Speech balloons would certainly help, and while it's certainly a "want" and not a need it would go a ways towards bringing the rp action back to the characters and not the chat windows. I'd also like to see a bit more in the way of action emotes for rp. Again, more of a want, but this is a good place to put them. Also, Some form of the Imperial Trooper Armor that isn't basically as expensive as the CE set. Because that's all I can think of that I'd even buy that for. And that's too much to spend for most of what I already have. I guess this could be summed up in short by make more social armor's, and ones that don't suck. Imperial Uniforms and Trooper armors that aren't class and armor restricted and are purchasable by the majority. Why should such public and symbolic thing as the trooper armor be so restricted? The Republic side gets Trooper armor from the get go, why don't the sith? I'm sure it's already in the works but a little deco flexibility for the ship would be nice too. Maybe even a creatable instance on your factions capital planet that you can use as your "office". It doesn't make sense that a Sith on the Dark Council or the galaxy's top Imperial Agent don't have some focal place they work from. Yea I've got my ship, but it's no office. I know it'd be a bit of an overhaul to rework the maps though, so again, it's just a want.

You forgot "And decapitate and mince the head"

Because Ilum is an open world area where something organized with a story could easily be interupted by an opportunistic player/s looking to pad their valor. Not to mention also that it would isolate rp possibilities for a majority of rp'ers as you have to hit 50 to even be viable for Ilum. If you were around monologers and taunters then they weren't very good at writing action rp, but that doesn't mean that everyone does that. I don't see how an rp channel would be used for pvp since it's intended purpose was for RP. If it was taken over by exploiters for pvp they'd simply be reported. Sure it might be a problem initially if it came up, but it wouldn't have a lasting effect after the violators were cracked down on. Most pvp'ers don't really have time to type much. You know....cause they have to move around to not die, kill, and get objectives. Using a channel to call locations would just be silly. They'd be better off micro communicating with their own team to actually win. Your only reasonable arguement I've seen so far as have been the fact there is a tentive PEACE to a previous war. And as such they probably wouldn't be too communicative with each other. Or not, who knows? But we won't be able to find out with constrictive options either.

They don't when it comes to balance decisions. And who in thier honest to god right mind would?

I would be one of those backstabbers ^.^;; Im also rather opportunistic and fall in behind someone chasing one my team mates to pile on damage while they are distracted. Works for me so far. I've not had any issues with any of the classes at all really. Mostly boils down to picking your fights intelligently. Don't jump in half cocked, have a plan and make them work for you, not vice versa.

Then by this logic shouldn't that just mean that the PVP top end gear is what is breaking the balance and not the class itself?

*cough* it's been said already...

I'm only a mid 20's Assassin, but I have to swear by RV at this point. I do enough damage on my own that I really just need a healer. Andronikos is useful for blasting things down, but I still miss the health deficit. He's noisy as sin, but he's sure darn handy for me.