And Mike, about the puzzles thing, I think the reason people steer away from those is because most people just go online to check them.

And I do believe one of the operations actually has a sort of puzzle you need to solve during the boss fight.

Craig in Milwaukee

My favorite note from Patch 1.2.2: “An issue that could prevent hair from showing on Jedi Knights while wearing certain visors has been addressed.”
I was one of the people who bugged that–I was bald starting in 1.2. I know Jedi aren’t supposed to be vain, but I like having hair!

I like your idea, Mike, of having more puzzles in Old Republic. Baldur’s Gate 2, Neverwinter Nights, and KotOR all had the occasional puzzle or riddle that you had to solve, and I loved that. The only puzzle I’ve encountered in SWTOR that made me pull out a pencil and paper was one in a Heroic 2+ area on Balmorra (something about turning on all power sources to activate a big cannon, but switching any one on or off would also switch on/off all adjacent nodes). A quest that involved zero combat and made me stop my killing rampage and think was a refreshing change of pace.

I regret to inform you…
http://www.swtor.com/news/news-article/20120401

SERIOUSLY? I swear this had better be a joke, because this feels like as far “left field” as they can get. Yes, I really want to clean my ship, and fix it.

Okay, if these droid specific vendors allow us to pimp our ships, then I’m in.

But these video previews are the laugh of the day in my opinion…

Another patch note that I was actually really happy to see was the ability to leave comment entries in the Friends List. I have a bunch of people I’ve added as friends after a successful flashpoint or Heroic 4 mission, but I quickly forget who is who. It’s nice to remember who was a good healer, or tank, or which was the person who knew all the tricks to lead you through Taral V. I really wanted to be able to make notes about friends, and here it is.

Keep up the great podcasts.

I finally unlocked my Legacy, and I’m actually pretty annoyed to learn that all the experience I’ve already gained with my alt is essentially “wasted” when it comes to legacy points. Basically, experience gained with alts only counts toward legacy points after the legacy is unlocked, so the fact that I got my alt through Tattooine before unlocking the legacy with my main means that’s ~30 levels of experience that won’t go toward legacy points. I don’t see why they wouldn’t apply alt experience retroactively for legacy points.

My guess with the legacy species unlocks is that it won’t introduce any new species, just let you play a species in a class that it normally isn’t one of the choices for. In the video, it looks like they show a pure Sith Jedi Knight and a chiss Smuggler. Perhaps if you play a chiss Agent and unlock a certain legacy level with her, then you’ll be able to start any character as a chiss. This would fit in with the whole family tree thing that they’re doing with the legacy system.

I have to say, Mike, that you just make yourself sound old when you put down ewoks. There was an episode of How I Met Your Mother last fall in which Barney explained the concept of the “Ewok Line”: If you saw RotJ as a little kid (<~10yrs), you'd think the ewoks were adorable like teddy bears and love them. If you were already OLD when RotJ came out, then you'd think the ewoks were annoying and you'd hate them. A generalization, sure, but not far off the mark. So, Mike, just how old were you in 1983?

Just following up on my comments on Episode 10. I finally talked my wife into playing Star Wars, and like I thought would happen, she’s hooked. I used your suggestion Nicole about getting my daughter to play… so we teamed up on my wife for a second account, and finally wore her down.

She’s glad we did… now

Keep up the awesome podcasting.