Did you watch Firefly? Can swtor space have that feel?

I'm sorry but keep you're sandbox out of my Kotor!

And Forbidden Planet, which is kinda also based on The Tempest, so maybe that means Shakespeare was inspired by Star Wars.

Well, to be honest, there is currently right about zero exploration in Star Trek Online. For a game that holds the IP of 'exploring strange new worlds, seeking new life and new civilizations and boldly going where no one has gone before' it's pretty much pew-pew 100%. So you can't really re-direct people to look for exploring space there.
EVE I agree with, although it never was my cup of tea due to the UI and the way their gameplay works.

But I completely agree that this is Star Wars and SW:TOR should remain true to the franchise. People come here to play Star Wars after all.

I came for the war part. The planetary part. Not to fly around, sorry. And I know quite a few people who found Star Wars's appeal in the fantastic planets, the amazing weapons, the combat, and the action. Space is fine and dandy, sure, but do I want a sandbox space? Hell no. It was one of my turnoffs with Star Wars: Galaxies. Albeit, what we find appealing is unique to us, but the way the game currently is is what's appealing to, obviously, quite a bit of people, and it certanily won't be changing any time soon.

EDIT: I did misread your point in the quoted statement, but I'm still going to keep my statement here, as it's still relevant.

If you want a Firefly-like experience, check out the upcoming Star Citizen MMO:

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/

It's not exactly Firefly, but there's a large contingent of Browncoats there salivating for the game to come out. It also has the distinction of being the most successful crowd funded Project in history, they just passed 26 million dollars! (Note I said Project, not Game. The next most successful was The Pebble Smartwatch at $10 million.)

To anyone in the gaming industry who happens to see this. Do you need any further proof that there is a desire for Space Combat Sims to make a return?

I never got a Star Wars feel from Firefly. Firefly to me was Western in space. I thought it was a very good show.

It is too bad that it was killed off by Fox (showing the episodes out of order and switching nights a lot - heck, the pilot was the last show aired ).

At least they also got to make Serenity which tied up a lot of loose ends.

But so many loose ends left forever! WHAT WAS BOOK'S BACK STORY??? WHAT HAPPENED TO INARA TO MAKE HER LEAVE THE GUILDHOUSE? WOULD ZOE HAVE HAD A BABY??? WOULD MAL AND INARA HAVE GOTTEN TOGETHER?? What about her job?? Would Kayleigh and Simon have made it? What else did River know?? Would we ever have overthrown the Alliance?? It was soooo awesome and because Fox savaged it, it never had a chance to get rubbish and make us all stop watching, so I will love it forever and ever and wait desperately for every Firefly joke that Nathan makes in Castle (wearing the costume for Halloween was just awesome).

Moving on from my trauma to the topic - I love Firefly. I do. But this is Star Wars, which I also love. They are two completely different 'verses. Whilst I would be super happy to debate in the off-topic forum about Lucas vs Whedon until the end of time, I see no need to try and confuse the two.

The point is, will Galactic Starfighter feel like STAR WARS in space, not Firefly. Will I be able to make continuous "Red Leader, standing by" jokes? Will I have a chance to hit the tiny target that blows up the Death Star? Will people vote to kick when I make another "Red Leader, standing by" joke? Can I fly the Millenium Falcon?? Will I have a cockpit view?

These things are relevant, Firefly is just a cherished memory for us to all write angry letters to Fox about. And hero worship Joss Whedon until the end of time.

Not gonna hold my breath on any "crowd funded" game every seeing the light of day in any significant way.

So you want a sci-fi game where a bunch of the characters talk in dumb accents? SWTOR has granted your wish. Be happy.

Add the following things to Galactic Starfigher and save your time programming AI

add 100+ systems with space trade stations
add cargo transporting
add player driven economy
add player driven territory warfare Empire vs. Republic
add mining
add smuggling
add player bounties
add player/guild conquering of stations
add player ships in all sizes from small fighter to capital ships
add joystick combat
add cockpit view

-> Profit