Ebon Hawk just went down, too

thats not a "problem" thats the intentional, fundamental design of the game. It's not like they made the npc, realized how tough they were and went "damn...we better have have the companions do something beside hang around on the ship"....it's how Bioware does rpgs...you have the main character (you) and a party of companions that help in combat. It's like complaining about there being too much driving in Mario kart.

Which is why they should be bound to legacy, not the character.....all your characters on the same server have the same rep.

All the "things" are but the certificates are a currency, like the grey helix parts from the Gree event....but it's a currency that should be tradeable within the legacy, imo

This should be a no brainer...anything attached to the legacy wide reputation system should be bound to legacy

Once you have your ship, every quest that offers companion gear as a reward also offers droid parts. you could dress him in those.

City of Heroes.

Also they've not announced the date of the auto-transfers. It's certainly not 48 hrs. The OP has confused "last day to get free stuff for transferring" with the transfer date.

You do know about Reverse Engineering, right? break down the green items you make and you can learn 3 different blue (more and better stats) versions of it...each of which can be further REd to get 5 purple (even more and even better stats) versions. Granted, it takes a while to do that, so it's generally not something worth doing early on...but as you get higher in level and spend more time in a level it can work out. Generally in the 30's it's worth going to blue on things you craft as you're running around, I've found. Especially on those crafts where you can get materials from things you're killing any way in addition to resource nodes.

And? Not everyone's a PvPer, so they don't get PvP rewards. Not everyone's a raider, so they don't get raid rewards. Not everyone's into tracking down all bits and pieces to get a tauntaun ( or whatever) pet, so they don't get whatever pet. So what if some people aren't into playing alts. They don't get the perk from playing alts. It's perfectly acceptable for there to be things in the game that some people just don't get. The opportunity for anyone to get it is the same, but if it's an activity they're not interested in, then they have to ask themselves..."do i want that doodad enough to do the activity that grants it?" It's the same for anything else.

Good edit. Before you added the last sentence, I thought I was going to have to explain how mindlessly killing the enemy can actually be counter-productive to accomplishing the win conditions of a WZ.

Your role is determined by your Advanced Class and spec. A Trooper, for example, chooses between Vanguard and Commando. Both of those AC's have access to DPS specs, but Commandos have a spec dedicated to healing and Vanguards have a spec dedicated to tanking. There are a couple of ACs where all 3 of their specs are DPS, however. Sentinel/Marauder, Gunslinger/Sniper. A Commando can respec from healing to dps, but be truly effective at it, would need to swap into the appropriate gear.

Because they didn't change "everything last time". They added. Only the new sets that came in 1.2 (war hero, campaign, black hole) have the set bonuses on the mods.

They're probably not even done deciding on the the specifics that you're asking for.....in other words, it's *not* info they have yet, and is still possible that it can change. They don't give out info until they have it set in stone.

Yeah...as those folks above me said.... "content will continue to roll out month after month" is not a promise of a major patch every month. You're upset with him because he's broken a promise he never made?

They' haven't said. what they have said is that at first it will be free from some specific servers to other specific servers, and eventually paid transfer from any to any. They haven't released any info regarding which specific server population numbers are going to lead to a server being selected as a "free from" or a "free to". I'd imagine, however, that at first it will be free from most light servers to a few standard servers, but you'd have to pay to get on a heavy, if they allow that at all.

Considering that they (like *every* dev studio) give general timeframes, as opposed to actual dates until they're 99% sure, I don't see the issue. They're not promising a date when they say "early summer".

It didn't...and even if it did...it's *still* a month away

Over on the CoH forums there was a thread someone posted long ago that would get linked whenever something like the OP would pop up. It was called the "Standard Code Rant", and basically explained that no matter how good a programmer you may be, unless you are actively working on the game, you really have very little idea how difficult (or easy) implementing a concept actually is. Wish I could find it...was really well written.

That hat looks lovely on you..it's all shiny...wait a sec...is that tinfoil? The white crystal was available from a vendor...no one had to exploit to get one...just have the cash. And it was removed, as posted, because people like having rare things.

I guess no one reads even a tiny bit of the ToS before they hit "I accept". All you're paying for is access to the servers when they're up.

This. There's way too much precedent of developers giving tentative dates,( phrased in terms that makes it 100% clear and obvious that it's not an exact date to anyone that can read the language it's written in) only to have the player-base (in general...the people who read it as written just get called fanbois) take it as a promise.

Yup. Artifact fragments come from Archaeology. Gifts come from Treasure Hunting.

Too bad you don't have to actually *read* the message before the forums allow you to quote it. You must have missed the line (which you quoted) where he talks about the upcoming blogs...one of which is *specifically* about char. transfers.

*IF* they allow unrated people to play in rated matches, it would only make sense for that match to automatically become an unrated match. But seeing as one of the main points of Rated WZs is to match people of similar skills together, I don't see how a 0 rated player would end up on the same team as you and your massive epeen.