If the credits are spent, transfered, used or laundered into other things and then sold again, then the cash flow will be semi impossible to trace easily without crazy amount of time put it. I doubt even half the exploiters will be punished or banned and even then most of them have spare account ready too go with there new credits.

I doubt they can come back from this, damage is done, economy was ruined with the way slicing was, now with this aswell happening for weeks already. Nothing really being rare and easy to get hold of anyway. Economy was dead before launch, didn't stand a chance.

"with the exception of the first boss, each boss encounter delivers loot via a chest. If you happen to wipe on your first encounter you will receive no loot." I mean *** that is bu**s***. If you have a single wipe at all, you can't open any of the chest so you can't get any of the loot on that flashpoint. I have not seen other flashpoints do this, why design a game mechanic like that? And beat you to trollz, coz u suck newb!, dont wipe fail teams! etc etc...not the point...

Any ideas on how they can change loot system? I am getting really sick of seeing jugg's rolling need for medium moddable orange armor and giving the reason " but it's 2 armor better than the heavy I have ".... I mean come on ***? Heavy and light armor drops more than anything else in this game.... So can they change the loot system and how it works so we all don't get screwed but newbs all the time?

This sounds super complicated and a pain in the ***, not looking forward to doing this.

Anyone had any improvements in the past week or so? I am seeing a slight improvement in performance and frame rates but very slight and the client is still using alot more ram, cpu resources etc than it should be. So atleast looks like they are slowly getting there but still a way to go before the performance issues are fixed for alot of us.

Read my post above it explains everything you need to know to get your shards back.

Lol the epic fail of what you obviously know nothing about....atleast do some research before spouting complete rubbish lol. Arena Net are an american company.....and have alot of european staff and gaming followers, in fact germany is where alot of there fan base are. The game could not be any further from an asian settings if you actually played it, I have, have you? The characters are not a rip off from wow, they follow the lore and history of GW1..which is alot more extensive and deep than wow's by alot. It has over 40+ feature film's length of voice dialogue which are not all cutscenes. Felicia Day is actually one of the voice actors, don't know if you know her but I would say she is pretty good. The combat is slick, fast paced and fun, animations were smooth when I played it even though the game was in early alpha not even in beta. 10 skills per class? LMFAO just proves you know nothing about GW2, you have access to mutiple weapons with a ton of skills that you can switch out on the fly, more like 40-50+ skills per class easily, as the game is in beta its still up for change they just made it so you dont have all 50 at the same time clogging up your screen.... Maybe rather than watching a few minutes of youtube actually do some research on something you seem to hate sooooo much.

Lol I love Guild Wars 2 and I have been following it for years and I already played it in september at London gaming expo, do I think it will be better than swtor? Hell yes but do I think swtor is still worth playing? Hell yes is why I subscribed for 6 months even though the issues in the game and the client are huge. I like both games but yeah im pretty much waiting for GW2 to come out. In swtor iv been completing every mission, finding every datacron, killing the world bosses, finding achievments, playing the market, avoiding pvp and space combat because they give me too much exp, even with all that im still almost lvl 30+ and I have not even left nar shadaa yet...... So even if you take the game slow and skip nothing, play only a few hours a day your still going to hit lvl 50 within a month easily....for me thats not an MMO, thats a console game trying to be an MMO and failing. So I expect swtor to last me about a couple of months or less until there is nothing left to do in game apart from roll my 4th char or pvp.

I am glad its nerfed as it was so overpowered in gaining credits before, I also don't agree with it being a free source of income all you have to do is make one click and instant profit. Making money and exp in this game is already too easy slicing needed to be nerfed but as always the damage to the economy and market is already done sooooo yeh nice job bioware.

MT's are optional and will be purely cosmetic, they won't give an advantage on anything in the game. You buy the game once and are able to play for free for life. You sir are incorrect. Shame that most players have gotten so used to being screwed by MMO's that they think the standard and norm is to have to pay monthly, pay for the game and pay for more afterwards just to play.....very sad indeed.

I agree I will probably play this for maybe 3-6 months as EVE is starting to bore me now and I got tired of waiting for Guild Wars 2 to come out but as soon as it is, im dropping swtor like a stone.

Slow down assumption boy, I already sub'd to swtor for 6 months and pre ordered, I was just stating the others side of the coin, there are pro's and con's to a monthly fee but what I don't agree with is the silly comments about how it can't be done "without" a monthly fee which is total rubbish.....

Firstly Arena Net not NCsoft.....they have very little input into the game, secondly its already been proven it can be done and will be done. Pay monthly to play is becoming a thing of the past.

Guild Wars 2

All of the dark side vendor armors are light armor or heavy armor, there is no medium armor at all? What's that about?

Freelancer, Elite, Star Fighter 3000. Not been any space game iv played since those above that can compare to these. That includes eve online which is not a true free flight space fighting game, you just click where you want to go everything is automatic. Space combat here is just a prettier version of space invaders.

So here is a question, doesn't this system make synthweaving and armor crafting completely useless apart from looks? Since everything is based apon mods...

I have the same issue with vette im pretty sure iv missed almost all conversations with her and quests etc. Everytime I go to talk to her at the ship or cantena she won't talk to me and icon dissapears.

On US TZ on EU Server iv been playing on you barely see 30 players per planet / imperial fleet/ zone etc. In EU TZ and remember it is christmas time its roughly 75-150 players per planet / imperial fleet / zone. Plus these are rough numbers. So I would say your numbers are just about right. They do seem pretty low and I did hear an interview from bioware saying that alot of the pre order numbers that were thrown around in beta were all lies and over the top rumour as they never actually released any numbers.

Me neither in fact I have found alot of friends in PUGS and never really had a problem playing with others. The problems comes when you have elitists ex wow type players thinking they know it all, and having disagreements on what is a "good" build and what is a "bad" build. Then they try to force that opinion onto others and tell them how they should play there character. Then they try to justify there epic arrogance with stats and damage meters they found from some random site.... Wow culture in Swtor....no thanks. But.....but.....you could be doing 9.99999999 damage instead of 9.99999998, you build sucks you fail wah wah wah .....

Just get slicing the way it is overpowered you'll have a couple million credits in no time, one of my guildies is on 500k+ and he is only half way through the game with slicing.... For anyone else it is quite a bit of money.

The problems comes when you have elitists ex wow type players thinking they know it all, and having disagreements on what is a "good" build and what is a "bad" build. Then they try to force that opinion onto others and tell them how they should play there character. Then they try to justify there epic arrogance with stats and damage meters they found from some random site.... Wow culture in Swtor....no thanks.

Ok here goes. Lots of spoilers so only read ahead if you really want to.

Thankyou for communicatiing. It is very much appreciated Ignore TradewindNQ guys, he has been trolling and arguing with any topic that talks about issues and performance issues with the game. Not worth replying to. With over 200,000+ players and 1000's of posts reporting issues with the performance of the client across facebook, twitter, nvidia, ati, swtor, gaming forums etc, it is safe to say whatever the trolls/fanboi's like to think and yes that's what they are, it is not user error or user sided problems that are causing these issues for the majority, maybe a few minors are caused by user error but to assume just because you don't have an issue everyone who does is user error or user sided is just plain ignorant and stupid.