Cities And Housing Archive

Message Edited by gera on 03-10-2005 08:08 PM

I like the larger starports better. They just look more like a starport than a shuttle port. When I take my yacht to Endor, do you really think that I would be able to land it on that puny strip?

Message Edited by Greywulf0 on 03-11-2005 07:45 AM

Im opposed to having any kind of player run Starport

I appreciate the concerns about lag in the big cities but I dont think any more travel concvinience needs to be granted to the players. You can already macro the ticket buying and useage process, you only have to wait 60 seconds TOPS for a shuttle. I feel that PC city starports are uneeded, and would now wind up negating the impact of the Planetary Control game.

If player cities could have starports now, it would make having planetary control meaningless, as it would mean players could move about like the GCW wasnt even happening. They would be able to bypass scans or any danger of appearing in public places.

Also having player controlled starports would server to add another degree of separation of a server's player base. Now people would have no reason to ever leave their home city, they would just hop out of their house, head to their favorite spawn point then head back home when they are done, and further limiting their interactions with other players. (what you would have is the look and feel of a server at 4 am)

Think of the impact on new players..they log in to a NPC city and find hardly anyone there, to them SWG would appear to be a ghost town, they would not know to go to a PC to find a group or a guild, they would not get any hints on how to train, where to buy supplies, because PC controlled starports would make the NPC ones pointless, thus no one would be there , and the end result is a sucky experience for new players. They would log on and think no one plays SWG.

so NO to PC starports, as they would be a game breaker and I think you all have it pretty damn cushy for travel the way things are now.

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Kinshi wrote:
Im opposed to having any kind of player run Starport

I appreciate the concerns about lag in the big cities but I dont think any more travel concvinience needs to be granted to the players. You can already macro the ticket buying and useage process, you only have to wait 60 seconds TOPS for a shuttle. I feel that PC city starports are uneeded, and would now wind up negating the impact of the Planetary Control game.

If player cities could have starports now, it would make having planetary control meaningless, as it would mean players could move about like the GCW wasnt even happening. They would be able to bypass scans or any danger of appearing in public places.

Also having player controlled starports would server to add another degree of separation of a server's player base. Now people would have no reason to ever leave their home city, they would just hop out of their house, head to their favorite spawn point then head back home when they are done, and further limiting their interactions with other players. (what you would have is the look and feel of a server at 4 am)

Think of the impact on new players..they log in to a NPC city and find hardly anyone there, to them SWG would appear to be a ghost town, they would not know to go to a PC to find a group or a guild, they would not get any hints on how to train, where to buy supplies, because PC controlled starports would make the NPC ones pointless, thus no one would be there , and the end result is a sucky experience for new players. They would log on and think no one plays SWG.

so NO to PC starports, as they would be a game breaker and I think you all have it pretty damn cushy for travel the way things are now.

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Message Edited by Greywulf0 on 03-11-2005 03:39 PM

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Kinshi wrote:
Im opposed to having any kind of player run Starport

I appreciate the concerns about lag in the big cities but I dont think any more travel concvinience needs to be granted to the players. You can already macro the ticket buying and useage process, you only have to wait 60 seconds TOPS for a shuttle. I feel that PC city starports are uneeded, and would now wind up negating the impact of the Planetary Control game.

If player cities could have starports now, it would make having planetary control meaningless, as it would mean players could move about like the GCW wasnt even happening. They would be able to bypass scans or any danger of appearing in public places.

Also having player controlled starports would server to add another degree of separation of a server's player base. Now people would have no reason to ever leave their home city, they would just hop out of their house, head to their favorite spawn point then head back home when they are done, and further limiting their interactions with other players. (what you would have is the look and feel of a server at 4 am)

Think of the impact on new players..they log in to a NPC city and find hardly anyone there, to them SWG would appear to be a ghost town, they would not know to go to a PC to find a group or a guild, they would not get any hints on how to train, where to buy supplies, because PC controlled starports would make the NPC ones pointless, thus no one would be there , and the end result is a sucky experience for new players. They would log on and think no one plays SWG.

so NO to PC starports, as they would be a game breaker and I think you all have it pretty damn cushy for travel the way things are now.

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Err.. I guess you are missing my point. I asked for NPC cities starports to not-much-visited NPC cities fairly making them having traffics more than now. I'm opposed to PC starports as well... This is only and only about being forced to travel to BIG-LAG cities instead of using lesser object containing NPC cities, such as Mos Taike, Anchorhead, Vreni Island and such to travel to inner side of those planets..

Message Edited by gera on 03-11-2005 07:11 PM

I really like this idea. I especially like the idea of starports in some of the smaller cities on Tat, Naboo and Corellia. Anchorhead or Wayfar (kind of lean to Wayfar) would be excellent. Lake Retreat would make an excellent Starport also. Might encourage traffic to these "seldom visited" cities.

A Starport on Vreni Island would be perfect since that is supposed to be the Rebel city on Corellia....

Message Edited by glory on 03-12-2005 07:41 AM

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glory wrote:
I really like this idea. I especially like the idea of starports in some of the smaller cities on Tat, Naboo and Corellia. Anchorhead or Wayfar (kind of lean to Wayfar) would be excellent. Lake Retreat would make an excellent Starport also. Might encourage traffic to these "seldom visited" cities.

A Starport on Vreni Island would be perfect since that is supposed to be the Rebel city on Corellia....

Message Edited by glory on 03-12-2005 07:41 AM

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That would be convenient, but it really wouldn't make any sense. Wayfar is so small and out of the way that it doesn't even have a shuttleport - why would they suddenly build a star port there? This goes double for Mos Taike. I know that not many people care about immersion or gameworld logic anymore, but for those of us that do this would be, while not game-breaking by any means, very frustrating.

I had always thought that the big starports don't load the city until you go outside those front doors. I never have any issues inside the starport, but as soon as I make that corner to go outside my comp has to take a breath to load everything.