What was the vanilla experience in SWTOR? That plenty of codex entries had been broken? That the game had only 3 warzones and only one or two raids (depending on how vanilla you want it to be). No HK-51 and no Treek. And no legacy levels and thus also no legacy perks. The game was bleeding subs back then, that is why the change to f2p happened, sorry but that is completely different than the situation with WoW, where plenty of people only started after vanilla and only heard the stories about how great it was, and on a personal level, I have more found memories on vanilla WoW than on vailla SWTOR, still would not even want vanilla WoW back, but at least there is ademand for it, something that just doesn't exist for SWTOR that way.

So, I had my charcaters moved to another server as did a few of my friends, but while I was packing my stuff, I noticed that many people on my old server didn't knew this, and there has also not been an official announcement on the German forums (and wouldn't be surprised if the French got eually bad treated), thus expect more complains when they start to notice it or how dead some already low population servers are now.

They still drop, but much less often. I got 2 or 3 in hundreds of heroics since then, the drop rate is far too low, and there are other threads in which I have already revealed my displessure with that.

Sicher, kann sein das eines Tages auch The Red Eclipse eingeht, bis dahin ist wird das aber erstmal zuminsdest für mich meine neue PvP Heimat.

Well I transfered to TRE and use the server focus option to have a PvP environment there. Sure, it sucks for people who cannot move or don't want to for whatever reasons, and BioWare surely could have handled the situation better, but really they always have messed up when it comes to how they treat the player base and working on things that might had been good for the game in general, like cross server queues and other such things that players had asked for since even bofore the game was released.

It's all about demand and supply, sure there are always those who also prey on the foolish, like the folks that buy meat trees for 1 credit each and try to sell them for a few thousand credits then each. That is disgusting, but the game allows such behaviour and I guess there are people who fall for those market exploiters.

I think only the endings should maybe be redesigned to make them a little solo friendlier, since it is hard to get four people together to click the damn stuff, especially on the almost dead servers.

I agree with OP, I had seen another suggestion at one point that said the stronghold of the capital world from theother faction should be placed on the second page, but should ever the amount of strongholds we can have increase, then the suggestion here is the one that is clearly better. In any case, BioWare should look into it.

For leveling is Qyzen okay in this regard, he doesn't like you being dishonourable, but he clearly wants you to watch kill quite a few foes and is in general very appreciative when you do not help people but expect them to help themselves. Tharan Cedrax likes thinking about your own advantage and doesn't like most of the force stuff.

Guess they become bound when used like other mods do?

There had been a point when people transfered from the German PvP server to the English one, and I considered it back then to also go, but I didn't, now I am going to the Red Eclipse, I am not interested to transfer to another dead server, and with the server focus option, I can play on Red Eclipse as if that would be a PvP server.

I remember the PvP on Ilum before the first revamp and how in every attempt BioWare did there, they never got it it right to this day. I remember walking on Nar Shaddaa and Tatooine before we got at level 25 our first speeder. And of course not having sprint on the starting worlds. I remember when there still had been security chests in flashpoints, and when those still had credits in them. I remember having played my first character under-leveled for most of the game. Oh, and I remember the orange pixel from the beta!

Yeah, no longer needed, since the matric cube relic is barely useful these days (or at least I think it is, haven't checked one i a long time). Not sure if BioWare will ever revisit that thing.

I wonder how many transferes in Europe will lead to The Red Eclipse?

The cross server queues in WoW got already mentioned, has GW2 not some visiting capability on other servers that one simply can do without charge? not sure about the last two you mention, but other games have different features that allow people to play in a meaningful way even when the server they are on is rather low on population, SWTOR lacks all that. Also, there are MMO that have transferes for free, so now what?

You always can go play the contraband slot machine to get those certificates, sure they drop kinda scarcely, and who knows maybe one day they will sell a pack again that contained those in the past or they will make new packs with them at one point. But I guess I have good laugh about this, since I still have plenty of these certificates in my bags.

More decos are always nice, and yes a return of the G/S/B packs would be nice (but hopefully then without the special event stuff, which really shouldnt be in those). Anyway, for themed packs, maybe more Mandalorians! Also, maybe worlds related stuff, especially for the worlds that feature a stronghold, so one can put more stuff from those worlds into the strongholds to create more of the atmosphere of actually bing on that world. Also, I really would like if we could get a priority transport terminal as utility decoration.

OP probably plays on a popular server, I encourage her (or him) to play on Jar'Kai Sword, No GSF for months now, hardly and warones, long queues for flashpoints (even as tank), only few things on the GTN and mostly far overpriced. Sorry to break it to you, but there are some dead servers, I mean if one can get with a one-man guild easily in the top 10 conquest of any given week, since no planet ever gets even that many guilds to compete for it,then you have a clear sign that something is very wrong with that server. Don't get me wrong, I don't like the doom and gloom talk of the folks that say the game is dead, but some servers are in fact on life support. And BioWare really should address that, since ignoring that will not make the issue go away, but might actually end up killing the game.

the long and beautiful post from Yavin-VI is something BioWare really should read, since it holds true for most European servers. And to be honest, with the server focus thing I assumed that this would be the first step towards server merging, since that screams it, why else remove server distictions? Anyway, I had some suggestions for BioWare: how about giving subscribers one free transfer each month? Or how about letting the people from the PvP ad RP servers within a region or language move to the PvE server of the same region or language, and let the people from the smaller PvE servers transfer for free to the most popular PvE server, thus making one direction free, while keeping a cost for other transfers. Whatever the solution might be, it should be better than what is currently planned!

Since people have given already the answers, all I do now is nitpicking that the expansion is named "Knights of the Fallen Empire" and not "Rise" since that was with the Hutt Cartel already done.

I think having a cross server GTN would be nice, but BioWare doesn't do any cross server stuff, and people have asking them about cross server PvP and such things since even before launch.

I think Ilum is not necessary for the completion of act three, maybe write a ticked, since it seems you should already have that completion.

Most of my characters had level from 60 to 65 without me even starting KotFE, a little PvP some Heroics and the levels fly by. But even without that, with my level 60 token character I played just the KotFE and got 65 before even reaching Odessen. So, what is so bad in your opinion about those five levels?

Thanks for your kind words. I had been on Jar'Kai Sword since the server merges, and it is now there worse than it ever had been before the server merges. So, I started thinking about moving, I am not that much into server hopping every week, and the mentioned Red Eclipse and T3-M4 are two of the servers I was considering along with The Progenitor. I even started an alt on Red Eclipse and was so happy to be finally able to play some GSF again, but I am not sure if the server is too crowded for me (some of the heroics take forever since the many people farm the mobs required for the quests). I had no chance to test even one server, and now I have to make the decision blind, since I cannot compare how it is one the two servers I have not yet played on. This is so frustrating! Could some of the folks who played on those three servers (Red Eclipse, T3-M4, and The Progenitor) talk a little about those servers so that I can make an informed decision what server to take? Also, could someone tell me if all my decorations move with my character, even if I still have them placed in my current strongholds or do I have to pick everything up first? And is there anything else that one should pay attention too that is not mentioned in the transfer guidelines already?

I just made another tank (I love playing tanks and I have already all the tank classes, so it was not about a class I don't have yet), mostly just to play KotFE while making all the bad decisions I don't want tomake with my regular characters, like ending the recruitment missions with rejecting the candidate and such things.