You win the whole world for this. And just chiming in to see glad that the thread has stayed mostly on topic, without huge forays into other games. It was a bit disheartening to see this place often turning into Dragon Age/Mass Effect discussion. In any case, I'm not discouraged by the lack of announcement at ComicCon. While I think SGRAs are pretty important as a storyline addition, I don't think they're actually a selling point to get people in. However, once people are in the game and see romances, they're probably bound to wonder where the SGRAs are. I know I was. I went into this game not even knowing about most of it, and the lack of SGRA inclusion continues to baffle me. But I am patient!

I had that same thing happen, and I actually made a thread called "Theran thinks he's my boyfriend" some time ago. I think the general consensus was that he's just that delusional.

Actually... I have a feeling the main gist of that post may have been to stop all the Mass Effect discussion. Not all of us are Mass Effect players, after all.

There's still PVP flagging on PVE servers; believe me, I'm on one. Sadly, even a PVE server doesn't completely turn off PVP, so we have issues like this.

This would be the solution I propose. I understand that they don't want people aiding PVPers without being in PVP themselves. It would be horribly unfair for a non-flagged healer to throw buffs and heals on a PVPer while they fought. However, sometimes I'll target a PVPer by accident, and all it takes is one misclick to accidentally heal or buff someone (especially with the Trooper/Bounty Hunter's "healing bullets"). It'd be much appreciated if we could just have some option to never do it at all, sort of using the same mechanics of how we can't heal or buff NPCs or Pets (the option gets grayed out, or we auto-target ourselves). It would be much better than having to find a Cantina and stop playing for five minutes. EDIT: I just had this issue happen, and I took 16 minutes and 34 seconds for the flag to go away.

Just point of order here; one thing I liked about Dragon Age 2 was how you could romance someone that was rival to your point of view. Instead of having to be all buddy-agreeable, you two could be absolute opposites and still end up in the sack. My mother and stepfather are actually good real-life examples; they're opposite ends of the political spectrum and disagree on many things, yet somehow it all works.

And I wanted to point something out here. A lot of people say this, as well as it's counter-argument (they said they were adding it after launch). Me, I went into this game completely blind. I try to avoid reading about things before I try them so that my opinion isn't coloured by the misperceptions or biases of others. In fact, I would have never played this game at all until a free trail was passed my way, had I not gotten into the beta. When I was playing the beta, all I knew was "Star Wars" and "everything is voice acted." I didn't know there were companion characters AT ALL until the story suddenly stuck Corso on me. That's when I realized why there was no pet class! So when I started to see Flirt options, I wondered if there were same-sex options (because I was never seeing any), and that lead me here. What I guess I'm trying to say is that it's not a safe assumption that everyone reads all the internet buzz before playing a game; some people just play it and THEN decide what they think should be changed with it.

Sooo... what's the important stuff? Because really, to some of us, this is the only aspect of the game that needs any work. Story-driven people want the story worked on, people think the UI is the most important issue, some say there's performance issues, PVPers want PVP... stuff (I really don't understand the PVP complaints, so I can't comment on them). I don't PVP or do Operations. I've never had any performance issues. Though I won't go into any other forum and say that fixes and patches for those areas should be put off until SGRAs are in place. We're not here to talk about prioritization, but to discuss this one single thing.

This I agree with 100%. It's why I haven't done any companion dialogue with her, yet; I'm hoping she's a same-sex relationship option for my female Consular. She's too adorable not to be!

Umm... the Ship Droid minigame isn't real. Today is April 1st.

I agree! Part of the best news I've heard all day!

This was posted in the same-sex romance thread, but I have a feeling that it will apply here, as well:

I actually had to deal with unwanted advances from Theran on my Consular, already. It was pretty easy to just shut him down. And why, exactly, should all flirting be removed?

Indeed! There's a bit of a fallacy that those of us here are only concerned with SGRA. For the record, I'm actually more concerned with the addition of more cosmetic options (companion helmet toggles, hood toggles, more pets, hue to chest, ship customization, weapon equip preview, changing of character appearance options post-creation) but SGRA was the only one that requires me getting more information for. I have Nadia, Vette, Mako and Elara with permanent mission icons above their heads on my ship because I don't know if it's safe to proceed with talking to them, yet. This is my reason for only posting about this issue, rather than the others I care about; it's actually changing my gameplay because I don't want to have to reroll my character if things are done a certain way. NOTE: Legacy was another thing keeping me from playing a certain way, since I wasn't sure if "new races" could be applied to existing characters. Since it's confirmed that you CANNOT change race after creation, I now know for sure not to create more alts, just yet. I also hope they change their mind on this, because I really want to make more alts, but don't want to have to reroll if they release playable races like Voss, Cathar, Togruta, Nautolan or Zeltron.

I don't know who Jaesa is or what class she's a companion for, but all the "spoilers" I've been accidentally seeing seem to indicate it's a companion who's Light or Dark sidedness is something you have control over. I hope they don't make her gender preference based upon which path she's on. I can't quite put my finger on it (maybe because it's about 6 AM), but that feels wrong. That's a shame; I adore Nadia and hope she's a Consular female romance option! Same with Elara, really. Maybe more so with Elara, now that I've actually met her in-game.