Nefla, fine, i don't inderstand you, and don't give a ****. Legitimate faction swapping in this game at this point just isn't feasible, the way i see it, they will just add 2 new factions which we will choose (it will appear like we choose between Reps and Imps, but in fact will not work exactly that), overall you will stay Imp or Rep, just going forward with story you will be appearing as a defector, but all previous content will still be for your original faction.

I did understand, you want the whole game going forward to be a personal phase, just for you. Well, this is simply ridiculous. I understand that people expected another KOTOR, that's why i said you are playing the wrong game. And i imagine you are a in a minority of the players who don't do group content (FPs, Ops, etc.), i enjoy playing solo but even i do group content from time to time, for one because it's required for completing story (Oricon, Iokath), and EA and Bioware won't just drop everything to accomodate you.

Now there is an interesting idea, we have 4 basic classes and 2 advanced classes for each basic, so why not do that with factions, like in EU, Alliance becoming The New Republic and later Galactic Alliance and Galactic Empire becoming Imperial Remnant, you can keep your original faction and all that came with it and choose a second one based on your choices after Iokath and Nathema Conspiracy. Its just a thought of an idea but if devs can work out all the kinks (like fleet access and diferent gear appearance for different factions) i can get behind that. For all intents and purposes it will look like switching sides without actually switching them, and players only care about how thing look and not how they actually work in terms of game mechanics.

Then you are playing the wrong game, cause they can't do that because of MMO (where you have to interact with other players, choosing not to do so is just an option) part, such swap is global thing which will affect every aspect of the game. 1 scenario where it could be acchieved is to totaly block access to previous content: Chapters, dailies, FPs, OPS and so on, even galaxy map will have to become different with all-new planets, which is pretty much a suicide for the game itself. As i said in previous post, i could be wrong, i'm not a game developer, don't have any knowledge or experience in that area, so don't take my words for an expert opinion.

Let me ask you this. Do you know any MMO RPG with faction swapping mechanics? Even WoW doesn't have that. If that was possible, they would've layed some ground work from early stages of development, which seems ulikely. Yes, there are cross-faction pvp battles now, which there weren't before, but there are different mechanics involved, at least i believe so (devs can chime in any minute). And with some FPs being faction-specific like The Foundry|The Maelstrom Prison (imagine Inquisitor or Agent busting Revan out or Jedi Knight capturing Foundry for the Empire, considering it happened before you switched sides, makes for awkward moment) and others with different dialogues, you can't just realize this mechanism with some patch or expansion. This will just mess up the whole game. So 99.9% says it won't happen. If i'm wrong, good for you, but i won't change factions for any of my toons anyway. Although i did choose to ally with Imps on Iokath on my smuggler, but since it's not final i will make amends and go back to Rep.

You are correct about story if we're talking about those who chose dark side ending of KOTET, after losing fleet, we have no choice but to join one side or the other, to bide time to reestablish our dominance once more, for those who chose LS ending obvious choice is to rejoin the Republic, because Alliance in essense was duplicationg Republic, at least it's values. As for hardcore fans leaving game it's their choice, whatever the reason, i'm a hardcore fan, always was, always will be, but i'm still here, paid for subscription for 3 month in advance, partly to get the best gear(which is painful going solo on 8 toons), bacuse with next expansion, i think it wiil be a long time to get the new one if ever, partly to get new expansion fo free and last but not least, to support development of the universe, because if you don't pay, then they got get paid, and, well, it's obvious where this will end. Personally, if i'm right in earlier post on this thread about which planet they are going to add, i will be very excited, if not, i will still want to find out what is what. I never get into hardcore discussions about what should or should not be in the game, because i have my opinion, you have yours, we're both entitled to it, and, frankly, i just don't care what other people think. Plesa don't start thowing accusations of being a EA bot and sucking up to them, i have my issues with direction they are heading but only in terms of New Canon and movies and books and all the crap with tolerance, IT'S EMPIRE, ITS SUPOSSED TO BE RACIST, XENOPHOBIC AND SEXIST AND GENERALLY ALL-AROUND EVIL (Sorry, ranting) so far. Over and Out.

Nathema is a different case altogether, Vitiate absorbed all Life Force from the planet making it a void in The Froce, when he died (allegedly) that energy poured back to the planet, accelerating it's restoration, destruction of Ossus was caused by Cron Cluster gone supernova, that kind of destruction is more lasting as planet described as arid and toxic, but not lifeless.

I bet I know what planet they are going to add. Not entirely sure, but reference to Tales of the Jedi is kind of a giveaway, so SPOILER ALERT, I think it's going to be Ossus.

Same thing for me, did 9 chapters on MM easy (well, not really but managed), started chapter X, got to the junction and things went south, i'm Guardian 70 with 248 gear complete with 228-240 augments, Kaliyo rank 50, set her to cc 1 while tried to nuke the other from the start with heroic moment, got down to 50%, then they start to swap out, i even get skytroopers off of Kaliyo while tanking boss hits with Focused Defense and Saber Reflect, after they pass i get off'd by suddenly appearing second boss. Really need group for that, or lower their stats for MM

Sith Warrior story, first meeting with Baras, he recites the FULL code after you admit you don't know squat about being sith

Ashara styled Jaesa as a third option would've been nice, i am most of all dissapointed in strict duality either LS or DS, if character can go neutral (sith with conscience) why not companion, also speaking about Ashara, would've loved to get her to fully embrace DS and watch her rivalry or crazy love-hate drama romace with Xalek

That's just an excuse for lazy writing, you can be commited to dark side and keep Jaesa a light sider with the same reasoning that Vitiate kept Revan, but without locking her up in stasis for 300 years, to better defeat Jedi you need to understand them better, and what better way to understand Jedi than too keep 1 around espesially if she follows you willingly, essentially dark side version of Jaesa but without crazy-murderous-sadistic-*****-16-year-old part

For the past week been playing sith warrior story, not the first time, initially i wanted to do full Dark Side sith, merciless murder machine, as i went through chapter 1, i got curious what would happen if keep Jaesa on Light Side with me being Dark. All went well, i killed her teacher on Tatooine and her parents on Alderaan, tortured Karr and taunted her when she showed up on Hutta, picked all the right lines to make her suggest to kill Karr and off'd him. After reporting to Baras i went to talk to her and you know what her fisrt line is: "..We're surrounded by the enemy...". *** (sorry), back it up a sec, I KILLED EVERYTHING YOU EVER LOVED AND DESTROYED EVERYTHING YOU BELIEVED IN AND YOU ACT AS IF I AM SOME LIGHT SIDE WORSHIPPING WEAKLING. Anyway just wanted to went about this, feel free to add your opinion or share similar experience.