I built a new Commando to play with the auto-leveling. The char went through the tutorial, emerging as a level 2 and here is how the stats page looked:



I turned in the "Find your way to Blackstar" quest to the Dynastar CEO, putting me closer to level 3 and then did the "run all over and become acquainted with the place" quests, the last part of which pushed me to level 3. That's when the bug happened. Instead of auto-leveling, my stats remained the same and although the avatar tab was flashing, there was no way to update the stats:



And my skills tab was also flashing and was allowing me to allocate the skill point:



I've since logged out and re-logged in and my STR stat has now increased by 5 and the skill point was allocated, but if someone doesn't do that.... I will likely build another char and see if going up another level "fixes" the problem or if it continues to compound until the char is logged off.