is BW ever going to address the horrendous load times?

This. HDD speeds greatly affect loading times. Solid State for the win.

I agree - I tend to stay on one planet for as long as possible before having to move, simply because I don't want to have to sit at a Load Screen.

Reminds me of Star Wars Galaxies, back in 2004 on an old laptop, Shuttle Load times meant I could use the bathroom & make a drink & arrive back in my chair 5 - 10 minutes later s the load screen ended ...

... fortunately SWTOR isn't that bad, but a minute or two easily.

The heck?

Load times are 15 seconds TOPS for me.

That may or may not be correct.

The load times are not for loading planets, it's for transitioning your character from one cluster to the next, since the planets are not on the same ones.

While the graphical assets may be on your system, the world data is not.

Alderaan is really bad and so is Taris. I have SSD driver so i notice it's much faster than my friend's PC but I agree. A helpful tweak would be to have the planet's spaceport elevators load you right into the ship and dump the whole hangar zone.

This is not working AS INTENDED. It may be working as is but I am sure they would like load times faster.

This issue is a very big annoyance to many players.
Those that Play PvP and are constantly bouncing from a planet that they are doing daily quests and Pvp for warzones.

I site belsavis as the big offender as I am doing level 50 daily quests, there are 11 that can be done a day.
If I am in a queue for a warzone and doing the dailies it become a pain in the butt when I finish a warzone and have to wait for Belsavis to load.. almost a minute.
You may say that's not long... but in 2012 IT IS LONG...it should be maybe 10 seconds , and should be less.
If I am on Belsavis and loading to the warzone it takes maybe 10 seconds. Unless I get crashed to character screen...another big issue.

EABW get the load times shortened. This is a poor design on your part.
There is hardly any players on these planets... maybe 300 at peak... Other games have similar numbers for a zone... this is a planet with 4-5 zones.

It is definitely not 'Game Breaking' & I would rather the dev's focus on more important things first, but I would appreciate them looking at the load times for some people.

Is it really the fact that the game/loading is optimized for Solid State Drives? Considering the dev's wanted SW:TOR to be as accessible to as many people/machines as World of Warcraft I'd say that was rather short sighted.

However, it does not ruin my game play - I am used to these load screen times from days of yore with City of Heroes (which was actually a little faster) & Star Wars Galaxies. Back 5 or 6 years ago.

They make me not want to do ANYTHING anymore honestly. I think I'm going to start timing them. I'd bet they account for at LEAST 15% of my playtime (same goes for useless running between quests/fleet)

the worst are all the elevators and stuff that you have to go trough when enetering or leaving a planet.

You know, those that you click, then your char gets ported to the new area that you can clearly see for a second and THEN your screen goes black for 10 seconds while it plays some elevator sound.




eat a dick bioware, i am not paying you a monthly sub to mock me.

Uh...have you seen the size of these stages lol. Yeah it takes a long time. perfect time to go to the bathroom or grab a drink. They may optimize the assets better in future but I bet it will still be long. And I use a SSD. It's a lot of info to pull and load in memory.


Not sure w tf your talking about lol. But I had a normal HD and a SSD for this game, never had a 10sec screen for my elevators. And I'm on a "heavy" cap server. Sounds like classic issue of blaming Bioware for your crappy hardware setup.