Ok, so here are mine, in complete correspondence to yours, I'm a sith inquisitor, specialised in sorcery I am a cold, calculated person, only drawing upon my thirst for power and sheer determination as an emotional 'pool' of dark side energy. I've taught myself most of what I know, but I am not beyond taking a hint from those who prove they know something useful. I never rely on luck. I never trust anyone .Period. Those few who are close to me, are only close because I've come to know them, understand them thoroughly enough and consider their betrayal to be extremely unlikely , based on what I know about them. But I watch them too, for greediness is the bane of all of us. Killing is done mostly when necessary, but sometimes it is enjoyable too. Not in an axe-murderer-frenzy, kind of a way, but in a disposal-of-an-annoying-fly way. I would kill an innocent person, if something could be gained out of it. I am a practical person, who will do whatever it takes to win, so fairness in combat isn't my style. Unless, my opponent manages to impress me and earn my respect. (for instance a clever AND open-minded jedi). In that case, I might want an honest duel...and might even spare my opponent if I win, in order for the galaxy not to lose an interesting person. I have no problem with and can actually enjoy backstabbing, lying, murder, stealing, torture. Think of it as...artistic domination. I don't appreciate people who think themselves superior to me, but I am willing to recognise/respect/admire power when I see it and even accept some as superior to me, if they prove that is indeed the case...for the time being. Violence is used when it's due, but cross me and all I'll need is time..but eventually I will get back at you. Because I don't forget and I don't forgive...unless you can compensate for what you did...that might need a lot though. I am cool-headed and even if you managed to infuriate me, you won't be able to tell,...at least before lighting strikes you. I strongly believe in making new allies, provided they can prove themselves worthy. If they are, they are enlisted in my/the empire's ranks, without regard of their origin/background/etc. If they are not, they are purged or enslaved... Allies are not friends, though, they are tools. I would enjoy a time of peace to have the time to search for new knowledge in quiet, seek new civilisations in the galaxy, expand my horizons. However, since people are bound by their impulses and greedy nature there will always be bloodshed. I only care for the well being of my inner close circle, my personal assets and the empire's assets. In that order. If you want to prey on the weak, make sure that you aren't depriving the empire (or more importantly me) of some resources by doing so...if not, I don't care. When I am called to kill republic soldiers I just do it. When I am called to kill jedi, especially padawans, it gets really interesting. I will kill their masters in front of them (or the other way around), rub the superiority of the dark side in their sad-puppy-faces and either finish them off, or better yet corrupt them. As mentioned above though, a worthy opponent might get a free pass. I am fascinated by new technologies, new discoveries and exploration, as well as ancient civilisations and archeaological finds. Money is good, but it's always a means to power, not a goal in itself. Stil, wouldn't mind enough to buy a zeltron harem. I am hungry for power, but I don't allow my desire for domination to blind my judgement. One has to be aware of their limitations (what limitations a sith might have is open for debate though)...as for immortality, to quote a certain vampire in red 'immortality is a myth'...but I am not in a hurry to see my end, just the contrary. I desire to go down in history books, to shape the world around me and be remembered for a long, long time. I hope the empire would change for the better, by being more open-minded in its structure and relationships with other species.

There's no reason why a lettered Rodian can't exist...or a Mon Calamari that had a multilingual dad...or an Ithorian who grew up in an orphanage where basic was spoken by the care-takers....language isn't the reason we can't have actual aliens.. The reason is that they estimate that the profit they will get from doing so will be minimal compared to the cost of developing drastically different models, refining some animations, etc. Also, there is the widespread thinking that players want to be able to identify with their characters and therefore most hardcorish-mmoers who don't care a lot about the lore itself (and hardcorish mmoers are the money-cow in this business) , won't be able to identify with anything drastically non-human.

Yes, bw clearly should have dealt with this issue dragon-age style , so that we wouldn't be having such problems...on the other side, I can't say I'm not amused every time I see a dumb reaction on sgra....you know, comedy theater...as to being called a*** after expressing your views, I wouldn't expect anything better from such people...although I must admit they have a small point. Some part of what you said made no sense. It happens a lot, but is , imo, a really nasty/insulting thing to do..and explaining it made you seem like one of those who do it, so I can (understand is too strong but anyway) understand their reaction...why on earth would a kind person tell you ,you are nice when they think you lack personality?? What's nice about lacking personality? Honesty would be more educative and productive....and now we are swimming in seas, far away from the topic of this thread...

If we accept that there is going to be a fixed number of body-types and not a number-modifier for centimeters, kg, weight distribution, etc, with each of the body-types being 'bigger' than the previous, you pretty much have 4 options: 1) Male=Female for all body-types 2) Male > Female for all body-types 3)Female > Male for all body-types 4) Mixed (i.e body-type 1: m>f, 2:f> m, etc) The problem is that bioware has to pick only one of the 4 available (unless they took the time to give us an actual character creation tool, but they didn't....). However, no matter which one they picked they could 'offend' someone, at least by your reasoning. For instance with 4) a woman might be 'offended' and say, like you did, 'are short women supposed to be shorter than short men?' or with 1) ,a man might be offended and say 'are fat men supposed to be equally tall with fat women?' When it comes to how one looks (and many other things), even forcing them to be 'equal' to others is restrictive and offensive. Bioware couldn't avoid not making a not-perfect choice, so they might as well go with the averages.

Exactly. They should enchourage people to become subscribers, not try to do rope-ballancing between subscribers and F2Pers...F2P should be a method to draw you to subscribing, but that's gonna happen if they don't actually give perks to subscribers...

Are you positive they are acceptable for buying the Hutt Cartel?

I never said anything about not having a credit card. I said I consider it a safety hazard to sahre it online and I'm not the only one. If only credit cards are acceptable and not prepaid ones , then this pure misbehaviour towards customers...if the somehow consider boxed copies to be too expensive that's understandble, but credit card should not be the only option

No, I haven't. No credit card was required so far. Seriously, if no short of pre-paid card for internet buying that can get me around giving my credit card info is acceptable, then honestly this is a swtor-ending moment for me. Not giving credit card info online is a personal rule.

Wonderful...because punishing people who don't feel comfortable with sharing credit-card info over the web, even though they've been founders in swtor and played almost since day 1 is such a polite idea...

Like all of you I've read about the new expansion and I'm really excited about it...especially since we'll see a progress in the story. But I'd like to know (and hopefully a bioware employee can answer that...): Will this be a digital-only buyable expansion? Would there be no physical dvd's to buy at stores? Or will we be able to buy it at stores as well? If not, will there at least be a non-credit-card way to buy it? (because some of us are not comfortable with it). Like extracting the amount from a prepaid subscription-card? Thanks for your ime.