Do Worlds Feel Lifeless?

No, you are not alone. I think that's the thing that kept me playing SWG for so many years, the fact the planets felt like real planets, mainly for the following reasons:

* No loading screens on planets.. Massive landscapes (sure, graphics a little dated now)
* Player Cities..... BH collecting, camping people in their player house... so much fun
* Mass open world PVP that spanned planets literally..
* Spaceports on each planet that let you go to any planet, from any planet (almost, excepting mustafar)
* Spaceships that were like actual space ships.. Freedom of flight, fly to another planet physically if you
want the nostalgic approach, or hyperspace...
* The allowance of hundreds and hundreds of players on a single map
* Practically zero instancing.
* Exploration - SWG allowed you to explore the landscape and find all the cool landmarks.. SWTOR makes me
run into invisible walls, or my speeder hits an "exhaustion zone"
* Most importantly... The ability to speak to the opposing faction!

/sign.

If SWG hadn't of shut down, I'd have been back there playing it a couple of months ago. SWG was intrinsically a brilliant game, full of life and character. It just lacked the subscriber base to fund remedies for the technical and frustrating problems that plagued it.

I think if ToR had night/day cycles and varying weather like rain, wind, snow etc it would feel more alive. The planets feel static, for instance it's always raining on DK, the sun never sets on Tattooine, It never snows on Hoth, yet the ground is covered in it. I wouldn't say it's game breaking for me, but sometimes it's the little things like that, that can make a game feel more alive.

No, you are not alone. I think that's the thing that kept me playing SWG for so many years, the fact the planets felt like real planets, mainly for the following reasons:

* No loading screens on planets.. Massive landscapes (sure, graphics a little dated now)
* Player Cities..... BH collecting, camping people in their player house... so much fun
* Mass open world PVP that spanned planets literally..
* Spaceports on each planet that let you go to any planet, from any planet (almost, excepting mustafar)
* Spaceships that were like actual space ships.. Freedom of flight, fly to another planet physically if you
want the nostalgic approach, or hyperspace...
* The allowance of hundreds and hundreds of players on a single map
* Practically zero instancing.
* Exploration - SWG allowed you to explore the landscape and find all the cool landmarks.. SWTOR makes me
run into invisible walls, or my speeder hits an "exhaustion zone"
* Most importantly... The ability to speak to the opposing faction!

I know for me on lotr I always find it cool when im in the forest somewhere on my hunter and its dark and starts raining. I have several times looked for a downed tree or overhanging rock . And started a campfire and cooked.

Even had my group join me doing it and sat there shooting the breeze for awhile. I know it might seem lame but its things like that ,Thats kept me playing it since launch till today. It may not be the most up to date game on the market ,But the devs sure knew what they was doing to create a immersive world, I will alsways believe its the most under apreciated marvel of the mmo circles todate.

Something is wrong with your graphics setting then.

Dromund Kaas has a force storm, not a rain storm going. This was triggered from the disturbance of fallen sith lords' tombs.

But yes, night - day seqences on Tattooine, Coruscant, Taris, Voss, etc would add to the game. Or at least an afternoon/evening / day sequence for a few worlds.

But as it stands now. I completely dissagree with the OP. The worlds feel very lively for me, and I'm from SWG too. The worlds in TOR are way better looking than SWG ever did. TOR only lacks the day sequences.



Then you are one of the reasons why a BH system can never be made here. You griefers kill it to an extreme. The thing I hated most in SWG were spies or bounty hunters; the biggest ******es in the game for the most part. It's one thing if you have a bounty and just happend to get collected in Restuss, etc, or when nothing is happening. But it's the tools that prevent you from even playing that killed any interest to befriend or want to play as a bounty hunter. May we never see this in TOR.

So I come from SWG, and I dabbled in a little of LotRO and DC Universe. SWTOR by far has the nicest looking worlds, but there's one problem. They feel dead compared to other MMOs. Nothing ever changes. Hardly any NPCs ever move. Some may gesture, but they all stay in the same place. There's no day/night or weather cycle, so the whole world seems static.

I love the game for what it is, but it's hard to truly immerse myself in the world because it doesn't really feel like one. Everything feels static and lifeless to me. Am I alone?