Getting back to this,
All I'm gonna say in response to the "PreCU is bland" thingy stuff, is that if you thought PreCU was "bland" then your imagination and creativity was severely lacking, yes, PreCU was so damn bugged and unbalanced it's not even worth arguing about, but NGE didn't fix all these problems, it just replaced them (the professions, principally) with new ones.
Fact is, if only SOE managed to fix PreCU as best they could, in regards to OP stuff (weapons, skills...) and broken/useless professions (aka Smuggler), and THEN added the content they eventually added in the CU/NGE, then this game would probably still be up to this day and kicking ass, buuut since it's not what happened I guess I'm just gonna drop this dream here and let it die... unless SWGEmu manages to do better in the future.
The way I see it, and hell knows I've tested NGE (never played CU sadly) so many times, I do know that NGE had some great content, not counting the new player made quests etc that looked pretty cool when people got creative, and all the true Star Wars content, NOT involving crappy novel Stormie zombies and -the thing I hate most- the freaking pink flying Ewoks, overall NGE had some cool content, but it just fell flat because the core was even more broken than what it used to be, it's not even funny, the best of both worlds would be fine by me.
Since the NGE, I've always been in favor of more content, as long as it's Star Wars related (the SWG timeline is already messed up as it is, no need to make it worse), people need to feel in a true Star Wars sandbox as they used to back in the day, with some content to make them want to get involved.
"in NGE you can start as a bounty instead of work your way up that takes forever"
See that's one of the biggest problems these days, people just don't want to spend time to work on their goal, the achievement feels meaningless then, I mean if you start as a BH or Jedi from the start, what's the point? Hell, you can't even brag about how you managed, against all odds, to fulfill this goal, while all the others are still playing war with their Carbineers (which is one of my favorite professions) and the like.
I hope it's not rude but if you expect a SWG PreCU era type game to give you what you want on a diamond plate then this box of warm sand isn't for you.