Concerns About Players Being Suspended

That is so wrong. The purpose of legacy gear was always to send over bound mods/hilts/barrels/armorings/enhancements to your alts. Else it would be useless. No one is using the gear cause it looks awesome. (Maybe except of the Gree sabers).

What I did the past months is an exploit as well in your opinion then?

I bought 2 level 10 crystals (+41 stats) from the CM and used it on a toon I leveled up. Once I was done with that char and wanted to level up another one, I sent over the 2 crystals to that one instead of buying another pack of 2 crystals. Every player who has legacy weapons did that. It is a feature that is working as intended.

Now all of a sudden they mark their own feature as an exploit. As I do agree that white crystals shouldn't be spammed and lose it's rare status, you can't ban players just because they use an ingame feature that's working as intended. The failure on this is 100% up to BW, not the players and banning them is the worst action they could take about it.

But lately I am not wondered anymore....

They changed mechanics.

Prior to 2.1 -- you couldn't duplicate any items.
2.1 introduced Collections -- the entire point is to duplicate items on ONE character.
If you want to have those same items available on other toons, you HAVE to pay a CC fee.

People are using an exploit to get AROUND the CC requirement. It is fairly obvious that this wasn't possible Pre-2.1 -- and the feature that allows it added in 2.1 was built around having you pay CCs to "unlock" it.

what i said was perhaps unclear and you're comment doesn't actually address what i intended to communicate (could be my bad).

i don't think the ban was for transferring a crystal from a main to an alt, bypassing the CC requirement of the collections unlock. i think the ban was a mistake, where maybe some people who should be banned were, but also a lot of people who should not have been banned were caught in an overly-wide net.

transferring a crystal to an alt may not be intended, but banning someone for that is a bit excessive. i don't think people are going to be banned for that today or in the near future. it's probably unintended, and they may change the mechanic that makes that possible in the future. or they may not. i don't know.

i don't think the ban was for transferring a crystal from a main to an alt, bypassing the CC requirement of the collections unlock. i think the ban was a mistake, where maybe some people who should be banned were, but also a lot of people who should not have been banned were caught in an overly-wide net.

so anyway, after reading about this from outside sources, i'm pretty convinced the issue has nothing to do with transferring to your toons. if you have an exploit that is limited in nature to the characters of a given account on a single server, it's not really an exploit. you should be able to go ahead and transfer crystals to alts until they change the mechanics. a lot of people were banned because of a mistake.

that's just my opinion and i'm anxiously awaiting a real dev response to clarify.

Shells or not.. the point is the armor was designed to be transfered to other characters in your legacy for other uses.

Now.. about those mods...... please show me one instance of a bind to legacy mod in the game. That would invalidate my statement and validate yours all in one simple transaction.

Until you can provide me with definitive proof that mods were ever meant to be legacy movable, I'll stand by my statement that Bioware implemented moddable legacy gear with a loophole in it that allowed players to take character bound mods (look at the mod.. it says "bound") and move them around. Unintended by design, but a loophole in the design that they never closed.

The fact that people like yourself see no value in a legacy armor or weapon shell other then to use it to move bound mods around your legacy simply demonstrates two things: 1) legacy shells were poorly designed to begin with (and since they predate adaptive armor.. they are antiques) 2) legacy shells were poorly designed to begin with (because they contained a loophole in the bind to character mechanics of mods in the game).

Yep.. legacy gear was poorly designed on multiple levels. But I am sure you disagree, being as they provide you a method to move bound mods around.

Umm, what? The only thing you can use legacy gear for IS mods, armorings, enhancements, hilts, and barrels. So your whole post makes no sense. If the mods I am putting in the legacy gear aren't bound to me already, then why do I need the gear to pass it? Please explain.

The difference is that you BOUGHT those two crystals and did not just create FREE copies and send the FREE copies to your alts in an attempt to dodge the CC cost to purchase the collections unlock which would have enabled you to create copies on your alts.

Shells or not.. the point is the armor was designed to be transfered to other characters in your legacy for other uses.

Now.. about those mods...... please show me one instance of a bind to legacy mod in the game. That would invalidate my statement and validate yours all in one simple transaction.

Until you can provide me with definitive proof that mods were ever meant to be legacy movable, I'll stand by my statement that Bioware implemented moddable legacy gear with a loophole in it that allowed players to take character bound mods (look at the mod.. it says "bound") and move them around. Unintended by design, but a loophole in the design that they never closed.

The fact that people like yourself see no value in a legacy armor or weapon shell other then to use it to move bound mods around your legacy simply demonstrates two things: 1) legacy shells were poorly designed to begin with (and since they predate adaptive armor.. they are antiques) 2) legacy shells were poorly designed to begin with (because they contained a loophole in the bind to character mechanics of mods in the game).

Yep.. legacy gear was poorly designed on multiple levels. But I am sure you disagree, being as they provide you a method to move bound mods around.

The big irony in the entire discussion here is.. lookie.. lookie...me criticizing something Bioware did (and it's consequences in the new patch) and all the foam at the mouth people who attack me for "only ever defending Bioware on everything" are probably stunned to silence.