OK here is my 2 cents from a brand new player to the game.

I believe that there is myth conception about the Jedi's, the quote is "the Jedi are all but extinct" MEANING that there are still jedi running around at the time of episode 4 5 and 6. We now know that the Jedi temple on Coresent was SEALED not destroyed. The Jedi Councel was still around and meeting in secret. the Jedi were scattered to the 4 winds of the Galaxy! Yoda and Obi Wan did not just hide they still had learners and they still did their thing! Granted the jedi stayed out of sight and worked from the shadows, after all they were still being hunted! and as I understand it Sith came out of the shadows to work along side Darth Sideous and Darth Vader. they had there own apprentices as well.....it goes back to the whole balance thing....the Sith used to be all but extinct at one time or another!

Now as far as the game and Jedi's are concerened...I know that before when the game was first released to be a jedi you had to do certain things to be come Force Sensitive, My new G/F in real life was one of the first to become force sensitive. from what I understand it was practicaly impossible to play a jedi....whip out your light saber and every bounty hunter in game was after you! thats kinda lame! To many bounty hunters out there.

I am playing a jedi and have been playing for 2 weeks now, and I believe that there can be a compromise!

If some one picks to be a Jedi their life should be hard. but not so hard that you don't want to play anymore. A jedi should have to be a padawan....he should have to have a master in order to level or obtain new abilitys. And he should be an out cast and wanted. Darth Vader had apprentices hunting jedi down. I also as a jedi should not want to work for a crime lord such as Jabaa. and the game should reflect that. jedi respect all life forms creatures included...they don't go out and kill animals for fun or experience. remember they were the ultimate desput solvers and the ultimate police force.

If I play a Jedi I should have knightly morals and ethics. and If I do something wrong or should I be or act any other way I should be punished some how...like be deminished in the light side,  I should be tempted more and more by the dark side....same as a sith doing good. Jedi or force sensitive characters are like sword weilding Mages! so they should be squishy to begin with....and since their robes are their armor jedi should be able to wear a cloak as well robes! I would suggest that they be able to wear regular armor as well but game mechanics aside they probably wouldn't want to anyways...just as they wouldn't want to use blasters!

Maybe to counter act the whole picking to be a jedi simply have exisisting Jedi be able to "Sense" the force in new characters. make it random chance. or something the like. after all Jedi's have a strong Medi Clorian counts<sp?> maybe the toon you creat has a high count or maybe not enough of a high count to fully be a master? but what ever the case may be Sith are more likely to be around than jedi at this point. And if a group is lucky enough to have a jedi around they should be thankful.

Over all I love this game, I am sad to say I regret not playing it from release, but I did try...I found the community to be arrogant and un helpful...that was at Jump to Light Speed release. I am glad to see there is a tutorial for noobies!

SPACE Layer.....I come from EvE online. U lose your ship in EvE its gone!! it should be the same for SWG! Ships and ship components should be destroyed if your not good enough to get out of a fight. and if you die in space and don't eject in time then its a clone jump or clone activation. Ship Mat. should be expensive too. But I Love how you can have gunners and passengers as well.

That being said I would suggest and expansion where capitol ships come into play.....Star Destroyers and the like. I know I can hear it already....Star Destroyers? piloted by who? you can't have 600 gunners....right....but you can have gunners controling banks of weapons? or hire npc's to run your guns and you pick were to fire your guns?

Death and Death Penalty: Death should have more consiquenses! maybe to even out the whole Jedi issue if you die you lose your force powers and have to gain them back? or your clone is "born" with out Medi Clorians? for regular characters they lose skills? and if you die in space then your toon is born at a later time and not instantly? like a time penalty depending on how far you died out in space? deep space missions would have a sever time limit for your spirit was not able to make the journy to its new body right away? something of the sort.

agian this is suggestions from some one new to the game...and loves the lore of Star Wars.