ETA on Advanced Class change?

and what about those that allready have leveled the AC they want to switch to? should they be forced to do it yet again? and as i said earlier you will not learn your clas by leveling it.. you learn it once it is at max level.. only difference is there's more to read up on. and those serious enough will do so those who are'nt are the same people you see today at max level who has no clue what it is they're doing.. it does'nt matter that they had to level they still did'nt learn anything from it.

Sure, there's adaptive gear. However, unless you are going to convert all gear to adaptive, and morf offhand sabers into shields/focuses (or offhand blasters into the same, or vibroknives or scatterguns) it's a moot point. Many people (including myself) have a majority of toons in non-adaptive gear. Do they get punished? Or do they get a free set of gear? Free mod removals? Auto-conversion to a slave-girl set? (Including gender switch?)

No matter how you slice it, it's a can of worms TOR is better without. I can just imagine the forum raging that would come out of any solution they could possibly come up with. No matter which way you go you're going to punish or favor some players over others.

As for the FOTM comment, lets face it, FOTM exists in any game no matter what barriers you put in place. So does griefing, trade-killing, exploiting and gold selling. In none of these cases does the existence of the problem justify the inclusion of mechanics to make them easier. That's a losing argument at best.

you're over complicating it.. if it where to exist it would be up to the player to sort the gear out.. and if they do not have adaptive gear or a set allready for the class change it's their problem not BW's.

as for FOTM there's also a little thing called double xp weekend where anyone can pretty much get from 1 to max level so should that be gone aswell?

You're ignoring the fact that even if a person does level the FOTM in a single double XP weekend, they actually LEVELED that new class and did not ask to have it handed to them.

Surely, I am not the only one who sees the difference.

Can you purchase a car, drive it for 6 months, then expect top be able to go back to the dealer and complain that you don't like the way it drives and expect him to just give you a new car? I'm not aware of any dealer's that will do that.

... until they have finished all 8 stories ...

Let's pretend for a moment that class changes have actually been implemented.

Yes, they should.

The character they wish to change is an assassin, for example. They leveled that character as an assassin. They earned the option to play that character as an ASSASSIN, not a sorcerer. it makes no difference if they have already leveled a sorcerer on the same or a different server. That character was leveled as an assassin. if they wish to change that character to a sorcerer, then yes, they should have to relevel it as a sorcerer.

Remember that the opportunity to become acquainted and familiar with class specific skills is only ONE of the concerns expressed by those against class changes that my suggested compromise addresses. Remember also that having to earn that new class is another concern which I addressed.

This.

There is a mechanic in place to get your new AC toon to max level in no time already. Heck, even without double XP you can get there with little effort. Why add the complications that come from this kind of mechanic when it's unnecessary? Spend the dev time on real QoL improvements or another FP/OP/WZ. This feature is not needed and not worth the effort or headaches it would cause.

This.

There is a mechanic in place to get your new AC toon to max level in no time already. Heck, even without double XP you can get there with little effort. Why add the complications that come from this kind of mechanic when it's unnecessary? Spend the dev time on real QoL improvements or another FP/OP/WZ. This feature is not needed and not worth the effort or headaches it would cause.

Without knowing exactly how these variables are stored long term it makes it hard to estimate how easy or hard it would be to implement such a conditional.

Why so serious?