Thank you all, i really appreciate the tie you all took and thought given to my questions. I just hoped to get a feel for any major shifts, i have been playing almost from day 1 but life keeps interrupting me and also I had to go to other MMOs to develop skills i needed ... I started by warming up with a starting Padiwan mission and am enjoying it. I do love the look and feel of the game, it is like being in a painting and I like that feel. thanks again and I hope to meet you all at some point in my Journey, if you see me go by say hi thanks Carn

Thank you very very much i was puzzled now i feel at peace :0 may the force be with you Carn

OK i have been away for a while. I bought the original collectors edition and subed using time cards for some months. now i resubed for 2 months. but when i see a button saying play premium and hit it...i get sent to a new purchase optoin. does this mean to get PREMIUM i have to 1. pay with a time card OR.................... 2. add another 16.00 a month or so to my current 2 months already paid for sub of some 30.00 making it 31.00 a month to play premium? thanks for help in this. chris

I have played off and on since launch but life and events took me away re subbing and re loading now. but wanted to ask a few things 1. any major changes to the prodeedureal approach to the story? 2. is it possible to customize the launcher images? 3. I have heard there is discussion at the top about the future of SWTOR ...is the future secure? 4. hello to all and thanks for keeping the Journey Alive. I look forward to revisiting many familiar places and seeing may new ones. I left just after the launch of the Hutt Wars.

Thank you very much, i found that little cross button yesterday by chance and it reinstalled my old hot key bars but thank you so much for that tip much appreciated.!!!!! Carn Astrael

Hello all i have been away from the game for some time...and forgot how to set up the UI hot key bars with two at the bottom and a vertical bar on each side ? can anyone help me? it would be nice to be able to access things fast. Also i need advice on how to set up my force tree, it has been ages and i admit at my age (64) my memory which was never great is less great thanks and may the Force be with us all!! Carn Astrael

I picked up a flashpoint start on Fleet but now i cant find the starting speaker who is supposedly located on one of the other ships on the Mission Deck in the Science Section but i have looked all over that darn ship about 20 times and found NO Science Section and no start person to talk to. anyone know where the Science Section is? it is a flashpoint about killer bots, and sounds fun. but i did pick another mission at random, Jedi Prisioner and it is a lot of fun.

thank you both for the advice..sorry i am on Harbinger but i will try to get thru it on my won, i have guild mates who can help if i really need it but i want to try to improve my technique. I chose Focus because i have all the correct steps for the chains and the Time Damage sequences i i can study and learn, i had Vigilance but this may be a better fit for me for what my Guild may need. I have kept my armor as high up as possible, it is very high for my class, and my companion is fully speced up too but thanks for reminding me of that. and yes i am current with the trainer, there are no skills i can improve i just checked.. this is a tough mission but at least i am starting to be able to handle the hard foes...using some of the sequences correctly...and i hope to keep improving. And ys i do trust the advice here, and lets keep it friendly..we are all in the game together.

Is there a way to get out of a combat once you are in it? i am hoping to wait out a period of invulnerablity that some Sith Harrowers go thru for my main Class mission on Taotooine and if i can disengage and then come back, i am hopeful i can survive... is there a way to leave a combat without having them start all over on their health bar? i suspect not but just wondered.... as i have seen posts from people with this particular battle which is a bugged one in some ways, where they get away and then come back during this period when the Sith is basically taking no damage at all... i was not sure how they did that.... as usually a fight keeps on going, and if you run they chase you or keep firing at you....but thought maybe there was a force ability that could free you from their combat focus... i am a Jedi Knight Focus Guardian...at level 34

I am at level 30 with a Jedi Knight Guardian and i am not doing as well as I think i should in boss fights, can anyone suggest abilities to use that may help ...as i am not really suviving enough to be a decent tank yet.... advice and stickies and links very welcome thanks. I want to serve the Galaxy better.

i had the same problem first time. Remember later on there is often a direct shuttle to the space station on various planets usually near the taxi stand. Good luck and do be sure to ask here for help, we all try to help out when we can.

Every game has the right to be respected for itself, not put on a trial with every other game. That is a strange malady of an over competitive culture, there is no real win or lose,....each is unique and does the best it can..just as every company does the best it can to create a fun and enjoyable game. I am glad for the success of them all, but some offer much more than others. Lets enjoy SWTOR for what it offers, which is a lot, and let those other games do their thin in their own way. American needs to get off the focus of competition and enjoy things for their own sakes.

Bioware did a wonderful job on that event, i enjoyed all of it and they really created a lot more fun for us all. I enjoyed the merchant too, it was a fun aspect of the overall activity. They gave us plenty of notice but it was supposed also to be a surprise. The few people who exploited it were a tiny minority, most of us had a ball and enjoyed it all, I got to really enjoy the plague and the way it happened for us, and loved all of the things that we could do. Thanks and heres hoping for many more like that one.

I am glad to see people caring about keeping the game fun and clean...and it is clear who is griefing and who is not. They know they are and we can see they are. It is simple and the fix is simple too. I am sure Bioware will make changes to help keep things fun. Thanks for all the great comments here, and I am happy to see those who still can't see the truth are a small minority. This is a game and intended to be fun.

Excuse me for disagreeing but SWTOR is a fine game, one of the best MMOs ever made yet and I have studied most of them. It is setting the gold standard for future MMOs and for Star Wars games and the people who have negative feelings are people who dont have the imagination to enjoy the game for what it is and who dont know that this is a fine example. It takes effort to enjoy the various aspects of the game and nice people who enjoy sharing to play in groups ...and to keep the play focused on the game story itself and not to try to make it another macho contest for personal glory and self agrandizement. Many on line games suffer from modern mailaise of selfish intent and ego, and end up being like most playground dominated by bullies and under the shadow of anger and hate. Lets enjoy this wonderful game for what it is and thank goodness it is NOT anything like WOW or the other shallow and boring such grind contests. Lets Stay on the Light side of the Force.