I wonder if it's even occurred to them to address this or improve the character creation options like hairstyles. Charge cartel coins for all I care, if your reasoning is dev time won't pay off. So Qui-Gon Jinn would have to be Qui-gon Jinn in this game? No way of writing that properly? C'mon.

Thanks for agreeing with that idea. Would really like for BioWare to notice this one and rework the carbonite item into something that can make more sense, as no one would ever put themselves in carbonite for a few seconds, just for show.

Go ahead and pay a bunch of money in hopes of being as cool as you think you are. Tools gonna be tools.

This. I have no problem with a floating throne for meditation or something or even a more modest one like Yoda had that can still look bad*ss, especially if slow, but it's the execution that really makes this look like an eyesore. It just isn't plausible that any Sith would hover around in such a ridiculous thing. You'd look like a tool. And the whiny "if you don't like it, don't buy it" line is so old and ineffective. The reason I don't like it is because I don't want dozens of other people speeding around in that stupid thing. It kills the immersion factor, and feeling immersed in the game is important.

Do we know for sure it doesn't improve both the damage and healing if you're using Dark Charge? If the amount healed has a direct relationship with the amount of damage done, it stands to reason that it would. Actually, maybe someone should check the tooltip for the damage/healing numbers before and after applying this to see what happens. Will do that at some point.

Not to get off-topic, but the thrones are lame. Anyone using them looks like a tool.

Yeah, but people buzzing around in silly vehicles or placing themselves into carbonite nearby for no reason does affect the immersion factor. I'm all for having some fun with it, but what's wrong with the throne being in the ship? What's wrong with making the carbonite-related purchase a mission, like how Elder Scrolls games have DLC add-on missions? I can live with slave outfits and music droids because clothes are clothes and some people in the world would use a music droid if one existed. That's fine, so whatever. There is musical spirit in the movies. But these two seem stupid, and I'm mostly afraid it indicates that more nonsense could be in the works, like night elf mohawk grenades that instead give everyone a Yoda-like head within a 30m radius. Don't go there, BioWare. I don't want to leave, but the Elder Scrolls MMO will look a lot more appealing if you keep this up. Plenty of games out there to play, so please assure us you're listening.

I'm not even that concerned about bugs or anything. IMO the game is in pretty good shape and anything left over is not a big deterrent as long as they do have tickets in place to fix. I just can't stand the idea of them spending all this time on lame gimmicks. Next thing you know they'll have a Yoda hat and Mickey Mouse hat based on this random carbonite animation and these floating thrones. That kind of thing is not really going to bring in subscribers (I'm sure some casual players will be amused for five minutes), but it will turn plenty away. I'm sure some within BioWare agree with me, and they need to speak up more and make sure this game does not devolve into driving X-wings around as speeders or something. If you want to do something cool with carbonite, make a mission out of it. Allow a character to defeat an enemy and store him in carbonite on the ship. Maybe even allow you to seal someone you beat in a duel in carbonite and keep the mold or something, if you really want to push it. But what that video showed looked like complete, gimmicky nonsense. Put some actual thought into your gimmicks so they don't feel shoehorned into the experience in a way that compromises the integrity of the game and the people who want to feel like they're experiencing something great.

Stop making the game sillier in an effort to appeal to the lowest common denominator. I hate stupid gimmicks. The rhythm augmentation droid is funny and about as far as it should go; it's stupid to have someone buying a carbonite chamber for himself. The meditation throne should not float around or serve as a vehicle. It'd be fine if it was a static throne for your ship. Also, cut down on all the shiny gold borders. It looks really cheesy when you log in with a legacy account, and I can see that same kind of nonsense with the borders and cartel icon here. All of this seems worse than what we had before. Please take this game seriously so it can feel like an immersive world and part of the Star Wars universe we know from the films. You will begin losing serious subscribers if the game devolves into attenion-grabbing gimmicks to the point it distracts from the goal of experiencing the Star Wars universe with a good story and strong gameplay.

Right, and that seems pretty easy to implement that into the system. The site I work for has an auto-format tool for headlines that capitalizes certain words and leaves others lowercase depending on the placement (e.g. "the" is capitalized when it begins a headline or follows a colon and lowercase elsewhere), allowing for manual overrides, and I know that did not take long at all to tweak as needed when I requested some changes once.

Would love to hear BioWare respond to this. Seems like an easy change to increase immersion and satisfaction among a user base that is in need of things like this to feel more invested. I have some alt ideas I have not executed on just because of this silliness.

Highly disagree. I have gone down there before to try that, and it's rare to find anyone since no one wants to sit there waiting for the right combination for too long, especially when servers were too spread out because BioWare began with more than it should have. Even though there is a chunk of people who just aren't looking to group, it's a small number who *never* want to group, and this feature should stimulate group usage significantly because people who would otherwise forgo it or leave it up to chance encounters will now have a terrifically passive way to find groups while continuing along with other objectives and whatnot. I did a Lv. 28 Heroic 4 solo when I was Lv. 35, taking forever, just because there was no one around the area and I didn't want to leave the planet without crossing it off. It was slow but doable...but I would have preferred to have had another person with me to speed things up and make it more reasonable (when you run out of force, it's no fun). With a group finder, I could have queued it up and had a better chance at finding help while I was doing some of the earlier quests. EDIT: I will say this: If Bioware put a GTN and mailbox on the same floor/area as the flashpoint terminal area (terminology is escaping me), people would be a heck of a lot more likely to congregate there and see other players standing near a flashpoint they were looking to do. One vendor is not enough to keep people busy there.

Re: No. 5, we really need *more* options for hair and face types in particular. There are so few character designs I can feel OK playing with. Maybe 3-4 hair styles are decent. The spiky style in the front looks incredibly lame and nerdy on both lengths.

1. Kaleesh 2. Bothan 3. Trandoshan

I'd try asking one of the developers on Twitter or something. If you can get an answer first, you can feel more safe.