...except that, if you read my OP, you'd note that I never once mention wanting to avoid the people on Harbinger or Bastion. It's about wanting to merge *with* the other RPers on Ebon Hawk and Jung Ma... you know, so that the RP community grows with added population. And no, I don't find the coast difference all that compelling. Sure, US time to Europe is pretty huge. But a 1-3 hour difference? Individual habits vary more than that, it'd barely be an issue.

Aye, such as if they're waiting for a PvP or PvE Queue to pop. "Oh, I'll spend my time waiting trolling the RPers a bit!", for example.

Aye, and it doesn't hurt that Kothe states that he's primarily doing it because he can't be sure you're not secretly an Imperial double-agent. Which he's, you know, 100% correct about. Just hard for me to be too pissy about a guy going "Why don't you trust me" when I'm there to stab him in the back >_>.

Dude, ease the hell up. He's apologized, and some people (myself included) don't believe in editing posts to hide the ugly things they said. Only one that's looking bad right now is you.

So, this is a more minor issue in comparison to some of the other RP Server issues that people have been bringing up, but I really don't get the reasoning behind merging Begeren Colony with Harbinger and Bastion. Begeren Colony was one of the RP servers, back when servers had those labels. A number of long-time players on the server are still RPers, or are at least used to seeing RPers running around. Why have BC merge with two servers with no history of RP, and Ebon Hawk and Jung Ma do the same with three servers with no history of RP? Granted, Ebon Hawk, Jung Ma and Begeren Colony likely don't have 50% of the player base, but swapping Begeren Colony with Shadowlands or Pot5 would make for a stronger RP server out east without upsetting the distribution too much. ...and yeah, I know the basis of the division is West Coast vs East Coast, but the new servers aren't labeled West Coast or East Coast, so this might eventually even out anyway. At least make it so that the RPers don't continue to be divided into multiple groups...

...that doesn't exactly help much. All of my RP contacts are in Begeren Colony, all of my character's friends and enemies and such. Hence why I'm making noise here. Hopefully Bioware will realize their error and adjust their plans. I have no interest in transferring to Ebon Hawk or Star Forge if it means leaving everyone else behind, I might as well just start off new then.

...it kinda fits. Numerous people are telling you that their experiences do not match yours of it, and you're kinda just saying "No, your experiences are wrong". Yes, sometimes the RP griefers give up and do something else. Sometimes they don't. Sometimes they do but others step in after they piss off. And sometimes we just would rather they never show up in the first place. Being told "Just ignore them, eventually they might go away" is not a good resolution to a sadly too-common issue, and you dismissing the people saying so? Basically, you come off like someone trying to win an argument instead of have a conversation or try to understand other people's experiences. We understand that "just ignore them" is what we're supposed to do, and we're tired of it because... far too often it just doesn't work. Does that make sense to you?

Yeah, the recommendation of "just try to ignore the ******* for five minutes and maybe he'll leave and hopefully won't be replaced by another ******* five minutes later" doesn't really inspire much.

As has been noted, not all of the RPers get that. Those of us on Begeren Colony are being merged in with two servers that have no history of supporting RP. A lot of us aren't against the concept of server mergers entirely, but lumping us in with Bastion and Harbinger instead of JC and Ebon Hawk is a mistake, pure and simple.

Please reconsider the specific merges. The RPers on Begeren Colony would much, much, much rather merge with the other RP servers than join up with Harbinger and Bastion. The reason for merging makes sense, but the type of player is much more important in this case than simply where the players are generally located.

To me, the biggest issue isn't that RP Servers are being merged with non-RP Servers, I think we all understand that was going to happen. RPers do play PvP and PvE content on occasion, we just *also* do the RP stuff, so having non-RPers around to fight or party with isn't a bad thing. The issue is where the servers are being merged. Begeren Colony and Ebon Hawk still being on different servers seems like a poor idea in the end. Latency, especially in a tab-targeting MMORPG, isn't so bad that West Coast US vs East Coast US matters all that much, have Begeren Colony join the Star Forge server and have one of the servers without any RPers join Hot Prospect.

Yeah, speaking for myself, as Begeren Colony RPer? I'd muuuuuch rather get merged with Ebon Hawk and JC than Harbinger. Don't get me wrong, I get the latency worries. But at this point, merging all the servers with strong RP populations make a hell of a lot more sense than going by region. RP servers only work better when they've got a lot of participants, so that it's not hard to find some fun. ......also, I kinda wanna smack whoever created the names. "Hot Prospect"? Really?

#1: Sith Inquisitor. The Inquisitor's entire story arc is "Become more and more powerful with terrible, secret techniques". #2: Sith Warrior. He might be more or less just a board with a nail in it, but it's a really sturdy board, and that nail's got tetanus. 1v1, it's hard to picture anyone not using ancient-********-magic beating him. #3: Jedi Consular. Consular's clearly very strong, but limiting oneself to Jedi powers only does limit overall power, especially in confrontations. The Consular's main advantage is political power and connections, far more than even the Inquisitor. #4: Jedi Knight. Similar to the Warrior, the Jedi Knight's pretty mundane... aside from that whole "Will not, give up, ever" bit. The Knight's pretty much the only one that loses a straight-up fight... and they still win. Besides, far better for the traditional heroic story to have a more mundane protagonist . Of course, the Warrior's power base is entirely in his ability to menace other people into doing his bidding, and the Inquisitor's kinda a barely-balanced mess of insanity (although Inky does have a fairly useful fleet to call upon). The Consular has like five armies and a political organization to call upon...

One bit to add to Theron's actions on Umbara? Either he's the worst shot for a spy ever, or his actions in the train cockpit were explicitly there to aid your escape: He tells you how long until the crash, the shot he fires was apparently set on "annoy", given how Lana shook off a blaster shot at point-blank range, and when he fires at an unarmed you? He hits the controls, bringing up the ray shield and enabling his escape, sure. And he hits the window, enabling your escape. The only thing he doesn't hit is you... and if he had hit you, it'd be Lana standing there on the other side of the ray shield, same situation...

So, here's the issue I have with Umbra and Iokath. ... Okay, here's ONE of the issues I have. Theron backstabbing a character that took the Eternal Throne as Emperor/Empress? Fine! That makes total sense at face value, completely understandable, even if he's bedding the Emperor/Empress. But backstabbing a Commander that took the throne to use it for peacekeeping and basically being all Jedi Jesus with it? The explanation he gives, that the Alliance is beyond the Commander's control and it's dragging the galaxy back towards war... why wasn't that set up earlier? At the start of Iokath, a Peacekeeper Commander is told "Hey, Zakuul's demanding more free ****, what should we do?", and you can throw them more stuff or tell them to get bent. Fine, but that was an opportunity to show the unintended consequences of being nice with the Eternal Fleet, people firing at the people sending goods around, demanding it be scuttled or used against one side, at least hint at one point that the Alliance, even as a peacekeeping force, wasn't a good idea. I know, I know, odds are like 90% that Theron's just doing a double/triple/whatever-agent thing, infiltrating the Order so he can destroy them, and maybe it was originally going to be Lana that betrayed the Alliance if you went Peacekeeper (since the Sith would be able to say "*** WHY DIDN'T YOU CLAIM THE THRONE?!"), but not making the stated reason make any sense is a serious problem with the writing...