Why doesn't swtor utilize the entire planet???????

Short answer:


They will.


6 pages of pointless conjecture when we already see evidence of it. Low and high level areas on Coruscant already exist. Tatooine is known for it's epic areas where Krayt dragons exist so expect high level areas in the future. List goes on and on.

The areas would likely be based around a second space port or shuttle landing spot and would take a great deal of time to make. The areas we see now are nothing more than a small portion already. I have no clue as to why the OP would want to chop those areas up even smaller.

Content patches, expansions and level cap raises will bring us back to existing planets. Devs have even mentioned this in the past. People ASSUME one thing despite it going against logical direction.

I hop in the driver's seat of my shiny, brand new, intergalactic spaceship. It's an exhilarating sensation, the first time one jumps into light speed, and I'm rifling through my star charts, giving orders, and preparing to visit the city-moon of Nar Shadaa.

As I arrive and my ship starts to convulse out of light speed, I gaze out of the front window of my cockpit to see a glowing ball of energy, light streaked speedways, and buildings bathed in the perpetual glow of neon. It's very exciting. The moon is enormous, and I can't wait to explore it's every locale.

Once I'm thoroughly done enjoying the art and design of this moon, my fascination wanes as quickly as the din of that first casino I couldn't play any mini games in. I can't travel anywhere else on Nar Shadaa but one very small city. In fact, I can't travel anywhere on any planet except one small part of the planet. Total bummer.

You see, friends, it's not that I don't like the art and the stories in each city. On the contrary, they're usually quite intriguing. It's just...well, I'm an explorer you see. It's in my blood. I like to run around and go to different places, travel from city to city, and keep my finger on the pulse of each planet I frequent.

In SW:ToR, one can travel and peruse the vagaries of a galaxy. Get to put on the shoes of each little planet, crawl in its skin, and wiggle around a bit. It's pretty cool. But I can't wiggle much.

I have a difficult time believing that my actions in one very small area of a planet or city are affecting my entire faction's influence on the entire planet. That would be like me going to Washington, DC, doing some errands in the surrounding neighborhoods, subverting a faction of congress, usurping one party of the bicameral system, and then lay claim that I have just taken over the entire United States of America (or the world for that matter) for the glory of the Empire. Yet, this is exactly what I did on Alderaan.

I'm just not getting it. In other games of this type, one stays on one world (for the most part), exploring the snow peaked mountains in high elevations, or trapping across the desert in the vast expanses between vales, valley, shorelines, and coastal capitals. It feels like I'm really exploring the enticing features of each planet.

I know this really isn't feasible in a franchise like Star Wars, since travel among planets is an integral part of the story. It would, however, be very helpful for one to be able to travel to separate parts of a planet.

So here is my suggestion: Allow for one to take shuttles to different areas of planets in upcoming game expansions. It's obviously too late now to change the way the zone system is set up. It would have been way more rad to take speeders to other areas of the planet, shuttles to different poles, and quick travel to bases or areas set up far away from the operating hub.

In some cases, the current system works and it makes sense. Especially in starting areas, but I'm just not really buying it on planets like Tatooine. The gigantic, arid, bowling ball of the galaxy. Where Tusken Raiders reign, and moisture farmers toil endlessly to make a living. The planet is so enormous, and the expanses are so extreme, I find it very hard to believe that I just traveled the entire planet in my questline. I'm not really sure how my actions in one very small area affect the planet on a macro level.

Additionally, I'm not sure why the Republic and Imperial bases would set up so close to one and other. Wouldn't they try and keep their respective capitals on different areas of the planet? Makes sense to me. Oh, you decided to build this massive Imperial base (unnoticed) in this small crevasse that just so happens to be next to one of the Republic's most notorious prisons? Get me that logistics guy, he's getting a promotion.

In sum, it would just have been nice to have the zones split up a bit more than they are now. Put some areas of the zones, ostensibly, on different parts of the planet. That way one feels as if they're really exploring the entire planet, absorbing the whole of the culture in that planet, and making more effectual change on the galaxy as a whole, instead of just very small parts of that planet.

When one clicks on a world map, it should show the world and the different areas of that world. Not just one large blob that we all expect to be our massive quest area, and that we assume is the entire planet.

Just a thought. Anyone else feel the same way when playing??

TLR = Put parts of zones on different areas of planet made accessible by speeder or shuttle travel. Bring the planet map up instead of one big map. Greater sense of exploration of world, versus just one small part of it.

1. Because as small as they are now people still complain that it takes to long to get around them.

2. Because this gives them room to have expansions without creating a bunch of new planets. They can send us back to them into areas we havent been yet.

3. Because no matter what they did people wouldn't be happy.