Translation: "You're not ALLOWED not to PVP. You're inferior if you don't. You have to play my way, and I have the right to force you to. I'm being a better person if I do." Thanks for proving me right.

It's not rocket surgery. Discuss it at the beginning of the flashpoint (Need for YOUR class, Greed for companions, etc), votekick and /ignore those who refuse or ninja anyway, or leave if the vote fails and /ignore them all.

Dead wrong. Doing Gree events was interesting in areas that WEREN'T PVP areas, due to yellow (flagged opposing faction) players who loved to hide in or run into combats, hoping they could absorb a bit of AoE, turn green players red, and gank them. On a PVE server, it is not unreasonable to expect to do quests that are NOT marked [PVP] and NOT in open pvp areas that flag you without being involuntarily flagged and ganked by lurking PVPtards. On a PVE server, I would rather expect to have the option in preferences to check a box marked "NEVER flag me for PVP," so that such things didn't happen.

OP is dead on target. Yes, BW could improve on the lag produced by high density pvp. But the big complaint I keep seeing is, "I want to be able to force PVEers to PVP with me against their will! Forcing other people into situations they hate is FUN (for ME)!" We aren't interested in joining PVP. We eschew it for a reason. If PVPers need to see the reason, they can find a handy mirror.

Dang multi-viscosity Ewoks.

Your friend can't pull his weight in the FP. That's why he's getting kicked. He can remedy that, or he can get used to not doing FPs.

Because I enjoy the game, fifty cents a day is not much, because I am not an entitled whiner shedding oceans of tears in a fit of rage that the world will not devote itself to making me happy.

>mfw no one saves coins from one month to the next >mfw no one gets extra coins for achievements >mfw oceans of tears are shed over the ultimate first world problem >mfw I have not yet bought a new face at the customization kiosk

ding ding ding ding, give this man a kewpie doll. No, OP, nobody but you thinks forcing everyone to play your way, and never mind your "it's only once," is a good idea. If you want to slowly piece your way through every story, savoring every moment of voice acting, then do so. I hope you have a guild, because I rather suspect you're going to be votekicked VERY often otherwise. Perhaps your guild will put up with your demands that they experience the One True Path. I know I wouldn't, and I doubt many others will, either.

Oh, my. /takei False Emperor run today, tanking for 3 smugs. Story mode, them running as fast as they can, pulling everything they can, refusing directions, all the while telling me to lrn2tank (because I was clearly ruining their day by wanting to start with a throw before force leaping to the elite/champ/whatever). CC droids? You must be joking. That ability's just there to fill out the smugs' command bar, it doesn't actually DO anything. I told them they could obviously tank just fine by themselves, and let them finish the flashpoint on their own. Got foul-mouthed hate tells from one for a while before reporting and ignoring him. I'll save the Dr. Lorrik/oh dear god save the rez for the tank not the dps that pulled off him in the first three seconds/stay out of the goo/dps the kolto vat story for another day.

HRRR TRRK MRRR SHRRRP! Yeah, that motivation lasts for about 10 levels or so, then wears thin. I do wish someone on the writing team knew what a privateer was, so that when the Republic names me one, I could do what a privateer does. That would have been cool. They don't, so it wasn't.

Trooper has a good ending, IF you go Dark. The LS options for ending made me sick. IA's ending was made of pure awesome. Consular's was "meh," but then the entire Consular story was dishwater dull. Smuggler's story I've hated from the beginning. I love the game mechanics (they're IA mechanics, after all), but I utterly despise everything else about the Smuggler with the sole exception of Guss Tunno. JK looks like it will end well (still slogging through Voss with mine, and altaholism slows me down). To sum up for OP, there might be one good republic story.

We call it Multiple Personality Disorder now. Imagine the surprise when multiple people have... wait for it... multiple personalities. So, it's, like, not a disorder.

I looked for it there but didn't see it. I did, however, guess that there would be downtime b/c the Gree Event was ending, and then searched up references to changes in the cartel market taking effect 3/26, which confirmed that there would be downtime. I didn't count on logging in just before 2AM CDT, which is the usual time servers go down for maintenance, to finish out my last gree dailies, but there it is.

I believe the phrase is, "their reality laps our satire."