14 mins ago (at time of this post) they said on twitter that they are aware of whats going on and looking into it.

Never even look at the European servers (too high a ping most of the time). Only time I ever accessed those in any game is when they kept them open while the American servers were down for maintenance.

I'm not sure what's going on lately but the Harbinger server has been extremely laggy of late. Even to the point of getting constantly disconnected from the server. Watching chat also shows that this has been going on with other players also so I know its not just me. Also whenever I start getting disconnected too often I'll play on an alt server for several hours before going back. Never once have a problem with that alt server. Not even slight lag. If I was having at least lag on other servers then I would know for sure that it was just me and I'd adjust ports, firewall etc etc. As it stands I'm 99% sure that this is something on BIO's side. I have noticed that Harbinger seems to be the most popular server as whenever I get d/c'd I notice that the population for it is either heavy or moderate while all the other servers are inevitably either light or moderate. (light when Harbinger is moderate and moderate when Harbinger is heavy) So I'm guessing that it might be a population issue. If it is then obviously there's not much you guys at Bio can do except maybe offer free transfers to other servers. (at this point I'd take advantage of it). However if it's not a population issue that's causing all this lag and D/C's then I figured you guys needed to be made aware of it.

I certainly hope this is true. Because I may end up just skipping him on the rest of my toons if it is. Don't suppose you can link to where the devs said this can you? Or is this just a rumor?

I've never played a game where I didn't have multiple toons of every class that I could get ahold of. I'd even play on different servers if there wasn't enough character slots to get all the classes. I might not be the best out there, but i'm not anywhere close to being the worst or even midling. I know my rolls as a pve person, I know what other people can do in a pve environment based on their class (whether or not they can play their class or not is another thing entirely). I can even play in a pug group and do ok...and pug groups are the worst.

They have to open up legacy on just one character for the whole account. I'll have to do that quest across multiple characters with the exception of my troopers who I hear will be able to skip it. That means 14 toons will have to go through a total of 280 matches. (I have 16 but two are troopers...one toon per type of character that can be had...yes, i'm that type of pve person) People can speed through pve storyline content. People can't speed through 280 pvp matches. But hey, i'm willing to compromise on this. How about we ask Bio to make it to where you can make strictly pvp characters that automatically come with its own legacy system? Completely separate the two aspects of the game for those that want to strictly pvp and those that want to strictly pve. Of course to make it fair to those that like both they can continue like it is now. I fully admit that it is my choice to get that companion or not. I can simply ignore it. But then from what I can tell you won't be able to get any companion that that particular mission giver gives after M1-4X since you have to finish that one before he'll move onto the next companion to get. Granted I could be wrong on that. But I abandoned that quest in order to take it up again to see if there was a way to skip the mission like you could with Qyzen as a counselor. There isn't as a non-trooper. And the mission giver for it just kept bringing M1-4X back to the front with no option to choose another. So we're not really talking about losing out on just one companion. We're talking about losing out on multiple companions. Not to mention losing out on a companion that I actually kinda like is not cool to say the least.

I just finished them...took me all day and part of last night to do them. Ended up doing a total of 19 pvp zones because in all but one of them I was on the losing side. Not surprised there really as I really suck at pvp since I hate it so much.

What do you mean exactly?

In order to get the companion M1-4X as a counselor you have to go through 20 pvp matches, 10 if you win them all. But here's the thing Devs, not everyone likes to PVP but may still want that particular companion. I think that it is wrong to force PVE only players to play PVP in order to get a companion. At lvl 65 I never once played pvp and as such am not geared properly for it and have no interest in getting geared for it, much less for a measly 20 matches and then never play it again. Also I don't understand why a companion character would require PVP matches to begin with. It really makes no sense since Companions are not used at all in PVP matches. Companions are exclusively a PVE mechanic of the game so why have them require that you go through PVP? So please, either change the required mission to get M1-4X to a PVE mission or allow those of use that don't like PVP to skip that mission. Or at the VERY LEAST only require one pvp match. Surely it wouldn't be that hard to change the requirement to 1?

Perhaps you should read the thread before you respond. This has nothing to do with time zone down time rants. This thread has to do with them putting in a patch and then the next day or the day after bringing the servers down to put in a fix for the patch that they just put in to fix something. It is about the servers going down multiple times when there is suppose to be only one day of the week for downtime that is actually meant for maintence and patching.

I agree. But unless its an emergency why do they have to bring down the servers just asap? Why not just wait until maintence day? Its not like the server is crashing due to the bug.

I just wish that they would wait to do these patches on maintence day. If its not an emergency then just wait. Do a bit of testing while waiting for maintence day and they prolly wouldn't have so much trouble.

We JUST had a maintence day and you guys are patching the very next day? What is up with that? Can't you do the patches on maintence day like every other MMO out there? I could understand if it was a critical issue like to prevent server crashes and such but come on. Your guy's down times are long enough without having to do a patch every single time you guys happen to finish writing one. I know that everyone wants bugs fixed and I agree with them. But lets have a little order here while you do it please?

Yoda was just yoda. At the time of the first episode he was 800+ years old. 900 when he died. I would imagine in that time he could have mastered both the Knight and Counsular side if you want to pigeon hole him into game terms. But no matter where you put him...he kicked butt.

I love the game. That said I have played MMO's since a bit after Pub 16 in UO. I've played more MMO's than I carn even remember. I've seen far worse launches than what SW:TOR has had. In fact I would have to say that SW:TOR was one of the better launches that I have seen.