From Eric's position I can see the appeal, given Zykken is just about as forthrightly honest and precise as certain community managers over the last few months. Then again, I personally (JMHO) find Zykken a pretty despicable specimen and wish there was a dialogue option to force feed him my lightsaber^^

Great this means they think they can now get away with lying to us with direct posts to the community ? Thanks a bunch and I guess "Goodbye and thanks for the fish Bioware !"

I'd say : apology not accepted ?

for the Jawa "Junk". It was not announced for the general chance of losing ( which apperantly has almost doubled), nor the [scrap parts or the droid parts. Or even the cartel market certificates. Serious omission aka "lie" if you go by the definition in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary And one really wonders why the community is pixxed about it ?

You probably would be sitting here, because if you have any remaining days of playing time, you count as subbed. I should know, I unsubbed yesterday(but have some time left on my account)^^ As for accusing BW - well it is the right of the accused to defend themselves, but there is no right not to be accused if the evidence points at you.

First you are slightly clueless since "adaptive circuitry" does cost 3 jawa junk/material (a conversion rate they could most easily have adjusted to fit their needs), and second, if purple mats are the problem, just why nerf the other materials (scraps and droid parts) as well as the certificates ? So I highly doubt that you put much research into your numbers and came to them by some rough rule of thumb.

Gosh they might simply have increased of the grade 11 Artifact level items by some factor (like they did for the Diplomacy and Slicing drops anyway). And/or increased the time between clicks on the machine.... or made the machine impossible to use with macros... Oh wait, too simple for the Nerfbat. Let's redact one's own statement and lose any trust the community has.

His problem is, that he requires some trust from the player-base. Which right now is obviously gone, which means he could immediately resign since only a foolish few will in the future believe something he claims . Perhaps a job in the understaffed Quality Assurance department for the poor soul ?

Oh well obviously you quite obviously love being lied to straight to the face. Your personal call, but I really don't think most people would take this lying down. Politicians resign over this degree of incompetence....

Not the worst of ideas. One can live off game cards quite well, and overall, no much fun playing a game with broken rules and buggy content.

Seems they can't get anything right on the first try, ?

Basically Eric Musco is finished as a spokes person or community manager, as least as a far as convincing the audience of his or Bioware's intentions go. He claims one thing during the weekend, makes it abundantly clear that everything is working as intended, then three days later everything changes. ...ooops. He is either very much left in the dark (which makes him not to be believed) or lies straight to our faces on his company's behalf (which makes him not to be believed as well) . If he was in a public office, I would call for his resignation. This way, all I can do is not believe any thing bioware will state in the foreseeable future. As I didn't see any bans over the last week, with exploiting of Ravagers going unpunished despite BWs claims, this look like a steady modus-operandi by Bioware. action is only taken if the company's credit line is threatened 'nuff said PS I absolutely think a tactical nerf was due (which I considered to towards cartel certificates and the junk-cost of grade 11 items), but this one is mind-blowingly misconceived

Most crafters I know really live "off" the crits their crafters git, selling off the extras as "the margin". And High end equip will remain in the hand of the Crafters since right now (and there likely never will be) a way to get mass tranmogrificators (?) or mass manipulators (or exonium etc. ) except by raiding/flashpointing. But few people will actually have the money too finance the crafting/reverse engineering off relics from temple etc.

you mean "dropping the bottom out of the market by underselling from competitors" ? Like OPEC does at current ? Oh boy we had that since the very first days of Swtor

This is a major blow to high end gathering, nevermind the freshly ability of 10th level bot-farmers idly sitting in a barren stronghold (save a set of slot machines) gathering up mats to sell on the open market. Although I am not a high end mass-crafter ( and never made much money out of it ) this truly sucks and takes any difficulty out of mission based gathering, Which means, even fewer people will invest in crafting, making things even more difficult with the next expansion (if that ever comes around). Also - by now it is freaking easy to gather credits inside the game to buy crafted stuff - unless one is exceptionally lazy.

I'd have to agree. I'd rather collect money ingame and buy the stuff I actually want, and keep the CC from my subscription for unlocking stuff in the legacy

thanks a bunch - was slightly worried. Absolutely planning on using the button on my sentinel, and awas afraid of having to purchase it twice. Will name the poor sod "Drummer" ^^

The entire debate about imperials not getting "as many" commendations is IMHO pretty silly, since you can easily redo all the quests on Drommund Kaas each and every day, bascially farming the planet for an "extra" 9-13 commendations from level 15-19 onwards. Esepcially since it can be easily reached and left through legacy perks and a fleet bound shuttle conveniently placed at the end point of one quest. No heroic quest on Drommund Kaas ever yields less than 3 commendations, compared to one on several Coruscant ones. Reliably So, basically imperials get a lot more commendations than republic players ( possible on each and every day) - if I decided to do "fast commendation", I'd run by DK and Tattoine, and yield 20+ commendations within roughly 150 minutes from level 38 onwards - probably earlier ), plus very easy access to the off-hand items which I get long before Tattoine, as well ( a further three planets on ). Within 2 days (or well timed around the midday reset), one can get roughly all the commendations for re-equipping every piece of armouring in blue from the vendors. another day, one has probably replaced most of the mods and enhancements, too. I would really recommend exchanging one of the chestpieces on Coruscant (or Taris) for an off-hand item. .

Given the costs for some dyes, a reuse would be much appreciated. Binding to collection : same same (given how terrible some stuff looks )

For myself - wearing as much orange as I can. Upgrading the armour pieces myself ( Cybertech), usually followed by the Mods and enhancements (from Markers), plus of course, the Barrel/Hilt (actually that is usually the first to go^^ ) Checking for gear from friends, but usually... every 4-5 levels for everything not on the orange ?

Should I mention that it's been on sale in Europe for 30 pound/ 35 Euro since christmas ? Can't believe it's impossible to get at a similar price overseas. Or do we simply have a working market ? Shop more circumspectly, I'd say

usually getting 3 on an average critted t6 UT mission. Which - i asssume reflects in the fact, that those mission trade for around 30k-36k on my server, with Mandalorian iron at app11-13k a brick.

So, that is one specific scenario. If you go for it on a smuggler, the stuff is useless for people like Bowdaar (who admittely is the best companion tank for Smugglers ). Broonmark, the same. Lord Scourge... likewise. The trooper class is extremly privileged, because of all of its companions use Aim/Endurance as keys stats

Which is nonsense : one can make augments even without Slicing, since the materials provided by slicinga re only required for blue/violet augements instead one should keep in mind that orange items can be "fittde" to any class able to wear them in the first place through the application of appropriately stat-ed mods. None of the "blue" armour produced through armourmech has stats useful except for BH/Trooper and Agent/Smuggler, since only Cunning Aim and Endurance are on the armour. Using blues where orange items could be used is simply a humonguous waste of resources. nevermind that properly played, there should be enough commendations to outfit a character and her companiosn several times over, As for "sales" : Blue armour in my experience does not sell at all, except for belts, boots and bracers on my server. And there also is no appreciable market (neither turnover nor extraneous money made) for slicing parts ( amid-size european realm, with strong trading), either. Under world Trading is, when properly used , a certain money earner. Slicing is useful, but at best on a secondary character.

hmm, as fas as I recall, Twileks didn't speak basic back in the Movies but oh well....