I'm surprised no one has posted anything. It could have a cloud city casino. It's own story line and a "tactical FP". Mostly just player to player gambling. It could have shuttles from both sides.

How awesome and weird it would be to have duels break out on the casino floor. Consensual duels. Not PvP open world style. Zones where you have to agree to duel even on PvP servers.

Edited: to include planets discussion besides Bespin

My understanding is that they are still just using the assets developed before the massive layoffs. I mean, they had a poll for what new planet people wanted, makeb was not on there, but that's what we got.

Poll.

There have been thousands upon thousands of suggestions for planets over the last couple years. Sometimes, people get tired of talking when they're 100% sure nobody is listening.

Yeah it would be an interesting planet ...that isn't actually a planet, our experience of Bespin is isolated to the Tibanna gas mine owned by Lando Calrissian and Tibannopolis for the die hard Star Wars fans who know the story behind that one ....none of which are on the surface as they are floating facilities, so not really a planet (sorry I know i'm being pedantic there lol).

I think given the location it does have the potential for being a gamblers haven, filled with smugglers and general no-good scoundrels....but isn't that what Nar Shadaa was supposed to be?

Anyway, for me personally I would like to see somewhere like Kashyyyk to perhaps go alongside a new playable Wookiee species? That sort of thing, although any addition to the game, even if it is Bespin, would only increase the amount of variation within SWTOR

Only if I can fall to my cloudy death.

We already have this with Makeb, don't we ?

I'd like to see a planet from both offline KOTOR games again.

Plus I'd like to see one very peaceful planet as well - like Voss - I'm so sick of all of this hack & slay already.

We already have this with Makeb, don't we ?

 

 

I'd like to see a planet from both offline KOTOR games again.

 

Plus I'd like to see one very peaceful planet as well - like Voss - I'm so sick of all of this hack & slay already.

It's not the same!

It's not the same!

I didn't say that it was the same. I only meant that since we already have it, it would be easier to implement Bespin.

My understanding is that they are still just using the assets developed before the massive layoffs. I mean, they had a poll for what new planet people wanted, makeb was not on there, but that's what we got.

 

Poll.

 

There have been thousands upon thousands of suggestions for planets over the last couple years. Sometimes, people get tired of talking when they're 100% sure nobody is listening.

This, they ask for feedback and suggestions, but most if not all of it is just scrapped or ignored. There have been some highly requested features people have been asking for since launch that haven't been implemented.

But back on topic: i would like to see Telos, Manaan or Kashyyk like many other people would. I want to know how the telos restoration project went and what happened to kashyyk after the czerka incident.

I would like to see a command based battle system like many JRPGs but it would never happen.

Many times implementing community suggestions is too risky as the majority is silent and enjoying the game. Take what you're given and be happy. They're the professionals after all. They are paid to know better.

Bespin would be ok, but I think it is time for Kashyyyk. A lush green world with huge trees, walkways in between, the and a lethal ground floor. Plus who knows what evil Rakatta vestige might still be dormant in the weeds.

Besides another shout out to KOTOR never hurts.

My understanding is that they are still just using the assets developed before the massive layoffs. I mean, they had a poll for what new planet people wanted, makeb was not on there, but that's what we got.

 

Poll.

 

There have been thousands upon thousands of suggestions for planets over the last couple years. Sometimes, people get tired of talking when they're 100% sure nobody is listening.

This is true. People have to remember that it's just not BW involved with this game. They had to get prior approval from LA before creating Makeb. They have the rights to use the IP, but LA, and now Disney, get final approval on a lot of this stuff before they can go ahead with it. The inclusion of planets is one of those things, so if the Keepers of Lore (and the license) say no "Planet X" then we don't get Planet X in the game.

This is why there won't be any bespin planet/outpost:

"The planet was first discovered by the explorers from the Hyperspace Navigator's Guild in years prior to the Mandalorian Wars. The carbonite-rich Empress Teta established a small gas operation on the planet, but it was mostly destroyed during the Mandalorian Wars by a fleet of Mandalorian warships, hoping to break up the tibanna gas supply chain for the Galactic Republic.[13]

Bespin was first colonized in 1989 BBY.[13] The planet had its own Jedi Enclave. During the New Sith Wars, the Brotherhood of Darkness captured the planet.[14] Lord Ecclessis Figg commissioned Cloud City to be built by the Incom Corporation around 400 BBY."

Basically it was pretty deserted at the time.

Bespin is nothing at this point in the timeline.

KOTOR worlds like Manaan, Dantooine, Kashyyyk, Onderun, Dxun and Telos should all be expanded upon. That'll open up Selkath, Wookiees, and Mandalorians for more companions/npcs/plotlines.

Then toss is worlds like Raxus Prime and Rhen Var. Places actually referenced in Old Republic EU material.

Alternately, they could actually expand upon worlds already in the game. Ord Mantell, Tython, Hutta, Korriban, Quesh - these places are all tiny and could really use some end-game reason to visit beyond getting a few datacrons/codex entries. Introduce some end-level gated instances with whole new areas of the planets to explore and allow for opposing factions to run missions there without worrying about newbies getting griefed.

What they shouldn't be doing is inventing yet another brand new world. There are so many places already in canon that can be built upon for cool missions/stories.

I'm surprised no one has posted anything. It could have a cloud city casino. It's own story line and a "tactical FP". Mostly just player to player gambling. It could have shuttles from both sides.

 

How awesome and weird it would be to have duels break out on the casino floor. Consensual duels. Not PvP open world style. Zones where you have to agree to duel even on PvP servers.

I imagine Bespin would be exactly like Makeb, except made of metal rather than dirt.

What they shouldn't be doing is inventing yet another brand new world. There are so many places already in canon that can be built upon for cool missions/stories.

I'm of the opposite opinion. New planets are one of the biggest advantages that the Star Wars universe has, writers can always have the freedom to do something new or approach topics from a different direction.

As for your topic of interest

Tython and Korriban flashpoints have already been officially announced

Bespin is a gas giant, right? Which means it wouldn't be a new planet but a new outpost similar to CZ-198. A new planet should be larger.

Good point! That would seem to make it even easier to do...if they did.

Good point! That would seem to make it even easier to do...if they did.

Bespin hasn't actually been colonized yet though.

Mannan! http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121208162908/starwars/images/b/b1/Ahto_City.png

Bespin would be interesting, but as a gas giant planet we are talking about a lot of environments we already have in the game (with admittedly scenic views!). I would LOVE to see Mannan in the game. Imagine the underwater catwalks or even walking out onto the ocean floor in protected gear (as you could in KOTOR I).

It would be.... SWEET!

- Arcada

Bespin hasn't actually been colonized yet though.

"Mined"...not "colonized". Just a few CZ type areas are all it would take to "look" like the Bespin we know. In fact, CZ would have been the ideal Bespin imo...everything about it screams Bespin to me.

I'm surprised no one has posted anything. It could have a cloud city casino. It's own story line and a "tactical FP". Mostly just player to player gambling. It could have shuttles from both sides.

 

How awesome and weird it would be to have duels break out on the casino floor. Consensual duels. Not PvP open world style. Zones where you have to agree to duel even on PvP servers.

No. Just no. Bespin was NOT colonized at the time this game is set in. It was first colonized in 1989 BBY. ToR takes place in 3643-3640 BBY, about 1700 years before.

Mannan! http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121208162908/starwars/images/b/b1/Ahto_City.png

 

Bespin would be interesting, but as a gas giant planet we are talking about a lot of environments we already have in the game (with admittedly scenic views!). I would LOVE to see Mannan in the game. Imagine the underwater catwalks or even walking out onto the ocean floor in protected gear (as you could in KOTOR I).

 

It would be.... SWEET!

 

- Arcada

OMG I love Manaan so much!!!!! <3 <3 <3 It had my favorite music and it was my favorite planet in KotOR. They'd have to create some new movement mechanics for underwater (if they chose to have that as opposed to restricting us to a surface base), but it would be so cool!!!! Kashyyyk would be nice to have as that was in the old games as well, but being as SW:Galaxies added Kashyyyk in an expansion, I don't think ToR will want to do the same.