Community Q&A – Feb 24th 2012 Blog Discussion

It's been mentioned as something they are looking at and plan to implement.

In the mean time what do you do if your server has low pop or activity? Do what you always used to have to do in MMO's, reroll on that high pop server. In the time spent 'waiting' for this feature to be implemented you can likely have a completely new character leveled, all gear acquired again, etc.

Same here. We're probably in the minority, but my feeling is that it should take a handful of minutes to travel from planet to planet. My problem is that all the travel time is on foot and in loading screens.

If the travel time in space took 2-3 minutes, with (planet) loading time folded into the trip, and the game allowed you to skip orbital stations, I think we'd get a more immediate and appropriate sense that we're traveling somewhere far away on a spaceship. As and added plus, most of the travel time would be attention-free, allowing us to use the time as we wish (managing inventory/bank, going afk for a drink, etc).

The current system feels not only like a gratuitous time sink; it feels like it's designed explicitly to punish people with lower end hardware because of the heavy emphasis on loading screens.

"They basically shot themselves in the foot from the get go, setting in stone that they will NEVER enhance space, ever. So its something I have decided to stop bother wishing for. This game will never have any kind of space action of any worth, for the entire life of the game."

Use the currently useless escape pod hatch to access a parasite fighter. Zone into fighter combat mini-game. Minimal changes to the current ship models/game required. They already have all the ship/fighter models that would be required, other than cockpits, and I'd be moderately suprised they couldn't lift the majority of code for the mini-game from an existing game.

Sounds nice, but unfortunately, when you've got hundreds of hours invested into your various toons, legacy, PvP, social, millions of credits, maxed crafts with scads of purple procs, been through the gear grind, the thought of starting all over again from scratch make you want to hurl. I've already re-rolled onto Canderous Ordo, have to toon leveled to 30, and I'm sick of it already...I've already been here, got the t-shirt, and don't want to got through it all again.
And that is why we're seeing such a drastic drop in active players on all those scores of abandoned/deserted servers. They're either not playing, have canceled their subs, or re-rolled onto the handful of healthy active servers. And given that the healthy active server pops are remaining fairly stable or growing in pop only slightly, it isn't a good thing. Those of you on active healthy servers can continue to downplay it, ignore it, call those of us screaming for help names...but it isn't going to make the issue go away. Only way it's going to go away, is when we give up and cancel our subs in frustration, or they merge servers/allow transfers. We're screaming about the issue because we want to play the game the rest of you are, and get access to all the end game content that is currently unavailable to us due to a lack of people to play with. It's an MMO...we'd like some people to play with instead of rattling around deserted servers trying to get enough people to run OPs or get a PvP que to pop. We're not bad people, and we're still here because we really do want to play the game. Having us quit isn't good for the community, and everyone of us that gives up (and people are, everyday, and the pace is accelerating) is $15 a month less money going toward patches, fixes, and new content.

Huh? If you have a security key, the passes to the fleet are on a 1 hour timer. If you have a smart phone or emulator for your PC, the key is free.

• quick travel to your ship
• LFG tool
• streamlining the Space Port process
• animation/damage timing consistency changes

Cool!

• new emotes be added to the game (No word about grab/drop to toolbar)
• other Crew Crafting Skills
• performance issues
• "companion" loot roll option

Dont care

• mini-games like swoop races or pazaak
• compare mods/enhancements/armoring/hilts/crystals
• able to purchase, make, or steal a new and different ship

BW has them on low priority or will not implement them, so meh.

• Main issues that seem to be priority for SWTOR subscribers.

Still unanswered or no eta.

I think the thing I'm looking forward to most is more endgame craftable items. They promised they would be addressing the issue that all craftable items are obsolete compared to PvP and rewards/commendation vendor items. Crafting isn't a huge part of the game, but it is a part that should be more involved and effective. Right now, there is no real use for it other than maybe selling mats on the GTN. I'm counting on them fixing this, as I'm only learning Armstech on my alt character so that when there is better craftable items I can make them.

Will there ever be a second experience bar system with more class specific abilities/advancements for higher levels to keep some element of progression other than gear?

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Sadly it matches with the OP (look below) still, If you ask they should even add AI to the NPC so they start wandering around in the ships. Everything is so static in this game.

Now about the OP:
Seriously, hard to add and set new cinematic in new ships?

1. You are the ones who decided to focus the game on story
2. You decided to add companions and cinematic in space ships
3. You knew players would require more than one house type per character (space ship)
4. You decided not to spend time developing the needed tools to set cinematic and companions to new space ships interiors

Next time are you going to tell us it's because of the players that you added V.O. cinematic and as such can't add more quests?