Well, I got the Origin package at the beginning of April since it had extras and the same price as two months, got the bonus CC from that along with the other things, but while it's counting subscriber status, it isn't giving me the monthly Cartel Coins either time. I have gotten the security key ones, but not the subscriber bonus' And this seems to be the only way to contact people about it since the issue site just points to calling a number for it and the in game channel isn't functioning...

If your doing HM Dread Master Brontes, you're likely getting 3 or 4 crates in about the same time someone running heroics gets one of them. And you have a decent chance of getting other gear and recipes as well. I run ops, heroics, flashpoints, and pretty much everything, I've liked the crates because anything I'm doing is something towards equipping the character better. Do I always get something good out of those crates, no, but there were a lot of times with ops where I hadn't gotten anything either. I'd gotten a mix of 220 and 224 gear before that and it took months to do it, often running into the walls of being unable to go on ops with guild members to upgrade the gear because my gear was to low at the time for what would be a good point for those raids while I participated in the ones I could and expanded as I got gear. Now, while I'm still tier 2 (I believe I'm at rank 149 at the moment), I've got gear split pretty well for it and can do pretty much anything from that perspective that I want to do. I don't need to start a secondary grind if I want to do PvP anymore since it now uses the same gear and stats. Sure, I hate it when I've gone through several HM ops in a night and open the crates to find only a few greens, companion gifts, jawa junk, and legacy shells, but that is still more than I might end up getting from the operations at this point because everyone still wants the pieces. And more people gearing up faster means that there are more people running ops in the long run which means that there are going to be more opportunities to run those ops myself as I go on. Add that there will be better geared people running ops which tends to lower the gearing requirements for getting alts or new players started raiding to speed up the rate that the mindset development for it can be done more easily...

I keep getting them in the Tattooine chest in the pub side sarlaac pit heroic that's next to the bonus objective. I've also seen them on Belsavis pub side with the heroic where you go into the cave to find the missing operative at the chest in there, and in ones from the heroic areas on Alderaan...

One other thing to consider is that they have randomly brought back old packs off and on. The reputation really doesn't do that much without the CMCs to use them, and even then someone can already dump a few million into a slot machine and eventually get a few... The extra rep options would add a few more things to the command crates that wouldn't be disintegrated at the same time. Putting the CMC's at a little under the price of a months subscription would work since the items aren't collection unlockables and would need to be bought for different characters anyway. Though, perhaps in the 1K CC range if the items would be added to the collection when acquired (Give them a unique symbol and go with that). Hell, make the CMC's something that would use a pile of the command tokens to get instead because those tend to be disintegration fodder since the only thing you tend to use them for other than a couple for gear is to up your cxp rate...

I was running a friend through the Star Fortress instances and noticed that the bonus mission goals don't award CXP unlike the other bonus goals that seem to pop up elsewhere. I then tried swapping to story mode to see if it was just a heroic thing and found the same thing. I'm not entirely sure if this is a bug or not, but I figured that I would at least report it.

Removing the credit cap isn't something that makes sense...the big thing with that would likely be just more credit spammers popping up... Raising it, perhaps tied into a duration of account time in use, could work. Perhaps after a month of play time, the credit cap would be a flat 500k...would make a lot of things easier for a lot of people

I have recently acquired a cathar warstaff when it was on sale in the market for my shadow, however there is one major issue that I've recently noticed. The warstaff's base power is below the standard for weapons. Every other weapon, even those that cost less, have a base power of 60 for their type, where the warstaff is only 51... It makes the weapon a major disappointment because it doesn't match the capability of the other gears, and despite being a very interesting looking weapon to have for the character, well, that drop in stats, no matter how small, makes it impossible to justify hurting my characters capabilities both for on my own and in group content where it is often every little bit counts... Please fix the weapon and bring the cartel weapons up to par, I know they're intended to just be cosmetic, but with weapons you need to be able to keep pace...especially since companions can't utilize anything but their base ones, so it wouldn't even be useable on my sentinel to put on Kira now...

I'd love to be able to customize companion costumes. There are a LOT of options that aren't the dancer/slave ones that can make for interesting options. Or at least more direct customization ones... In all honesty, I have bought the 'pub dancer and slave girl outfits, and had Kira in the dancer ones...come to think of it, I think she's still in it. It was an easy to get ahold of orange set at the time I started playing and after KotFE started, while I did recall her back, I only use her for crafting stuff since the companions with just the "phase 1" "upgrade" to the current setup aren't quite as set up properly as the ones that have...though the bracers and belt weren't something that matched that well there.

Not Taris specifically, but with some of the heroics there can be issues if you do it in a group, especially if you're trying for the bonus' where some players might just be there for the quick completion. Illum and Alderaan (Pub side) tend to be the big ones there for certain ones. Both of those get you extra crystals if you finish the bonus quest, but with the autocomplete, well, it's not as fun to be working for them and then you lose the quest because someone either doesn't care or purposefully ends it early.

Anyone know if getting it is effected by changing your email address recently?

Part of the issue might be the gifts there. Personally, a good first step would be to add a second "characters" thing for the stronghold decorations and let your legacy characters be put into your strongholds with the holo view for the active one. Might even work for the whole thing to be a workable bonus for future legacy unlocks...along with, hopefully, ones that reduce the price of HK-51 and Treek...

I definitely agree about the year long sub option being something far more useful. For the cartel coin shift, the setup is a standardized one. It also means that if something gets released, you might want it and could get it at that point. Plus the coins are technically just a sub reward for each month subscribed, same as with the authenticator.

I keep hoping that the current customizations get turned into essentially a drop down menu and learnable similar to how some titles currently are. And have them legacy wide. It would have more reasons to go looking for them, and work for them with events along with purchases of the various packs that have them possible.

I agree that the patch days probably ought to be compensated for with more game time, at least if the patch has major issues. If for no other reason than to make the time be for actual playable time rather than when the servers are down. While I tend to hate comparing games, and this also ties into out of game issues, I remember a few years back when there was the massive windstorm that knocked out power and internet connections of all sorts through a few states in the midwest, Blizzard essentially paused all subscriptions in the effected areas due to it. Ended up with a lot of goodwill towards them from players at the time. In all honesty, the only things I could see on top of the time being something like a set of Event rewards if one is being run. For example, the reputation trophies for THORN and DNA canisters as if you'd done the event dailies for the current one, and something similar for the Bounty or Gree ones. Because that's a month before you can do more, and that's punishing for those trying to get Lokin or similar things.

This is more of a general thing for the market, but I've been grabbing some of the customization options and looking at the cosmetics along with other things. The issue is in figuring out which ones I already have and which ones I want to get. Yes, there are currently ways to check, but they take a lot more time and effort to go back through for each of them if I'm trying to find ones. Having a mark in the corner of them in the Cartel Market if you already have that item (Character, Legacy, or Account) would make it far easier to find the things wanted.