I'm finding it is very particular. I have not gotten a level 8 Rich slicing mission to provide a purple crit since 4.0. Same for Level 7 Biochem. But I am getting consistent crits on other missions - types and levels.

I exited completely, and came back in to find it all working.

I have a message that the planets my characters are on have not downloaded... and I cannot get in.

Aha. I was just tapping it again so quick didn't realize. thanks.

Known issue with AMD cards. There were multiple threads about it that have seemingly slipped away somehow. Best option so far it to alt-tab immediately after hitting 'play'. Not guaranteed to work though. There were some other work around options. I don't remember them all. One was to reduce screen resolution to 1200x before launching...

You have to hold the button down to get lock, but then it doesn't automatically fire. You have to release and tap the right mouse after getting lock. At least, that is what I found. It was... counter-intuitive and mildly annoying. I tried three games finished last twice and middle of the pack once. It wasn't entertaining enough to get into my regular play activities, but it wasn't awful.

Known bug with AMD chipset (apparently carried over from Test). There were many threads on it late yesterday, and one long one in particular that had work arounds that were having mixed success - generally about changing to launch as adminstrator and/or alt-tab right after clicking 'play' after logging in (this worked for me). I cannot find that thread now at all.

Repair did not work. I will check video drivers but I just updated 2 weeks ago. edit: yes, drivers are current re-edit: apparently a known bug with the AMD graphix. lovely.

Same. Trying to 'repair' files now.

1. Selosian 2. Nautolan 3. Togruta P.S. Togruta was a toss up with Weequay P.P.S a Quarren Sith would, in fact, rule... P.P.P.S. Darn it... Voss could be very nifty in the character editor...

I admit that my search of the thread was not exhaustive, but after many many pages I did not see this one that I got last night which had me laughing My knight reaches Tatooine, and I find myself approaching a Jawa sandcrawler sitting outside Anchorhead. Kira drops something along the lines of "Someone should tell the Jawas that no matter how large their sandcrawler, they are still always going to look short... Still, it is a sweet ride, though."

It amazes me that after all this time, and so many MMO and stand alone RPG games that this discussion continues to be brought up in forum after forum after forum after... My mind boggles.

Selonians would be fun

The "F2P" can also make things seem more dynamic and active from a players' perspective. Take what CoH was doing - with an active monthly pace they were releasing new costume sets, new power sets, etc. on top of their regular issue releases in a way that really felt like more 'new' entering the game and keeping it fresh then prior to F2P. It can by a very healthy model, if managed properly.

That and micro-transactions will change the pace of 'new' & 'fresh' appearances.