[My Goodbye Letter]

As some have pointed out, Blue Screens only come up with hardware problems or problems with the software that deals directly with the hardware (drivers, OS, or combination thereof). Applications that run on the OS do not cause Blue Screens.

[Wish you could change advanced classes, great idea!]

The concept of base classes and advanced classes is a very old concept, and I have NEVER seen a game where you can respec your advanced class. (My first MMO was DAoC that had the base class/advanced class concept . . . my main started as an Elementalist and became a Wizard, specced Fire)

[Why do I have to be such a big damn hero?]

There are games where you can be a weak, pathetic nobody the entirety of your character's life. TOR is not one of them and was never meant to be one of them. If you thought it would be one of them, then you didn't do any due diligence or research before buying it.

[Dropping Combat/In Combat heal.]

It's a distance thing. Until you're far enough off, you're still "in combat", and legitimately so. Deal with it.

 

I agree with this. My main is a Guardian who has Kira (melee dps) out almost exclusively.

[Question: Jedi Character Creation]

Since every PC of a particular class has the identical "starting point" in the official story, then it is best to create a backstory independent of said "starting point." In fact, you should pick and choose events in your game storyline (changing names to protect the innocent . . . I mean, to make the story your own) to include in your own character's story, and jettison the rest.

[[Suggestion] to stop the boredom of endgame dailies]

While I never got into AO (despite the efforts of my AO-playing brother), the random instance terminal mechanic was one thing I really liked.

[I Know What We Need: Factions]

While I am not in favor of adding rep grinds, I would like to point out that rep grinds are in no way, shape, or form a WoW invention.

[Your Character Names]

My Twi'lek names come from my Draenei names in WoW, which themselves come from celestial names from 3.5 D&D: Ghaeleah (Ghaele), Eladria (Eladrin), Tulania (Tulani), Bralania (Bralani), etc. (I haven't rolled all the names I had for my Draenei as of yet)

 

My main, Azshannya (as well as my main Imperial: Kahnya), comes from manipulating names from the random name generator in WoW. Azshannya (WoW bear druid, LotRO warden, TOR guardian, 3.5 Ed Psychic Warrior, 4th Ed Bear Warrior Barbarian) is always my towering, heavy-drinking, very strong and tough girl. Kahnya (WoW warlock/gnomish engineer, LotRO Loremaster, TOR Sorcerer) is my nerdy girl.

[Suggestion: Whine forum.]

Reminds me of a Monty Python bit:

 

"I would like to complain about people who hold themselves up by complaining about people complaining. Something should be done about it!" *gets squashed with a 16 Ton weight*

[Can we Turn off Experience Gains?]

I think having more content than needed to level up (thus completionists level up faster than the content they do) is a plus, not a minus. Also, devs rarely add options that allow you to completely shoot your own foot off (turning off XP can lead to being too low-level for any quest you can get)

[The reason why Imps are 4 vs 1]

sexy, sarcastic, and quick-witted redhead (Kira) > all.

[Playable droid- wait for it... classes!]

Pretty sure lubing up a droid violates one of Asimov's three laws --- and as we all know, you can't break the law.

 

(ie: No possibility for romance? Not a possibility as a PC).

 

Droids in Star Wars violate Asimov's laws every day, many times a day. One law is to neither harm a human nor let a human come to harm due to inaction.

 

As for the suggestion:

 

First off, T7 is an astromech, yet he is Aim-based. I think T7 should be the basis for an astromech PC.

 

Also, no Strength-based melee droid class?

[Please stop trying to copy WOW so hard and add some sandbox elements]

I, for one, love that it is not an "SWG Clone," since I didn't like SWG (felt like there was no game there...)

[Orange Schematics Suggestion]

Here are a few ideas for orange schematics:

 

1. RE-ing any piece of gear gives a chance for an orange version of the model.

 

2. If 1 would make it to cheap and common (RE-ing greens) to get orange schematics that way, limit to blue and/or purples

 

3. RE-ing an orange piece gives a chance at a schematic of that piece (would allow Critted versions of the vendor-bought or dropped orange gear models, thus augment slots)

[New quests type, you and 3 of your crew]

What about repeatable solo instances (some tied to class quest, others not . . . tied maybe to crew skills?), where multiple companions are used? Some could be similar to the resource instances from LotRO (ones tied to crew skills).

[Are androids and Iphones declared as "required" for playing this game?]

You know where society stands when convenience and luxury items are considered mandatory...

[Please more SW, less [insert_MMO_name_here]]

A few of those things are to encourage people to to go to hubs, like the fleets (I've played games where you could do pretty much everything without going to the hubs, so the hubs were completely empty . . . Camelot in DAoC was a ghost town)

 

The Force Choke thing . . . I am rather glad they kept the number of skills that only affect certain types of mobs to a minimum, as those skills just add to the number of skills without any real gameplay value.

 

It is also interesting that you complain about not having convenience stuff (like mail anywhere and the like) in some areas, then complain about convenience stuff (like porting out of caves) in other areas. I'd rather be able to port out of a cave than to have stuff delivered to my ship, personally.

 

Finally, other stuff you complained about are fluff stuff, nice fluff, but hardly non-Star-Warsy to not have them. (In fact, most of your complaints are not the "Star-Warsiness" of the game, despite the supposed topic of the post)

 

The whole "WoW in Space" stuff got old almost the second it was introduced. (As a former WoW player who left because the game was no longer fun for me, and one who is having a blast in TOR, I find the "WoW in space" thing to be /facepalm worthy)

[Are androids and Iphones declared as "required" for playing this game?]

I have an authenticator, and I have yet to buy anything from the security vendor. So, no, they are not required. It isn't like they sell important quest items (exclusively or otherwise) or min-max equipment or the like. All they sell is fluff and convenience/luxury items, which are most certainly NOT required.

[Balsavis: story line is sick]

born in to prison so that makes you a criminal? *** I say ***.

Who is the writer for this crap do you understand anything? genetics does not make you a criminal.

 

You can have a gene that is the violence gene or an alcoholic gene but it does not mean you will be violent or an alcoholic.

In fact some one who has the violence gene and has not been exposed/triggered to some sort of trauma as a child will withdraw from the use violence.

do some research before you write about preconceived ideas that come from eugenics.

 

this story line is sick and it sickens me

 

 

 

At the end of that part of the story line on Republic-side, you can side with those born on Belsavis and support them getting their own plot of land on the planet and be free.

 

[About Legacy races...]

Yes but there will be a HELL of a lot of them, many more than would be normal. And to those who think it is a barrier to have had to play a regular combo to Legacy level...

 

Seriously, virtually everyone is going to have one of these "rarities" the moment they release the patch.

 

So back on topic...is there any REAL rationale for this or will it make a complete mockery of the lore and even the game itself?

 

"many more than would be normal"? In a galaxy inhabited by trillions upon trillions of sentients, if every single account that played on a server had a "traitor" species, it would still be a tiny fraction of total population.

[Galactic Trade Networks]

Put it in one of the (currently) empty shop areas . . . make that area look a bit run-down and seedy. (or just put it by the Underworld Trading trainer, since Underworld Trading is DONE on the Black Market!)

[fewer courting gifts please]

I've given Courting gifts to both Kira and Doc, got points from both, and am pursuing a romantic arc with neither. (obviously, on my Knight)

[Face it, Augment Slots Won't Work. Augments Need to be Usable on All Gear.]

Back in DAoC, 100% Quality crafted gear was rare, but it allowed more Spellcrafting "points" to be spent on it (stronger stats/enchants). It didn't make, say, 97% Quality gear obsolete, because 100% Quality gear was so rare. In addition, Spellcrafters could "overcharge" the piece of gear (spend more points than allotted) with a relatively low chance of success and high chance of the piece exploding, destroying it and killing the Spellcrafter. Again, it did not make non-overcharged gear obsolete.

[Anyone else tired of patch notes being wrong?]

It's when they break something that wasn't broken and claim it as a fix that irritates me... and in the month+ since haven't even apparently made an attempt to refix it. Or even simply revert their original breakage..

 

That is probably a hold-over from build notes. I've been in situations where a fix for one bug introduced another bug, then when that new bug was fixed (which may not have been fully fixed), it is still put in the build notes (in part to inform Q&A and/or project managers), and the build notes are used to build the patch notes.

[too many bared midriffs]

I wonder. If I had to place money on it, I'd say that female players prefer the less revealing outfits...or at least prefer them in smaller proportion to male players. Just a guess, though.

 

and, for example, take Black Widow's outfit in the Marvel movies . . . covers her from neck on down completely. Far more sexy than many outfits that reveal more skin. (Same thing for, say, the Baroness, Dahlink)