You are confusing FPS with lag. Lag comes from the extra distance the network requests must travel. So we went from a 40millisecond ping time up to 400-500ms ping time. That translates to seeing actions process slower as the action must go to the US and then back to your computer. Changing your graphics won't help that, nothing can apart from having the servers physically closer to you. If US customers had to put up with 500ms ping to the servers there would be big trouble.

Just got that as well. Quit playing a few weeks ago though, APAC server was dead and the US lag blows. Sub cancelled. Thanks for the memories SWToR. I did have a great time playing and loved the character stories and companions.

Awesome, just what I wanted to hear. Thanks to all the arses that pushed for a US server merge. You couldn't have just waited for server transfers and moved yourselves?

F'ing A. I was very happy with a low ping a guild of friends to play with. Now we have turmoil, no guild and a massive ping. Thanks for nothing.

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Very interested in this as well. It would be worthwhile to wait out the time if I don't have to recreate the entire guild. That would be a major pain...

This is what I am worried about, does the higher ping afffect the game at all? What about PVP, surely it is a disadvantage there.

Yes a few of us noticed this a while ago. Even though the FPS numbers are lower when using the ram disk gameplay was actually smoother. Maybe lower average FPS but higher lows if you know what I mean.

Three packs aren't going to do it for you...I bought over 60 packs spread over 4 different characters. I got one Aratech Nethian. Not a single Skiff, just one speeder... Not complaining as I sold the tat on the GTN for nearly 10million credits but one speeder in that many packs seems a bit rough?

I have found the opposite, on my server a lot of the stuff from the first couple of packs is hard to get as no one buys those packs any more. That made me decide to keep back a lot of the doubled up gear from these packs to sell later. It looks like the best time to buy the gear from the GTN is around 1-2 weeks after the pack is released.

The mounts seem fairly rare - I opened nearly 70 packs (across 2 accounts and 4 chars) trying for a Skiff. Ended up with one Aratech Nethian, that is a pretty low drop rate for mounts. From now on I'll just buy the mounts that go on Cartel Market.

Exactly. This game already has enough exclusive vendor content. Each planet has its own currency (commendations) and associated vendor. There is the social system currency and vendor along with the Legacy currency and vendor. The last thing we need is another form of currency and vendor like this Rep system. I would prefer scrapping and unifying many of the other currencies as it is.

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No worries, Exca. This is a great tool. I am using the batch files and presume they won't need any future maintenance.

My loading times were always great with the SSD (I have a 256GB OCZ Vertex 4). The RAM Drive helped with loading art assets that was causing hitching (little jerks in the motion). I actually saw a small FPS drop from using the RAM drive but a much smoother performance overall.