Before we do, there's more than 1 companion per class. Cheers:)

But, you can only have one out at a time. Thank God. I didn't want to see Baldur's Gate size parties of NPC's running around.

Or Dragon Age. Dear god, it's the only BioWare game I've ever played that I actually have more problems with than things i enjoyed.

Biowares a smart company, they learned from the mistakes they made in Mass Effect and fixed it in ME 2. Hopefully they learn from the problems with party members in Dragon Age and fix it for swtor.

I agree, this is supposed to be a unique experience as compared to any other MMO. On a side note, the full acronym is MMORPG, they're all already an RPG/MMO hybrid lol

As far as names go I think one could alleviate "loves2sp00ge" (get the reference?) or "pwnmaster" and all that at least a little bit by having rules on name creation, such as no numbers or has to be at least two words (like in Guild Wars).

I myself aren't concerned with the retarded names that much because all that takes is a couple name reports and they have to change it. What I'm worried about is the damn alt-code letters in the names, they should disallow those on the US servers at least. If your name is taken, tough titties come up with a new one instead of cheating the system

This has gotten fairly off-topic, wouldn't you say?

New here. [Love the Podcast,, guys; Thanks!!!]

I will try and get it back on track. I only read the first page, so I might be repeating, but here are my thoughts, for what they are worth.

I think that some race restriction on class make sense; I also think that from a game play and design perspective, having to make every class work with every race increases the amount of work exponentially. Given those two facts, I think it will definitely be the case that certain classes will be restricted to certain races.

Happy to be wrong or corrected. That just makes sense to me.

I think that race restrictions for classes make sense. What I would really like to see though, is more than 2 choices per class. That is what it appears to be thus far, and I would be disappointed about that. I would like to play a jedi consular, but I don't really like either of the officially announced races.

Forgot to mention, I am also new here, was listening to "The Instance", and when I heard them mention you guys I immediately looked you guys up. I've played all the major MMO's, and am looking forward to this one most of all. Awesome podcast, and keep up the good work.

They have already confirmed more race/class combos are coming, they haven't announced them all yet.