Agreed, I can't remember the exact number but Blizzard said their dungeon finder increased the number of instances people run by something like ten fold. So a guy who used to do two instances a week started to do several times as many. It's not hard to figure out that with increased activity you mix more people and if you meet more people you are going to meet more idiots. I think that's a perfectly acceptable risk, I chose to still talk to strangers in a grocery store line up and I still love to PUG in an MMO, even if I never see those people again. And that's coming from someone who's met Paul Bernardo, so I know about meeting sick people.

I believe that dogs rule, everyone should get a puppy. A house without a dog is not a home.

It's not useless provided you understand that it is a chart of words, not numbers. It doesn't count it just tracks, light, standard, heavy, etc.

Doesn't anybody understand how server populations work? Bioware not only increased server population caps hundreds of times (and never reduced the standard for 'standard' to make them look less empty) but Bioware also used colossal pressure and heat to fuse many gamers into a single gamer. So when you actually count the players on your server, what you're counting is totally wrong. You need to use new maths to get an accurate count of how much YOU LOVE THIS GAME.

Is the IA quest still bugged?

It worse than that. The Jedi Stories make sense for Jedi; they "fit". The Jedi as a whole with all the warrior monk nonsense is just ill-conceived right from the get-go in the 1970s. This would have been a fantastic place for Bioware to take some serious creative license and make the Jedi order at least make some minimal level of sense and stop being so... beige....

Sony always seems to come up with new and creative ways to lose money.

Coruscant really is a cool planet. It beats the tar out of the land of the grey boxes (Kaas City).

Exactly, as I said above. EA could decide to ban people, it's really up to them. They have allowed themselves room to do so should they feel it's necessary.

Oh look, the next game that is coming along is going to crush WoW, TOR, RIFT, EQ, Old Maid, CoH, Monopoly... New and exciting! That which doesn't exist always seems to be the best widget ever until it suddenly starts existing.

The mouse and keyboard in question use third party automation software as part of their drivers. And yes, the software can be used for a very robust array of automations if you choose to do so.

Don't use half quotes. "1. You may not use any of your own software or third-party software to modify the Service content to change game play." That would cover every single aspect of TOR; from the keystrokes to the glow-y signs on Nar Shadaa. Basically what it says is that anything from a third party could be deemed a violation. That doesn't mean Bioware is mobilizing a task force or anything, it just means they could decide to prohibit that software specifically under the TOS.

They probably increased server capacity again to alleviate all of the crowding from yesterday. (That was sarcasm, but someone is going to say that very shortly and mean it.)

Lies and propaganda!

Read the disclaimer that came with the mouse and keyboard, it contains literature about compliance or lack of compliance with the TOS of games. The TOS for this game states that: So yes, those macros you are using are against the terms of service. EA's fondness for money is the only thing the existence of those peripherals demonstrates.

That ^ right up there. It's true. It's a deliberate player inconvenience, too short to stop someone from giving a bajillion gifts in a row but long enough to grow annoying pretty quickly. "But Why?" you ask. It's a catastrophically poorly conceived time sink is what it is. That's why.

No that just confirms that EA has a fondness for money. Like any other company, really.

I feel for you, OP. Seeing a server shrinking and croaking is miserable; I went through it in Rift before they started with free server moves (hint hint, Bioware). Now someone is about to hop into this thread and tell you you're lying about all of it.

I wanted to post one of those smart assed "In B4 someone blames WoW" shots but it seems someone has already blamed WoW. Poor WoW, responsible for every other game's shortcomings.

So what kind of awesome stuff did you get at legacy cap? HA! I kill me!

Is that in game, or an actual midget in a bathrobe?

If you read reviews you should know the "new" scale. 6/10 = Wouldn't run, crashed the machine and bricked the hard drive. 7/10 = Ran but caused incessant vomiting among players. 8/10 = Ran and could be played for short periods of time without causing SIDS in adults. 9/10 = Could be played for longer periods of time but only if intoxicated, crashed regularly. 10/10 = Tolerable product, only crashes when the keyboard or mouse is in use. Seriously, numerical scores just help"journalists" avoid having to actually play the game to write an intelligent commentary. They also allow editors to "recommend" a score that won't harm a site or magazine's ability to brown nose the sponsors.

The kick notice will give you X amount of time to engage an perform something from a list of actions, like heal another player or attack an opponent. If you're sitting at the turret all alone for longer than that time, you're idle.

It's not story until someone holds your mouth open and shovels it in with tonnes of voice acting, everyone knows that. ^Sarcasm

It's a sound strategy, if you build a house of imaginary cards it will never be toppled.