Star Wars: The Old Republic fills up the city planet

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It will be a large space yes, but like interitus said, we will not be able to do a whole lot of the beaten path.

If you make a space that large, that is all accessible, then it becomes to big. Places seem very far away, key hubs and areas take many minutes to get to.

So I think we will have a very large planet but besides the three levels that were mentioned in the video and some open space I doubt we will see much more.

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Taking time to get places is one of the things that gives something scale in an mmo. When you are literally trying to create an entire planet you want scale. Simply warping everywhere really takes breaks the immersion.

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You can still make it big, just make the social area in a smaller scale. The undersewers or whatever can be huge, but leave the Spaceport as a small intimate affair. But also make sure it's big enough that 100 people running around on a busy day won't end up being all standing on top of each other.

More info can be gleaned here:
http://darthhater.com/2009/10/09/voice-dissection-for-developer-dispatch-the-making-of-coruscant/

They'll have a video dissection up Monday after BioWare puts up the high quality video of the Developer Dispatch.

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