Connectivity does seem rather shaky - if I do succeed in logging in, it crashes before the character selection screen is displayed. Even if the login process is successful, it's far slower than what's typical, at least for me.

That's unpossible - why, I was told on another thread that folks are making hundreds of millions of credits by crafting just a few hours a week! You must be mistaken.

Right.

Operative word there is "can" - it's easier, and more reliable at this point, to just run my alts through heroics for money. Crafting has become a fickle, unlikely way to generate income, especially as the game showers you with the items you need to progress - indeed, the game's happy to let you skip all that nasty progression business and just buy your way into the endgame, where most of your gear's provided not by crafters, but by the game itself as long as you've ground through enough command levels & such to get the currency du jour used to purchase endgame gear.

Seconded - the only reason I'm still playing at this point is to amass & use decorations, and it's discouraging as heck to see bugs this obvious on brand-new content.

Had no difficulty running it in story mode the first time, by selecting it from the quest console on the ship. However, I wanted to run it again, and I used the Activities dialog to select it from the Flashpoints group. Chose "Travel", and all that happened was that it ended up on my mission log. Even more fun? It's no longer present on the quest console on the ship. So, I guess we can only run it once, at least right now, on story mode?

What would be the point? I had my very first PvP warzone match today. I don't PvP normally, but I thought I'd give it a try. And, of course, since I'm not geared or spec'ed for it, I was about as useful as a Jawa basketball hoop. From the apparent advice on the forums, my choices are: Re-spec and re-gear my character solely for PvP Don't PvP Casual PvPing appears to be discouraged. (And I'd be OK with that, except there are parts of the game that require PvP, like getting back M1-4X as a companion.) So, if my participation in the game is apparently meant to be "all or nothing," why would my participation in the forum be any different?

If you're doing it for profit? Yeah. It's dead. If you're doing it to further the aims of a guild? No, it's not dead, but it's also not a primary activity, either.

Yeah, this was a huge disservice to solo crafters, folks who have to buy their high-end mats because they're not running operations and have limited time in which to play. Millions of credits wasted, without so much as a hint of notice. Crafting was almost a waste of time before this, as few bother to buy crafted gear while levelling and endgame gear is a product of grinding - wasting these high-end mats through sudden obsolescence means wasting all the time crafters spent making the money to buy them. I honestly don't know what's sustaining the game's economy at this point. It's depressing.

Is it just me, or is it impossible to get a Light Datacron (x) or Dark Datacron (x) decoration after you've leveled past 50 or so? Chests no longer produce them, and dropped loot appears to be stomped on by the Outlander loot table...

So, in response to the global outcry over lootbox RNG cashgrabs as gambling, you... introduced a super-duper-lootbox RNG cashgrab? Really?! Direct sale is nice, except that the prices are beyond ridiculous even now (and there's no real clue here as to whether they're getting better or worse), obviously to encourage folks to buy the super-duper-lootbox RNG cashgrabs. You're begging Congress to take notice. You're begging the EU to take notice. You're going to be the example that they hold up when they decide to legislate the MMO market. Did you not think this through?

I have to concur. I'm an older player, and I play more than a few characters on both Alliance and Empire sides. This is my recreation, and anything that makes it feel like work dulls my enjoyment of it. I spend much of my time IRL working closely with others, so I tend to shy from it when I can while online - one of the things I enjoy about this game is that there's enough NPC interaction to give me that "single player RPG" feel in an MMO environment. I like being able to choose.

I'm in that line, personally.

Depends on my mood. Usually, I'm listening to my own music, but I do sometimes turn that off and just enjoy the background music from the game.

I'd second this - I'd like to see them: On by default, ideally with an edit-mode-only switch to turn them off Visible only in edit mode Louder, if possible