Black Talon is only meant for 2 people. If you're doing it on Story mode, which is where you get the bot, then it's meant to be just that.. Story Mode. Same with most of the solo missions. Some of the other story mode flashpoints are more challenging, but most of them are easy and don't even need the bot. Most of the vanilla story is pretty easy now. Not sure how long you've been gone, but you don't get the challenge like you used to. Some of the newer flashpoints on Veteran mode can be a bit of a challenge, but you're really looking at MM FPs and Vet OPs for the same sort of challenge we used to get. Some MM FPs can still be a biznatch. Once you get to KoTET/FE you can choose your story mode difficulty. Some of the non-vanilla heroics can be a bit nasty still, like a certain one in Black Hole. There's still a few Heroic 4's floating around as well.

Really? Because I run into almost none. The vast majority of problems I encounter are people trying to troll or act the a-hole, just because they can. Even the people that have the problem with the spit emote in this thread don't seem "triggered". The way I read it is that the OP probably had a bad experience with someone trolling and/or harassing them, and their annoyance/anger is just aimed in the wrong direction. It happens to all of us.

There's always been some people that get their knickers in a twist over nothing. I'd hardly say it's many people though, even in this thread where it's like a 5:1 ratio of people who dgaf about the emote.

Well, it's not consistent for me either, but it's getting worse. One day I can log in and no problems. Next day every character gets it at some point. But when it's getting worse than it used to be.

This is the second heroic area that I've gone to today where I cannot actually complete the heroic because of disappearing world. It's not just a small angle, it's an 180 degress in some cases. The first location was in Black Hole, Chasing the Shadow mission. The almost the entire of the second floor was glitched out. The second was Coruscant, Trouble in Deed. The only part of the world that wasn't glitched was from West through to North by North East. It was almost 270 degrees of the view was glitched out and invisible. This really needs to be fixed. This isn't happening on just one character or on any specific graphics setting, nor just in heroics.

The reason I posted what I did was to clarify the situation because you seemed to be conflating a lot of things together and lumping them under inflation. I just snipped your post because I'm used to doing that on other forums.

They're not stealing your RL money. You're thinking of the credits in game as having an inherent value, they don't. The item you sold had the value, the credits are valued based on what people are willing to spend on the items that have real value. Say you buy something that's worth 10$ and the market dictates that it's worth 100cr. Each of those credits is worth 0.1$. If by the taxation of the GTN and various other fees the selling price of that item is now 50cr, then each of those credits is now worth 0.2$. Taking credits out of the system actually increases the value of them, not decreases them. People who are pumping money into the system without it being taken out are the ones who are reducing the value on those credits. As things stand, in a year you'll have lost a ton of value on all the credits you have if inflation continues to rise at a crazy rate.

Those credits that they exchange the CM items for are generated in the game and traded for the CM item. Actually buying the CM item and selling it doesn't generate any more credits, it just shifts it from one player to the other. The generation of the credits, that causes inflation, comes from different sources; Missions, selling items to vendors, etc.

This is an incredibly important think to take note of I think. For as long as I can remember I've seen activity on the GTN that seems to be botting, and I'm convinced it all ties back into the credit sellers.

No offense, but that isn't accurate at all. I started a new character from scratch and by the time they were on Voss they had well over 1M from selling junk, doing some heroics here and there, and doing a handful of FPs on the way. Every mission I'd quick travel back to the nearest point and speeder it, and when I was done with the planet I'd go all the way back to the start if needed (like Hoth, for example). The prices are a bit steep when you very first start, and that definitely needs to be addressed as it can cause problems. But you don't need to play the market and you get more than enough credits to quick travel to the nearest speeder.

The gear inside, my bad for not making that clear. It's not a lot of commendations, but it does trickle in slowly if you're accruing a lot of it. I normally get around about 9-10 after each planet. You should definitely get the commendations on your conquest the moment you level. I tested it just this past week, I frantically got a character to just below 76 before the new conquest came in, did a heroic and it popped over.

I really do wish that one of the biggest ways that they add "difficulty" to this game wasn't by stunning/throwing your character about, from players or NPCs. Like, I get it with a boss, but it just gets frustrating that the biggest difficulty in most content is having your ability to actually play the game interrupted. Give us some big, nasty attack we need to interrupt or avoid, and stop making the enemies recast it faster than we can possibly interrupt, knock-back or circumvent with our own CC. I'd much rather be fighting a group of NPCs where one of them might do this unholy big attack that'll seriously injure me than being immediately stunlocked for 5-10 seconds the nanosecond I enter combat.

I think you need to get one character to 80, and then every character at 76 will get the commendations. Not sure if the 80 character is still needed, but when I popped a character over to 76 (already have 80's), the conquest reward switched to commendations. Also, with regards to getting the commendations, if you deconstruct the gear you get from doing solo content then you'll get commendations out of it. Similarly FP-1 stabilizers from FP gear, and OP-1 Catalysts from Ops gear. Doing a weekly for a planets heroics will give you a green box of gear that'll give commendations when you deconstruct it. You'll also pick them up as random loot in most content, but it's not exactly a sure bet. Edit: Also, don't try to upgrade all your gear at once. Get a blue piece of FP gear that's cheap to upgrade (I chose bracers) and then upgrade it to 336. There's a couple of guys 2 bays over who will give you a quest for deconstructing gear at various item ratings, and once you do that you can buy modification items at that rating. You can buy FP-1 stabilizers from the conquest vendor for 200 commendations a piece, but honestly you don't need to be super geared for anything solo or SM/Vet.

I'd love there to be a reserve option but I can see that being really abused. If there's a big work order and someone reserves it, then that's essentially first come first serve anyway. If that person doesn't complete the order, then the one placing it has just lost out on time waiting for it to be done. Plus, that could easily be manipulated to take an order out of commission, not fulfill it, just so the more expensive ones are sitting at the top of the list. Personally I'd just be happy with work orders. I hate having to mess around with everything I put on the GTN being immediately undercut by 1 credit if it happens to be the lowest price on there. Being able to go to the GTN and just throw stuff into a work order would be pretty awesome.

Interesting because I've noticed the lack of CC on my snipers, along with mercs and PTs, when it comes to PvE. Sniper isn't so bad, because you can build for being CC immune for a large portion of the time but bejasus, the amount I get knocked around on any class other than a knight or a sniper is kinda ridiculous. So much of the game was built around us having the ability to lock down an annoying NPC for a bit, but now that's gone and the gameplay is more annoying than ever. Especially in places like Ruhnuk where you have massive amounts of bullet sponges in one area that also knockback/stun.