Will you guys ever do a tour around Canada? I know there are a lot of subscribers up here!

I guess maybe I was... but at least you can buy all of these upgrades with credits or off the gtn for credits. There is absolutely no way to convert requisition with credits.

Yes you can do this, but when you run out of ship and fleet requisition, you will notice that the ships that you aren't playing have some ship requisition, and you can convert this to ship requisition to use on whichever ship you prefer....for cartel coins. They just make it faster to bolster your favourite ship if you use them.

Agreed, I'm just frustrated with the fact that when free-to-play went live we were told that as subscribers we would have access to every part of the game and that cartel coins could only be used to purchase gear and speeders that would not give an advantage to those purchasing them. Here, it is possible to obtain an advantage in GS, even if it is not in the long term just by spending cartel coins.

True, but there should still be an option to convert without having to pay in order for it to be a level playing field.

Explain to me how you can funnel all your requisition into one ship without doing any conversions using cartel coins? You can't.

Except that completing dailies and weeklies gives bonus requisition to all ships in a hangar which can be converted. A daily gives 750 requisition per ship, so a total of 3750 if you have all 5 ships in your hangar. 3750 can then be converted and used on one ship instead of just 750.

....That's not the issue. People can upgrade their starship faster if they dish out cartel coins to convert requisition. No it doesn't magically appear. But you can use the 2x boosts on all your ships, then funnel all the requisition into upgrades for a single one. Read the above posts...

Agreed. If they want us to be able to do what we want with the requisitions, then take out ship and fleet requisition and just make them all the same currency, unbound to the ship they were obtained with. Or make it impossible to use fleet requisition for components. Or another option, make it impossible to convert. As subscribers we should be able to get the 25k upgrades just as fast as everyone else without spending cartel coins.

I'm not concerned about that. Just the principle that now people can gear up faster based on converting points with cartel coins. Where does it stop? Will the next patch allow us to convert elite comms into ultimate comms for cartel coins?

I already pay for a monthly subscription, I'm not about to start paying just so that I can gear up at a competitive rate. Subscribers are supposed to have all the advantages necessary to be the best players in the game. Now subscribers are going to be at a disadvantage because they're unwilling to pay to get upgrades faster? This game should be about skill, not who can spend the most money to convert requisition...

The issue here is just that the dailies grant requisition to all ships in a players hangar. A large portion of players prefer to play only one class of star fighter, which means that they can convert the green ship requisition from all the ships in their hangar into fleet requisition. Fleet requisition can be used to purchase anything, including component upgrades which is unfair. This allows those that have cartel coins to constantly accumulate great amounts of fleet requisition and dump it all into upgrades for a single ship. These players become stronger than the rest of us much faster, which allows them to kill the rest of us easier and gain more requisition faster. So it is indeed somewhat pay to win. There is no way to convert ship requisition into fleet requisition with any currency obtained in game, and these upgrades are not purely aesthetic.

Hey guys, I am looking for a daytime ops group (9-3 server time). Tuesdays and Thursdays would be great, or other weekdays are good too. I have a well geared marauder, 72/78 pieces, and have experience raiding in the past, up to HM TFB, HM SV, NiM EC...took a few months off so have not gotten into HM DF/DP yet but would like to get into an ops group that does those. I have very good dps and raid awareness. Have farmed HM content since back in 1.3 when HM EC had the best drops. Let me know if there's a place in your ops team that will fit my schedule, thanks! Redfrost- 55 mara Redfire- 55 sorc Imperial side

Hi I am just getting back into the game after about 6 months of not playing. I had cleared TFB HM prior to leaving, and have a marauder and sorc healer in full 69s. I am looking to gear up and have good raid awareness as well as mumble, vent and teamspeak. Looking for something flexible due my unsteady work schedule. Let me know, thanks! Redfrost- 55 Marauder Redfire- 55 Sorceror

The difference here is that it actually takes hours of game time to craft top tier augments and hope to make any profit from selling them. The problem is that credits can essentially be bought for real money, and the argument that you could do this before from websites is invalid because that was a violation of game rules. The Cartel market basically offers a way to buy credits without any violation of the rules, and I know it's possible to make millions on the gtn without spending real money but again it takes time. All the people who have not logged hundreds of game hours are getting put on the same level as those that have in order to augment their gear and buy stims. Our monthly grant of 500 cartel coins hardly buys anything and is only worth $5 when compared to the cheapest pack. So unless you want to wait months for your grants to stack up to anything substantial you need to buy coins or buy off the gtn. What ever happened to cool rare loot drops? All the coolest looking gear is just thrown onto the cartel market so Bioware can try to suck more money out of us. Why can't we runaround planets hoping to get that ultra rare drop anymore? The only rare thing in this game now is the Avalanche Heavy Tank from NiM EC...

With credits you can essentially get whatever you want, I could offer 15 million credits for a guild to run me through HM TFB and give me all the loot drops. It's the same as real life money. Money can be used to purchase just about anything, given it is the right price. Say I buy 50 sets of cartel armor and sell it on the gtn...bam a few hours later, I'm millions richer, spend that money getting carried through an operation and get a full set of 72's. :eek:

I realize that the devs have been saying that the cartel market is in no way going to be pay to win...the problem though is that all of the items on the cartel market can be sold on the gtn for credits. Personally I never buy cartel coins because as a subscriber I do not want to pay more money just to get some cool gear, but I will buy Cartel speeders and gear off the gtn for in game credits. Basically all the people that buy these cartel packs are trading real life money for in game credits which can be used to win. As a member of Harbinger Crafters I can craft many mods including the Resolve Hilt 30. I sell this on the gtn, and by buying this it enables people to avoid doing multiple runs of S&V SM hoping to win the roll on the mainhand. No, the 30 mods are not the highest level of gear in the game anymore but they enable players to be able to run top tier operation, so saying that the cartel market is in no way pay to win is not true, because it can basically be used to buy credits and credits can be used to "win" because you can buy full sets of 69 level mods, mk-9 augments and kits, and prototype nano-infused stims to get that extra boost. The cartel market can essentially grant instant credits and save many hours that the rest of us have to spend doing dailies. So how is the cartel market not "pay to win" ? Because it defiitely seems that way to me.

The only reason that I was doing this event was so that my companion could wear the gree armor, now I see no reason in continuing to do these quests.

i agree it would be awesome it there were animal mounts as well