Well personally I think its dumb. Shouldn't players be able to play and enjoy the game in whatever style they see fit? Maybe I don't want to play a goober that talks like a goober to all the other goober NPC's in the starting zone who want me to solve some non-problem when I'd rather be sandboxing this game and omw to crafting something and PVP. YES I can appreciate that they put time and effort into making a highly linear storyline for you to follow, but not everyone is that type player. @Viera: Seriously? OK I guess we're NOT sitting here observing this problem because you find it unlikely?!

A friend of mine is level frigging 21 and is stuck now in Ord Mantell trying to help me troubleshoot this problem. It would be nice if they actually mentioned this in the patch notes; here we were thinking the zone was bugged. But he can't find any available quest lines now on Ord Mantell that lets him out ( since he solved them all ). What exactly has to happen before you can get to fleet now? Is there a particular NPC mission I need to solve or is it a flat level restriction for which he didn't get flagged-for-access?