Sooooo why can't folks both acknowledge that a delay of a week is not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things, and understand that given many updates are delayed by a fair amount of time and launched with bugs is a good enough reason to hold BW accountable and write forum posts complaining about it? I mean complaining about it in literally the forum set up to provide feedback to BW (seriously, any game's forums is basically set up to a. provide feedback to the developer and b. communicate with other players) is pretty much the first step when you are upset about something. I'm not quite sure why the answer to a lot of these complaints is "if you don't like it quit", because complaining on the forum is basically "I don't like it, and if you don't fix it, then I'll quit." You give them a chance to fix it, cause you have been satisfied up to this point, and if they don't, then you quit. Seriously, what would happen if everyone who didn't like something quit instead of giving feedback? Poor BW would be sitting there asking "where'd everyone go?" That being said, literally just playing an online game you have to understand that flexibility is needed. I mean even WoW, which has an insane amount of resources compared to SWTOR, had a situation FUBAR with their most recent patch and them attempting to stat squish. These things happen, and you kinda need to "bake it into the mmo cake" as it were when deciding how to handle it. You can either continously subscribe because you are ok with the game as is, and are willing to put up with problems that pop up with every patch (this does not preclude complaing about problems, btw) or you can only sub once the bugs for each patch have been ironed out.

Even this allows for a lot of exploitation. So you play with a friend who doesn't care about his elo (or use an alt account) and then if your team is outmatched, just have the friend/alt account quit, and now your main doesn't lose elo. Shrug, my best idea is basically someone leaves, that person is locked out for a long period of time. An hour, 24 hours, something, if it was important enough to leave a ranked match, then it's important enough to not do ranked for 24 hours, or even longer. Yeah, people will screw up individual matches, but then that toon is locked, and folks have a finite number of toons, and that would be a really easy thing to check for BW. "We noticed that you have 5 different toons all leave a ranked match within a 2 hour period of time, and each of them has been locked from doing ranked. Since clearly you are having real life issues that ranked pvp is interfering with, we've decided to prevent you from playing ranked the rest of the season in order to allow you to focus on your real life issues. All the best. -BW"

Well remember even now NiM bosses still don't drop 248 tokens, it's just random 244 or 246 pieces. The UC's that drop do make up for it, but it took them over a year to get there (and most PVEers still can't do NiM anyway, so they'll still need to PvP if they don't want to rely on RNG).

Yes please! Make it easy to leave or opt out, but please add something in!

Generally I agree. And honestly, I'm sure BWs lack of responses to feedback historically had a lot to do with lack of feedback from PvPers. But honestly, when basically the feedback given was from you, and outside url's that you linked in your feedback, and that's it, it's hard for me to hold BW responsible, especially when they actually set up a PTS, and have been relatively responsive throughout the whole time the PTS has been up. Honestly given how responsive they have been with the PTS (the official forums anyway), from my perspective the only way they can improve it in the future is to continue being responsive to feedback given on the forums so people know that is the place to provide feedback (and that people know they actually listen), and not give feedback on their private channels that the devs may or may not be watching. I totally believe that Snave gave great feedback, but (probably due to lack of dev responsiveness previously) he didnt give any in the forum they specifically set up for this, and so it wasn't implemented as it could have been (note, I have no idea if Snave was an Influencer and if he followed the channels set up for them. If he did, then basically nvm, cause he presumably wouldn't post on the general forums). Anyway, this is one of those "BW screwed up in the past, so now when they do things right, people dont bother to respond in the way they would if they'd done it right in the first place" and the only way to fix it is BW continuing to be super responsive (on the PTS).

Agreed. I'd like them to put quick travel points in, maybe everywhere they have to set new spawn points? But when the fastest way to get around the stronghold by a substantial margin is by exiting and re-entering the stronghold, something probably needs to be done to make that quicker.

Yup, esc cancels any channel or cast, so even for something that cancels on move, using esc will let you cancel without moving if you don't want to move for some reason.

You misread his statement. He got spam from gold sellers, and they were banned in between him receiving the mail and him seeing it. I do agree with this. Even just a number (i.e. xxx number of gold seller accounts were banned, and yy accounts were banned for cheating/exploiting) would be helpful. Honestly, I'd also like to see stats on how many "reported" cheats are there vs. how many of those cheats does BW determine to have been an actual cheat and not a misunderstanding of an ability or mechanic.

Only if you have plenty of space on your computer. Otherwise go ahead and delete it.

I get the frustration, but this here means there was a communication problem, and it was not on the Dev's side. I'm not criticizing you, cause I've seen a lot of the stuff you have written and you have clearly been testing and writing feedback, but the devs have 0 responsiblity to be policing twitch and discord to get feedback when they specify a specific place to leave feedback on the official forum and they don't get any there. Hopefully a lot of the bugs you see will get fixed after things go to live and more pvpers start frequenting it. But I can't put blame on the devs when the decorators descended on the stronghold en masse, and there only seemed to be a few people using the Stronghold for PVP.

I agree that's what it probably is... I was proposing a compomise so that we can get the achievement, but we all aren't horrible people.

Just to be clear, since a lot of folks are saying they want the elevator slower, I definitely do not want a slower elevator unless you put a faster way to get up (a quick travel point, a grapple hook, something). I'm already not a fan of how much a pain it is to get up to the overlook from the ground, please dont make it even longer. (If there I'd a shortcut from the ground, then thays fine, but I think there is only a shortcut to the ground so far).

Or make it so the toon you do it on he's gone for. That's a fair compromise for doing something horrible vs basically blocking off an achievement if you arent a horrible, terrible, evil, soulless person. Turtles are the best, in case that wasnt clear.

Check the achievement BW agrees and so do I.

The chest is still there, it just doesn't do anything now. But regardless, you should probably post this request in the PTS forum. BW has been pretty good about taking feedback from there, so you'll probably have a much higher chance of something happening.

In the future, what usually causes this is cookies (so basically, the last time you were on that page, it was undergoing maintenance, and so stored a cookie of that page) and so the next time you go to the page, it loads the cookie instead of the live page. If you just click refresh, it'll force the browser to ignore the cookie and load it directly from swtor.com.

Is the "Not So Speedy" achievement possible, or is it not working? If not I assume it should be removed?

The explosions for opening up the cave could probably stop exploding after opening up the cave... I'd be pretty worried if my house had explosions at the entrance forever Also, a quick travel up to the overlook would be nice too. Honestly, this whole stronghold is big enough you guys could probably put actual quick travel points in and no one would complain.

Ranged tank... ok. Arsenal Merc is my main... I don't think I ever campaigned for Mercs to be nerfed, in fact I usually am campaigning against them being nerfed. Sorry mate, I think you have me confused with someone else.

Or you guys could bring back bonuses for committing to planets. Halve the original values, and then double them all as soon as a planet is committed (this would have to be thought about a lot, because obviously only officers can commit to planets, so folks playing before an officer logs in get screwed). Maybe make it so any points gained in the first 24 hours also get doubled once a planet is committed?

Eh. I agree that it doesn't need to, but I think it should. I don't see any harm in it, and it does have the benefit of folks like OP who want to go through and see the story being able to not wait a week for the next time the OPs are being formed in fleet.

I was referencing more her having different stats once she took off all her gear but left side. Shouldn't have used the word "or" there, didnt mean to really disagree with you on the 3k difference.

No I didnt. But if you think that moving ranged for a couple abilities fron 15m to 10m was a significant PT nerf in PvE, then you were probably playing it wrong. As someone else pointed out, PT is one of the strongest DPS classes in PvE right now, just as it was in 3.0 and 4.0. And as I pointed out, if you think getting 15m range back is gonna make it so PTs arent globabled in PvP instead of getting an actual defensive, than more power to you.

Or different left side, or augments, or stims, or buffs. Take everything off, including buffs, and then add stuff back one at a time, and you'll probably find the difference.