The droid's affection can not be raised. Imperial Agents eventually get a companion that's a healer, but not for a long time.

Been playing since pre-order head start, and am still subscribed. I've got one level 50 republic toon and, after having played the starting planet for all of the imperial characters, have settled on the Imperial toon that I intend to play through to 50.

Hopeful

Would I play a different MMO by Bioware? Ayup. I'm quite the fan of the Star Wars setting, but as far as my gaming goes, I'm more of a fan of Bioware's method of interactive storytelling.

Yes As with any game, there could be improvements. But do I like it? Yup

Yeah, more music would add a bit to the zones. Evocative themes to add to the feel of a planet.

try tor-loot.com - it may have what you're looking for, though they're still populating their database

39 years old and a unix system administrator. And not really getting that old bit of "39 and holding" - I welcome my 40s

Nah, the orange hammer station drop is a full color on the plates, not a stripe (that's what I'm wearing now)

I don't really PVP, so while I recognize that an imbalance exists between BH and Trooper, in the PVE game, the Trooper performs quite well.

It takes a little bit after Garza promotes you to captain "effective immediately" and when you finally get the title.

Jorgan. Dorne makes a fine sergeant, but if something happened to me in the field and somebody needed to take command of Havok squad, Jorgan seemed to be the obvious choice. Dorne's adherence to regulations seems like it could have spelled doom for some of the missions I've run.

I'm not sure that there's any amount of being good at PVP that will get you anything but dead on Ilum on many PVP servers right now. http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/2971/patch11awesome.png

Bioware, I've got no idea how you fix this. Even if you turn off Ilum and do a rollback to address the obvious problems with valor right now, what was supposed to be a PR coup - the release of a content patch before the end of the first month of subscriptions - has turned into a disaster. I wish you the best of luck, and hope that in six months time I'm not looknig back with friends and saying that the Rise of the Rakghouls is what killed SWTOR.

Bioware, in my opinion you need to do better communicating with your player base. This dev blog just isn't sufficient. For example, it seems obvious that Ilum is not working as intended. Letting your players know what you intend to do about the immediate situation there, and then the longer term issue of faction balance is something that should be addresses much, much sooner rather than later.