Planetary Travel

Maximus0369 · Unread post Wed May 20, 2015 4:55 pm

Simple suggestion:

Have the ability to travel to any planet from the one you are on, like you could with personal starships, but with the added cost of paying for a ticket at each terminal along the way without actually having to stop and buy a new ticket and then possibly wait for the new shuttle.

For example to travel from Dathomir to Naboo you would have to travel first to Corellia. So price for ticket to Corellia from Dathomir is 3k? and a ticket from Corellia to Naboo is 500-600. Just add the cost together and have one combined ticket cost, 3600, to complete the entire journey without the hassle of having to stop and buy a new ticket at each stop along the way.

Thoughts?

QuorTek · Unread post Thu May 21, 2015 10:52 am

I agree, could still have the possible wait time on planetary shuttles, but would not mind once you can board they would stay there for longer as well.

Unread post Thu May 21, 2015 1:33 pm

This was one of the less amusing features they added in. I don't like the idea of having to hop from Dantooine, Corellia, Naboo, just to get to Rori. SOE implemented this as a time and money sink for sure. While I hold to the current shuttle wait time I would be open for more direct travel routes.

Wodaz · Unread post Thu May 21, 2015 5:39 pm

Cynar wrote:I would be open for more direct travel routes.

Troof!!

Halifax · Unread post Thu May 21, 2015 6:39 pm

I could be insane but I could have sworn that at one time you could choose departure/arrival locatoins at any terminal so you could just pre-buy all your tickets and it was slightly faster. That could have just been a dream too it's been a long time.

QuorTek · Unread post Thu May 21, 2015 7:24 pm

What money sink? I mean you can do 1 bull rancor mission and be able to buy all tickets twice or something lol.. extended boarding time would be nice as well... but that is me.

jasonh · Unread post Sun May 24, 2015 12:54 pm

funjimmy64 wrote:...can't they all be like Theed Spaceport?

Don't think so, for better or worse. It's already been discussed several times on these forums.

QuorTek · Unread post Mon May 25, 2015 12:02 pm

there was fast travel in the pre-cu we used starship terminals to pop from A to B, but again it is a choice if rather want to wait 3 minutes at every shuttle or to go instant with space.

Anomaly · Unread post Tue May 26, 2015 4:17 pm

Hearthstones would be cool.
*blink*

Meparch · Unread post Tue Jun 02, 2015 2:47 am

This would help solve the travel issues this server has a lot. Right now everyone is on naboo partially because of Theeds spaceport and always able to travel from it without delay. While people will still be on naboo for this reason it could give the out lining planets more traffic as people can do straight from the spaceport to say Talus without a delay. Naboo will still be a heavily populated planet though.

Hefeweizen · Unread post Tue Jun 02, 2015 8:31 am

I only have 1 cent... but I'll add it to xtwixtedxsinzx's

On LIVE, the shuttle wait times were great for the social aspect of the game, chatting, trading, exchanging knowledge and theories on how to better play...

TODAY, between all the historical online help, 10 character benefit and fact that most of us are Super-Vets and just want to get to the "fun" stuff, one would think that wait times were an unnecessary evil but I still take advantage of them to:

Chat
Trade
Organize Inventory/delete obsolete waypoints, etc.
Reassess current skills/training needs
Quick alt-tab check on my alt if he/she is logged in
Quick scroll thru General Chat to see what's new
Blast those Jawas always stalking me in Mos Eisley starport
... and the 2-3 minutes are up...

Would it be nice?... sure... but with all the other stuff on the To-Do list, I could live without it for awhile...