You know what I call "extreme realism?" Realism.

This is where we have to agree to disagree: there is no such thing as a "realistic" space combat game. By labeling something "realistic," you're stating that it simulates reality. At present, "realistic space combat" is launching missiles from Earth at satellites in low Earth orbit. Sure, applying realistic physics to space combat might be fun to some but as another poster pointed out, you'd spend the entire time screwing around with acceleration-related issues. Acceleration in a vacuum is an incredibly tricky thing, especially when one is accelerating near a massive mass or multiple massive masses. (I'm going to have to say that more often...!) Gravity sucks.

This. I love my realism, but I don't mix my realism with my Star Wars... Think: Bye bye lightsabers, bye bye force, bye bye cool laser beam effects... (I mean, you do realize that you cannot actually see a noncontinuous (burst) laser beam, right, because, you know, it kinda travels at a really high rate of speed?) Those just happen to be the three things without which Star Wars would be sublimely boring. Would the OP also prefer that when you throw someone 20 feet with the force that you are then thrown 20 feet in the opposite direction? Might as well throw out every single spacecraft supposedly capable of entering a planetary atmosphere as well, because 99.9% of the spacecraft used in Star Wars could not actually fly in and/or enter an atmosphere. The list goes on...

I was going to give you 6/10, but considering the among of replies, I'll give you 7.5/10.

They haven't given me enough information to decide yet.

Considering that they STILL haven't fixed the companion lightsaber glitch, probably not.

I wholeheartedly agree with you about not PvP'ing until level 20. I don't consider myself an elitist (okay, maybe a little bit), but nothing pisses me off more than being paired with someone who hasn't even chosen their advanced class yet. People under level 20 are generally very easy to kill as well. My last match I had a 1v1 versus a level 12 scoundrel, and as a level 34 Operative, he didn't even get me under 80% health. If you're under 20 and a healer, it doesn't bother me as much, but generally most classes require the level 20 skill to be at least somewhat effective.

Cool story.

You've missed the point. He's complaining about names, not how people choose to RP.

It really depends on your style of play. I've enjoyed sorcerer healing and operative DPS the most. Operative really doesn't get going till you get past level 30 and really gets fun after 40. Healing Op is pretty fun, too.

Iowa, I've been sitting in a loading screen for about 30 minutes.

Who says I don't want to explore the new content?

I login, and then I just load and load and load and nothing happens. Fun stuff!

The way of the MMO, this is.

I run a GTX 660 Ti, and I've had zero issues with stutter, lag, or slowdowns. There may be a problem with your card, or you may need to update or reinstall your drivers.