You guys are cracking me up with this thread. I agree the choices are less than...ideal. But I'll admit I am pleased with my male Nautolan sniper, Kalin: https://i.postimg.cc/ZRQygpCZ/Desktop-Screenshot-2019-11-01-23-34-19-53.png I don't know why the females of the races often seem to have the worst options in character creation. I find that's true across many games, not just this one. As a female, I typically create male characters in most games for that very reason. Alas.

I am currently able to log in and am experiencing no lag in my strongholds. We shall see if that holds...

The game is in a very sad state. I thought things were limited to strongholds, but tonight I'm seeing considerable delay in flashpoints. Just played through Mandalorian Raiders and I would say 25% of the time an ability was delayed a second or two. The lag on actions is also spilling over to Fleet now. I've been playing this game since 2012, and I believe this is the worst I've ever seen it.

I was shocked to find them at Walmart recently. You may want to try there!

Good to know I followed that dead end for way too long...

I am definitely having this problem in my Nar Shaddaa stronghold. Storage takes a good 30+ seconds to load, and inventory transfers 5 - 10 seconds each. I gave up waiting for my stronghold vendor to load and haven't even tried the GTN. I've had to basically avoid my stronghold all day.

They've been back for a little while, I finally picked them up on my Sniper about a month ago. I was very happy to finally be able to progress those quests properly! Also one of my biggest pet peeves about 4.0 was the removal of so many intro and outro quests. I still miss the outro quests for Heroics. I didn't get to play one of the Republic Balmorra heroics until post-4.0, and I had to watch a YouTube video to find out what happened at the end. It just ended, poof, with no conclusion. I really hate that there is no choice to return to the NPC. Very poor choice to remove those, in my opinion.

Necro: I have the Galactic Datacron Master achievement from a few years ago, and I can verify I was recently able to acquire the Ord Mantell matrix shard on my Trooper.

I reached Command Rank 300 on April 8th. In a month now of playing regularly I've received only the 248 chestpiece. The cherry on top? I received it in my very first Tier 4 crate. Discouraging doesn't even begin to describe it.

"The Shepherd of Nathema" has reset for me again. It seems to reset every time I log out.

The same for me. I have already completed Nathema three times and have the "Space Cowboy" achievement, but "The Shepherd of Nathema" now says 0/80.

No need to be rude, it's still very difficult to find players to complete those quests. There's no group finder for it, and most people aren't interested. One of my toons has been sitting with the last quest for four years. @OP: I would love to help you out, but I'm on Star Forge.

New Year's Eve has never been my favorite holiday. I always find myself bored and cold at parties. So ever since I bought SWTOR in 2012, I've chosen to spend my New Year's Eve playing the game. Each January 1st at 12:00 AM CST I shoot off fireworks in the game, on Taris specifically. Why Taris? That's where I was the first time. It just seems appropriate every year since. And I have significantly enjoyed New Year's Eve more ever since I started this tradition. So...despite my lulls in interest toward the game over the last couple years, and my continual complaining about "change", every holiday season I feel the pull toward SWTOR and the wonderful memories over the last five years. Wishing everyone a happy holiday season and a wonderful 2018!

That is interesting. But I think it's just because the thread is gone. I clicked on that link earlier and it simply referenced another thread the OP posted for the same thing, but with a less informative title "Did you know". Someone suggested he use a more informative title, and this thread was created. I don't see the original anymore, so I suppose it was removed.

I was able to roll up the hill on my Sniper. You just have to be in the right spot.