Thanks for the response. That's what I was afraid of, not having the added edge of being overleveled and probably overgeared at 55-60 for a level 50 operation. Now we'll be bolstered to level 65, but have to complete the operation on-level. That will certainly make things more difficult if not impossible. Oh well, thankfully there's a ton of other things to do in-game.

I'm the leader of a small, fairly new guild that would like to get into operations. The plan was to start with the old level 50 ops with level 55-60 folks in pretty good gear as a training plan. Now it seems that plan isn't going to be possible with the operations all tuned to level 65. My fear is that this move by Bioware is going to prevent my small, fairly inexperience guild from experiencing any operations, and I'm not real happy about it. Am I missing the boat on this one? Anyone else in the same predicament or have any suggestions?

I'm the leader of a small, fairly new guild that would like to get into operations. The plan was to start with the old level 50 ops with level 55-60 folks in pretty good gear as a training plan. Now it seems that plan isn't going to be possible with the operations all tuned to level 65. My fear is that this move by Bioware is going to prevent my small, fairly inexperience guild from experiencing any operations, and I'm not real happy about it. Am I missing the boat on this one? Anyone else in the same predicament or have any suggestions?

A few friends and I have come back to the game and we are looking for an active guild that does it all: a little RP, PvP, PvE (HM flashpoints, Operations, etc.), GSF, pretty much everything. We would like to find a guild (Empire) that has 10 or more active players on at any given time (especially evenings - Eastern and Central timezones). We're looking for a high level of activity, organization (regular scheduled events), frequent communication, and a plan. We've all been in guild leadership in this game and others over the years so we know what it takes. We're ready and willing to jump in and make things happen.

I agree that gold spammers are a blight on civilization and should be rooted out and destroyed at all costs. Keep in mind, however, that for now only paid subscribers have access to Galactic Starfighter, not preferred or free-to-play accounts. I'm not sure if any gold-selling "companies" would pay to subscribe, but who knows?

I keep seeing this topic pop up, and I simply can't resist finally adding my opinion. No. If you want to play a different class, then play that class from it's humble beginnings. It's that simple, to me. The Advanced Classes are different classes. Take a Jedi Knight for example. The Advanced Class Guardian wears heavy armor, while the Advanced Class Sentinel wears medium armor. The have different weapon types or numbers, wear different armor types, have different skill trees, and play completely differently. Obviously this is just my opinion, and everyone is entitled to one. There are far too many things I would like to see the developers focus on (more guild functionality, more RP functionality, more content) than to create an Easy Button for people who are unhappy with the class they chose to play.

Echo Company is a military-themed RP guild. The guild leader (me) and several officers and members are former military or even active duty. You can reply to this post or contact me in-game (Drehker).

I played Warhammer with several friends and we all loved the game, especially the RvR and PvP mini-games. We talked several times about going back and playing again if it would go free to play and add an ingame cash shop for convenience and cosmetic items. In my opinion, they are shutting down because they did NOT adopt a free to play model.

<Echo Company> is underway and progressing nicely. We still have room for more people, and are looking for active players of any class with an interest in RP, especially military-themed RP. If you're interested you can reply to this post, or contact me ingame (Drehker).

Thanks for organizing this. Echo Company is a new guild, but we would definitely be interested in participating. Are there any ground rules? For example, how many members from each guild may attend? Are pre-summit agendas published as an outline to guide discussion? I am relatively new to this server, and Echo Company is a new guild, but we would like to become actively participating members of The Ebon Hawk community.

Ignoring your snide "Carebear" remarks and thinly veiled insults, the new flashpoints, operations, dailies, companions, events and even entire planets all have one thing in common: a continuation of the existing land-based combat system. A completely new, much sought-after freeflight space component to this game is unlike anything else. And it's a crying shame they decided to make it PvP only.

This looks cool and loads of fun, it's just a shame it's PvP only. So many people will never experience it simply because of that fact.

It may be MORE than enough for people who enjoy PvP. But it's effectively NOTHING for people who despise PvP and wanted more PvE space content.

Thanks for the anecdote, but you lost me at "QQ..." You would have really been much more effective if you would have stopped at "just TRY one." and left the condescending comments out.

I have been ambivalent about the addition of arenas because I'm just not interested in arena-style deathmatch PvP. However, my ambivalence has vanished since I am now forced to enter an arena warzone. Like others have said in this thread, if I am put into an arena, I will leave. I apologize in advance to those left behind, it's just not my cup of tea. Separate the queues!