I don't normally post in the forums as I feel the DEV's are going to do as they wish anyway. But I feel this is one time I must speak my mind. I am in a very small guild and when I say small I mean six (6) people who have jobs, children and a real life outside of SWTOR. We have played different MMO's together for over a decade and have become close friends.
I have repeatedly read in this forum how crafters don't play the game and we AFK our way into the conquest board. We have to go out and do missions to get mats, we do everything we can to get supplies for the conquest and I'm proud that my guild has been in the top ten every week since the beginning of the year. Why because we set a plan to get our guild ship and open all the rooms. Sadly we wont be able to when KOTFE comes on line in Oct. We are small and adult so we have adult conversations politics, jokes and we can be risqué at times but that's because we are small and all adults. BW has just called the death note to small guilds such as mine because we aren't even large enough to get an OP group together and do like larger guilds with their little lockout schemes. We have 2 people who do pvp and the rest do gsf. That's what we enjoy and that's how we play this game. We craft we talk we farm the planets we have fun and we are small.
Take the crafters out of the loop and I see a NGE death coming like I saw in another star wars game I played until they killed it for me. I just needed to vent nothing will come of it, the big guilds will continue to win every week and those of you who thought it was the small guilds with their little crafting will still not make the top ten or win a planet. PvP is not the be all end all of this game nor will PvP save this game if no one pvps because they get tired of being ganked all the time. Okay enough said let the insults begin now.