lol, I noticed that too, mainly I think they did it because people weren't doing conquests and planet takeovers.  Also if you do it right it really speeds up end game gearing a lot.   
 
Suddenly yesterday after running characters through the Onderon dailies I was getting two gold boxes, two purple boxes and a bunch of reknown boost boxes.   
 
I don't mind it at all.  I want to get all my characters into the gold armor sets with bonuses, and increase their stats. 
 
I was amazed at the difference a 2% increase in mastery and some other poison bonuses made in my agent when I got him golded up.
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
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