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

on a hostile planet you do not want to have all the spaceships insecure on the ground, you need them locked out of harms way in a nice warm safe spaceport, that could be pulled into position.
So I am all for the port, but I would actually like to see all the ships in one large hanger and you zone between your ship and the spaceport.
OK I guess it might get cluttered and no one will know whos ship is whos, so just imagine a docking ring and you just move between the space port and your airlock as one load.

The spaceport should have all the main command and control etc so, vendors and banks should be there, and then you can shuttle down to a number of different planet landing pads, removing the need for too much taxi-ing about.

Muahahaha

It is:

Single Player Online Game (subscribtion based) with chat functions and a Comic MultiPlayer Implementation

SPOG CoMPI

and no where close to MMORPG

becouse otherways your INBOX of mail (IRL) is an MMORPG best in class!

Why is it when people discuss the tedium of interstellar travel, the other crowd always assume people want insta-travel?

Streamline the process, I have no problems running from speederpoint to my ship. I have no idea why I need to run across the hanger to enter my ship. Why can't I click on the elevator to the hangar and end up inside my ship?

Why do we need orbital stations?

A run from planet to planet should be no more than:

Speeder to spaceport
Run to hangar elevator
Appear in ship, select planet
Leave ship, appear in spaceport

Given there is nothing of interest in the orbital stations/ hangars that can't be accomodated in the spaceport, lets just ditch them.

Yup, I also know what a Strawman argument is, perhaps you should look it up.

There's several ways they could fix having to run through what is actual an artefact of their story content, suggested by myself and by others, in this thread.

They need to sort this ASAP because it's not just something people are complaining about on the forums it's a regularly mentioned in game issue too.

And it's pretty easily solvable.

I agree 100%, it gets old really quick, and I was one of the more forgiving ones when it came to the clunky and useless areas.

MMOs are based around RPG elements. People who like to RP in games enjoy such things. If it takes time in RL. Make it take time in game. This is what an MMO is, its a time sink, another world to explore and immerse yourself in.
The problem with new so-called MMO players, they seem to treat an MMO like any other game. It if takes time, remove it, if i dont like it, remove it. Instant instant type of crowd.

So when people point out to you, "if you dont like such things in games. Maybe this genre is not for you". Its an MMO, it has RPG elements. deal with it or move on. Remember, you picked this genre to play.

Its not all about the action!

My sentiments exactly.


Besides being a part of the immersion of being in a large universe, traveling to places provides players a chance to actually run into other players and gee.. maybe interact with them and help them out.It helps form friendships and guilds and maybe a positive social enviroment.

The people complaining about this are also the same people complaining about not having damage meters, or wanting a way to skip the cut-scenes, and a cross-server LFG tool.

They power level up to max level as fast as they can and then complain there is nothing to do in the game. They are the same people who advocate the idea of being able to start a character at max level.

They only want to run "end game" content and are not interested in the Leveing experience, RP, Storyline, or Social aspects of the game unless it involved them being able to "show off" their superior loot.

Let the "End Game", "powerleveling", and "Zerg" crowd go back to that other game. I for one don't need them and don't want them here.

Right, we have different definitions on 'loading screens' then, sorry.

I don't count a black zoning screen as a loading screen.

So while the track isn't seamless, it's also not bad... you want to compare times for black zoning screens to see how 'unbad' it actually is?

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Random note: Frankly, as to including the orbital stations: a good chunk of travel is planet to planet, not planet to station to planet or even planet to station to station to planet.

If you don't have the planet to planet experience, maybe you are doing something wrong? Wrong class? Wrong faction? Wrong game?

Mr Poodles, make it so!

Wait, no, wrong universe, wrong answer!

But naybe, if you could do it, maybe you could also take out all that pesty levelling? I don't like to have to do any questing (not to mention running around!) just so that I get my character up to lvl 50. Please?

Congrats, you know things! Have a cookie!

Of course aspects of your argument will be ignored by me (and other people) just because the are pointless:

again: 'what is actual an artefact of their story content' - wrong! It is part of the environment they have created! This may contain characters that only spawned as part of the story/planet arc which in theory could be dropped but this would do very little change things.

What you are saying is 'I have done the storyline, now give me the bare bones of anything other than storyline'

Sorry, this still leaves the open quest on each world...

okay, I'm done with those as well! Can I now have the bare bones?

Meaning what? PvP? (Please don't say FP this falls under 'open quests' in my book)

I'm really curious whether you can say anything other than 'this is another strawman argument'

I am surprised you could fit so much hyperbole into one post. I am glad to find out there isn't a limit.

So... running a few minutes to the nearest taxi location, driving the speeder to a place somewhere outside the actual spaceport, running a few more minutes to the spaceport, moving through it, entering your class hanger, run to the ship, enter the ship, run up to the galaxy map, travel to new planet, and then reverse all these steps... is something that helps form friendships?

Really?

I am in not one of the "End Game, powerleveing Zerg crowd" you apparently hate, but i'm also not someone who just logs on to sit in the local cantina staring at the Twi'lek dancers while sharing stories with other RPers all day long.

I actually like to "play" a game. And wasting so much time EVERY time i want to get to a new location just gets very very VERY tedious.