The email header was from swtor@d.surveysonline.com According to Whois - http://who.stsoftware.biz/d-surveysonline-com.htm - d.surveysonline.com is registered to Frank N. Magid Associates. As for my sub status, I had unsubbed, but re-subbed after 1.2 came out, and I also filled out the "we're sorry you're leaving" survey too, which I'm guessing might have been the real reason some peeps got surveys and others didn't - given I'd already demonstrated a willingness to fill out customer feedback surveys.

I got an email from these guys - http://www.magid.com/ acting as a third party for Bioware.

Also, you'd likely gain entry to the Imperial guard, who chuffing well do boss Sith about!

Jeez, if you'd listen to all these "you'd be nobody as an imperial trooper and that'd be boring" you'd think you were living in a world where Tie Fighter didn't come out and was awesome. Lets see now, what was the overall arc of that game now? Start off as just a nobody expendable tie fighter points on some boring patrol out in the sticks scanning ships for contraband, then thanks entirely to your own competency abilities you finish the game being given shore leave by Palpatine himself for working so brilliantly for the empire and setting the stage for his trap with the second death star. Did I mention joining the emperor's secret society and becoming one of his hands like Mara Jade? Yeah, no room for decent story lines for an Imperial trooper, just cannon fodder, etc etc.

Hmm. I wonder if something's gone a bit wrong, I know on the same vendor they sell lvl 50 crystal schematics for blue + yellow crystals, which seems an odd combo for the empire pvp vendor. You'd think the republic would get blue + yellow schematics and cyan/black rated crystal, while the empire got the purple/black rated crystal and red + yellow(or orange) schematics.

Pretty much, that's why in the Sacking of Coruscant video he was accompanied by "Not-Vette" and the Jedi master he duels was assisted by "Not-T7-01".

I thought the whole headstrong "I'm doing things my way and finding my own path" to be one of the best things about talking to her, since that's pretty much what lead her to becoming your apprentice in the first place. Being a lightside inquistor deffo added an extra dimension to the philosophy talks, when she told me that by embracing her passions she was finally at peace I had to smile. Reminded me a bit of Kreia from KOTOR2, who found both the Jedi way and sith way to be insufficient and lacking.

That's unfortunately a feature, not a bug, of roller-coaster type MMO's when compared to sandbox.

The really funny part is that if you select the Gray item quality (the one immediately below 'any') as your search term it basically functions in the same way that 'any quality' should. So if they'd just made that value the default instead of keeping the non-functioning 'any' and requiring players to select an item quality, then that would have been a better bodge job workaround!

How patient are you? I ask because right now crit-crafted oranges are pretty much best in slot, because augment, however Bioware have stated that they are planning (or at the least considering) on allowing crafters to be able to add an augment slot to existing gear in future patches. Because social gear. If you are alright with going without the extra stats that augments grant for the time being, then you might as well carry on with the look you like with full intention of getting it all augmented when it's possible to do so.

Well, depending on the % chance to learn a schematic, each time you RE an item you have an 80%-90% to learn nothing.

Does anyone else think it's annoying that most of the companion quests involve - 'Right I'm off to sort out this personal problem!' "can I come with?" 'No, you can fade to black and wait on the ship' "oh" *fade to black* 'Well I'm back, and I sorted that stuff I told you about' "er, great, I guess..." I was right looking forward to going to meet that Jedi Master with Ashara to try and bring him to my cause of a Just Empire, but no, I instead got to try out the extra padding on me ship seats as I sat about doing nowt waiting for her to come back and report.

He's wants you dead because Zash was your master, and thus you would be carrying on her unorthodox teachings, which he regards as 'corrupt'. Plus he ain't all that keen on you being a former slave either. The whole impertinently refusing to die thing no doubt proves annoying too

The problem with dark/light side of the force debates is that various authors throughout the EU have had their own interpretation of what the nature of the force is make it into print. Jacen Solo in the Vong series discovers that there is no lightside or darkside - there is only the force, for example. Which isn't exactly not in keeping with the jedi code after all. Then this later gets discarded for duality again. Apparently GL favours the duality version so that's canon. Bioware on the other hand favours the more murkier version, which does allow for more complex villains.

Well, once they've fettled out all the bother with ranked warzones you can get a black/purple crystal from the PVP vender for pvp ranked only and boatloads of cash and commendations on the empire side. I'd guess republic side get a black/cyan one.