Darth Hater

That's A LOT of questions. I bet with that many, they'd at least answer 2 or 3.

I imagine the Conversations will be like Mass Effect, where you can hit Spacebar to skip the current sentence(say if you've read the subtitle already and are waiting on the voice to finish), which would go to the next sentence, and on until you get a Conversation Wheel.

I hope Storyline is not skippable. If you make playing and leveling require thinking(like storylines with dialogue wheels and a karma system), it'll be harder to bot, since bots love to do nothing but grind. I can only hope grinding is simply not a option. Maybe the lack of "Kill 10 Pigs" quests will mean it's not very possible.

For BioWare's sake, I hope they buy up every URL even remotely resembling TOR's name. Look at WoW, with all the gold sites like "4wowgold" and such. Or how ffxi.com is owned by a gold site(now cleverly disguised as a blog site that still shows gold-selling/buying bias). FFXI.com being owned by a gold site is the best/worst example of a company being outsmarted by gold sites. One big reason I recently quit Wow is because there are so many bots in it, many that aren't dealt with even after multiple reports. I don't want TOR to go the same way.

If TOR's UI is good enough, I wouldn't mind a lack of addons. It'd be nice to have Skins though, like SWG's interface did.

You must clear your throat and straighten your tie before asking this important question:

Will there be player housing?

I also suggest buying a few roses and giving them to the person you are asking.

Oh and sorry I forgot:
- Will Guilds have to be faction specific?
- How much communication can be had between factions?
- If you get lots of dark side points, do you begin to 'look evil and ugly'?

i too suggest bringing flowers. ;o
can't hurt.

They will also be in a cantina, get them some booze.

With pax about a month away, and knowing how tight lipped bioware is being, it seems almost futile to poke and prod at them. But I also respect their desire to only present something to the community once its finished, and to not promise things they can't deliver on. *cough*blizzard*cough*

either way, the issues most prevalent in my mind are as follows:
1. Travel - As the blood elf said above, how will we be getting between planets? How will we move between cities? and How will we be moving around inside these beautiful cities?
2. PvP - ANYTHING you can squeeze out of these guys as to how the game pertains to PvP. They've already said PvP is important to them, so I'm holding out for announcements between now and Pax. Doubtful though.

Blizzard is like Bioware when compared to Molyneux.

Molyneux and to an extent... Mythic. I really hope Bioware doesn't pick up any nasty diseases from those guys.

I'm not helping by adding this non-question stuff, but when are PAX and GamesCon? I forget.

http://swtor.com/events For those and any other future events, as well as ComicCon at the moment.

I'll have to think up questions later, but knowing how vague BioWare has been so far, we'll only be able to ask the vaguest of questions if we want an answer. Just look at the Q&As in every interview with them thus far. You'd have a better shot at pulling teeth with chopsticks than pulling out some info that they don't want leaked.

Plus we'll have to consider their announcements at PAX and GamesCon so as not to be redundant with questions. :)

I'm waiting for GamesCon to finish before I submit my questions, mostly because I cant think up of any that havent been asked 20,000 times.

Ask all questions like you already know the answer and like you don't believe the answer you're being given. Ask stupid questions that may offend them so they will try to impress you and give you give you more info than they normally would. If they say something that seems new, make them repeat it and explain it - to ensure correct context. Most importantly, don't leave without getting yourself a hug & smooch from a booth babe on camera for proof.

1. Do Troopers or any other class on the Republic have access to the same cover system as Smugglers?

2. Line of sight is in game, correct?

3. What about Stealth? The Smuggler's dev diary can be read in a context that hints at a stealth ability.

4. We know PvE is being balanced for fun, but what about PvP balance? Bioware's reputation with PvP is pretty much nil. Are you prepared for a mass exodus from one profession to another? Are you prepared for the massive amount of QQing? Do you have a plan or is it the make it up as we go, screw people as we go, create a flavor of the month as we go... system?

5. Will we have a base of operations like the Ebon Hawk or the Normandy where all of our companion characters will just be chill'n? Will we see other players with the same exact companions running around in the world? Like zomg, my romantic interest is cheating on me with... Every dude on the block?! You whore!