Jedi Knight gets it healer pet late, so I'm pretty sure a good leveling spec is the wrong way to go, you want to start out in defense, until the healer opens up more options. You go with the Defense tree, but get DPS armor. It's entirely possible to level with the DPS specs, you just have to skip some of the fun and be ready to run away.

Your kidding right? The spaceship is our housing, end of story, no one has been confused about this from before the game was released.

Part of a MMO is the mutiplayer part, if everyone else might *** well be advanced script NPC's, due to how little you relate to them, then your kinda missing out. Pick a server, join the community.

I think this thread got a bit messed up. Playing Trooper, is not just playing Trooper, one AC is a turret/healer and the other is a Tank/DPS setup, not to mention picking the right skills can change an AC from annoying to very fun. Jedi Guardian Defense spec, can really mess up the other sides day, same with Trooper Vanguard Hybrid Tank. Several specs require DoT management or you sit around waiting for procs to use your cool stuff. Those really annoy me.

I've been grouped and heard other players companions, but it's not something I pay attention to, so I can't be sure if it's still working right this second. It shows in chat, so there is no way to miss that they said the line. The ones I've heard is the chatter they say when they trigger location stuff.

The usual gamers fallicy... "Again, the fallacy is the belief that the "universe" somehow carries a memory of past results which tend to favor or disfavor future outcomes." It's a 20% chance each time you re an item, it's not a 20% chance of all your re attempts.

You can friend same faction alts, so those at least will auto complete. And yeah it's a freaking big deal to type in names and double and triple check you aren't sending 10 million credits to the wrong name. I've been typing some of these names for 20 years, it still doesn't mean I can't mistype.

Living is more than simply keeping your body alive one more day. If a person budget is effected by 15$ that person Quality of Life is statistically going to be lower than more well to do people. We might be talking the difference between watching paint dry or playing a game just to get a bit of enjoyment in ones day. That I personally think it's sad that "entertainment" has become the crutch that make many peoples lives bareable, doesn't change the fact it's how our society work at the moment.

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Just *sigh*, I have some 300 levels on chars, not a single one is 50, many 40+. I feel like an idiot for enjoying the good parts of the game and avoiding the 50 burnout by waiting until the game gets older and the 50's game get more fleshed out.

Just like you have a need to eat, you have a need to be social. It used to be that people on the Internet and that was then attracted to these games had less of a social life and they where simply more hungry of interacting with others. But WoW changed the average gamer, now Mr or Miss Arvage has a spouse, kids, dogs, family, friends and their social is overfilled, they actually want PEACE away from socializing, but WoW brilliant way of putting things together made it Entertainment like watching TV attracting this horde of "zombie entertainment eaters". This has ruined grouping and there is nothing to do about it, if you FORCE these zombies to group they will be hostile to others and annoyed, just ruining grouping even more because it it's about that annoying guy that chewed you out for holding your phone wrong. Bioware might actually have made grouping better, because these people get their peace, so they just might have a little more energy for grouping.

That has nothing to do with something being beta. BETA is about bugs, not features.

Ops didn't work, doesn't need to be bug free, but game breaking stuff is not okay. But I'm not sure waiting would have helped in the case of ops, according to what Bioware said at the Guild Summit, they had made the mistake of not paying enough attention to ops and was doing team changes to fix it. Illum... that was simply naivety not bug issues, they thought people wouldn't exploit it to hell and back, they where proved wrong. Leveling worked fine, smashing peoples head in PvP was working, so except for Ops I can't really see anything wrong with 1.0 of SWTOR.

And your argument is my top stupid counter argument. You simply don't get what we are dealing with here. Building a house in 1980 and is has kitchen, bathroom, roof, doors and windows. Build the same house in 2000 and it has kitchen, bathroom, roof, doors and windows. The 2000 house use advanced technology, so the windows and roof doesn't leak as much heat or the doors is harder to break open. Now the 1980 house has gotten expansions over the years, so now it has a garage a garden full of grown plants, etc. The 2000 can't in the same amount of time add a garage and it MOST definitely can't GROW a garden, like the old house had. Same with SWTOR, some of it's tech is better than what WoW has, some is the same, because we haven't INVENTED better ways to build houses since we invented conrete (that made it way faster) and the same for programming both in the MMO world and any other large scale enterprise dev project their is LIMITS to how fast our current level of technology can build stuff. A new Police case system, takes 5-10 years to develope and thats been the same for the past 20+ years, no one has been able to invent a way to develope things faster, they have taken how to open a door and polished it a bit or changed to smaller windows to let out less heat and stuff like that, but it still takes them X hours to install that window no matter it's size. Talking about 200-300m as going directly to development is so incredible stupid thinking, YOU CAN*T SIMPLY THROW MORE MONEY AT SOMETHING AND DEVELOPE FASTER. Most of that money went into Voice Over actors bank account, not developers. It's NOT POSSIBLE for two developers to sit and write half the lines of the same piece of code. PERIOD

You don't really think that level 1 to 50 happens in the same second? The general guess is that their is 2 years between you login at level 1 and until you reach the end of your story.