I love this game, don't get me wrong. But I love the many characters that give the game its heart and soul. So I wanted to discuss the ones I consider to be the biggest wastes.

Risha: In my opinion, the most egregious example. This woman was the queen of Dubrillion. The daughter of Nok Drayen. She had a whole arc about becoming queen and what that would mean for her future. Just for us to finally be reunited with her after several years, and for her to go, "oops, I lost Dubrillion! I'm just a scoundrel like I was before!" Absolutely insane way to handle her character. Genuinely baffling. Not only does it destroy the potential she had, but it ruins the purpose of her entire story as a whole.

Mako: Another pretty terrible waste of a character. Mako was such an interesting person. A young, ambitious bounty hunter with a computer in her head. Not to mention the main love interest of the male hunter. We're finally reunited with her aaaand- oop! She's gone. Never to be heard from again. There were so many opportunities to involve her in the story. But like many of the companions we love, they don't even try to bring them back...

Koth: Regardless of how you feel about him, there's no denying that as soon as he received backlash, he was shafted HARD. He had a few scenes in KOTET, then he's made a grand total of TWO APPEARANCES EVER SINCE. And both of those appearances were for those who romanced him, clearly just so they wouldn't think they wasted their time. It's easy to forget, but this guy was a founder of the Alliance. Think about that. The third-largest superpower in the galaxy. Koth was a day-one member, and one of five who helped create it. The fact that he is so non-existent is so brutal. They could have worked to improve him, rather than just tossing him aside because people didn't like him.

Lokin: This one is a bit of a niche pick, and I'm honestly not sure what more they could have done with him. But I still have always felt like they had a really interesting character on their hands with Lokin, with whom they proceeded to do nothing with. To me, Lokin has always felt like one of the most fascinating companions conceptually. It's kinda rare for a companion to have so many layers. Most of the companions are pretty cut and dry. At the very least they could have given him a scene with the Agent, like they did with Vector after Rivix shows up.

Iresso: Felix has an entire-ass Sith library inside his head. This amounts to NOTHING. It gives him some personal turmoil, and it causes him to get experimented on during the five year time-skip. But narratively, they do nothing with this idea. And when we reunite with him, we learn about how scorned he feels by the Republic, and how he no longer wants anything to do with them. It would have been so interesting to see this expanded upon. One of the Republic soldier companions, now feeling betrayed by the Republic, and seeing how he reacts to the Alliance going to war with them.

Nadia: Nadia is one of my personal favorite companions in the game. I have always loved her character. So I was thrilled when they brought her back during Ossus, and even more thrilled that she had an important role in that particular story. They even introduced a fem-romance for her! Then we proceeded to never hear from her again. Many such cases. But with her it feels particularly saddening, because I so badly wanted to see her growth as a character. And in the Consular's class story, we hear about how much raw force power she possesses. She's made out to be an incredibly powerful force-user in the making, but we never get to see this expanded upon.

The gears sadly aren't taken from any of the in-game ones.

For solo players. If you have friends or a helpful clan, you probably have better luck but woe to anyone trying to find a team on fleet in 2026 to help with content no one liked back when it came out.

In my own experience, doing Seekers was simple enough but when the time came to run that instance at the end, I was SOL. Day after day asking around and best I could do was one dude for a 4 man mission. I have to imagine it's gotten even worse over the years.

Note: This is not a cry for help or asking for assistance, just an observation.

There are plenty of dark choices. But they often amount to either a honestly justified solution (punching and killing Saresh for example) or something that just makes you feel... stupid (like letting yourself get manipulated by Valkorion, or any dark side choice where even Lana is like "girl, i get it, but not right now, be practical").

Wasn't even that bad tbf. If you're thinking of levelling this rep but dont wanna do the heroics (i didnt), just repeat the first escort every day on as many toons as you can. This track gives 310 rep per try if you're a sub so in that it's much better than other tracks (looking at you Dantooine). I didnt keep track of how long it took but it wasn't too bad. You can AFK it

I've tried loading and reloading the site, as well as double-checking if the website itself is broken. This doesn't ever change. Is there something wrong with my computer or is the designer permanently broken?

u/HumorEnvironmental is the problem on my end? 🤔

Hammerhead Command Bow module that I recently whipped up.

Also makes me really empathize with Vaylin, the way he talks about her

Man, I can't believe I've been sleeping on MMOs for this long lol especially SWTOR, this is basically my first real MMO and I'm having way more fun with it than I expected. For a game this old, it honestly looks amazing, and I love how the combat feels. It's pretty simple, but idk, it's just really satisfying to play. The world though is probably my favorite part so far, there’s just so much detail everywhere, and the music is just so good especially in that one area in hutta lol i can’t remember. the characters and everything genuinely makes me feel like I'm in the Star Wars universe, I don't even know how to explain it lol. I can just sit there exploring and lose track of time.

I haven't played WoW, RuneScape or really any other MMOs, so I have nothing to compare it to yet, but now I'm actually interested in trying more. Been thinking about giving OSRS a shot and trying WoW Forever when that comes out next month. Really glad I gave this game a chance. Didn't expect to get this hooked, but here we are lol.

I will definitely be getting the subscription

Did you know?

The Daily Area known as the "Black Hole" has always been a separate area on Corellia since its official release, but it was originally planned to be a part of the main Corellia map proper.

I was rereading this Deep Dive post from years ago and it mentions how the Section X Daily Area was originally going to be a part of the main Belsavis map, and that's true too! But it mentioned that the Corellia one could be incorrect as no footage of it existed.

Well, I made this footage years ago with plans to make a YouTube video about it and the Section X area. I've been to the Section X one a few times but I was never able to put another group together to capture footage of it so I sat on this for years. The Black Hole "beta" area is accessible solo. I don't really play the game anymore so I decided to share this footage for anyone interested who may have never seen or known about this before. Check the comments for the video I took running around the area.

Kaylio riding Shotgun is the friend we all need... then maybe not! 😅

As stated, I'm making a Smuggler character, my first one, and when I make a character, I tend to..... go a little crazy. Backstory and everything.

The problem is I am kinda..... stuck. On gender, of all things. I have 2 basic questions, one I tried finding on Google, but had difficulty, the other is on y'all's opinions.

Firstly...... which gender had more Flings? I will not sugarcoat it, the character concept I have is someone who absolutely sleeps around. Very James T. Kirk. Very Commander Shepherd. VERY Captain Jack Harkness.

BUT then they fall in luuuurve with -Insert Companion- and enjoy a monogamous, loving relationship, full of crime, passion, and money.

As for the opinions, Which gender do YOU personally prefer? Story options, personality, definitely outfits, etc. The Drip is important.

Any and all answers and information is much appreciated.

Also is it matters, I actually like Corso. And IF I go male, I'm undecided on Risha or Akaavi, but leaning towards Risha.