I recently reactivated after ~800 days of inactivity and faced the same problem. Luckily, since all my individual planet-coms were merged into planetaries, I was able to get some good stuff from the Makeb vendor. From there though, it felt confusing where to start. So thanks, this topic helped me as well.

Accompanied by a scaled discount, I'm guessing. Hell I'm down with it, sign me up for yearly payments as well.

I'm rolling with the "Iron Fist" build on my vanguard, now at 46. The solo experience took quite a while to become fun for me, I'd say the feeling of "uberness" didn't kick in until the mid to late 20s. At 40+, I felt like I became a monster truck that walks like a man and really wreaked havoc.

Self-aware entry of: Major Manslaughter - Guild: "A Jill Sandwich"

I was going to make my own list, but pretty much just... What he said.

Definitely signed.

I did not take pictures, regrettably. I can give you my impression of the corruption though. Dark I - Orange eyes. No really, that's it. Dark II & III - Increasing amount of dark veins. This looks really well designed during the cutscenes, but during the game graphics (even on High), it looks like their face is simply dirty... I'm not a fan. Dark IV and V - More veins, plus glowing red eyes. The eyes look absolutely fantastic and even seem to have a slight glow-in-the-dark portion to them. The veins at this point however, become too "dirty" for me to enjoy the sith corruption option anymore. I turned corruption off with Dark IV, personally. Not an easy decision, because I really loved the red eyes. However, the dirty face thing was just too annoying to me.

I get the medals on my operative, she's a lethality/medicine spec (the sticky calls it sucky for PvP, but that's beside the point). The 75k pile on via kolto probes and the occasional injection. The injections themselves crit for 2.4k to 2.7k, so that's often a medal as well. Now I know I could get this 2.5k medal without medicine spec as well, though the 75k would take far too much energy to pile on. Hope that helps.

If you want to send a message with money, why not donate to tell the developers "Hey, your game has the potential to be great, keep working!". Cutting funding only costs jobs and degrades the quality. It will most assuredly not make them grovel and obediently enforce every nerf you desire.

I play a Lethality/Medicine operative in warzones, presently. The spec is lacking in burst firepower, but in terms of mobility and flexibility, as well as tactical versatility (e.g. bomb planting prevention), she does wonders. The only downside is, that she is very squishy.

That was amusingly creative. Thanks OP!

On Zez-Kai Ell, there simply is no 50 PvP anymore. Most 50s have switched servers or quit in frustration, what few remain are not enough. Even the overpopulated empire side doesn't have enough for a huttball match. On Ilum we sometimes hold civilized duels and otherwise just share crate gathering, because who needs the fuss. The 10-49 warzones are booming though. I won't get into the absurd claim that there's a higher average skill level involved, but at least it's action.

Were you responsible for EA's C&C RA3 online feature blocking "God" and "Jesus" (but not "Allah" or "Muhammed") as well?

Love it. Needs to go into 1.1.2

Chainsow? I'm having trouble imagining this... Is it like a pig with a lot of chains around it? Is it a chainsaw that replaces the teeth with small pigs?