I haven't played since the plague began. Maybe before that. I figured it's anniversary time, let's log in and see what's up, right? So I log in my old main - the one I've made it farthest into the game with. Max level. Saved the galaxy dozens of times. Beaten all the big bads. And lo, there's a new quest line for me. That's hot. Right into the action. And the first quest is... wait for it.... gathering up crates that are in my hangar in my base and ... delivering that stuff ... to people ... who are also in the hangar in my base. I'm surprised that I finished the quest before logging out. Seriously, after all I've done for the galaxy and with the thousands of people I have fighting on my side, the best thing for me to do is carry crates to people who are right f*cking there in the same room who can't figure out how to get to the crates for themselves? I remember way back in game test, the excitement, thrill, and immersion I felt the first time I walked into the hangar on Coruscant and saw that beautiful starship, all mine. This return... This was just pathetic. Disappointing. A clear message that I shouldn't bother with the game. I wish the devs were better. I loved this game.

You get 3 skills. If you unlearn one and learn another, all progress on the unlearned one is gone. I think if you max it and remove it, it would count for the achievement, but that's it. You'd have to start over if you wanted it back. If you really want all skills maxed, you need multiple characters.

Thank you for the detailed reply, SmorgishBorg! I've done a bit of digging into raw materials on the GTN and it looks like the Grade 11 materials are a bit hit-or-miss. There is certainly opportunity for me to lower the prices a little bit on some of them. Since you mentioned that this server tends to be serious about Conquest, I think I'll also look into raw materials for crafting for Conquest. I'm used to the Grade 2-3 Bio-analysis components being relatively strong sellers due to the multiplier on the items for the Inventor Conquest quest. I also wonder if there might be need for some Archaeology and Scavenging materials at lower Grades to help make the components that ultimately assemble into Invasion Forces.

I dig the crafting game. I like finding the under-served areas of the economy and putting in the work to deliver stuff that the players on the server want at reasonable prices. How would you say the crafting is on this server, overall? Can you find the crafted things that you want for prices that you can afford? If not, what are the crafted items you're missing? Thank you.

There is already a CM token to level a companion to 50 influence immediately. I forget what it's called but I think the right search on CM would be "influence" when you have "all" selected. It was too expensive for me to bother with it.