I looted a purple +41 power PURPLE crystal from the chest where the snipers are after killing Zorn and Toth in EC HM. I did this last night (the 8th September 2012). Unfortunately as I am not an Artifice I cannot tell if it is possible to reverse engineer it to gain a schematic. It was also bind on equip, rather than pickup. The chest is the one that normally only contains BH Comms and crafting materials. Hope this helps.

Yeah, whoever screwed the pooch on this one has probably forced all of his team mates back in to work a ton of overtime when they really should be enjoying the start of their weekend. Think that might cost him a bit more than a round of beers..... You gotta feel for them as it must be a horrible job to work out everything that's wrong and put it right. Keep your chins up guys, we appreciate your efforts And for my sake, can get it done quick please? I'm Jonesing for my next fix of SWTOR already. /scratch forearms some more

I totally agree with the initial post. I read it several weeks ago, and am pleased to see it has generated so much support. There are several hundred posts here, and nearly all of them are from like minded customers. I am quite downhearted that there hasn't been a comment from bioware concerning this topic, and I am consequently facing a dilemma.... My 3 month pre-paid subscription will run out soon, so do I sign up to renew it? I do not currently have confidence that the game will expand in the direction necessary to retain my long term attention. The ground game is fun, but only provides a fraction of the enjoyment I got from SWG (which was purely due to the space aspects of JTL). I do not want to continue to invest my time and money into playing this game without some small assurance that it may one day provide the experience that I hoped I would find. If you have the opportunity, and you work for bioware, could you please answer the following question: "Can I trust that you will do the right thing by me and all these other people, and should I therefore stay?" A simple "Yes" or "No" will suffice. Failing that, could you at least acknowledge that you've seen the thread please? After all, we're you paying customers, and we're giving you constructive feedback for free.

It is my opinion that the space combat in this game fails to meet the needs of it's subscribers. Optional space combat should represent a significant portion of this game, in proportion to the large amount of combat that took place in space during the films. I also recall that the pilots had some choice in the direction they flew, and what they looked at. I do agree with the developer's statement that the system of hyperspacing to limited regions of space that contain conflict hotspots is appropriate, as a near limitless expanse serves little purpose beyond this. Why do only our ground enthusiast cousins have this right to chose which direction to travel, and how do the developers expect to make a space pvp aspect inside a tunnel shooter minigame? I am hopeful that the absence of an answer from the developers means that this is something to which they are already giving serious consideration, and that they have not made a public reply to this request as a firm decision is yet to be made. As good as the ground aspect is now, or as good as it may get, it will be insufficient to retain my interest on it's own.

You said it man. I wish they would sort this out, or at least announce that they have listened and will make it happen as soon as possible.

I have also heard rumours, but have not seen a post from the dev team to confirm them. I really want to see flight like there was in Star Wars Galaxies. I feel that by building this game, Bioware should accept responsibility for the production of a 3D flight aspect. It is the first time in over 2 decades that I cannot play a current game with the option to properly pilot a star wars starfighter. There is a lot of demand for it too.

The space aspect of the game is extremely lacking, and was not at all what I had in mind when I signed up to this game. Will you please state whether you intend to allow us to pilot ships from the cockpit with a flightstick? If so will you be adding in a lot more space content?

Yup I want to see a lot more space stuff. Free roaming flight with a joystick with PVE and PVP is essential. Reverse engineered upgrades made from parts looted from the debris of our shattered enemies is essential. PVP games such as zone domination, capture the flag, escort convoys would be nice, as well as the classic furball. I would like co-operative PVE space Heroic and Flashpoint missions. A mission to scramble to our fighters and launch to defend our cruiser hasn't been done since Xwing Alliance. Would love to do that with modern graphics and sound. Would also like medium and large capital ships to have a fixed number of hull hitpoints, so that they can be destroyed.

Aye you couldn't be more right, the whole system of space combat in SWG kept me and hundreds of other fellas hooked on it for years. The system they had for REing spaceloot into uber ship modifications was to absolutely die for too. The main reason I signed up to this game was the hope that they would carry on in the same fashion. I was gutted when I flew my first space mission in The Old Republic, there is absolutely no feel of pilotting to it whatsoever. At best it's manning a turret in a minigame. Hope the devs get the message and then I'll see you boys up there