To the "Nothing to do at 50" crowd.

I bet the thread starter did quit already or started playing alts lol

Dungeons are hard to find groups for because theres no incentive for people to revisit them after the first couple to few times.

I would love to do some Ops / flashpoints but it's impossible on my server since the population is too low, so that finding 4 people takes hours of spam.


Two weeks ago I was able to do flashpoints, and I did them daily, but the population keeps going downhill. Hopefully 1.2 helps, but what we really need are server merges for the "light" tier servers.

lets take a look at OP's list of things to do at 50

hmm

first

number 10.i dont feel like spamming a troll ridden fleet chat for hours,and my guild already has there team of people and im not one of them,so that probably rules out that option

which probably goes the same for 11 and 12 also.so theres 3 things from your list that are off the list of things to do at 50

and space combat? i dont think ive sucessfully completed a space mission since i started them.and these repeatable daily quests,how long do they take,my guess is.they arent good enough time sinks to make up for the other options

i did actually try a space mission again today though.after dieing for the probably 3rd day in a row to the same quest,i got tired of dieing to it and figured id waste time doing pvp and space missions

Agreed after the first week or 2, especially for a PVE player, there is very little to do. Raid once or twice a week and thats it. They need to incentivize more of their content. If hard mode FP's had their own loot, and dropped commendations for a comm vendor with its own loot, those 2 things would go a long way.

I really enjoyed hard mode flashpoints but its hard to justify doing them all the time without any incentive. The same thing is happening with 1.2 the new flashpoint is dropping columi pieces. Rehashing loot into new content is a terrible way to go about things. Any new flashpoints going forward should have their own unique drops. BW thinks that because you can now take all the mods out of epic items that means that they dont need to make much new loot. For experienced players there is no reason beyond checking out the story for them to do the new flashpoint anymore than once, you cant make new content that is solely aimed at fresh 50's while abandoning any 50 whos been 50 for more than a week. I know that currently the new flashpoint is tuned quite hard and people in full rakata where having trouble, which is great, but the rewards should reflect that (and not by just putting rakata in there, thats the current problem with this game the same loot is rehashed into to many different parts of the game, you have too many different places to get the exact same loot)

Its the reason why i hate the implementation of crit crafted epics, it turns epic items into containers for mods and gives BW an excuse to keep using the same loot in new content (for instance the new story mode raid drops rakata and the new flashpoint drops Columi) i like the idea of it, but the implementation is horrible.

although maybe im not the best person to give on the subject of things to do at 50

cuz im sure,they could add in double what they got now and id still be bored.cuz i have no life,but in terms of things to do at 50 in this game,it seems severly lacking with no real hope of getting better anytime soon

unless you like rolling alts,which i mean.the leveling expierance in this game is great,i cant deny that but im sure after a couple of toons lvled to 50 it'll get old

well see

not everyone does things for the only reason to get gear.so maybe some people enjoy those flashpoints(yes,this isnt wow they are called flashpoints,not dungeons)and they do them because they enjoy doing them.not because they got there colored gear and now there done

Agreed flashpoints need to drop commendations for gear that you cant get from 5 other places. Its actually pretty silly, say you where only running hard mode flashpoints by the time you had enough comms from that to buy a piece of columi you will probably already have a full set of columi. Horribly designed progression system.

Most people enjoy mmo's because they like a sense of character progression. Even if people dont realize it, this is the main attraction and why mmo's are so popular, a persistent character to progress.

Sure HM FP's are fun, but that doesnt mean that they shouldnt progress your character, say you have all the gear from them, who wants to spend hours on end looking for groups and running them when there is no incentive in terms of character progression to do so. Even you can admit that content that progresses your character > then content that doesnt.

I am a story-obsessor. I agree with you guys in that there isn't much to do at 50.
Space-I suck at it
Belsavis/Ilum dailies- no point, got my Rakata earpiece and implant
Normal Flashpoints- nobody runs them
Hard Flashpoints- once I knock out the story mission there isn't a point.
Operations- guild's op teams are full
So go out and level a frikin alt people! This is a story based MMO for Pete's sake.