Personally I've thought for a while that every class should have the ability to use cover. Not that every class should gain a significant advantage but they should all have a chance to take advantage of the cover's damage reduction. For example a jedi sees a battle droid start a big attack whilst he's still too far away to retalliate so he does the sensible thing, dives behind a rock so he doesn't have to headbutt the incoming fire like a chump. Whilst in cover he can't really do anything except maybe use a medkit, stim or personal buff (eg: turn on saber ward) because he's not a cover based fighter. This could apply to every character, melee characters could duck into cover to reduce damage before moving up, non-cover ranged characters (and maybe consular/inquisitor) can do their standard ranged attack and cover based fighters could still retain their uniqueness by having all the special cover based abilities. Also I love the idea of the heavy weapon trooper becoming a cover based fighter though I'd might require a new advanced class, specifically heavy weapon tank/dps or something. scouting out the battlefield, dropping into cover & setting up his heavy weapon to lay serious supporting & suppression fire on the enemy

Would it be possible to add a small counter for each character on the initial selection screen showing how many people from their respective friends lists are online? EG: Bob Gunslinger Level 15 Coruscant 3 Friends Online Barry Commando Level 25 Taris 11 Friends Online Dave Sith Warrior Level 50 Dromund Kaas 0 Friends Online Because You Smell Funny And Noone Likes You That sort of addition might help make the decision on which character to select easier. If you're in the mood for heroics/flashpoints etc then it'd be better to pick the character with the most number of online friends. Would anyone else be interested in this sort of thing?

Add me to the list of greyed out dropboxers. Was wanting to transfer the character Suni (as well as the others I have) from Master Zhar Lestin to Dalborra

How long does it take to enter & exit a warzone including loading times? Sounds like that'd take longer than just going to the wrong destination & then turning right around again

Am I the only one wishing for a 'oops I picked the wrong destination, let me off at the next stop' button for taxi speeders? It might be my brain being a bit wonky but when I pick the wrong destination I notice it almost instantly & then sit watching myself drive to the wrong spot. Would it be possible to add some kind of interrupt or reroute option?

Seems like the simplest & most satisfying solution is to not give corso the ability at all until the smuggler gets the advanced class. Picking scoundrel gives corso harpoon shot and picking gunslinger gives him the jetpack

Having just been placed in a server login queue, it occured to me how dull they are. All it does is say you're in a queue & tells you how long it has to go. Would it be possible to have some manner of information relayed during this wait? Perhaps a 'did you know' list that tells you some of the new features of whatever the latest patch is (for example I didn't know the number overlay on enemy hitpoints was now in interface custmisation) or at least a reminder that our call is important to you...

I was thinking an SIS agent would be cool just to see how the other side works but I have a feeling that gameplay wise it might be too close to the imperial agent. What did make me think though was the tatooine bonus series quest giver who seemed to be a cross between SIS agent & jedi, now that character type would have some interestingly unique abilities & still have the good guy espionage feel

I was wandering aimlessly around Hoth the other day when I spotted a red instance in the distance that I'd not noticed before. I tried to identify who the mission was for but, as happens on occasion, the mouseover popup didn't work even when I walked all the way over to the entrance. This gave me an idea, why not have icons on the instance entrances? It could work for both class specific and faction general missions. For example a Bounty Hunter specific mission could have the Bounty Hunter logo overlayed on the instance entrance polygon and the faction general instances could feature the Republic or Empire logo overlayed. It seems to me that this would let you see at a glance (and from range) if the mission is or will be relevant to you and also make the occasional failure of the mouseover less of an issue. What do you fine folk think of the idea?

Maybe they need to make one of the inexplicable droid apathy units (seriously, who makes something like that?) an installable component, then they could change his lines to "Meh", "Blagh", "Ugh", "Whatever" & "You couldn't pay me enough to care"

At the moment when you get a quest reward where you get a selection of companion specific equipment (say corso riggs' pants of blueness +1, bowdaars pants of brownness +1 etc), the mouseover comparison popup only compares against your gear and your present companion's gear. The side effect of this is when you have such a quest reward when you have 6 companions, you have to individually summon each of them to compare the gear one by one. This seems rather inefficient to me and is downright impossible if you get such a quest reward on your ship (smugglers get a few like that, not sure how the other classes fare there). In this situation where the "pants of <colour> +n" are locked to a single companion, wouldn't it be better for the system to do a quick lookup of the gear that companion (wherever he/she/it may be) is currently using and display that in the comparison rather than whatever your current companion is using? I can't be the only person thinking that summoning my cannon fodder minions in sequence just to check their gear is a trifle clunky, can I? What say you fellow forumites, good idea or bad idea?

And on mine, I bloody love you mate! No more tabbing out for me (apart from this time when I tabbed out to write this)

Apparently they've taken it offline to fix it up, should be back up sometime soon

Probably not long enough to completely avoid disruption (what with delivery to australia and all) but its greatly appreciated nonetheless, cheers guys

I just had my first out of game squee, amazon charged me for my SWTOR order so it MIGHT get here before christmas