There is/was an Event!?!

While I get where the OP is coming from, i'm trying to put myself into His shoes imagining if I wasn't anywhere near the fleet and on the different planets other then for dailies and whether or not I would've missed it. If I would've never been infected, only did dailies and logged, never checked the website or looked at the launcher? It's quite possible, but somewhat far fetched. I remember being one of the ones the night before the event on the forums leading the discussions about this when it 'broke' through SR's twitter about something going down on tattooine and from the forums and just word of mouth it spread by wildfire on our server. Maybe that doesn't happen on every server, but it was kind of hard to miss.

However that being said, I have to agree with the others in getting your point that you made it to tattooine, you just didn't know where to go. I'm prone to blonde moments, and missed the big clickable screens coming out of the spaceport that starts the whole thing, and had to go back and do those later but from the moment I was out there when I watched the Rakhgouls first appear, people were hitting tattooine all day asking "what's this about an event?" "what were they talking about on fleet?", etc etc.

Personally, unlike WoW and how they used to send out mail and warnings to everyone showing where all of the events were, I liked the fact that Bioware just dropped this in game before announcing it and let all the players "discover" it and figure it out and what is happening and where. I hope that they continue this exploration type feel that's lost in so many MMO's nowadays and that they expand them to become bigger and badder.

Maybe I did miss the point.... maybe I should have spent twenty hours scouring Tatooine for more on the plague... but, honestly, would it have been that hard for them to have put a clue somewhere to at least point me in the right direction?

I got the plague... figured out from the dna that I needed to go to Tatooine... got there, and other than a news reel that told me nothing, there was no indication of where to go next. I expected to see something in Anchorhead to point me the rest of the way... and found nothing.

That was all I'm trying to say... with a game full of quests and markers on the maps to show you where to go... I expected that something like this would have a similar guidepost. It had none. I'm not asking for hand holding... I'm asking for enough information to know where to go to start the main quest chain. That's all.

... and if there's more to do at level 50 than dailies and pvp (without a group), I'd love to hear it.

tend not to go back to the fleet as there doesn't seem to be a reason to.

wait.. so you dont leave the daily planets because 'theres nothing to do anywhere else'

So you play tor just to do the dailies?

I must say, i think you're doing it wrong...

Front page of the website, announced in fleet every 5 minutes, all over the forums, all over chat, etc.

I'm sorry, but they can only do so much to get the information to you, at that point it's up to you to do your part.

Additionally, announcing anything via in-game or even out of game mail is just not feasible. It takes them at least a week to send mail to everyone in the game. Just look at the Taun-taun pet, the window to get the email is nearly 2 weeks. It's just too many mails to process through.