Politician Archive
Thread: Impact of Starport Changes in Publish 8
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DaQuilla
Sat Mar 20, 2004 1:06 am
#14
Be careful with your asumptions ... the quote is "from any planet to any planet" ... nothing is said about shuttleports ...
As the devs have made it very clear in the past that their system doesn't support that amount of interplanetary travel I find it hard to believe we will be seeing shuttleports bringing you to anywhere in the galaxy.
Mkappus
Sat Mar 20, 2004 1:37 am
#15
I don't think this will have that large of an impact on player cities. Maybe someone will now build on Rori instead of Naboo out of the convenience, but player cities are pretty well set up and not very fluid right now.
However, I think this will change play style alot.
The adventure planets will be much more crowded. Only have an hour to play, folks used to stay local instead of eating up most of their time with shuttle trips. Now that barrier is removed.
Convenience of Coronet as the center of the galaxy may be lost. Since I had to go through Corellia (Coronet) to get anywhere I would never worry about buffs and just get buffed there. Tons of Drs outside of the starport, cantina always bustling. Now since I don't have to go their not sure what I will do about buffing. Will Drs move to the outposts on Endor, Yavin, Dathomir? Will we all still stop in coronet on the way to adventure planets to get buffs?
All in all this will be awesome, it makes themeparks and dungeons on other worlds available on a casual night instead of having to plan at least 2 hours to give to them. But, we may all complain some about how hard it is to get a buff now, can't find Drs half the time.....
zineotic
Sat Mar 20, 2004 6:07 am
#16
I think this will help mayors of cities that reside on Lok, Dantooine, Rori, and Talus... But I don't think it will break up the 2 lag balls... Theed and Coronet. Why don't people go to the other 4 cities on each main planet? Because they don't have to. There is no reason to go. Also my own personal belief... too many servers, not enough people per server... with an exception of maybe Eclipse and a few other very large servers.
LLJK_Griz
Sat Mar 20, 2004 7:13 am
#17
HiroBlack wrote:
For starters, I do think that Coronet will still be a major, major hub (likewise for Theed - no wait is better than 5 mins any day). People are creatures of habit, and Coronet is established as that center of commerce that it is. After all, if it were just a matter of Corellia being a major junction of spaceport routes, folks could choose to travel through Tyrenna, Doaba Guerfel (sp?), or Kor Vella. But people travel through Coronet just to check out the spam or the bazaar, to catch a buff, and all of those other things that were mentioned. I can not imagine that changing any time soon.
The main reason people sit around Coronet now is because it's the most populated city on Corellia, and you have to go through Corellia to reach most of the high-level planets. If any starport can go to any planet, then the hunters will switch to Theed because you don't have to wait for the ship there (assuming they don't fix that in the next patch), and the docs and spam-sellers will follow the hunters. Some people will probably stay at Coronet out of habit, but I expect most of them to move to Theed.
To clarify the shuttleport/starport thing: Shuttleports are still limited to your current planet only. You will still have to use a starport to go offplanet, but you will be able to travel to any planet from any starport (i.e. you can go directly from Rori to Dantooine instead of wasting half an hour by going Rori-Naboo-Corellia-Dantooine)
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