Official Q&A Thread for June 29th Blog Post

On April 1st, there was a mini-game video released to apparently allow players to take on the role of their ship droid and/or companions if I'm not mistaken. Even though this was revealed as an April Fool's joke, the idea of this actually seemed like it would be tons of fun and a quite interesting departure from the "norm". Any chance of this becoming a reality in the future?

How have you addressed the issue where many players do not enjoy playing both factions (as requirement to receive the hk companion?) For whatever reason many people feel that we should be able to obtain the same content via single factions as that is our prefered play style, and that the current intended design is unfair to these players.

Is that hard to see Powetech (pyro) / vanguards do unbalanced amount of dmg and ignore 1000 threads reply to this concern?

Are there any plans to adress the issuse bounty hunter players have spoken up about with death from above becoming a useless ability or atleast one that has become counter productive?

is there any planned improvements for the selection of items available from the ship droid? Also, why do so many companions have effeciency over crit? effeciency seems a little worthless compared to crit unless it gets a major buff.

We have Damage/Health/Deaths etc stats for PVP, but none for Ops. Will this be implemented in the future?
As a PVE player I would love to be able to compare stats with my fellow DPS and Healers.

Are their any plans to add an Armstech schematic into the game that requires 2 Zal Alloy and 2 Durasteel AND has a chance to drop MK6 Augment Kit pieces? Currently both Synthweaving and Armormech can craft belts that require 2 of each of their respective grade 6 materials and can drop the MK6 pieces, but Armstech is stuck making guns that require 4 and 6, double and triple the amount that Synth and Armor need. This seems like a major oversight when Armstech is already the least useful crafting skill with no Rakata level schematics and no sway or use in the vanity market.

Will there be a server balance soon i'm on sith meditation sphere and I'm a die hard swtor fan. The issue is I am the current guild leader on both the republic and empire side all are guildies still play on this server witch use to have a moderate server population, but due to server transfers and the PST server people transferred to the industry populated servers. By that I mean the servers with the more popular guilds and MMO gaming site rendering pvp useless with that the republic side on moderate servers have a hard time queuing unless your 50 regardless of single cue or grouping this is true on other servers I tried.

In regards to new alien species being added.

Could not the alien species be a class onto itself? And could not the VO's for the aliens be in English or what ever language, while the VO's for those not of alien species reply be in the alien gibberish/subtitles?

We are after all playing the part of the alien species and are supposed to be able to understand the alien species language.

Is there currently any plans for something to be done about Ilum? It is actually a cool planet and has a lot of potential, the dedicated PvP area has some cool stuff going on, the dailys and weekly quests were done away with, is there any plans for the PvP area to be reworked?