There are also new silhouettes for characters... You can actually see the face of the light side character and it looks a lot like Slave Leia. I can't make out the dark side character... if light side is Slave Leia, then it might be a gamorrean guard for dark side.

Nope, you can see the dark side, too. It's Jabba.  What is he going to be? Ranged? Melee? I suppose he can smack people around with his tail...

Game is crashing like crazy. Sooooooo Frustrating!!!

What happens when you upgarde for "-1" gems? How many gems does it actually cost you?

It doesn't work or do anything, it just says "Please wait while your character is synchronized" and then it reloads the game but nothing changes.

One wonders what Leia and Jabba's special abilities will be.  ?

I'm betting Leia will be an air strike and Jabba will be a summon guard (gamorrean guards)

trout fett, i haven't had the game crash yet and i am doing a whole bunch of grinding with the ffwd on.  The gem cost to upgrade is crazy, i am so confused like Jackal802, no ryhme or reason to it it seems.  I think the cost actually goes up if you want to upgrade levels 5 at a time or all the way to max (onl by a few gems but still it is increased).  to be fair i thought the previous gem cost was a bit much to upgrade already.  

I'm still experiencing occasional choppiness and skipping during gameplay with an occasional crash. It's less than it was, but still present. Their gem system is way messed up. We buy gems like they're British pounds but spend them like they're Chilean pesos! It costs 46+ gems to upgrade a level 45 character to level 46?! That's $5 for 1/60th of that character. I can grind that level in 15 min... for 3 characters... for free. Um, no thanks.