Will day ever end, will the weather ever change?

Lack of day and night cycles and weather is not normally the highest complaint on the list when people rate what is wrong with the game around the net, from what I have seen.

The two biggest complaints seem to be the space combat system and the Hero engine implementation and issues connected with it. However, the lack of life in the game is usually mentioned in the list, sometimes day/night and weather directly.

So it doesn't seem to be one of the biggest complaints, but it is a common complaint none the less.

I actually think the frozen in time idea works pretty well with Taris, I like for that.

It works less well be still ok for Balmorra.



However where it makes no sense at all is everywhere else, where the two factions can mix, there being frozen in time has not plot issue (as it does in Taris and Balmorra - in fact the only places it does Correlia and now Belsavis daily areas makes it plain confusing as you're in the same world which now is supposed frozen in a much LATER moment in time).

So in all the rest of the planets the frozen in time idea just makes them feel extra static and like film sets, here a Day/Night cycle would be an improvement.

Weather would be an improvement everywhere, even frozen in different moments of time like planets such as Taris/Balmorra.

Well there's a few theories with that.

One is that their single player game heratige got the better of them (SWTOR is a pretty good single player game after all), and they did decide to freeze things in time for "artistic" reason.

Another is that they were running low on development time and took this as a short cut.

Another is that the version of the engine they bought didn't (and maybe doesn't) support this more advanced features that the retail version of the Hero Engine does.

The planets in Star Wars had almost no connection with reality...

And weather or day/night will make what change exactly?

This is true, however the movies were not attempting to simulate a virtual reality, the game is.

Everything.

Do you mean to tell me there are no dust storms on tatooine, and no blizzards on hoth (or whatever the ice planet was)? That's worse than it always being daytime to me.

The game is not trying to simulate reality....

It sucks to have no answer.