Simply do the daily quests... you'll have plenty of credits in no time.

I like this way of thinking. Since the onset of 1.5 I've looked at the activity on virtually every planet and it's much higher than usual. Even Founder subsribers are having fun withthe cartel coins and what's inside the meteor that just fell by their feet. Let's consider now the question of $5.00 vs. 4.5m credits. One is real money and the other is time. But how much time? With a subscription cost of $14.99 for a month, would it take anyone 1/3 of a month to crank out 4.5 mil for rocket boots? No. With all the dailies and other ways to make credits, they tend to pile up rather quickly if you're motivated to do it. PLUS when you're subscribing, you get all content, not just storyline. MMO subscriptions are still one of the cheapest forms of entertainment I know. Cartel coins just seem to have added to the fun.

Sure, the UI is usable as is, but there's tons of room for improvement. I would prefer that they just start by ironing out some of the maddening bugs... such as the focus target setup. Focus target works great for healers once you get it set up, however, you end up resetting it after virtually every cut scene (and when do you get into some of your toughest fights?). I typically have my companion set up as the focus, and there are times when I have to dismiss and resummon the companion befor I can set up the focus target again. Further, if you have the focus key held down at the moment your enemy is casting, you do not see his cast bar to interrupt. Anyway... it's a young game and I'm sure we'll see improvements as things get prioritized. It's certainly not stopping me from playing a great game

The effect the original poster is talking about is caused by a tower with a gold-green laser effect at it's center. These towers are typically found at taxi points (any world). Adjusting your camera view can make it go away or make it worse. It's annoying but has no effect on game play. I have opened a bug report, which is really all we need to do. I have faith that it will get prioritized and fixed... eventualy

It is nice to set up the focus targeting except for one thing... the casting bar for your enemy disappears whether you have them set up as the target or the focus target. This is an important point since you are also called upon to interrupt enemy abilities. Aside from that it works well as a healer. They just recently put this in game so I hope they fix the casting bar soon.