I assure you that it is indeed true. I played the game for several years with my friends. It is a rather strange F2P cartoon style MMO, but free was well within my budget.

I'm sorry, but this is simply not true. Grand Fantasia has been using this system for years. You start with a "companion" at character creation and it gains experience and levels as you do. You can equip it with weapons and armor and it will fight along side you. It has a friendship or mood meter that you have to keep an eye on, and can improve it by giving your companion gifts. You also gain new companions as you level up, each with different skills and abilities. As far as the crafting goes, you pay a small amount of gold to send your companion out to gather resources for crafting, which has a percentage chance to succeed or fail. Once you have enough materials, you can send your companion out to craft the items that you want, all while you are out doing your quests. What we have is a prettier version, a more polished version, but not an innovative one. This system has been done before, so by definition is not an innovation.

I could not agree with you more. Crafting is one of the things that I enjoy most about playing an MMO. It has always been a primary focus in every game that I have played. The system as it is now leaves me feeling like the crafting system was more of a last minute afterthought as opposed to a viable addition to the game.

Actually, the entire companion system and the "innovative" crafting system isn't unique at all. It has was done already years ago by a game called Grand Phantasia. What we have is nothing more than a prettied up version of that system with a few tweeks to make it fit into the Star Wars setting.

If you are asking if you can get them on another class starting planet, yes you can. As a Jedi, you can go to Ord Mantell and get the datacrons there. However, I do not believe (someone correct me if I am wrong) that you can go to cross-faction starting planets and get the datacrons.

The Depleted White Crystal Node is the final step in getting the magenta crystal lightsaber component quest. You will still need all of the other components as well as find someone who has the world boss schematic to craft it. This quest chain just gives you the magenta crystal component itself.

No, but if it becomes a serious enough problem, the dog usually is forced to be put down.