Darth Hater

The harness/underlay settup was actually more complex than the final implimentation, and a lot less intiutive. Additionalyy, it did not address the issues they're facing now with the slot-specific armorings. I was sad to see the modification slots removed from so many customizable blue and purple items, though; I still think it would have been better to turn the majority of them into fully cutomizable orange shells, especially considering their current plans of making the styles available as orange shells anyway.

I suspect it was just one of the many things that they were forced to rush into a presentable form for launch, rather than take the time needed in order to impliment it correctly from the start.

We already know the answer to the crafting question: they're going to continue to expand upon it over time, with the intent of having every item in the game being available as an orange shell.

The 1.2 pass will cover end-game gear from this point forward, including the all-important removable primary modification. Additionally, many quest reward orange shells are being added a schematics. If the style you want isn't added this pass simply keep you eyes open in future updates; these things take time. Demonstrate patience.

It really bothers me how no one ever asks BioWare if they have any plans on continuing the class stories, and what the ballpark estimate is of when to expect it.

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It really bothers me how no one ever asks BioWare if they have any plans on continuing the class stories, and what the ballpark estimate is of when to expect it.

It has been answered. More class story (or at least companions) is coming in future updates, not 1.2. It's on the production queue but other stuff comes first.

They also hinted that this would be within the year.

Well I am aware that class story updates will come some day, it would be nice to get an update on when. And the "hint" I assume you're referring to just said "story" it didn't really say class story. For all we know, it could be more of the general storyline stuff like the Corellia quests in 1.2.

Int he guild summit videos, when asked about class story, they said within the year and more after that.

They said at the Guild Summit that they had Story ideas planned out for the next year.  They have not stated when we can start seeing Chapter 4 for Class Stories although have hinted within a year.  They have acknowledged that people do love the Class Stories and Want More and they DO plan on doing that.  I agree with some earlier comments that they are playing catch up, especially with EA pushing for that December Release.  I personally think by patch 1.3 they should have the Core built pretty solid by then and 1.2 will do wonders for the game.

They mentioned Character Transfers was their next focus and for the longetivity of the game they simply have to reduce the number of low population servers.

Completely true.  I think if they do anything short of how Trion handles transfers with Rift, then they are crazy.  1 week cool down per character from a FREE transfer.  The servers will fix themselves.  People woh want to be on a high/medium/low can do it themselves.

I expect full server consolidations myself: Announce that server X will be shut down due to low population. Players have Y days to move them to any of several select servers of the player's choice, regardless of account status (active/inactive). Characters that have not been transfered in Y days will be moved en masse to a server of the developers' choice. Several emails would be sent to both active and inactive accounts with characters on a low-pop server before Y days have past.

A slower process wouldn't serve to entice returning players to stay; they would log into the game to see the changes since they'd left and find an empty server. Additionally, new players not knowing any better would sometimes roll on the empty servers, and would be unlikely to contune their subscription past the first month.

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I expect full server consolidations myself: Announce that server X will be shut down due to low population. Players have Y days to move them to any of several select servers of the player's choice, regardless of account status (active/inactive). Characters that have not been transfered in Y days will be moved en masse to a server of the developers' choice. Several emails would be sent to both active and inactive accounts with characters on a low-pop server before Y days have past.

A slower process wouldn't serve to entice returning players to stay; they would log into the game to see the changes since they'd left and find an empty server. Additionally, new players not knowing any better would sometimes roll on the empty servers, and would be unlikely to contune their subscription past the first month.

See, there's a problem with that.  Anytime a MMO closes a server, it's like a sign of the apocalypse.  It's a terrible bit of news.  It's why in their 7 years has WoW never shut down a server, and they have some of the worst i've ever seen.  If they do what Trion does, it's a feature and it fixes itself.

Ah, okay, so class stories were specified. My mistake.