So, reached the Heroic Space Missions, upgraded to Grade 7 parts (nowt else to spent my CC on really) and I tried from what I read the easiest one of the lot, Lorta Escort. That was roughly three hours ago. I've watched the Dulfy and Nefash guides several times and despite following them to the second, in certain sections they come through fine, my ship looks like it has been through a JG Ballard novel. I just seem to get blasted to pieces no matter what I do. I survived barely once by hitting power to shields and not firing a single shot. Of course, that meant I didn't kill the objectives. Not sure what to add really, apart from my right hand is knackered from manically trying to swerve the ship around and I'm feeling a bit dejected (and really quite fed up of the space combat music, god I hope they change it in the expansion). Would I really miss anything if I just called them a day and ignored them? Seems like a stressful waste of time and effort to me when I could be doing other things.

Hi, I'm a new player (started with the Weekend trial!) and I really, really love my Shadow (I used to have a Rogue in WoW), and I quite like the storyline/Republic, I've really gotten quite into it. Might be because, I was a big Bastila Shan fan (I did get hold of a Yellow crystal soon as possible, must admit!) Problem is a lot of my friends, I discovered play Empire (though they do have Pub alts), so I don't know whether I roll to play with them, or be different from them all and stick with it. I'm edging towards the latter if I'm honest... Any advice?