I too was a SWG crafter and am back from the launch of SWTOR after many years away, and have 5 characters leveled to lvl 60 only for crafting purposes. Do they have any purpose at all in the new game? Many of my archived skills seem uncraftable now with the change in recipes.

I'm with you....I just returned after playing heavily prior to the crafting nerf.....it was one of the main reasons that I played.

Exactly Tower. I LOVED SWG--ESPECIALLY the crafting system, because it wasn't complicated enough! The argument that you couldn't get resources that I saw on this thread, was apparently from someone who never played the game, since before its violation, new resources spawned daily and, at times, hourly. BECAUSE of the formulas involved in the crafting it allowed you to differentiate yourself from the average 13 year old WoW player with D+ 8th grade math skills who STILL wants that mind-numbing lack of detail and ease of play due to the inability to multiply. AVERAGE high school math skills allowed you to EASILY master the formulas involved in order to create some of the best armor, weapons and--just before the SWG cataclysm--ships in the universe. EXCELLENCE, INNOVATION, CREATIVITY and INITIATIVE were not only REWARDED, but encouraged in SWG, NOT just mindless hours of untalented drudgery--JUST LIKE IN REAL life. It was precisely this ONE fact that brought the most devoted following to the original game--despite a smaller overall base--and would be the reason I would pay 3 times what I am paying now for this new game if they brought it back in its original form.