Originally Posted by
torftw
Yeah sorry, I meant 3 gathering skills. Slicing and the missions skills do provide other useful things sure, but it mostly just gathers credits.
I really wish the official forums would come back up, the dev explained it so much better than me. But the point was that it won't make you a lot of money because it will cost quite a bit. So as a crafter you have a few options for getting materials:
1. Farm them yourself, which works just like other games except you physically don't have to walk over to it.
2. Pay other people for them. Buy it on the GTN (AH), just like other games.
3. Pay your companions to go farm them. This is the new option and I can see why you are worried, but since it costs money, chances are you won't make more than it costs.
Remember that because you have only 1 crafting skill and 3 total crew skills means you won't run into people like in wow who have all crafting and no gathering who buy mats. The only people who buy mats off the gtn are going to do so because they can get it cheaper than from sending companions out themselves and they don't want to go out and farm themselves. Which means that anyone who sends their companions out on gathering missions all the time won't make money from just selling raw materials on the gtn. So the economy is balanced, and the companions farming won't be OP or cause problems.