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  1. Jedi Cov .. this is exactly how the lag started after SoR came out too
  2. was trying to do my bounty hunter contract stuff on DK and instance 1 was at 137 players .. instance 2 at 46 players / the lag was making controls insane .. I usually mouse turn BUT it kept over adjusting due to lag since today.. IS the max number of instances 2 or do we have a large number of players back for a few days again? IF there is going to be a double XP weekend , which always brings back a few players COULD you please figure out a way to control LAG before it opens. (I don't understand the idea of doubt xp as I am always way beyond story content by the time I hit Nar Shaddaa anyway but meh) either that or maybe you could give subbed players a "freeze" sub option for these weekends so we can NOT suffer incredible lag and often unplayable circumstances then I will just take a week off every time you offer it and save myself frustration
  3. be happy you have a maxed up legacy. I have one server full of characters all mid 30 to mid 40s from when the game first came out BUT for some reason they didn't bother to give me ANY points into legacy is the legacy is level 1 and 0 xp in it as for playing and deleting it is easy to just get bored .. I have too many alts myself and usually get to around 30 to 40 then start a new character due to boredom or desire to have a different type of crafter which then ends up with me unable to remember where I was in the story line so I often never get back to that character or struggle with it.
  4. sadly this is common. it gets started with KDY because you can run it with 3 DPS and a healer (I often get pulled into it with my lower level healers and it is usually 3 DPS and me as heals also sadly I HATE KDY and I AM SO BORED OF IT BEING THE ONLY ONE LOWER LEVELS GET TO DO). now this is part of it but not all of it since they do this on most games .. the correct solution is to LET them pull .. switch stances and let them die .. Please just warn the healer before you do this as I for one hate being flattened because you need to teach DPS how to play their spec
  5. ty for the info BUT still not getting anything out of them save the very seldom mission item .. I am thinking they may have the stupid drop percentage turned down a bit too low .. I know when the game had a lot of people leveling slicing through this range there were a lot of the space ship schemes BUT then that was because there were so many people doing it.. NOW there are a lot fewer and it seems the numbers are drastically too low .. not sure still trying but with 2 characters now running just short of 4 missions every hour and 1 running 6 for 3 hours a day this number you would think would have at least a couple ship schemes dropping BUT I have seen absolutely none .. for the 2 month before I was running only 1 in the same time periods and I never saw them so I am just trying to make sure that they even drop still.. has anyone seen them recently??
  6. I know I have bought a few BUT I have yet to have any ship parts drop since beginning of November .. I have 2 characters with 400 skill in slicing and doing 3 missions each I have yet to get any spaceship grade 6 part schemes to drop .. and 3 to 4 times a day for just over 2 months and yet nothing I know I have read somewhere that the schemes have a lower chance to drop but this seems a little too low
  7. the upside to doing HUGE upgrades is that you can avoid the issue of having games not working right for a while.. YOU don't have to upgrade for this game BUT if you want to upgrade and have the money to spare I say go for it.. Just don't expect it to make this game run better.. I will also point out that a lot of the lag and issues seem to be with the higher end systems almost as if there are conflicts since the game wasn't built around them.. again IF you want the high end system GO for it .. I spent a lot a year ago or 2 to upgrade this one so I didn't have to worry about it for a bit.. just make sure you have your bottle of compressed gas and you should be find for a very long time.
  8. I don't know maybe they get free CC for trying to say .. IT ISN'T them.. I always laugh at these responses .. because I am willing to admit NOT everyone is suffering from lag supposedly (although I bet it is more about how much lag they are willing to tolerate) THEY will never admit someone else has lag ..
  9. I looked it up .. I had a 7900 GTS video card on my first computer with only 512mb video card.. It worked well at near max video .. this game really doesn't need a lot of video card .. NOW if you are upgrading for the sake of upgrading I will say GO FOR IT.. but I doubt I really HIGH end machine will make a huge difference in SWTOR
  10. CoX I played both on villains and hero side and I know that this game was better grouped (there were also a LOT of really good friendly players who "helped" each other just because it was the right thing to do [sadly I left there and went and played champions online when it came out and that was a bad idea]). LotRO was possible to solo but really really slow.. and often painful (though I liked the mix and stopped playing after they changed things to a FTP basis and I thought the FTP was a cheat since in reality the game really couldn't be played FTP at all).. This game went more along the line of WoW with a lot of soloing BUT they added a companion so solo content was often trivial and even 2 to 4 man heroics were pretty easy even when near your level at times (4 man you could usually pull off soloing when it was 1 level to greyed out).. It has always been the fact that as a single player you really have 2 characters (which I guess removes some double boxing of the game that is VERY common in other games) .. If you are a tank you take a healer Comp .. healer take a tank companion and in both these instances have it made.. the only problem is DPS as they aren't durable enough nor have enough or even any self healing to do the same as the tank/healer does and this is always going to be and should always be a problem since the only way to avoid it is to make their damage ungodly and then PvP would be nuts.. I for one don't hate the game just the way it is being handled from the aspect of repairing issues when they occur .. IT is a month after lag was complained about after SoR came out and still they are "looking into it" .. I would think that they should at least KNOW something but they seem to be still lost in the dark.
  11. ok I will say I have complained about lag since the very first day that SoR came out BUT I don't always have crippling lag (and YES I mean crippling as the deaths due to lag are usual not irregular which can be equated to unplayable.. the new systems require abilities to be used to get tanking buffs .. damage adds .. and no with standing a healer who is trapped in lag packets is NOT healing just standing there) .. removing Bitraider 2 days ago from my computer helped a bit and then last night I was lagging badly with 40 players showing on a map. when I changed instances of the map my lag dropped to just noticeable .. I am completely unsure why the engine for SWTOR is so flaky with only 40 players at times .. THIS is an MMO not a single player (if it was a single player I wouldn't need to sub/pay for a bunch of extra stuff all the time to get full benefits of the game) .. I agree that HIGH population to a world makes the game or any game lag but SWTORs threshold seems to have dropped since November and has ALWAYS been way worse than any other game I have ever played.
  12. My old computer that I was using to play this game worked better in many ways than my new one with 24gb of ram and dedicated video of 2 gb.. my old computer was only 8 gb and had an older Nvidia card (can't remember the ram in it atm) it isn't the system atm I don't think .. internet lag/latency is pretty good and ping alright (10gb listed for DL though actual speed is 15, 2 GB UL though showing 5 gb (don't tell my provider pls) .. worst case 43MS on the ping and the majority of that once it gets to Austin area) .. there is no real reason to upgrade for this game as it CAN and will run under a lot less than the 16 GB you are showing .. we can only hope the DEVs fix whatever seems to be causing the issues with lag.. I will say I have never had an FPS issue with this game back when the game came out to now the FPS is NOT the issue I have. also if talking about video Ram I would suggest reading http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/graphics-card-myths,3694-5.html as video ram makes less difference than you might think.. I do question someone saying they have 16gb video ram though.. and if so WHY? most games today should run very well on a 2 year old computer as this is the USUAL benchmark as a max system (there are exceptions to this rule such as AoC when it came out they were benchmarked closer to the newest and best when it came out which was one of the reasons IT failed so bad)
  13. though I am not overly impressed with the lack of knowledge after 4 weeks of this I will say ty for finally posting to let us know someone has actually read this.. I will also mention that yesterday I reinstalled the game using the non streaming option found http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=7826333 the LLLOOONNNNGGG download not with standing I will say it helped a bit.. Alderaan was playable with 40 to 50 players in the zone and little lag at first with later on larger spikes of lag that DID eventually die off for a bit where as I was getting constant lag.. Not sure if everyone using the streaming version will want to try this but I found it helped a bit even if it didn't "fix" it completely..
  14. I can see your point BUT have serious issue with the idea of paying for my sub for a month after paying for an expansion that in effect made the game painful to even play.. They refuse to admit there is an issue and why?? because they might have to reimburse players in some way for this past month during which the game has been borderline borked and then have the people at BW seemingly decide a couple weeks on holidays for them will make it all better. I didn't like the changes to the talent/skill trees but I could live with it, it didn't kill me once I got use to it though I did feel it was the lazy way out of a troubling situation.. But the lag and broken crap in the game with the implementation after SoR is insane and add insult to injury they don't bother even trying to fix it for 2 weeks "for their holidays".. I worked EVERY holiday for 22 years because the world doesn't stop for holidays .. They have taken to also ignoring customers and FAIL to read (or at least fail to comprehend) petitions and/or complaints .. frankly it is a sad state of affairs and makes me think they are just trying to milk the last dredges out of the game before closing it down
  15. It is not the game I truly hate .. I liked the game but the mechanics behind the scenes that gets laggy on a regular bases and the lack of customer service that bothers to read petitions fully and the developers that REFUSE to admit or accept issues with the game (seeming to hope they just go away) makes the game bad.. I liked the storyline version of the game even though I was way too soloable .. I took away from the MMO idea of the game BUT still the game was fairly interesting.. FPs and OPs were often a bit too easy and lacked real challenges BUT likewise the story aspect of them (when you got to pay attention to it and weren't forced to spacebar through the whole thing) were interesting.. IT is not the game per se that is the issue but the management (dare I say poor management) that made the game go from OK (I don't class any MMO as a GREAT MMO after WoW as they have all followed the WOW idea of fast soloing to max level making them all a bit poorer for an MMO since MMOs should hold your attention for longer than 3 to 6 months without getting stale) to a lot worse.. I know all MMO management has the same attitude that YOU should ignore players problems these days BUT this still doesn't make it right.
  16. my eye roll at you idiocy .. since you will note that I was offered a refund and refunds are part of ORIGIN promises.. LOOK things up before you spout trollish rhetoric
  17. I feel for you I really do.. came in for the head start to this game and started with the beta in fact I sort of liked the game and played it for about 6 months and paid for it for 8 months without really logging in for the last 2 months but got bored with all the alts I was creating so I left and figured I would return later maybe.. rise of the hutt cartels came out I bought the expansion untested and found the game completely unplayable due to intense lag .. which like this time customer service and DEVs gave the impression it had nothing to do with them or the game when I wasn't having petitions just closed with no response I might add .. MEH left again and didn't return till November 2014.. got the email about SoR and the bonus 12% and figured I would reinstall one more time and try again (not surre why maybe I hit my head getting out of bed) .. The game was fine .. little lag and in fact I don't remember any as such so I resubbed.. end of November still no issues so I bought SoR just before the pre purchase was up and spent a little money to get things like Treek.. December 3rd back to the intense lag on all worlds, phases and servers I played on (I had characters on 7 servers all behaved badly though I expected in when dealing with a west server being in the east).. bad balancing with the NPCs hitting harder in some instances than they were supposed to (silvers (strong) mobs often hit a lot hard than the gold (elite) mobs) or were said to .. read about nonstop broken stuff at the top with no loot drops and the like and the customer service unwilling/able to help with it and being told in effect to suck it up. I tried to get a refund as per origins promise and they would have given me the refund for SoR it would have "locked" my account to do so if I did it till I repurchased the expansion even though I had never even been in it .. they wouldn't refund the money spent in the cartel market either of course because "it was against their ToS" even though they were going to lock the account since they couldn't "take the expansion off the account" once you logged in even though I would have had all the changes anyway WITHOUT the purchase and still have no characters at the 55th level as yet .. I have had messages for petitions answered without WHOEVER the hell it is actually bothering to read the message and just making a guess as to what was being said and NEVER bothering to read updated comments .. IT isn't the game I am have come to hate so much as the DEVs and their seeming belief that if you ignore the players it will all get better .. HEY IT worked for WoW they only lost about 7 million subs in less time than they gained them and this game can't and never could afford to loose 1 million subs without pain. The game is a joke now and the DEVs should all be out of work and unemployable what with their behavior but MEH I will log out and wait for one of the games from the pacific east to get here even though I want to play a Jedi because Bioware has the business sense of fascist regime I will also say I am attempting reinstall one last time tonight with the non-streaming options to see if this will help any of the rest of you masochists out there but with a true DSL I am at 6 hours and counting to actually get it reinstalled..
  18. I have .. in the actual customer service threads and GUESS what after you answer their questions they ask 2 or 3 more then go back to asking the original question again.. if you post problems in game YOU get absolutely nothing.. they are like most people who live in gang areas and there is violence going on .. "blinders on" and "nothing to see here" .. ignore it long enough and maybe it goes away .. Players have a right to "*****" when the game and customer service as completely avoiding the questions and seem to be hoping it just goes away.
  19. I know your problem .. I also DIDN'T seem to have any lag in November when I decided to give the game another try as I had this crippling lag after RofHC came out.. Played most of November and I resubbed as the game seemed to be fine .. paid for the pre-release of SoR .. and I bought a bunch of stuff from cartel end of November beginning of december the game went all to pot again with almost constant lag .. companions not working right because the servers weren't updating in real time when they used ablities.. abilities taking 3 to 10 seconds to activate OR for the servers to even acknowledge I was pushing a button.. I have decided to try and reinstall with out Bitraider and see if it fixes the issues BUT barring that I have already cancelled sub and have no intention OF ever buying anything from either EA games and especially NOT Bioware unless they remove the entrenched management who are just hurting their products.
  20. sadly I have known a game that is this bad .. IT is call SWTOR .. RotHC the lag was like this for a month it is when I cam back last .. I think I really played for 3 to 4 days and the lag was like this.. every time there is a big patch it happens .. whether it might be their update tool or whatever I don't know .. some people say you can "reinstall" the game without it .. BUT IF Bitraider is causing some issue WHY doesn't Bioware have an easy "fix" to remove it rather than needing to reinstall the whole game again or at least make it an optional choice.. BUT since Bioware has come down on the "not happening" choice of their argument to hell with them I say I unsubed and am only sorry it took 2 times to learn that Bioware is not to be trusted
  21. It does speed up ques BUT it promotes bad behavior from players (the ones who are most likely do do so anyway) .. cross server random PvE can be one of the worst (PvP is sometimes bad but not AS bad) as you get the king dips out there behaving like jerk because IT is unlikely you will run into someone again (or the % are a lot less) after being as idiot.. it was one of many choices that honestly HURT WoW (they did a lot of things that i am sure the DEVs there regret now .. and sadly now so many games are emulating the very same things) glad my sun is up soon
  22. this MIGHT be true but I for one have no desire to play a game that takes my money and then craps all over me with this crappy lag all the time .. I cam back in November and the game was fine .. played well and everything with little or no lag .. when SoR came out the lag was terrible and NEVER relented .. Pre SoR the servers were fairly busy for the +12% xp for pre purchase and basically I feel they sold me a line.. I agree with other comments that THERE IS NO point petitioning as the people reading these messages can't even bother READING the whole message. they take a little out of it then post the appropriate message as to what THEY THINK you were saying and as for bothering UPDATING said message FORGET it they never read updates.. I thought the game was being run from Texas where the normal language is English BUT find that I have had better communication with people in games based out of the eastern countries where THEY don't speak english as a first language or often even as a 2nd as they at least attempt to understand a person and don't just take snippets and answer/close posts.. frankly the reason I find this game is so bad IS that Bioware doesn't try to communicate with players/subscribers but just figures their BS will cover it till it gets better.. It saddens me because I used to love this game and still like it in a way even though I hated the changes I could deal with it BUT this repulsive LAG that THEY refuse to take responsibility for is TOO much.. I am at the point where i can say IF they can't figure out how to make the game work right they should just all quit or be fired so someone who actually knows how to run a "service" business can actually fix it.. Or let the game just die as the slow rot of this game with the POOR management and service that is far worse than most cancers.
  23. just wait I have been through this before ... after about 3 or 4 times of this in the same message they will go back to the first answer again as the NEW customer service guy didn't bother to read earlier posts .. I will say it hasn't happened recently BUT then again I now pick up the phone and call them as the in game service IS so slow I will be dead before they answer it.
  24. I would like this idea save that YOU know it will be abused .. don't like someone report them and they are banned even if they aren't guilty of whatever and the speed at which Bioware works your account would be banned would be a LONG time,, a better idea would be to allow account ignore option .. don't just ignore the character but the whole account since there are players that I would like to have globally ignored on my account so I never need to deal with them again .. the sentinel the other day who needed on everything coming off the WB we took down is case and point (trooper purple armor need .. will power hilt need .. and something else . none of which I really needed but then again NEITHER did the sentinel and none of it could he/she even use save to sell in GTN or making an alt .. most people don't do this but there are more than a few AHs out there that always need .. IF YOU CAN'T use it ONE THAT character IT ISN'T NEEDED it is greed)
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