The game is loads of fun, and I personally keep coming back to it. Started out around release, just after christmas 2011. Nice to read about a new player who is enjoying the game, on my home server even. Joining a guild would be a smart choice, and it does not matter how 'good' you are, in many guilds you will find friendly players who are always willing to help and/or answer questions, me included. Red Eclipse is a fun server, loads of friendly folks there.

http://www.swtor.com/user/ce/ogxhd From previous event: (Both not used as of yet) http://www.swtor.com/user/ce/ogxhc

I personally don't find pvp areas difficult to avoid. There simply are few of them. As a general rule, stay away from hubs and med centers of the other faction. Besides those, there are the pvp areas on Tatooine and Ilum during the Gree event. Reputation was not in the game at release, it was added later. That's why you don't encounter much reputation tracks and such while levelling. The planet Voss has reputation gains from heroic quests there, and after that you will encounter reputation from level 50 onwards. The only exceptions are the KDY flashpoint and the mentioned reputation from the Cartel Market. From 50 onwards there is reputation from daily areas and the new levelling planets (Makeb, Rishi, Yavin). There are two pvp quests in a free-for-all pvp area, the other quests are pve. But be careful about getting a pvp flag by accidentally targetting a flagged player while fighting mobs. Some griefers actively try to get players flagged that way. Also, if you try to heal or revive a flagged ally you will get flagged as well. The Gree Event is perfectly doable without doing any pvp imo.

The previous expansion was released in April 2013 and became free for subs in September of that same year. So for SoR it will likely be similar. So wait for an announcement in a few months or so. Might be somewhat upsetting for those who bought it, but see it as a price to play it early. If they don't do this the game becomes less accessible for newcomers. WarCraft also started to make early expansions free recently, to the point new players only lack the most recent one. BioWare chose to make it even more accessible, which I agree with. Some more love for those who did buy it I would not mind though. Last time only some lame title was given out.

As far as I know the weekly cap only got removed for the Cartel Market reputation tracks, so you can spam to legend in one go when binge-buying packs. The 'normal' reputation tracks still have their cap.

Another one for Warrior. Spoilers for Taris.

Both Ship Droids... "There were complications master please don't deactivate me" I WOULD IF I COULD YOU ***** PIECE OF *****! Skadge. At times, Treek. She just can't shut up and keeps going on about her "legend"... S.T.F.U! Broonmark. Useless Talz. Boring. Bowdaar. Whiny Wookie who just can't shut up with his annoying growls and is a ****** tank too.

Jedi Knight: Human. Miralian/Miraluka also works of course. Jedi Consular: Miraluka/Miralian. Smuggler: Many species can fit here. Have a Zabrak myself. Trooper: Cyborg. From combat wounds and for increased efficiency. Sith Warrior: Sith Pureblood. No contest. Sith Inquisitor: Female Twi'lek. Fits perfectly! My (male) sorc is a Rattataki. Also fits. Imperial Agent: Chiss fits here quite well indeed, but Human/Cyborg works too. Bounty Hunter: Both of mine are Purebloods, but Cyborg works the best here I think.

Ran a heroic yesterday on Alderaan with my (then) lvl 33 marauder. (The one on the high platform with planting ' evidence' on corpses). The group also featured a Sorcerer (dps) and an 32 Operative. The last I don't remember the class from. But this story is (almost) all about the Operative. I think he thought he was a Sniper, because all he did was sit in cover and snipe. With the occasional rifle shot and I think I' ve seen a grenade once or twice. Nothing else. Sometimes many seconds without doing anything at all. I have seen ZERO uses of his knife (backstab, shiv, etc.). He went into stealth ONCE after I asked the group to please use some CC to make the fights easier (There had been multiple deaths already). In that one pull the sorc & he both cast a cc. Best pull of the heroic. But after that he reverted to sitting in cover not doing much. I finally made a comment about it and he responded saying he has ' only 2 knife attacks'. Nothing changed after this. He never used his vanishing move when near death either. And to top it off he also was quite under-geared for as far as I could tell. I admit, Im no expert on playing Operative, but on my own (lvl 31) almost all I do is stalk enemies and stab/poison them. The op in the group did not cast any heals either. Then again, no off-healing from the sorc either. Im just happy I finished the heroic with zero deaths of my character, but Im quite weirded out by this sniping operative...

I think it would be much better if legacy names are made unique once again and all character names are linked to your legacy. That way character names no longer have to be unique, because identification will be based on legacy (or account). Personally I never have much trouble with names being taken, but this would be a possible solution for many. And/or a second round of name purges would also help a lot. The game is nearly 3 years old now, a nice moment for a new purge. Maybe this time even bigger than the previous one. Flag every character on accounts inactive for 2+ years or something. That seems reasonable enough.

This does happen. For example: Running around in a big class story instance, queue for a FP pops. Run the FP, come back to find all mobs in the instance respawned. Has happened multiple times. Or having to log off unexpectedly in the middle of an instance and to find everything respawned when you login again.

1. Togruta 2. Devaronian 3. Voss

Just got kicked from Red Eclipse near the end of Athiss HM, can't log back in. It immediately gives a connection error.

Thanks, I set it as my ingame loading screen

Looks interesting, but not much information so far. I am very curious about the details. And please, don't forget the players who don't like space and/or pvp. A surprisingly large amount of players, I bet. What does this mean for the regular schedule of updates? Will we see update 2.5 in the near future too, or is it just this until February and nothing else? I understand 2.4 just got released and contains quite a lot, but players ARE going to yearn for new stuff very soon. So, do we get an 2.5 update before the holidays, or will we get the biggest (non-space) content drought since the 1.3-1.4 gap? Don't get me wrong, space sounds interesting and all, but I do wonder about other stuff...

I hate objective ninja's with a passion. I consider it a jerk move. Mostly I try to go in, do some damage, and then grab the objective. Too often I have seen players grabbing objectives they did not fight for. Black Hole is a famous example on Imperial side with the infamous boxes. If someone is fighting near them I always wait and see if they blow it up. Only when they move on I go in and take it if they did not.

I personally would not let kids play, the game is rated T for a reason. But if parents want to let their kids play, I won't object. It is their own decision.

Sith Warrior: Intro/Act 1: 8,5 Act 2: 6 Act 3: 7,5 Overall: 8/10 Sith Inquisitor: Intro/Act 1: 6,5 Act 2: 6 Act 3: 6,5 Overall: 6/10 Agent: Intro/Act 1: 8,5 Act 2: 8 Act 3: 8,5 Overall: 8/10 Bounty Hunter: Intro/Act 1: 7,5 Act 2: 6 Act 3: 7 Overall: 7/10 Jedi Knight: Intro/Act 1: 7,5 Act 2: 6,5 Act 3: Not finished (Starting Voss) Overall: 7/10 Smuggler: Intro/Act 1: 7,5 Act 2: 6 Act 3: 7 Overall: 7/10 Trooper: Intro/Act 1: 8 (Near the end) Act 2-3: Not started yet Overall: No rating yet.

Earlier I had a somewhat random legacy name, but more recent (like last fall) when legacy became non-unique I adopted a new name that I share with my girlfriend. We always refer to ourselves as 'the item'. In Dutch the term 'item' is almost never used to refer to a couple, so we adopted it to refer to 'us'. It originates with me telling some friends me & her were 'an item', and they did not understand. We kept using it after. Also, one of my gf's nicknames is 'Shadowprincess' because she likes to read on forums but rarely posts, basically 'lurking in the shadows'. So that led us to use 'Item of Shadows' as our shared legacy name.

Outside: 1. Warrior/Inquisitor 2. Agent 3. Smuggler 4. Knight/Consular 5. Bounty Hunter 6. Trooper Inside: 1. Agent 2. Knight/Consular 3. Warrior/Inquisitor 4. Bounty Hunter 5. Smuggler 6. Trooper

I have finished five class stories so far. Knight just finished chapter 2, trooper is close to finishing 1, and consular is halfway 1. The completed stories: 1. Agent. Nice story of playing the behind the scenes guy who kicks *** and takes down a conspiracy. Nice plot twists and the desire to continue & progress. 2. Warrior. Classic story of a Sith rise to power, in a fun way. Chapter 2 was slightly weaker, but 1 & 3 were excellent. Also some of the best lines of the game. 3. Smuggler. Mostly because of the funny lines and general humour. Some nice twists too. 4. Bounty Hunter. Fairly predictable. You hunt people for cash. Also some funny lines of course, and a good line-up of companions. 5. Inquisitor. Could be good, but wasted. Story did not capture me. Bad guy who hates me for seemingly no reason. Ending was unsatisfying. Others: - Knight has been pretty entertaining so far. Typical good guy stuff. Kira is awesome though, one of the best companions in the game (on par with Vette I think). - Trooper has an interesting chapter 1 so far, can't say more. - Seen some consular stuff on gf's character besides my own, and seems not that great, but does give some nice info on the Jedi order and working in the background to protect it.

Mostly play solo, with short lived teams for heroics (via LFG) and flashpoints (groupfinder). Levelled my Sentinel together with my girlfriend. Handy for heroics, and the fun of playing together, but solo is mostly quicker. And I guess Warzones count as grouping too, right?

I've mostly bought some unlocks (rocket boost, mailbox on ship, etc.), some character perks, and recently an outfit for my Smuggler. Not much else. I don't like packs that (possibly) contain worthless Jawagrams.

My Gunslinger was over-levelled thanks to the double xp weekends and hit 50 early on Voss. Because of the new level-cap I chose not to skip a lot and continue as usual. Now halfway Corellia and already 53. Also run the occasional FP and did the BH dailies once. I will probably reach 54 before going to Makeb. So, getting xp is quite easy and it also removes the worry about being under-levelled on Makeb.

Sounds like this pack is going to be very popular. Might be nice to buy a few to sell on the GTN.