Actually, they implied that they aren't going the "everyone is bi" route. At the guild summit they stated they knew which companions would be available and which ones wouldn't and that they are working on stories to make it plausible and done right.

... pretty every forum except the PvP forum is PvE oriented. Particularly the Flashpoints, Operations, and Heroic Missions forum which constitutes much of the end-game PvE content. A generic PvE forum wouldn't really be very useful, there would be too much stuff in it. That's why it's broken up into things like "FPs, Ops, and Heroics", "Classes", "Story", etc.

There's one for FPs, Ops, and Heroic Missions as well as the whole Classes section... was there something else you were looking for?

They will be adding neutral gear so I would just play how you want, honestly. Most gear isn't alignment restricted anyway so you won't be gimping yourself.

It's just a glitch when the NPC mouths don't move. You could bug report it but it happens fairly infrequently that I've seen. Not sure what you mean about your companion. Once you get a companion they stay with you the rest of the game though you can only have one present/at your side at a time. If your companion has disappeared and they have already officially joined your crew, hit the "N" key and you can resummon them. You could also click on the circle in the lower left corner of your screen where the companion portrait usually is and that will summon your most recent companion. No idea about pvp, I avoid it.

No, American military members call female officers "Ma'am". However, if you read the codex in game, this is a deliberate decision as higher ranking officers within both the Republic and Empire are called "Sir".

Gotcha.

It's really a playstyle thing. If you prefer ranged type DPS or Healing and like the mana-type mechanic, then go Consular. If you enjoy melee DPS or tanking and don't mind a rage-style mechanic, then go Knight. Personally, I love my Sentinel, it's a lot of fun and forces me to pay attention to what I'm doing due to the "build focus/use focus" resource style. But I know a lot of people who really enjoy their Sages/Shadows also. You could always try them both, it doesn't take much to level through Tython and that should give you a basic feel for how the resources work and whether you prefer the playstyle.

Yes, each planet is tuned for a specific level range. When you're on your galaxy map, if you mouse over the planet, the pop-up will tell you the intended level range for that planet.

Consular/Inquisitors are more of a "caster" type. They use the force to throw things and attack from a distance. Knights/Warriors are a melee class. They use the force to amplify their lightsaber attacks (though the resource is actually called focus in game). Technically all the classes are using the force as they are all Jedi/Sith; they just use it differently because they have different mentalities and focuses.

Umm... isn't Praven dead by then?

The devs have already said they're working on this. Plus, wrong forum.

I wouldn't. I like the Legacy name; it's kind of the whole point. This is your Legacy and names are the focal point of any legacy. Think of Julius Caesar, or Da Vinci, or William the Conqueror... sure, the meat of the legacy is their actions but the name is what people recognize and associate with it.

In a multi-player game things have to be balanced. If the classes are not balanced in terms of how well they tank or damage or heal then everyone will just play the class that's "best" instead of what they actually want to play. Small edges are one thing but overall, they have to balanced. In a single person game it's not as big of a deal (though, even there, the classes you can pick from tend to balance out overall in order to make every class appealing).

Fair enough, though they'd probably have to fairly extensively revamp things to do that. But still, as the system is now, there's a perfectly logical reason to keep it server locked and that's the name.

Because making it game wide now locks every other person that plays the game out of that Legacy name and that would be a very bad idea. Imagine if your character name prevented EVERYONE else that plays from using that name no matter what server... now imagine you're the person on a completely DIFFERENT server than that first person who wants to use that name. Nope, now you're screwed and have to come up with more and more elaborate names to use in order to get one that's not locked by someone.

The game would be ridiculous to balance if everyone could allocate their skill points as in KOTOR. That's why single player games allow that and recent MMOs do not. You want to be able to pick your points, play KOTOR or ME or something.

As has been stated many many times on these forums: Empire does not automatically equal "OMG EVIL!" and Republic does not automatically equal "Fluffy bunnies and we're all GOOD and WONDERFUL!" You can be a "light" Sith who just doesn't believe in killing helpless people or pointless slaughter but who still embraces all of the ideals of the Sith and the Empire. You can be a "dark" Jedi who does not believe in the Sith tenets at all but still believes in doing what is necessary to protect the Republic as a whole. Alignment and faction are totally separate things and as you play you'll see that being "light side" as a Sith doesn't prevent you from embracing the abilities and force-user mentality of a Sith; nor does being a "dark side" Jedi prevent you from embracing the abilities and mentality of a Jedi.

Yeah, this. My current WoW guild leader is a woman and my TOR guild is IRL friends so it doesn't happen as much in these games but anything else? Or if I mention to people at work or whatever "Yeah, I was playing X" this weekend... man, you get the weirdest looks and/or comments. I'm also still boggled when I see gaming clothes for women (N7 hoodie FTW!).

I'd be willing to send the invite but want to clarify that there's supposed to be a .br at the end of that email address

Cerulean pretty much covered it all but I'd like to point out that security keys are a) really cheap for the physical ones and b) free if you have a smartphone as you can just get the app.

Honestly, you'd be better off asking this in the PTS forum where the people that are actually testing 1.2 frequent.

Companion conversations are tied into both your affection level and your class story. You need to progress the class story and he'll eventually talk to you again. He'll likely have several conversations at once given how high his affection already is.

You only get scatterguns if you're a Scoundrel. Gunslingers have a second blaster.

It does reset but the pop-up will still tell you it has a cost based on the last respec cost. As long as you have that amount in your bank, when you click OK it will tell you "It's been a week since your last respec! Your cost is 0!" and won't actually charge you.