The game is slowly returning to normal, with new great content that we have always wanted. I will split my comments up into sections so they are readable.

Armor Certification
I believe this is a great idea to remove armor certifications, because:

- A class that can wear recon only is outclassed by battle armor and assault armor types, etc
- We just like other types of armor we cannot wear!
- Other armors offer protection, however we can't wear that armor.


Armor Loot Drops
I believe crafted armor should be stronger than looted, for many reasons. I support a strong economy and I support looting hunts too, but really we need to make crafted armor better, so that the sales will repair the very shattered economy at the moment. I say shattered because it is, because it is obvious. Also please do not move the new special "Jedi Armor" anything out of "normal" range, or you will have a lot of people complaining about imbalance problems, but you guys probably already knew that. Please consider supporting your crafters in the future. I am also happy Mandalorian will stay in its proper class with Commandos and Bounty Hunters.

Bounty Hunting System
Something I have wanted to see for a LONG time. Bounties on anyone? Greatest idea since introducing Space to the game. As a spy I will enjoy hiding from my hunters, and I will enjoy putting bounties on my victims. Although there is no "real" advantage to bounty hunting players other than the bounty on their heads, there are a few "grudges" that I would love to take care of Post the characters name on a list to a list of Bounty Hunters, have him whacked, I get a screenie, nice thats one happy Admiral here GREAT idea. A++

PVP Enhancements
Therese arn't a joke, to me these are some really neat enhancements. A 30 second timer to deploy on the field is convinient, and I like how you guys did not make it so "On Leave" peeps can go to combatant via this method, they will need to see a trainer. I believe that the "loot one item" fiasco was a completely bad idea and I would have been upset if it were to go live. So that leaves PVP fun, but what is the end goal? My suggestion:

- Add enhancements, such as clothing or armor attachments as rewards. Don't make them uberly powerful,    but cumulative overtime and a semi-rare drop. Of course you will need to limit the drop count to 1 per different person PVP'd against, to prevent exploiting. Do not set a cap on these enhancements, rather let them decay overtime, so if the player wants to keep his or her stats up on their armor, clothes or weapon they will need to continue to PVP to get them. THAT will get people fighting.

Galactic Civil War Content
- But say we have a player that wants to fight in the Galactic Civil War, what can we do there to repair it? My first suggestion, is to make bases available again for capture and combat. That was a ton of fun when they were released and active, and I would love to do that again for roleplay, capturing cities and placing Imperial Bases over the Rebel ones

- To get people fighting in the GCW, we will need more than "planetary control" points to motivate us. I mean cool, Imperials are winning on Naboo, woohoo great, now what. You can let that enhancements idea be a driving force for this, but also please add some additional perks or "special faction abilities" that you can purchase with faction, such as maybe calling in appropriate level NPC reinforcements? I think that would be neat, people using these special GCW abilities (using a target cursor similar to heavy weapons now), the battles will be a lot cooler with a nice mesh of NPCs and Players fighting, Please do not inplement interplanetary space flight, what I mean is flying like JTL, but in the ground game. Give officers the ability to add bonuses to calling reinforcements (maybe an officer "ability" can increase the NPC attack, number of NPCs or defense by a small percentage) and maybe be able to add artillery bonuses to the upcoming artillery addition.

I like the idea of driveable AT-STs for Imps and maybe Tanks for rebels, however I can see it getting out of hand with a power balance (Then again what do commandos have rocket launchers for ? ) I would also like to see water combat vehicles, or vehicles with some kind of aiming gun to fire at other targets, thats not really a huge idea I want implemented with the attacking boats, but its nice food for flavor. Get us motivated with enhancements and abilities we can use in battle.

Decay
Absoloutly necessary to a thriving economy. We need decay on everything, including PVP decay. BUT BUT BUT! Decay does not have to be "game over" if the item is destroyed. Introduce repair kits specific to each traders wing (Sort of like Shipwrights now, they have repair kits for all ship parts) but make Armor Restore Kits, (We have Vehicle Restore Kits Now) Weapon Restore Kits, etc, so that when a players Armor or Weapon is decayed too much, he can purchase this kit (usually one will cost the price of what he bought the said item for, or a bit less or more depending on the trader) and completely refurbish it according to the success rate of the kit. If it decays more and he gets the same success with a different kit, it will replenish the same amount from the original as the last repair, However if he got a 99.9 sucess rate tool, it should replenish 99.9% of the original armor or weapon HP. Also give smugglers the ability to temporary additions to armor, clothing and weapons for a fee. Temporary is the key, so people keep spending the money to upgrade again, up to you guys to find a proper decay rate for everything

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Space Additions
Must I spell it out? JTL made this game great, and JTL is still great, however myself and the pilot community would love to see some changes made to the space game. I would like to see Freedom Station in Deep Space fixed so the Imperial Naval forces can begin bombarding it again. It has been like this for over a year and I think it is unfair since the rebels can destroy the Star Destroyer. I would also like to see capital ships added as a quest reward, but make them very hard to get so that we don't see too many. That would be a great addition to the game, including a star destroyer or rebel station for each guild (hah a guy can dream) Lambda shuttles, Rebel transports (already in game in NPC form) and many other new ships could be added. Add in a group hyperspace button, so the entire fleet can hyperspace to 1 place at the same time (LAG? hehe :smileyvery-happy

And...
Please for the love of Star Wars Galaxies, ADD CREATURE HANDLER BACK! I miss my pets so much, and it wouldn't be a giant pain to add our companions back in a new combat system. My suggestion? Please make the skills available to all persons, and how about release a patch dedicated to it? You could make the new Creature Handler a series of fun quests we could all enjoy. While I would prefer that I get master abilities back since I was a Master Creature Handler when you dropped the bomb on us back in November 2005, I would completely regrind it if I had to, just for my pets. Add new creatures, make them from different systems in Star Wars EU folklore Adding Creature Handler back cancels my EVE Online account.

I felt it to be traitorous and mutinous not to share these wonderful comments, I would love to see a lot of new people come to enjoy our game. Get cracking Soe, and please use some of my ideas, your playing fanbase is VERY important to the development of ideas for the game

What do you guys think? I think these changes would bring about MANY new players both old and new, and it would definetly help things progress forward a bit. Please, if you have positive comments or suggestions to add to mine, please by all means add them, I really put a lot of my personal opinion and belief behind these ideas. You 100% have the right to disagree with me, if you do lets just do it like adults and debate maturely

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