Something I've heard others do (I haven't tested myself) is creating a second free to play account for inviting alts. I think you also need a second computer because I think SWTOR doesn't allow more than one instance at the same time. Anyways, after getting everything is setup, you login to both accounts and use the free to play account to invite your new alt to the guild.

They could split it into two parts. Release 7.4.2 with the Spring event in May and release 7.5 with the new story content in July.

I don't think theres any technical problems with it. Players can already play on any server with any language in their client. I'm thinking the bigger issue is that they sold German and French players a game with a community in their own language. If they take that away, it could open them up for a lawsuit or settlement, where they end up having offer refunds for all the money those players spent on the game over the years.

They usually don't announce livestreams that far away. The last one they announced on a Friday and the livestream was the following Wednesday. There is still a week and a half in April for them to do a livestream. Usually, they do them on Wednesdays, so maybe April 24 with an announcement for it this Friday, April 19? Also, spring lasts until June 21, so there's plenty of time to get the patch out even if the livestream is in May. I also don't think the livestream would delay the patch. It just has to be done sometime before the patch. They could do it one week before the patch comes out. It doesn't have to be a month ahead.

There's no need to get rid of any servers. They each have strengths and weaknesses. There is a place for all of them. The high population servers like Star Forge and Darth Malgus are good for fast queues, but also have the downside that you have to fight with other players to complete objectives out in the world. For example, this week's Liabilities of Corellia objective requires more waiting around for respawns on Star Forge. Low population servers like The Leviathan and Shae Vizla are good for players who just want to go through their own story and almost never have to wait for respawns. Medium population servers like Satele Shan and Tulak Hord are a mix of both. They are usually pretty populated during primetime but more low population during morning, early afternoon, and late night. Latency is only really an issue for PvP and even then, teamwork usually makes a bigger difference. For PvE, characters are overgeared enough these days that all PvE can be done with high latency. All endgame PvE content was designed for 326-330 item rating while everyone is running 340+ these days. There are no tough DPS/heal/tank checks with 340 gear except maybe R4-Anomaly, but that operation can just be ignored.

If Bioware/Broadsword haven't addressed it in 12 years, why would it be any different now? It's kind of sad, but Codex bugs have been mostly ignored since the beginning.

I think this pet was one of the signature rewards for Season 5, so I don't think it will ever appear on the vendor. However, I wouldn't be surprised if they add a reskinned version to the cartel market someday.

Packs can also be sold on GTN unopened. Sometimes you can make more credits selling the pack rather than opening and hoping for a high selling item. Also, if they are going to spend cartel coins, there's other things players may buy from GTN like Server Character Slot or Master's Datacron. I say "may buy" because you never know what demand is until you try to sell it. I think there are more cartel market unlocks that are usually in demand. I just can't think of them at the moment.

Just some troubleshooting ideas: Is there space in your inventory for the crate? Are your Conquest Commendations maxed in the currency tab? Is your reputation maxed out for the week or completely? Is this one of the new daily areas that can be completed by alts that haven't finish the story? And has that character finished the story for this daily area? Is the bug happening on every character or only some of them? Along with this, what faction, origin story, and combat style are the characters with the bug? Answering these questions won't fix the problem but maybe they can help Broadsword narrow down the cause. Hope you find a solution.

I think an app would just make it easier for botters. They don't have the staff to prevent that if they created an app. I'd rather they add something like the WoW armory to the site, but make it opt-in so players can choose if they want their characters public. None of this matters though. They will never have the budget or the staff to do any of these things.

Heroics (and their bonuses) are the best if you aren't using the GTN. If you have access to the GTN, finishing conquest on every alt will yield a lot more credits. This is because you can sell the item level 300 augment mats (bought with tech fragments) for millions on GTN. I don't know the current prices, but I'm thinking 20-30 million credits each (except Shae Vizla because of its new economy). You can easily get enough tech fragments (4,000) to do that each week, and that's more credits than most players can make per week doing heroics. If your alts are in a guild, you can also sell the flagship plans. They only sell for 1 million or so, but it still adds up over time.

You can't do this in-game, but you could do it with a third-party program. I think it is allowed if it is one key to one mouse button, without any automation, but I wouldn't want to test that.

Anytime you get a gold it's better than average for those crates, but most of the golds are not that great. I haven't seen that mount myself, but I don't like big mounts, so I probably wouldn't like it. I've only gotten two notable items since season 3 when they added Ultimate Cartel Crates instead of cartel coins (I still prefer the old cartel coin rewards): Season 4: Shae Vizla's Armor Set - Gold Season 5: Darth Malgus' Lightsaber (Damaged) - Platinum Nothing good for me so far in season 6, but I still have some more free packs before the end.

That would be par for the course with GS stories. They are always short without much of an ending. All of them are the same, even the companion ones (Season 2-4). No time for anything really interesting to happen.

Yeah, that's definitely annoying. I've gotten into the habit of only claiming things on my main, but we shouldn't have to worry about this.