Goerg Zoeller then spoke about crew skills and economics. First, he recalled that contrary to what is often said, biochemistry is not the most common profession.
Archeology and salvage are the primary professions in collecting. For the clothing trades, we find artifice, followed by biochemistry. Illegal trade is the most common mission skill. Finally, bio-analysis is the least used of the skills.
Statistics
Goerg Zoeller spoke numbers with lots of graphics providing funny stats on player behavior.
- 80% of level 50 characters have less than 400,000 credits. Less than 1% have 10 million credits.
- most of the money is spent on learning skills. Then the purchase of space in the hold.
- quests are the main way to get credits.
- inflation is around 12%. Buy / resale are very close.
- the imbalance between the factions is 57% against 42% for the Empire. The Empire loves PvP.
- there are 70% male characters, 30% female characters.
- The Sith Inquisitor is the most played class. In the beta, it was the Jedi Knight.
- the smuggler and the imperial agent are the least represented.
- the progression curve in leveling is almost perfect.
Some graphs from the Dulfy site:
Credits
The players are not very rich, 84% of the level 50 characters have less than 1 million credits. As a result, the repair costs are considered too high. It is possible that they will be reduced by the future. It is also possible that repair costs will be applied in PvP.
The number of chests collected is not important in terms of credits earned. About 30 people are exclusively engaged in researching gold farmers. All players are cordially invited to report any abuse in this regard.
Tailoring trades
Currently, only biochemistry is really useful at high level. 1.2 will change that by bringing benefits to all trades. In particular, players will be able to create upgrades. In addition, high level modifications will be able to be reverse engineered and it will be possible to craft parts for droids using C2-N2 and RV-N8.
Artificers will be able to create color crystals not available until now.
The cooldown of Cyber Tech Grenades will be reduced.
The cost of speeders will increase while the cost of the skill will decrease. Speeders created by cybernetics will become Bind when equipped.
FAQ
There are no plans to reduce the cost to remove upgrades if you have the crew skill.
Items requiring a biochemistry level will no longer require it in order to promote trade.
It is normal for identical armor to look different on different characters.
No repeatable quests related to crew skills but there will be new resources in the new areas.
There are currently no plans to send multiple companions on a mission to reduce the duration. However, single-use missions will no longer be able to fail.
