Okay, hello. I saw lots of people talking about the lack of alien characters and overall diversity in SWTOR. Since this is a complex problem, it requires complex solutions. I am here to share some ideas about SWTOR that I wanted to... share.
1: Companion classes and additional customization:
I think that companions should be more customizable overall. I am playing as a Sith Warrior and so far most of the companions fit into a class role; Vette is a Gunslinger, for example. So, what if we could change our companions' abilities? For example, Vette could learn healing and get a scattergun turning her into a Scoundrel-like charafter while Broonmark could get a second blade and lighter armour. Naturally that will require lots of money and the change will be permanent ,or near-permanent; but this also could allow us to use all our companions, not just the useful ones. I would like to use Broonmark more, for example. He looks funny but is useless for a tank.
2: Your own companion
One of the solutions to the alien problem. What if we could, at high levels, get a companion we could work with and customize to the full extent? We could choose a species, a class, a backstory... That kind of thing. Such companion probably won't have quests but it could recieve affection according to the backstory we chose for him.
3: Unique new classes
We all know that we can't make species like Trandoshans, Wookies etc playable because the way people treat them gonna be different- but what if we could assign a new storyline to them? What about a brutal Trandoshan hunter, a melee/ranged hybrid that uses a vibrosword AND a blaster? Assassin droids, too. You get my idea.
I will add more later. Feel free to comment!