Cities And Housing Archive

Thread: Idea for Starports

WhatVVB
Wed Jun 29, 2005 4:26 pm
#1

I feel that starports are the life of the cities. Everyone goes throught starports and everyone hangs around starports.


Okay, first off, I was thinking of making a starport its own area. You have to load into it. The starport will be filled large andwith npc's. If it is an Imperial city, then there will be Stormtroopers walking around and vise versa for a rebel city. Neutral cities will have the local police force and a few stormtroopers. To prevent farming, the NPCs cannot be attacked.


Now to the travel process. You buy a ticket, or select travel for your space craft. You then move off to the security checkpoint. There you will have a random chance of being scanned (smugglers do thier smuggling here). You can then move out to the waiting shuttle or your ship.


For people coming in to the planet, you have to go through customs and have the chance for a scan before proceeding off into the city. You can also implement illegal goods that vary by planet.


These starports will only be the really big ones, found in cities such as Coronet, Theed (by far the best donestarport of them all) Bestine, and Mos Esiley.


Any suggestions/comments?
Sovoki
Thu Jun 30, 2005 1:39 am
#2

This is too complicated for the newer players and time consuming
and having the idea that the "Security" peoples at the starport look through your inventory
they can confenscate weapons and such.
Not a very good idea in my ball-field.

iesent
Thu Jun 30, 2005 4:41 am
#3






Sovoki wrote:
This is too complicated for the newer players and time consuming
and having the idea that the "Security" peoples at the starport look through your inventory
they can confenscate weapons and such.
Not a very good idea in my ball-field.




/agrees



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Ecnirp
Thu Jun 30, 2005 6:36 am
#4

For the new people who haven't seen the changes in starport travel - 1min is too long to wait
frylee85
Thu Jun 30, 2005 8:59 am
#5

Time consuming? Try playing at launch when you'd run up to the ticket droid and click him and get this message:


"The next shuttle will be available in 9 minutes and 59 seconds."


Now THAT is time consuming...LOL I used to lay down and set my alarm for 8 minutes!





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WhatVVB
Thu Jun 30, 2005 9:21 am
#6

Oh well... Just throwing ideas out there. I would like to see more..... something at the starports. In my opinion they are lacking something.
SuperStarwolf
Thu Jun 30, 2005 2:36 pm
#7

Personally I think Starports are already too crowded with advertising afk bots to add even more npcs doing stuff. A real airport full of people moving here and there does not lag, but a bunch of data in a game does.



What I would not mind tho is adding some more animation, maybe some extra ship models taking off and landing, like a resemplance of the activity that really takes place in the starport: The movement of player ships in and out.





00101000100110011101001011011111110100100010011111 ....AUGRA MAAKU
00111010000011000011000110111111010011010110111000 ....Imperial Lone Wolf
00101000000010010110000111011000001101110000110101 ....Master Pistoleer

11010011000100010110011101001000001000001110110111 ....Master Artisan
11100111100011011001010110100101010110110011101000 ....Imperial Pilot Ace

01101000110100101101110000011110011010100100110001
10100010100001110000101111101110010010100000000111....looking for diff sig color

bluejanus
Mon Jul 11, 2005 3:30 pm
#8



Zutan wrote:
Personally I think we should be able to use the starport terminal to put us in an "instanced" part of the starport with our ship parked in its bay. It would be cool to be able to do this of we *wanted* to, but not be forced to if we just want to "travel".

Abilities to mod the ship etc from that instance, board the ship to take off, board the POB ship to walk around in it etc. And the "invite" option for bringing friends should be there to bring other people into your instance.




Cool, but how often is are people going to bother to do this? And unless they change how the loadout works on ships, the ships won't look any different than they do in the datapad, so you can't show off your new missle launcher.





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JoninDrax
Tue Jul 12, 2005 12:39 am
#9

I had an idea about super starports. In the movies we see in the back of theed the biger starport that Anakin and Padme depart from in AOTC. there is plenty of land behind there to build a huge starport with multipul landing pads and shuttel ports. Maybe for added intrest there could be a land based speder transport(bus) between citeis if people wanted to ride. player cities could register if they wan the transport to stop by their city. Tat woudl have a sail barge type transport, and so on for the planets distinct designs.


anwyay back to the starports, people are dying ot have their shipparked at a port and see it walk up to it and in it so with the new big starports you could park your ship at the cost of 1 lot and docking fees. But only allowed 1 ship parked. and if you fly you have to use that ship or store that ship and fly with another ship (that keeps people from hogging parking spots) With your shipparked youcan walk aroudn it and decorate and all that you want and see it on the planet. All main planets, Corillia Naboo and Tat could have these, one per planet. and these coudlbe BIG to accomidate al the traffic and ships, although most will prob haev to be added to land outside the city in the no build Zones. maybe surroundign some cities with landing pads.


If they ever do a server cross over kinda thing where youc an take your character to visit other galaxies, maybe have the big transports from AOTC that took ani and padme back to naboo, use that to taek you and load you into another galaxy.



Jonin Drax


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Zutan
Tue Jul 12, 2005 12:53 am
#10

Personally I think we should be able to use the starport terminal to put us in an "instanced" part of the starport with our ship parked in its bay. It would be cool to be able to do this of we *wanted* to, but not be forced to if we just want to "travel".

Abilities to mod the ship etc from that instance, board the ship to take off, board the POB ship to walk around in it etc. And the "invite" option for bringing friends should be there to bring other people into your instance.
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