Next time you're near a droid, have your sarcasm detector meter repaired. :-)

My five, from least annoying to gamebreaking: 5) A frustrating UI designed by people who probably make really good smart phone apps. 4) Over 200 realm servers at launch? Really? You needed, like, 50. The total lack of realm merging is like a death knell for the game. At this point, even character transfers wouldn't be enough; we'd all be hopping from server to server in an equally-thinly-spread cloud. 3) No way for newer players to "catch up" to gear requirements of endgame raiding. You have to keep climbing the exact same ladder that everybody before you did, *if* you can find people willing to run older raids. No way of reaching the ever-moving goalposts. (It took WoW about 5 years to finally get this right, with the ability to use daily grindable tokens/points to buy gear comparable to the previous raid gear. New players get ready to raid quickly.) 2) Lack of any kind of group-finder tool. Shipping with an "LFG" field in the /who window that let you type several lines of text, but could only display as much as "LFG for " before cutting off text, was facepalmworthy. 1) Graphical glitches, system lockups, even BSODs. Only from this game. Before the haters and fanbois start frothing about "obviously it's bad hardware", lemme be clear on that last point. Everything is patched to the latest version. I can run all of the following: Firefox, with movie plugins iTunes several Cygwin apps fullscreen windowed WoW a VirtualBox virtual machine running Linux, in turn running a graphical desktop And I can run all these things at the same time, with not the slightest graphics hitch. Not even a rendering artifact, let alone complete system lockups or bluescreens. Or, I can run nothing at all except SWTOR, at graphics settings so low it's nearly ASCII art, and the computer will be unstable within an hour. The retardedly bad load times didn't help either. Reading from game data files... to write back to a cache file, and then reading the cache file into memory? ***?

My consular just hit a similar point with Nadia. It's a little confusing, getting affection-raising gifts from a companion who didn't trigger those conversations until she had already hit max affection. Apparently but who knows. Maybe I'll just hold onto the gifts until Chapter 4 is released, and if I'm still playing by then, give them back to her. :-)

The killer for PvE content will be the massive headache of replacing players who unsub. There's a thread going on now about the recommended gear levels for varying ops content, and the consensus is about what you'd expect: - daily mission rewards for super-basic entry level raids bosses - entry-level gear for entry+1 fights - entry+1 gear for entry+2 fights ..... - N-2 gear for the N-1'th fights - N-1 gear for current endgame N fights It's all very logical and sensible... and horribly impractical and demoralizing after a couple tiers of content are released. Expecting new tanks to go through the complete ladder gearing up just doesn't scale. The goalposts keep getting picked up and moved further away. Sure, if you have a guild of friends, they might be willing to drag your undergeared butt through (say) the N-1'th tier and help you skip a couple of those steps. But good luck trying to pug anything; you'll get booted for "not being geared". Everybody whines anytime a game does something the same as WoW, but imho Blizzard got it right in their last xpac (after several years of getting it wrong just like BW is now). Right now a fresh WoW endgame player does dailies and flashpoints, and the commendations earned that way are used to buy gear of similar quality to the previous (N-1'th) tier of loot drops. It lets them jump directly over the outdated stuff and be useful and contributing members of their ops groups much, much sooner.

Frankly, anything less than player-scriptable unitframes is going to fall short of community expectations. If there's any aspect of MMO play where I really, really demand the ability to customize, it's the endgame.

Oh HELL NO. There is zero reason for jackhats to *not* abuse such a system. Flashpoint run goes fine, troll rates everybody a 1 and then leaves. Just Because He Can. You can't give anonymous players the freedom to be complete bungholes in groups, and then expect them to be responsible. "Delaying" the accountability just doesn't work. Either they're always accountable (e.g., no cross-realm groups so that they have a reputation to protect) or they never are (e.g., WoW).

This guy gets it. Really, all BW would need to do is implement an XP->credit rollover at max level. (Yeah, fanbois, there's a reason that Blizzard implemented the same thing: it's a good idea!) Right now there's zero incentive to go back and do any missions at 50.

That finally got fixed. Very, very recently.

This thread gets +87 literary points for proper use of "denizen" and "cretin". OP: If you can't stand the thought of helping somebody else without a reward, then a) that's not "help", you are now a mercenary (which is fine but don't tell yourself otherwise), and b) you are playing the wrong game.

Yes, Bioware's idiotic "read from disk, write back to disk, read from freshly-written disk" scheme will do horrible things to performance. I think somebody on the dev team has been working with cell phone and console apps for too long. Everybody should investigate that thread. If they have a processor with PAE, then the OS can see beyond that limit even tho individual processes can only see a couple gigs at a time. The extra space can be used for -- say -- the ramdisk mentioned in the first part of your post.

Exactly. It's not the XP from the actual kills that matters here, it's the XP from finishing the bonus mission. The one-shot bonus missions give so-so XP. If you're in the area you might as well do them. The multistage bonus missions tend to give more XP/credits/etc than the main mission does! When you see a "Stage 1" pop up, make *that* your new primary goal. Yeah, be careful to not turn in the main mission (note: "turn in" can mean different things based on the mission) until the bonus is finished. Multistage bonuses especially; you can typically do the final "real" objective of the main mission (the boss fight or whatever) and the bonus mission will still be active. It's the last return-to-base-and-talk-to-dude step in a mission that will cancel any bonuses still in-progress.

Read the thread from the beginning instead of necroposting. It's all the same gear.

Ditto. My tank hasn't been to a single FP since Maelstrom Prison in the 30's. As soon as they find out that they're going to have some responsibility beyond facerolling, they whinge about "noobs" and bail. (And then come to these forums complaining they can't find a tank.) Ditto if they discover that the tank might actually need gear from the same places they do. Shocking, I know. /facepalm I'm pretty sure that most guilds aren't big enough to guarantee a complete and viable group is online anytime of day that you might happen to want to run a FP. They certainly aren't on my desolate realm, anyhow.

THIS. Forum whiners complain about the lack of a public test server, but very few of them ever actually *use* a testing server when they're available. Damn few of them, because a) playing on a copy of their toon that doesn't get to keep its rewards never appeals to that kind of mindset, and b) they're incapable of writing a useful bug report. It would require some kind of effort on their part. And then THIS. What they really mean is that they demand the PTS be online, and also everybody ELSE should go and do the testing.

The same things that these boards have been saying since day one: - Fix crashing and graphical glitches. AAA-title games shouldn't be causing bluescreens. - Merge servers. They don't need the hundred-ish realms they have now, with three people per zone. - Make an actual LFG tool. Make it work cross-realm. Sitting around the Fleet spamming general chat is fail. The lack of those points right there are the reasons people on my realm give when unsubscribing. They're probably the same reasons that I'll give when I unsubscribe (assuming the game doesn't get some patches soon).