Official Q&A Thread for February 10th, 2012 Q&A Blog Post

What are the plans on balancing operative/smuggler healers to be on par with sage/sorcerer healers? As I'm sure you fancy dev types are aware, there is information all over the class and healing role forums regarding this disparity. Thank you!

What are ur future plans for RvR / Open PvP ?

Will there every be pvp brackets?

Are there any plans to introduce a combat log in the near future?

Will the legacy system 'unlock' playable species which are currently not available to any class on either faction, e.g. Togruta or Cathar?

will there be any muliplayer ships battles. if we do, will we have all our members in one ship for the battle (a guild ship), or will we all be on multiple ships on the screen?

I will add my voice to the many here...

What is the plan for imbalanced factions/low population servers? I have pretty much stopped playing my Republic Trooper Commando on my server of choice because at PEAK hours there are less than 50 people on the fleet, and far far fewer in the higher level planets (aka, less than 10).

I rolled an Imperial character on the same server, and at the same times there are at a minimum double that many people in fleet, and usually more on any given planet than in the Republic Fleet. Kind of killed the experience for me...

Same deal with my first character I made. On a now VERY low population Republic server, I pretty much had to abandon him too.

All of that said, I do appreciate the Q&A thread and I anticipate seeing what 10 questions are selected, as that kind of gives your customers an idea of what is a "hot topic" for you as developers. It may or may not be the BEST way to communicate, but I do appreciate the effort in listening to your customers.

In the feedback from customers area, I would like to suggest taking a look at a recent AAA release: Battlefield 3. They used an outsourced customer feedback platform. While I did not totally love the system they chose, it was fast, easy, and from what DICE reported, VERY helpful for them to see "hot issues" faster and easier for the developers.

Okay I have more than used my "one question"! Cheers!

The game does run smooth by 100fps at maxed settings. Still the game doesnt feel as shiny as it could (beta).
Many people want to increase things like draw distance, texture detail and rendering distance for foliage, npc´s or object´s - yet there is no such slider available for this and tweaking the ini doesnt work either.

Could you please add these sliders, so that the players could have a better gaming experience?

Why on the character screen can you only see half? Are you going to show full character. Also in game when you right click on a weapon it doesn't show up.

Are there any plans to change the rakata armor stat optimization? For example, jedi guardian armor has surge as a main stat on two pieces, where surge isn't even on our list of useful stats as a tank. Also it seems many items have far too much accuracy that what the class would like to have. It seems a lot of classes are having to change out t3 mods with t2 mods that have useful stats.

Thanks for the weapon change by the way Now perhaps another look at the armor