I'm considering one of three options: 1. request a free server transfer or I quit my subscription immediately. 2. request a refund of this months subscription (and the expansion I just bought last night) so I can quit immediately 3. bend over further...

I'd like to transfer off as well. This is getting old. I'll play on another server please.

I forget, and I haven't raided since last week. Is there an option to disassemble columni or rakata drops? If there is, what kind of materials do they give me respectively? Would a columni disassemble give me the materials needed to make a level 136 piece of exotech armor?

i laughed out loud... here at my desk... at work

This begs the question. What makes the game better? If your experience is "better" if you just have everything for free, then you might not like RPG/MMO games like this where you have to build up your character and work to acquire rare or unique things.

Micro-transactions don't necessarily mean pay-to-win. I come from old school Travian and from League of Legends where MT meant either time savers or cosmetic purchases respectively. They had no effect on your competitiveness and a non-paying person could compete evenly with a paying one. The paying player just looked cooler and might have acquired levels faster (because of faster travel, larger cargo bays, or other convenience features).

This is fantastic! I think Piratejeffy & Dragonbgone are onto something very important here. I dont know if their overlay map lines up correctly, or if the soldier should even be involved in the mapping... I will join the hunt. I'm going to sniff down this lead some more...

Were you talking about crafting oranges or reverse engineering?

its a symbiotic relationship. it is up to the community to value what is best for it, and if they did then they would pay for it. if they paid for it, the crafters would make it to sell...

I'd be interested in any of these sets (I think they would be similar) Executioner's gear http://www.torhead.com/search/Executioner%27s Reanimator's gear http://www.torhead.com/search/reanimator%27s Annihilator's gear (not the sith annihilator, just plain annihilator) http://www.torhead.com/search/annihilator%27s

why in the world would you ever want to have an orange shell instead of a purple shell?

so if I'm to simplify this into an answer to my question "how will I be able to crit craft orange schematics so I can sell them on the GTN?" the two part answer is: 1. learn the orange schematic through crafting missions 2. learn the orange schematic through an research (disassemble) loot roll on new gear added in 1.2 am I understanding this correctly? no learning orange schematics from any items we are saving up right now? none whatsoever?

Oompaw, can you RE any oranges you pick up from killed mobs, flashpoint bosses, etc...?

I guess I would agree with you if I read the statement below from the Q&A to mean "the schematics for these items are ONLY obtained via mission discoveries" maybe that is what it means... dang

it would be nice to know this... as I've stored up a large amount of orange gear in my cargo holds & in a constant flow of mail between alts, haha