Another uneducated post claiming "all new MMOs have tons of downtime". I will say this... Most new MMO's fix a large number of issues if they are forced to take the servers down outside the scheduled times. They DO NOT bring servers down to apply a fix of the calibre "fix Ilum valor gains"..... This has got to be one of the most ridiculous reasons to impact the customer base. Not gaining 40 valor points once every 3 kills will not break the game before next tuesday

What a cop out.... Bringing down the servers to simply issue an Ilum fix so people get credit for every kill instead of randomly getting credit is absurd. Quality of life fixes should only be done during scheduled weekly down time. Mid week down time should be reserved to fix game breaking issues

Agreed, I surely hope this patch addresses a little more than kills in Ilum not granting valor... Seems a rather trivial reason to bring down the servers midweek. Extra downtime should be limited to gamebreaking issues, not qualilty of life complaints.

??? It's not about the simple act of patching... its about them having to patch the patch they deployed for the patch from the previous patch. 16 hours of downtime a week (8+4+4) is overboard. When this used to happen on WOW they would reimburse their playerbase(give free time, usually 1 week)

Hrm, in searching i see other mentions of this, but no instructions on how its being done

My money is on both.... Due to the bad system for controlling how people are added, a group of people figures out the nuances and repeatedly exploits it all night with full ilum buff (were talking from about 11pm - 2am local time, so 3 hours of straight 5 minute wins) The only down side for the cheaters is that the warzone is flagged for closing due to player imbalance, so they have 2-3 minutes to rack up as many medals as possible

Also the gear level of the pvp community is rising slowly, meaning more expertise on average for your opponents. You will still see the occasional 400-500k output from powertechs when the opposing team has a bunch of new 50s

It likely has something to do with premades, since the other team always had 8-9 of the same people. Anyone else have a similar experience?

Last night I was doing my daily, and came across the same team 6 times that had 11 people on it... always the same people +/- 1 or 2 (I was placed on this team once, which is how i know they had 11 people). Is this a known issue or a unique glitch these people found?