Friday Update 1/21/11 Planet: Quesh!

http://www.swtor.com/news/news-article/20110121

Sounds interesting, wonder if we'll see a lot of environmental hazards here. Sounds like a possible Warzone inspiration as well.

Great, another planet I've never heard of in my life

It seems cool though.

I like it. : )
I'm guessing a warzone too.

Never heard of that planet either...

Doesn't seem to exist on Wookipedia, either.

This planet looks cool. But there is something about game mechanics which i don't understand: how planet allegiances work with PVE ruleset? I mean, if i as imperial player visit this planet - what will happen. Will i be flaged for pvp? If yes, what is the point of playing on PVE server if i will be flaged for pvp on the half of the planets? If no, then what is the significance of the planet allegiance?

I was surprised that this was a Republic planet. This seems like exactly the kind of planet Daniel Erickson was talking about in his post about the Treaty of Coruscant and there are so few Empire planets.

Planets awesome!! Me likes!!

Toxic stuff baaaad!

Lednik wrote:

This planet looks cool. But there is something about game mechanics which i don't understand: how planet allegiances work with PVE ruleset? I mean, if i as imperial player visit this planet - what will happen. Will i be flaged for pvp? If yes, what is the point of playing on PVE server if i will be flaged for pvp on the half of the planets? If no, then what is the significance of the planet allegiance?

I doubt it will hold much if any signifigance at all to be honest. On a PVP server perhaps it will auto flag you? But on a PVE server? Likely you will just walk around it like it was neutral, or at the most extreme? be attackable by low level NPCs.

There may be a potential for being 'Uncovered as that of the opposing faction' perhaps at launch, but that will soon go once people on PVE servers begin to complain about being griefed on those planets. I honestly do not think that a Planets faction will be of any greater importance than perhaps offering more missions for that particular faction on them, or to show some Republic/Sith flags on buildings.

Time will tell of course

Ty-Odi wrote:

Lednik wrote:

This planet looks cool. But there is something about game mechanics which i don't understand: how planet allegiances work with PVE ruleset? I mean, if i as imperial player visit this planet - what will happen. Will i be flaged for pvp? If yes, what is the point of playing on PVE server if i will be flaged for pvp on the half of the planets? If no, then what is the significance of the planet allegiance?

I doubt it will hold much if any signifigance at all to be honest. On a PVP server perhaps it will auto flag you? But on a PVE server? Likely you will just walk around it like it was neutral, or at the most extreme? be attackable by low level NPCs.

There may be a potential for being 'Uncovered as that of the opposing faction' perhaps at launch, but that will soon go once people on PVE servers begin to complain about being griefed on those planets. I honestly do not think that a Planets faction will be of any greater importance than perhaps offering more missions for that particular faction on them, or to show some Republic/Sith flags on buildings.

Time will tell of course

Yes, i agree flaging for pvp is unlikely to happen. But some restrictions will exist, i believe. Somehow i don't expect Republic Troopers to be able to walk freely in front of the Imperial Palace on Dromund Kaas