Do Worlds Feel Lifeless?

It was a game mechanic, get over it. What better way to make a million credits then hunting someone across the galaxy... Some people were so good it took days to take them down because they were so shifty. If you hid in your house it generally means you were afraid to die in a computer game, which is silly. If you played SWG you would know that once you bounty is collected, its done and you are no longer in danger unless you pvp. Alternatively, you could offer a bounty hunter splits in the bounty if you were at a stand off.

As i said, great game.

Lol a typical griefer response.

its funny people want a bounty hunter system , when the biggest issue with that would be.. who is around to bounty?:P seems kinda dumb to institute a system that requires players before the player issue is sorted out

No, you are not alone. I think that's the thing that kept me playing SWG for so many years, the fact the planets felt like real planets, mainly for the following reasons:

* No loading screens on planets.. Massive landscapes (sure, graphics a little dated now)
* Player Cities..... BH collecting, camping people in their player house... so much fun
* Mass open world PVP that spanned planets literally..
* Spaceports on each planet that let you go to any planet, from any planet (almost, excepting mustafar)
* Spaceships that were like actual space ships.. Freedom of flight, fly to another planet physically if you
want the nostalgic approach, or hyperspace...
* The allowance of hundreds and hundreds of players on a single map
* Practically zero instancing.
* Exploration - SWG allowed you to explore the landscape and find all the cool landmarks.. SWTOR makes me
run into invisible walls, or my speeder hits an "exhaustion zone"
* Most importantly... The ability to speak to the opposing faction!

Lol a typical griefer response.

I agree, it did have some shortcomings... but in it's 8 years I took a good few breaks, but a good solid 5 years and I have to say besides usual NGE gripes, I really do miss it now. But yeah, server pop's dropped swiftly around the 6 year mark and the last 2 years was spent server hopping, rebuilding city... rinse repeat... I started on Kettemoor, that got obliterated, then Bria, then Flurry.

I think if ToR had night/day cycles and varying weather like rain, wind, snow etc it would feel more alive. The planets feel static, for instance it's always raining on DK, the sun never sets on Tattooine, It never snows on Hoth, yet the ground is covered in it. I wouldn't say it's game breaking for me, but sometimes it's the little things like that, that can make a game feel more alive.