Why is it every time there is an update I have to repair my entire game? After failing to download the update today the launcher has once again told me to repair. 8 hours guys and still going!! Why? Why does this happen every damn time? What's the deal?

This is also a wish of mine, though I'm sure it will never happen. I've always been a solo player, unless I really REALLY get to know people in a guild (I'm guildless now tho). Yonks ago when I played my first MMO, Guild Wars (1), the Hero/Henchmen option was a life saver for me. I loved that I could still participate in all content, even on my own. In SWTOR I would love to play certain ops/heroics/fps but because I'm 99% on my own i know I never will unless they bring in a story/solo mode, or a multiple companion option. Don't get me wrong, I've played some ops/most fps in a group (pub or guild) but because I'm super casual player now sometimes going weeks or months between logging in, I've resigned myself to most of that particular content out of my reach. It sucks, but oh well. I'll still play and hope and cross my fingers, but if it never happens, so be it.

Yes and yes! Last night I played to my hearts content and this morning i can barely walk 10 steps before I get the red X. Unplayable! It's my day off too :/

I've had many, but this one sticks out to me right now. About a year and a half ago I was fortunate enough to join my (then) guild in my first Karagga's Palace op run. I was super excited! We were going swimmingly along, and I was learning a ton. When we came to the puzzle boss I learned how to do the panels and on our second try, we got him down. We were all having a great time. There were laughs and japes all round. Anyway, we head through the door and our leader says something like, 'don't go too far. Some enemies spawn, (murder droids or something) and if you're not ready for it we'll wipe.' So we all get together and the enemy spawns, and for whatever reason we wipe. We have a good laugh and respawn. Again, our leader says 'don't run ahead...' but one of our dpser's doesn't listen and he runs down the hall triggering the spawn while only half our team are revived, and the others aren't even healed to full yet. Needless to say, we wipe again. Now, there are still a few giggles, lots of sorry's from our dpser, and our leader in a much more serious tone reiterates not to run ahead. All through this, we're giving the dps guy a hard time (in jest mind you), and I say something like "Dude.... you got a growling...hahahaha". Just being a ******** really. Well... that comes back to bite me on the butt. We all rez for the 3rd time and for SOME reason I can not explain to this day, I thought the area where the mob spawns was further down the hallway, so I get up...still laughing at my guildy for getting us all killed... and run right into the no-no area. All I remember is my leader yelling..."DON'T!!" before we are for the forth time inundated by naughty baddies and get us all wiped for the forth time. I felt like such an idiot, and my punishment was paying half my leaders repair bill

This is me too. By nature, I'm a compassionate person and don't like seeing people in pain, yet I believe in love and all that other mushy stuff. So, I'd make a terrible Jedi and wouldn't last long as a Sith. Also, I'm not interested in religion, and that's how I see the Force and the Jedi way. If I wasn't force sensitive, I'd probably be just like I am now. But would like to think I'd end up like my smuggler. Surrounded by friends who I trust, just traversing the galaxy and seeing all I could see.

Holy resurrection Batman! I agree, and have seen it done many times. Tank/Heals make one mistake, and it's the apocalypse. I'm on JC too, and I'm always open and welcoming to anyone who wants to learn how to tank or heal. I give kudos to them, because I already know for darn sure I couldn't do it at all! I have no qualms at all about how long a fp takes or how many times we wipe. I took a group of newbies from my pub guild ages ago who had never done any flashpoints before (me as a dps and them in their respective roles) through Hammer station up to Taral, just so they try things out, see the stories etc. Each one took a little longer then usual, but we all had a grand old time. I guess I'm just an old codger when it comes to patience. I like doing flashpoints, but I never have people to do them with now (bar gf), that we can just chill out and actually have fun doing it, and not have the 'in-out' mentality. Aside from Colicoid and red reaper.... 2 years and for some reason I've never done these 2 fps???

Why would they hate my character?

This needs to happen. The day it does, I will reroll any imp toon as a male, just so I can romance him <3

Last night (for me, about 6-7pm) I hopped on my Merc to finish my weekly tacts (5/5) and weekly HMs (3/3) as well as the daily 50hm before weekly reset. That's 9 flashpoints. It's around 2am or so in the states at that time. When I logged on there were 35 people on the fleet. I play on JC btw. I managed to do all 9 of them, as well as my dailies on Makeb/CZ plus weekly and the staged weekly before midnight. That's 6 hours, give or take, in the queue, in the US downtime on a server that has few aussie players. I think that's pretty good for a dps. I don't know, I guess I realized when I chose to make a dps character, I was prepared for long wait times. I'm in a guild, but no one ever wants to do fps when I do, at least the 5-7 people who are on at my time. so I am dependent on the gf. I'm not complaining, I knew what I was getting into when I made my merc, so while I queue, I have to keep myself occupied with other tasks.

Just go for it dude. I've been in plenty of flashpoints with new tanks and they've done very well. As long as you're willing to listen to advice, everything should be smooth sailing. I love grouping with people in flashpoints, especially tanks and healers, who haven't done it before, because the more people that do it and have a good experience with it, means more tanks and healers for dpsers like me to party with. Needless to say you will come across that utter moron who will want to do nothing but bring you down, but then you'll come across people like me who will help you when they can (I've never tanked, but will try my best), giggle if we wipe, and have a healthy attitude all round for people learning the ropes.

Because of the times I play, I always seem to miss everyone and anyone on the fleet who can craft for me. So I'm posting here in hopes that someone can or knows someone else that can craft mods. Mainly, Advanced Agile Mod 34. I have mats, so would like to trade. Please get in contact with me.. I'm begging ya!

Ouch. I didn't realise having an ì made people hate me

In tacts, I don't expect anything from anyone. If you come in and you're a healer, I'm not going to expect heals from you and nothing else. If you're dpsing... good! If you throw out a heal every now and then, I thank you very much I don't expect tanks to tank if they don't want to. Let them dps, I don't care. All I ask is that between fights, when your health is getting low... for the love of god heal yourself! Gain your force back, lower your heat! All of the mobs in these tacts are easy to handle, if you no your cds and defensive abilities and use them. In a group of 4 dps'ers.. you have no choice but to. In flashpoints though, it's a whole other story. Respect the roles and play yours. As a dps, yes I might run ahead. But I never.. never... pull first. I'll sit/stand until the tank makes his move and has threat, before I attack. I haven't been slammed yet by tanks, so I must be doing something right.

Lol. This takes too much effort on my part. I just wanted to play my game man, haha! It's funny though because I sometimes see posts on gen chat much like I did last night, "Aussie Girl looking to join awesome guild..." and 2 things cross my mind. 1) Are you really a girl? I hope not beacuse.... 2) Get ready for an influx of messages you're not going to like. Or hey, maybe you do. I don't get why you need to announce your gender in this way, or any way to be honest. If it comes up, it comes up. Why draw attention to it? By doing so you open yourself up to the many wierdos that play this game. That was why I left Harbinger and went to JC. But I can't quit you Harby... Imma comin back.

Heh, I giggled because I finally started playing Kotor 1 and I actually recognize the name Ajunta Pall. Lol... I'm so naf

These all sound incredibly frustrating.... but fun! I'd have time for that!!

Eww! I've had this experience only once in this game, in the first couple of weeks I started playing 2 years ago. I was pubside on Taris grouped with a friend. We'd known eachother from our imp guild and vent, so he knew I was a chick. No problem there, we'd get into all kinds of mischief. Anyway, we were doing taris and were looking for someone to help with a H4. We found someone, and with a companion went to do it. Heroic was easy, we get it done, say our thanks to the guy we grouped with and he leaves. My friend also logs off because it's past midnight and he's tired. Now, through the heroic me and friend were chatting away about random things and because we're so comfotable talking to eachother, it's implied I'm a girl. After the other guy leaves, he starts whispering me. I thought, huh... maybe this guy is roleplaying, so I tell him that I don't rp. Then he just starts flooding my chatbox with whispers, telling me all sorts of things about himself and how he rarely meets girls online and he wants to friend me and quest with me. That's when the group invites start, and every time I decline it, he sends a new one. His whispers get really weird, ranging from things like commenting on my beauty (my toon??) and that he thinks he's in love with me. I am not kidding! When the sexy messages start, he goes straight on my ignore list. Does that stop him? Nope. I see gen chat erupt with all sorts of caps messages telling someone to shut up and I can only guess it's this weirdo. I unignore him and there he is asking why I ignored him. He goes back on my list and I log out. I don't touch my slinger for a few days in case I run across him. When I finally do go back pubside, I see he's gone from my ignore list and can only assume he deleted his character. This is the only time I've ever had this happen in the last 3 mmos I've dabbled with. Now that I'm unguilded with most of my alts I don't mention anything about my gender. Not because I'm afraid of anything like this happening again, but because it has no bearing on how I'm able to play. In game, RL gender is a non issue, it hardly ever crosses my mind. But you are right, there are definitely some grade A weirdos out there!!

Not so much a flashpoint story, but a heroic, so here we go. I'd finished the seeker droid missions ages ago, so I only had the final Heroic 4 to go (Alchemy of Evil). I'd scoured my guild and Ilum for weeks, but no one wanted to do it all, so I gave up trying to find a group, went pubside for a few days and dabbled with a slinger. Last night I went back to my merc for something I can't remember now, and low and behold one of my guildies was asking for more people to do this particular heroic. I had other things to do in RL, but knowing this could possibly be my only chance I jumped at the opportunity. My guildmate (we shall call Bob, merc) was teamed up with one other person (we shall call John, assassin) from another guild. Now, John had said he'd done the heroic before so he knew what was going on. Awesome for me, since I didn't know what the ins and outs were. I had dulfy's guide up in the background just in case though. Already Bob and John are arguing about something, clearly from before I joined the group. We zone in and run along and fight a couple of mobs until the first boss. John gives a brief explaination to the mechanics, and we down him without too much trouble. I'm thinking to myself... hell, this is super easy! We get to the final boss and something catches Bob's eye as well as mine. We have entered spectator mode while talking to Tagriss. Bob brings it up in chat, but John says it's normal. He also mentions that he'd never fought Tagriss before, so didn't know any of the mechanics. After an initial period of '*** do we do..?' we figured out about the crystals and the box, blah blah... and beat him down to finish the heroic. Again, im thinking hey... this is super easy. A few mobs, 2 bosses... nothing to it. WELL! That's when the verbal doodie hit the fan. Bob went into a tirade that his heroic didn't update. I gave mine a quick glance and noticed it hadn't updated either. John, on the other hand, had his updated. We all went back out to the entrance and another arguement broke out between Bob and John. Every time John would say something (eg:... Dude.. it's ok. We'll do it again.") he'd get a mouthful (fingerful?? eww.. that's not right) from Bob. They had this huge back and forth about instances and story owners and resetting phases. Bob and I reset and I enter first this time. I notice the story phase belongs to me, so we start. The first thing I notice is there is a huge mob standing in front of us that wasn't there before. We kill them and move on to another mob that wasn't there before. The cogs move into place for Bob who starts another tirade to John, bagging him for doing half of the heroic before and not telling us, which was the reason behind Bob and I not having it update first time through. We get to the room before the canisters, and Bob dies and refuses to rez until John admits he played us the first time. I throw into chat that I just want to continue and finish it and don't care about the run before. Bob then goes afk, leaving John and I to do the canisters and generator thingy. I'd never done it before, so it took me a bit to figure what John meant when he explained it to me, but we eventually die. One of the walls went red, mobs poured out and killed John. Then they all came for me and killed me. John had rezed by then, and somehow agroed the mob again, so he was trying to fight them off. I rez and head off to heal, but John brings all the adds to me and I end up in a brawl while John dies. Bob has returned and rezes finally, and all the beasties head off to him to beat him down, while John rezes and enters the fray. All the while, between our staggered rezing and dying, all the doors in the hallway have opened and all the mobs are swarming. It was insane, lol. John screams in chat.. 'JUST ALL DIE! WE'LL START AGAIN!" and this sets Bob off on another verbal spree. We all rez to med center, Bob still going off and John telling him to calm down, and I'm laughing my *** off. Then John realizes, his finished heroic mission (telling him to go to DK) has reset and he has to fight Tagriss again. So, we ALL reset our phases. This will be the forth time going through. We hammer through to the hallway again and I have the idea of the generators down, so John tells Bob to handle the one add that should spawn, just to keep him off us so we don't get oneshot and die. Well, this doesn't go down well with Bob and he rages that he can't because he's a healer. Too late, the instance starts and Bob doesn't no how to do the caniters, so I jump on them and send treek to occupy the add. We get it down and done without an iota of trouble. We carry on and get to the final guy, and after an unsteady start beat him down and finish the heroic. All the while I've been tracking my quest log to make sure it's updating, which it is. After it's done, and hour and a half later, John leaves without a word, and I'm left thinking.... ...this poor assasin, lol. Ok, he should have told us up front he was already halfway through the heroic before trying to find help. This way, we could have all had out quests reset and all be on the same page. Starting from the very beginning of the heroic instead of us (Bob and I) going through it for no reason the first time. Yes, he should have said something. But also, after the verbal barrage he got from Bob, he could have left and handed in his quest and finished. He didn't have to stay and help us get ours, especially after all of that. Come the last time through, he had no choice but to do it again, but still. If I had someone barking at me a whole run, I would have left. I sent him a whisper thanking him for taking me through it, even though a good chunk of it turned into a pile of doodie, but appriciated his patience and help. He replied in kind and that was that. I have an amazingly high tolerance for screw-up-ery. It would have to be something enormously bad for me to quit a group for anything. Yeah, we did this heroic halfway through 3 times, had a 3 stooges moment where we kept dying/rezing/dying/rezing hilariously and then a full run on the forth. A lot of people would have quit well before that, especially how the chat was declining into snipes and ALL THE CAPS!! So yeah.... jeez that was long lol

Oh, I actually really like this idea. On topic though, I'd give anything for the chance to replay my sith warrior and that particular part on the dreadnought over... and over... and over...

This ^ This is me 100 times over. When I started my sorc healer (I was unguilded at the time) I did so for the pure fact that I wanted to heal and q as one so I could get into the fps. But it only took one flashpoint and 3 people haranging me on my crappiness that made me lose all confidence. Now, for me personally, it is a fear to heal for people because I no how horrible they can be to people new to the role. Yes, not all, but they are out there. A while later after getting my sorc to 50 (before RoTHC) and somewhat geared, I'd found a great guild and they begged me to heal TFB as a last resort. I'm talking, 6 guys on vent all speaking over eachother, pleading endlessly. They all knew how I felt about healing, but this was my guild I loved these guys so I gave in. I'd dpsed TFB many times before, so I knew the op, but seeing it from a healers perspective changed me. We'd spent about 2 hours doing this op and throughout the whole thing I was tense, shaking, sweating. I could barely talk during fights because I was so insanely focused on the health bars. When/if we wiped, I would silently berate myself for not being good enough (just like those flashpointers had mentioned way back when) or not getting heals off in time, not seeing an attack coming and being able to make up for it. At the end I was left physically drained. My mouth was aching as I hadn't realised I'd been clenching my jaw throughout the entire raid. I'd smoked over a dozen cigarettes with shaky hands. My restless leg syndrome had gone into overdrive. My heart was in my throat for 2 hours, and I hated it. I'd put all that stress onto myself, despite my guildies saying it was ok. That was the last time I ever healed, even for the guild. They knew how I'd taken it, and after a laugh they promised not to put me in that position again. Why do that to yourself, over a game? Some can handle it, I no for sure I can't. I want to play and have fun, but the stress I put on myself or fear I cause to myself in that kind of role, just isn't worth it.

I believe this to be true too. I just did Maelstrom Prison for the first time about 10 minutes ago, and the others were great. I'm not asking for a magnum opus of an explanation, just a few words. Hide behind these when he does his laser or stay to the sides so you don't get sniped. But I'm sure there are a ton of people out there that don't dare mention their new-ness to a fp, for fear of being kicked or having the 2 main ones (tank and/or healer) leave. It's easy for them to requeue, but alas the poor dps, lol.

I've always wanted to add something to this thread, but have never had cause to. Until last night. After waiting hours for gf to pop, I finally got into cademimu. We had a sent (me) sage(dps) Scoundrel(heals) and vangard. Anyway, we start off and the tank is walking back and forth behind the group for a few good moments before laying down mortar volley and starting us off. I thought this was a weird opener for a tank, but I've never played a vangard before so I have no idea about the skills/rotations etc they should be using. We barely survived, but we did and moved on. As we went along I noticed the tank hanging back a lot and the sage began starting the fights, then the tank would come in and volley everything. This went on for a while, and the scoundrel put into chat for the sage to stop pulling, to which the response was...'I have no patience for dawdlers..' or some such thing. Fight after fight, the tank hung back, the sage pulled, cc's were broken and at one time we'd managed to agro 2 elites and a whole bunch of silvers/trash into a big 'ole mess. The tank died, the sage died and the poor scoundrel was beefing me with every heal he could get out so I wouldn't die, which I did in the end anyway. On my end, I was starting to get very frustrated. I checked the tanks gear, and he was fully kitted with dps stuff, but then I remembered you don't really get tanky gear at that level so let that slide. I checked his cylinder, but then I also remembered I didn't no which one he should have. It was orange anyway. By this time, the scoundrel had whispered me and started in with the hushed huranging of the other two. Now, this got me. I've been on that end before, not in whispers, but in the chat window with people busting my *** for not doing what I should be doing good enough for them. It made me feel like crap, and to this day I have never healed again. Finally I thought enough was enough, and finally asked the tank if he had ever done this particular flash point before. His answer? No, he's never tanked before, never done not just this, but any fp before. He only queued to see what they were all about. Oddly, I felt all my frustration leave me. The scoundrel and I spent the rest of the fp letting him know how the fp played out, strats for bosses etc. The tank on the other hand continually apologized for his newbiness, which made me feel even worse for getting mad in the first place. Although it could have been easily avoided if he'd just said in the beginning that he was new, it worked out ok in the end. I was new once, I've been berated for being useless (at healing anyway) which led me to never pick that spec again. All I ask is that if you're a healer or a tank and you're doing fps for the very first time, let it be known. It could save a whole lot of frustration for you... and for me too On the flip side, I did my very first Korriban Incursion after humming and haaing, and when I said I'd never done it before, one of our members said "...sigh...' and left. Those guys are definite 'see you next tuesdays'.

I usually undercut by 500 or so on smaller things, depending on the item. If somethings 50,000k, I'll go 45,000. If somethings 4500 I'll go 4000. I don't mean to do it maliciously, I just want it out of my inventory but want more then selling at a vendor. Credits aren't really a big thing for me. All of my toons have what they have, and have what they need. And besides, on days I'm feeling super nice and like to rile up the fleet, I'll sell Packs/Crystals/Dyes for 1 credit each. I've pretty much whizzed away over a million credits over my time on this game, but it gives me a thrill and gives the fleet peeps a thrill knowing they could potentionally get a black/black dye for 1 credit. It's all gravy to me.

Thank you for the offer, and I'd totally take you up on it. I do have two toons on TRE, but since moving house and having my internet run slower at the new place as opposed to the old, I've been forced to return to Harbinger and at least 2 bars worth of connection. I left Harbinger and moved to TRE and JC because the people there were getting way out hand with their insults and elitism. Oh well, what can ya do lol.

Reading through this whole thread makes me feel sad as a strictly dps player Don't get me wrong, I've heard many horror stories regarding brainless damage dealers that pull before the tank, think they're invincible etc... so I fully understand why anyone who rolls a tank (or a healer) can get frustrated and think 'screw it.. tank/heals is for friends/guilds only'. If I were you, I'd think the same thing too. I tried to be a healer once (sorc) and was so intimidated by the loud mouths screaming at me I was doing it all wrong (I was level 24 or something) that I changed my spec straight after and never healed again. A year on and I still haven't. Heaven forbid I should dare roll a tank. So that left me with dps rolls only, but luckily for me I love them. Ranged mostly. That meant using the GF was a long, drawn out nightmare some nights waiting and waiting for it to pop, sometimes getting nothing at all. Which brings me to my point. As a strictly dps player, I come into this thread and read all these posts and finally see why the queue times can be so long. The bad experiences you've all had with bad dpsers, puts good dpsers like me in the dung. I know my roll, I know the do and don'ts. I don't pull and am rarely too far from the healer in case some trash come-a-lurking for them. I am patient and you no what... I won't ever ask you to spacebar whether it be my 1st or 100th time doing a fp. You want a fast run? I'll have your back all the way. You need time and want to take things slowly and calculate your pulls? I'll often spend that time wondering to myself what exactly you're thinking and how you're going to go about doing it. In all my time playing this game I have yet to come across the dps player that runs one or two rooms ahead, but clearly they are out there. And it's them that are taking the tanks and healers I need out of the gf queue and into private runs, and I don't blame you. This is what makes me very sad.