This is not accurate at all. The lockbox mission from Slicing, when it crits, can give you 3 lockboxes plus a special mission. And farming slicing nodes is not bad at all, I just did a circuit doing slicing nodes and got 20 k from it, and didnt took more than 5 minutes. For other servers that might not be much, but in Shae Vizla is a lot if you consider that some people are using bots to do both. Nobody is talking about PVP so dont bring that into this topic.

If the bots are farming slicing nodes, for example, thats money that get into the system, and causes inflation. It all depends on how the bot user configures them, but either way, farming nodes or sending missions out, is an unfair advantage over the common player and should be banned regardless

I feel you. I think the new GTN system does nothing but make the game worse.

They doing it in lowbies. 11-44, taking gear off and letting the other team win. They farm conquest/PVP seasons this way. It would be nice to hear from Jackie or a Mod about this, since it has been reported multiple times.

December 2022 and still broken. Id be nice to have some kind of answer for the devs. I read the whole topic, which covers a couple of years, there is literally no answer for any dev. Just incredible

Big and friendly revamp LMAO.

Imagine thinking that a leaderboards in the current PVP conditions would mean anything lmao. Premades of 8 are facerolling all solo players. Good job, Bioware.

This is probably the only comment I have read here appart of the "Im glad you ranked scum are quitting" that actually has a valid point. And I trully believe it was a design issue. Ranked didnt pop "all the time", meaning ranked players that wanted to pvp while they were waiting for "ranked time" were forced to do regs. If Bioware would have implemented the option to queue 4 v 4 arenas only for regular warzones without taking out ranked, I assure you most of the "damage farmers" wouldnt queue for 8 v 8 anymore. But oh well, lets remove ranked and lets give the option to do a full premade now to go against solo players in arenas!!! or full premade of damage farmers to go vs solo people! To be honest, the whole PVP mess happening nowdays is pure design issue, and Bioware is making it even worse with this PVP revamp nonsense.

One thing about your comment. Most of the people that "wintraded", did it in group ranked. And guess what? Most of them are PVErs that are part of big guilds. I could post videos I sent to Bioware here, but Id get me banned instead of them doing the job done. I reported them over and over again, and nothing happened. So what you saying, which I agree with about the wintrading part is, again, not playerbase exclusive issue, is devs ignoring the reports. I dont know how many times you need people to tell you that Bioware ignored ALL the reports. You also repeat that nonsense of the toxic behavior. The whole game toxicity has one responsible, and is the moderators. If a game has no moderation, this is the result. And there is no part of the game that is not getting hurt by this lack of moderation. If you want to close your eyes and say that only in ranked this kind of toxicity is present...idk what to say lol. I did ranked for mmm 8 years? and I never experienced toxicity there as bad as in regular warzones and NiM operations. But is okay, some people need to be cheering that ranked pvpers are leaving, cause they are over their skill, so this way those guys cab feel they are improving in game, I guess, since the competition will be lower 😜

Thats not the reason they are losing players. Final Fantasy 14 is as old as SWTOR, and yet they managed to grow a lot in these years, meanwhile SWTOR has been doing nothing but losing players. The key there is how much effort devs from both games are putting into the game. Thats the real difference. They could keep the ranked system while doing their revamp. There was literally no problem to keep both systems at all. You can incentive new players/pvers into PVP while keeping the competitive mode. There was literally no reason to remove it, appart of the "Oh god, is too much work" part.

Some things that come to my mind with this: - How are you going to create a positive enviroment in PVP? You could have said wintrading was an issue before. What prevents big conquest guild to keep doing two teams between guildies and taking gear off to "make the match end faster" and be rewarded cause of it? You dont see the issue here? This wintrading issue wasnt exclusively a ranked problem. Is a moderation issue related with the entire PVP system. People afking in GSF, not doing any damage and selfdestructing to be "active" again and, therefore, cant be kicked. People afking in PVP and get the same rewards that people really trying to win a match. Big guilds letting their other groups win to get extra conquest and fastest PVP seasons tokens. Does this sounds to you like a positive enviroment? Or a positive experience? The issue with PVP has been for a really long LACK OF MODERATION. And this isnt exclusively related with ranked. -You said you want to increase PVP participation. Getting rid of ranked players is not going to increase it. Many FTP players will be able to do regular warzones now, which is fine, and will increase endgame participation, but this idea could have been perfectly aplicable keeping ranked. You guys make zero sense here on what you want and what you are doing. -The incentives to increase PVP participation, again, could have been perfectly used by keeping ranked. Like people already stated, conquest leaderboards also conduct to cheating. Some guilds have agreement to not invade the same planets to make sure they will conquest it. Other guilds do wintrading in ranked to get the more possible points they can to achieve their conquest - and nothing will change for their "wintrade" to do the same behavior (taking their gear off) in the new regular arenas for conquest. Or just AFK Galactic Starfighter matches to get their conquest! Does this sound like positive enviroment to you, Eric? Im telling this to prove that the state of PVP isnt particular ranked problem. This is a system issue, coming from the zero moderation you guys are putting into it. You claimed ranked requires too much moderation and sometimes it was spam reports that requires too much resources. Eric, with all the respect here, I sent videos that were NEVER WATCHED. Either GSF afkers, ranked throwers....How can you say you are investing resources when nothing has been done for the longest time? Again, sorry I repeat myself: This IS NOT specific content issue. Is you guys not policing your own game IN ANY ASPECT OF IT. Removing content is just a terrible idea, and it shows you guys dont see what the problem is. Is trying to deny all responsability on the lack of actions and effort you are putting into the game, and make it appear like "is the players responsability. Shame on them". But, to be honest, anybody can see what the reality is here. You just stopped caring about the game.

Great way to insult the PVP players. If I was told a year ago that these are the "big changes" that were about to come with the PVP Revamp, I couldnt have believed it. This is not only insulting, but also dissapointing. Yea, lets make all rewards you sweat for available for everybody doing no effort, even if it takes go away from the keyboard all the pvp season track, and be rewarded for!!! Or just play against your guildies in arena matches, q sync and use the same method that they did to wintrade mats!!! Amazing healthy community you guys are building.

Another thing that is in my mind: There were many conquest guild organizing events to "farm ranked tokens" or "farm conquest" by doing group ranked. They just made two teams, went against each other all the time, taking "turns" on losing. Some of them just /stuck. Others, who were worried of being banned doing that, decided to take their gear off, inside the arenas. This behavior, which was some time ago banned -against the rules because of wintrade- will be now allowed. With the removal of ranked, it wont such thing as "ooooh big guilds wintrading in regs", therefore this behavior will be now "legal". Is it healthy to validate it? Those big guilds not even didnt get banned, but now all what they did, which was against the rules, is allowed. "Did you guys get a pop?" "No" "Oh lets leave queue". Lets queue again. I dont see how this new system will do anything good to PVP. You guys dont see how much damage you are doing to the PVP community with these changes.

Thanks for unlocking this thread again. I couldnt comment some of the messages. Through some gears people have complained here in forums how the matchmaking doesnt work propperly. You can be queing for pvp solo and face a premade in an arena match. Or the other team could have one healer and one tank, meanwhile your team doesnt have any. These issues were one of the reasons I personally got into ranked, appart of the will to learn and improve. These issues were kinda solved in ranked. If you want to queue solo, you can totally do it against seven others with the same composition of roles. If you queue groupped, normally they had one tank one heal and two dps. That content wont be possible to find in any aspect of the new pvp system, according to the information released so far, and that can make people tired of it. I think we all here want the best for the game, not because you disagree with me means you are the bad guy. But if you dont played that content before, there is no reason for you to ask for the removal of it. For the people that think only a few players did ranked, I suggest to check on the leaderboards how many people participated of it during the season. It wasnt just a "few". And like I said, that content is now gone. There are less reasons for the people to stay and try to improve, if you can get the same rewards doing nothing and yet getting the same rewards that people hard trying. We have complained for years that we want more endgame content. Ranked was endgame content. NiM Ops are endgame content. It just doesnt make sense to remove that kind of content, and replace it for a grindy system that forces you to repeat some activities to get rewarded for. That isnt new content, and I think the playerbase deserves better than that.

Again, you keep calling it "merge" when I have explained you three times this is a removal of content with arguments...If you have just one minute, you could read what I posted above explaining that the content called ranked -doesnt matter if you want to call it ranked anymore, we can call it simply "balanced arenas" or "same role ones"- are going to be REMOVED. No such thing of matchmaking balance in regular arenas anymore. And explain to me how is that a "merge".