I read the post as a complaint against all the watered down un polished content we've been being spoon fed the past year or more. Not a complaint against being punished for exploiting. I agree with the OP. The game is awesome lvl 1-50 after that it's way to... un-memorable. He's right, I can't name a single boss in the battle of Rishi FP.

I've never read Smithsonian or Discover that I can recall, I'll have to check them out. Archaeology is one that I have enjoyed and forgotten about, thanks!

I always liked coming home as a kid and finding something good to flip through. I like nature and science so was thinking Backpacker magazine and Nat Geo. I really like sci fi and movies so maybe entertainment weekly.. What do you guys subscribe to? Anyone have any good recommendations?

I take it you never tried using the training dummies on the fleet prior to 3.0 then. Ability delay was most certainly there just not as bad.

ASUS Sabertooth Z97 Mark 1 motherboard Intel Core i7-4770k 3.5ghz EVGA Superclocked GTX 760 2gb 256 bit GDDR 5 SAMSUNG 840 Pro Series 512GB SATA III Solid State Drive G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Windows 7 I just built this rig a few months ago. Server: Shadowlands Location: East Coast Ping: 10-20 I play the game with everything maxed including the shadow map resolution and maintain around 60-100 fps in ops/warzones/questing. Disclaimer: that damn shadow map resolution will sometimes cause my fps to drop to the 30-40 range which blows my mind but it usually only lasts a second or two. Ability lag.... This has been an issue since the game launched and I do believe there is nothing you can do on your end. It comes and goes with new patches/expansions and BW usually can smooth it out for a bit it just takes time. Most noticeable for me on my Jugg but not so much on my Merc

Well if you don't like it you can just.. oh wait you covered that. Kidding aside I couldn't agree more. Been playing the game since early beta and while I really like the expansion in some ways (the story, the ambiance, overall flow) I'm counting down the days till my Aunt Wilma sends me a friend referal link along with all her other candycrush farmville garbage. /Standing ovation

Well done post, couldn't agree more. To all those saying if you are hardcore you ran with one spec. Yea no, you just did what you were told in a youtube video/webpage. I changed my spec depending on the fight/encounter. Merc healer/Jugg Tank. Each had two specs I'd use to optimize situational utilities/dps/ehps. ////////

SWG didn't go free to play because it wasn't an option for them. If SWG had launched after say 2005 or later, it would have been gone free to play. Swtor's engine is based off an alpha version of the Hero engine that is correct. To call the engine we currently use the hero engine is just false. It was so heavily modified before the game even launched (as game devs do to all engines) it is no longer recognizable as such. There is no such thing as a "finished game engine" in the MMO world.

I would like to be able to label rooms. So when a player enters that room or even hallway a message pops up like "The Vault" or "Med Lab". Similar to the planetary zones.

Spot on. The game is basically the same with some QoL improvements and more content of course. Their only real blunder IMO was opening too many servers at launch. Which pretty much every MMO has done, just look at Wildstar. Edit: Oh yea and they also made that other classic MMO blunder. They launched about 6 months too early. Which was obvious when you look at the fact they had KP in place but you could only do the first boss.

Just wanted to say hello from the Shadowlands and that my raid team LOVES your guides. Way more detailed and thought out than the alternatives. Keep up the good work!!

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=648215 "Other people"?

My pc is ancient AMD Dual core 2.8 3.5 gb ram AMD radeon HD 6570 1gb OS windows vista When I'm questing/leveling I have all setting on high even shadows. (just not the new shadow setting they just added, I tried, turns into a slideshow) I always play with name plates off though. I hate them and you see a big fps improvement with them off. I get about 30 to 40 fps. Some planets are better, some worse. Alderaan is the worst. I keep my pc very clean and optimized though. When I raid I take shadows off and drop character lvl of detail and get around 40 to 50 fps.

I make no excuses for bullying you back. I used your own tactics against you, it's called fighting fire with fire. Which clearly got you upset. Now you know how the OP probably felt. Speaking of the OP, I think this thread has been derailed from the original topic enough. If you wish to continue to justify your inappropriate post feel free to PM me.

You were using sarcasm to put down another poster for making a game suggestion. I used it to point out what you were doing. Sarcasm doesn't offend me when it's used in jest, you used it to bully. You could have just given the guy constructive feedback on his idea. Instead you nit picked every little thing from the forum he used to post in to the fact that you don't use legacy abilities, so in your mind, nobody needs to.