I really wish for an expansion that adds several droids as NPCs/equipment and also has variants on the Droid PC species that lets them give up some starting XP for features that let them have some of the specialized functions seen in the NPC/equipment droids.

Here's the long and short of it. Print media is dying in this world. Books are going the way of the dinosaur. Digital media is killing it along with all other aspects, like the art included in the books. Artists work for peanuts. So, if a game company doesn't come up with a way to draw out the material over a number of publications, nothing of the product quality seen in the FFG Star Wars books will happen. Don't believe, feel free to peruse the D&D forums and the complaints about their 5E launch, I love the game but the books used a poor binding method and are falling apart, and the QC was non existent practically on the print process.

You're perfectly well and right to not like it, but if you think it's going to change you can go right ahead and plan on being perpetually disappointed.

For me its cheaper to buy the books from ffg, than to print one of their downloadable adventures

This topic seems to come up once a month, I personally take no issue with the business decision to spread the Species/Vehicle/Starship/Droid/Gear content up between multiple books and to see the occasional species repeat between separate compatible game lines. My concern is that they eventually won't give me all of what I want at the pace of 3 per unless we eventually get some species/starship/droid compendiums.

Well there are sites like Wookiepedia etc, its the fluff & cohesion that I'm after however - the theme books provide that backround that can make a species have a culture, economy, politics & powerblocks/military rather than merely biology & psychology. I imagine the Hutt book will be right up my alley. Species Psychology often falls flat with me, the Chiss in Explorers book just feels like an extension of Grand Admiral Thrawn.

My issue however was that content was being squeezed out to make way for 3 species & X spaceships, but as some have pointed out they were themed so its not quite the 0 sum game I thought it was.

I'll disagree. Give me more races and starships. Most of the time they all make sense for each career book, but even for those that don't, I'm not complaining. It's [mostly] new material. And even the reprints are for different core products. There hasn't been a reprint of species or ships within any given segment.

Absolutely make Force and Destiny a core product. That's my favorite part of Star Wars and I want it to have as much love and attention as the other 2.

And if they took out the same, repeated material & replaced that with content we could have MORE attention to it.

I have bought every book and that is my curse for loving this game to much.

When that is said I would like to have the books more organized so I didn't have to bring every book to each gaming session.

It would be great if we had a book for species , gear or ships and vehicles and not need to look through every book all the time.

But I understand why FFG did what they did. If not I think they would sell fewer books.

In the end I still love this game so much I wouldn't care , I am getting it all , because it is a masterpiece and all those great pictures in the books it makes it worth it.

If this is what it takes to bring money in so you can continue this wonderful game , just bring it on....:-)

I personally like the release style. Gives me a good reason to buy the books even if i dont really care about colonists, or politico or what have you. I still get species and starships and stuff to use. I really like dividing the extra legal part of the universe from the military part and from the organized force users. I soo far have really enjoyed the system they are using it feels like star wars to me. They do have a generic star wars rpg line of product already that only contains adversary decks and sice but has potential for unified adventure paths and supplements. I look forward tos e3ing what happens after the preplanned runs of career specialization, adventure paths, and area based splats are done. I soo far prefer this over both WEG and WoTC versions by far and the release schedule while consistent isnt over bloated and the books are reasonable. I Cant afford a $50 book every month its why i quit keeping up with pathfinder and i think Paizo does great with it.

I shudder to think of the cost of combined tomes and the release times behind them.

I shudder to think of the cost of combined tomes and the release times behind them.

For EotE from CoolStuffInc.com it was $240.89 delivered to my door.

That included one of each of the 8 books, the Beginner box, and 2 extra sets of dice.