Since 4.0 there are a number of bugs to iron out and I imagine it'll be the New Year before any of them are fixed.

I have to say I am surprised the "Recruitment" missions are not linked to the solo version of the SF as it is meant to be about story, but I can see it in a "real" sense as you only destroy the Fortress in the heroic run. Really you could do with a true solo version of the heroic, where you go all the way to the final battle and blow up the SF and get your recruits.

I play mostly Republic characters, and I have to say that each of them would like to see her out of the picture, be it imprisoned, put in front of a firing squad or conveniently "by accident" spaced out of an airlock. Maybe this day will come to pass in the chapters of KotFE.

Most item can be found on the GTN if you use the tabs and then search through all the pages. While this works and you can at least find a selling price and purchase items, it is far from ideal. When I looked to sell some mounts that would not show in the search, I had to go through about 40+ pages on mounts to come across what I wanted to sell to see what it was going for. Finding stuff can be done, but with the broken search system it is a real pain.

So much this!!! We should have this option for any of the extra companions really, Qyzen included.

To be honest I prefer the arenas as a PvE player. Unless you have a stealth player that does nothing but hide for ages, these go by that much quicker than warzones and on occasion you get a win. These are my preferred option for getting M1-4X or Pierce as if I got 20 of these it'd be far less time consuming, even if I got killed and lost all of them.

That would also work. Though I do hope that any future PvP gated companions, if any, have a more scaled down and reasonable requirement more in line with the PvP weekly objective (which is just about a bearable amount of time and effort for a non-PvPer).

So far! We do not know whether future alerts may not show if you have not already completed the M1/Pierce Quest...I guess we'll find out in February. They have said that to continue the chain you need to at least see the quest giver, but then if you don't complete you have a mission sitting in your log until whenever. If you abandon, it becomes an alert again and you cant refuse to take the companion, so a bit of a Catch-22 anyway.

Why not just a Crystal Exchange Vendor (on the fleet and Odessa) where you can trade up or down...solves both issue in one. You click on the option you want from the choice of 6 and it collects the relevant crystals from your pack and gives you the requested crystals (at whatever the exchange rate is). I'd imagine this would even be a reasonable easy thing to add into the game. One thing that would need to be done though, if it is not already the case, is that the companion gifts you can purchase with common crystals would need to become "bind on legacy" to stop them being sold on the GTN (otherwise this could become an abusive issue to make credits from crystals).

Generally I play solo too, I just group for the Gree Heroic. I possibly could solo it, but have not tried, as that just adds pressure on the spawns. There are so many people now waiting for the 3 bosses it is a mess and often all the groups spam their attacks to get the hit, even if it is obvious a previous group have been waiting. After an hour to do ONLY the heroic with 2 characters last night, I then gave up on the Gree event and went to do more fun things like the weekly heroics with a few characters (I like the variety and their value for time). Making this a instanced heroic would certainly resolve a lot of the Grey Helix and heroic mission issues with the whole event. As it is right now it just annoys me too much to bother with as it seems to bring out the worst in people.

Odessa or Rishi would be cool

Very easily said by someone who does a lot of PvP (and probably has full PvP gear) and probably raids too. In essence the OP has a sensible idea that has merit, but I doubt it will change anything anyway as it is already set. It does seem odd that in a more "story driven" quest line for the new expansion that the developers then go and gate something behind PvP, which has no real story element at all. Just for the record, I did the PvP to get M1-4X, but did I enjoy it or find it a worthwhile use of 5 hours, not at all...but I wanted to give it a go at least once to at least know who OTT the requirement is. At the end of the day, so long as getting the PvP gated companion (or not) doesn't have any bearing on future Alliance Alerts, then it is not such an issue...except for the mission not being able to be refused and sitting in your mission log indefinitely.

It would be very useful for all Heroics to now either be instanced or have a summon button (at least for the boss/elite). Unfortunately, this would be a lot of work to change every heroic to fit this profile, so I cant seeing it being a high priority fix.

If you'd checked the forums and even the developer notes before posting this, you'd have seen it is already being investigated and a number of people already have a thread to bring up the issue. http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=859156

We had this exact same things yesterday. If it wasn't already enough of a problem with so many groups clustering around the three PvE pylons, we now have solo players doing it too!!! This is the biggest problem, in that as this is one of the only ways to get a Grey Helix a day, everyone swamps the area and it can take 20 or 30 mins or waiting before you can finally get 3 three bosses. Just saying they could do with linking them to something better or maybe even an instanced heroic so you don't get all the hassles of ninjas, PvP killers and the long waiting times. If it was only one heroic but one you could go in an out of with each character in an instanced area, it wouldn't be so much of a problem (I'd even do my 10 characters a day if that was the case). Somehow it seems to work better in the Rakghoul event, but that has a the scanner mission that also gives the canisters.