I know it's technically an RP server, but Ebon Hawk is east coast, still very active, and has a very friendly/helpful player community. I can almost always find groups for open world objectives (as opposed to everyone fighting for themselves). The population isn't what it was two years ago, but every server has experienced a decline, and from what I've seen Ebon Hawk is still one of the most populated aside from Harbinger (west coast, less welcoming community.)

Manaan! For the love of the Force! Manaan is beautiful and unique among the planets and could be decorated so many different ways. It just needs to be underwater, or half-and-half, NOT entirely above ground like all the other strongholds.

Thank you! It's something to look into. That sounds promising - can you adjust the sensitivity of the switches with software or something? Since some days the tremors and twitches are worse than others. Still sounds like a good recommendation to look into either way! Thanks!

Does anyone have any mouse recommendations for people with disabilities that effect their hands? Like which products are good for weak hands, joint pain in the fingers, etc. Is there any that's particularly good if you have tremors or shaking?

This one's more on the player than the game, but since you can equip lightsabers now in cutscenes where you originally would only have had access to a vibroblade, you now stab yourself in the back with a lightsaber a lot.

I have had good and bad experiences. Mostly lackluster, especially when compared to customer support interactions with Square Enix CS for FFXI, and Blizzard's CS for World of Warcraft. It's not that the customer support is the worst customer support I've ever received, but of the MMOs I've played, it's the lowest notch on the ladder. Mainly due to long response times, automated responses that don't solve the issues, and seeming understaffing. I will say I had an absolutely excellent experience recently when attempting to unlock a mount in collections. I received an error message and the mount did not unlock, but my CC vanished anyway. I put in a ticket, went to bed, and the next afternoon had a very friendly in-game response from a CS guy named Dave who said the CC had been refunded and to try again, and if the same error happened to submit another ticket asking for him and he'd handle it directly. Sure enough the CC were there and I was able to unlock it without incidence. I even joked to my husband that GM Dave must be handling all the games now.

Also interested in this. I'm very casual in this game, but used to do end game tanking in FFXIV and I'd love to learn how to tank or heal here. Unfortunately there's a lot more tools available to learn in FFXIV, from very detailed youtube tutorials to Learning Parties in the Party Finder. I would love if we had a Party Finder equivalent in SWTOR so that less skilled players could connect with each other and learn to tackle harder contact, without having to know a bunch of people that play at the same time first. I keep weird hours and it makes forming a static learning party in a guild or something very difficult, and Group Finder just lets you queue for the content, it doesn't let you find a specific group of player.

Shockingly, most new players are not complete and total imbeciles (which might explain why you are so bad at comprehending their actions,) and would do what any person old enough to play an MMO would do: If they started a character on a server that was too empty for their tastes, they would realize it well before progressing too far, and REMAKE THEIR CHARACTER ON A SERVER THEY LIKED. I'm housebound. I'm on this game all the time. All of my characters are on Ebon Hawk. I have 5 level 70s that I alternate between, as well as a few lower level alts, so I'm constantly either on the Fleet or on planets for leveling/dailies. Fleet is universally 50+, at its weakest hours (early east coast AM on week days), and during evenings it's 100+. Once it's late enough that the West Coast players join in, that'll hit ~150. Planets, depending on which planet it is, fluctuate from between 15 (for places like Quesh) to 60+ (for primetime Balmorra.) Do the PVP queues pop fast? I wouldn't know, because like the MAJORITY of the server population, I didn't come to an RP-PvE server to play PVP. I do PvE, world boss farming, dailies. If my focus was elsewhere, I would join a server with that focus, because this game allows for inexpensive transfers for people who are unhappy with their current server. Just because you can't keep it in your pants for another 5-10 minutes, you want to destroy well-populated, friendly, and content servers, uprooting HUNDREDS of people, so you can blow your wad quicker? Give me a break. You are actually the most spoiled, selfish person I've had the misfortune of encountering in these forums, and since I've been playing since launch that really says a lot. Now by all means, tell me how wrong I am because you have an alt on a server that isn't tailored for your delicate needs. Screw the hundreds of happy players! Baby doesn't wanna have to wait! How about you go ahead and do that and give the rest of the playerbase a break.

1) That is not what Billy is asking for, "in essence" or otherwise, and simply saying it is does not count as an argument. 2) You clearly think that you know MMOs much better than you actually do, and have no problem forcing that "knowledge" on those around you in a patronizing and self-centric lecture. 3) There is absolutely no logical comparison between the whining element utilizing a FREE SOLUTION TO THEIR PERSONAL PROBLEM, and a perfectly content player being expected to CRIPPLE THEIR OWN GAME. There are two sides to every story. There are two sides to every story, sure; but the two sides are not always equal and sometimes one of the sides is self-serving narcissism. Billy gets screwed in your scenario, and all because some spoiled ******* doesn't want to take advantage of their FREE and convenient solution. Yeah. You are not the MMO professor. Your ill-defined core expectations are yours and yours alone, as the majority of this thread illustrates. Good for you! Though it makes your arguments above more interesting because none of this even applies to you.

Ebon Hawk's roleplaying community is generally very friendly. There are jerks, and trolls, and Dromund Kaas General chat gets WEIRD, but it's a nice place. I'm allergic to a-holes and I spend less time sneezing on Ebon Hawk than I did when I tried other servers. It's pretty active, and has a good economy. I'm not sure why people want to ignore that in order to smash it together with Harbinger. I can generally find a group on EH, and any time I do one of the open world Heroics, there are usually at least 2-3 other people doing the same one during early hours and usually 6+ on weekday evenings. The planets usually have 20-50 people on them at a time, again, depending on day of the week and time of day (and planet - nobody wants to sit around on Taris any longer than they have to.) I will note these numbers are for Imperial instances, I'm not sure how they vary Republic-side. We don't need to be smashed together with Harbinger. And we don't need to be the sacrificial lamb for the sake of shaving 5 minutes off of their queue times, either.

Wow. An analogy that is as offensive as it is inaccurate. Thanks for your perspective. The new map interface is detrimental to everyone right now, regardless of their eyesight. I would imagine there are lots of ways to improve upon the old group icons, even more than just the color change that people have been suggesting in other threads, but this is absolutely not one of them. If they could put a giant circle around the group member icons, couldn't they create a unique shape, to make color/contrast less important...? (I'm genuinely asking, I'm not very knowledgeable about programming.)

I'm not entirely clear on how replaying chapters works. I apologize if these questions are stupid. 1) Can chapters be replayed multiple times on story mode? 2) Which chapter playthrough will count as the "main" one? What happens if you make different choices than you did on your first play - do the new choices overwrite the original choices? I'd love to replay the chapters, but I don't want to screw up my characters' storylines for future content.

Ebon Hawk is still pretty populated as far as US servers go.

Most of my characters are the same. Even my incredibly manipulative somewhat-omnicidal Sith Inquisitor, who is very dark side, treats his/her allies well. It only strengthens his powerbase; there's no tactical sense in alienating or abusing those who dedicate themselves to helping him. He's evil, but he's pragmatic.

I just romanced Theron with my type 1 SW, and I was suddenly as tall/taller than him, like in your screenshot. First time was on Rishi, and the angle was close so I couldn't see whether it was awkward positioning or the game just saying, "fine you're up here now." Then with the Yavin 4 kiss, the camera draws back, and I swear to the Force it looks like I'm standing on a ROCK. Like Robert Downey Jr. in the MCU. You can make a few type 1 males that don't look ridiculous, but mostly only if you go for a scrawny teenager vibe. (Also, yesplz Arcann romance option.)

I saw this thread and wasn't sure how much help I could be, but wanted to try, only to see so many people had already offered better advice - and I'm actually going to be looking into the mouse mentioned, too. My movement problems are neurological, more of the twitching/failing to respond problem rather than stiffness. Do you think those gloves would still help? I'm throwing my chips in for Lightning Sorceror/Telekinesis Sage, and for Sniper Agent. I went Engineering with my Agent but she's still probably my second easiest character to play, behind my Lightning Sorceror. Lightning you can get by with just 3 skills, 4 max. You can get by on less than that as people said, just prioritizing Force Storm and Chain Lightning. If you can manage three, that'll proc Lightning Strike a lot of the time (I think) for some extra single target damage. Your companions will be a lifesaver, though. I know there was a huge fuss about their powerlevels amongst the general player populace, but they've been a blessing to disabled players. I happen to have seizures and neuropathy, and even at Affection Rank 5 a companion has enough strength to keep me alive for the minute or so where I'm out of the picture.

Ultimately, randomization works in TTG because of the DM/GM position. Without an equivalent, everything is arbitrary. If a character pulls a roll that would completely wipe the party or end the game or ruin the story, there's an actual adaptable human being who can think about what that means for the story and adjust accordingly. MMOs are forced to operate on numbers and predictability because they can't end; if your character makes a "roll" that would wipe the party or end the game or ruin the story, the continuous nature of the game means that it can't actually stick with that roll, the best it can do - without that human guide to come up with a work-around on the fly - is to reset and make you do the fight/encounter again, until you get it right. At which point the entire thrill of random chance is lost because it's not a matter of if you'll succeed, just a matter of when the numbers will allow you to. I've played D&D for most my life and MMORPGs at the same time and they ultimately are just two different experiences, partially by design and partially by necessity. I think it's probably folly to compare the two, and there are plenty of people who enjoy one but not the other.

I wound up doing this in a party with two other parties last time the Gree were around - one of them was opposing faction and one member even flagged for PvP. It went by in the time it would have normally taken a single party to kill two champions, because there were about 9 or so people not counting companions helping out. No one even took a shot at the flagged Pub. It was great.

What makes it extra annoying is that the Offhand is the opposite. That is to say, the Offhand and Mainhand both have the guard in the same place rather than being symmetrical and it causes one of them to clip through your hip as a result. It was really cool to have a matching mainhand and offhand but the poor positioning and lack of symmetry is just.... ARGH.

I wonder if the people affected by the bug should just start making threads about it in General. I suppose that could count as spamming, but it's a legitimate reason to create a thread, and the more threads about it people see, the more people will realize there IS a bug, check if they're bugged or not, and maybe create threads of their own. It gets the word out to the playerbase at large and Bioware would need to respond, or the silence would suddenly become a lot more conspicuous. I'm not suggesting the same people make multiple threads, just that the people who have been affected make a thread detailing their experiences and what happened to them. Because it seems like there's a ton of us, and it feels like we're just being "quarantined" in this thread and ignored.

You aren't actually turning in one at a time, he accepts them in lots. I'm pretty sure he takes 24 at one time, so if you had 24 and gave him 1, you have 23, which isn't enough to trade. It should say the actual number of the item that is required either in the turn in option or the mission log, but I'm pretty sure it's 24 if I'm remembering correctly and that would explain your problem.

Had this happen to me a few days ago and yes, the only way to fix it was to completely shut down the game and re-open it. So.... out of curiosity, have they fixed ANY bugs in the last half of the year that weren't exploit-related?

I've been playing this game pretty much since launch and actually never knew about that UI thing! Wow. I feel silly now; that's incredibly helpful. Thank you LOL

It literally could not be any worse than 2015, haha. Happy New Years to you too, hope you have a good one!

I hear you. Yeah, there are a ton of people out there who don't even realize, because unless you take two characters of the same class through KOTFE and one is bugged and the other isn't, or you watch a bunch of Youtube playthroughs first, you might not even realize you've been bugged. The flags being toggled on accidentally (if it is the mirror manifestation of the same bug, as I'm sure it is) can also be easy to miss if you haven't already played through the class. I might have chalked my experience with Andronikos up to him just being a creepy, obsessive character if I hadn't run another female Inquisitor through the romance first and recognized the point at which the dialogues changed to the romance option. And I only realized it happened with Cedrax because I had it happen with Andronikos and took the time to research the cutscenes on Youtube to confirm my suspicion. I think it was earlier in this thread someone mentioned that they believed the delay in fixing Courting gifts was just the developers not wanting to reveal how many relationships were bugged. I'm really starting to believe that's the case, and I am not a person made easily paranoid. I'm almost always willing to give people the benefit of the doubt. Well, I've been giving that benefit over, and over, and over, and the ABSOLUTE SILENCE has finally killed my goodwill. I'm the kind of person who will take a punch to the gut and then tell myself I helped someone deal with their stress; if I'M feeling suspicious and hostile, it speaks to a serious, grave mishandling of the situation.