I was not lucky.
I exclusively farmed mods;
every.
single.
day.
For well over two months straight, at the cost of character shards, I focused on mods. Its surprisingly difficult to will yourself to put every single character project on hold, especially when you always have that feeling of 'what if XXXXX event comes by??', but if you want truly good mods, its necessary. Additionally, at least 4-5 days a month also get dedicated to mod farming; i made myself adhere to the schedule of every sunday is also mod day, no matter how close i am to a cantina-shard character completion. And then, whenever I'm 'feeling lucky' i may take a shot at a refill for mod farming.
Yes, actually getting a good mod is a diceroll, but if you play the numbers, eventually you will see returns. For every one of my good mods you see, theres probably 30 that were complete trash, and got discarded.
Back to the origional post:
At bare minimum, noone can deny hoth didn't have two factions participating. Would it have been so hard to make it where you could also play the side of the empire as well, and you know, actually make it like hoth?