Cities And Housing Archive
Thread: Suggestion: City Starship Garages
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SaleusCorwen
Sat Jan 29, 2005 7:57 pm
#1
I was thinking of something that would allow someone to live in a city and utilize his starship at the same time..
and that is when i though of hte City Starship Garage (or something similiar)..
the essential mechanics.
To park your starship at the garage you must..
A. Be a citizen
B. Pay a garage tax
To get your starship there you would be required to..
land your starship at a local starport, and then travel to the garage from that starport..
you would not be able to..
be allowed travel from one planet to another landing immediately at your cities garage, you would be required to pass through "customs" at the starport of a major city.
be allowed to travel from city to city, the only travel that is valid to a garage is from city startport to garage and back again..
now this might seem pointless andit probably is but might give an added boost to player cities..
one perk i think that would be nice would be, when deploying from a City Garage you..
A. call your ship from the terminal., you are automatically positioned in your ship.
B. there is a short animation that shows you lifting off and into the sky (this adds much need starwars type atmospherewe are lacking)..
Now cities having a low citizen population (usually 100) and even lower active population..
i would propose that there be some kindof Que for the garage so the animation of taking off (it would be awesome if they had a landing animation too, maybe in a seperate part of the garage) so as there are not 2 ships taking off simultaneously..
almost like airports have today, must be clear to land, must be clear to take off..
anyways i know this will most likely never happen but would be neat nonetheless
Bravo12
Sat Jan 29, 2005 8:07 pm
#2
I dont know about having another credit-sink in the game. Be thankful we dont have to refuel the ships, or that they dont decay on their own and require fixing,like speeders. But, I would be all for a way to get onto my multi-passenger ship (currently just my Sorosuub yacht) and drop some items or decorate it without having to launch into orbit and pilot back to the station when I'm done. I mean, I cant walk around my ship in the starport?!
Or, how about being able to build a personal landing pad onto the large houses and guild halls? It would require maintenance like a house, but it would allow guild members to land there (at least small ships).
Basically, your idea is to add starports to player cities. I like the animation idea - you board your ship, and once you strap yourself in (in multi-player ships), you click on the launch button, and away we go.
Message Edited by Bravo12 on 01-29-2005 10:10 PM
Zeon_Zaku
Sun Jan 30, 2005 9:58 am
#3
I really don't feel we should be able to land at player cities. Keep that for NPC cities, it's fine.
Perhaps being able to take off (and only take off) from player cities wouldn't be too bad, or repair facilities. But not something like a starport where you can land and take off from.
Perhaps being able to take off (and only take off) from player cities wouldn't be too bad, or repair facilities. But not something like a starport where you can land and take off from.
Datow_Cetifi
Sun Jan 30, 2005 1:40 pm
#4
i like the idea of being able to build starport garages on to large buildings and guild halls it would really be more convienent so when you get home from fighting in space you can just go straight to your house instead of the closest npc city to it. of course then there wouldnt be so many people hanging around the npc cities anymore hmmm...
JAY-KAY
Sun Jan 30, 2005 1:46 pm
#5
The idea is nice but it's impossible to bring it live. Imagine that amount of ships. The only solution can be to allow only Multipassenger ships, thenyou can park it in PC, and the "garage" will be TOO BIG.
So that makes even SUPER impossible to create starprot with hangars in NPC cities...
Message Edited by JAY-KAY on 01-30-2005 12:47 AM
SaleusCorwen
Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:39 pm
#6
Zeon_Zaku wrote:
I really don't feel we should be able to land at player cities. Keep that for NPC cities, it's fine.
Perhaps being able to take off (and only take off) from player cities wouldn't be too bad, or repair facilities. But not something like a starport where you can land and take off from.
the idea wouldn't be to allow you to take off and land at a player city..
but more of an ability to "drive your car" home so to speak..
instead of landing at a major city and taking the shuttle to your Player City, you would land at an NPC city and be allowed to take your starship to your town..
full with animations and everything.. IMHO it would add that much needed "Starwars" feel they have said they want to add to this game.
t
Scoooter
Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:47 am
#7
THe space requirements would be too large.
Shuttle times are down to one minute..you are now one minute or less from your ship so it does not really matter
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