i recently finished balmorra and came to the conclusion i'd take imperial balmorra over republic taris even if i had crawl from end to end. in fact, the experience only made me loathe taris that much more...speeder or no.
i believe quick travel was always 30 minutes.
as for the cartel market, not gonna lie...i'm into it. it's actually relatively similar to the cash shop in CO, so it's not really anything new to me.
holy humongous speeders and vanity pets, Mykiel!! there's a hutt ball sale on the GTN, and they're going faster than a jawa on speed.
quickly now, to our thrones!!