Maybe if you trade your Commodore for something from this century, it would help. I fought and negotiated about 7 levels of GE on 5 worlds today with nary a problem. On 3 of those worlds, I'm in active guilds in which dozens of players cleared between 8 and 50 encounters. Not a peep from any of them about any problems. And here on the Forum, how many complaints today about GE problems? One. Guess who? That's right, lemur. "Not my equipment" lemur. Probably drives a piece of junk car, too, and complains about the roads.