Official Q&A Thread for May 11th, 2012 Q&A Blog Post

Having multiple characters is a popular part of SWTOR, especially due to the Legacy system. However as a guild Officer I am constantly struggling to fit everybody in due to the current 500 characters per guild limit. If all my members have 4 character each (one of each class) then we can only fit 125 members into the guild. Will you be increasing the size of guilds or alternatively basing the guild limits on Legacy rather than characters?

what's going on with headpieces and certain species? i know that a lot of hats are unable to show up on twi'leks and i understand it can happen with purebloods as well. wondering if this was intentional change, and if so why you felt players couldn't decide for themselves if the laws of physics regarding lekku mattered.

Will we get with patch 1.3 an additional warzone?

The idea of commendation vendors is an interesting one, and it usually makes me think at least a little bit about what mission rewards I choose. Unfortunately, how easily I end up with the commendations I need for what I want tends to vary from character to character, especially on origin worlds: Tython's enemies seem to hand commendations out like so much Halloween candy, and Ord Mantell's heroic missions have given me three commendations each before, but I practically have to pull teeth on Hutta--often working past the point of finishing every quest the world has to offer--just to get the 8 I need for my chestpiece there, and Korriban is just about as iffy. Are there any plans to "balance" the commendation drop rates between worlds of the same level range? Additionally, are there any plans to allow us to make use of the various commendations we've outgrown or never even really needed (making them tradeable/sellable, or re-instating the option to trade them in on the next world we visit at a 2:1 ratio)? My main character, for example, is a sentinel currently running through Taris, but even after buying everything I wanted on each world, I still have 9 commendations from Tython, 1 from Ord Mantell, and 44 from Coruscant that will never have any value as things stand now, and it'd be nice to be able to get some use out of them.

Any plans for a Pazaak or Sabacc mini-game?
Like having a big gambling casino in game where you could play against computers or other players for credits and maybe have certain sections for high risk and low risk "PvP" tables. And the vs. computer games always very low risk so you can theoretically play and get decent credits but the really big winning could only be won if you played against another player. I think this would be a fantastic addition and give people more (although riskier) ways to get credits beyond just missions, crafting, etc.

Have you considered implementing a Target of Target Modifier key, similar to the existing Focus Target Modifier and Self Target Modifier keys? I was suprised to not see such a feature added in 1.2 togethet with the target-of-target pane itself.

As an avid raider, I think something that would help Tanks, Healer, and Dps during operations is a threat indicator. I would like to see on the ops/party frames the person who has threat/aggro have their name plate be outlined or highlighted in red to represent that individual has threat from mobs or a boss, additionally I'd like to see if the tank is losing threat/aggro on mobs or a boss that indicator change to a lighter shade of red showing that they are losing aggro/threat on the target. Of course if this were implemented into the game the player should be able to toggle on or off if they don't want it.

You can que making multiple items using your crew skills schematics and you can have each one crew member que only one crew mission at once. Is there a reason why I can't que my crew members to go out on multiple missions at once then come back? Constantly switching characters every 10 minutes to set up new missions is tiresome.

Hey guys! Two part color crystal question here. I spent literally 3 weeks tracking down everything there is to know about the new +41 stat Advanced Magenta Color Crystals. First of all, the sort of mini-quest requirements to craft the +41 magenta color crystals was so much fun. Any chance we will see more of this? Secondly, I've poured tons of WZ comms into Level 50 PvP Crafting boxes in order to get the +41 Expertise Magenta schem with no luck. Can you tell us what the drop rate of this schem is?

Is it possible to have the weekly maintenance at a different time for the APAC servers? As it is maintenance happens during prime time for us. I know many of us would rather wait 5 hours to receive the new content than be unable to play until around midnight.