smeh - yeah - i figured it out.  I just saw a human running around with a full blown shield (circling him) and assumed that's what I should have seen if it was working.  My mistake.

Yeah, that was probably a bounty hunter popping his mitigation cooldown.

yeah - it was a bounty hunter for sure.    Ah well, learned something anyway. 

I was just talking to a bud that apparently picked up SWTOR as well.  He's telling me that he's on a server that is constantly full.  Said he has to wait like 30 minutes to log in (he does it to play with his pals that are on the server).  That kind of sucks.

Other thing I learned - your characters are apparently per server?  This means that if I want to play on a difference server, I have to create a brand new character.  Maybe that's common knowledge for experienced MMO folks, but I didn't know. 

Anyway, been noticing some bugs as well lately... the most annoying was on the black talon up against a padawan.  I had a group of 3 people.  We did a bunch of damage to her... then she bugged out, flipped off the screen, and reappeared with full health.  This happened 4 times.  One of my teammates died, but we managed to win.  Super annoying.

Another one happens when I join a party but am not a leader. I think its related to the leader going off line or something.  Anyway, I end up with their portrait in the bottom left hand corner, but I'm unable to leave the group unless I log out.  Never happens if I'm the party leader.  Anyway, a bit annoying. 

Then there's the super reverse flash characters that someone ended up near me, but are apparently in the wrong place.  They just get warped back to where they should be.  Kind of weird to watch as they are right near you, then get zapped a big distance away until they are gone.  Only seen this randomly, though.

Still having fun ofc.

Yes, each character is tied to one and only one server.  This is standard for MMOs - you create a character on a server and it generally stays there.  Some games let you transfer characters to a new server (usually for a price), but thats not exactly that common.

 The bug with enemy mobs dropping aggro and going to full health was all over for a little bit last night.  It seemed to have been fixed outside of about a 15 minute window. 

So I'm playing a game last night and I get to a group area where I'm sure I'm going to need some help.  So, I wait around a bit and try to invite folks or get invited.  No go for like 5 minutes.  So, I open up general chat and say invite me.  But this is general chat, so I'm guessing it broadcast to in the same area as me or whatever.  Someone invites me and I accept.  Thing is, these guys are looking to do the black talon and I've already completed it.  Now, I'm level 18.  These guys are all level 11 and 12 (3 other guys).  I decide to tag along and join them.  Enter boring fest for me.  I get like next to no gold, next to no exp, and everyone except exactly 1 battle, has their health/damage scaled to the lower level folks.  So, I'm just ripping through everyone.  It was very strange how they decided to make 1 enemy I fought against (not the padawon) extremely strong.  As in, without me, my entire group would have been slaughtered and I was nearly killed as well. 

Anyway, I finish the mission.

So questions:  the only thing I really got out of the mission was social points.  What good is this for me in the long run?  Nice to feel like I've accomplished something anyway.  What are better ways to get into parties? 

Where exactly do I go to leave a party if I'm not the leader?  I feel like I must be doing something wrong here.

If you're looking for a group, pretty much the only way to go is to specify in general chat that you are (and for what). There's a LFG flag in the who screen, but I don't imagine anyone really looks at that. There's no automated grouping system at present.

That's the final boss of the dungeon. If it was that bad for an 18, then the other guys in the group probably didn't know what they were doing.

Right click your portrait, there's an option to drop group in the menu.

And unless you're going just for the custom item drops (orange items whose stats are based on the mods you plug in), there's no point in doing level-inappropriate content unless you're helping someone or farming social/alignment points.

What about space combat? Is it any fun or just tacked onto the rest of the real game?

Feels a bit tacked on. Granted, I have only done the Fondor mission. Have heard Bioware is planning on expanding a lot of the game in the coming years though, not just more content, but more "game" as well. I'm imagining that is something they might up the ante on in the long run.

Adding something like Rogue Squadron to the game would probably justify another sixty dollar expansion. How cool would it be to have a really good SW fighter interact with the game they already have?

Okay, I am going to try Sith Operative first, despite what my avatar here suggests. Anyone here playing this class yet? 

The space mission stuff is fun enough, I suppose.  I'm love it if it was more of a sim though.  Hopefully they develop this more in the near future.

I think I'd like to get a list of who's on what server, etc, in case any of us want to start new characters and play together.  I'll update the OP if you want to share.

pacov - the wall of light server

The space missions are alright, but if they're going arcade style I'd have preferred to have some scorekeeping or a way to abort early once you finish the objectives.

Just got everything uploaded and such,

Anyone wanna suggest a server from the massive list? Seems to be way to many IMHO.

U can join me carbon.  Been thinking of getting another character.  I'm on wall of light

Your too kind lol

Not tired of me on LoL

I'll go ahead and join that one. What you playing? Or do you wanna meet up in TS or Vent quick to corrdinate till i find you?