles on the left, pick one to track that object. Even the objectives are tracked via spinning circles or little green symbols, also seen on the mini-map if you're within range. Vendors are either side of the senate tower in underground halls and a quick mouse over using the maps magnifier reveals what they sell/are, simply hover over them for a second and a pop-up saying "heavy armour vendor" or whatever will come up. Alternatively there's the fleet which has...everything on it far as I know and it's devided into labelled sections that clearly show what's in each. I think this is because it's all so normal and old to me, but I don't understand what you could find confusing about gear and mods? What stats you need? Armour type?

Three obvious questions: what companion are you using, if a healer (which you may have by now depending how quick you're doing the story), then your damage may decrease simply because only one of you is doing any real damage. That said it shouldn't go down that much? Second question: you mention gear, are you including the weapon as well as armour in that? If not, you may need to upgrade your hilt, since weapon damage scales with it? You should also keep companion gear up to date, helps alot. Third: are you buying and upgrading your skills since that will have a massive impact on your performance? Edit: damned spelling.

There are so-called "super servers" (don't know if that's an official or unofficial title), but really just roll on RP servers and ask around till you find one you like. Different RP servers tend to have different things going for them i.e. the quantity vs quality argument. So yeah, roll on different servers, ask around, try looking around swtro-rp website http://swtor-rp.com/home as a starting point, often has some good stuff going and the people are nice.

I don't know about end game gear, but for levelling we do indeed get hooded chestpeices. The http://www.torhead.com/item/eZwtL35/vindicators-chestguard has hood for example, at least I think it's the same peice, it's the same name as the robe my knights wearing and it's hooded so yeah we get hoods for levelling at least.

Shadows are notorious for causing issues, best advice is to turn them off sadly. That is unless things have changed dramatically. For what it's worth there's: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=1786 and http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=294#post294 both about technical issues and bug reports which may be of use.

Hopefully it won't turn nasty, the forum gods seem very quick tonight. Seen 6 or so posts, including some in this thread go *poof* almost instantly.

Always time for a postive thread, especially one so clearly labelled! The story is good, well acted. Voices are brilliant. Vette. Vette, Vette, Vette, Vette. VETTE!!!! Although they cause delays, the animations are nice, very star warsie. The Rakghoul event was well played...very well played. Suddenly Tatooine felt fresh again. Just wish they'd ran with it a bit more, had it spread to other planets and what not. Did I mention Vette? Chirp, chirp.

In the crew skills menu, next to each skill is a little x I believe, click that and you'll be prompted weather you want to remove it or not, click yes and you're good to go.

First guess would be you're a strength based character i.e. a jedi knight or sith warrior and so, mission rewards being tailored to you, you'll mainly get strength on them, with a healthy dose of endurance.

On the companions portrait, or what will be the companions portrait, it'll just be an empty circle if you don't have one out. On it there's two little arrows, the top right one takes you to the crew screen, where you send them on profession runs, select a new companion etc. The bottom left one summons your selected companion straight away. Alternatively hit 'n', and choose a companion from the list that appears. you have to be -off- your ship in order to summon though.

I believe, and I'm assuming you're a jedi guardian for this, I beat it by being in "tank" spec (I forget the actual name of the spec), hit my defensive cool-downs early and used a medpack half way. 'course as the dear Jawa said, being a few levels higher makes all the difference as well. As a Sentinel I'd imagine it's similar, only if you play well and in the correct spec for it, you can have a little self heal going, which may make it easier.

Hmm nice things... Vette, Vette and Vette. Adorably Twi'lek scoundrel. She had me at chirp. The Jedi counsellors Trandoshan companion was really nice as well, nice to hear Trandoshan culture being fleshed out some. The encounters, or at least the character story ones, can be freakin' hard! After 5-6 years of WoW "difficult" was something I had entirely forgotten existed. Got slaughtered so many times it was ludicrous, but because it was 'new' it was awesome all the same. The music, the fact that occasionally in a cutscene you get to see WHY Sith and Jedi are so feared, when they take down an entire room of dudes and then sorta smirk at the one left. I'm sure other classes do the same but with the force uses it's just so fitting. The legacy system, it needs work no doubt but for what it is, it's worth while. The voice acting, especially Natasha Little (the sith warrior), and oddly the Jedi counsellor. As bland as the story may be, the woman does the voice well. Space combat, it's a nice distraction from the grind even if it is just another grind, it's still nice that it's there. And so very many more.

Hello forums, was curious, has anybody else noticed a bug (at least I hope it's a bug) with lightsabers just sort of floating in cut-scenes, or even just traces of them floating since 1.2 hit?

Huh, learn something everyday. Seems I need to pay more attention to patch notes.