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Open Changes to ITV travel to make it more practical

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Proposal
I propose the ITV travel vehicles should be made more practical by either removing or lowering the credit cost, or perhaps removing the fuel needed to use it.
Justification
Because as it stands the ITVs are quite expensive to use, and you need specialized fuel to use them. Currently its much more practical to just use shuttles instead and they kind of make the ITVs as they are obsolete. They need to be made more viable as a regular travel method.
Motivation
See Justification.
Changes to ITV travel
 
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disagree i use itvs all the time

sure they are expensive but they afford you a great utility and save a lot of time if you know where you are going and what you are doing

servers like legends do indeed allow you easy access to itvs but this often culminates in players using their itvs instead of the actual travel network set up by devs and players in the game (which is kinda lame tbh)

if you are cl80 all it takes is 3 rounds of humanoid missions to fuel and pay for 50 itv flights which i did recently and its kept me flying to and from the village on dathomir for a week now
 
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I think the cost of the ITVs is exactly how the devs want it to be on here. Having a higher cost on ITVs forces us to utilize town shuttles more often. If ITVs were cheap or even free, the shuttles would hardly get used. I think they have the balance right.
 
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I think it's fine as it is now. Yeah it gates it a bit for players with more creds and who completes the collections, etc, but thats not a bad thing imo.
 
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Agree with many who have said it's fine as is. You are basically calling a Star Wars Uber to come get you in the middle of no where. In my opinion it should not be used for main transportation. As a BH I use it often on missions and going to the village. Also gives SW a consumable to sell which is never a bad thing. No I don't have a SW myself so that isn't a shameless plug. lol
 
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ITV travel is a convenience for many, but convenience should come with a cost. 10k and one fuel cell is a very balanced price point IMO.
 
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I think the ITV system here is cool and makes using shuttle ports more viable. My only gripe is it's taking me 4 days to make a run of sub components for fuel and to make a full run of fuel cells will be like 16 days of making just the subcomponents.
 
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So I just wanted to share my perspective as a fairly new player about how I feel about this ITV system. Before today I didn't know about the ITV system and it has given me at least one negative experience. Today I was doing Droid Army for the first time with a solid group. We had the leader guy downed but had some deaths that ultimately led me to die. Afterwards there were droids attacking the camp or something so I was told to run back in but I didn't know that the people that were running back in were fast traveling to the camp outside the entrance. So when I did it I rode a speeder back to the entrance and by the time I got there they had already cleared the instance and I didn't receive completion.

So my perspective from today's experience is:

  • It's a system not made obvious or available to new players
  • it's expected of you
And those two things together really burned me out today

Making it available to new players would seemingly be in line with the OP, but all the responses seem to want to keep it gated from new players which would seemingly also gate their capacity to do group stuff as effectively as veterans can.
 
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So I just wanted to share my perspective as a fairly new player about how I feel about this ITV system. Before today I didn't know about the ITV system and it has given me at least one negative experience. Today I was doing Droid Army for the first time with a solid group. We had the leader guy downed but had some deaths that ultimately led me to die. Afterwards there were droids attacking the camp or something so I was told to run back in but I didn't know that the people that were running back in were fast traveling to the camp outside the entrance. So when I did it I rode a speeder back to the entrance and by the time I got there they had already cleared the instance and I didn't receive completion.

So my perspective from today's experience is:
  • It's a system not made obvious or available to new players
  • it's expected of you
And those two things together really burned me out today

Making it available to new players would seemingly be in line with the OP, but all the responses seem to want to keep it gated from new players which would seemingly also gate their capacity to do group stuff as effectively as veterans can.
ITV has nothing to do with this experience? This is a shuttle camp that you would fly to from the mensix ticket terminal.

Addressing ITV accesibility to new players: their credit cost is waived for the first 30 days of a character's existence. Very new player friendly.
 
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Well thanks for explaining that because
ITV has nothing to do with this experience? This is a shuttle camp that you would fly to from the mensix ticket terminal.

Addressing ITV accesibility to new players: their credit cost is waived for the first 30 days of a character's existence. Very new player friendly.
well thanks for explaining it. I'm at 30 days today and I'm only now discovering it. Maybe others discover it faster
 
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ITV balance is correct only gripe is the backpack fuel bug we get every 10-20 uses so other then that keep it how it is.
 
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