thank you for the information, Luxpheras. it's good to know that it is on SE's schedule and we will be looking forward to the changes to sprint outside of combat if they are ever implemented.
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I second the notion of unlimited sprint in cities and outside combat. SWTOR does that as well and just deactivates it when you get in combat.
There is no sneaking in the overworld in swtor. You can avoid some things if you hug walls and move carefully but no reason to. Most things in the world can be killed easily. If you aggro there your sprint just turns off but nothing like heavy as far as I know.