CHEAP and IDENTICAL design of Republic / Imperial fleets

It is our duty as players to air our grievances in the hope that they might be addressed.

Back to the main topic of the fleets, I felt that the fleets lack that 'epic' factor that greeted you upon your first visit, cf Stormwind in WoW. Also the lack of multiple 'capital' cities located on different planets discourages exploration, making all these planets nothing more than transient leveling phases; but then again, the fleet doesn't even have enough players on it at the moment to even justify another player-hub.

EDIT: Coruscant and Dromund Kaas come pretty close because of the population numbers, that's a good start.

does having an identical repub and imperial fleet design really annoy/anger some ppl that bad???? If thats so then instead of playing games you should probably seek some help. This is so trivial compared to stuff they should be worried about.

During the beta Bioware asked the beta tester explicitly if there was anything wrong with the imperial and republic stations designs and layout. No one said anything.

So blame the community for not saying anything. This could have been changed but no one thought it was broken.

Why the designers have choosen a full symetric design for the most important or visited locations of the game and the lead designer(s) agreed with this?
Their possible clarification on this however must be something like it will make players easier to find and remember their sections, vendors or class specific destinations. But for me as a more critic gamer than average it is not just as simple and convincing like that..

For those people who haven't noticed yet. Just take a look at the map (press M) on either Republic or Imperial fleets. You will see that there has been a numerous iterations copy > paste of a 90 degree base design applied for the other 3/4th part of the map. Inside this 90 degree base design there is again a four multiply copy / paste iteration applied.

The most shamefull part of this is that both faction fleet designs are identical except a few cosmetic changes.

Most maps are identical between factions.... im talking down to the letter. I started out empire.... got to balmorra on republic, went to a camp and as soon as I stepped in it I said holy sh*t and ran out..... I thought I was in the empire camp.

It looked the EXACT same! Like everything was identical. But it was republic camp.

Really disappointed that they took such a lazy approach to this game cutting corners everywhere.

And noticable corners at that.

I agree the fleets lack that 'wow' factor. It's not very epic entering a tin can.

The fleets should have been more open, more panoramic space views with small fighter squadrons whizzing by and slow cap ships lumbering about.

My guess is that the fleet's limited feature set is related to game performance. If Ilum can't handle more than 80 people, then a fleet with fancy graphics would probably cause computers to explode.