Cities And Housing Archive
Thread: Corellian Architecture
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PsychoticChipmunk
Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:41 pm
#1
Being loyal to my homeworld (started this game on day 2 when you could create a character in Coronet) I have a player city on Corellia and have never had a home exist on any other world. I love the planet and consider it one of the most interesting and beautiful ones in the game and know it like the back of my paw thanks to all the time I spent wandering around the map. However this love does not breed over into the style of homes that exist on the world. They are truly and aesthetically generic.
Nabooian homes follow a somewhat renaissance flow and bring to mind Itallian villas, Tatooine works with the dusty landscape and views given in the movies, Corellia...it just falls short. They are the exact same as the "generic" style of homes with only a slight difference in the texture that the exteriors get rendered as, they're a bit more earthen and the color blends well enough with the ground but there is no detail, no balconey, no basement, and worst of all the Medium house is simply a 50% bigger shoebox than the small. There is a Talusian POI "abandoned town" that has several different styles that would work well to supplant the current Corellian style architecture as well as a treasure trove of artwork for buildings in the NPC towns of the world itself. Is there any chance that these could be used in the future at some point to give Corellia a unique appeal and make its player cities as beautiful and aesthetically appealing as their offworld counterparts?
Artistan
Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:54 pm
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Pretty please devs? I lived on Corellia from after launch until a month or two ago, with a short exodus to Tatooine, explored it like mad, loved it. All except for one thing. The houses. Bright white walls. Bright White lights. Floorplan designedby a drunk monkey. (ok, so maybe not thaat bad). Totally devoid of any real architecture. You know those naboo houses with a rotunda, shiny marble floor and balcony? Tatooine mediums, basement, upstairs, porch, nice main room? You know Corellian mediums....enter oval room, go through door, another oval room, and guess what, go through another door...another oval room! Please devs, we are buying houses here. Not warehouses. Please devote a little bit of energy towards making all those houses not look soooo bad, even if it is just lighting and wall color, it would go a long way.
StarNick
Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:56 pm
#3
I agree...Corellian Architecture needs to be immensely improved...
Not to mention the insides should be more like guild halls and the NPC guild halls...some red velvet here and there, nice flooring...and fairly dark-medium dark walls! The White stuff just kills your eyes >_<
Fluxxen
Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:57 pm
#4
Indeed, Corellian home need a facelift and preferably for most of them to be two or 3 story buildings to give a real city feeling. Skip the basements and make them high. Try to reach for a small town skyscraper feeling.
More and higher houses for Corellia!!!
StarNick
Tue Jan 18, 2005 3:02 pm
#5
Yeah...only plus with Corellian housing was their flat walls that were good for decorating (lol)
Corellian NPC architecture was more skyscraper-like and grand...the corellian housing we get are just wimpy and runty!
In corellian cities, you get a large skyscraper type building from both the Cantina and town halls...then they're surrounded practically by huts!
Not to mention....the large corellian housing, the inside balcony really is hidious...smoke and light goes thru the floor and REALLY makes lightning balancing a major pain in the arse
Nadun29
Wed Jan 19, 2005 11:45 am
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I agree. Ive always loved corellia but the houses stink. If you have ever seen the in game painting of the little grey house. It was a concept design for a corellian house. It had some kind of a terrace on top with a garden and appeard to be a small corellian.
The home are just too boxy and prison like. And I agree that corellian homes should go up and not worry about a basement. Walk around corent and look at the rounced roofs of the taller buildings and even the player city canina, borrowed from coruscant arch type, and lets see more of that. Hell, even the small "ghetto" looking buildings that are on the outskirts are more interesting.
The home are just too boxy and prison like. And I agree that corellian homes should go up and not worry about a basement. Walk around corent and look at the rounced roofs of the taller buildings and even the player city canina, borrowed from coruscant arch type, and lets see more of that. Hell, even the small "ghetto" looking buildings that are on the outskirts are more interesting.
PsychoticChipmunk
Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:44 pm
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Ralphito wrote:
The corellian architecture is based on that of which looks like the NPC cities. Keep in mind, if you look at corellian cantinas, cloners, city halls, etc. the outside and in are beautiful, Naboo is a rich planet, with awesome architecture, much like corescant. The architecture on corellia is dull, NPC cities are dull, along with player housing, The naboo is glorious and expensive, tatooine is a desert planet and dusty, they only have the mud and dirt to make their homes. Keep in mind tatooine is a planet on the outer rim. very little trade routes. Naboo is rich with royalty, so they have beautiful houses, corellia is dull. i hope they fix it, but if they fix player housing, they have to fix NPC cities as well. So lets hope they upgrade all housing inside and out. then we'd be styling.
You don't go to Corellia much do you? NPC cities are dull ey? The slum portions of these cities are much more interesting then the current type of homes we players can place. It is a Core world and home of the richest and most known history of the galaxy. It has grand shipyards that produce most of what anyone in the galaxy flys excluding imperials. It is the nexus of 2 primary trade routes as well as one that goes to the corporate sector. In essence it is themercantile hubof the galaxy in as much as Coruscant is the political hub. Naboo's only claim to fame is being the home of the Emperor, beyond that it's a blip in the mid-rim belt.
The only upgrade to NPC towns that this would do (which they're doing anyway) is non-existent. We are asking for those very NPC buildings to be usable outside of NPC cities.
Ralphito
Wed Jan 19, 2005 6:28 pm
#8
never did i say corellia was poor, i said it was dull, all NPC cities are dull. i cant wait for the upgrade
Message Edited by Ralphito on 01-19-2005 08:30 PM
ODScarface
Wed Jan 19, 2005 7:30 pm
#9
yes the architecture on cornellia needs a major facelift, i mean we have a beautiful world rich with forests and flower filled plains but then all we have is white huts,cmon ive been living on cornellia ever since i began the game so revamp our houses DEV's pretty plz with sugar on top
Ralphito
Thu Jan 20, 2005 1:23 am
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The corellian architecture is based on that of which looks like the NPC cities. Keep in mind, if you look at corellian cantinas, cloners, city halls, etc. the outside and in are beautiful, Naboo is a rich planet, with awesome architecture, much like corescant. The architecture on corellia is dull, NPC cities are dull, along with player housing, The naboo is glorious and expensive, tatooine is a desert planet and dusty, they only have the mud and dirt to make their homes. Keep in mind tatooine is a planet on the outer rim. very little trade routes. Naboo is rich with royalty, so they have beautiful houses, corellia is dull. i hope they fix it, but if they fix player housing, they have to fix NPC cities as well. So lets hope they upgrade all housing inside and out. then we'd be styling.
Aori
Thu Jan 20, 2005 3:23 pm
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Corellia has always been the planet I reside on and I too have been disappointed in the housing styles. I think this is a common feeling with many people.It just doesnt seem very fair that Tattooine and Nabooian Architecture is so beautiful and Corellian Architecture is exactly the same as the "Generic" Houses. And Corellian houses look very much like that...generic. It almost seems like after spending all that time designing great houses for Tat and Naboo, they ran out of time when it came to Corellia, so they just gave us all generic houses. I would love to log in one day and see they finally gave Corellian Houses their own look. Now, the only major difference betweena Corellian House and a Generic House is that the Corellian ones are limited to where they can be placed. So whats the point of them at all? I just don't understand.
I beg of the design team to give Corellian Houses their own look. It's sad to share the same style with something titled "generic".
NeverMindMe
Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:32 pm
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Save Corellia, give us more, higher and nicer looking houses!
Smart_Darwin
Fri Jan 21, 2005 7:50 am
#13
Ok, so I am pretty new and just became an architecht (sp?)... but I don't get this idea the tatooine homes are beautiful. I really don't see it, but maybe that is out of frustration at trying to decorate all those curved walls and silly floor plan. Not knocking your argument that Corellian homes need some revisiting, but really us sand-crusted people don't have it as great as you think we do.
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