That is a loader screen. The difference between the black loading screen and a normal one is that the black one doesn't have the "loading" bar implemented into it as it loads a very small zone. They knew that they will be bashed for them so they made an attempt to make it look different which it didn't worked. Edit** play in window mode, open task manager and look at it while on the black screen. HDD/CPU ratios will top the chars as they do on normal loading screen.

Camp the fleet:)

The problem is tho, that even Bioware promoting trailers were saying that they were working on give player stuff that "other mmo's" wouldn't do because they listen to the communty. To give you an example, they even mentioned the fact that they will focus a lot on PVP to make it balanced, something that in other MMO's has been a major issue because the other game developers won't listen to players feedback. Now when you make statements like this you are directly attacking the big brothers, aka. the mmo games that are actually leading (ie WoW) and placing yourself in a position that say "hey, my game is better than yours" thus making it official that they are entering the competition and challange the top. By doing that, posting trailers and keeping strong that we dit this and that, people are seeing it and slowly they move from their usual played game to Bioware's (which is what they want) because they see that the game has potential. Now, when they came from wow, rift or you name it, they have an "expectation" of what an MMO STANDARD should be. Actually, when you see that the things are different, with stuff stock UI, no macros etc just, naming some they feel dissapointed. I'm not protecting wow, not saying that it is the perfect game, but I also felt fooled by the things Bioware said about the game and were not true. You will want proof? And now the game fails on one for their most strong features, pvp, Ilum... on the first major patch!!! There is your proof. My point is... when you enter a competition you are constantly fighting against the best and if you are not able to keep up you will fail and a good start is to have some standard and basic thing implemented already. Which they are not. I like game and I want it to be at the top, yet it does not deliver that standard mmo requirements. Why am I not tolerant? Changegle interface. I don't want blue layouts all over the place on my screen. Give me the ability to design my own layout. Addons, yes they exist for years, yet, Bio can't fix it in 2012.

You know why they are speaking about it? It's because people like you. Ppl like you bring the WoW back to subject just by writing it down. I play both of them and yes, WoW it's a better game (now that you ask for) by far and by any means that's my POV and yes i's called freedom of speach. Just because SWTOR is 1 year, 5 or 10 years younger, doesn't mean that they couldn't implement things already known in the MMO world. That is not an excuse!!! Bioware should have learned the lesson. So, stop feeding the trolls then!

Don't be too fooled by it, once you enter 40+ planets you will suddently find your quests yellow and surpised by some orange class ones:)

The only way to bind 2 abilities to a key is the all mighty way the whole forums are crying about NOT to be implemented in the game. It's called a macro. EDIT* Even if you could without macroing it, that won't be possible. Any command/spell needs to be designated to a hotbar slot (even if it's hidden). If it's not placed in the hotbar, the game will not consider it binded.

If I'd play on my 50 yes I'd get bored, but atm I am just leveling my other classes to 50 as much as possible and that keeps me busy. The only thing that makes it less entertaining now for me at least, it's the immense ammount of travel. I just miss Eve Online ingame browser to do other staff (in between) rather than doing completelly nothing and staring at my screen and moving the mouse a bit for 3-4 minutes till reach the mission destination.

No. definitelly not. The main reason is that most of the friends I'm playing with are not resubbing. The usuals are known: very choppy content at 50, the mighty UI, abilities delays, bad programing code making castings cancels if the animation isn't completed or the cast bar delay and you guessed it macro's. We believe these are factors that cannot be missed in an MMO. It is astonishing that most of the other mmo have those things and SW:TOR doesn't. However, this does not mean we do not like the game. We all still like it and we all agreed that it's a very nice game and has a lot of potential, but with those things in the way they will only annoy us more rather than enjoing it. We decided to give it a break before calling it off for good. To avoid fanboys start crying, we decided the following: Give SW:TOR 3-6 months of development to improve things and give it another serious shot. Classes will be nerved, others buffed, positive and nevative things will take place, so we decided to leave the already 50 mains in dust (I already have a BH and a SA) and level as many classes to 50 as possible for hehe, you guess it, rerolls. Just a precaution. When we will be back, we can reroll the class we desire acording to the changes and give it another go.

E. Yes option E. It has happened to me a lot, mostly in a cave or a room that needs to be cleared. It is a good moment, for me to get a fast drink/toilet order something do x, by letting them clear all the trash till the objective and then paying them back in the same way. No, you can't tell me I am harsh or disrespectful. If someone does this he knows what is he doing wrong. I mostly wait for them to get theirs or help them kill their mobs. I have a word saying: If you're an ******* with me, I am an ******* with you

I have no experience or proof on why the space combat it is as it is . But I do think that it has to do with the engine itself. Some engines are not designed for an specific gametype as it simply needs to be optimized for it. A space gametype means that the engine needs an interesting algorythm of rendering let's say an specific ammount of asteroids on different size and shapes, you name it. Either way, just because we're playing Star Wars doesn't mean this is a Space related game at all.

I'd say regular... I use an old Logitech G3.... best investment of my life (in computer therms speaking:)). Simple mouse, simple shape, 6 buttons. It has done his work working 7-8 hours daily since 2006. Now he lowly starts to show signs of retirement... unfortunately it's discontinued. I'd buy 50 of them if I could find a seller:)

Where the hell is Jeek? Went trough different websides but none of them can point it's accurate location. I want to level not search for 30 minutes for a mob to turn in a quest... I wonder who was the smart developer doing this quest. Anyway, can anyone point me to Jeek's location on Tattoine?

Your most popular option if you want good quality, is: Fraps and Dxtory. Neither of them are free, but out of the 2 Dxtory offer more options and cutomization. Keep in mind, that recording movies, takes a massive ammount of hdd space. Also you will need software like Vegas or Premiere to make nice movies (if you want to go a bit deeper) but you can of course use free/ms programs as well.

Just because some people don't have any problems, it doesn't mean other ppl's pc's are having it because of cooling problems. I have the same issue and all other 37 guildies of mine. Run a temp check program and you will have it too, in fact NONE of those who posted that are clean aren't. It is a common issue on this game to increase the temps by 20-30%. On top of that I have tested the game with 2 different cards running on stock gpu cooler and both behaved the same way.

When do you guys are going to realize there is no WAY to tell how much players are playing the game. Neither Blizzard or Bioware are allowing server numbers to be seen. On a side note, what OP posted it's based on Census, which practically caches every character/guild searched and adds them together. Most of the time it is outdated With all your cry and try to defend SWTOR, there is no way they have more active players logged in at this very moment of posting than WoW. I believe that if you put the players of SWTOR and WoW side be side now, WoW still wins by a far margin and no, I'm not even including Asian side. WoW simply has too many servers, I believe lastly reported was 421.Now to your own belief, let's make a simple math: People are saying that wow has at peak 250k users? now my question to you is: 250000/421=593 Do you really think, but do YOU, think that every wow server has only 593 ppl loged at the same time?