Will day ever end, will the weather ever change?

Except I don't see any static, film set world since I don't sit still in one spot for hours at a time. Reality trumps illusion.

You see exactly the same thing every time you go to any place. It doesn't matter how much you run around, nothing changes.

Except I don't see any static, film set world since I don't sit still in one spot for hours at a time. Reality trumps illusion.

I like how you are ok with BioWare being lazy... All they have done is add lazy fluff to this game. BioWare doesn't feel like optimizing their hero engine, they don't wanna put the entire dev team on this SSSP and they rather have everyone play on fake static worlds that feel like a movie set movie set piece with fake props and no day/night cycles.

You are supposed to challenge BioWare to help craft them a better game not sit back and greenlight them to be lazy.

Day and night cycles would be different for each planet depending on its size and rotation speed

1 day on a big planet could = years

I've been playing planet side 2 and the day night cycle there is awesome

My view changes. It's just like real life. When I go to work, it is dark outside. I spend 8 hours inside a building whose view only changes when maintenance crosses a wire and kills everything but the emergency lighting. When I get off work, its light outside. I get home and go inside and nothing inside my home changes. I sleep, wake up and...holy cow, outside looks just like it did the day before.

Same thing. I go from zone to zone, my view changes. I don't need some artificial brightening or darkening of the environment to add "realism" because my actual realism doesn't change that much either.

If day/night cycles realistically followed real life they would happen so slowly that if you play online at the same times every day (like most people tend to do) you'd never see any change anyway. To actually notice it, you'd have to either play for 12 hours at a sitting or your play time would have to straddle the cycle change.

Is it really so important to add in something that doesn't have a direct effect on game play? No, because there are many more important game play affecting things that the resources are better used for.

Again though nothing changes in SWTOR, nothing.

Running around like a loon still doesn't change that.




Also as mentioned most MMORPGs go for day/night cycle of a few hours.

So how is that "immersing realism"? I'd rather not have any cycle at all than have some artificial "planet spinning so fast we'd all get thrown off" day/night cycle. You can't argue for realistic immersion on one hand and an artificially fast cycle on the other.

So how is that "immersing realism"? I'd rather not have any cycle at all than have some artificial "planet spinning so fast we'd all get thrown off" day/night cycle. You can't argue for realistic immersion on one hand and an artificially fast cycle on the other.