Less effort in what way? If you want to raid for a specific piece of gear, you still have to raid and win the drop. Regardless of what character you use. If you want to purchase comm gear, you still have to grind the comms. Regardless of what character you grind them on.

How about this scenario.... I work in the real world and get paid real money. I then purchase enough CC's to buy a Hypercrate to sell for in-game credits which buys me 180 gear. Did my characters earn this gear or did I? I just leveled a toon to 55 and purchased gear by "grinding" real life..There is no in-game grinding occurring yet I'm able to buy whatever I want for as many alts as I want thus bypassing the gearing process. So I shouldn't be able to have this gear since I didn't "earn" it?

Then explain the Legacy items you receive while doing your class stories.... Bioware gave me a way to get strong gear and share it across my legacy, Birthright and Inheritance. I can give a mainhand inheritance that I earned with my Smuggler to my Trooper alt.

Do Ops still drop BoP schematics that only that character can use? I haven't raided in a bit but I know on my Cybertech, I won a schematic for a BoP aim earpiece that does me absolutely no good as I'm a Smuggler. Nobody else in the raid could use it either since they didn't have the correct class/crew skill combo. If they opened up LS to allow BoP items at least I, as a player, could use an awesome drop that would otherwise go to waste.

Exactly! I was wondering how you can track somebody all day long if you yourself are offline. OP, all you can do is report the alleged botters and let the CS handle it accordingly.

I would think so. We, as players, would benefit(IMO) from organizing more server events to spice up what the devs have already given us.

Well, that's one way to get your point across I suppose....

I'm against the daily cap on chests personally. If it's only 1% of the populace, my vote would just be for BW to monitor for botting and act accordingly. A different solution for this IMO would just be to give all chests random respawn timers and/or locations. Additionally, you could even have the chests tied to how many players are in each instance. More players/more chests/faster repawns maybe. Tie chests to how many mobs are dying in the zone and at what rate. If nobody is killing the mobs the respawn rate would be very slow. If you happen to be clearing the area, the chests could respawn faster. At least this would make the "exploiters" earn their chests. Also, I like the suggestion about tying the chests to the mobs that are guarding it. If you don't attack the mobs you don't get the chest simple as that.

To try to get this thread back on track(if possible)... For discussion, If they were to add a bounty system, how would they keep people from abusing the system? Example: You have a Republic character and a Guildie has an Imperial character. What's to stop these two from sitting in a neutral zone and killing each other all day long to receive rewards? I've never played SWG so I don't know exactly how that worked, but from what I've seen in any video game, is that if you attach a monetary(gear, creds, rep) reward system that has no safeguards against this kind of thing players WILL find a way to abuse it.

I think a solution to this would be to have a buff applied to your characters upon logging into the game. If you don't want to have 2xp, simply right-click the buff off your buff bar. If you happen to accidentally remove the buff, just log out>in to reapply said buff. Win/win?

When someone says that they're going to whine until it happens...he did say that.. That is a clear sign of being unreasonable. You really think that is a great way to get across your suggestion to BW?

So spamming then....gotcha

Nope. You've decided it is no longer exclusive. You have to PVP to get the pvp exclusive mount. If you want the PVE exclusive mounts you have to PVE. If you want the CM mount, you have to use the CM. They're all different.

Luckily, the Devs are giving you an EXCLUSIVE mount that nobody else can get without PVP'ing...

Now, you're just trying to ignore the BW post. PVP has an exclusive rancor mount. PVE has an exclusive rancor mount. CM will have basic rancor mounts. How is this system not fair to you? Most people will never be able to obtain the exclusive mounts anyways.

Giradda’s mount, the armored and tattooed Rancor is a unique appearance that will be exclusive only to our PvP Season one, Tier 1 reward winners. Inside of Nightmare Dread Palace, our Operations players will have a chance to get a very rare mount, a Cyborg Rancor. This will also be a unique appearance of the Rancor which is exclusive to our Ops players. Finally, at some point in the future we will have some more “basic” Rancor models which will be available in other parts of the game, such as the Cartel Market packs. Soo... In short, the specific appearance for the Arena mount and the Cyborg Rancor Ops mount will be unique models, but you can expect to see other Rancor mounts around the fleet in time. Hopefully that answers your questions. Wow, that was a hard thread to finish....because, you know...reading.

Just throwing this in here... Everyone does understand that this is a video game right? And that this is just a mount in a video game? ....And that this is the most ridiculous reason to take sides and divide the game's community?

I can get on-board for this. It's a nice QOL feature. Another idea I'd like to add is to just allow the window to be larger or even resizable to encompass all companions without scrolling.

What rules are being broken exactly by doing so? http://www.swtor.com/legalnotices/rulesofconduct http://tos.ea.com/legalapp/WEBTERMS/US/en/PC/#section11 If you did not tell them politely to stop helping you, you did not try to solve the situation at all. So you're part of your own problem. Had you warned the other player that you did not want or need their help, yes you may have some grounds for an argument. If any rule was broken, IMO it would be "Improperly use in-game support or complaint buttons or make false reports to Service staff members, including the SWTOR CS." Essentially, you're clogging up the CS with pointless complaints while there are much bigger problems that need attention.

March 14th – March 17th: Double XP weekend! Also, here's the post it's from if you'd like to check it out OP: http://www.swtor.com/info/news/news-article/20140203

I tend to gear her more like a DPS companion but I keep her in tank stance while leveling my Sniper and Gunslinger. Aim>Pow>End>Shield=Absorb=Defense. The reason I do this is that, while leveling, most mobs go down relatively fast so I just need her to get their attention and throw out some dps while I do the majority of the damage. I tried sticking to pure tank stats, but then the mobs tend to survive a bit longer since Treek doesn't hit very hard. Also, gearing her like this, she is able to throw some heals out while tanking that at least look like they do something. Additionally, as a Gunslinger, I can swap her gear with Corso if I feel like changing it up

This thread seems oddly familiar...

I'd like to suggest a character creation and customization(appearance kiosk) upgrade. We have the same options in character creation that we've had since launch from what I can tell. We've gotten a few CM Kiosk updates, but I only recall this being a one time update. It seems this is a cosmetic area that I'd think would be a high priority considering the way the story is very much like our own personal movie. Honestly, I wouldn't care if these had to be unlocked through gameplay, CM, or just being a subscriber. This game is great for immersion. Nothing kills that immersion better than running into your exact twin during a group finder FP. How about some: 1. Tattoo variations for all races (Even to allow Trooper and BH Tattoos on all races would be a start) 2. New hairstyles (Long, Braids, Buzzed, Pigtail variations, short mo-hawk, Dreads that aren't up in a bun) 3. New Beards (Long, Braids, straight, curly, styled) 4. Voice Modulators (Cyborgs... If a helmet can change my voice, why can't cybernetics?) 5. Jewelry for all races (earring, nose, eyebrow) 6. More Complexion options (Allow us to mix and match features that are already there) 7. New Heads and face options (Preferably some that don't clip into beards quite as bad) 8. Eye color slider (Self-explanatory) 9. More scar options (Maybe less dramatic or just flip the scars to the other side) To get the ball rolling, I'd imagine that some customizations could be crossed over to different races/classes since they're already in game like the tattoos, facial hair, jewerly, faces, and cybernetics(this is tough as that's cyborgs thing). Just a simple unlock in the character creation screen would do it(IMO). Actually, there are quite a few NPC's that have unique looks that are crossed over already, Skavaak comes to mind with his Trooper tattoo on his face. For the implementation of more option, read new, that'd be on whichever Dev team handles those things. I do believe that this should be well out of the realm of the "Wall of Crazy" and something that could continually be updated with a little creativity.

To be fair, Esseles and Hammer Station are rather tame mechanics-wise. Athiss has quite a bit of wall-hugging/skipping that some players aren't familiar with IMO. I've been in quite a few groups that don't communicate which strategy that they're going to use which causes wipes. This to me seems to have nothing to do with Double-xp weekends and more to do with someone not knowing the FP and/or having their chat turned off. Just my .02

June 10th: Game Update 2.8 Nightmare Mode Dread Palace Operation New ships and an entirely new Ship Role for Galactic Starfighter And much more… this is going to be the biggest update up to this point - we will reveal more once we are a bit closer to June So back to the OP again....The roadmap shows that you'll get your Huttball arena in April, but who's to say that you won't get anything else in June? This whole thread is pointless until they reveal more details.