what was your reasoning behind making every single Jedi Knight robe hooded?

I have to admit I'm a little annoyed by this, as well, especially since they went and changed the UI location for "hide head slot," and they could have added "hide robe hoods." The functionality is obviously there, as hoods disappear with certain headgear.

Love this game, but "cart-before-the-horse" design philosophy...hiding the hood slot can give a player greater personal connection to their character (especially when she is sexy.) My once-pretty Sith Inquisitor now looks like a Victorian in a creepy gimp mask, or half-Jawa. Those are my options.

Letting me see her hair reminds me she is human. Remember when Obi-wan had his hood up in "Star Wars" and he was weird and mysterious and vaguely threatening, and then he took it down and he was suddenly, instantly relatable?

Don't see how "sympathetic connection to your character" is low-priority in the context of this game, when the storytelling is so diffused that the game necessarily struggles to be an engaging Bioware experience, even with the best writing possible.

No. You understood it incorrectly. they will still be recolours of existing stuff, not original Revan's outfit from KotOR.The only thing which will change is the clipping issue and a chain added to the leg piece.

Someone at BioWare might have a hood fetish. I want pretty hoodless robes

KotOR was 300 years ago, he's allowed to alter his outfit. If you're arguing that the robes they give you are not the ones from KotOR then you should also be arguing that the robes he wears in the flashpoints are not "correct". The ones they give you are (will be) completely consistent with the robes he wears in SWTOR already.

Hmm... ok. Let's say the reverse were true. What if they decided to make all hoods down at the outset with no hood toggle? Lol. We would see very similar threads to this one arguing that the iconic Jedi needs to be shown with his or her hood up.

Their decision not to implement a hood toggle is the issue, not that the default is up or down.

No. You understood it incorrectly. they will still be recolours of existing stuff, not original Revan's outfit from KotOR.The only thing which will change is the clipping issue and a chain added to the leg piece.

Was arguing with another chap who argued with a fella who was annoyed with the fact that we've got Revan's armor which is just a recolour of existing models (and being the correct one from the Foundry/Maelstrom with only a slight detail missing from the lower robes) instead of be ing a brand new model, based on the KotOR armor.

Hmm... ok. Let's say the reverse were true. What if they decided to make all hoods down at the outset with no hood toggle? Lol. We would see very similar threads to this one arguing that the iconic Jedi needs to be shown with his or her hood up.

Their decision not to implement a hood toggle is the issue, not that the default is up or down.