Is it another imperial alt you're taking? The Kessan's landing has different storylines for imp and pub, so it may be that you have to finish both before it opens up for all your alts. I did both imp and pub storylines, and have Kessan's Landing available for all my characters.

Except it's more than that. I checked last night by putting only system messages in one chat tab, and some of the audio queues in operations (all of the NPCs shout-outs for example) are under 'system message' instead of conversations for some reason. If you can't hear the NPCs, then you need the system messages, not often, but you still need them. It's not an issue most players will have, but for now it means I can't just shunt system messages off to it's own tab, and that means I won't sit in allies unless I'm not actively playing the game. Removing 'player joins/leaves' from system messages would be a great change.

Have no fear they nerfed the Master Mode flashpoints too. There's still some where if you mess up the mechanics it can be rough, but not many with real heal or dps checks left. Most story mode operations are just as easy (if not easier) then veteran flashpoints, so newer players pretty much never have to learn anything as basic 'move out of the boss' cleave and move out of aoe'. Even Hammer Station, which is run so often, has most tanks/dps with aggro, just stand there and eat sweeping blasters. Sure, you can heal through it, but it's also so easy to just run through the boss and avoid it, players make things harder then they have to be. I should clarify, the MM fp are easy IF you get at least 2 players who know what they're doing. Pugs are hit and miss. I mostly queue as dps for pugs nowadays, even though I prefer heals, since MM flashpoints are very frustrating if you end up with 2 bad dps on your team.

moving goalposts is just another reason to not bother hunting achievements

That's on the dev's for changing things 10 plus years after the game started. I'll try to change class/advanced class to origin story (or combat style depending on context) if I catch myself making the mistake of using the old terms in a post, but it's a hard habit to break.

Yes, that would be fantastic. As it is I'll join Allies rarely, and only if I'm actively looking to join an operations group when I'm not on fleet. I'll drop out of allies as soon as I'm in a group, those 'join/quit' messages are way to frequent and spammy. I can't just 'turn off system messages' since I can't hear any audio queues in the game, and need to read the system messages sometimes.

Exactly. Being bloodthirsty and arrogant is just being a Sith. Being incompetent though? The combo meant my light/neutrals AND my dark leaning alts all end up killing her. Think I left her alive on like one alt who I played as overly naive and nice.

I don't think I've ever unlocked it by accident, but there are a few places in the game where it unlocks automatically (aka: secrets of the enclave when it first came out). If you're unlocking it by misclicking, then maybe try just leaving that first slot blank. If you're clicking then it shouldn't matter if it's slot 1,2,3 ect, or slots 2, 3, 4, ect.

Operations and MM flashpoints have really pitiful rewards for the time involved. I usually spend 10 minutes or more while waiting for raids to fill by doing heroics (which means I know both the quick ones and the quick ones that aren't instanced. you can't go into an instanced heroic while in an Ops group). Unless you manage to time one of the social rewards then the 10 min doing heroics gets me almost as much conquest then an entire operation (probably more now that you can 10k for the 1st heroic per planet). I am very tired of heroics, but like to get to at least that 100k conquest on my guilded alts.

Also note that the companion bonuses don't 'stack'. That is you only have to finish all the companion stories on one character to get the full bonuses for your legacy. (For example: the accuracy bonus 1%. You get that from completing the story arc for one companion for every origin story. Once it's unlocked every character in your legacy will get that 1% bonus. Even if you complete all 8 origin stories the accuracy bonus is still only going to be 1%). ... I think the presence bonus does stack, but the actual combat ones for your character don't.

I main stealth, I know all the non-combat (or just one boss to kill) quickie heroics. Doesn't mean I want to do them all the time. A proper rebalancing of conquest points would give a lot more rewards to MM fp and HM/NiM ops. Currently conquest punishes players who want to do challenging pve instead of just spamming the stuff that you need zero skill to do and the changes just make the punishment stand out even more.

The time/difficulty/reward ratio for pve conquest points is way off. MM fp and operations, even MM operations, give lousy conquest. About the only way you get anything decent is by ticking off the social activities, which timewise you're better off spamming veteran fp for (vet flashpoints are faceroll easy and mindnumbingly boring if you're maxed and half-way decent at your class). 43k for rep tokens let you still get conquest while doing HM content. Removing that 43k and trying to steer pve players into grindy, timewasting, unchallenging content like heroics and vet flashpoints is not a good sign about the future direction of SWTOR.

That those players probably throw on an entire expensive cartel outfit, with no dyes, and without realizing that almost all cartel outfits have at least one, usually more, pieces that look ridiculous. ... although I'm wearing starter planet gear, low tier crafted, and several bronze/silver oufits on my toons. Sure I have gold/platinum, but some of the bronze/silvers just plain look better. Gold/Platinum will often clip like crazy sometimes, or dye horribly.

Hexid is from achievments, not the sub reward/seasons purchase like Nico. You should be able to pull her either from the achievements tab, or from your collections.

Not sure where you got that idea. You have never been able to get socialite from story/solo flashpoints.