I wonder if it is done on purpose as nobody would willingly join the "bad guys". I think the way the Sith is portrayed in game is as a potential choice for good. A chance to live in an ordered, strong galaxy and as a character within that, you would not necessarily be party to some of the evil, twisted and sinister things going on "behind the scenes". Obviously on Korriban you are encouraged to kill, to torture and other "bad" things, but these seem to largely be as "tests" and to overcome weaknesses and restrictions in order to become a honed tool of the Sith empire. If so, I understand why it's done this way. It's similar to the Orcs/Undead/Blood Elves in wow, the "Bad guys" are heroes to their followers and supporters and base villains to their foes. Only a muppet would want to portray a character who's only motivation is to kill, torture and cause suffering for "fun", but if they did... well they CAN!

Wait till you get to the basement on CZ-198.. phooey!!!

I levelled from 40-44 last night in 2 hours gameplay by running Kuat drive yards on constant queue while doing my hoth class missions.

True, Mage in WoW was described as a "glass cannon" as their dps output was horrific at times, but they were incredibly "squishy". This is how I thought the Sorc would pan out when I fisrt specced lightning. However, it didn't work that way it seems, and although I do have a bubble , some quick heals and a few other cool "escapes" and defenses, they are certainly outweighed by the amount of battering I recieve at the hands of a Knight or Smuggler that gets too close!

Be aware though, that the stories themselves change depending on some choices (for example even Black Talon has different "paths" dependent on choices). This means that later down the line you can create the exact same class/race etc and have a different gameplay experience. How freakin cool is that????:

Some of the heroic missions in this game are absolutely fantastic (Friends of old and Sith spawn to name but 2 just on DK!) but once past that planet, don't get revisited at all which seems a bit of a waste. Especially as a lot of players powerlevelling will be overgeared through FP's and PVP so will skirt right around them. How about we have a weekly which is to complete X amount of weeklies on random planets which rewards something relevant (20 plan comms for 20-49, 10 basic comms for 50-55, 10 elite for 55 for example). This can scale simply with the amount you need to do as obviously the amount of worlds (and therefore heroics) available increases as you go and the travel costs increase. This weekly would ONLY work if there was NO auto-queue option, and the idea is to encourage players to go back and revisit some of these fabulous worlds again and make it worthwhile. Bear in mind all the original HC rewards will still be given as well as the weekly reward, so any player who completes a weekly which requires 4 heroics to be completed on 2 worlds will also recieve 12 planetary comms . Just an idea for something optional that may be fun that would take a tiny amount of developer input to implement.

I play on a netbook. It sticks on the loading screen for an age, and I often have to shop around for instances in high volume traffic. Also, try PVPing at 55 with a mousepad and directional buttons! I can't WAIT to get a good comp to play on, but I sure as hell ain't going anywhere!!!

Cool. couldn't figure it last night (but admittedly was very tired lol). Thanks

I played Wow for several years and enjoyed it until it became all pandas and repetition. One thing I did NOT enjoy in that game though was the horrible, spiteful, mememe, namecalling nasty fightzone called chat. I would like to tip my hat here to one aspect of the game I find IMMENSELY enjoyable and it's nothing to do withthe developers: FLEET CHAT. Last night the following ensued: XXX: Do not go in FP or OP with XXXXX he is NINJA xxxx: He haz skillz? XXX No he is theef. He is NIJA xxxx: He must be a good one, he stole a letter from your word XXX: What? he niJA XXX : There goes another. He can steal words from letters! OH NOES! xxxx: Do not group with him. User: EWOKS RUN WILD!!!! XXXX: NINJA ESCAPE PLAN!! xxxxx: WTB uber letter thief skills!! etc etc It had me in stitches and it's just one example of the banter I see regularly. Great stuff. Don't stop!

I am enjoying Kuat DY as it's nice and fresh, and quick and especially useful for levelling a couple of alts who were floundering. However, I am trying to max my Czerka rep on my main and am struggling to do the weekly now cos when I queue for a "tactical FP" on Kuat pops. Is there a way to deselect or something? Thanks in advance . Sorry for moaning (i'm normally such a chirpy person!)

I think this is a great idea. Also I want a gonk droid that doesn't actually DO anything.

My main character is a Merc and she had the achievement title "the Pure" for being totally lightside. It fits pretty well with my idea of Bounty Hunters as in ****** but not bad. It will almost do the opposite of harm you with regard to affection with your first companion mako, as she hates pain and killing for the sake of it, unfairness and general evil. As long as everything you do you do for money or for a "fair" reason (ie don't kill if there is no need), she responds very well affection-wise. In the same vein, I struggled playing my Sniper as a light side character , cos Kalyo is mean as hell and LIKES hurting people haha!!

I enjoyed the "war" aspect of it, reminding us who are enemies are as previous posters have touched upon. To me it felt like a heroic as opposed to a FP, but the random objective thing is a great idea, and I think that once all combinations of objectives have been done that a secret new area should be unlocked with a new boss ( a jedi rapid response team rush to defend the yards or an elite sith trooper squad perhaps). I am just pleased that they are TRYING.. we're getting new content, but it isn't simply re-hash of what we already have, like it or hate it, they are trying to come up with changes in gameplay that can only be a positive thing.

Once you find outlaw's den, you need to look on your minimap for a vendor icon. I have only done it as Imp toon, so for me it's a jawa dude in the North West of the den. get it from him.

I tend to run black talon and low level FP's and heroics to gather mats as well as doing low level UT missions constantly then I craft EVERYTHING in order to RE for blue and purple versions. I do this and sell them for reasonable prices on GTN (early droid parts sell well for lvl 20's) and I also can then craft entire mod sets for my alts. I think you'll be surprised at how well lots of level mods/armours sell as orange gear is readily available to everyone (not to mention BoL starship sets) so it's a tall order to keep up to speed with planetary comms stuff. Perhaps I am a completist, but the only things I find that DON'T sell are speeders and green droid parts and green starship items.

Just reading "Decieved" now and Aryn rocks!! proper Rogue Jedi!!

How the hell did I manage to miss most of this place out??? Just went back there on my main to do the seeker droid thing (dreadseed) and noticed there were quests still to do..... well there are LOADS, the place is fantastic, the Voss are great (like a cross between vulcans and ancient greek artisans!) and the Heroics give rep items every day! I must have been gagging to level and jump straight to Corellia or makeb or whatever so just did class missions, but I am totally enjoying wandering round here, it's great!

I'm rubbish at mario bros too..........

Yeah, I can occasionally make the jumps, but there is one particular area where I need to jump up on a thing, then across a wide ledge and I always overshoot the first thing. I am playing on a laptop using directional buttons and space bar. Mebbe that's why it doesn't work. I'll try again tonight when my anger and frustration has abated lol.

I don't know if it's a side-quest, flashpoint, daily or whatever it is, but I noticed a new area on my map which gave me a quest yesterday and I had to chase some sith lord or other around a monkey bar area. Well I am wondering if it is just me, but in this game JUMPING doesn't work. This particular mission require LOTS of jumping and I tried it for 45 minutes and just gave up. Am I doing something wrong or is it just me, because if I need to jump forward and up, I just step off the side of the ledge and have to begin again from scratch. It's a very irritating part of the game , as i want to see what comes next but may need to go and buy a bloody joystick or something just to get round the damned place!! And I thought some of the datacrons on pipes were bad!!!!!

I also would absolutely love to have more class stories but I am a realist and I realise that without Bioware making a full game priced expansion then it simply isn't doable. I am hopeful however that the faction stories and the stories in general are still put to the fore, as I would hate for this wonderful lore-rich game to become nothing but a queue and grind -fest as that's the reason I left the last MMO I played and I am right at home here!!!

PLEASE can we NOT have addons... they screwed up my last laptop as I needed LOADS of different addons to play WoW.... and they took up all my power so the actual game didn't run properly. Also DPS meters in my opinion tend to remove the POINT of raid and instance fights (everyone having a role and a strategy and teamplay) and turn it into an individual "Hi-Score" fest which hardly ever gets the job done. The one thing I would really like would be to have an online database of characters where you can choose to submit yours and it shows gear, achievements, a picture and legacy stuff. Enabling macros would be handy too, there are some nifty stuff you can do with them.

I have only one character at 55 raid ready at the moment, so cannot comment on this really. However, I can kind of sympathise with the OP from my experience with another well - known MMO I played until switching to here. I had a death knight, Warlock, Hunter and priest and ALL of them were top geared and modded and on the trainng dummies they performed almost EXACTLY the same DPS output without taking crits/unusual proccs etc into account. Then when I actually RAIDED for real, the Warlock outperformed them all by a LONG shot. I simply never understood it and eventually put it down to having played the Lock longest and being more "comfortable" with it. .....

To the OP, while I admire and understand your moral stance and appreciate the notion of escapism from the sleazy corruption of real-life, the examples you present are flawed. To me, the things you complain about only differ from things that are actually included in the films and associated media are in that Oola the slave dancer in Jabba's Palace doesn't wield a saber/blaster. In actual fact, a woman in a tiny scrap of a bikini with a wonderful sexy figure packs a blaster and fights uglies in the first half of Return of the Jediif I recall rightly. Leia I think she's called....

https://www.origin.com/en-gb/store/sku/232460100-ANW.html Big orange letters stating "PRODUCT UNAVAILABLE" says not? EDIT: You can not get it outside USA.