DarthWoad Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 Would be a nice simple update to put in the game for all those dedicated players who have reached 50 legacy. Of course you can post a reason why it shouldnt be in the game. If you work at bioware/know everything about the game engine then please tell me how difficult it would be to implement something like this in the game. It could cost like 3 million credits and would separate the rich and dedicated from everyone else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarfux Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 Have a flying mount? You mean like the taxis on Alderaan? HECK YES!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nomaad Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 (edited) Will never happen, ever. Such a bad idea, terrible idea. My reason: You would be able to instantly get most datacrons with no effort. Edited September 16, 2012 by Nomaad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthWoad Posted September 16, 2012 Author Share Posted September 16, 2012 (edited) Will never happen, ever. Such a bad idea, terrible idea. People said this game would beat WoW, look what happened. People said this game will never go F2P too. Could you explain your reasons for your opinion? Edited September 16, 2012 by DarthWoad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EJedi Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 Would be a nice simple update to put in the game for all those dedicated players who have reached 50 legacy. Of course you can post a reason why it shouldnt be in the game. If you work at bioware/know everything about the game engine then please tell me how difficult it would be to implement something like this in the game. It could cost like 3 million credits and would separate the rich and dedicated from everyone else The game's areas are not designed to support flying mounts. Even though I don't work for Bioware, I can tell you how to easily verify this for yourself. Go to Voss, and climb around on the mountains at the edges of areas. They're just like the movie prop face fronts. The game was designed for you to see the scenery from specific, very controlled viewing angles. WoW started off in a much better position to support flying mounts, and even they had to put months/years of development effort into making the zones support flying mounts. They couldn't have justified it had it not been the focal point for an entire expansion. With the state of SWTOR, I doubt it will ever be in Bioware's best interests to add WoW-style free-flying mounts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarfux Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 People said this game would beat WoW, look what happened. People said this game will never go F2P too. Could you explain your reasons for your opinion? Subscriber battle? no, it didn't beat wow. Engaging stories where you can get yourself immersed like no other and some things actually are a challenge with fun lessons learned throughout the game that make a connection to yourself in your head through your OWN thoughts? Then yes, in that respect it did beat wow. At least for me. By a long shot. I wish people would stop thinking an mmorpg needs 12 mill subscribers to overtake wow as number 1 subscriber spot to be "better than wow". there are lots of mmos better than wow, wow just happens to be the most popular and runs on LOTS of old machines as well as have tons of polish. I would like to see this game with 8 years of polish. HECK to the YES! Just because it isn't popular, doesn't mean it isn't good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWagner Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 The only reason this wouldn't work? There's no "open world" environment. The only thing designed are the areas you can quest, and the area where the "flight paths" take you. Enabling free flight would require them to create a more open world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkkChaos Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 (edited) People said this game will never go F2P too. Could you explain your reasons for your opinion? Can you explain this game going F2P? I have seen no such information? Are you perhaps referring to the upcoming F2P "option"? This game isn't going to F2P....F2P would mean all subs would be cancelled.....and it would be FREE 2 PLAY this game in full - I would hardly call the F2P model, this game going "free to play" ....please educate yourself, before making references. Google, I heard is a good starting point. Flying mounts would be pretty sweet!! First though, I think I'd like to see the space missions come off the rail system.... Let me fly around free in space....before I can fly around a planet. Edited September 16, 2012 by DarkkChaos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vojinsa Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 People said this game would beat WoW, look what happened. People said this game will never go F2P too. Could you explain your reasons for your opinion? My reason: You would be able to instantly get most datacrons with no effort. i think (s)he gave you one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cakellene Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 Will never happen, ever. Such a bad idea, terrible idea. My reason: You would be able to instantly get most datacrons with no effort. That's a good argument for the mounts. Stupid platform jumping in a MMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jett-Rinn Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 People said this game would beat WoW, look what happened. People said this game will never go F2P too. Could you explain your reasons for your opinion? Every MMO that is ever produced is suppose to be a WoW killer Lets look at the record of who actually did it.... SWTOR Failed GW2 Failed massively TSW: Super failed RIFT Mondo failed No one in their right mind ever believed that, and even Stephen Reid said on twitter after he left Bioware that BW wanted TOR to be F2P from the start and Lucasarts said no, the expectations for TOR has always been 500K to 2 million users and TOR should maintain that expectation when it turns F2P later this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eillack Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 (edited) It's not happening and A) This isn't WoW B) A lot of people have been speaking against this idea C) BW would have to redo parts of maps, etc so that flying mounts could work anywhere w/o seeign flaws on terrains, etc. The point of paths, etc would be useless. Edited September 16, 2012 by Eillack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RazielHex Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 That's a good argument for the mounts. Stupid platform jumping in a MMO. Just because you can't do it doesn't mean it's stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cakellene Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 Just because you can't do it doesn't mean it's stupid. It's stupid for fact that if I wanted to do platform jumping I would be playing Half-Life, not SWTOR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durasturan Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 Have a flying mount? You mean like the taxis on Alderaan? HECK YES!! See people like the "idea" of flying mounts. They think "oh I'll be able to get from point a to b so much faster. But they don't realize how much that kills the world. You lose so much engagement it turns the entire game into just some thing you fly over, and you'll never see another person on the ground ever again. No more randomly running into people and joining up with them to take down some enemies No more big PVP open world battles. No more jumping out and fighting some guys questing. If people thought the zones seemed dead before, flying mounts would completely kill them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andryah Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 What exactly in this game would you do with a flying mount if you had one???? Serious question that deserves a serious answer (something other then "me wants!") WoW had to create an entire dynamic in their MMO to make flying mounts useful and desired via their first expansion. Even then, it was only good for the expansion and did not support vanilla content zones. It was not until years later that they completely redid the vanilla zones to support flying. You should be putting your attention and QQ on wanting off the rails space flight and combat. You stand a much better chance of being listened to and taken seriously if you focus here. AND, guess what.... just like in the case of WoW, we will have to wait for a major expansion to get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asavar Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 Abso****inlutely not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedi_Tyran Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 (edited) It won't happen. Bioware would have to redo all the planet maps which would costs a ton of money. There are too many other things they are working on. The environments we see are just an empty shell. Not a nice and simple change at all. Learn more about how video game environments are created. Even if they did have the resources to do it, you'd find flying very limited. The maps are designed to funnel you and separate you from other areas. If you could fly, you would still hit the invisible borders. The planets are a very enclosed space. Edited September 16, 2012 by Jedi_Tyran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthWoad Posted September 16, 2012 Author Share Posted September 16, 2012 Can you explain this game going F2P? I have seen no such information? Are you perhaps referring to the upcoming F2P "option"? This game isn't going to F2P....F2P would mean all subs would be cancelled.....and it would be FREE 2 PLAY this game in full - I would hardly call the F2P model, this game going "free to play" ....please educate yourself, before making references. Google, I heard is a good starting point. Flying mounts would be pretty sweet!! First though, I think I'd like to see the space missions come off the rail system.... Let me fly around free in space....before I can fly around a planet. Yes I was referring to the upcoming F2P option. So please educate yourself before misinterpreting what everyone says and telling them to educate themselves. And you heard Google is good? Haven't you used it before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elyx Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 I understand your thought process behind the idea OP, so Don't think I'm against the concept. but as stated many times already, it's simply too much to change. So the part about your idea that is off base is where you stated it was "simple". the game eingine and the world structure wasn't even designed to take flying like that into consideration. Add to that the sparse resources available, and the real question is: If they can't put the resources together at the moment to even get a solid structure for people to migrate to the PTR, do you honestly think they would put the herculean effort into redesigning the WHOLE game just so you can fly from point A to point B instead of speeding there? Probably not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Raven_Lord Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 Free-flight space combat is much better for Star Wars. It's possible they could design a future planet to support air to air and air to ground combat, but I'd rather have Space based combat off the rails. Flying mounts would serve no purpose, even in WoW, they're utterly pointless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cakellene Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 Flying mounts would serve no purpose, even in WoW, they're utterly pointless. They are very handy for travelling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flaminica Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 They are very handy for travelling. Then go play WoW. Seriously, can we please stop demanding and/or imitating every single feature of that PoS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echobat Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 I'd like to see flying mounts, but there's probably some technical issues with adding them for the players. Flight points are one thing, complete freedom is another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cakellene Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 Then go play WoW. Seriously, can we please stop demanding and/or imitating every single feature of that PoS? I made no demands, you must be confusing me with someone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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