This won't get off the ground. We (America) are an imperial nation now and our sympathies lie with the status quo/the people in power/stability. We don't like rebels anymore. Why else are we propping up Central American dictators, why did the media dump all over the 99ers, and why aren't we supporting the plucky resistance fighters in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria who are only trying to liberate their country from foreign invaders and corrupt regimes (Karzai, Assad)? Our society is heavy militarised. Our youth have been indoctrinated by playing games like Call of Duty and Battlefield. This is why TCW cartoon series was so successful. We want to be the jedi and clones fighting in our sleek armor and equipped with the finest ships, tanks and weapons, fighting for a galaxy-spanning organisation to crush the separatists aka rebels. Noone wants to see rebels playing terrorists with rickety hand-me-down and scavenged equipment.

Whaaat???? Hulk, Iron Man 2 and Captain America were all terrible. Thor had lousy action but was saved by Anthony Hopkins and Loki.

Is Gault gay now?????

This is giving me flashbacks to Simcity. Can I sue Bioware for giving me PTSD?

Darth Maul has next to no force powers and no defense against force attacks (e.g. vs Sidious he got knocked out with a force push then begged for his life while getting zapped). A Jedi consular would simply force push the top of his saberstaff, sending the tip into his head and killing him within moments of the fight starting. A smuggler would fire his scattergun, and Maul would have no way to deflect a diffuse mass of pellets with his lightsaber. Again Maul would die moments into the fight. Similarly he would not have the reflexes to parry the volume of fire put out by a trooper's minigun. The Jedi/Sith of the PT were truly pitiful and were no match for blasters. As we saw in the Phantom Menace one shileded droideka/destroyer droid is the equal of a Jedi Master like Qui-Gon. Jedi died en masse trying to save Obi-Wan in the Geonosis Arena. It is no wonder the Jedi Order was wiped out by clones and the Republic needed clones in the first place. The Jedi had neglected their ranged force powers and focused almost exclusively on lightsaber training, which due to simple geometry of lines cannot deflect volley fire (3 or more bolts hitting at the same time). The massed ranks of clone troopers that assaulted the Jedi Temple in Ep III would have been sitting ducks for ranged force AoE attacks. But instead of using their powers to throw the troopers around like ragdolls or burn them to a crisp with arcing lightning attacks, the jedi brought a knife to a gunfight. Jedi using lightsabers when they have magic (Force) makes as much sense as speccing a stereotypical mage for melee combat.

Answer this. How does one lightsaber (held by Vader) block four lightsaber thrusts or blaster bolts at once? Simple geometry shows that it is impossible.

General Grievous for sure. Darth Vader's mobility is severely hampered in his suit - unlikely to be able to block Grievous' four rotating lightsabers. Meanwhile Grievous has unparalleled mobility, e.g. he can fold up and scuttle on walls/ceilings. Due to his robotic hands, Darth Vader can't use Sith Lightning to short circuit Grievous. Despite his suit, Vader is just a man - chopping his hand off renders him combat ineffective (RoTJ). Meanwhile Grievous has gained new capabilities as a droid abomination. Grievous can sacrifice one of his arms, and still have 3 free arms to skewer his target while Vader is left open to attack parrying/cutting off his one arm. It is also PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE for Vader to block Grievous with one lightsaber if he was firing four blasters at once. Darth Vader could not beat Grievous even in his prime, as Anakin during TCW. What chance does he have crippled?

Yes, usually the socializing is done at max level running raids or doing pvp with your guildies.

So if I capture and torture a girl, she will become my faithful follower like Bastila Shan? Thanks Star Wars for the life lesson.

Yup, plenty of unique convos. The jokers at Bioware decided to insert a lot of Hulk references if the player chose to be Mirialan (esp dark side options : "I shall smash you" / "Don't make me angry, you won't like me when I'm angry" etc)

This game would be P2W if duping wasn't so rampant in this game. I have been sent many unsolicited tells offering to sell me any item I desire off the cartel market for extremely low prices , e.g. Mask of Nihilus for 25k credits. I have reported these spammers ingame, but the same spammers are still online till this day. Talking to people I meet in warzones and flashpoints, it appears many of them have used these dupers to unlock every f2p restriction and play for free. So, rather than making this game P2W, I would say that the tradable cartel market has made this game cheaper to play and more casual: instead of farming operations for months to get a mount or vanity drop, they can spend 20k or so credits for the best looking gear in the game.

As no dev or CSR reply has been forthcoming, I have had to accept that my character will remain female and unloved. Right now, I have dressed my smuggler in the slave girl outfit and am watching her /clubdance. It is a poor shadow of the stimulation that actual SGR interactions would have provided, but I have had to find some way to console myself. It looks like I will have to reroll. Does anyone know what other class (besides smuggler) has the most flirt options and best romance scenes?

Hi, I started leveling a smuggler as I read that the class had the option of bedding almost everyone it came across during it's storyline. Naturally, I rolled a buxom blonde chick so I would be be able to see two delightful female specimens rolling in the hay, and running between cutscenes her wiggling butt would keep me on edge for the scripted romance sequences. However, 40 levels in, having had no chance to flirt with any females I've encountered (including a Leia-expy, a personal dream of mine ever since I saw RoTJ, and made even more possible by SWTOR including a slave girl set), I found out that SWTOR does not allow same-gender relationships!!! I feel duped by EA. EA have marketed this game as a BioWare title, but clearly it is not. Bioware games from Jade Empire, Dragon Age to Mass Effect have always been about lesbian sex, down to their games being labeled "sex simulators" in the news. Now that I know there are no SGR options, the game feels hollow. What's the point of combat, gear grinding, managing companion affection without a payoff? I have no inclination to play my character anymore and I'm disgusted at Bioware for selling out to the pro-equality crowd, who say that just because no-one wants to see gay characters means lesbians need to go as well. The choice is simple. Right now Bioware, you are at risk of losing a paying customer. It doesn't have to be that way, however. Just let me flirt with female characters. Give my smuggler a sex-change. Switch her voice set and dialogue options to the male smuggler, but keep her female appearance and combat grunts. It's not a Bioware game without girl-on-girl action.

The Star Wars universe bears no relation to reality. We are expected to accept that small starfighters can tank sustained fire from massive star destroyers and tie fighters (Ep V), the Empire's troops are inept at aiming and their armor is useless against sticks and stones (ewoks), and the universe's elite fighters, the jedi, are so, despite going into battle unarmored with a simple lightsaber and could be defeated by a shotgun or simply being shot by three opponents at once (a line cannot intersect three non-collinear points). There's no point in discussing Star Wars, because nothing stands up to scrutiny. Everything happened the way it did, because the writers said so.

Mirialans aren't hot

Well I'm slightly disappointed they didn't have the guts to kill Ahsoka. The show would be much better off with her (I still pretend she doesn't exist canonically as she's never mentioned in the movies) and would return to the spirit of the cartoons. The Star Wars universe is not a place for tweens, and the whole master/skimpy clothing/pedophilic relationship she has with Anakin and Obi-Wan is more than a little disturbing.

I don't think that was to show the Empire was bad, but that Luke (like his father) was always at risk of falling to the dark side. What was that quote by Obi-Wan in the OT? "Luke! Don't give in to hate. That leads to the Dark Side." Saying "I hate (you)" is a common way to show someone has turned to the dark side in the movies, which is said by Anakin in Ep III when he's fallen. An evil empire would contradict what's depicted in the PT. The movies spend all their time showing how weak and corrupt the Republic was, even the Jedi who lost their way to see into the future, could not stop the separatists and in the end were replaceable with clones. Meanwhile we are watching the charismatic Palpatine and his rise to power. This one man saw the failings of the Republic and decided it needed to be reformed. At the end we're cheering the destruction of the Jedi order and the dismantlement of the Senate (literally, while Yoda gets buttstomped by the Emperor for being such a bad grand master) and the creation of the empire, which according to Palpatine will "restore peace and justice to the galaxy ... in order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire, for a safe and secure society which I assure you will last for ten thousand years." I don't normally associate peace and a stable society with evil. Star Wars has always been a celebration of fascism. I guess the OT had to be sneaky about it because in the old film code days your movie would get censored if it didn't have the plucky, freedom-loving rebels win in the end. Even then, the end of New Hope (rebel victory parade scene) is clearly a homage to Triumph of the Will. My parents saw the true message of the movies and my father and my mother had Darth Vader and imperial officer costumes respectively. Now with the Clone Wars cartoon series, kids everywhere want to be storm troopers when they grow up.

Shia is even a Star Wars-y name. It's the will of the force!

How can Bradley Cooper be considered? I thought his acting career got cut short after he contracted bipolar disorder or something. Anyway, the right candiate for the role is Shia LeBeouf IMO. Shia is the spitting image of a young Harrison Ford and has plenty of experience with epic CGI-heavy trilogies (Transformers). The resemblance is uncanny: http://cdn2.modernman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Unknown.jpeg

Does this trainer also offer portable respecs?

Um no. They got Nolan North, aka Nathan Drake, aka the greatest voice actor ever, to play the jedi consular, who's got the best storyline in the game.

Because Star Wars duh

Wouldn't matter if there were vanity appearance slots....

I HATE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Could anyone have delivered it better?

Well it's not exactly extra is it? I mean if you play a regular MMO you go to a quest hub, pick up all the quests, do them and move on. Only SWTOR calls them "side quests." The class story is just like a persistent breadcrumb questline from regular MMOs, leading you to the next quest hub. It seems wrong to not pick up the side quests because they're often in the way of the class story quest, you can finish them off as you get to your class story quest location and they expand the story of the planet.