Back in game after a long lay off. Love this guild. Laid back, friendly, and just good times.

I continually die to fall damage when getting knocked back by the first boss in Ruins of Nul. Can’t progress past it. Is there a work around or a place to tank him that keeps me from getting knocked through the textures?

As someone who is pretty much a solo player, and a conquest player, the changes to conquest are going to make my weeks a little different, it isn't going to be that much different. I am probably only going to 10-12 encryptions a week instead of 20-25......My one-man-guildship is fully unlocked so that piece doesn't really bother me. As far as gameplay goes........I can still chose what planet size I want to hit depending on what I see my week looking like. I can still solo Vet Athiss, HS, Red Reaper with my Shadow in base gear haven't tried any others yet as those are the ones i spam. I can almost solo Vet Hammer Station in my base gear. The only new gear I won't be able to get is going to be HM Ops gear. Is it going to be a grind.... YUP. But hey.... It is still enjoyable to me. Heaven forbid I have a friend on and we Duo some of the Heroic Flashpoints..... Anything that doesn't make it easier is not always a bad thing.....But I know to some it is a swift kick to the nards. Edit: Changed "heroic Hammer station" to "Vet Hammer Station" Started as heroic...will always be heroic to me...haha

@Zion Holy crap Z. I took a little break this summer with some RL stuff and I come back to see none other than the one... the only... ZionHalcyon. Good to see you back in the game. I am pretty excited to see how the changes in 7.0 turn out. Hoping some of my team comes back as well. Don't think I have seen any posts from you in over a year. Just wanted to say what's up!?!?

I completely agree. I was typing on my phone so didn't go into the depth there of the 64B not being that much influx over the course of 2 years. The problem comes in where we have LOTS of objectives that give 64B across 2 years and very little way to get credits out of the system. There has to be a way to remove credits at a closer rate than credits are put into the game.

Has this already been implemented on PTS fully? I see that the personal conquest is up to 100K, but I am not a member of a guild on PTS so I am not sure on that side of it. Right now all the missions seem the same, so just checking to see if this hit the PTS.

I would not doubt that single objective alone put that many credits in. I know lots of people that would just spam KoTFE Chap 1 after completing it because it took all of 8-minutes to complete. That 64B is also across all 5 servers so that is around 12.8B a server. As for the part about regular credit sinks, that is a must in all games. Inflation has gotten so out of hand that there is little way to get it back under control without a significant one time sink and several ongoing sinks. Gear repairs is usually a good place in many games to get the credit sinks, however, with everyone being over geared after they leave the starter planet due to level sync's the last two xpacs, no one dies so gear repairs are not as expensive. I think allowing people to purchase copies of their CM decos they already own, up to 4 would be a good sink as well. This one is a little more difficult because you have to be able to separate, and track, how many are from CM and how many are from credits tied to each CM purchase. Purchasing old CM goods off a vendor for large amounts of money could be good as well.

I understand some of these changes are seen as "necessary" at the personal level. With these increases, are the guild level requirements moving up as well? Doubling the personal goals is going to be very interesting because you are going to decrease the amount of flagship encryptions on the market. (which as of last night were 2 million per on Star Forge). This decrease is going to increase the price due to lower supply. You are also going to decrease the amount of credits hitting market (which probably needs to be left as is but put in an increase in credit sinks). This is going to greatly increase the power of the larger guilds and significantly hurt the smaller guilds. I have given up most of the group play as almost all of my guildies have left the game for one reason (gear grind) or another (conquest changes) through 5.X and 6.X. I just finished my one-man-guildship last week, so the conquest changes won't effect me too much. However, I still haven't seen any information on the guild quota.....or I just missed it....But my concern is for some of the smaller guilds that are trying to get their ships built out. If you increase the personal quota and leave the guild quota, at least they will still be able to get their plans, albeit a lot slower, without having to fork over insane amounts of now non-existent credits to guilds that are just collecting them to sell.

I would be interested in doing something like that. I have always been more interested in doing a more "sentient" settlement/world than being held by the stringent barriers some have confined their RP to.

Shoot me an tell or mail in game on Kahkashi. I can show you my FlagShip and you can look at the deco's. I will be happy to drop a toon in your guild and give stuff to your guild if you want to pay for the cost of me "donating" to your guild.

As I see it.......................Unless your guild is farming the Named Battle Masters, WINNING a planet gets you exactly 2 things, an achievement, and your guild name popping up when someone goes to your planet. If your guild IS farming NBM's, then yes, you have an advantage on that. You no longer have to be in the top 10 to get Encryptions either. SO....how many points B.A.Guild1 gets doesn't effect how many encryptions I get. It does effect the amount of crafting materials you get, and I have been in guilds that merge just to be able to get to the top tier 5Mil....not for playing purposes, not for winning planets, just for the added mats. So, i love the changes coming to conquest because I am going to be able to try to push to the 2M CQ to get a few increases in crafting mats now and then. The prices are going to fall because more will be out there so it will be good all around for the smaller guilds as well (Look at FS mats, they were coming down slowly before everyone had to stay home, and are lower than they have been in a LONG time now)

There was also the bonus XP you get from being in a 16 man OP being converted into Conquest Points. The increase in health was to increase the time it took to kill the mobs, not "fix the problem". The "fix" will come when they only take the base XP to be converted excluding the bonus XP.

No. this is 6.1b. The class changes and what not are in 6.1.1.

I re-read it, and I guess there are SOME changes in, but not all of them....so.... Jumping in later to look at it too.

I didn't think the 6.1.1 conquest changes were on PTS yet. Isn't that what they stated in the notice?

Glad too see we will be able to see them. Thank you.

I know you have. I have been right there with you on a lot of these things as well. I have not dropped that much, but I am definitely up near the 175Mil range this xpac. At some point, it would be nice to get back to having time for fun.

I have said for a long time that the once per day per legacy objectives are the ones that really hurt. The OP Trash farming was seen on PTS, and was brought up that you could do that, but it wasn't addressed then. I think someone even said that removing the Trash completely, or just removing XP from the Ops mobs would take care of it. The rest of conquest was in a pretty good state, still needed some help, but the incoming XP nerf is going to be bigger than I think they realize for those of us that don't do OPs Trash Farming. Rectify the XP nerf with allowing 25% Stronghold Bonus from each unigue stronghold and I would be ecstatic! Though i know that would hurt those that don't have all 9 strongholds..... The strongholds would just add to the money sink though....

Making it MORE restrictive will kill smaller guilds. There is a point in which the numbers are insurmountable. 10 people can't, and shouldn't be able to compete with 100 people. If you restrict it more than it already is... those ten people will just join the 10 and call it a day. And they are making some of these changes to address the taking advantage of the XP->CQP Conversion. Hence why the XP Nerf is incoming.

"It is an elegant weapon from a much more civilized age." Forget the elegant weapon, just spray it with blaster fire.

Have a few direct questions I would like an answer to. 1) This Base XP Conversion and not converting Bonus XP to CP. How big of a change it that going to make? 2) Right now, I get 625 CP from finishing a mission (Heroic/class/FP/whatever). However...that 625 is the same across the board, from level 1 to level 75. If you are converting base XP, will you get more for finishing a level 75 quest than you do for a level 1 quest since the XP is much greater at 75 than 1? 3) Do you have a list of the objectives that will be added, changed, and rearranged? a) If you do, I am sure we would like to see it BEFORE the patch notes the day before it is going live. 4) Do you have a "average CP/Hour" rate that you are trying to get to?... or are you just swinging blindly in the wind nerfing the crap out of XP->CP Conversion? I have more questions, but those are the big 4 I have right now.

Just wondering if there are any RP guilds left on the server or if they have all transferred to Star Forge.

Again though, the question is, are you worried about winning the planet or just getting the guild rewards? Renown rewards are pretty pointless as it is a single piece of non-set gear, and SOMETIMES a mod/Enhancement.....which will most likely be decon'd for 5-10 Tech frags each. If you are worried about winning the planet, then you have a point. If you are worried about the guild rewards, then there is no difference in once person getting 50K and getting 1Million, it is the same amount of rewards. When guilds farm it, and are cranking out 8-10 toons in 30 minutes then alting to crank out another 8-10 and do this for 80-10 toons, the mats on the market are going to increase and the cost go down. I know there are a lot of people complaining about this ONLY because others are getting more mats and driving prices down. There is some argument to be made there. Personally... I am stocking up on the low priced items now because they are going to go up when BW kills this.

100% agree. I should have waited a few minutes to post. Yours isn't as rambly (Yes...I made that word up a long time ago) and I could have just done.... ^^^This... so much this^^^

We have a small dilemma in conquest right right now. People complained that it was too hard to get on the leader board back before the 5.8 change and that getting encryptions for your ship was too difficult and/or too expensive for smaller guilds. At that point in time there were often 5-6 planets per week (all of them on at least 1 if not 2 weeks). In order to make getting encyptions easier, they instituted the guild cap and a lot of people were happy they were going to get their encryptions easier for their guild. However, the 5.8 iteration sucked for getting alts across the line. 5.9 brought some changes, and with those changes the 'reset by changing zones' bug. People were excited about being able to farm roughly 600 mobs on a rampage planet by changing zoning out and back in. They fixed that bug and we were pretty much back to square one. Then.....the amazing CQ's for XP change when the personal cap was still 20K and the guild cap was what 170K for small yield planets.... We all knew that wouldn't last, and in 6.0 they put the focus back on objectives. There is now another way around objectives so they are going to fix it. As I said though, before getting sidetracked by my own ramblings... we have a dilemma. The new conquest format has 3 planets almost every week. In order to finish off your galaxy conquerer title, you have to win certain planets. With only 3 planets to win, the super-enormous-mega guilds have flourished and the smaller guilds have been gravely out NUMBERED. So..... do you want to win planets, or do you want encryptions? That is our dilemma. (Finally old man!) BW has done things to make it easier for all guilds to get to their cap....through objectives. They don't want people farming something like LBLOs/Bugs/OP Trash. to side step those things in 30 minutes. So, ask yourself, which do you want? Encryptions.....or titles..... As for bugs.....I would rather them fix game play bugs than nerf the KP farm bug. There are things that are still that have been around since launch that haven't been fully fixed. I would like to see them be able to separate PvP and PvE changes some how. I am tired of getting my PvE nerfed because of PvP issues.