Official Q&A Thread for July 13th Blog Post

Why were Cathar picked as the species on which it will be judged if more species will be added?

Cathar are primarily a republic species and while popular and a move in the right direction, if you are going to judge whether to add more species in the future something given the number of posts on the subject a desire by many of the community. Would it not have benefit the choice to have discussed this with the player base and to then offer an Imperial and a Republic species. As it stands the hopes of seeing more alien species as playable is reliant upon enough people wanting to play cat people which may not necessarily be one of the species desired by the community.

Q1:- Will We see PVP Flash points, where an imperial team, and a republic team will battle through the flash point on there own path's ultimately leading to a PVP battle, along the way players could perform certain actions to hinder the opposing side?.OR Possible Co-op Flash points where Imperials fight side by side with Republic players?

Q: Is there going to be another round of free server transfers to allow us to transfer characters from a low pop server to a different high pop server?


Background: I had 6 Republic characters on Khoonda Militia and 6 Empire characters on Fort Garnik. Both servers are set to transfer to Jedi Covenant. I transferred my Republic characters to Jedi Covenant. Now I'd like to be able to transfer my Empire characters to a different server that's not dead. A lot of other players appear to have this problem as well.

Related to the above question, will transfers be allowed between types of severs (either as free or paid)? My main (50 sentinel) was on Hyperspace Cannon and I moved them to Drooga's Pleasure Barge. However, I had already moved to a RP-PVE server (Ebon Hawk) rather than continue playing on just a PVE server. I'd love to be able to move my old 50 to Ebon Hawk as well to continue playing them.

If this is being planned, is there a timeframe on it (month, 6 months, year or more?)

Not to monopolize the Q&A, but I have another followup question. It was mentioned last week that the selection of forthcoming playable species would be opened up to the community as a whole, listing clear positives and negatives for each. I am curious as to how this process will take place. In-game polls, akin to beta reports? A splash page on the launcher leading to a poll here on the forums? How are you going to ensure that as many players as possible are involved in the selection process?

Q. Will there be any plastic surgery or Barbershops for our characters so we may change our appearance after creation?

Would you be willing to explain those pets that transfers will get. Currently I have a few characters that started on Canderous Ordo but i still have one on an origin server that I left behind due to being unable to transfer to CO. If i want my origin server character to get the pets should i just have him transfer to a DS and then WHEN () paid transfers come i will be able to transfer him to Canderous ordo

Question: Are you currently working to improve the efficiency and performance of SWTOR? This is in reference to fps issues on high-end systems, very widely discussed within the support forums, all to no avail.

This is not a support request - This is a widely known problem with your game engine, which is driving people away from your otherwise great game. I won't be sticking around much longer. I have done a survey amongst our guild and others, all high-end systems with graphics settings on low, or full; experience the exact same fps bottle-necking when character numbers within an area increase - Even with just 16 people in a warzone, frame rate can drop to as low as 20 at times (Worst case scenario).

It is totally reasonable to expect 60fps constantly within this game. Some stuttering is acceptable (It's an MMO) - But as low as 25-30fps on an i7, 16gb ram, SSD's and a GTX 680 (And higher spec'd systems) is simply unacceptable when rendering a game that is obviously horribly optimized in regards to texture loading and seamless loading of character data and their textures - These should be priorities when designing an MMO... There are countless threads within both support and general forum, all which have died due to nothing but pre-written responses from support staff, none of which go beyond suggesting to update drivers, a basic and obvious task. This is simply avoiding fixing the real issue here - Your game engine.

I and much of the SW community would appreciate as much information as possible on this, I'd love to continue playing this game, but unless I can enjoy it, I'll simply play something else. Please give me a reason to wait!

When will the game be less restricted? For example why can't I have a double bladed lightsaber on my juggernaut? I think the game being too restricted ruins the game for some of us.

Why do y'all keep taking stuff away from us only to have to buy it back with Legacy, calling it new content? Examples: Warzone XP and the abilities Unity and Sacrifice.