Saturday, December 31, 2011

Star Wars: The Old Republic - Improvements I Would Like Too See

Sooner rather than later. Some of these are necessary immediately, while some are just hopeful things that could be added in the future (such as guild levels). I think TOR is a great game so far, but it does have a lot of issues as many new MMOs do.

-PvP brackets (fighting level 50s or even 40s as a low level isn't fun Bioware)

-Get rid of the loot bag buying to get PvP rewards (RNG is not fun)

-Lowered mission skill costs

-Lowered repair costs

-Lowered skill training costs

-Better performance in Warzones

-Better performance on ability activation (which means fixing animation bugs which cause issues as well)

-Combat logs

-Addon support

-Mount scaling with level

-Fix the graphics options so they actually work, add more of them, and add AA support

-Fix the lighting issues on Tatooine (and other planets)




-Improved GTN (better search functionality, as well as price per unit sorting, remembering what you last listed an item for etc)

-PvP armor stats need to be fully removable (everyone shouldn't be forced to wear it, what's the point of all that orange armor customization if we get shut out as soon as we need to wear PvP gear)

-Same with raid gear if it suffers from the same issues (either that or make a limited appearance tab which lets you use armor types within your class)

-Allow more interface windows to be opened at once (stack them if you have to, but stop closing my windows for me)

-Right clicking an inventory item with my bank open should automatically put that item in my current stack in the bank, not make a new stack.

-More guild functions, such as:

-Guild bank

-Guild levels or rank (not fully necessary, but I think it's kind of interesting)

-Different ways to sort your guild list, such as last online which also shows how long since they were last on (this also helps for clearing out character who haven't played for months)

-Guild logs (shows all promotions, demotions, invites, kicks, and bank transactions)

-Options to silence individuals in guild chat (guild officers should have the option to silence someone causing problems until they can discuss kicking them with the guildmaster)

I'm sure I will think of more in the next few days, but that is what I have come up with since early access started. Also, please fix the bug that kicks me off of my speeder if I press forward at the exact time the animation is over and the bug that causes your guild list to not display online players properly which fixes itself when the user interface is reloaded.

Many of these issues The Old Republic has are very minor, but when comparing to more established MMORPG titles such as World of Warcraft they can become readily apparent.
  
Please feel free to add your own in the comments.

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