More of a communication channel? Don't worry, I'm sure it's just a blip and regular silence will be restored.

Nah, I think it'll be head in the sand time for weeks now.

A wall of silence seems to be the standard response here.

Yes, all the Ilum nodes and all the nodes in the pvp areas in Tattoine I heard.

tbh I'd get more creds/minute spamming the lowest lev space mission than I would from slicing, and the lack of any response from BW smacks of a dangerous degree of complacency.

That's why cancelling subscriptions is one of the few ways to get them to notice. The devs won't notice at first but the bean-counters will, and less cash makes for sad financial pandas.

The problem is that these socios are very loud and wail profusely until devs begin the bootlick routines. Now it's the long slow slide into fail. It's a shame because parts of the game, particularly the storyline, are great. But it's so unbalanced in places. With grindfests tho, this becomes as appealing as the idea of picking my nose with a piledriver. I quit WoW for this reason, I'd just had enough. Again in SWTOR? No way!!!!

True. Unfortunately there's a fanatical breed of sociopathic basement filth that believe that 'fun' should be reserved for them only. Curious though, when do you think that this game will fold? If it becomes 'Evercrack in Space' it's almost inevitable.

You can continue posting until the expiry date (the end of 30 free days).

You'll have to farm mobs for hours on end and vendor the trash.

Yup, and BW are so naive they've let the Basement Cavalry ruin the game already. I've seem some fast work before but tbh that's impressive.

Unfortunately Bioware's development policy seems to revolve around bootlicking the wailers. This doesn't bode well for the future of this game, and I'm concerned that there'll be some truly chaotic and damaging nerf-storms in the future.

You can, in the same way that you can clean your teeth with an angle grinder. Slow and painful.

Indeed, it turns out it's just the same old crap all over again. Toss of the coin as to go back to WoW or back to EQ2.

Shhhhhhh!!! The wailers will want the nerfbats out for space missions next if we're not careful! "NOES!!! SPAES ARE MAKE MONEHZ!!! NERF NERF NERF!!! NAO!!!!"

Yeah, as well as nerfing slicing they stripped out loads of nodes.

Loads of nodes have gone because the slicers made too much creds from missions. So they nerfed slicing and took away loads of nodes from all skills. BW development policy seems to revolve around wailers screaming "waaah!! he has something!!! NERRRFFFFFF!!! NO FAIR!!!!!! ME ME ME ME ME!!!!" Hi ho, hi ho, It's back to WoW we go...

Great post. Same here.

That's certainly one inevitable consequence. It's going to lead to mob grinding as that's going to make more creds/min than slicing or crafting as the market stagnates. People may pick Biochem for self use but I can't see crafting going much farther if there's a credit crunch in the market.

And that's the consequence of this. It won't be long before nobodies got a pot to piss in. Could be interesting as this unfolds.

Indeed, but the problem is that grinding is about as much fun as a head-swap operation. Was gonna play SWTOR earlier, but then thought "no, there's some paint drying in the next room, i'll watch that for a bit instead".