Will day ever end, will the weather ever change?

Not one argument made for a day/night cycle says a thing about how this would improve game play.

I don't see any static worlds because I'm never in one spot long enough to see it. If you are staying in one spot for hour after hour it is probably fleet or your ship or inside an OP...in which case a day/night cycle won't be seen anyway.

Some moods are already set on a planet. Nar Shaddaa is perpetual evening as befits a Las Vegas type atmosphere. A day/night cycle would take away from that. Taris is gloomy, Coruscant is bright and hopeful, Dromund Kaas is...well, Dromund Kaas...

Day/night cycles would not add to the feel of those areas, nor would it add anything that would entice players to stay and play until "2019" (gotta love lame arguments).

Each zone is designed around a certain feel and implementing a day/night cycle would take away from that and not add anything in that would make the experience "better".

I know .. everything is the same. I mean it's as if time has stood still. I take a new alt to a planet and everyone is standing in the same exact place saying the same exact thing!?! It's like "Groundhog Day!" Oh wait ...

Because it's a start?

There was absolutely no effort expended in trying to make any planet in TOR feel like a living environment. It's a major fail point of the game. As many people have said, there is nothing that changes on any world, ever. Every monster is the same all the time, all the NPC's are the same all the time, the weather is the same all the time, the time of day is the same all the time.

There is simply no excuse why dynamic worlds are completely absent from any modern MMO, or RPG for that matter. This has been technically feasible, even standard procedure in RPG's since the Amiga days.

So you are saying you CANNOT SEE ONE THING DIFFERENT between Emprie Taris (Night) and Republic Taris (Day)?

To you both of those "planets" look and feel exactly the same?

The swamps go to eleven on Imperial Taris!

Each has its own feel built in. A day/night cycle would take away from that feel. Every zone has an atmosphere already designed into it that an artificial day/night cycle would damage more than improve.

As I said earlier, if it is that important to you, you can fiddle with the contrast and brightness of your monitor to change things up. It would have just as much effect as BW/EA spending a bunch of effort doing it for you.

Those are actually different maps. A day/night cycle on either of those would not result in the other.

I agree that Taris does have a very different feel, and it's the only planet to do so because it is the ONLY planet with a Day/Night cycle (albiet a factional one).

But see you agree with me that a Day/Night cycle does in fact change a planet and therefore changes the staticness, just for some reason you fail to admit it.




Now personally I think Taris actually works as what is it (a planet that feels very different for each faction - Balmorra doesn't do it anything like as well - probably because both are "Day").

However on non-factionally seperated planets they should have a Day/Night cycle to give this feeling of a dynamic world where things DO change, and the suns actually set on Tattooine!!!!

The factional Taris maps are very, very similar (much more so than the Balmorra maps - yet Balmorra feels much more the same because it's Day/Day there - again showing the POWER of a Day/Night cycle ).

In fact structually they are I think identical, just camps and such are moved.

If you think any TOR world has a 'feel' I would suggest you go try out EQ.

Seriously. Day/night and weather have an enormous affect on atmosphere in a virtual world.

From a company who pride themselves on cinematics, it's baffling why they've completely ignored one of the most basic 'tricks' of literature. Weather and time of day are hugely important in setting the tone in any fiction. It's always "a dark and stormy night" in horror movies because it instantly sets a tone. It's fiction 101.