I must be doing something wrong... I've got BH and mostly Rakata/Columi gear and have never successfully made it past the first boss encounter... I read someone posting who was a Scoundrel who said they had trouble keeping his/her mates alive. The Scoundrel and his/her mates all had high level gear.

Point taken folks... Thank you all for your responses and helping me sort through that.

Deleting capped toons is... wrong. Even if you get bored and don't play them... It would be really nice to have more character slots, would be nice to double them.

Yes please.

not today of course... but... tomorrow maybe?? lol Sometime in the future, maybe for version 3.0?

Isn't there supposed to be one? Why am I constantly seeing ... names that just don't make any sense at all?

Species/Race: <unknown> Human appearance Name: My'kl Middle Name: Last Name: Gawlron Nickname: Gender: Male Date of Birth: 4th day of the 12th month in the year 286 BTC Place of Birth: Dar’eana (Deep in Wild Space) Age: 300 Height: 6' 1" Weight: 230 lbs Hair Color/Style: Black/Short Facial Appearance: Bearded (Black), Scar over left eye. Eye Color: Dark Brown Body Appearance: Muscular Home Planet: Dar'eana Current Residence: MIA Allegiance: Republic Profession: Guardian Armor/Clothes: Custom Primary Weapon(s): Lightsaber (Betty) Secondary Weapon(s): Fists Miscellaneous Item(s): Good looks and stamina Biography: WIP Character Blog: http://gawlronlegacy.wordpress.com/

I'm slowly starting to see the logic in this move, and feeling more comfortable with this decision. I just want SWTOR to survive - and if this is what it takes...

It would be really nice if Bind on Pickup was changed to Bind on Legacy (or to Legacy).

BioWare, EA... why is this not already part of the game? Secret World supports SLI/TXAA/FXAA out of the box. Not sure about Multicore CPU, but I wouldn't be surprised.

I like this idea of F2P'ers being on their own server. I hate the idea of snot-nosed little brats logging onto my RP server with stupid names (although this exists right now... which really pisses me off - ROLEPLAYING RULES BW. ENFORCE THEM!)

Good idea, paying customers already get priority log on. Isn't that what you're talking about really? I hope that priority log on comes with paying customers logging on and kicking f2p'ers off.

I definitely don't want to see this in SWTOR... Paying customers should lord over F2P leechers.

Can't argue this logic... time will tell. I've said it before... I'm going to stick with it as a paid sub.

Good tidings to you kind sir! Hopefully ... things will improve here, but it might take many years.

That's only the "trial" - the F2P will be up to lvl 50, and all the class stories. Some WZ, Some FP, no Ops. So... its pretty well %50. I get the 6 month, its like 12 bucks a month, and as long as I can still lord over the F2Pers I'll be happy.

So... when they do go F2P ... who's going to start supporting the "credit farmers"? (Of course I don't expect an answer to that). We all know that since people will be able to create mule accounts its going to happen and screw with the games economy... I wonder if there was any thought to this? I'm still going to pay for my sub, and I will hold on until the bitter end like I did SWG. :cry:

BW, I can't say how I feel about this... I know that profanity is building up inside of me... Pay customers better get A LOT more than those free loaders.

Can't play checkers... its F2P. (I couldn't resist, even though I feel angry about this decision...)

F2P Players SHOULD be 2nd class citizens. Let them have the story, but the rest should be for paying customers.

I would say I'm a true SW fan. What I see happening here is a bunch of brats (more so than we already have) logging into this game and basically ruining the game, or fun factor for the people who pay, and have been paying for this game. I'm completely beside myself... I just have profanity building up inside my brain right now.

Agreed... but on the bright side WoW has lost 1.1 million subs. http://ca.ign.com/articles/2012/08/02/world-of-warcraft-loses-subscribers That's 1,100,000 subs. If SWTOR dies because of this non-sense I'm going to be extremely pissed off... my CE box is get more tarneshed by the day...

Agreed... I leave for 2 weeks and this happens!?

I bet WoW was so great a few years back... how old is WoW now? The game was released on November 23, 2004, on the 10th anniversary of the Warcraft franchise. So that would make it 8 going on 9 years old... that a hell of a head start concidering that TOR was just released back in January. Are we really comparing apples to apples here? Also: Development of the game [WoW] started in 1999 and took roughly 4–5 years, including extensive testing. So roughly the same amount of development time that went into TOR... WoW is a mature game with programmers who created its engine. I think comparing WoW to TOR is just an uneven comparison... like comparing an 80 year old woman to a 18 year old woman ...

Another thing that folks should be looking at when they are getting lag in populated areas is their storage devices - HDDs and SSDs. Remember that in these populate areas, SWTOR.EXE needs to pull all the info from your storage to draw all those sprites... I've noticed that this is a bottle neck on my machine - even though I am running SWTOR from 2 OCZ Agiliti 3s in RAID0 off my SATAIII (6GB) controller. Since when you're walking around fleet, it doesn't load the whole thing into memory (although with 24GB of RAM ... I wish they'd let us specify how much is cached). Just food for thought. Also, I have been playing around with improving the read ahead cache on my system to see if that will improve perferomance and maybe help some folks out. http://en.kioskea.net/faq/578-how-to-increase-the-cache-on-your-hard-disk http://www.ghacks.net/2010/07/08/increase-the-filesystem-memory-cache-size-in-windows-7/ http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/System/cb/Freeware.htm PS: DO NOT BLAME ME IF YOU USE THE ABOVE INFO AND YOU SCREW UP YOUR SYSTEM.