Glad everything is going well again for you now.

Regarding Star Wars, the restrictions can be pretty limiting. Though they haven't started showing up regularly on my server yet, all the unlocks from the coin shop seem to be tradable and sellable on the Galatic Trade Network. So if you don't mind checking it often, you can get some of the essentials to get you going through there. I think I read that Amazon is having the game on sale for $6 for black friday. If you register a game key, that should give a month of premium access and set your accounts to preferred when its over.

I started playing the game a couple days before the change over and have been having fun dual boxing Powertechs. Follow has been working pretty good for me. I have had the usual getting stuck in corners, but outside of the Imperial Fleet it hasn't broken from lag. For game window lag, I don't know. I only run one copy on my laptop as it makes the system get hotter than 4 boxing WoW did. I run a second copy using my desktop.