I can't take the pointless travelling between planets...

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I can't take the pointless travelling between planets...

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Fentz

01.29.2012 , 04:29 PM \| #71
Quote: Originally Posted by Iboga Ugh. Like EQ1 where you had to run on foot almost everywhere until you could afford a horse... and even then if you wanted to go to a different continent you had to wait for the boat for like 10 mins (unless you got lucky), then actually ride the boat across the ocean(more or less)... it took years to travel before they added the whole Nexus thing... I never minded it much though, made it more immersive even if it wasn't 100% necessary. Not that I necessarily want that style travel again, but kids these days are spoiled and don't even realize it. I would rather have some travel than just open the map, click a location and be there instantly... that's just not fun. dude, that kind of travel is FINE, the current with all the loading screens, is not

Surakis

01.29.2012 , 04:30 PM \| #72
Quote: Originally Posted by Fentz why are people defending this? doy ou want the game to lose subs? people who can't play more than 1 hour or so per day won't like this crap altho, I would actually be fine with the current system if they removed the black loading screens + made every ladoing screen DECENT and they only lasted ~5 seconds on an SSD (instead of the current 55seconds some planets, Nar Shaddaa being one of them) So, we should support: -teleporation to anywhere you want to go -ability to instant level -auto gear (no need to run an instance, just select the drops you want) -anything that takes time This idea/claim that people don't have time to play so X should be changed is silly. If you don't have time to play, don't play.

SlickDevlan

01.29.2012 , 04:31 PM \| #73
Quote: Originally Posted by Mannic Only Bioware could make travelling somewhere in a Star Wars game tedious. They have managed to turn player-housing (your ship) into a tool for making travel less enjoyable than in MMO's set in an era where high-technology is a nice saddle. That's a feat right there. Are you saying that you prefer the 10, 15, 20 min travelling trips in fantasy games or are you longing for click portals so you can go everywhere without ever going anywhere...

Buur

01.29.2012 , 04:32 PM \| #74
Quote: Originally Posted by sciiwalker If it's people who constantly complain, then yes I do! If you only have 1 hour of play time, an MMORPG is NOT for you! MMOGs can certainly be for people that only have 1 hour of play time. That is actually where a lot of the money is made. From people who have limited play time but keep their sub because when they can get in and do something in only an hour or so. This game won't be truly successful until the "terrible casuals" can get in and do something in their limited play time.

Iboga

01.29.2012 , 04:32 PM \| #75
Quote: Originally Posted by Fentz dude, that kind of travel is FINE, the current with all the loading screens, is not EQ1 did have loading screens... a lot of them, zones were a lot smaller than the SWTOR ones and mobs didn't lose aggro on you until you hit a zone or died, which is where the term "TRAIN!" came from. Luckily we have advanced beyond those days...
Iboga - Scoundrel - Soresu (Retired)

nanogasm

01.29.2012 , 04:32 PM \| #76
Quote: Originally Posted by SushaBrancaleone i find the issue is not so simple. in swtor, travelling is restricted on planet maps. distance of of places is irrelevent beside the 4-5 usual quest hubs on each planet. the high duration of traveling to one place is composed by the loading screen while traveling from alderan to crouscat or tatooine takes the same exact game time... no.. In wow if you took a flier lets say from darnassus to anq uiraj it would take you around 12-13 minitues on the flyer. traveling directly maybe and hour without a fast mount? it gave u sense of place and the illusion of travelling to far places. In swtor places arent far... they're all the same... encourages the lines of "ok who cares"... I think you've underscored the key problem. The actual 'travel', the part where you cross millions of miles, is instant (ie.. hyperdrive in space). To give a 'feeling of travel', Bioware has filled the pre and post part with a timesink of traversing hangars, elevators, stations and ship boarding. So the sense of scale is lost, as people are going through paltry motions that are connected to the travel process. And people are sayng, as you said, "who cares". If Bioware made the timesink part more engaging, then it may help the process. Currently walking empty, unpopulated corridors, and hearing an annoying droid, is probably not the best feat of design Bioware can lay claim to.

Fentz

01.29.2012 , 04:32 PM \| #77
Quote: Originally Posted by Surakis So, we should support: -teleporation to anywhere you want to go -ability to instant level -auto gear (no need to run an instance, just select the drops you want) -anything that takes time This idea/claim that people don't have time to play so X should be changed is silly. If you don't have time to play, don't play. blind fanboyism, you can't even see the problem with having to go throu 3 loading screens to get into your ship to fly to another planet where you will have 3 more

Sernon

01.29.2012 , 04:33 PM \| #78
I bet sitting on your Gluteus Maximus and getting ported to your destination would look like a superior solution, bundled together with all the other suggestions in a similar vein, based on a strong urge to avoid any initiative whatsoever. Massively Automated Games, here we come. Why do anything that involves movement or time, when it could be magically instant? Blink, blink, blink, through the void, with a wizard staff and a world to avoid. ---
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SlickDevlan

01.29.2012 , 04:33 PM \| #79
Quote: Originally Posted by Fentz dude, that kind of travel is FINE, the current with all the loading screens, is not So, just to sum up, 20+ min travelling you can watch but cannot do anything is good but 5-10 min travelling where you can only watch parts and cannot do anything is bad?

SnoggyMack

01.29.2012 , 04:34 PM \| #80
Quote: Originally Posted by BriGuyRedFive +1. You should be able to hearth to another planet, pure and simple. You can. If you have enough floo powder.
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