Artisan Archive
Thread: PETITION FOR 2 PEOPLE IN LANDSPEEDER!!!!
Kysorsosa wrote:
Ok this is coming from one sorry Wookiee....
Imagine yourself in this situation.
Recently Married, Mr. Wookiee (me)went to a Car salesman and bought a Landspeeder. Thinking, "Hey this baby has two seats me and my wife can go cruising Yavin for our Honeymoon". So I drove this beautiful puppy home...
So were all about to leave, and she tries to get in the passenger side (Like hell she is driving my car she would probably crash it into a Bantha.) when she informs me she cant get in..... Hmm i say, well you might have to walk cause we only got one car and it has 2 seats..... So nowI sleep on the couch instead of my bed....
So Im asking you devs, please redeem this Wookiee, My wife doesnt like walking, andI dont like sleeping on the couch.... Give us 2 seats please, maybe you could add a convertable top also for a little privacy. Andmy wife doesn't like Red, perhaps we could take it to the garage and get it painted while beingrepaired ??
Please everyone support Me is trying to save my Marriage.
I can relate to your thoughts, and in a perfect world the landspeeder would seat 2 or more... BUT its an issue with game mechanics that make this not very likely. for the game to keep track of you in your speeder is one thing. placing a second person in it... the game has to split its efforts and tie them together.
Lag. The game cannot put you and another player in the same vehicle as easily as it can put one player in each vehicle. It has to keep track of the location of both players, and with internet and server lag, connection speed variables... yer just asking them to program and optimize... EVERYTHING.
HOWEVER DEV'S... IF , if you reprogrammed the things a little bit and tied the vehicles to say... a group, instead of just one player... you should almost be able to lock everyone in the group in a vehicle... just link them to say the group leader... as hard as it may be to program I'd kinda like to pick up some hottie on my swoop bike and go cruising. 
oh come on they shouldn't be ashamed of that, these vehicles are great on the most part! give em a break.The idea oftwo people riding in a vehicle is cool, but is it that hard to just get another landspeeder?
masterofallthatisknown wrote:
/sign
Dev folk be ashamed for putting out landspeeders without letting two people sit in it. if two people could, when one is with hunting groups the people without vehicles can sit in the other seat so we dont have to drive in circles constantly while they catch up.
/sign
But with a condition....that the owner must first /invite the passenger. Imagine the horror of a covert rebel being forced to carry around an overt imp because anyone could jump into a vehicle. 
Come on guys, this is a challenging task. But come on, you guys are smart, let's figure out a way to do this.
/SIGN!!!!!!
I can relate to your thoughts, and in a perfect world the landspeeder would seat 2 or more... BUT its an issue with game mechanics that make this not very likely. for the game to keep track of you in your speeder is one thing. placing a second person in it... the game has to split its efforts and tie them together.
instead of tying the speeder to the person...you make the speeder a container object. Instead of the server tracking your individual position it tracks the position of the speeder. You as the owner object become the controller object. Everyone else is simply a widget inside the container. The server only has to track where that container is in the world, and that x,y are in said container.....I wouldn't think it would be that hard....especially since they have everything with a serial number. Heck if they needed to make the serial number for vehicles a 16-bit guid....
/sign
If they can't get multi-persons in a vechicle, how are they gonna do it in space ships?
Sorry, I can't haul you, the kid, and the 2 droids to Alderaan. Heck even my co-pilot has to walk everywhere.
If they can pull it off I think it'd be cool. Heck speederbikes and swoops should be able to carry 2 also. Then you can get the shirts that say 'If you can read this, the b**ch fell off', just like Harley dudes.