Strongholds are legacy wide...

Step back and think about what you just said for a moment or two. Now check the record of complaints about bugs and player issues with upcoming patch content + the complaints that nothing was done before the patch went live.

My point? By the time they tease out to us what is coming... the implementation is already so far along that they are only going to address what they believe are severe impacts to the players abilities to experience the new content. Actual feature changes come later.. after players have some time to work the content and Bioware has some time to observe the "as-is" features with the live world wide population.

TL;DR you are wrong about this.

I agree with you on this.

RP is somewhat common in MMOs, but is in no way representative of the majority of players. If RP owned the game.. then most (if not all) servers would be "RP" servers.

But the OP wants to hand us his spleen over this (even though he does not have all the data yet.

I recently created a number of characters on the Progenitor, which is an RP server and dayum... There's RP and then there's that. Seriously some disturbing stuff going there, even for Sith on Korriban.

/Agree.

That said, while a stronghold is usable across a legacy... NO WHERE yet, that I am aware of, have they said that a legacy is limited to a single stronghold. In fact, they have hinted the opposite (though have not firmly announced so).

Watch... after it goes live.. we will see that you can indeed have multiple strongholds in a legacy AND the OP will be back complaining that he has to actually earn/pay-for each one.

How are you guys so sure that by Legacy wide they mean you only have to buy them once but every character can customize their own house?

This is what we know...

http://www.swtor.com/community/showp...4&postcount=21

Well here is another one for you. You will most likely go to the same instance door as everyone else (just like how we all share archetype ship hangars).

I don't mind this at all. The one thing I don't want is to have any companions in my stronghold. I want the ability to have none of them there except the droids. Give me this and I will be happy. The only companion I ever use is Treek. She's also welcome in my home any time.

I think you don't have to place them there, but people like me who want to put many companies from different characters there can do so if they like (have already quite a few ideas which companions I would put standing together)... and I am wondering if I can use Treek from multiple characters to have a small Ewok colony in my stronghold.

I do not see it as a negative that they are legacy wide. There are 4 different locations, so if you were playing say 8 characters, they would only need to double up. I like that I will be able to visit the same house and use items bound to one character, it feels like it would have been more limiting the other way around.

In LOTRO we only got one house per server and it always said the character you purchased it on name as the location, it was hard to explain why my human was in a strange elf's house. I ended up purchasing a kinship house and using it as an inn for the rest of my characters, but it got really expensive to maintain the less I played. On the other hand, you can have 3+ dimensions in RIFT, and it got very annoying rebuying/crafting duplicate items to decorate that 6th temple. In SWG we got 10 house slots per account, but since you could only have two characters (3 if you unlocked jedi originally) so many people played multiple accounts, usually around 3 per person. So those 30 lots (even though the larger buildings took up several of your allotted lots, 5 for large style homes) got really hard to manage/maintain. I was always losing harvesters because I would forget to pay maintenance on them. In Everquest 2, towards the end you could own up to 25 houses per character. I don't even want to think about how long that would take to purchase/decorate. Most of my alts in EQ just lived in their free 'apartment' anyway.

I really hope 'strongholds' proves to be a popular feature so that developers might consider expanding on it in the future. I would love more planet options (like Alderaan), but I am happy I won't have to repurchase or unlock them over and over again.