Solution to the constant calls for Content...

Allow us to create our own content!

How?

SANDBOX Features!

Examples:

Storyteller NPCs = Allow us to buy items we can place in the open world, like static vehicles, NPCs to fight, Buildings, special effects... speeder "check points" so we can build temporary race tracts... dueling arena's or pits with dangerous environmental items inside so we can host our own gladiatorial combat... the possibilities here, are endless.

Player Housing, Player Cities, and Player Capital Ships = the possibilities with this are endless. Allow us to build our own houses / cities within instanced version of the planets. Example... I go to Coruscant, I travel to a "instance taxi" and from there I jump into my house, city, etc. Instanced housing could be great for placing all sorts of things, decorations, hosting guild events, and so on.

Player Vendors: Allow players to place, in their own house, city, space station, a Player Vendor, where they this could act like a Guild Bank/GTN terminal all in one.

Interactive Environments: I know I would love to get a bunch of Jedi, go into our own instance of the Jedi Council Chambers on Tython, and RP a Council Meeting... especially if we can SIT IN CHAIRS!

Allowing the players to create content, generate their own place in the galaxy that feels like it is "theirs" will go a long way to keeping many players here, playing, and coming back for more.

Plus... you can put most of this stuff on the Cartel Market and make a fortune from it.

You're talking to the wrong person, I have NEVER understood player housing in MMOs. I find it a complete waste of time and energy. We are supposed to be adventurers/fighters fighting the good fight; we are supposed to be out in the world taking on challenges, not sitting by the fire admiring trophies and telling stories of past exploits. When a player character gets to that point, he/she becomes an NPCs because they are "retired" from adventuring. Don't even bother trying to sway me...it won't happen.

I just finished reading through this tread and what struck is the either / or attitude.
In the ship there is actual seatable chairs, you can sit down in the captain's chair as well the "crew" chairs.
I doubt that making canteena chairs sitable will any negative effects on the game.
I do however agree to not facilitating player creation in any of the game's instances, but I am an advocate for making the environment a little more interactive

Allow us to create our own content!

How?

SANDBOX Features!

Examples:

Storyteller NPCs = Allow us to buy items we can place in the open world, like static vehicles, NPCs to fight, Buildings, special effects... speeder "check points" so we can build temporary race tracts... dueling arena's or pits with dangerous environmental items inside so we can host our own gladiatorial combat... the possibilities here, are endless.

Player Housing, Player Cities, and Player Capital Ships = the possibilities with this are endless. Allow us to build our own houses / cities within instanced version of the planets. Example... I go to Coruscant, I travel to a "instance taxi" and from there I jump into my house, city, etc. Instanced housing could be great for placing all sorts of things, decorations, hosting guild events, and so on.

Player Vendors: Allow players to place, in their own house, city, space station, a Player Vendor, where they this could act like a Guild Bank/GTN terminal all in one.

Interactive Environments: I know I would love to get a bunch of Jedi, go into our own instance of the Jedi Council Chambers on Tython, and RP a Council Meeting... especially if we can SIT IN CHAIRS!

Allowing the players to create content, generate their own place in the galaxy that feels like it is "theirs" will go a long way to keeping many players here, playing, and coming back for more.

Plus... you can put most of this stuff on the Cartel Market and make a fortune from it.

That's not my intention. I only posted that to counter the "so basically you want SWG" comment.

The inference was negative, and I am contending that it may not be as negative as some folks might think.

You are certainly welcome to dislike SWG or housing, but why not simply say "I didn't like SWG" instead of telling someone else what they want? Doesn't stating what you want make more sense?

It took over a freaking year to get a cat head on a human body...do you honestly think there's anything on your list that they could add in a reasonable amount of time? I don't. I don't disagree with your list, but I think it's far too ambitious for this lot.

All these "no you just want SWG, it failed blah blah" comments are nonsense. I never played SWG, but if did somethings right (like sandbox features), I see absolutely no reason why TOR shouldn't take from that.