in essense, yes. but a new customer also gets a free month so that means they get 0 coins the first month because it wasnt paid. i know this because i added the CE to my account after august, and got a free month with it, and i got 0 coins for the month that was considered free. so, in the end, if someone joins today and we got ftp before they pay their first paid month? they get 0 coins.

http://www.swtor.com/free because they have said this is how it would work from the get go. please read up. makes perfect sense when you take the time to realize they announced that it would work this way when they announced the F2P option

1- Don't die? lol. Seriously if you are dieing more than 5 times in a game session without using a med center you are doing something wrong. 2- Sprint at level 1 is worth whining about? Anyone who has been around since launch levelled characters with no sprint until 10+ anyways. 3-The flash points are allowed for 3 times per week before a pass is needed. This is for people running dailies to get black hole comms. If you only do this 3 times a week it doesnt affect you, if you do it every day? consider subscribing. 4- Emergency Fleet pass is a convenience. lol, another non game breaking change. get on a speeder and go to the shuttle. Most people do it this way anyways unless you have the ce/security key vendor editions and get the extra passes from the vendor 5- free to play is free to play. if you want to play the whole game why shouldnt EA be making money off of you? subscribe to the game, pay the money, get the access. Free to play does not entitle you to have all the benefits that people who pay a monthly sub get. if you want all the benefits? get a subscription lol 6- if you are a paying user? continue to pay and absolutely nothing changes for you. if you decide to stop paying a company for services rendered, expect the services to stop. at this point EA is still allowing you to play their game even though you don't want to pay them a dime. lol

hm tfb you should also have your set bonus's and when they say 'itemizations' they mean swapping mods for best in slot. if you aren't best in slot before going in you can still do it so long as you are working towards best in slot and have the capped stats you need to run it http://www.noxxic.com is your friend for finding out what is best in slot and how to max your stats

someone said try setting it to windowed full screen. you lose some of your top end graphics settings but my guess is if you are having lag/fps issues you've already turned them down anyways. good luck

Not just bullets buddy. My marauder with yellow crystals has huge yellow stripes that shoot into the sky when attacking. yay for graphics bugs. used to happen at launch, stopped when they fixed it, now it is back. many people reporting it across multiple cards

Weekly Quest for the Corellia Black Hole area was removed and not documented. multiple people confirmed myself included. heres the discussion http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=538895

yup, no way to get it after 1.4 if you had it in your log before 1.4 you could do it and turn it in, but none of my toons who didnt have it in their books after 1.4? could not get it. yay for removing yet another avenue for getting black hole coms.

Thanks. I still stand by the last fight is way too healer intensive for columi, would love to see a fraps vid of a group in full columi, un modded do it, but from the 2 runs I had at it? lol no.

Not anywhere I saw. And I've ran TFB SM, and theres no way a full un modded no augmented columi group is going to clear that. Would love to see that fraps video. The last boss is way too healer intesive to keep people up in just columi No, you arent, you are supposed to access it in Rakata and progress getting the BH/Campaign gear until you have enough gear to down Kephess. That is how progression works. Guilds weren't doing it in full Rakata. Please show me proof of the statement. Guilds don't even take new people into this without the members having at least half 146 gear already. You make a statement, I raid weekly and I know what our guild brings through. We have had EC HM on farm for a while. How do you get gear for the first hard mode then? Please explain. Previously it was get the gear from the story modes and progress into hard modes. Now that progression has been removed. Please explain with that progression gone how it is meant to be done? K thanks. True, BiS people would. You don't need BiS to complete the content. 55 coms a week is a piece of bh gear a week Plus if you are lucky/good enough to get the gear drops. 12 items at 35-60 coms each. With the progression removed will take much longer than 2 months. And NO ONE outside of the hardest of gamers are going to run EVERY daily and EVERY weekly. So, even if your figures are right, that is someone who does nothing but plays swtor every day for about 4-8 hours a day. Yeah, that is feasible. Story modes are gated, you've provided no proof that TFB is can be downed in un modded columi, and no one has posted it. It is at minimum a mix of Rakta, with a smattering of columi. I've been in 2 runs that had issues bringing down the final boss in almost full campaign. LoL columi. Once the mechanics were worked out it was done, but in full campaign it should have just been a face roll. So, if your last statement is spot on. What is the progression to be able to raid? I mean in hard modes? From every thing you said? Dailies. No thank you. I want to raid to progress. Not run dailies until I can get into hard modes. That isnt progression, it is a growth stunt to make you grind out dailies.

I can't speak for them, and I wouldnt have been so blunt, but I'll elaborate why I feel it is the wrong direction. More BH for doing a single act isnt the solution, we already get bh from hm ec from the bosses. Spreading out the amount of work to be done for BH is the solution which is why tier 2 ops story modes should drop a small amount of black hole comms to help progress to actually doing tier 2 hard modes. That way you have the ability to get more for doing more work, not get more for doing less work.

I find it funny that I do get what you are saying, but you are failing to realize you can't run EC or TFB story mode in columi which defeats the purpose of saying it is only for content and story. You have to have Rakata plus to do either of those. No longer makes your statements true when put under an honest light. EC SM should provide bh comms to provide you a way to run EC HM, or EV or KP HM should provide BH comms to run EC HM Right now, neither of that happens, so progression is broken. I find it funny that you made an entire post and didnt realize this. So now that we are all laughing can we get back on topic on how progression is currently broken and we would like someone from Bioware to explain what they believe the current progression is? Doing dailies for 3 months to get black hole gear to progress in raids is not progression.

joke?....

Enjoy the grind. are we confirmed that HM EC drops them from bosses still? i know they took them out of chests

It means: New Raid that requires BH for SM to complete but drops Rakata Reduced BH Comms: None for SM Operations anymore None for NiM EV/KP anymore New Gear: That looks identicle to existing gear Face Emotes: When 9 times out of 10 the players face is covered Reduced Difficulty for SM EC raid Fixed Mechanics for HM EC raid No more right clicking on peoples names in chat (bug needs fixing) Broken Galactic Trade network

I'll be honest, was totally excited for 1.4, it was what was keeping me from world of pokemon: panda edition. Now? not so much, this grind is making panda land look better, not worse.

originally i remember being told that the BH comms from Denova was so that every player could walk away with 'something' when you ran it. Because it dropped gear you already had to have to be there, and a couple pieces of bh at the end. essentially this nerf makes it so that only 2 people (possibly one if they win both rolls) have an opportunity for a bh piece, and most often? it is an implant. What is the point of running these raids other than seeing the content? can a dev please CLEARLY explain what they expect raid progression to look like? here is what it is in my head HM Flash Points for CM T-1 SM Ops - EV/KP - Columi Rakata Drop T-1.5- HM Ops - EV/KP - Rakata Drop (no real progression) T-1.75- NiM Ops - EV/KP - Rakata Drop (no progression at all without bh comms) T-1.75 - SM EC - Rakata Drops + 1 BH piece (no progression for 7/8 members of the raid) T-2 - SM TFB - Rakata Drops + 1/2 BH piece (it takes more than rakata to run this, so getting to this point is nigh impossible at being eligible for 1 or 2 pieces of bh per week out of 16 (2 raids) people T-2.25 EC HM - Campaign Drops - Getting here is nigh impossible if it takes you MONTHS to get your BH set. Sure you can do it with 5+ pieces of bh and perfectly augmented and modded rakata, but you shouldnt 'have' to be elite to progress, you should just have to clear the last run over and over. T-2.5 HM TFB - Dread/Hazmat = You need full campaign to run this. Modded and Augmented This looks like failed progression from my point of view. Where I said 'no real progression' is where BH comms should be to make up for the lack of actual gear progression. and NiM T-1 Ops? absolutely no reason to run it except the title now, and lets be honest, the title is a cake walk if you wait till you have campaign to do it.

There are less and less reasons to run old content, and for my new 50 characters more and more irritations on gearing up. I think it is poor judgement to retro nerf things that should have been setup this way in the first place. I understand that SM's can now be ran in columi, and get rakata. That makes them truly tier 1, and that is great. However SM Denova and SM TFB are not possible to run in columi, and only drop rakata except 2 BH pieces, one from each of the last bosses. So basically you have to be in Rakata Plus to run these, but there is no point to continually run them when you have 8 people with 12 needed bh items and only 2 items drop per run. Yes you can still do your dailies for comms, but the fact that you have nerfed the ability to get a full BH geared toon out to being MONTHS instead of weeks is detrimental to the community. No bh in Tier 1? EV/KP? ABSOLUTELY But once you get to SM EC you are now on par with the hard mode tier 1's, and already have full rakata. What is the point in running them? Established 50's this isnt going to affect too much, but alts and NEW PLAYERS will be alienated by this change. And you people need MORE new players, not less.

My bad, read that wrong. You are correct. But either way HM EC with a group of Rakata is doable. Not fun, but doable, and most guilds in right now will have a mix of rak/bh/camp/dread gear running it. SM EC only dropped comms and one piece of BH at the end, I am pretty sure the last bosses will still drop the bh at the end in SM from what people were saying yesterday. I agree, there should be more ways to get the BH comms with taking this avenue away from us, but all i am saying it is still doable. and the SM content is much easier across the board

not just EC TFB gives no BH comms in story mode. We didnt kill the last boss, but the one chest we found and all of the bosses before? no comms. however, mini bosses dropped like 18k PER PLAYER in creds, and each group of trash mobs dropped 2-5k per player so repair costs are covered. I think this is intentional for all story mode content. get rakata and start running the hard modes. Hard mode EC got nerfed to hell with this patch too so it will be much more accessible in pure Rakata gear now.

all commendations should be bound to legacy. I am never going to use my dromund kaas comms on my level 50 toon. Commendations USED to be tradeable items in beta, I don't know why they were removed and made into a bound to character currency. There was a sub market for people to make money, and it doesn't hurt game play for people to trade them. If they want to make it so that you can't trade with other players, I fully agree that they should AT LEAST be legacy with all of my own characters.

should have used all new names, then no one would feel as entitled for being a destination server

the fail is making legacy tied to sur name. if a name could contain spaces then a full name could be Yoshua Sithari that would flag it as unique and no one else could use it. that way everyone could name their characters what they wanted and just change their surnames on the fly if it is already in use, or more likely once you got your sur name make all of your toons and most likely you will get what you want. likely hood of someone using both first and last names identically is small

I'd guess characters. I had some names saved on shadowlands from day 1 that i planned on playing and didnt use, been subbed since pre launch, and those names had to be changed for other players to use them. no hard feelings, i feel that it should work that way.

why should you be exempt from name changes just because you are a destination server? All that means is they kept your server name and merged YOU with all of the other servers on to a server with that name. Most of us have already had to go through name changes, from what i understand this is VASTLY more fair than forcing me to chagne all of my characters names a second time. That being said, I did have to change a few of my characters names. I even had characters on the shadow lands I made at launch with names I wanted to use before i changed servers. And some/most of them had to have name changes as well because I didn't play them as long as other people moving on to the server with the same names. No hard feelings, I definately think that the way bioware did it this round is fair.