I agree with the initial post on deceptive concept. This is a thoughtful post. You are correct that sending your crew for a skill does require lot of resource (credit). Crew skills from level five above each of the crew skill requires at least 1k credit. However, reward is not guarantte though. Seomtimes you may fail or result in less reward. I do understand changes have to be made as the game progress but I don't feel the dev is paying much attention to the community. Whenever there is heavy load of QQ going on, they look into it. Then they launch their nerfing attacks. Seriously, I am hoping this game will not turn into a nerfing fest like others mmo. I noticed one thing. Ever since the slicing got nerfed to the ground, players willingness to shop on GTN becomes less. I usually put some item on GTN each night. I noticed there is a decrease in sales compares to weeks ago. And some of the players i met in the game become less active. I talked to them. They were upset about all those creepy stealth nerf for no reason. They were afraid of this kind of attitude happening in the future. I really hope BW does pay close attention to the community. And seriously run some testing before any actions.