<Destinova> *Leafbacca* With the feature to hide/show backpacks and helmets, could you please consider to seperate the helmets on the wookiee armor sets from the chestpieces? The bicep pieces were "broken off" from it a few years back.

<AdeptStrain> Yea, wookies. My heart goes out to you. Separating the helmet from any wookie chest pieces is a rather big task for our already stretched art team. There aren't any current plans to change the current models, unfortunately.

<Destinova> *[SA]KiliDaran* Will smugglers expertise dealing with their missons be changed so they would be use outside of the missions

<Blixtev> Our early plans looking at the Smuggler expertise tree have us removing most of the mission specific boxes from the expertise tree and putting them in the profession wheel.

<Destinova> *Anon925* First, thank you for making rewards from heroic encounters schematics. With that said, what are the plans to make crafted weapons made by Weaponsmiths more competitive with looted items such as the GLC, Devastator Acid Launcher and other profession weapons that people think of as essential?

<DeadMeat> With each update we have introduced more schematics...There are a lot of weapons in the game, but we will continue to add new, and better, weapons schematics in the future.

<Destinova> *Vincent76* I assume that as we have seen after Update 1 youll keep up the consistent communication with the communities youre going to touch? If Smuggler Update is on the plate, we'll see some two-way communication, right? ;)

<Blixtev> With the Update 1 cycle we were basically learning our pace and what we could do as well of what level of interaction to pursue with the community, having done a few updates now we know how we want to handle it!

<Destinova> *starwarsgeek* Anyword on a sepaerate server for all low populated servers players to meet and do instances as well as other group quest ?

<Teesquared> We are still researching how to solve the server population issues. There are many technical challenges to overcome. Its something we realize is very important to players and we will continue to try to come up with a solution.

<Destinova> *ArkonPhoenix* Can the hood up/down feature be added to the existing Jedi Cloaks, since the art is already in game?

<Blixtev> We can see about it when we have more time, right now we are feature locked for Update 3 and are worried about balance tweaks and polish to we can get it to the Live service.

<Destinova> *MasterCosmo* The new DEVASTATION mod was added in ch9. An exotic mod gives a +2, but is that Devastation Value or 2% Devastation Chance

<SOE_Millbarge> Yes, the +2 is a 2% increase in your Devastation Chance These mods can be made into Exotics, but not Powerups.

<Destinova> *Leafbacca* While, the new storyteller additons like blueprint, being able to set things up on Yavin, Endor etc are nice, some "law enforcement/security" NPCS would be nice as well for a variety of stories/plots. Any chance to see RSF, CorSec and Fed-Dub NPCs for example? I brought them up in a chat in June last year, and you (or Neif anyway) seemed to think they were nice suggestions.

<Neif> This is true, they were great suggestions and I haven't forgot! We're always looking to add new props to storyteller system -- I can't comment specifically on the law enforcement NPCs, but they sound good to me.

<Destinova> *En-Sabah-Nur* The Group waypoint (arrows next to name in group window) is most often compeltely wrong. What is going to be done about that?

<Torsion> We were not aware that those arrows are often completely wrong, but you can be certain I will be looking into it very soon =)

<Destinova> *Aoyxn* Hello, I remember in the old days at the Dantooine Mining Outpost there used to be a dark jedi npc that would come and terrorize everyone. Any chance of having random npc attacks on cities? That was a lot of fun.

<Blixtev> We are always interested in adding more random world content, right now the events team handles most of this. Perhaps in the future we can add more event like things to a random city invasion system.

<Destinova> *Golfrguy* What does the future of SWG look like? More collections/heroics? Anything new and exciting planned for Chapter 10?

<DeadMeat> I think the future looks cool...C10 is Meatlumps. C11 is...Well...Folks will know after the Summit.

<Destinova> *starwarsgeek* Any plans to fix current commando bugged expertise or are you delaying it until the update for commandos ?

<Blixtev> We will be looking at any and all Commando issues with the Update 4 cycle, if you have any bugs not listed in your professions top 5 list be sure to toss a grenade at your Senator!

<Destinova> *Vincent76* From Tuki on Kette: "Can we expect the return of slicing by the smugglers in a form or another in the near future?"

<DeadMeat> Slicing will definitely not be a part of Update 4. Beyond that the best I can say is that it is not something we are firmly againt adding into the game in some form in the future.

<DeadMeat> heh...

<Destinova> *PyrochenkoOfFlurry* First off, great content additions the last few chapters. my question involves the bug with group members not being able to re-enter exar kun or axkva min instances. after group gets wiped and they try to re-enter, some members click on the brazier or door and nothing happens, no system message, no crash, just nothing at all. it occasionally occurs with the initial entry attempt.

<SOE-Shadowbrak> *PyrochenkoOfFlurry* Instance transition is the number one ticket among all heroics and it is high on the list of issues currently being looked into.

<Destinova> *Squenepo* Are we ever going to see droid commander?

<DeadMeat> Yes. It is still planned for this year.

<Destinova> *Aoyxn* Hello, just wondering, with the increasing popularity of heroic encounters, is there any chance of allowing us to group up with players from other galaxies?

<DeadMeat> Shared Server instancing is something we are reseaching as DevH and TeeSquared have said. There are a ton of technical hurdles in doing this and I cannot say yet wether we will be introducing it in the future. But personally I very much want it to happen.

<Destinova> *starwarsgeek* When you update bounty hunters, any plan to stop same faction hunting ? Its been a bit of a challenge during PVP events, that a same faction hunter takes the opportunity to kill his target while hes being attacked by the opposing faction.

<SOE-Shadowbrak> *starwarsgeek* Killing for credits, even in such a low down manner as same faction hunting, is a protected activity in any healthy free market system.

<Destinova> *[SA]KiliDaran* When the traders expertise gets looked at is there any plans to add in combat abilites so we can clear nest and mobs

<Blixtev> The Trader's Friend is your friend! If you are on a planet that has AI that the weapon doesn't suffice, perhaps you can grab a friend or two to clear out those hi