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Originally Posted by GoChiefs
Which doesn't really mean much to be honest.
There are well over 50 planets in STO. Most of them have one tiny area where you can beam down.
Now if they pull off SWG-style environments over 13 planets, I'll be impressed. Exploring in that game was FUN.
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I don't think there's been official word on planet scale, but there was a mention in a Coruscant developer dispatch many moons ago that you can see for "miles and miles" on the surface of the planet. Being Coruscant, it's many levels deep, as well. So my guess is that the planets are quite large...
I believe there's already more planets in TOR than there were in Galaxies (although my brain's fuzzy, that was so many years ago...). One thing I do remember from Galaxies was a lot of empty, unused space. I don't think you're going to get much of that in TOR, because they're said to be designing every inch of every planet by hand, in typical BioWare fashion.
Just thinking logically, if you're going to have 8 classes with 200 hours each of class-specific story content, and (according to them) none of the content is going to be used across classes, you're going to need a
lot of space in which to work.
As far as the STO comparison goes, this game's the polar opposite of that one in that they haven't even announced (or rumored) space combat yet. Everything to this point is taking place on the ground.