It's all free now, just to clarify.

I haven't found anyway to get this repub side, so I would love it coming back in some form as well.

Technically, thats already doable actually. Anyhow, the one thing EAWare actually seems pretty good at is catching botters(space missions.anyhow).

There should be some green recipes you can make, you can learn the new stuff at 410.

I'm still in love with the IA set. Now if I could just get that white version somehow....

This actually sounds about right, except for PT/Vangs possibly being a tad on the weak side dps wise.

Current biochem reusables have lower stats than their blue equivalents.

Just to note, new medpack does not give 15% max hp, and new Tank adrenal gives shield/absorb So you might actually want to continue using the old rakata medpac/adrenal if you are a tank.

not yet, so for now rakata medpac is better imo.

The engine does indeed suck, though. Theres a reason its so rarely used in any major mmo.

While I for one would not be able to accept a permanent alliance(like thats going to happen ) This could be fun!

To extend this, you can put bound mods into legacy items, and then mail those over.

You can pretty much already do this actually. You can sell cartel packs / costumes, and if you ask around in chat you'll likely find someone rich enough to constantly buy off you if you want. 60$ for 500k would actually be a terrible rate on my server for example, since selling cartel packs would get you way way way more than that. Items you buy off the cartel market are bound to you for 36 hours, after which if you havent bound them to you by using them you can put them up on the gtn. Also sending your crew out on gathering missions can be a very safe source of materials. The easiest I can think of would be to take slicing for the Purple Tech parts which sell well, and Possibly Underworld trading/Diplomacy for your mission skill, and fill in with whatever gathering skill you wish for your third slot.(This is assuming you don't want to craft, of course).

This is typically my experience, as long as the group knows how to play their classes decently, you can generally just wing it.

There are already non ops/smugglers in this very thread saying they feel its fine, making sweeping statements like that doesn't help your case any. As of now, I don't believe we've seen any relevant footage showing that scamper is as broken as it is being claimed, the only video I've seen in the thread was already pretty much discredited.