Supply and demand. Why would you want everyone on the server looking like Revan? I'm sorry if you want the Revan set and are short on money, but that's just it...you want it, you don't need it. You're asking for a handout that would destroy the value of all the Revan pieces out there right now.

Just trying to get this some more visibility. I think this is still an important piece that is missing from the game that I long for every time I play.

Still hoping for some dual-spec love.

What are you talking about? GSH is all about RP...you got your own RP mini-xpac.

Wouldn't plasma pretty much instantly cauterize a wound leaving little to no blood?

All MMO's that have specs like SWTOR generally have trees that are more viable for PVE and some that are more viable for PVP. It seems with what the devs are doing, and what they've said about deception, it seems clear they want madness to be the PVE spec now and deception to be the PVP spec. They like the burst in deception and are changing madness to produce better sustained DPS.

Do other MMO's get silly requests like this too, or is just SWTOR?

I mean, to some degree it devalues the time people have spent leveling alts. It makes your time investment in your Powertech and Mercenary worth less because you now have completely redundant characters. It also will contribute to a lot of flavor of the month stuff. I mean, there's already a lot of FotM playing already, but this would amplify it to a significant degree. It also could lead to lower server populations and almost certainly lower populations on leveling planets. If you don't have to level a tank and a healer, a lot of people won't bother so the game will be less alive and leveling will be even more of a solo experience. For my part, as I mentioned in another thread, I think there should be AC switches available, but with a significant cost and a massive lockout (think like 180-365 days).

To be fair, they literally didn't say anything about guild ships in any of the threads (and even denied them in cantina events) until they were announced so I wouldn't take their silence as meaning anything.

He posted this in February...three months before the news about the event was announced. Perhaps you're the one that needs to pay attention, eh?

I'm pretty certain that they do read these forums. Unfortunately for all the things they copied from WoW (just be honest...I love the game but can acknowledge this fact) they did not take the important lesson from Blizzard about how they listen to the forums. Blizzard has said that they don't listen to suggestions on the forum because it is a vocal minority and doesn't represent what the playerbase as a whole wants. I have to believe them since they've been doing this more successfully than any other MMO. I don't know how much BW recognizes that these forums (myself included) represent a vocal minority. For all the things they took from Blizzard I wish that was one of them...then maybe we'd have dual-spec instead of guild ships

Weren't there teaser images indicating that they plan to release the first tier of gear back in through the cartel market?

If you're just PUG'ing ops, you don't need set bonuses. I'm sorry that you only have time to PUG, but there really need to be rewards that are commensurate with the effort expended. Additionally, as mentioned in the first sentence, comm gear is good enough to get into ops and to do the content you get comms from, if you're not doing ops regularly you do not need the set bonuses nor BiS.

Well I stand corrected.

Right, but wasn't that sort of Neverwinter's gimmick? They built the game around that premise, right?

I think, perhaps, you might be looking for a single-player RPG. This couldn't be implemented in an MMO.

This seems like a really poor business decision. So much cost with so little benefit is not a good incentive for EA/BW.

And probably a whole new engine.

Why is this a hard concept to grasp?

Which is why I put this at the bottom of my original post: "I apologize if the buffs mentioned aren't combat-based but if so I would suggest a different adjective other than "powerful". That word leads me to immediately think these are combat based."

You're right, calling it pay-to-win is somewhat hyperbolic, I'll own up to that. However you are wrong, it is not like being able to buy a 34 barrel/hilt because you can go do ops and acquire that item. The ONLY way you can get the guild ship and its buff is to buy it (with in-game credits). You can craft stims, you can't craft a guild ship.

Eric, could you clarify "powerful buffs"? Basically what are they applicable to? Will they buff me in operations? In warzones? Or just for conquest missions?

This isn't a credit drain, it's pay-to-win (with credits). Or maybe more appropriately, refuse-guild-ships-and-lose, since if they are combat-based you are gimped by not buying into this guild ship nonsense.

Ok, I get it, the SWG crowd launched a successful campaign for you to include some RP stuff that hardcore PVP and PVE players don't really care about (based on my own anecdotal experience) but you're going to make guild ships provide buffs? What?! You're forcing guilds who don't give two craps about this RP dreck to now buy guild ships or be at a constant disadvantage. That sucks. I'm trying write this calmly but I'm pretty pissed off after reading the producer letter. It's unconscionable that you take something that a lot of guilds wouldn't bother with and now shove it down our throats or we put ourselves at a constant disadvantage. Awesome. Why don't you just levy a tax and just take our credits? I apologize if the buffs mentioned aren't combat-based but if so I would suggest a different adjective other than "powerful". That word leads me to immediately think these are combat based.

Right, because this isn't one of those free-to-play games where you don't have to have a subscription...oh wait it is. Playing more doesn't necessarily lead to any revenue for BW/EA. Your argument is based on a premise of a game that requires a sub, but this one doesn't so your whole argument falls apart. It's not like they could charge more than $15 worth if CC to AC swap. Oh right, they could! Good lord that argument is poorly thought out.