I’d have to go through weeks of YouTube history to find the video. Not gonna do it. It’s right at the front though, see her face plain as day. Anything involved with those last three movies, the actors, or anything of the like I’m not touching. Instant turn off.

Wow….8 very long pages. So started playing SWTOR at launch. Heck…it was the first game I got to take part in the Beta. I was so STOKED! I loved it. Then launch came, and it was so new to everyone. Made friends, started a guild! Had some really solid members, and about 20-30 members. Not big, but we all had fun. Then….server mergers. Lost my guild, lost my friends had to make new friends. Found an old high school buddy that was playing, he was of course on a different server. Had to pay to move my main characters over to another server. He and his wife were in a guild, invited me in, and that’s when the problems started. There guild members were…easily offended. We didn’t mesh well, they weren’t like my old guildies. It stopped being fun. I quit….for five years. So I’ve been back for about 2-3 weeks. I find myself gathering materials, trying to craft better gear for my newer characters…but now I have to make bonded attachments. I don’t have access to all of my skills because now we have presets that they want us to use, and each of those presets only allows you to use the skills they think you need for those presets. Tons of inflation. No friends. New guild….I almost never see anyone from the guild on anymore. I’ve read 8 pages of complaints that don’t make me feel any better about the state of the game. I’ll probably stick around to do some of the new expansion stuff, if I can get geared up enough to do it, but…..after that I don’t know.

Yeah, like I said I spent a full day gathering those power tubes, and I probably sold maybe 4-500 total. And I was sitting there on the couch doing nothing but that, and during wait times playing my guitar. But you know….the GTN’s not a problem that’s adding to inflation. That’s what I was told over there on the inflation problem thread. It’s only the amount credits in circulation that’s the problem. 🤷‍♂️

Hmmm….9999 of any material seems to me would be a rather difficult task to achieve. Especially on a daily basis. I was selling stacks of 100, 157, etc…of power tubes not that long ago. I spent a whole day running material missions and putting them up on the GTN. I was selling them well below market value, because well….I was still making a profit at that price point. Plus it was my way of saying, “The prices are two high!”. But hell if I could get my companions to gather materials fast enough to gather 9999 of anything I’d be selling the piss out of them. Lol! I got characters that need gear man!

I saw Ray, or Rey, or however you spell her name, in one of the cut scenes. Be a hard pass for me.

Well…I have read to page 17. I don’t think I’m confused. Regardless of the amount of credits generated in the game, ALL of the items sold at vendors are sold at a set price! Almost none of them that I have seen from an in game vendor are millions, and billions of credits! The GTN on the other hand…..insane! So before you start getting nasty, and smart mouthed, and getting all up on your, “I’m smarter than you, everyone else on here is smarter than you, I’m not explaining it again, your stupid”, high horse. Understand, I have read quite a bit, and quite enough, and I disagree that the inflation problem is strictly and solely because there are too many credits in circulation. The prices on the GTN are a PROBLEM! Which is directly related to how time consuming it is to gather materials. Now, just because you’ve made and are making billions of credits on the GTN, doesn’t change the fact, that it’s a problem.

What about a Samurai style outfit? A hakama style bottom on the robes, and ronin style hat of some type, that doesn’t cover your characters face. I think it could be pretty cool.

Wouldn’t they though? If you are selling on the GTN, regardless of how long it takes wouldn’t you still be able to become a billionaire? If all you’re doing is trying to make cred’s, couldn’t you get pretty rich doing it? I mean….the prices on the Legacy stuff is still the same as it was five years ago, to my memory. Most of the third level and up stuff was into the 100k’s plus mark. And…I saw the same stuff being sold at the security key vendor as there was five years ago. Exact same stuff. I mean…..maybe there are too many credits being generated, but the materials gathering, and the special currencies for some materials is a problem as well.

The amount of credits being generated in the game isn’t as much of a problem, as the demand for certain items. If they were easy to get, you couldn’t charge millions and billions of credits, because there wouldn’t be as high of a demand. Thus the prices would not be as high. The circulating supply isn’t the problem, it’s a supply and demand problem.

No of course not, why would it? Cause nobody is charging 100’s of millions of credits, even billions of credits for materials. That wouldn’t be a reason at all.

Well Ramahar, I didn’t read through all 21 pages…but about 10-15 of them or so, and all of those posts I saw nothing about crafting.

So I have sat here and read quite a few posts. I see many, many veteran players giving their feedback. I may have a unique opinion on the subject, as I took about a five year break from this game and have only recently returned within the past two or three weeks. I must say, I was very shocked at the prices of items on the GTN. I did not remember people selling items in the hundreds of millions of credits. From my perspective, it seems like crafting, and materials gathering is a bigger culprit to the rise of inflation in the game than anything else. I’ve also noticed while chatting with others in game that most people just aren’t interested in doing it. It’s definitely cheaper to make your own gear, but then there’s of course crafting items as you go higher up in level that can only be gotten by doing certain missions, and then only if you win the roll for them, and of course they are only available in sixteen man operations. Then there’s items that require special currencies to get, and the game doesn’t tell you how you go about getting those special in-game currencies. So of course people that are in good guilds or have good in game friends that run operations, or know how to get those special currencies are going to farm those things because they can, and should. However, that’s going to push the value of those items higher and higher. Because like all things money related of any type, it’s all about supply and demand. The demand is high, and the supply hard to get. If you make it more lucrative for people to farm there own materials and craft their own gear, the cost will go down. I spent two weeks trying to get enough nova crystals to make three color crystals, and was forced to buy some because my companions were not getting them on their missions. Cost me a couple of million credits, I would not have had, had I not a) been selling a mad amount of power tubes, and b) joined a guild where one of the members just out of blue offered to give me 60million credits. When I returned to the game my most wealthy character only had about 750k, which five years ago, wasn’t too bad, but now it’s literally chump change. At that time I wasn’t big on the crafting, and making gear, I’d just pretty much buy what I needed, because even back then, it was just a pain in the ass to craft, and gather materials. It’s all RNG, so it’s all random, but invariably the higher item crafting materials then and now, are just a pain to gather. Nobody but extremely dedicated people have any desire to to spend that kind of time. It takes away from your actual play time. Of course some people really enjoy that aspect, I just have never been one, however, when it’s millions and billions of credits to for a single armoring, or augment, or enhancement of purple quality I’d rather make my own. I can’t though, because I can’t gather the materials to do it. I think, more players would start, and would start crafting and gathering their own materials to build their own gear, if it was timely, and cost effective to do so. That by necessity would cause the market to lower its prices. If I can spend 10k on a mission to get the materials I need, why would I give Johnny Joe Blow Skywalker a million credits for 5 materials I can get for 10k, and 20 minutes of waiting on a companion? I wouldn’t. But it’s not, it’s weeks sometimes to get the amount of materials needed for crafting sometimes. Some materials I can’t even get because I have no one run with. That’s your problem. It’s not the quick travel, or priority travel, which after I just spent thousands of credits to upgrade all of that, I’m not going to be happy having to pay to do it. Do you know how much more convenient it is to be able to fast travel anywhere close to where your mission turn in is, than to have traverse the entire planet back? The amount of time I have saved with ship transport is unreal. Why I didn’t get it five years ago is beyond me….wait no it’s not, because those legacy items were so expensive back then I couldn’t afford them. Anyways that’s my take on it. Make gathering materials easier, so people will want to craft their own gear, and the inflation will go down.

I just would like to know why I get an error message every time I go to the store to purchase the SOR expansion....did you guys sell all of them that you wanted to or....are you just not going to fix the error page so we can buy the expansion? Just...just asking...

Personally I think it's the Galaxies fans that are destroying this game personally. I haven't played in over a year. I loved it when it first came out...and it's just gone down, down, down....only on now because friend started playing, but if it sucks as bad as the last time I played....I'll take my sub with me and bounce again.

Yeah I have to agree with what most of the others are saying. I have a level 50 sent that I played all of the trees with and finally ended up choosing the watchmen tree. However...I have a 55 guardian on another server, and missed playing a sent so I have started over again, and have a 27 sentinel now, and I am running in the Combat Tree. Where as before I was unable to really do a good job with the combat tree, now I find that I enjoy it quite a bit. The real major thing that I notice about Combat, is....it really feels like it's ALOT of damage now! Not over a time period. Whereas in the Watchmen Tree it always felt like I was always working on getting cauterize going, with the Combat tree I don't really feel like it's that critical. I use it still, but it just doesn't feel like it's a main staple of this tree. You get some advantages with the combat tree that you don't get with the Watchmen, such as dual wield mastery, and as well, stances are there for a reason. If I need the healing affects of cauterize, I simply switch into my Juyo stance, bust zen and hit cauterize and I get that healing affect, just as if I was in the Watchmen tree. Is it as effective? I don't believe so, but some healing beats no healing. If I feel like I need to be really more guarded, I might use the Shi-Cho stance, or if I want that extra random strike I get from the combat tree, I will pop the Ataru stance. It just for me it feels like you just kill stuff so much faster in the Combat Tree. Of course the watchmen tree does have one thing I love more than any other skill, and that's the 0 meter force leap. It comes in handy. Force leap is a, (at least for me), huge focus builder. So being able to utilize that at just about any range really keeps you banging away at the bad guys. So keep in mind what is really unique about Star Wars is that a lot this game depends on your personal play style. When this game first launched a lot of sents were talking about going might armoring, and crit for everything, and they were doing really, really well. I was struggling BIG TIME! I switched to the Guardian Armoring for the added endurance and went strength and crit with my mods and enhancements, and for me that worked really well. I was able to survive long enough that I could kill the bad guys. Now after having played the guardian class as well, I find that I don't need that guardian armoring anymore, and can run more like everyone else, and I am seeing a real change in the amount of damage I am doing now as opposed to then. So your style play is going to have a huge influence on what tree you spec, how you gear....everything really. Just experiment with them. I used to play with a guy who went Focus, and ripped everything up. Saw him take a boss that was 4 levels above him, and he did it before I could get there and help out. Guy was amazing. So it really doesn't matter what tree, it just matters how good you are with it.