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Note: If you are running Heroics, you MUST finish the quest together (by talking to the quest turn-in NPC together) or you will not get the social points. Ex: As a Republic player, you can run the Jedi Temple Heroic-4man mission and share the quest with others; however, if you do not turn in the quest together at the Senate Tower, you will be awarded no social points. Flashpoints - Esseles, I think, is the most favorable for Social Points in the early game. (lots of conversation chances for points) I haven't tried any since then...so I don't know what the next high SP gain Flashpoint is

Central Texas area, near Fort Hood here. Sedyn Kyne server

Artificing and Synthweaving are the Jedi lightsabers/mods/clothing crafts. You can choose to take them or not. As a Jedi Shadow, you'd probably get more benefit out of BioChem (my opinion) as you'd be able to make your own resusable adrenals, stims, medpacs that are more effective than those available at Medical Droids. You can push "N" and then click the 'x' next to the craft to unlearn it and then re-learn a new craft at a crafting trainer.

If you're on Sedyn Kyne (PVE, East Coast server), I play on there and tend to make new alts every couple days (to test new AC builds, to change names or because I made too many mistakes on previous chars).

Another possibility would be to run the Heroic 4 in that same area and ask your team there to help you out with the mission afterwards. You can point out that it's next to the holocron and the other 16k HP Sith (who has a gear drop too) so it isn't too far out of their way.

Look for a mods commendation vendor on the planet you're on. Taris or Nar Shadda, I think, would be the places you'll have to look at for level 20 mods. You could also check the GTN for hilts with +Willpower

I did this one too...on 3 characters that made it past level 20... When I got to Tat, I realized how crummy my "newer" gear was compared to the oranges I used to have...since then I've been GTN'ing for purples and selling higher level crafted guns (Armstech 345 at level 31) ^Not particularly recommended either...I spend every credit that I make off the GTN slapping piecemeal upgrades into my gear and ship because I can't easily overcome the content for my level (comp or no)

I think this is the article the OP must have seen... http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-09-15-lucasarts-making-aerial-combat-title

Daily space missions should net (by 28 at least) around 10-12k if you do all of them available. You'll need the Ship 1 upgrades (at a minimum) or be really good at dodging. You can also go back to the 10-16 planet or the 16-20 planet and solo run Heroic 2+ or 4+ for gear to sell at the Auction House. I did this a couple nights in a row because I tend to spend every credit I make (in a completely unnecessary strive to unlock every purple recipe for my crafters)

Heroic World Boss List (SWTOR Forums): http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=105905 SWTOR-Spy List with levels and loot: http://www.swtor-spy.com/named-bosses-loot/

GSC is what I use personally. http://getgsc.com/ Note: There is no native 64-bit support currently.

If you forget the terms, an easy way to remember which gives more would be to look at the cost of the mission. Higher mission cost = higher potential yield

Not really familiar with the mobs...but I saw this named one on swtor-spy. Was it this mob?

HP Elite 400F runs a N-Alvorix-RS880-uATX (Alvorix) motherboard. It has 1 PCI-Express x16 2.0 slot. It's only running a 300W PSU so you'd need to upgrade the PSU on it first to get a decent upgrade card to the integrated ATI Radeon 4200. If you upgrade to at least a 400W PSU upgrade, you should be able to run about any card* you want in it. *Some cards have a specific PSU rating requirement/recommendation. Verify with the card first.