We are gonna lose Republic. You cant win this thing on Ilum right now. There is NO guareentee that Bio Ware is gonna do ANYTHING. Stop complaining - for every patch - there is gonna be exploits. Most people think to resolve a issue in the immediate sense - not in the long term.
You must plan this stuff like playing chess. Think 5 moves ahead of the exploiters.
As of right now, The Empire needes to show up on any of the MASSIVELY over Empire populated servers (nearly all of them from what I understand) and stand next to - or be in the immediate vincinity of any Empire representative owning a rare commodity know as a Republic player.
For now Republic, please do the following....
1) STAY AWAY FROM ILUM PvP BATTLEFIELD!!!! Stop feeding the opposition. Yes, they are gonna make alts to make up for ther loss of real republic players - and Bioware is gonna have to deal with that issue, but for now STOP FEEDING THE ADDICTION.
2) There are other ways to make Valor, yes its harder, but it is honest. It's supposed to be hard - its the hard that makes it great.
3) Bioware knows they have a problem....but its the fools of the world that critisize, condemn and complain without offering correction or solution.
My offering is the same as majority ranting and raving here:
1. Disable Ilum now, fix Valor exploits;
2. Rollback Valor to yesterday;
3. Implement faction balancing, even if this requires instancing, or cross server;
4. Don’t flag players where they can be farmed at their spawns
Hopefully we can calm down, have a little patience, for now, just quarentine Ilum until this matter is worked out.
PvP servers - entire universe is open for a smack down, smashing "open world pvp with objectives to achieve to obtain rewards in any form in a concentrated area need far more attention then what Bioware has addressed up to this point. They are learning, i have faith.
Let them do their thing.