Opt-out of DOUBLE XP

Leveling my 14th toon is not going to teach me much about playing the game. I mean that in a good way BTW

How does double xp disrupt your gameplay? What does it prevent you from doing?

Adding a toggle to turn it off definitely impacts everyone - that's developer effort that should go into features that a lot of players will find useful. Not so 7 players who can't figure out how to wear empty shell gear and dismiss their companions can feel better about themselves.

It makes role playing impossible, which is what swtor is all about for a great many players.

Would you mind clarifying this point for me.

How does double xp make role playing impossible?

You can always play without using a companion if you want more of a challenge.

It makes role playing impossible, which is what swtor is all about for a great many players. Adding a toggle takes a few seconds to do. A child could do it. You do not know how many people want the option to not participate in double xp, but judging by the complaints I see in game and in the forums here and elsewhere it is a sizable number. There is no feature in swtor that is more important to me than the ability to not participate in double xp events when I log in.

EDIT: I should not have said a child could code for it. I do not code for swtor or an mmo, but I have coded in several different languages for a number of years and provided the coder was organized and not sloppy in his coding it shouldn't be too hard to do and should only take a few seconds. The basic framework of the code to allow in any of a number of ways for a player to opt out of double xp is already in place.

Then, again, when you have to inanely kill 20 of this and 15 of that to earn the quest bonuses in every area so you don't fall behind on the XP, and can actually manage to get through the game to the nuggets of interesting content... I dunno, sometimes the endless and mindless getting through the mobs, particularly on the later, less frequented planets (and the mobs that don't care if there is 20 or 160 players out there!) is so tiring that when you finally get to that cutscene you either do not have time to enjoy it properly (if you are playing on the clock and have to attend to many other obligations you have) or just want to be done with it. And since you can't 'save' right before the conversation, and quitting means redoing the stupid dungeon again... yeah.

The 2x XP are something I do look forward to. It comes not too often, and is just nice to play like KOTOR again. And it does have a nice RP feel to it to just BLAST things out of the way with your enormous power instead of hanging onto every hit point or having a strategy of "Okay, if I can take the adds out on my first death, I might be able to finish off the boss before I die again. Maybe."

Leveling is easy as a subscriber. Period. You cannot help but out-level content.

If people are skipping missions because they don't give experience then they're only in it for the XP and double-experience is a boon to them.

If bads in PvP disrupt your gameplay, then playing PvP will always disrupt your gameplay. There will always be bads. And the bads aren't going to opt out of 2xp anyway.