It hasn't escaped my notice that they're no longer in the Cartel Market. Frankly, I think the reasoning is stupid as it's not BioWare's fault if players are too dense and/or lazy to read the tooltip which could clearly state that these items are not for Galactic Starfighter.
But that's not what this post is about. I noticed recently that the grade 7 Starship parts are collections items. ... And despite my best efforts, I have not found a way to buy the right to reclaim them on my other characters so that I don't have to grind out the 2,000 Fleet Commendations to outfit each of them.
... What is the reasoning for this? The only reason I can think of that this is the case is to motivate people who enjoy Space Missions to subscribe. Or to have to buy weekly passes as free/preferred players can only do three missions per week without them, and the amount of real money spent on either of those things is far greater than the money that would be spent on Cartel Coins to unlock them in collections.
Don't give me any BS about the items being BoE or about allowing players to simply reclaim them unbalancing the game because that doesn't seem to stop you at all when it comes to colour crystals or adaptive equipment. Which is reclaimed in a BoP state and I'm sure it hasn't escaped your notice what a huge advantage +41 stats are at level 10, or how easy it is for someone with a high level crafter to keep a leveling character outfitted with prototype or artifact mods that are far superior to any leveling gear that might be available. And that's not even starting on the fact that Starship parts don't in any way affect other players.
I just want to be able to throw the $6 at the collections so that my soon to be third level 50 can jump straight into hard mode space missions without the frustration of my other two 50s having to grind out the comms to help outfit their ship first. I'm sure I'm not the only one, and I'm sure this really isn't hard to make happen with minimal impact on other players, including the crafters that don't usually bother to make these things because they don't sell well.
Thanks.