Committee Term Wrap-Up

[Muhtar]

Committee Term Summary​

76 suggestions were submitted: 8 Space, 38 PvE, 8 PvP and 22 Crafting.

Committee Space Suggestions​

Total: 8
Added: 4 | Approved, pending: 1 | Undecided: 1 | Rejected: 2

Added​

• Hidden Daggers Slayer badge (Cyco): Completing all five tiers now awards the “Hidden Daggers Pilot Kill Quota” badge alongside the schematic.
• Starship Projectile Customization Tool (Somatical): Players can change the projectile effect fired by each starship weapon. The tool can be experimented on for more uses, and its radial menu previews an effect by firing it forward from the character’s location. Its schematic is available from the Nova Orion vendor.
• Kashyyyk Space Station questline badges (Cyco): Badges have been added for the questline.
• Mustafar Atmospheric Battle (Cyco): The event timer has been adjusted.

Approved, pending​

• Space GCW battle rewards (Yek): A full GCW revision has been approved, including new rewards and a GCW rating system. Work will begin after the new Jedi update and other higher-priority commitments.

Undecided​

• Space profession on the Select a Character screen (Smileslikejoker): This remains under consideration.

Rejected​

• Ebon Hawk POB (Somatical): New ships may be added in the future.
• Remove quest requirements from ship deeds (Blinkarn): Ship deeds will continue to require the relevant quest completion or progress.

Committee PvE Suggestions​

Total: 38
Added: 17 | Approved, pending: 1 | Undecided: 6 | Rejected: 4 | Loot and item suggestions: 10

Added:​

• Temple Guardian lightsaber crystal (Aejax): Change its colour to the same pale yellow as the 2% yellow crystal, giving Beyond a distinctive, lore-inspired crystal.
• Melee Bounty Hunter Expertise (Yek): Move Impale up one row and combine Intense Aggression and Precision Strikes into one skill box.
• NK-Necrosis access (Guild Leader): Allow players who have defeated NK-Necrosis once to return without repeating the crystal collection quest.
• Entertainer melee weapons (Somatical): Allow Entertainers to use all melee weapon types with their abilities.
• Minder of Weak (Yek): Revert or rebalance the Exar Kun encounter.
• Stamina and ACR (Yek): Add 0.01% ACR per point of Stamina, giving 1% ACR at 100 Stamina.
• City Militia range (Mykisash): Remove the 10 metre proximity requirement when adding a player to the City Militia. Changed to 250m.
• Daily Quest Tokens and vendor (Yek): Add tokens earned through daily quests and a vendor where players can spend them.
• City shuttle rank (Malakai): Lower the city rank required for a shuttle.
• Mission Terminal direction filter (Alkahpwn / mandorex555): Let players choose a direction when searching for missions.
• Default Entertainer buff (ShatteredSaga): Allow AFK Entertainers to provide a default buff.
• Higher-tier badges (Cyco): Add further badge tiers.
• Vanguard class revamp (Milk / Jaysanti): Rework the Vanguard class.
• A Friend fine-tuning (Cyco): Adjust the A Friend feature.
• Powerup confirmation toggle (nojdeux): Allow players to disable the confirmation popup when replacing a powerup using an in game toggle.
• World Boss costumes (Fettonator): Move the Gorgilla and Meatlump King costumes to World Boss vendor.
• Aurilia Portal (nojdeux): Make travelling to Aurilia the portal’s default action.

Approved, pending​

• World Boss collection (Yek): Revamp the collection and its rotation.

Undecided​

• Lightsaber Duelist dual wield appearance (Somatical): Explore a cosmetic off-hand lightsaber for the seven-piece set using existing animations.
• Adegan Silver Crystal (Somatical): Introduce an extremely rare 6% Cold crystal, potentially as a drop from Exar Kun.
• City Invasions (Nitro): Revamp the event.
• Sliced gear consistency (Balls): Reduce the variation in slice results, particularly for Smugglers with high Luck. The proposal also covers ability damage, defensive and Preparation Duration modifiers.
• Crystal shard hunters (Somatical): Add roaming NPCs to adventure planets with a small chance to drop shards. Players could combine collected shards to create enhanced versions of classic crystal colours, with a possible rare custom colour.
• No Trade items (Raum): Change selected No Trade items to use biolink instead.

Rejected​

• Grenadier jewellery set (Hisume): Update the seven-piece set descriptions and ability text, and increase its grenade ability damage by 5%.
• Beast Master profession (Tony Mendez): Make Beast Master a standalone profession.
• Speedrun revision (Malakai): Revise speedruns and add a collection badge and rewards.
• Level 90 Jedi Trials theme park: A separate end game progression system is planned instead.

Loot and Item Suggestions​

Ten further suggestions focused on new loot and items. There are too many to list individually here, but we appreciate everyone who submitted an idea. Approved items will be added to an appropriate vendor or other source as development allows.

Committee PvP Suggestions​

Total: 8
Added: 4 | Undecided: 2 | Rejected: 2

Added​

• AT-ST and AT-XT familiars (Somatical): Add Detect Camouflage +25, Agility +40 and Luck +40 to the familiars available from the City Invasion vendor.
• Failed bounty mission cooldown: Add a 30-minute lockout before a Bounty Hunter can take another mission against a target they failed to capture.
• Bounties during PvP: Allow a player engaged in ground or space PvP to be hunted.
• Mos Eisley Cantina foods (Yek): Consolidate the four food buffs into one.

Undecided​

• Red vs Blue open-world PvP events (Hisume): Explore events that let players fight on balanced teams without changing their permanent faction or losing GCW progress. This aims to address uneven participation when active guilds are committed to one faction.
• Flashpoint capture messages: Announce which faction is capturing a Flashpoint when a player enters the capture circle, similar to the messages at static bases.

Rejected​

• Discord and in-game chat bridge (Somatical): Connect a Discord channel and an in-game chat channel so messages appear in both.
• GA set cooldown bonuses (Yek): Remove the added Scatter and Charge cooldown bonuses from the six- and seven-piece sets.

Committee Crafting Suggestions​

Total: 22
Added: 8 | Approved, pending: 4 | Undecided: 6 | Rejected: 4

Added​

• Harvester resource retrieval (Somatical): Add a command or radial option to retrieve resources from a harvester. Retrieval now removes the entire resource stack.
• Augmentation and enhancement improvements (Raum): Remove lower value augmentations and enhancements from loot, and provide tools to improve eligible items toward their maximum values of 250 and 30.
• Faction armor schematic purchases (Somatical): Allow repeated purchases to add uses to an existing draft schematic, up to 10 uses.
• Luck and crafting success (Raum): Give Luck a measurable effect on the chance of an Amazing Success.
• Factory crate sizes (Somatical): Let crafters set a consistent factory crate size for eligible schematics, including items previously limited to smaller crates.
• Level 90 weapon biolink (Somatical): Remove biolink from crafted weapons below level 90.
• Helper Monkey buffs (Raum): Improve the buffs provided by Helper Monkeys.
• Survey Tool search focus (Webtraveler): Stop placing keyboard focus in the search box when the Survey Tool opens. Players can still click the box to search without interrupting keyboard shortcuts.

Approved, pending​

• Combined Trader jewellery sets (Somatical): Explore a terminal that combines the Resource, Experimentation, Harvest, Manufacturing, Reverse Engineering and Miner sets piece by piece, retaining the highest bonus for each stat.
• Lyase reverse engineering (Raum): Explore a tool that gives surplus low-level lyase enzymes another use. The proposed conversion needs further definition.
• Beast Master vendor token costs (Everly): Reduce the token cost of vendor items.
• Colour Light Gem collections (Altara): Add new collections.

Undecided​

• Account-wide lots (nojdeux): Allow characters on the same account to share lot capacity.
• Crafting appearance items (Raum): Add equipment crafters can wear for appearance and immersion.
• Offline structure transfers (nojdeux): Allow players to transfer structure ownership to another character on their account while that character is offline.
• Crafting Points progression (nojdeux): Explore replacing the 15-minute crafting cooldown with an active Crafting Points system.
• GCW Trader integration (nojdeux): Explore a Crafting Points system based on tool use for GCW Trader activities.
• Vendor recovery (Yek): Explore moving vendors into a player's datapad when maintenance expires or an Expertise reset affects vendor placement, giving players a chance to recover their items.

Rejected​

• Rotating junk loot (Raum): Introduce a rotating junk loot table to vary common stackable drops without changing rare loot.
• Stackable power bits (Somatical): Remove serial numbers so power bits with the same power can stack.
• Universal Exotics menu (Fettator): Replace parts of the existing Exotic crafting process with a point-allocation interface for Tailors, Armorsmiths, Weaponsmiths and Jedi Crafters.
• Entertainer buff cubes (Blinkarn): Revisit the buff cube system.

A special thank you to the entire Committee team for the time and effort you’ve put into working with the community, developing ideas and helping move them forward. It hasn’t always been smooth, but together you’ve achieved some great results. Well done, and thank you.