nice, I wasn't sure if that was just the PvP season starting tomorrow. A lot of big changes, datacrons boosting to 80, pvp season, galactic season, 64 bit client.

is galactic season 4 starting soon? the few games that I played had at least a month or two between seasons so people didn't burn out.

don't worry everyone, this is completely normal for Star Forge

I can't remember a single MMO removing credit sinks. Maybe reducing the cost (repair costs in LoTRO) but removing them seems like a bad idea. And we should not blame players for a company's decision to take out credit sinks. The company should be smart enough, because they are a business, to hire an economist to keep their game healthy. I find that most players in tend to not have the best interest of the game in mind when they ask for changes. Maybe Bioware has an economist on staff telling them to take out credit sinks and free CC from Galactic Season is the cause of inflation?

Maybe a prompt asking about which one before you continue? Does it effect the story much?

which ever content starts at level 80.

I saw my dots suddenly coming from above me and ran out to see the sniper sitting on top of the turret. I didn't even think of capturing video or screenshots as everyone on our team was talking about him teleporting and running around.

this was definitely a speed hack with teleporting. He kept up the speed the whole game and would teleport on top of the turret on mid where no one could reach him then teleport back to the ground and start attacking and running around. We had him marked and I could follow him through the walls by watching my dots tick.

isn't ranked PvP that thing that failed because so few people were playing that it wasn't worth Biowares time to update with the new multi-combat style system?

Has there been any word why the auction house is limited to 1 billion credits? There is a tax on the auction house which should be an amazing credit sink but every item sold over 1 billion credits bypasses this tax via trade.

is the timing between the pvp season and galactic season usually only 1 month?

this was the Alderran Map.

It seems that the free Cartel Coins from Galactic Season is causing the inflation according to the dev

shouldn't dots and slows end when you die? I often have both still on me when I respawn in PvP

I'm logging off pvp for the night. The same premade group of 4 marauders is dominating sub 80. I had to fight them 3 times in a row and it isn't fun. They aren't even trying to win the warzones, they are focusing on one player at a time and deleting players in seconds. "Get your own premade!" screw that, premades should be in their own queue against other premades and if they have to wait too long they can queue solo like everyone else. If premade groups are a small percentage of players, why is Bioware catering to them over everyone else? Keep catering to the smallest percentage of PvPers making PvP an unbearable experience. I'm sure it won't hurt the game.

That's awesome. I may have to come back to FFXIV.

In PvP I just watched a sniper use a speed hack and teleport hack. I was told these were not possible but the guy was traveling at beyond normal speeds the whole game. This was not a short burst of Cover, Countermeasure speed or lag and I was able only to follow him around because of my dots. He also teleported on top of the middle turret multiple times. Not the node you activate to capture the turret, he was on top of the turret structure when we started to get him low on health. This is not a bug report or a cheat report. This is a discussion that such cheats are possible.

There is already a very simple solution in the game. Dailies and Weeklies should be based on medals earned like Galactic Season. It could use a bit of tweaking because it is very hard to earn medals in TDM maps. A player that self-destructs the whole game will not complete their dailies or weeklies which is why they are there.

That usually happens when they get banned and their credit supply is deleted. As for the drop in prices, this can happen in MMOs with a smaller population right after December when the population drops and those players who aren't playing take their credits with them and demand for products is lower. Inflation will go back up when they return with their credits and those credits enter the economy again.

I think most people in this thread are using "lets protect the newbies" as a guise for "lets hurt the players with the most wealth", The quick travel costs should scale based on character level or legacy level, not just distance. But the quick travel costs are not going to drive away new players any more than the cost of flying to a new planet or using speeders to get around. I barely used quick travel when I started because I was enjoying the game. I wasn't rushing my way through the missions using quick travel to pop back and forth constantly to save time. Maybe after the quick travel credit sink goes live and Bioware can gather metrics on how it is working, the higher cost "lets hurt the players with the most wealth" credit sinks can be designed.

hmm snipers being able to burst while having no way to cleanse or heal while also doing mediocre DPS outside of the burst for single target DPS. Engineers are great at AOE so I guess their job should only be laying down AOEs on objectives? Other classes have defensives. Stealth classes can vanish, I had an assassin constantly vanish or break LOS when I was setting up my EMP with Series of Shots. Some classes have the ability to 100% dodge incoming attacks for a short time, other classes can absorb most of the damage. Some even reflect damage. If you are a sorc, go in with your teleport skill ready to take you out of the 35 meter range. From what I am being told Marauders have even more burst than Engineers and they get a cloaking ability.

One feature I miss from FFXIV was the ability to write macro's in game. I had multiple macro's which would automatically swap my skill button for an active skill once activated. This worked well for proc'd skills and was able to turn 2 skills into 1 button. Activate skills A, loads up skill B in that same hotkey slot because skill B can not be used until skill A is used. This could help alleviate some of the skills in SWTOR if they automatically swapped to the follow up skill.

I think I used quick travel once when I first started and it was free. I kept forgetting about it because I was running everywhere killing everything I could find. I wasn't rushing through the starter worlds like they were a job, I was exploring and having fun.

Maybe. How are companies farming credits to sell to players? If credit farming companies can still produce and sell credits at around 1 billion for 1.3 dollars, it won't take long for people to become billionaires again.

With out the "stupid" people spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on the Cartel Market this game would not exist. That is a simple fact for all MMOs in todays market. No MMO survives on subscriptions alone.