The Pioneer Set, which is supposed to give a player a 50% boost when leveling, is not functioning. I checked it in a group of two, three, and four players. It seems that we are leveling at the same pace, and we are getting the same amount of experience points? Can this be fixed? So the players who have the full set can level faster, as they should? Thanks.

A bit outdated reply, but, as things happen in this game regularly, we are going backward as usual! Instead of letting players obtain these as it were, when you could get them randomly from command crates, now we have to grind for them? That's what I did for that Rep! I got it so high, with random command crates drop. I could have avoided them, but as they were there, I was normally using them... Now, I am missing only 1500 for a full Legendary Hyperspace Armada reputation of 30k. But I never played any starfighter missions. Sadly, I do not like any kind of simulations, since I am spending 6-7 hours at my work in a simulator, five days a week! The developers should have left these to be obtained in some similar way? Unfortunately, now you have to do impossible heroics (for which you need hours and hours of starfighter simulation learning, missions studying getting to know them well, then upgrading your ship...) to get a simple rep, which was at some point available in command crates. I have tried to fly some of these missions, two or three times, I get devastated... You really need to spend hours, days, weeks, learning & studying them to be able to pass the easier ones... "Feels bad man"!

It seems that my cousin can get in, from his ThinkPad. Sadly he's the only one in the game in the Fleet, (his small shortcut "who" window is always at number 1 - no other players at all) or any planet he visits. There's literally no one else anywhere. Cheers

This is truly one of the best ideas I have read on this forum, and since I posted, I read all of them. I totally agree with you here There should be more targets weekly, every week for that matter.That would really give a chance to the number of small/medium guilds, and many more players would be down with this. Thanks for posting this and mentioning it I just hope they will consider this seriously and give us all the chance

It seems that when everything was great for a single solo player, someone had the need to change that and try to force a single player (who just want to play his/her game with a friend/family member in a group doing some Heroics/FP's) to quit Conquest completely or join some multiplayer PuG's for OP's to get that 100k points. In the two guilds, I am in, (Rep.level 64 - Imp.level 171 more or less, I don't remember the exact number) we never - ever played any Operations/PvP together. Not because we didn't want to do them, but there was always something missing. Missing players for the full 8/16 party, some of the players didn't want to do the OP's without headphones, others were busy grinding Heroics for a couple of alt's they have, so they can get that precious gear, and maybe one day enjoy OP's and some PvP, in full 306 gear? We are a tight community, not a lot of people in the two guilds, but we are very friendly. We consider our small private SWTOR guild playground as a true gaming family, and we are really proud of that fact. Now, with new updates and cut to the Conquest numbers, a lot of us will have to grind the Conquest, again, as we did before a couple of years back, since no one wants to play PuG OP's or even try the PvP Ranked, with so much hate and poison in them games! With a small guild, you cannot go for the stars and climb the ladder, dreaming of conquering the planet, any planet, but that's perfectly okay. That is the small price to pay if you want to stay true to your game, chose quality of players over quantity in numbers, and be happy having just pure old fun while doing any content with the people you love and respect. Instead of changing something in those numbers, giving small/active guilds a chance to raise the bar and be competitive, with this cut in Heroics, it will only get grindy and tedious to do any number and/or repeat them for much less amount of points than before. This will turn so many solo players off the board, but hey, nothing can be done about it now, they are applying the new numbers, materials... Once again, some of us just have to "hush up, and take it", or give it all up and leave.

It seems that it is down, I am getting the same error also with 312, which maybe means it is not up?

As I am using this forum for the first time, I regretfully feel like the Man of La Mancha since my crusade always ends up with broken wind-mills, a couple of bruises, broken hearts, and immense sadness. My campaign to reintroduce the Reverse Engineering/Deconstruction schematic of an "Advanced Purple Crystal" into the game has once more caught a severe cold. After I tried contacting the Customer Service numerous times and rewriting tickets, they finally (a year ago) told me to post my suggestion/request onto this forum. As I understand, there is a definite way to get this crystal by participating in the Arena. But, that is not the same as having a genuine ability to Deconstruct the Operation drop crystal (which once were the case) or get the schematic possibility and be able to make one yourself? The worst thing is, some players, who were lucky to be in the game before the changes took place, still have the specific schematic, and not just this one, but a variety of them, Black Purple, Black Red, Black Blue. Now, years after fighting the wind-mills I have decided to stock up with the crystals of these specific colors, which cost me some tens of millions (I wanted them on every character I have, and I have a lot of toons). I don't want to sound like a sniveling grumbler when I say I want them! And "It's not fair" that some players have them and some don't. There's a lot of things in this game that not all of us can have, like items which were earned by just being a subscriber at a specific time, but this is not the case with the crystals, since they were available to everyone at some point. I am hoping that someone can give us any clue about these "Precious Ones"? In my guild the players are very interested to know if they will ever have the chance to craft them again for personal use? Not to mention the fact that anytime someone starts any conversation about them, a lot of players cue in with more questions than answers? Because no one knows the reason, why were these Crystals rescinded from the game, and why the Operation bosses, foes/mobs aren't dropping them anymore? Personally, I would be immensely grateful for any kind of answer here. I am a bit tired ridding with Don Quijote on this one, but if someone has a plan to put them back in the game? I mean, for some of us, that would be, for lack of the better word "Marvelous"

This is all very clear and their naming policy is sturdy here, but implementation is very different. There are some new guild names, which are overstepping the naming policy in extreme. Mentioning some serious subjects like the Holocaust, then some Sexual explicit content and no one is doing anything about it? These guilds thrive and are subject to very serious debates and argue in the Fleet or any other place wherever they rear its ugly head, and no one is doing anything about it? I recently join one of the above-mentioned guilds, just to check if the name is real, and it sure is, membership, planet conquest, it's all there, but the name is extremely hurtful and extreme. I just hope they will do something about that because guild which name is denying the Holocaust is not good!

Does anyone know where to obtain "Premium Woven Syntex" Luxury Fabric-11? With the exception of the GTN and Jawa Scrap. Thanks

I do not know if this can be a legitimate bug, but, it seems that I cannot exchange the "Complete Bounty Contracts", at the BBA Aquisition Officer in the Cartel Baazar, for gear at all? I have a Legendary status with the Bounty Brokers Association, I wanted to get a nice cowboy looking hat, for three of the contracts, but I just cannot do anything, I have contracts in my inventory, but the vendor just won't accept it. Does anyone know about this, I search the forums before posting, the last message I found was from 2015.

I use the same exact system of playing, only I play like that with my son. Sometimes it is easier for me to follow him since he is extremely fast.

I did not read all the thread, so if there is the same bug posted, it is happening again. Command "Follow Player" in the regular (not Operation) group does not work again. At some point yesterday it was operating, but now it is bugged again. Simply the character doesn't follow the order given to follow another player in the group.

Is there any chance or maybe ongoing discussion amongst the developers, to add some or any (even-1) amount of Gear Crystals or any kind of high-end gear materials etc, by finishing weekly missions like - Section-X, Black Hole, CZ-198, Ziost... for the first time on week basis of course, like we have a specific amount of Command points now? In my opinion, that would bring a lot of players to the worlds which are now a bit lonely and deserted. Ossus is the only one where you get that high-end gear. Reviving all of the above-mentioned planets can be really exciting and would definitely bring more players, for the crystal hunt. That would also immensely influence all gameplay on that specific planets. Like, nowadays very hard or even impossible to get, PvP achievements. If not a member of a very large guild, which may or not may be interested in doing any of them, like for example CZ198 - 1980 kills...etc? I just hope you will reconsider this option? I love doing these dailies, on all the planets, especially devastated Ziost and lush Section-X, for me all of them are really marvelously built.

Thank you very much CrazyScruffy, for your answer. I am grateful that you actually contacted a person of matter in this issue. As you have said, we all hope this matter will resolve in some near future

Thank you all for your answers, suggestions, and info. I will definitely buy a whole lot of them from the EC - Vendor, or again from GTN, since that is all I can do without the schematic to craft them myself.