Trying to come back to this game after a while, had to reinstall. When I tried loading up the game, my monitor's resolution is shrunk to an absurdly small level, something like 600x600, and the game tries to open in an extremely thin, tall window that I can't make heads or tails of. And even if I left it that way it wouldn't matter, because I've sat there as long as 15 minutes and the game simply will not load. At all. I've tried re-installing, I've tried waiting for the download to be 100% complete. Nothing helps. And this is a PC that has run this game just fine in the past, so it is neither a hardware nor software issue. It's not a firewall issue either, the game is listed explicitly as an exception. So what do I do here

Don't misunderstand, what I was thinking of wouldn't delete your alts, it would just put a sort of copy of them to be used as an NPC in your other character's instances.

From the very start of the game, it's been implied and stated in various ways that while you were one hero going on feats of derring-do, there were plenty of other heroes of renown on both the sides of the Republic and Empire doing their own parts. Basically, the assumption that while you were playing, say, a Jedi Knight, the Jedi Consular, Smuggler, Trooper and all the Empire classes also existed and were off doing their story campaigns while you were doing yours. I and many other players for various reasons have played through all of these campaigns at least once, which means we've got characters left over from those playthroughs, but personally I simply don't have the time or energy most days to get every single one of them through the newest content. Rather than allow those unused alts to collect dust, I was wondering if there may be some method of incorporating them into your main characters' Alliance. For one reason or another, in KotFE it's implied that while you were imprisoned by Arcann all the other class heroes either died or disappeared, leaving their companions roaming around for you to collect in the main campaign or as Alliance alerts. While I can't speak to the difficulty of such a task, maybe you guys at BioWare could incorporate our alt characters as recruits the same way Guss, or Jorgan, or whoever were. My idea would be through some method, allow players to "record" the alt character on that server they would like to register as the "hero" of that class for their own personal stories. Their appearance, Advanced class, first cosmetic slot for equipment, and alignment would be saved to that profile, and maybe if it's possible to record, the types of dialogue choices they usually pick (flirty, funny, threatening, what have you.) Then, at some point in the future, a new Alliance alert might allow you to go on a mission to recruit the "hero" of one of the other seven classes, and the character that appears would be your alt. Again, I don't know if it's even feasible to implement, but I thought this might be a nice way to give a little more love for players whose Alt-itis has outgrown their time and ability to play The Old Republic.

I'm not even mad about it anymore, I just can't stop laughing. How in the hell did you guys think this was a good idea? Hell, man, at LEAST make first half of the rewards automatically unlock if you've fulfilled the requirements on non-event characters. At LEAST dish out eight free character slots for the event for the members of the community that have been supporting you all this time and don't have any more space to make event characters with. If you're trying to reel in new players so hard you make an event designed to appeal to them, that's fine. But Christ alive, don't screw over your existing player base to do it. What's your plan if this fails and the new players don't come pouring in? All you'd be left with is your previous userbase, who would more than likely be pretty rightly pissed you spent three months giving them the finger.

Let's not pretend the other services they offer aren't disgustingly overpriced.

The real question is why the Jedi and Sith characters shouldn't be focusing on getting stronger in the Force. The non-Force users need weapons but considering how absurdly this last chapter focused on the Force, shouldn't we be trying to use it?

10/10, best part was when you assumed BioWare would actually make changes between the test server and release.

I'm pretty sure the reason they're so large is part of the exaggerated, stylized aesthetic they tried to make the game with. Weapons are important parts of the character model so they want you to be able to look at it and it be distinct at a glance. Personally I think it's a pretty unpleasant aesthetic to look at, with the way it exaggerates proportions to look more distinct, but I can at least see the idea behind it. The launch weapons in particular were downright atrocious, blasters in particular looking nothing like any blaster in the franchise, just ugly hunks of metal that occasionally had a tube that might be a barrel slapped on.

What about all the people in-game who are complaining too?

I'm cancelling my subscription today. I was giving BioWare a chance under the impression that their new focus on "episodic" content would mean they intended to actually bring out content at a reasonable pace. But the dearth of content in terms of Flashpoints, Operations, Alliance content, and even in the story they were touting as a return to form is disgusting, and the "rewards" they want to hand out in return for sticking through this months-long barren patch is frankly insulting. I can safely say they've permanently lost me as a customer this time.

Same error here.

I cannot think of a single person that actually complained about Companions as they were at KotFE launch. Who on earth is BioWare listening to to make this change?

None of the robes they've added so far really strike me as the kind of jedi robes I want, but that's because the engine they built this game on is absolute garbage and can't properly recreate the volume that the heavy overcoat over the shorter, more practical tunic and trousers should have. They can only do those dumb capes and waist-capes. Can't make the robes drape over the front in any way it seems, that or they're too lazy to figure out how.

Don't be childish and try and turn this into an ad hominem contest. I can understand Koth's reasoning perfectly well. What you're mistaken on is the idea that understanding his reasoning means I have to respect it. I don't. His reasons are poorly founded, rife with fallacy and blatantly colored by his own bias and objective naivete about the goings-on of 95% of the galaxy. He only knows, and makes it very clear he only cares about Zakuul. His entire morality is a sham and hypocritical. To him, the lives of a thousand Zakuulans are precious, and sacrificing them for the greater good makes you an irredeemable monster. But the deaths of billions of non-Zakuulans are, to him, irrelevant because he's sure Valkorian must have had a good reason. Nothing he says on the issue makes any sense, thus I and the characters I play have no reason to respect his opinions on the matter. That is not hatred, that is just people perceiving and reacting to the character they've been presented with in the story.

That line of thinking is horrifying. "Because shut up" is an awful reason to deny requests to provide something your consumers want. These forums exist as a medium for us to speak with the developers and tell them what we like about their product, what we don't like and what we wish to see changed, added, and removed in the future. Don't tell people to stop using this board for the explicit reason it exists just because you're petty enough to get mad about it.