The Legacy System and Trash Characters

The three words that concern me are "character creation options", as I recall. The implication is that the legacy system will allow us to create characters that we otherwise could not.

Frankly, this troubles me, too. I'm an altoholic and simply don't know where I stand. It's one thing if the options are just new races or new cosmetics (and this would still matter to some people a great deal) but another thing entirely if e.g. every character you create once you're Legacy lvl 10+ has an extra 5 points to every stat. In other words, we simply don't know if characters created "using" the Legacy system will be in some mechanical sense better than our existing chars. That, in turn, causes some of us to be concerned that we'll have reason to delete chars later.

Put more simply, my question is, would a given char (e.g. human male Light Side Commando) be any more powerful if built with the Legacy system? If so, then every char I make right now is in a sense a placeholder, which is unsettling. I'd just like to know so I can plan.

definitely want this too

I really want to know what is coming in with the legacy system as well.

Personally I really hope there are more species. Given you have to have played through the game a fair bit to get legacy levels any views that it limits the story is a little redundent. Having played through the same world quests a few times means I don't care if you remove a trandoshians ability to flirt with someone cause the animation for kissing isn't in for different faces. But then Vetts shock collar seems to come and go at will and weapons are held by magnetic fields to my opperatives back make any difficulties caused by alien dimensions a poor argument for not having them in.

Likewise if a Legacy character is given additional game play options only accessable from character creation then people need to know to avoid turning a main into a trash and so they can plan ahead of time to make sure the experience is as enjoyable as possible.

i would be okay with having to reroll under the Legacy system if it lets me skip Imperial Balmorra every time

/agreed

I share the concerns of previous posters

When did I ever say anyone played the same as me? Let me try this again - let's pretend an expansion releases, and it includes new races. There are really only three possibilities regarding how a player handles those new races:

1) They switch their "main" character (whether that is Main Raiding or Main RPing character is irrelevant) to a character of the new race.

2) They make an alt of the new race, but do not make it their "main".

3) They do not make a character of the new race.

These are literally the only possible options a player has when a new race releases. So my point is this is no different than new races coming as part of an expansion (common practice) EXCEPT that you don't have to pay for them. If you want to play a Mon Calamari why does it matter if you get them through Legacy or "SWTOR: Attack of the Trap Jokes"? You don't know what races will be coming in future expansions, and you don't know which ones, if any, will come from legacy level.

That means that how you react to a new race through legacy level is, logically, the same way you react to new races released in expansions.

Stop being a keyboard cowboy and trying to pick a fight and READ what I wrote. It has no bearing on playstyle.

Same , im not creating a new char until im 100% if they will or not open togruta based on this system.

LOL... for some games they mean nothing to me but for some games they are everything. I own like 4 shirts IRL but for some reason in SWG I had HOUSES FULL of clothing and armor. I have no idea why

I think the RP aspect of this game is what separates it from MW3 or BF3 or Halo(whatever number they are on LOL)

I'm kind of the same way.

Playing dress-up is half the reason I play MMOs! ^_^

Let's pretend that in an upcoming patch, BW announces that new characters created will get a permanent +1 to all stats for every legacy level at the time of their creation. That, my friend, is a wholly different matter than the introduction of NEW options for character creation.

It's not about races or new options; the issue is that there's a possibility that our existing characters, with their existing races and classes, could become essentially second-class citizens compared to new characters of the same races and classes.

Will this happen? I have no idea. Is it likely? Probably not. Would I like to know anyhow? Absolutely.