Sharky Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 (edited) Dear Bioware, I am a huge fan of Star Wars and love playing The Old Republic. As a strong supporter of this game (and all games Bioware) I am very excited about all the future additions that will be made to the game. I am particularly interested about three additions which I believe will drastically improve the game. The first is a Day and Night Cycle. Myself, like thousands of other players, spend many hours playing the game and it can become very irritating when the world doesn’t reflect any change in time or weather, as it pulls attention to the fact this is a game and not a real world. When it comes to MMO's, I think it is important that the player feel constantly immersed in the world. For example, I would love to see Coruscant at night just like in Episode 2 when everything is dark and colourful. Just the change in art/day cycle would keep me interested to play more. The second thing that is dear to my heart is Pod Racing. The one thing this game needs is a variety of things you can do to take a break from grinding. The space fights are great (and I love the fact you are bringing many more out in the next few patches) but they are short lived and few. Pod Racing is exciting, fast paced, fun and totally Star Wars. There is so much you can do with it and it has a ridiculous amount of replayability when you VS your friends in multiplayer. You could make a betting system where players can bet on their friends and win prizes, commendations, vehicle parts and credits. You can do a levelling system where racers can increase their rank when they win and the races get harder, faster. You can do an upgrade system where you can modify your pod and customise it. The game could be on rails or preferably like the old school game Star Wars Racer. This would be a great addition and would make the game even more unique as no other MMO has anything like it. People would spend hours just playing pod racing. The last thing I would like to add is something I have seen so many times on this forums that I though it must be mentioned, and that is free flight Dog fights. I understand that to create a free flight dog fight system would take a long time so perhaps you could make a single Warzone to begin with where it is free for all or team based dog fight battles? That way you can perfect the system with one warzone and then expand it later. A great model to look at is Star Wars Rogue Squadron on the Nintendo consoles. They perfected the Star Wars dogfights. I think it is also important to add more ship parts as well as visual changes based on ship customisation. That would mean we can show off our ships to our friends and work towards making our rides look awesome. The best part about the Pod Races and Dog Fights is that they will add much needed variety, create new systems for endgame content and in general keep people playing. I personally know at least ten people who would buy the game and join the world just because it has pod racing. Same thing goes with Dog fights which are why I decided to write this letter to you. You guys are the only team that can pull this off properly and make it epic. I hope this reaches your eyes as I look forward to many more days playing this with my friends. Community support will be great and will go a long way to getting this message across to our favourite developer so please shout your support below! Thank you all! (Also, please increase the variety of mounts we can buy because for the moment, there are like only 8 which is very low for an MMO. This one's just a little quibble though. ) P.S. This is a second posting of the same thread here which is being discussed in the General Discussions forum. This post did so well that I thought it important to bring it to the developers attention. Thank you all for your support and ideas! Edited September 22, 2012 by Sharky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalabakk Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Dog fights? Really? Might want to talk to Michael Vik about what happens there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharky Posted September 22, 2012 Author Share Posted September 22, 2012 (edited) Oh? Are there any official updates about dog fights in SWTOR that I have missed? Edited September 22, 2012 by Sharky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pairaka Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Dog fights? Really? Might want to talk to Michael Vik about what happens there. Sigh. Please take time to read the post and don't be obtuse. It is not about actual "dog fights" but about space combat. The term actually comes from airplane fights during WWI when engines made a growling noise, much like a dog. The bombing run on the Death Star in A New Hope could technically be considered a "dog fight." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pairaka Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Oh? Are there any official updates about dog fights in SWTOR that I have missed? OP, the person who responded to your post was being... well, I won't say it. This is who he was talking about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Vick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScarletBlaze Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 The only item that actually interests me personally is the day and night cycles. The pod racing maybe. The dog fights not particulary as I have no interest whatsoever in space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalabakk Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 OP, the person who responded to your post was being... well, I won't say it. This is who he was talking about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Vick My apologies, I wasn't trying to be a jerk. Apparently I didn't read enough of the original post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DegreesOfFreedom Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Good ideas. Personally, I think the day and night cycle would drastically improve the atmosphere of the game. But tbh, I think the engine needs to be fix first before something like this can be implemented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darhsteel Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 I would LOVE a day/night cycle. FFXI online had that and it made it seem more immersive, Pod racing would be wonderful too(imagine a pod racing world event!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vladnar Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 a day/night cycle would be great but im not sure its wholly necessary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharky Posted September 23, 2012 Author Share Posted September 23, 2012 a day/night cycle would be great but im not sure its wholly necessary Day & Night Cycles are essential to keep the world alive. The fact is that a lot of players play the game to experience the world and not just the competition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odericko Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Day & Night Cycles are essential to keep the world alive. The fact is that a lot of players play the game to experience the world and not just the competition. This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pairaka Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Bioware decided a long time ago, in beta, that they were going to sacrifice day/night cycles in favor of matt paintings. those are those lovely horizons you see on all the worlds that give a sense of distance. As it would require a zillion matt paintings to implement day/night cycles, we are stuck with static worlds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SawneyRath Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Day/Night Cycle would be awesome. I saw a video once about the Hero Engines Day/Night capabilities and it looked amazing. I don't see why they couldn't implement it at some point. Pod Racing? YES PLEASE! I think a Pod Racing mini-game would be amazingly awesome. Dog Fights? Like Star Wars Galaxies? PLEASE. I miss SWG's space game so much.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NRN_Hawk Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Day/Night Cycle would be awesome. I saw a video once about the Hero Engines Day/Night capabilities and it looked amazing. I don't see why they couldn't implement it at some point. Pod Racing? YES PLEASE! I think a Pod Racing mini-game would be amazingly awesome. Dog Fights? Like Star Wars Galaxies? PLEASE. I miss SWG's space game so much.... Yeah that would be nice. For "space pvp", no MMO can beat the Xwing games on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayla_Felana Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Would love all of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recoup Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 I second all of the above-mentioned suggestions. They would all be wonderful additions to the game, especially a Freelancer-style dogfighting system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deewe Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Day/Night Cycle would be awesome. I saw a video once about the Hero Engines Day/Night capabilities and it looked amazing. I don't see why they couldn't implement it at some point. Pod Racing? YES PLEASE! I think a Pod Racing mini-game would be amazingly awesome. Dog Fights? Like Star Wars Galaxies? PLEASE. I miss SWG's space game so much.... All theses are very interesting suggestions. About Day and night cycles, I read that BioWare supposedly stated it was a too big amount of work to do all the planets background pics with the needed shades to have day/nigh cycles look nice. Now while it might be tricky with the current planets, nothing prevents them to add it for new planets & instances and well add them much later on for the others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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