Basically, every character I have who starts on Ord Mantell runs into this issue lately. I reported it once using the in-game support, and they advanced my class mission instead of fixing this issue. I'm linking a screenshot (since it won't let me put the image here) that I took just a few minutes ago. This has been going on for more than two months now.

I'm having a similar issue where the game refused to start despite the launcher saying it was ready to play. In my case, I completely uninstalled, deleted folders, and reinstalled the game launcher. A bit drastic, but a fresh start seemed best after wrestling with it. As precautions I disabled my antivirus and updated all relevant drivers, before running the launcher as an administrator. (Running a Windows 7 Pro box, AMD Athlon II X2 220 dual-core processor, 4GB RAM, and on-board ATI Radeon 3000 graphics. It's a wireless connection, but up until last week I was gaming over the wireless, and had installed wirelessly several months before.) Now the launcher freezes the install at 0%. I've run the Launcher Repair Utility at least twice during all this. I'm presently unable to hook up the computer to the router directly, but at this point I'm not sure that'd fix it. Ideas? Anyone?

ba-bump-bump Okay, I can't be the only one asking for Jedi/Sith companions to return to being able to wield swords and staves, can I?

Thanks, that's what I was trying to say. Decrease the interval; make it 30 seconds then respawn.

Please increase the respawn rate/decrease the respawn interval inside this area to 30 seconds or so. Why? When there's five to ten people fighting for five Irradiated Rakghouls and they take up to 5 minutes each to respawn, it can take a person up to a half hour to rak up the five kills needed (pun intentional). This is worse when people ignore "/say Hey, want to group up to take care of this?" or group requests. Everyone on Taris complains about the respawn being too slow, but I've not seen anything here.

I would love her armor, but more importantly I would love to have hair-and-hood options like hers as a hair slot option at chargen and/or the character customization terminal. End of line.....

And now it's working. Didn't get any deja vu, so I don't think there was a change in the Matrix....

Got dropped from the server (Ebon Hawk here), shown an empty server list, closed client, and the launcher is literally spinning its wheel when I try and log in. And it takes at least a minute to redirect to a post here on the forums after posting it.

You're not alone on this. It's not limited to Ebon Hawk, I don't think, though that's where I was at the time. It's as if the router(s) handling the server machines just died.

Forex and Pierce are present right there by the Heroic/PvP/Operations terminals outside once you get them; yet only you and those who have him can see them.

I love his after-action reports... so off the wall and cheerfully insane! "Performed a perfectly-timed leap, falling three hundred meters into a passing garbage scow." And they get better from there! But for FE adventuring companion... I haven't used him yet since getting him. I keep expecting to see him wandering the base arguing with some Imp or other. I think I use him mainly by sending him out on crew skills.

The 204s, I believe. I also had to be told about the BtL deals to transfer WZ comms, so that had something to do with it, too, I think; I was grumbling in /guild about having to grind to get comms before someone mentioned those, then it clicked to just add Expertise to legacy armor.

Trust me, even those of us who have over 2000 Expertise often feel like we're getting farmed. I actually had one person tell me over the weekend, "you're dying fast because you're not geared" when I had 2018 Expertise! I was dying fast because I was getting pummeled 4v1 repeatedly, not because of gear (or lack of). Anyone will die fast if their hand-eye reflexes have degraded over the last 20-30 years and getting pummeled 4v1 to boot.

As a PvEer who only does PvP for Pierce, Forex, and occasionally to help out my guild in Conquest (hey, we're #5 in the conquest rankings this past week; do we get the conquest rewards, or only that one guild no one can touch because all their players do is PvP?) , I don't mind doing PvP once I'm at least halfway geared. Of course, it took me three whole Pierce and Forex runs to *get* the WZ Comms for a decent set of PvP gear - which I promptly stripped the mods out of and slapped them into a legacy armor to send between characters. So much for having the proper set bonuses, though. That said, I agree that some companions in KotFE should be given both PvP and PvE options to get. More options means fewer "I'm only doing this for the companion, so eff y'all, I'm just gonna dance in this corner of the map" and "get out of here and don't PvP ever again, you undergeared noob!" (yes, I was told that on my one character while grinding for the comms on my first L65 PvP match) in warzones, while those that like PvP can enjoy it and get rewarded with a good companion.

Thanks. I'll be sure and have my armstech craft some overkill augments, then. Still going over my PvE stats... what numbers should I shoot for there?

Related question. I just bought a full set of PvP tanking gear for my Shadow, the rating 204/208 stuff. Stats are currently sitting as follows: Mastery: 4782 Endurance: 4902 Defense: 1404 Absorb: 650 Shield: 650 Expertise: 2018 I have a bunch of rating 208 Redoubt, Shield, and Absorb augments ready to go in. My main question is: what combination of augments should I put in or defensive stats to work for?

I didn't see anything about this in the 4.0 patch notes. My saberstaff wielding companions are no longer able to equip electrostaves. I had bought a Cathar Warstaff for Kira to use back in the early 2.0 days to complement my Cathar Guardian's Cathar Honor Sword. Now, after two years of seeing her walking around with the warstaff, she is no longer able to equip it. I double-checked with Jaesa, Nadia, and Xalek, and they, too, are unable to equip any electrostaff. Likewise, Ashara is unable to equip a vibrosword. Some of my Jedi/Sith characters are not Jedi or Sith in the RP I engage in with my guild. Having the companions, who they've gotten accustomed to seeing in the RP events, walk around with lightsabers rather than blades is not only off-putting, but suddenly folks are ICly reacting to the companions carrying different weapons. "I didn't know your deputy was a Jedi/first mate [on the pirate ship] was a Sith." Breaks our suspension of disbelief. This wasn't in the notes, so I'm going to assume it's a bug, not a feature. Please fix this ASAP and give them back their non-lightsaber weapons. Thanks.

I want the companion... I just don't like being steamrolled 20 matches in a row for it.

As one of those PvEers who is getting steamrolled, I heartily agree with this. It's no fun for the PvEers to be trounced repeatedly, sometimes 20 times in a row, just to get a companion.

The topic says it all. What moron at Bioware decided to force folks who have no interest in PvP at all to engage in PvP in order to acquire a companion in Fallen Empire? It is not fun walking into a match when you have 0 Valor, 0 Expertise except for the Bolster at level 65, and hardcore PvPers deciding to gang up on you 5v1 every match. It's no fun at all for us. Why are you forcing us to do stuff we don't want to do in order for us to get a fun companion? Please make it so that we have an option to get Pierce or Forex without PvP!

I'm also getting this. Also, when I killed the process and tried again, it doesn't even give me the launcher to look at.

I've got a similar issue. It started a launcher update this evening, though I had no issues this morning. It sat updating for an hour before I went into the task manager to kill it. I did the remove bitraider/delete launcher.exe bit and ran the launcher repair app. Now, it shows in the processes in task manager, but doesn't get to where I can see the login screen. I am not looking forward to having to reinstall the entire SWTOR program, nor am I sure it'll fix the launcher issue. Any other thoughts?

Good to know about the Magentas. Any word on the Oranges?

As the topic says, are the orange and magenta crystal schematics still available? Last I saw on dulfy, the Orange PvE schems were available from the Belsavis world boss, and the Magenta ones from trash mobs on Black Hole. HOWEVER, in the last year and a half, I have not seen any of these schematics either dropped from their alleged targets or on the GTN. Are they available and I'm incredibly unlucky, or have they been removed? (Mostly, I need the Magenta Hawkeye, Orange Eviscerating, and Orange Indestructible schems for a full set.)

Oh man, I hope this is the issue that gets fixed. Occasionally it'll go about 2-3 minutes before it lets me log back in after a disconn that drops me back to the server list (I have connection issues somewhere between me and my ISP), but most of the time it's "close game and restart". Makes it impossible to finish flashpoints, as half the time folks get impatient and kick me from the group while I'm disconned.