Sadly the crafting system in this game is just a token crafting system,limited by the very narrow World of Warcraft game format used here. Theres no real need for it ,you can level up from 1-50 and never need to craft or buy anything from another person and it wont effect your game play,because they use the that same gear grind format anything worth having in the game comes from a pvp or pve vendor on the fleet so crafters are not needed in the game as it is, at all.but they had to put some kind of crating in or they would get complaints from the start but they only did enough with it to stop most of that and not impact on the narrow gear grind format the game has. To make crafting really matter they would need proper crafting class and have all gear weapons and other items made solely by crafters and have a fully realised econmy but to do that they would have to move away from this narrow World of Warcraft gear grind format that this and most other mmos use. But we couldent do that....could we?

Having stuck so closely to the very narrow World of Warcraft format, are there any plans to broaden the game to a more community driven player interdependant format? eg. the original SWG format. pre CU pre NGE.

I think some of you are missing the point to my post its not about one faction being dominant on a sever or anything like that its about wanting to fight in the War in StarWars.Thats what the game and films where about after all but with this same faction pvp its all just blaaaaa pointless.wheres the war gone? Leaveing huttball aside yall seem to like that one..but stop making the rest of the War Zones have this same faction pvp crap! ...you see the name" war zones" even the name tells you what suposed to happen in them!

This same faction pvp is really crap I hate it . Its suposed to be StarWars your suposed to fight the other side not your own side. thats the whole point of having different factions in an mmo so they can fight each other. I see this as just a cheap attempt at fixing long queue times and unbalanced severs . When the real fix for those problems is so clear link the servers for pvp and there will be no long queues and always numbers for each match.

Well its a great shame no one listened to you . But you would think as game makers they would know what they need to make a successful mmo being able to look at what the others all have and taking the best parts and expanding on them ,adding in there own new ideas. Instead they have left out things like cross sever pvp for war zones and a group finder for pvp flash points which now 6 months in is only in testing ,these things should have been in from the start. Now as numbers start to drop off those of us still wanting this game to work are suffering for it. I cant blame people for leaveing no one wants to spend most of their game time queueing or spaming chat trying to make a group,wasting most of the time they had to play that day...when in other game this is just not an issue.

Im not talking about moving a few numbers from one sever to another , Im talking about linking the severs or forming them into battle groups for pvp War Zones so there wont be any long queue times and always numbers to fill each battle. Lets be fair to the paying customers any longer than 2/3mins is to long to wait in a queue in a mmo and 15/30 mins is a real joke...

The queue times for pvp are a really to long its a real joke that they did not link the severs, I mean thats not anything new in a mmo. So I cant understand why they did not do it. So you wait the 15/30 mins to get in a WZ only for it to end because theres not enough players on the other side,and later after about 10 pm forget about it theres no pvp at all. What really frustrates me is theres no reason for it to be like this if they had just linked the servers or made them into battle groups and saying its on our board or we mite do it in the future is just not good enough it should have been done at the start. I was so looking forward to this game coming out and really want it to work but this is a real game breaker for me...