Frigidman Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 (edited) Update: After the Speeder Price Reduction of patch 1.1.5, this has, as I foresaw, grown out of hand and is now completely absurd. Bioware, you guys should be ashamed for allowing this to go on. Way to ruin your game! I see the word "Immersion breaking" tossed around a lot... so I may as well toss it out too (because it is breaking MY immersion, so there). Seeing a bunch of vehicles racing around on a tiny confined station, is not what a space station is about. Whats the point of stairs? Why have a cantina? Chairs and tables? Pedestrians watch out! I'm going to get a lot of flak from vehicle griefers on this one, because this will take away their toy. Bioware: Turn this ridiculous ability off on fleet station! Logic, sense, and reasoning: Huge vehicles piled on mailboxes, vaults, GTNs, cantina counters, making it almost impossible for others to click through.Jumping up and down over and over on above locations. If you are that *****, call an escort!Visually clogging, especially with the growing number of over-sized speeders.Noise-griefing at above locations by mounting/dismounting repeatedly.The droning-noise from many vehicles hovering at the GTN is an unbearable distraction.FPS hits from all the blowing particles and extra speeder chassis.It doesn't take that much longer to run/sprint around fleet station.There are no vehicle lane markings on walkways or stairs.Makes others think badly about a guild when guild-members are seen doing these things.Everyone that goes by in a vehicle is instantly viewed with *rolleyes*.Do you see Harleys and Hummers racing around inside a Mall?Do you see people driving their cars down the terminal halls in airports? Possible Solutions: Moving walkways that while running on them, makes the player move very fast around the station.Moving platforms that people ride from one end of the station to the other. Direct route.Add a race track and parking lot level to Fleet Station where vehicle use IS allowed. This is not only coming from me, but from friends in game, roleplayers in game, and a few random others in game. However I fully expect the jerks to loudly voice their hate on me in this thread. Its ruining the game, and Fleet Station has quickly become "the place to avoid because its just stupid now". :rolleyes: Edited March 9, 2012 by Frigidman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgoldsack Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 I agree... the speeders shoudl not be allowed on the fleet stations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MercArcher Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Gameplay > Immersion The answer is no. Mounts stay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WLpride Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 NO. This is awesome I must have speeders in Fleet Station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krisslanza Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 The problem is a vast majority of this generation of MMO gamers are really darn lazy. They want to be able to mount up everywhere, because getting to their destination in 10 seconds, is better then the 15 it'd take to run there with Sprint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slightlycampana Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Agreed, I think it looks silly too. And not really necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninute Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 I see the word "Immersion breaking" tossed around a lot... so I may as well toss it out too. Seeing a bunch of vehicles racing around on a tiny confined station, is breaking immersion of it being a space station. Whats the point of stairs? Why have a cantina? Did anyone at bioware even think that through? Bioware: Turn this ridiculous ability off on fleet station! They don't allow you to ride a speeder through the dune sea tunnel (yet taxi's fly through), but they allow speeders on a fricken tiny space station? Who in their bright mind came up with that one. :rolleyes: Err the station is hardly tiny. and only because you would like to run around for "immersion" sake, doesn't mean the rest of us would like waste half our time running from one end to the other end of the station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dakien Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 I vote speeders out. It's like driving your car through a mall. Sprint is adequate for the fleet and building interiors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geekcheck Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 /agree It would probably help with the lag as well. All the processing it takes to render the speeders moving around is probably taxing to the servers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VicSkimmr Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 If anything, they should remove the option to increase performance on the fleet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hooraah Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 So true there are a lot place where the place is huge and you should be able to ride your speeder but you can't and you just walking around for ever to enter and exit a place Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pewny Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 (edited) screw that, we need speeder access in all areas of the game! even in my ship seriously tho, why are we walking thru 5 zones to get from one planet to another Edited January 12, 2012 by pewny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavieDe Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 i wouldnt mind losing them on the station Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waiting Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 You heartless bastard! How dare you try to deny people the ability to shave 0.00765 seconds off of their travel time by mounting up on their speeder bike to travel from their ship hangar door to the cargo hold?! When you add up all the time you save by zooming around populated hallways on a FREAKING hyper-speed hover bike, you get three, maybe four seconds! So to hell with your "immersion"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hooraah Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 screw that, we need speeder access in all areas of the game! even in my ship seriously tho, why are we walking thru 5 zones to get from one planet to another agree lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildbrain Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 But I like driving my car in the mall! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mertissielle Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 I kinda see your point when it's the Landspeeder type ones but the level 25 mounts are more like using a Segway in the mall than driving your car through it. Are you on an RP server by the way? If so, you might have a legitimate case of causing it to be one of those community-enforced rules, like IC chat, etc. For non-RP realms, however, I think most folk will be on the "gameplay experience > realism" side of the fence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waiting Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Also, how the hell will people show off with that one vehicle (the big car looking one) if they can't sit around for hours in the fleet and pretend to be doing something other than driving around to show off their "mount"? Have you no empathy, OP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mertissielle Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Also, how the hell will people show off with that one vehicle (the big car looking one) if they can't sit around for hours in the fleet and pretend to be doing something other than driving around to show off their "mount"? Have you no empathy, OP? Won't somebody please think of the fake-afk community! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krisslanza Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 I kinda see your point when it's the Landspeeder type ones but the level 25 mounts are more like using a Segway in the mall than driving your car through it. Are you on an RP server by the way? If so, you might have a legitimate case of causing it to be one of those community-enforced rules, like IC chat, etc. For non-RP realms, however, I think most folk will be on the "gameplay experience > realism" side of the fence. I think, as far as I can tell from the in-game wording, BioWare's stance on "RP" servers is pretty much: "We made this for RPing. But we're not enforcing any special rules on it." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSPD Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 /signed It's bizarre looking and annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diffletop Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 /agree It would probably help with the lag as well. All the processing it takes to render the speeders moving around is probably taxing to the servers. The server doesn't do the rendering for player objects - your computer does. The only difference between walking/sprinting/speeders in this case is the rate they move around. The server merely sends your machine information about where objects are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Democratus Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Every time I go up to the fleet, it feels like I'm at WalMart and the place is full of old people riding around on those electric "Rascal" scooters. I feel for those poor movement-impaired Sith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urtha Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 I see the word "Immersion breaking" tossed around a lot... so I may as well toss it out too. Seeing a bunch of vehicles racing around on a tiny confined station, is breaking immersion of it being a space station. Whats the point of stairs? Why have a cantina? Did anyone at bioware even think that through? Bioware: Turn this ridiculous ability off on fleet station! They don't allow you to ride a speeder through the dune sea tunnel (yet taxi's fly through), but they allow speeders on a fricken tiny space station? Who in their bright mind came up with that one. :rolleyes: Oh no, it's the "it breaks my immersion" beast. What happens if you need to step away from the game for a phone call, or a fire in your home? Does that break your immersion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainmerkin Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 dont care one little bit about this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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