Your endgame ideas?

I'd love to see them add new dailies with rep, with relevant vendor.

I would enjoy seeing a few New flashpoints, in the vein of the forged alliance ones.

Expanding on star fortresses, with new exarchs and loot.

Some New heroics for each planet, available to 60 and up.

A raid or PvP goes without saying at this point.

There's a ton to get retention. I'm sure I've only scratched the surface.

If I were a SWTOR dev in Austin...

Zakuul dailies area with a rep grind for items.. wait what am I thinking, we need to put those items in cartel packs with 0.05% drop rates.

Operations.... wait what am I thinking, our metrics show people really want story.

Flashpoints.. wait what am I thinking, our metrics show people want to run that solo.

Warzones... wait what am I thinking, our metrics show people haven't wanted PvP content since we switched ranked to 4v4.

If I were an armchair developer...

Zakuul Dailies w/Rep system, flashpoint, operations, all pvp rated/ranked (so the 8v8 objective queue has it's own ranking system separate from the 4v4 deathmatch, no more unranked play), PvP discipline for all classes, 2018 required expertise to queue for pvp (returning the basic blue pvp gear set for fresh 65s)... oh and a REAL EXPANSION, no more of this piecemeal expansion nonsense that's stretched out over $180 of sub time with "rewards" released every month to hold that sub money hostage from the people afraid they'll "miss out" if they don't stay subbed.

I made an elaborate plan for a liberation of Coruscant operation. Starts with the Alliance putting you down in the ruined Jedi Temple, ends with a battle with Arcann in the Senate building. Had it all planned out, including backstory and a cliff hanger ending.

New GSF everything and bring back open world pvp.

content.

I would like some flashpoints where empire players and republic players are in one group, because the alliance is actually a mix of both sides.

space something like 'Jump to Lightspeed' in SWG.

If I was in charge of SWTOR. I would push this KOTFE crap out and stop kidding themselves that people actually want this crap. Specially the HK subscriber rewards they keep saying people want when the chat next to the live stream says "stop with HK crap." /end rant

In a serious note i'd do something like they did with SoR with Revan having a solo mode and ToS version with the KOTFE main characters. Arcaan, Valkorian, Vaylin. I'm sure they could make tough boss encounters with that and other Zakuul themed fights. I'd add some Flashpoints in because those are stale as hell at the moment too.

I would then start working on class balancing instead of just posting on forums "NO class balancing this patch." I would rework PvP to stop how 8 mans most of the time now are death matches no objectives.. no offense pvpers but PvP is a shitshow at the moment.

The reality of what we can look forward to at the moment is overloaded with HK themed rewards they say we want constantly. 30 minutes or less (no space-baring) of story time and half the game broken with said patches. When things are broken like raid bosses that are currently in game they push it back because to them it's not an MMO it's a single player RPG.

They could do 4 and 8 man Horde Mode for PvE. Set up a series of maps with random spawn points for Skytroopers, Knights, Praetorian Droids, Paladins, etc. that become more nasty with a progression of five tiers. Story wise, there really isn't anything bigger than the Eternal Empire even after the events of Ch. 16 from what I've seen. What Operations would there really be besides taking on the Eternal Empire's forces?

There could be Normal and Hard Mode, with Hard Mode being the new operations progression - there would have to be a Tank, Healer, and two DPS and they're going to have to be awesome to get through HM consistently.

If it does really well, they could do a nightmare mode for an even more hardcore challenge, assuming that participation and business growth is high enough to justify that kind of additional work.

For PvP, I think they should just make this cross-factional thing baseline for all upcoming maps. Technically, you could say that Huttball is already cross-factional. Hutt neutrality and all that. They could actually tell a story through PvP, with the maps being a progression of the Alliance's military strength as new ones come out.

Training in a facility like the Odessen warzone could then evolve into Alliance Wargames, simulating Eternal Empire tactics on one side, and the Alliance on the other.

Whatever they do, it should be sustainable and profitable so that it can be committed to long term.

Just to chime in with my own thoughts here. I'd personally love to see more raids, but given that that may not be in the cards, here are some other ideas.

1. I'd love to see SWTOR implement something akin to Diablo 3's Rifts and Greater Rifts system. A system where you can, both solo or in groups, take on increasing levels of PvE dungeons and boss fights, with no limit to the difficulty level, for special rewards. (Eg set pieces, special enhancements, special cosmetic items, etc.) Perhaps Star Fortresses could be enhanced to accommodate this... with difficulty tier settings and a "challenge" mode or something where you see what difficulty level you can clear without dying. This seems nicely repeatable, if the rewards work well in the overall gear economy (see more below).

2. I'd love to see a survival arena or horde mode, where surviving as long as possible (either solo or in groups) against waves of increasingly difficult enemies and bosses results in rewards of increasing scale. I think this would be a fun mode that'd have a lot of replayability, as you get more gear or get in better groups, you can last longer and longer in the arena and gain more gear/enhancements, more titles and achievements, more materials, and more cosmetic items.

3. I'd love to see some truly experiment and player-driven crafting, where you can actually try to modify items (destroying them in the process if you fail) to create unique things. Creating unique/crafted versions of items could add special abilities to your gear, or increase stats asymptotically, or provide other special bonuses. If "experimental crafting" required components from Ops or other endgame activities (like the two suggestions above), it'd encourage more endgame activity from players. And adding the element of risk with destruction through researching would also add more repeatability (destroy that fancy new piece of gear you just earned or purchased by having someone do research on it, and you'll have to go acquire it again).

I'd also love to see more world pvp and a reason to do it, as well as more world boss fights, and a reason to do them. But my thoughts here aren't very fleshed out.

As for a gearing economy, I think SWTOR could encourage a lot of replayability by introducing means of adding custom abilities and enhanced stats to your gear.

Rather than simply having gear tiers and set bonuses, it could potentially work well to add things like ability mods that can be dropped or crafted. Ability mods could add special, unique abilities to your gear.

In addition, it'd be great to add an infinite stat progression to gears, where increasing stats above the default level takes an exponentially or geometrically increasing set of resources for an asymptotically increasing set of rewards. This way, people that really want to min-max could go all out trying to increase the stats on their gear, but they wouldn't have a huge advantage in PvE or PvP (and in fact, PvP stats could be totally separate, if this were a concern).

All together, I think systems like this could encourage a lot more repeat play, as well as provide incentives for players to participate in the endgame activities (be they Ops, SFs, Heroics, or ideas like the above).