Design decisions and why the game engine hurts TOR

One particular thing that bothers me is how the fleets are designed.
1) They're instanced, and you cannot travel to the other faction's fleet. Which means no epic faction vs faction like we had in "that other game". Bored? Let's get a group of 200 people and raid the other faction's main city!

2) Its very design is anti-social. There's no gathering point, people are scattered all over the place. And for the RPers, you can't even sit down in the cantina or play games there. No one hangs out in the cantina.

I'd like to see them replace fleets with open world cities, where we'd have housing and a huge marketplace in the center, where players could also engage in multiplayer games (poker, chess, arm wrestling etc).
I think this would fix a lot of the boredom people are experiencing, and it would feel more like an MMORPG rather than a single-player online game.

Hm. Mass PvP games - such as Warhammer Online - use considerably less detail per character - only a fraction of the vertices.

The design is not strictly anti social. The fleets are the social gathering points. On a fleet you trade, look for mates for your flashpoints and operations have access to all kinds of special item vendors and get your speeders. Along with that, the cantinas are gathering points by default, because you get rested XP (which you will later transform into actual XP) for every second being there.

All I can say is omg

I cannot be further from your experience and I certainly cannot disagree with you more

First off let me say congratz on being yet another wow fanboi with no experience whatsoever of anything that preceded it.
You comparison are just ridiculous to me and in fact I laughed out loud and quite a few times.
You do know that wow cut and pasted raiding from EQ and EQ2 right?
You do realize that there was less then 10 encounters in wow that were anywhere near what would be considered difficult. Off the top of my head I can think of 6. Not raids mind you individual mobs

PVP comparing the wz in wow to these is just laughable. AB = huttball oh man lol

In addition the fact that you do not think you are in a minority when it comes to FPS and the like, you are
If 1.5 million people play the game and 700k are having issues you are the minority and I highly doubt the number is anywhere near that or even 1/3 of that, so yea the minority

I run a compter that I bought and changed the video card to a 550 (which isnt that good of a card at all) and I have no issues with fps at all. I think my low was around 40 ever
Comparing this game to a game that can run on a Tandy 1000 or a Timex sinclair is just horrible

Only thing I can take away from this is Ilum, which is in fact horrible, but it is horrible for 2 reasons 1) faction imbalace and 2) player base
BW is not responsible for what people choose as their side or class and they are not responsible for the playerbase not creating pvp other then exploiting traiding kills or swapping control points. The player base did that. Until you can create a pvp experience where the player base cannot exploit a system, everything is going to fail
Open world pvp is this game isnt a BW issue its a playerbase issue
You have to take the dailies out of the game, the biggest reward, or the only reward should be killing other players, everything else should be removed, no chests, no awards for doing daily WZ just straight up pvp with a zonewide bonus for the side with less people

Hm. Mass PvP games - such as Warhammer Online - use considerably less detail per character - only a fraction of the vertices, clothing detail, effective texture pixels.

The design is not strictly anti social. The fleets are the social gathering points. On a fleet you trade, look for mates for your flashpoints and operations have access to all kinds of special item vendors and get your speeders. Along with that, the cantinas are gathering points by default, because you get rested XP (which you will later transform into actual XP) for every second being there.

None of that is social or really encourages or enables social activities. Buying stuff and gaining rested XP aren't social nor do either really enable, encourage or facilitate socialization. If there were actual things to do like games in cantinas, or swoop bike races to watch/bet on, those would help.

Saved up for a new PC purely for TOR

They bring people together. You can't force people to act social that must come on their own, but you can bring them together in one place where the slow paced stuff takes place. As opposed to actual combat where you can't be distracted.

You have been wrong with every prediction you have made so far.

To the OP:

Your complaints are not the engine. You just used that title to catch people's eye so they would read your review of the game...not the engine.

A massive wall of text also ensures most will not read it, thus you get your instant gratification of people agreeing with you even though they didn't even read it.