DeathStarPlumber Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Hopefully the Devs read these forums and understand majority of the fanbase does not enjoy the linearity of planets/zones like nar-shadda. Please consider making expansion planets more open to exploration like hoth & tatoonie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neumi Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Actually apart from the linearity I love Nar Shaddaa - for questing. No idea if it's good for anything else. But it definitly was better then the mess on Taris. I feel like having learned the secret behind the Rakghuls at least 20 times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWarrior Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I liked Nar Shaddaa, actually the only thing that I didn't like about it is the huge level difference in quests for the empire but other than that, not too shabby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rzrknight Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Make them more like Voss , really , that place is just amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USSDefiant Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 (edited) Nar Shaddaa and Coruscant are my favorite questing zones so far! They remind me of Mass Effect. I hate Tatooine. There's endless expanses of wastelands that exist just to waste my time. Edited January 17, 2012 by USSDefiant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Striker Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 One of my favorite things about this game is how different each planet was. Some were massive and sprawling and others were cities like Nar Shaddaa. I'd like to see them continue to add a variety of different types of planets. Maybe even a water based planet at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UA_Wookie Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 /agree with OP Nar Shaddaa is especially bad after having just come from Coruscant leveling. It's the same damn thing. Take a taxi to this area over here. Wind your way down depressing indoor corridors. Go back to turn quests in at hub. Take taxi to different area over here. Wind your way down another indoor corridor. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Taris is pretty bad too. Nothing like huge concrete walls preventing you from exploring or going off the beaten path a bit! This is by far my biggest issue with the game. I don't like being forced to go somewhere. You have icons on the map showing quest objectives and locations. You don't need to hold my hand by guding me on that winding path, so i can get to my objective. I think i would be able to find it on my own with the quest icons. Personally, i think it's done to give the appearance of having larger zones/planets. If they can make you wind up and down the zone, it gives the appearance of the planet being much larger than it actually is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turst Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I like Nar Shadaa and hate Tatooine... it's all a matter of preference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkhosis Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 If you said less like Corellia then we might have a deal. I actually enjoy Nar Shadda and it fits exactly the way it should be. A Vegas style city. It also reminds me of a few places in KOTOR 1&2 that I enjoyed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarSiren Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Haha I actually HATE Hoth and Tatooine to open ugly barren landscapes. I preferred Nar Shadda and Corellia those two were actually my fav planets aesthetically. I don't understand why people want barren open wastelands that feel more fantasyish than Sci-Fi. If you're saying this bcause of the open feel.. well go to any city walk around Corellia and NarrShadda had the feeling of a city scape. which I fell we need more of. Less unpopulated barren wastelands more populated city epicenters with life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kraye Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 (edited) Nar Shadaa and Courusant are among my favorite planets to play on. It feels more Star WArsy in those places than on outside planets that you can't explore for ****, have little wildlife and even fewer species, and those ridiculous exhaustion areas. I mean, really, not 50 feet outside Anchorhead and its an exhaustion zone, i could see where I had to go and yet I had to take a taxi that brought me through two stops way out of the way of my destination, its just sad, Tat sucks compared to city planets. Edited January 17, 2012 by Kraye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DenimSamurai Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Nar Shadda is a planet designed for players to have mounts... that they're pushed to before they have mounts. It's also terribly confusing with all the different levels of terrain. I had spent hours trying to find the High Security Lockdown section and gave up. Eventually a quest sent me through the zone but an entire section of a planet shouldn't be impossible to find without getting directions to it. Ho to make it better: more freakin taxis. If you have to go back to a spy outpost 3-4 times to turn in quests MAKE A FREAKIN TAXI PAD THERE. It also wouldn't hurt if the global map was easier to read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andreas_barth Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Just gief Glee Anselm as a new playable planet. We need palm trees and beaches in TOR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NinteyNines Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I thought Hoth was horrible. Nar Shadaa is actually my favorite planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vitiock Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I also hate Hoth and Tatooine personally, they are so bland and just boring. I liked Belsavis probably the most because it seemed busy and interesting, stuff was actually going down there besides what I was doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyprus Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I got sooo lost on Nar Shadda... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiselyou Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Hopefully the Devs read these forums and understand majority of the fanbase does not enjoy the linearity of planets/zones like nar-shadda. Please consider making expansion planets more open to exploration like hoth & tatoonie. They will start paying attention to threads like this when strawberries start growing on apples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathStarPlumber Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 (edited) I think some of you guys misunderstood my post. I'm not talking about the visuals of Nar Shadda because they are quite impressive, I'm talking about the DESIGN of the zones. The linearity and rat in a maze , 1 way to your destination/quest route of travel. Yes Tatoonie is dull and devoid of life but it is OPEN, Unlike Narshadda which is more designed for a Kotor game than a SWTOR MMO. Edited January 17, 2012 by DeathStarPlumber Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathStarPlumber Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 They will start paying attention to threads like this when strawberries start growing on apples. Dev 3 is angry lol which planet did you fail at designing ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knewt Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I've enjoyed most of the planets, but I hated Hoth. I hate it so much that I will only do my class quest story lines on that planet in the future. The quest density is too low and you spend too much time traveling and not enough time fighting. I'd rather grind out mobs or do a bonus series than spend anymore time on Hoth. Voss was much better as an open world environment. Tatooine was ok because the quest density was better than Hoth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Itharius Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 It's ambitious, but they should try to design a planet that has the aesthetic feel of Nar Shadda but the sandbox ambiance of Hoth or Tatooine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathStarPlumber Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 It's ambitious, but they should try to design a planet that has the aesthetic feel of Nar Shadda but the sandbox ambiance of Hoth or Tatooine. ^This Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrunoLogan Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Nar Shadaa is cool but can feel repetitive if you come from the Republic side because Coruscant is similar in design. I prefer open zones due to the freedom of movements that we can get but the exhaustion zones ruin the experience I still don't get exhaustion zones on Tatooine. They are already mapped because we travel through them when getting the taxi anyway... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tahana Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I like Nar Shadaa and hate Tatooine... it's all a matter of preference. I would have to agree with that statement because my preference is exactly opposite. I liked the vast openness of Tatoonine, Hoth, Voss vs Nar Shaddaa. Tatoonine, seeing Luke and Obi Wan those first opening scenes are what transported me into the SW universe my first time at the movie theater. Having to 'deal' with planets like Coruscant were just a necessary evil to get to the end imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarSiren Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I think some of you guys misunderstood my post. I'm not talking about the visuals of Nar Shadda because they are quite impressive, I'm talking about the DESIGN of the zones. The linearity and rat in a maze , 1 way to your destination/quest route of travel. Yes Tatoonie is dull and devoid of life but it is OPEN, Unlike Narshadda which is more designed for a Kotor game than a SWTOR MMO. Actually there were several ways into almost every area on Nar Shadda. As I said it was a City scape and fit the bill for one. I get what you want you want SWG, you want a Sandbox MMO.. Sadly Sandbox MMO's usually don't do so hot. There's ton to explore in Nar Shadda and there's more freedom there than you give it credit. Go into a major metropolitan city, and let me know if the buildings don't seem almost like a maze because you can't travel the direction you want due to a few massive buildings being in the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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