Rather than doing the missions, go gather slicing boxes on the planets. you'll make money.

I am pretty sure this is intentional. you lose money on most of the crew-skill missions that don't crit. I make a lot of money slicing though, as it's supposed to, because of the random slicing boxes on the planets. if you actually do the story and quests and don't live on the fleet, you'll find slicing boxes everywhere, for free, with lots of credits in them. That's where the money is. tl:dr version - you don't play the game as intended, your argument is invalid.

Fans of James Earl Jones?

obviously the stories are different, and I don't think you'll get too many people who have played both, since the classes play the same, but are on opposite factions, and some people have faction loyalty, or just want to try a different class. I've gotten both to roughly 30 (in both cases to, and mostly through Nar Shadaa) Without being too spoily, the IA feels more... important... so far, like she's the only one who can and is doing the things she's doing. It's not that the smuggler isn't important, just that he's not already an established name in the field the way the IA is. I also don't care so much for Corso, but that's just a personal preference.

You missed the point.

Agreed. Patch notes need to be inclusive, or why bother providing them at all? Edit: and inclusive doesn't have to mean spoily. putting in the notes: "rearranged a few planets to better hide the eggs" would have been sufficient.

As I said in the other thread, I reported it, and I hope other people will do the same. just press the 'help' button on the top-right of your window, then press the account issues link on that page and shoot them a quick email. It gets their attention faster than the forums do, from what I've seen, and more reports might convince them that they need to address it.

obvious troll is obvious

Odd, I don't think that i've seen such threads ever get "removed" closed yes, but if you really had a problem to express, you would post anyways, and let people read it even if it's closed and they can't reply. So um... I call your bluff until you post otherwise, OP.

The OP is wrong though. Bringing everyone up to a par would make the game become (over time) too easy. Nerfing is the correct way to balance a game, even if it isn't particularly fair or fun when it happens. Be happy this isn't the Champions Online dev-team's policy of over-compensate-a-change, then swing back the change. They had a reputation for nerfing slightly overpowered powers into the ground, before returning them to usefulness.

For those of us who didn't see such an announcement, think you could link to it or tell us in a relatively unbiased way why they weren't included. I feel like a little kid when his parent's talk about "grown up" stuff here. I get the words, but I don't know the context.

We can't all have fancy PCs like yours, and I definitely notice an improvement right after maintenance resets. Not to mention other benefits, such as any stuck mobs being reset. consider me /signed //and if you decide you want to troll me by suggesting you _don't_ have an awesome pc, post a dxdiag.

^This. Resetting everyone's would be chaos, and a mad grab for the good ones. Letting people, at their discretion, one time, change it to something available at the time they are resetting it might be ok.

I did, and it was. Good call.

Ok, some feedback. 1) I can't give you feedback via email, because the instructions file says to use the email address in the info menu in the game. This is a problem, because the game doesn't run. 2) The game gives me an error that a dll file is missing. Depending on the language used, sometimes it relies on the system having access to certain assets that simply don't exist on every machine. This is why many programs have installer packages and/or larger shell programs doing the installation. I'll find myself a copy of that dll file and see what happens, but that's something you should be aware of. It can be hard to find different machines to test stuff on, and not everyone has access to virtual environment software, but it's something to consider. Edit: I found this link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6580685/what-is-msvcp100d-dll, which might or might not be the issue. I don't use C++, so it is likely I wouldn't have a needed dll from it. Edit #2: Putting the dll into my system32 folder (which is where it would be expected in any windows environment), appears to have worked, but the error comes up expecting yet another dll that I don't have. I might have to actually install the C++ redistribution package, which, for sending out a program to numerous people, is largely an unacceptable issue.