Hello and welcome to the official Q&A thread for questions to be answered for the March 23rd, 2012 Q&A blog post.

 

As a reminder, we’ll be starting up a weekly Q&A blog series in which we will select ten questions from the community and post answers to them every Friday. We’ll have the next set of answers next week on March 23rd, 2012, but before that, we need your questions!

 

Please use this thread to ask your question (one per community member, so make it count!). On Tuesday at 2PM CDT (7PM GMT), we will close this thread, select ten questions, and get answers to them for Friday’s blog post.

 

In order to increase the chances of having your specific question answered and to help us keep the thread manageable, here are some guidelines on asking questions:

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2. Please actually ask a question. We want to hear constructive feedback elsewhere in the Forums.
   
3. Use common sense – we cannot answer everything, especially on far-reaching content.
   
4. This should go without saying, but be respectful.
   
5. Limit yourself to one question in this thread, please. You can always ask another question next week!
   
6. Be sure to check if your question was already answered during our Guild Summit.
   
7. And finally, as a reminder, this is not a discussion thread. Do not comment about what somebody else has posted.
   

 

Any other posts apart from questions in the thread will be removed. With that being said, please ask away!

Edited March 17, 2012 by JovethGonzalez

Will there be full control space combat in the future?

When will we see multiplayer space combat in this massively multiplayer Star Wars game?

Full control space combat in a non instanced, open PVP star system - can we expect that ? Edited March 19, 2012 by Lord_Ravenhurst

Will cybertech's be granted the ability to re space parts into better schematics and parts like other non space related cybertech craftables.

When are you guys going to finish the Timeline on the Holonet?

Have you considered lowering the cost of pulling mods out of custom armor? The current cost makes playing with different looks very expensive!

My friends and I play 3-4 Republic characters and 3-4 Imperial characters each on the same server. Would you consider the idea of allowing "marrying" two guilds of opposite factions on the same server for communication purposes only, like an /interguild chat or a "blue guild chat" and a "red guild chat" on both sides? We are usually split between the two guilds and it is difficult to communicate properly.

Are there any plans to begin merging low population servers?

I am currently unable to chat in any way or on any channel with only one of my toons... the others work fine... this all started after the last update... is anyone else having problems with this? Any suggestions?

At any point are we going to have fully controllable space ships and/or space combat?

How do you "sort and prioritize" fixes for long standing bugs?

 

For example, The Ilum daily missions Defend the Shipment and Sabotage which work for a short period of time after a server restart but usually are non-functional in just a few days.

 

Also missions that can't be abandoned. There are some players that have lost over 10 of the 25 mission slots to this.

 

Regards,

 

Brad

Edited March 17, 2012 by b-morgan

Should we expect to see a character creation system/options worthy of SWTOR at some point?

(Especially due to the fact that I've seen the game passed up due to what has been seen as a lackluster character creation process.)

And still no information on steps being taken to improve the situation for characters stuck on ridiculously low pop servers. Are you ever going to do anything other than say "just reroll?" Not being able to do any group content really sucks in an MMO. Edited March 17, 2012 by Aiysis

Any plans to allow the players to use add-on's simmilar to those in other mmo's?

Will we ever see a full gear dye/paint system for SWTOR?

 

It'd be a real nice feature, to be able to finally fully customize our characters to our own preferences of appearances.

Would you like to address the growing issue with oversized and annoying speeders clogging up the very pedestrian-style designed fleet station and starships?

 

More and more people buy these, and its breaking the game more and more every day. Will you be logically restricting the nonsense out, or making certain new 'speeder lanes' that only speeders can travel in, or doing away with any need for speeders and designing in proper speed assisted walkways and people movers (like airports have)?

Will we ever see something like companion kits in the game, which would give us the ability to change roles (dps, tank, healer) of our companions?

I've read a ton of posts on how you guys dont want/like macros for combat, but yet it seems they are on the way in one form or another.

 

The Razer swtor keyboard is due out soon , and it looks like its main attraction is its 10 dynamic adaptive tactile keys, which look like they are designed for macros. Please give us a straight answer on whats going to be allowed to be put in macro's i.e. combat? chat? cool downs?

If I unlock Pureblood Sith on a server, will I be able to create a Republic Pureblood Sith Smugger, and will that smuggler have Punish to I can smack around Corso Riggs?

When will we get Guild mail?

Will armormechs/synthweavers be able to buy orange gear (for example, the slave outfit) and reverse engineer it for the schematics? (P.S. said outfit(s) need an orange belt to go with them).

I'm going to ask a question that seems to never get answered. When are you going to fix all the bugs dealing with Operations? It's nice that your adding new things or things that should have been in the game since launch. But, after reading this weeks Q&A and seeing the prioritizing statement. Its seems that Operation Bugs are not a priority. When will you address this problem so that people will be able to do Operations as intended?

Are you planning to improve general in-game performance? When will shadows become viable? Right now they're creating problems even for high end pc's.

Empty servers

 

Merge ETA ?