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If you are interested in the 8 class stories, it's certainly worth the price. That content is mostly unchanged and most of the game is F2P. As a former subscriber, you are in "Preferred" status. Still somewhat restricted, but you should have everything you need to play the level 1-50 class stories.
If you want to see the two most recent chapter based expansions, subscribe for a month and roll a level 60 character.
It's basically KOTOR 3, and almost completely single player at this point.
Even all of the flashpoints have a "Solo" mode, so you can see how those fit into the original story arc.
I'm going back and replaying a couple of classes again. My plan is;
** Do only the main class mission and the main planet story arc (marked in purple in your mission log).
** Do each planet flashpoint in solo mode as I encounter them.
** Do Ilum and it's flashpoints in solo mode
** Skip the Black Hole, Makeb, Oricon, Section-X, and CZ-198. I might do them once (again) as they are somewhat story based, but are they are not a critical part of the game experience. These are basically dailies hubs, and don't provide much value to you once you've seen it once.
** Do the Shadow of Revan story arc, including the tactical flashpoints in Solo mode, Rishi, Yavin IV, and Ziost.
** Do Knights of the Fallen Empire. I'd personally skip the alliance recruitment and Star Fortress stuff at the end, having done it recently. It is worth doing once on one character, just to see the companions and their stories, but unless you are enamored with them, its not content worth repeating.
** Do Knights of the Eternal Throne chapters, and whatever follows (no idea, haven't even started it yet).
There is a ton of content to play/re-play, and most of it is single player accessible. It's probably worth the cost of a month or two or three of subscription. Even the 2 player "Heroic" missions (part of the alliance recruitment process) are easily solable with your companion, if you push their "Rank" up to 20 or so with gifts. With a rank 20-30 companion in 'Heal' mode, you are nearly unkillable.
In fact, that's probably the biggest criticism of the game right now, is that nothing is really dangerous to your character in the solo-mode content.
Edit to add: I would't spend a lot of time or energy trying to re-start an older character. There is a good chance their gear is irrelevant. If you are enamored with a name or esthetic, you can clean out their bank and delete and re-create them. It's also worth noting that they added the ability to put a space in a character name, giving some flexibility to the available name options.
Also, the cartel market (real money stuff) is mostly cosmetic and quality of life stuff (armor and weapon shells, mounts, stronghold decorations, etc..). Definitely not needed to progress, although if you are not going to subscribe, there are some 'unlocks' you might want to make life a little easier (extra hotbars, credit caps, etc...). You can buy all of these things, including some pretty cool "KOTOR" character armor sets from players on the market (GTN) for credits if you prefer to not spend real dollars on random chances to get them.
Edit2: Added Ziost to SoR planets...
Last edited by Midgen on Wed Nov 30, 2016 5:11 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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