Xeta Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 That architect must be swimming in credits, selling his plans to the Empire planet stations and fleet, Republic planet stations and fleet, Port Nowhere, Maelstrom Prison, Llanic Station, Balosar Outpost, etc etc etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suaine Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 I would bet they were all made by the Czerka corporation It's entirely possible some kind of corporation has a monopoly on building space stations, since it seems to be a rather big investment - and since they appear to be public space (aka they belong to the government rather than a private person/corp) the ones in charge would choose efficiency and a small price tag over individuality. Presto, you've got clone stations all over the galaxy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iPredicted Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 That architect must be swimming in credits, selling his plans to the Empire planet stations and fleet, Republic planet stations and fleet, Port Nowhere, Maelstrom Prison, Llanic Station, Balosar Outpost, etc etc etc. They probably ran out of ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiet Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 (edited) The same Hutt controlled "union" built them all. Edited February 26, 2012 by Quiet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay_Stocker Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 it is quite poor designing that republic and sith share the same design, and then you do space missions for neutral station or class stories and even they look the same. similar to them having the same designs for thedocking stations, how come both republic and sith have orbital stations on ilum when they are at war? but, the beauty of MMOs is constant updates.....but i think they have bigger things to deal with right now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfninjajedi Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 Why do all town houses look the same?...Same concept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGriffith Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 it is quite poor designing that republic and sith share the same design, and then you do space missions for neutral station or class stories and even they look the same. similar to them having the same designs for thedocking stations, how come both republic and sith have orbital stations on ilum when they are at war? but, the beauty of MMOs is constant updates.....but i think they have bigger things to deal with right now ICly it makes sense to have a single design. If it functions and it is a lot of work to design it and a lot of prefab manufacturing and space construction to assemble, it makes sense to go with a unified approach. Those things are around for centuries or millenia so everybody needs to be able to swap segments in and out when they need to be replaced. Again pointing at a universal design. Shared airlock design is not necessarily true, though you could argue that the empire would opt to steal a functioning and near universal design rather than try to whip up something of their own with all inherent bugs, just to be contrary. And with forcefield technology prevalent you need only approximate dimensions on your airlock and have forcefield to prevent your station or ship from displacing its atmosphere. OOCly, the design of a zone is a lot of work and the exterior of the thing is only really used in a few cutscenses of ships arriving and taking off. Why bother with all the design and modelling work for that? I mean if you follow the discussions on this board there are plenty of players who would rather do away with stations and travel entirely and instead have a menu Guild Wars style that can sent them directly to any instance or planet from any other instance or planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpyaxeswinger Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 It makes a lot of sense for the docking areas to be identical. There is probably a galatic wide specification to cover such areas. No ship builder would want to loose trade because they couldn't dock with a certain type of station or ship. Likewise the economies of scale would dictate that a sucsesful space station design would become prelevant throught the galaxy regardless of polit6ical afiliation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramaruh Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 its called lazyness on Bioware's part, alot of cave have the same design as well just the content change but the layout remains exactly the same. Why make different looking plans when you can use the same over and over its not like us player are gonna notices we are not that brilliant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haajib Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 That architect must be swimming in credits, selling his plans to the Empire planet stations and fleet, Republic planet stations and fleet, Port Nowhere, Maelstrom Prison, Llanic Station, Balosar Outpost, etc etc etc. more likly they became used with CRTL+C CRTL+v and they ignored that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erevan_Kindelar Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 That architect must be swimming in credits, selling his plans to the Empire planet stations and fleet, Republic planet stations and fleet, Port Nowhere, Maelstrom Prison, Llanic Station, Balosar Outpost, etc etc etc. Somebody has never bought his furniture from IKEA... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesmoASD Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Also before the Empire invaded everything was republic so it possible (although unlikely) that they are all built from a master plan so that no matter what planet you are on you will know where all the important stuff is in the facility. And the cost would be less as it can be pre-fab. The Empire would not waste resources demolishing everything then rebuilding it just to be different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BacaWicket Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Hate how all space stations look the same. at least make the pub stations different from imp stations like i don't know copy off of the space stations from EAW? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexDougherty Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 Has anyone else mentioned they all sort of look like the Deep Space Nine Station from Star Trek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlrikFassbauer Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 I'd like to meet the company in-game that sells all of this modular space station interieur designs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApostleThirst Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 I just want the space stations to be gone. They're annoying to travel through, and I'd rather land my ship on a groundside space port. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyKulvax Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 They were all built by the Republic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Euphrosyne Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 I just want the space stations to be gone. They're annoying to travel through, and I'd rather land my ship on a groundside space port. Sure, but on a lot of the planets there isn't really a plausible reason to have a spaceport. How would you justify one on Ilum, for instance? Or Belsavis? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beniboybling Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 Sure, but on a lot of the planets there isn't really a plausible reason to have a spaceport. How would you justify one on Ilum, for instance? Or Belsavis?And how would you justify having both Republic and Imperial space stations over contested space? Did nobody think to send a squadron of bombers to blow the others up? No wonder this was has being going on for over three decades... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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