Please, Don't Roll on Items for Another Class in Your Team

Guess what? Chances are that someone rolling for appearance over stats will know how to use item modifications properly and have better itemization than the avarage kid that rolls because the numbers on a drop are higher than the numbers on his/her old gear.

It doesn't matter what you think is feasible to roll on, if your server doesn't like it. I've said this before, but obviously some people just don't understand the concept. What you think is fair and reasonable to roll on doesn't matter if your server doesn't allow it. You can harp all day long how you like your companion to be geared, how you like the look of a certain piece, if you want to strip the mods out, etc. Plain and simply, if your server frowns upon rolling on gear that can't be used by you, and an actual player could use it as an upgrade, and you keep doing it, eventually you will have almost no endgame. Your peers CAN and WILL force you how to play, they DO tell you how you can roll on gear, and there's nothing you can do about it, because eventually you'll end up being blacklisted if they don't like it.

Your only option is to play by the rules they set, if you don't like it, roll another server or re-make your entire account. It's the same with almost all civilized society right now. Societies and communities create law, it doesn't matter if you agree with it or not, if you want to keep living there, you abide by them or go somewhere else, plain and simple.

Hey, this seems mostly sane!

I started out with the idea that if I don't want the thing for the credits, need is OK. Then it started to cause me social trouble, so the easiest for me is to restrain need to situations where the actual character can use the thing. Extracting mods is a tricky corner case, but I'll roll greed there, to help others enjoy too.

No, a character that I control is a player character. A character that I don't control is a non-player character.

Companions are only NPC's before they are your companions. After they become your companions they're Player characters.

From my experience NPC was always Non Playable Character, but not in terms of mechanics but actual roleplaying. If you can't roleplay your companion then it's still an NPC with some fixed story designed by creators (GM or BioWare in that example). From mechanical point of view companions aren't typical NPC's and you have some degree of control upon them, making them unique from all the other NPC's. They are very useful, but still I can't consider them NOT being NPC's (more or less controllable and useful).

That's at least my point, but I am roleplayer through and through.

This adds the complexity, while keeping it simple. By default you would normally just want to hit roll or pass. Thoughts?

If you think its bad now, just wait until the Flashpoint Finder is activated. Then you will have no say who is in your party.

Atleast with this current system these ninja's and noob-looters will eventually struggle to get into groups so long as people report them to other people - word of mouth and all that jazz.

Your only option is to play by the rules they set, if you don't like it, roll another server or re-make your entire account.

What you think is fair and reasonable to roll on doesn't matter if your server doesn't allow it.