I like the idea of keeping a 'repeat offenders' permanent ignore list. I usually /ignore the worst ones, which has helped a lot. *hoping for legacy-wide ignore and friend lists someday* One thing that has worked well for me is to make a new chat tab that is everything except trade and general. That way when general gets too obnoxious I can switch to "Not General" easily and still be able to have general available if I need to find a group or answer/ask questions or whatever. Setting up my "Not General" tab has actually become one of the first things I do on a new toon.

I appreciate the honesty in admitting that these cubes were intended to test whether you could get away with adding story content to the list of what you can charge extra for through the CM. The fact that that's what you were doing...yeah, not cool. However, you do get points for listening to the feedback and acting on it, which is something you guys seem to be consistently improving. This is why feedback is important, people.

Thanks for the reports on the effectiveness of transfers. Can't wait to get home and get my shinies on the server I play on.

My two preferred comps to run with on my sage are Zenith and Nadia, both of which have crit in crew skills (Underworld Trading and Diplomacy respectively). So a lot of time one of them will be my current companion, but I send them out whenever I'm not in combat situations so I can get that increased crit chance.

Are these going smoothly? Have characters transfered safely? (I'm totally letting you guys be guinea pigs before I move my girl )

Holy bug fixes, Batman! We needed those, thank you! I'm cautiously very excited about server transfers...still won't believe it till they're actually in though

That's why you wait till AFTER you have the taun fawn code in hand before telling them.

There are so many ways to do many of these encounters. I figure I'll give most strategies a shot at least once. Whether it works or doesn't, I'll learn something. I wouldn't get too upset about someone giving out instructions unless they're being rude about it. If nothing else, it makes sure everyone's on the same page. If you're feeling disrespected by it, then a 'I know this flashpoint/op/whatever' should quiet them down, UNLESS you really don't know what you're doing or they're an a**hat

I didn't do much with arenas in wow (although I had a ton of fun on my resto druid in 2v2), but the main objective with arenas is to kill the other team. The team with at least one surviving member wins. The different arenas don't have objectives so much as they have different geography to deal with - LOS issues for the most part. I have to wonder if sticking with 4v4 instead of the 3v3 or 2v2 groups might head off some of the class balancing issues. (Resto druid was pretty op in 2v2, not gonna lie ).

Thank you for the link on the APAC consolidations. I didn't see anything specifically about class buffs, but if they treat them the same as the other legacy unlocks and use the same system for the paid transfers we'll be good to go.

Pretties are appreciated...as long as they don't make our computers go into convulsions

That would be great...do you happen to have a source for that? I haven't seen it (that I recall) and would like to see the details. Thanks for the confirmation that the 25th is the planned date, Eric.

I would guess...and mind you this is just a guess...that your buffs would be based on the classes you have on a particular server. So if you had all 4 class types on Harbringer, for example, and transferred a smuggler to Shadowlands, I would think that you would just have your smuggler buff on your new server. That would be my guess, but we'll have to wait and see how they do this.

Lord Praven would be awesome. Not sure if he'd be so much an apprentice, but I'd looove to have him as a companion. Course then the JK would have a treasure trove of Sith Pureblood males wandering around the ship....is this a bad thing?

So far I've done: F!Trooper, F!Bounty Hunter, F!Agent, F!Consular, F!Jedi Knight Of those, Jorgan's still my very very favorite because of the arc their relationship goes through, how solid it is, and how absolutely sweet he is under that gruff exterior. Vector is super sweet, Torian's pretty awesome, Iresso is sweet but super normal verging on boring (also, my one sage said no thank you in the hopes that some day Zenith will unthaw a bit more), and Doc is funny but completely overshadowed by Lord Scourge. Edit: Also, I am now sad because none of them have talked to my girls for-EVER and I miss them

Well then put me down as angry for many reasons. They gave the strong impression that the CM was just for vanity and convenience. As I said, this move on their part tells me they're untrustworthy when it comes to being clear about their intentions.

I see what you're saying, but they've repeatedly said CM was for vanity and convience items. This crosses a line for me. A big one. You don't have to agree, but that's where I stand on it. And to me, the fact that they're now adding story items to the CM shows them to be misleading and false in what they've said. Perhaps they'll explain this and clear things up, maybe they won't, but things like this definitely inform my opinion of their trustworthiness.

This is directly tied into a questline in the game, gives more information about it. I know not everyone will be upset about this, but I certainly am not happy about it. As far as I'm concerned, this puts a direct 'lie' stamp on yet more of what they said CM would be. I don't like liars. I really don't. If it's a misunderstanding on their part, they'd better clear it up fast.

Story content (expansions aside) are supposed to be free to subscribers. Unless they've changed that too. God only effing knows with these people anymore.

It's not pay to win, it's story content. If it gives you information about the story that you didn't have before then it is story content and THAT is my issue. Story content is supposed to be free to subscribers. To have a quest, even a minor one like this, gated through the CM is bull. It's not a slippery slope, it's crossing a line.

I like the Cartel Market, in general, but there is a distinct difference to me between vanity items and convience unlocks and putting honest to goodness quests and story on the CM. That's an awful precedent and one that I'm really really not happy about. To be quite frank, it's bullsh*t.

No, wait. If this is story content then it shouldn't be a CM item. I haven't seen it yet, but if it's story, then that's not right to tie it to CM.

A pre-launch overview of companions.

Last word on that was in this thread: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=6404289#edit6404289 Not 2.2, that's pretty much it.

Oh individuals can be very inconsistent. I just find it funny when people expect the gaming community as a whole to en masse love or hate something. People will vary in their reactions to things. To some, the achievements being buggy means nothing (it's not something I would get worked up over, especially given the currently buggy state of achievements and codex entries), so they would prefer transfers be available now. To others, achievements are very important and they would be upset if their hard work was devalued or erased by a programming glitch, so they would be upset if it was released with the bugs. Different motivations and valuations = different reactions. *shrug*