Your question doesn't even make sense in light of what I posted. For a challenge I do HM/NiM on my 220+ geared Sorc healer. Re-leveling new characters again, through old content I have seen a million times before, suddenly became fun again because of strong companions. This was not something I was doing previously, and now have no intention of in the future. I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks H2+ should be challenging are just being elitist ***** to casuals. Asking me how long until leveling with strong companions will bore me is just willfully ignorant, since we'll never know how long that could have been fun, since it got nerfed into oblivion.

That's a tad naive. If you want challenge, go do HM/NiM. If you want a challenge try to solo Star Fortresses without the buff for the One and Only achievement. But to say players need a challenge while doing mediocre grindy/solo content in between story cut scenes while leveling appears out of touch or ill-informed. Personally, I PvP and run HM/NiMs, so the change doesn't really affect me at all. I tested out the damage nerf to my 30 influence HK-51 and found it absolutely laughable though. Not only that, but his tanking felt far worse than before, not better. I had started to level new characters again, because it was fun stomping low level planets again. Now, I think i'll pass. Nobody find's "challenge" while questing and leveling. They just find tedium. Strong companions fixed the tedium, but now that its back I think I'll pass and stick to HMs/NiM and PvP.

Is there a guild like this on the server? I just returned to the game after a long hiatus and I'm looking for an active guild that is interested in doing the hardest OPs and also enjoys grouping for PvP. IGN: Nikki'tesla

This.

Well if you can upgrade one of your ships fully in 2 days, that just means people who pay can probably upgrade all of theirs in the same time period. I think the point that's being overlooked here is this: Why is there even conversion in the first place? Was this really needed? It's simply a BUY POWER NOW function of the game, and regardless of your stance on the "P2W" argument, is a complete money grab and has no merit.

I agree this conversion should be removed from the game entirely.

This isn't an XP boost. This is literally paying Dollars to basically buy fleet comms to spend on ships. They may as well put fully upgraded ships for sale in the shop, because in the end, it has the same effect. Can you buy a level 50 character? Nope. You'll see people with fully upgraded gunships by tomorrow because of this, guaranteed.

You are indeed missing something obvious, because yes you can buy ship upgrades with fleet req.

I have to agree with the original poster. Paying money grants a substantial ship upgrade advantage. It would be like BW suddenly allowing those who pay money to obtain more ranked arena tokens per week. This is pretty cut and dry P2W.

Sorry, but being active longer shouldn't give you CONTENT over other subs. Give cosmetic benefits if it's SUCH a huge deal, but preventing content is absolutely retarded. The reason you sub is to gain full access to THE CONTENT.

Maybe it wasn't clear. Preferring some subs over others is *********** retarded.

Oh ya I'm fine with that. If you want cosmetic **** feel free. But you should at least have access to the base ship as a sub.

The entire thing is moronic and gives a huge advantage to those that have it, vs. those that do not. All ships should be available if you are a sub. Period.

This is rather ridiculous in my opinion. I subbed mid November because I heard about the space combat and was eager to try it on release. Now I'm excluded from what's essentially a 3rd of the ship content? Not to mention the gunship is arguably the most overpowered ship of the 3. F'n hilarious. Jokes on me.

lol, someone is ignorant of all the information on the forums detailing otherwise.