http://www.swtor.com/user/ce/7217e

Thank you for this, it brightened up my day

I completely agree. If you take slicing (even post-nerf) and never level up ANY other crew skill, sell all your loot, use the AH to sell greens/blues, you will have adequate money just to buy your skills at every new level and afford a speeder at level 25. If you try and increase your crafting skills, you will be completely bankrupt. One of the things I liked about crafting in this game (and its the only MMO I actually enjoyed crafting in, ever, and I have been MMO'ing since 1995) is that you can actually craft useful gear for yourself as you level. Unfortunately, if you invest money in doing so, you are going to be poor. I don't want money to be so abundant that its worthless, but for heaven sake, don't make it so I can't afford to use a feature in your game (crafting and crew skills) until I am max level because it is too expensive to train my abilities and recipes! Lower the cost of training abilities every level, they are absurdly expensive. That is just my two credits.