Time to merge the US servers... again. Primetime window getting smaller and smaller.

Except it doesn't? UCs are end game rewards for completing content, including PvP. That's where you need them, not before. If you have to start considering incentivizing lowbie PvP by giving out end game rewards for participation, it might be time to just shut it down instead. It will not have the effect you think it will. What will happen is people will just quit. It's insult to injury to those that stuck out wave after wave of nerfs to turn around and find that people are getting end game rewards at level 10, for just showing up for lowbie PvP.

Except it doesn't? UCs are end game rewards for completing content, including PvP. That's where you need them, not before. If you have to start considering incentivizing lowbie PvP by giving out end game rewards for participation, it might be time to just shut it down instead. It will not have the effect you think it will. What will happen is people will just quit. It's insult to injury to those that stuck out wave after wave of nerfs to turn around and find that people are getting end game rewards at level 10, for just showing up for lowbie PvP.

Actually, you couldn’t use the pvp Comms till max lvl either and the gear was always 1-2-3 lvls lower than the max gear operations guys could get, so the gear was crap for anything other than story.
It was only useful for pvp or OWPVP.
PVP Comms could be used for gear at lvl 70 or for medpacks from lvl 10.
From lvl 10 and lvl 64, pvpers had to wear pve gear that they had to farm or buy for their lvl. Bolster didn’t work as hard to give everyone the same gear lvl like it does now in pvp.
In pvp today, you can literally wear lvl 10 gear at lvl 69 in pvp and hardly lose any stats.

One idea I thought of is they make UCs a pvp currency only.
1. Allow pvpers to collect them in lowbies and Mids
2. Have 2 pvp gear lvls 244 and 248 (cap it at 248). Gear under this remains pve and bolsters to 242.
3. Reintroduce expertise and reorganise some stats in pvp gear, ie remove some accuracy (not needed as much in pvp by some classes and not needed at all by others). This will make it less affective in pve.
4. Make expertise a main pvp stat again so that higher lvl pve gear isn’t as good in pvp as the 248 pvp gear
5. Make command Comms for pve gear and don’t require UCs to buy the pve gear.

AKA, similar to the old gearing system.

This system keeps pvp and pve gear seperate. It allows pvers and pvpers to have their own currency for gear. The higher tier pve geared players won’t have a gear advantage in pvp and the pvp gear won’t be BiS for end game pve content.

It’s a win - win for both communities, importantly, it’s fair for everyone

Edit: command tokens could be added from lvl 10 as rewards at differring amounts for different content and scaled for the character lvl. Both pve and pvp. This could include conquest as well.

I guess you missed my post on how to make that work.

Nope, I didn't miss it. If they liked the old system so much, they should have just stayed with it, instead of spending all that time and money going through all these changes, only to revert them. There are a lot of other things I'd rather see them roll back than a gear system, like making some of the specs they broke in the name of balance viable in PvE again. Concession after concession has been made in the name of getting more people involved in PvP, including gating companions behind it, and it's not working, apparently. Since it's not working, maybe it's time to see if those dollars wouldn't be spent better somewhere else.

"I don't want them to revert this system they changed because time effort and money, but I want them to revert this other this other system no matter the time effort and money"
Ok mate.

Maybe we should start promoting this option to the Devs before they get too far into the development of the new gearing system.

Would you care to take a shot at making a thread? I think if I do it, I might attract too many haters.

The lack of real expansions and sluggish content update cadences have really hurt this game in the long run. Satele Shan is dying. Primetime window gets smaller and smaller and ranked PvP won't pop generally until it's almost ET evening hours. Even SF is very quiet until ET evening hours.

This is also another Shadowlands vs. Jedi Covenent situation. Two same servers competing for the exact same demographic. There is no reason to have 2 separate servers keeping the vast majority who do the same things away from each other.

I think the reasoning that keeping 2 servers due to "technical limitations" is a cop out, too. This game has bled out so much of its population that it frankly only needs 1 server, and you guys certainly have the hardware and knowledge to maintain that for the rest who play this game on a regular basis. The server won't be overbloated, that's for sure.

Please merge the servers. You're doing what little players remain a disservice by not doing so.

I feel like it is pretty well known that I hate PvP so anything I might say supporting it would be suspect. But if a thread is created by someone else I would be glad to support it.

"I don't want them to revert this system they changed because time effort and money, but I want them to revert this other this other system no matter the time effort and money"
Ok mate.

I have heard this merge thing before that Sony Entertainment got caught up from those post thread pushing server merge and didn't work. Sony Entertainment had rebels to cause fail Star Wars Galaxies. Rebels from Sony Entertainment could be working on messing up this game and they don't need to be inside this company.