Oh no, that's next week's promotion. Check back.

Was it yellow or purple? Because if you bought the blue-nova one, you're out of luck. It was only the blue-orange.

I have read the thread. And several recent posters have posted that they have not, so a little re-iteration doesn't hurt anyone.

Okay. I have to point this out, because I keep seeing 'I'm a subscriber and I didn't get it' and I have a desire to clarify. The promotion was not whether or not you are subscribed to the game. If you are subscribed to the game, yay, welcome! Or, greetings, mortal who has been here with us! The promotion was that you had to opt-in to the swtor.com e-mail news letter/updates. You getting your stipend letter each month is not connected to that. I still got mine every month even when I wasn't opted in to get any of the newsletters. You can check this by going in to My Account > Basic Information and there is a box at the bottom that says 'Sign up for our mail updates'. Make sure the first one (Sign up to receive Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ updates by email.) is checked. If it is not, then you did not opt-in and that's why you haven't received it. And yes, I'm certain that 20 of you 'already know that! Duh!' ...the message isn't for you. It's for those who didn't see the 'opt-in by the 14th and receive' message and think that it went to all subscribers. I hope this helps someone feel a little less frustrated.

No. The servers are not connected in any way, shape or form from this. If you are on Progenitor, you now will have a choice of setting focus to PVP or PVE. If you set focus to PVP, you're in a planetary instance (likely named Planet Name - PVP 1) with other people who set focus to PVP. If you set focus to PVE, the same applies. So before where there was a Hoth 1, Hoth 2, Hoth 3 when the planet was populated, now there will be a Hoth 1, Hoth PVP 1. They're just planetary instances which are focused toward PVE or PVP. You can't flag in the PVE (so reported from the PTS) and you can't unflag in the PVP. If you want to unflag, you have to go to the PVE instance. If you want to flag, you have to go to the PVP instance. Edit: Fixed it as 'now will' since it's only on the PTS, not live.

Yes. I'll be honest, I only know of Harbinger from the people coming to the forums, so no idea if it truly is an issue or not. I don't see much lag but as I've said before, I'm on Shadowlands. (Which I read somewhere, in a forum post, is supposedly the least populated of the PVE servers or something). But to that end, if someone does their research and sees that Harb is allegedly laggy as all sin, they might roll on Bastion to get away from it. It really is population preference. Or if Bob wants Jim to come play, but Jim hates PVP servers with a passion, Bob can now tell Jim 'hey, you don't have to PVP on my PVP server, you can stay in the PVE instance and I'll join you sometimes." I did the 'empty PVP server' on Ravenholdt for a number of years in WoW. It wasn't fun. :-( And then I transferred to Mannoroth (which was a higher population server) only to watch it go through an imbalance (3 to 1 in favor of Alliance and I was Horde) and then...it got connected with two other realms and ended up still imbalanced and laggy as hell. So for me, this feels like a better solution, but I won't know that until I see it in place, working in the game. And I have other thoughts about where we're headed.

Yes, that is the code you're hearing about. It should have been two codes, one for coins and one to gift Chapter 1 to someone. I'm not sure how Refer-A-Friend stipends work, so I can't answer that part.

To devil's advocate for you here, a question would be 'what's to stop them now from choosing Bastion over Harb'? Because if their reason for going to Harb was that it was PVE and Bastion was PVP, well now there would be no difference (in a way). Why not roll on Bastion and stay in a PVE instance? I would think with all of the people complaining about Harb's lag and crashing problems, that that would make Bastion more appealing, not less. It might not, I can't say, but just a thought I had while reading your post.

Thank you

My pleasure.

If you unlock it. When it first goes in to collections, you can only re-collect it on the character that originally has it. If you want it on others, you have to pay the unlock price. I believe it's 60cc for Bronze, 200cc for Silver, and 400cc for gold (or it may be 600cc, forgive me I'm not where I can log in to the game.)

If you equipped it, it will unlock it. The packs don't distinguish where they were bought from (GTN or CP). It would be the same if you bought a crystal directly from the GTN that was marked as a Cartel piece. It would unlock in your collections if you equipped it.

Yes, there's been some discussion about how it affects Outlaw's Den and a few other areas. And my pleasure.

Actually, according to earlier posts in this thread, on the PTS you can't flag in a PVE instance any more.

I know I won't miss people jumping into the middle of my mobs while flagged trying to get me to mistarget and flag. And I also won't miss getting flagged by healing my guild mate who somehow always manages to get himself flagged. (Psst, you hear that Rabias? )