involuntary pvp

The companions have a threat table they use to determine what to attack. If the flagged players somehow get on their threat table, even at 0 the companion might glitch out and attack them. Mako did that to a Pub a couple days ago when I wasn't flagged and just standing there.

Not sure why people think this is unavoidable. I've gotten a crystal, did all the dailies, and bought 8 comp skin boxes(RNG ) and havent been flagged once.

Not if they are wearing orange gear and with 1.2 that going to be more often the case. Most PvPers use the Red is dead policy. With all due respect to those fooled or tricked into getting flagged, If you are flagged for PvP expect to get jumped.

You do realize that even on PVE servers there are PVP areas like Outlaws Den correct? You also realize that if you buff a flagged person or a non-flagged person in a party with a flagged person you get flagged for PVP correct?

had our entire group get flagged after one of our party exploded (plague) while standing out at the vendor on Tat (waiting for the plague explosion to go off).

No companions were harmed in the resulting explosion. Mother-in-law's pride? Different story

non-aggression code just needs a little tweaking here and there, not a super huge deal.

Same here. One minute I was just standing at a vendor, next minute I was flagged and .10 seconds after that I was ganked. No idea what happened. Nowhere near Outlaw's, wasn't attacking anything, literally was browsing the vendor.

*boom*

Very strange.

You do realize they might not have been around Outlaws Den?

Never underestimate the ability of idiots to find new and interesting ways to be idiots.

While I was levelling my jugg on Nar Shadaa, I had a L50 trooper wait till I ran up to an elevator button before running in front of me and toggling his pvp flag on, hoping I would right click him instead of the button. Fortunately for me he failed.

Just to clarify folks, I've done this extensively by ghosting pubs on my speeder:

1) If I infect you you WILL get flagged regardless of whether you have a companion out or not. the ONLY way to avoid being flagged is to avoid being infected by an imperial.

Yeah some of this is really annoying, getting ganked while questing. However its very satisfying to do it to them in return. Last night my friend and I got a group together for the world bosses. After we killed the first one we lost a few people, then moved on to trapjaw who we killed easily because he was level 30 for some reason. After we determined the last guy wasnt around ,we decided to go attack the hill.

Now, there were some annoying imps standing up there who were flagged, some of them standing on top of the jawa hoping people would click them and flag, I guess. There were about 20 of us, and maybe 4 or 5 of them. Needless to say, they never stood a chance, and a few flagged guys who were coming up the hill turned and ran when they saw us x). Very satisfying!