Seriously, this should have been pretty obvious, how on earth did that get past internal testing?

BT, Boarding Party, and Foundry are all complete jokes on hard mode even with fresh 50 quest gear. The gear you get there will get you set for the other hard modes.

You do realize that you can still queue as a group, you just have to reform the group every single time you queue, right? It's not like leaving the group intact is going to stop people from playing with their friends. *groups disbands from warzone queue* "oh crap guys where did you go? I guess we can't PvP together anymore!"

herp derp ok, this was a few months after launch thing on a seven and a half year old game.

And by that I mean you shouldn't have to make a new group every single time you queue for a warzone. Come on, this was launch day stuff eight years ago.

There are hardly any Republic players on Ilum anymore. It makes it incredibly hard to complete the daily, and even harder to find a good group to trade valor with. Please allow imperials to flag for pvp against one another so that we can aoe farm ourselves.

Open world PvP will not work unless there is a tangible benefit that outweighs kill swapping. It never has, and it never will. The majority of the playerbase will not PvP "correctly" if using a creative method yields more rewards. Too bad that won't be happening.

If they really want to fix Ilum, they need to make it work more like Wintergrasp in WoW did. Battles start at set times, it summons each team into the zone and places them on their sides, and then gives each side a set number of respawns so that it can't last forever. Winners get a large bonus to valor, or maybe champ/bm bags, or something, so there is actually incentive to win. I'm pretty sure wow never had any issues with players standing around kill trading, and that's because they didn't implement PvP in the most absolute horrible way possible (granted wow pvp does have a lot of glaring flaws as well). In the meantime, I am absolutely going to pile up and aoe down the enemy faction, trading kills instead of waiting on a 30+ minute queue for a game that may last only 5 min and give about 800 valor.

ahaha no they wouldn't. They would whine for a bit and then do absolutely nothing.

It's actually really fun

I've been trying to figure this out and can't really seem to come up with a good answer. Why do Tionese Crystals exist? At first I thought it was to limit your buying power of the Tionese gear, but you will always have more crystals than commendations, due to how frequently they drop in hard modes. I honestly have no idea why they are even in the game, and why they couldn't just make each boss drop one commendation, and adjust the price of gear accordingly. Has Bioware ever commented on this, or does anyone have a theory as to why they exist?

Oh my god the Operative changes make me so happy

I would really like to add something to this discussion but I cannot even read your posts because of your horrible text color choice.

Really?

PlanetSide was an MMO that had working world PvP!