Most of the sith headgear does this.

It would make no sense to do full VA's through the entire game, and then suddenly no VA's for everything else. Most of the release FP's and such have VA's, so I bet everything else will.

Sith outfits look cooler. The design quality of outfits has gone further and further downhill, looking worse and worse with each large patch. I expect 1.6 will deliver us clown costumes or something. Anyway, republic has gotten the worst of it, mostly having crap looking armor from day one. At least imperial armor was decent at release, even if the latest armor looks like a preschoolers art project. Point is, people like to look good while kicking *** and taking names, and sith look damned good.

Well I'm not paying to play at the moment lol. My launcher has stalled during the patching process on "Main Assets 93" at 28%. Sucks balls.

It's Star Wars. But I'd like to love it for being a good MMO to. Maybe one day.

Except I regularly see Gav Daragon on Medium, and USA Server Ebon Hawk on medium. I log on to Gav, only 50 people. Log on to Ebon Hawk, around 200+.

Please understand "Medium" on USA and "Medium" on APAC are different. USA has servers deisgned to handle 100's of players. Where as APAC is still stuck on the old server tech for player numbers. So "Medium" for APAC is 30-40 players on the entire server. Medium - Light for USA is 100-200 players on a server at a time.

Correction. Other regions ask for a second maintenance to fix bugs, APAC doesn't because they know the maintenance will kill their playtime for a second time that week, even if other regions are fine with the maintenance being during their prime time. APAC then complains about the multiple maintenance times. Supported by people from other regions who feel sympathy.

Move the servers to Asia, lose Australia/NZ players as the pings will suck for them. Keep the servers in Australia/NZ and lose Asia players. My suggestion: Consolidate all servers into one Australia server, use the upkeep from the 2 removed servers to fund one localized in Hong Kong (not china specifically due to censorship and seizure laws). Problem solved. People who aren't happy with the merging can go to other servers etc etc.

Huttball.

I don't know about everyone else, but something I find difficult on RP server's is knowing who RP's and who doesn't. I like RP flashpoints and heroic's and pretty much everything if I can. But more then often I don't know if the people I team up with RP also. Short of being in an RP guild, I have trouble thinking of a way of knowing. See on most games I've played in the past, if you go on an RP server, then everyone RP's. If you don't, then nobody RP's. But SWTOR is different, and because of the lack of enforcement, not everyone on an RP server will RP. So yea, how do you guys know when to RP or not?

It honestly depends on your servers economy, which is why I have a bone to pick with Biowares pricing scheme, which seems to be based off the old fatman and its high pop economy. See, servers with less players, like Gav Daragon on Oceania for example, have a poorer economy. Example, 750,000 on Gav Daragon is a LOT of money, and not easily gained. Simply because the market lacks Sellers and Customers to feed the money through. So for something like the legacy items which can cost in the millions, it's damned near impossible to earn the money easily, and you generally don't want to drop a cool million on something that is just a show off item.

I can see a few holes in there though. Possessing someone doesn't change their physical appearance, which is something Abeloth does, possession I mean. That he's old just means he aged. That he is very powerful can be attributed to Abeloth. I'd say the biggest thing is that SW has proven before they have no issue with using bits of extended universe and completely ignoring others. Example, Chiss being involved with the sith at this point in history, Rakata being involved at all, Sith purebloods existing in this time period etc etc. Bioware is infamous for taking things it likes, and ignoring others, just like LucasArts. I'm not gonna discount the emperor being Abeloth. I wouldn't also believe anything regarding the emperor's indentity unless it's a confirmed legit Lucas Arts/Disney or Bioware resource. Not extended universe.

Since maintenance will send people to the forums. Just thought I'd throw this up here a bit. So been playing Oceania again, to gauge the difference in experience between US and Oceania servers. Make sure that nobody can say "Pfft, its not that bad". Well so far it is that bad. 4 people on Hoth during Oceania prime time, as opposed to 20+ on US off-peak. Little to no banter in chat. Nobody rping that I can see, and very little guild activity going on. I didn't even try and get a heroic with 3 other people on Hoth. All and all, so far every complaint about Oceania servers rings true, and nobodies lying or needs to harden up. There is a HUGE difference between the two area's.

It just sounds so much like Abeloth though, I mean, doesn't Abeloth also possess beings. Could be the ritual simply allows Abeloth to posses him. I mean, feeding on force users, wanting to destroy EVERYTHING. Being ridiculously powerful. Its all mainstays of Star Wars biggest baddest evil, which from point dot is Abeloth. It would suck. Because you know, Abeloth is boring and a parody of a D&D monster, but still.