credits is enough reason for me to craft beyond what i can solo, to buy pets/companions and other high priced items

from http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=911530 quote: Keep in mind that Tier 1 is the only Tier that you can directly purchase. In order to get a Tier 2 or 3 Unassembled piece, you will need to turn in the previous Tier armor piece along with X amount of Unassembled Components (listed below). As an example if you wanted to get the Tier 2 Unassembled Chest Piece, you would need to go to the vendor with a Tier 1 chest piece and 150 Unassembled Components. This will then give you a Tier 2 Unassembled Chest Piece which you can turn in. anyway, in theory if one has enough command points across all characters - shouldn't that be enough upgrade a tier 1 say chest piece to max and extract armour/mod/enhancment and RE and craft away ?

what about mats from ops ?

How many of each groups solo/guild rely on other folks for mats ?

why do they make so many hurdles for crafters ? why dont they just drop un-modded items from pvp/ops/command crates and give more credits and let crafters do what they want, craft - no need for the blue prints to stop at 210 (from fleet vendors) then all parties might be more happy, get random pieces from activities, and then buy modded stufff from gtn or trade my opinion only, way simpler whats the fuss with set pieces are they that good ? what i've seen/read about - quite plain

thanks for the reply and information

I am a casual player whom likes to craft, it can be a long and hard life to do so i craft to make credits and to get gear to play the harder content, now that i am using all 228 and to progress i feel i am forced to pvp for 230 schematics i could just bypass all the crafting and do HEs for credits and buy gear from the GTN, which is not what i want to do but the option is there now there is uprisings, do they drop schematics no - i think they are the stage between flashpoints and ops, but they drop nothing for crafters it seems - why ?? (maybe someone can answer) where is the option to get better schematics beyond 230 - ops it seems i am a casual crafter its beyond my skill level - where is the option to buy/trade schematics for those who just want to craft ??

just noticing Agitation debuff (loss of superiority advantage and loss of stack the deck) lasting 5 mins on my sith assassin during combat is this normal ? also noticing minus combat numbers, anyone else notice this ?